Monday, May 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM
Happy Monday luvs,
How was everyone’s weekend? Glorious I hope 
Well Michelle and I had a busy weekend though we did manage to relax a little last night.
As we mentioned earlier this week we wanted to share our grasshopper pie with you all. The one that we got to enjoy on our birthday!
Are you ready?
If you love mint and something not too sweet than you will love this mint pie!
Pure2Raw Recipe: Raw Grasshopper Pie
Ingredients:
Crust-
- 1/4 cup carob powder (or you can use cocoa powder)
- 1/2 cup coconut flakes (or you can use any nut meal you like)
- 1 tbsp alcohol free vanilla
- 2 tbsp date paste (or you can use any liquid sweetener you like)
Directions:
Place all ingredients into a food processor or blender and pulse till combined. *If you already have coconut flour or nut meal please feel free to hand stir this all together
Press crust dough in a 6 inch cake pan or springform pan would work too.
Filling:
Mint Layer-
- 2 large avocados
- 2 tbsp sunflower lecithin (or soy lecithin, xanthan gum,or guar gum of your choice though the amount for the recipe may vary depending on what you use, I would suggest starting with 1 tsp)
- 2 tbsp irish moss paste (this is optional but it provides this layer with great texture) * you may use gelatin if you prefer
- 1 tbsp alcohol free vanilla
- 2 tsp mint extract (you may add more or less depending on how minty you like your pie to be)
White Creme layer-
- 1 banana
- 1/4 cup lucuma powder (for more substitutions check out here)
- 5 packets of stevia
- Few drops of liquid chorophyll (to help with green color)
- 1/8-1/4 tsp spirulina (additional nutrition value and helps with color too)
- 2 tbsp water
Directions:
For both layers place your ingredients into a blender and blend till smooth (may use a food processor if you do not have a blender).
Putting the whole pie together!
Assembly:
- Take your pan that is already filled with crust and spoon a little of the white creme layer down. Place in freezer to set about 15-20 minutes.
- Remove from freezer and place the mint layer on top of white creme layer. Place back into freezer to set about 30 –45 minutes.
- And for the last layer top the remaining white creme layer on top of mint layer. And decorate with cacao nibs if you would like.
- Place the whole grasshopper pie back into the freezer to let set.
When ready to eat the grasshopper pie take out of freezer about 20-30 minutes to let thaw a little. Or may eat pie cold
© 2010 Pure2Raw
8 Reasons why we loved this raw grasshopper pie:
- easy to make
- enjoy playing around with unique ingredients
- not too sweet
- well rounded flavor
- light but creamy texture
- gluten free and vegan
- no nuts if you use coconut flakes in crust
- full of healthy fats
Well that is it folks for your un-cooking class today. Michelle and I hope you enjoy the recipe! We plan to make this grasshopper pie again and probably do a twist on it 
Stayed for more great recipes coming your way soon.
Other news:
Our cookbook giveaway is going till Tuesday night, we will announce winner on Wednesday. Get your entries in now.
Heidi is doing a great giveaway with Baby Carrot Products!
Gena is offering a i-herb giveaway!
Twin Cakes Bakery is doing a sale on our raw crackers in honor of Cinco de Mayo! Get those orders in now! The sale ends on Thursday!
Till next time,
Lori
Pure2Raw Twins
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Posted in: Un-baked
Tags: irish moss, stevia, sunflower lecithin, Twin Cakes Bakery
Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 01:33 PM
Hey friends,
We are happy to see that everyone likes the green smoothies to-go cups! We have been using ours all the time now! We still love our mason jars, but when we are on the go this our perfect. : )
We have been enjoying a lot of yummy salads this past week.
Local spinach salad with shredded beets, sauerkraut, and hemp seed dressing.
One of our favorites, a mix of local greens, sauerkraut, and avocado and lime dressing.
Another mix of local greeens including dandelion leaves with a few herb crackers and an avocado curry dressing.
Heavenly! We seriously love our salads!
A Thai sea spaghetti vegetable salad, this one was so good! Loved all the different textures…and of course we topped it off with sauerkraut!
We just love our salads!! Do you like salads? What are you favorite toppings? Dressing?
And we have a wonderful giveaway for you all. The wonderful people at Snubbr are allowing our readers to chose a cookbook from this list.
