Sainsbury’s Easter Treats and Book Giveaway

This post was made possible by Sainsbury’s, who sent me some of their Easter range to try. The opinions in the post are, as ever, mine, and the review is honest. 

 

Well, Easter is upon us! The traditional time to consume enough chocolate to kill a horse and watch films on telly in the afternoon. Here’s a glance at some of the treats Sainsbury’s have on sale to round out your Easter weekend:

 

They have a Taste the Difference carrot cake, a bramble and vanilla flavoured rioja, pretty honeycomb decorations (can also double as background in photographs), and Belgian chocolate eggs AND egglets. Egglets! Meep!

You may remember when I was sent a heap of chocolate to try out – the Belgian chocolate in Sainsbury’s eggs is of an equally high quality – sweet and creamy, with a great snap when you crack into it. The praline in the egglets is a little nutty and extremely smooth, a lovely contrast to the crisp milk and white chocolate on the outside. Plus they’re called egglets and I’m pretty stuck on the cuteness of that.

The tea is strong and full of flavour, just the thing to kick start your day. I brewed up a single cup, rather than a pot, and it has a hefty tannic kick to it. I tend to dilute my tea with milk and sugar in a way that would surely curl any true tea enthusiast’s toes, but what can I say? That’s how I roll. Both the tea and chocolate are, admirably, Fair Trade products – many of Sainsbury’s products are now labelled Fair Trade, and you can find out more about this on their website.

As well as this huge stash of presents, Sainsbury’s sent me two books to give away! Yippee! I’ve only ever done one giveaway before so I’ll have to dust off my giveaway skills…

Here is the prize – a great cake decorating book, with recipes for a sponges and icings, loads of instuctions on how to bake, slice, ice and decorate, and three sections of fun and beautiful cake decorating ideas. Here are some pictures to give you a good idea of what to expect:

The book is hardback, and really full to bursting with great ideas and lovely colour photos, showing step by step instructions as well as the end results. It’s a thing of beauty, and I’m excited to send a copy out to two Rock Salt readers!

So, the rules:

• this giveaway is open to UK residents only. I’m sorry, but it’s a heavy wee book!
• to enter, either leave a comment on this post, write a tweet mentioning the giveaway and @ThisIsRockSalt, or leave a comment mentioning the giveaway on the Rock Salt Facebook page. Each one of these things counts as one entry, to a maximum of three per entrant
• the giveaway will be open until Tuesday 29th April, when the winners will be drawn using random.org
• winners will be contacted and announced on Wednesday 30th April
• I think that is all

 

Good luck! I look forward to posting one of these beautiful books out to two of you very soon.

Giveaway: Kung Fu Panda Cupcake Cases (Closed)

I’ve never hosted a giveaway before; I always thought that there was some kind of mystery criteria that you would have to meet first. It turns out that if you want to give stuff away, you can just go right ahead and do it. Who knew?

With that in mind, I’d like to begin my first giveaway! I have some adorable Kung Fu Panda cupcake cases to send out to five – that’s right, five! – lucky winners. Each winner will receive 200 cases, enough to fuel quite the baking spree. ‘Who would ever need 200 cupcake cases?’, you might ask. Don’t ask me – I have 6000 of them in my kitchen. I won a competition myself at the end of last year, and was more than surprised when my prize arrived in two giant boxes. I knew I was getting baking cases, but the number was kept secret. Someone definitely had too many of these on their hands. I may make this giveaway a regular feature…

Entering the competition is very simple. All you have to do is follow Rock Salt in any way you like, using the social media buttons in the side bar, and leave a comment on this post letting me know that you’ve done it. If you’re already signed up, just leave me a comment here and you’re in it like a New York Minute.

The five winners will be chosen at random, using random.org. I will not take any entries from my immediate family or gentleman friend. Sorry G man. I will choose and contact the winners on Monday 20th February.

Finally, I will post anywhere in the world – I know some of you lovelies are dotted around the globe and I’m up for sending you a tiny gift from the UK. I’ll be sending them by surface mail, so you’ll have plenty of sweet anticipation time, which is part of the fun of getting a parcel in the mail, n’est pas?

That’s it! Get involved, and good luck!