Rules:
1. Visit the link above and leave a comment saying what cookbook you would like to win.
2. Follow us on Twitter: @pure2raw and @TwinCakes
3. Become a friend of Twin Cakes Bakery on Facebook.
We hope one day soon our cookbook will be on a list like this along side these amazing Chefs!
Visit Snubbr the next time you need gift ideas. And thanks to Heather for letting us know about Snubbr’s great giveaway.
Hope you are having a great Sunday! We have been busy in the kitchen making our raw ice cream cake. It has been so much fun, we just want to make raw ice cream cakes all day! Are you doing Heathy’s ice cream challenge?
Till next time,
The Pure2raw twins
L&M
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Posted in: Miscellaneous
Tags: sauerkraut, Twin Cakes Bakery
Monday, March 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Hello friends,
Happy Monday to you all!!!
We hope everyone had a fantastic weekend.
We started our Saturday morning with fresh fruit before our farmers market. Michelle and I keep going back and forth on what to have to eat before the market. We sell at two different markets on Saturdays and away from home for over 7 hours. Therefore eating something at 4am in the morning is tough because we really do not feel like eating that early in the morning, though we have to eat something because we do not eat till at least 8 hours later! Tough decisions! In addition we do have access to run to the bathroom so we can not drink any water!!!
Anyways we ate a big bowl of grapefruit and granny smith apples which was fine though our tummies did hurt at the market (we think it was too much fiber for that early in the morning).
We are evaluating what would be best for a good breakfast before our markets. Any suggestions?!?! What would you consider is a great breakfast?
When we got back home we just snacked on some things and had a green smoothie from a local juice bar that recently opened up! It was delicious.
It is a local juice and smoothie bar that opened up a few months ago. It is right up the street from where we sell at on Saturdays in Carrboro!
The owner is awesome and so sweet! If you are in the local area you should go check it out!We might even doing some raw cooking demos and events with her!
We got a spinach, cucumber, mint, kale, apple, ginger, cinnamon smoothie.
We did not end up working out on Saturday- we are so tired and worn out that we barley have energy to do anything. We did manage to get more things ready for online orders! Than we took the rest of Saturday off from work. We needed some down time!!!
For dinner we put together a delicious green salad all made from local greens from our great farmers. We are so fortunate to have such great farmers in our local area that provide amazing produce.
Look at all the beautiful greens
A spinach and Russian red kale salad with our homemade sauerkraut and lemon juice. AMAZING!
Sunday was our normal day of getting things ready for our week ahead. I leave soon for Paris!!!!! It is hard to believe that my trip overseas has come already! I do plan on talking about my experience overseas. So expect some interesting posts while I am there I am a little nervous about what I am going to be eating! Not sure if I will be able to really eat what I eat here while I am over there Yikes!
Other news:
We made some changes to our online store here on our blog. We just kept our t-shirts and some of our raw foods. If you want more of our product offering please remember to visit our online bakery – twin cakes bakery. We will be adding more products on twin cakes bakery site soon. Currently we have our raw foods, dry mixes for our Twin Cakes goodies as well as the very first raw food dry mixes. We are the FIRST ever to offer raw foods dry mixes for our crackers. We plan on adding more soon! Stay tuned. One great thing about the dry mixes is that you can make the whole batch of crackers yourself (not just the few ounces we offer but the whole tray therefore hopefully making it more affordable for many). If you do not have a dehydrator that is fine, you can use your oven and just set it at the lowest setting it can go.
Till next time,
Lori
The Twins
L&M
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Posted in: Miscellaneous
Tags: farmers market, salad, smoothie, Twin Cakes Bakery
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 07:54 AM
Hello luvs,
Michelle and I are slowly getting back into the groove of things. As I mentioned we will be making changes to our site trying to make it better for our lovely readers You guys are the ones who keep us going every day and inspiring us to do more! Please let us know if you would like to see different on our blog that we might be missing or any suggestions would be welcomed.
Check out Twin Cakes for more pictures of the Fitbloggin event we just sponsored this past weekend. Thanks again to all who came over to talk with us! It was a pleasure getting to know each and every one of you.
Today we have a very special guest post. Lori with Run Lori Run blog she is a dear friend of ours and she has a great name Thanks Lori for doing this guest post for us… we are honored.
Take away Lori!
When Michelle and Lori asked me to write a guest post on their blog I was thrilled (and of course honored), but what was I to write about…?
Well, I’m going to let all of you in on a little secret… This blog you are reading from right now, Pure2Raw, was the reason I started blogging. True statement.
I love researching. I research places to travel. I research new exercises. I research nutrition. And, being mostly raw and vegan-ish, I researched raw foods. Google is a wonderful place my friends. All this research led me to Michelle and Lori’s blog. I was instantly hooked, and loved reading about their workouts, their meals, and, oh, the recipes they post! Needless to say, yes, I started blogging because of those twins.
So, in keeping with the Pure2Raw spirit, I have decided to embark on a recipe no blogger has done before (well none that I know of)…
Raw Vegan Truffle-filled Macaroons, or as I like to call it, because it’s so much fun to say, Truffaroons!
The Raw Vegan Truffaroon
recipe follows:
Truffles
- 4soft dates
- 1/8 cup dried cherries1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp cacao nibs
- 4 tbsp cacao powder
- dash of coconut water, or alternative liquid
Process all in a food processor until the cherries are processed but try to keep the “batter” chunky.
As non-messy as possible, not an easy task, form the truffle mix into little balls.
As you can see, mine are beautifully uniform…
Place the truffles into the freezer while you make the macaroons.
Macaroons
- 1 cup unsweetened dried coconut
- 1/2 cup coconut flour (or almond flour)
- 1/4 cup coconut butter (melted)
- 2 tbsp coconut oil (melted)
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup agave
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- pinch of sea salt
Mix all the ingredients together until they stick and are able to form a ball.
Now the skills are called forth! Form a handful of macaroon batter into a flat(ish) shape in your palm to make a bottom for the truffle to sit. Place a truffle into this and cover with more macaroon batter. Form, as well as you can, into balls. I dehydrated mine for about an hour or so, just for fun, but you can eat as-is or chill until ready to devour.
With any leftover macaroon batter, form into balls, and roll in raw cacao powder or cinnamon.
And just as a warning, these babies are BIG. I may have made my truffles a bit too large but hey, life is short, chocolate is good…
I told you!
Poor empty macaroon vs the Truffaroon
And I highly suggest to try out this version:
The Raw Vegan Spiced Truffaroon
Ingredients:
Same as above but add cayenne pepper, dried chili pepper powder, and cinnamon to the truffles or macaroons, or both like I did! I think the spice is a must.
Why a Truffaroon…? How did Lori (not the twin) come up with this crazy idea? It wasn’t easy. (Well, it was easy, but that’s beside the point) I wanted to bring together some of the amazing looking (and tasting! I’ve tried them) recipes that Lori (the twin) and Michelle always write about. My favorite recipe, the Candy Cane Macaroon, was definitely in my mind for the recipe but I thought I’d add some spice to the cold days.
You girls are awesome! Keep up the great work and definitely keep posting your recipes!
And, in closing of my guest post, a question….
What is your spice in life? Better yet, which spice are you?
Personally, I’d like to be Cayenne. It’s a little spicy, and goes with the sweets and the savory’s.
Or Turmeric because it’s mellow yellow (and turns things orange. Like a magic marker. Random, I know).
And my spice in life is exercise. No matter what, it makes me feel amazing and powerful.
Thank you so much Lori for doing this amazing guest post for us and sharing this delicious recipe. This makes us want to go whip these truffaloons now And everyone knows how much we love our macaroons!
We will be back here tomorrow with what Michelle are I are up to this week with our eats, workouts, etc.
Till next time,
Lori
The Twins
L&M
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Posted in: Un-baked
Tags: coconut, FitBloggin, Twin Cakes Bakery
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 02:12 PM
Hey friends
Hope you all our having a wonderful Saturday. Our Saturday started off with a wonderful 3 mile run with the lovely Brittany and the rest of the amazing gals at FitBloggin.
Gina, Lori, Brittany, Katy, and Me
It was a bit chilly!
We ran alongside the harbor. It was beautiful…just as the sun was coming up!
Us before our run
Yep wearing our shirts!! Thanks Raw Threads, we loved them! So soft ; )
And thanks for New Balance for SHOES!!
We quickly showered and ate a Vega Shake, of course! And headed downstairs for Fitbloggin to finally officially begin
Perfect way to replenish after a run ; )
Everyone else enjoyed a wonderful breakfast sponsored by Quaker, but since we cannot eat oats, Vega was the perfect replacement!
Our table at Fibloggin
I attended 2 sessions in the morning:
Blogs, accessibility, and SEO, which was great, but also left there a little confused. I still not sure if I understand how to maximize SEO that well, but did learn how important it is to make your blog accessibility.
Next I attended the How to Pitch to the Traditional Media. I enjoyed this. Lori and I have been on the local TV station before, and have done a few interviews for local papers and magazines. It was cool to hear how media personnel look at “news” worthy to write or video about.
Next up was lunch, which for us allergy suffers also causes a problem. Lucky for us Whole Foods was not too far away from the event.
Kombucha with some steamed veggies and roasted squash (which we shared)
YUM!!
Now on to the afternoon sessions…so far we have been having a great time and meeting some great bloggers’! Trying hard to remember people’s name, their twitter names, and blogs….and I am not good with names, so I apologize now if I forget your name ; )
First afternoon session Lori attended was Beyond the Blog:Getting Published. It was a great and very informative session. Thanks to all the bloggers’ who spoke and shared their publishing stories. The presentation was about how bloggers can get a book deal!
I attended Body Image and Blogging session featuring MizFit. Again another great presentation!!!
One that really got me thinking about a lot of different topics surrounding food, fitness, comparisons, body image, and self-acceptance. Which I realized I am me, and this is the best I can do for me and I hope people do not judge me.
Than it was our snack table.
Wish we could have brought more, but we are a small business with a small budget.
We are THRILLED to hear that everyone enjoyed the goodies
Than time for more sessions. I attended the Making Money From Your Blog!
Other bloggers did take some great notes from the sessions (presentations) and speakers like Whit and Katy.
That is Fitbloggin 2010 conference in a quick nutshell. Not sure what we are up to for tonight but we will keep everyone updated.
What is your favorite fitness tool, gadget, dvd, or class? We want to know!
Till next time,
Michelle
The Twins
L&M
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Tags: FitBloggin, kombucha, Twin Cakes Bakery
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 12:30 PM
Hey everyone
How was everyone’s weekend?? We had a long one over here, but worth it ; ) Did anyone watch the Oscars?? We took the night off from work and enjoyed some wine and good entertainment. We just enjoy the awards shows…all the pretty dresses.
We enjoyed some good eats over the weekend…featuring some new recipes (which we will share ; ) )
Enjoyed a very large breakfast Saturday morning before we headed to the farmers market.
Buckwheat apple porridge. We have not had this in sooo long, it used to be our breakfast every Saturday morning last year before our Saturday markets. It is so simple and very filling, which is what we need for our long market days.
Sprouted buckwheat, apples, yacon, cinnamon, bee pollen
Our dinner was a lovely simple salad
mixed greens with avocado, kraut, and fermented veggies
Sunday morning we finally made some raw pancakes in honor of Heather’s Pancake Sundays.
These were not our best ones, it is pretty much just mashed up bananas. But we will share the recipe if you all want.
Yesterday we did our longest run yet since the marathon in January. Honestly we really have only ran 3 other times since the race, we just have not been wanting to run. We have been enjoying other forms of exercise.
Our goal was a 30 minute run, but it turned into a 9o minute run. We went up to the local park and got on a trail and did not know how long it was….but that is okay it was 60 degrees out and sunny!! We will take it!!
Pre-workout snack:
Cocoa date ball
We have been testing out new workout snacks for our cookbook, yep having a whole chapter dedicated to what we eat for fuel and recovery ; )
And then dinner and dessert were both new recipes!!
Dinner:
Fermented Kelp Noodles
With a side of kraut sprinkled with dulse
Perfect Sunday dinner!! We think kelp noodles will become a regular Sunday dinner ; )
And dessert took 2 trials. We have been wanting to make raw carrot cake since forever!! There are tons of recipes out there, so we of course wanted to create our own. We wanted to make it out of carrot pulp, so the first attempt failed….ended up in the trash compost. Second was beyond perfect….way better than we were planning, it honestly tasted like real carrot cake!!!!
Can you tell the difference?
Not only was it raw but free of gluten, eggs, dairy, peanuts, corn, soy, and NUTS!!!
We had seconds…it was that good. I think I could eat this every night. It was beyond words!! I know you all are thinking, do we plan to share the recipe….YES!!! We will expose this tasty easy to make dessert sometime this week ; )
Not a bad way to end the weekend.
We also tried a new product
Pure2raw Product Review
We bought this the other day at the store because our older sister loves it, so we had to try for ourself.
Verdict?
Different. It was very sweet compared to other coconut water, even though it claims to be unsweetened.
Maybe it is their types of coconuts? Or maybe it was due to being chilled and out of can? Who knows but it was bothering me that it was so sweet, a mental thing I guess. But we drank it all. Not sure if I would purchase it again. Just maybe when I need something cold to drink. Lori did not mind it too much, enjoyed having something different.
For more information check out the company’s website, amyandbriannaturals.com.
Finally review : one thumb up
Have you tried this coconut drink?
Do not forget to get your orders in while the sale is on for St Patty’s Day, it ends Wednesday!!!
And for more great news our Twin Cakes Bakery website if finally up. It still has some tweaks but overrall we are just happy to have it up. We have been waiting a year for it ; ) So we will take it!
Till next time,
Michelle
The Twins
L&M
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Posted in: Uncategorized
Tags: farmers market, sauerkraut, Twin Cakes Bakery
Friday, February 12, 2010 at 03:38 PM
Hey everyone
How is your Friday?? So glad everyone enjoyed our story about us becoming bakers and creating Twin Cakes Bakery. In cased you missed them you read them here, Part 1 and Part 2.
Don’t forget we announce the winner to our giveaway tomorrow...so get your comments in today!
We have been extremely busy here…non-stop in the kitchen getting all our Twin Cakes Valentine’s Day Orders in.
We even didn’t get to eat till after 1. Just been snacking on this and that in the morning…a random day of eats for us. But the weird thing is that we have been feeling good. By not eating too much in the morning has actually given us more energy…which sometimes is hard for us because we were raised you have to eat breakfast.
Well this maybe true but we are starting to realize for us not having a huge breakfast has been nice for our energy levels. It is hard not to eat right away in the morning, but as long as we are busy we do not even think about eating, sort of ; )
Do you have mornings were you do not eat much? How do you feel? What are your thoughts on eating breakfast or no breakfast?
Now do not get us wrong, we do eat something, just not a full blow meal! And this past week we have not been eating till around 10 am. We are playing around with our morning eats, which means we have been having later workouts. We will keep you posted, but in the mean time check out Gena’s great tips for breakfast. I could go for some of those green eggs!!!
Anyways here are some food we have been eating these past few days
Kraut Salad drizzled with tahini
Avocado pudding drizzled with yacon
roasted butternut squash & brussel sprouts, with fermented veggies and some white stuff, aka coconut oil ; )
Coconut kefir pudding with coconut oil, hemp protein and yacon
pure2raw cracker wtih tahini (that we blended with cashews and maple)...sweet and savory!!
pure2raw cheez cracker dipped into cashew tahini maple spread...it was uniquely good!!
And we may or may not of had some of these
Twin Cakes gluten-free vegan strawberry vanilla cupcakes
Twin Cakes gluten-free vegan chocolate strawberry filled cupcakes
Some days I just love my job!!! ; ) Being a baker has it’s highlights but also sometimes too much temptation!
Okay well we still have a long night in the kitchen for our farmers market tomorrow!
Two great things to check out tonight:
Our guest post on our friend’s Robyn blog. We share our tips on being raw while having a busy schedule and running our bakery!
And the amazing Debbie is having a giveaway!
Have a great night!
Till next time,
Michelle
The Twins
L&M
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Posted in: Miscellaneous, ingredients
Tags: farmers market, tahini, Twin Cakes Bakery
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Hey luvs
Our friend Lori had asked us to share our story about Twin Cakes Bakery. So grab yourself a something good to eat or drink here we go with your story. We hope you enjoy…
Background:
First, here is a little background on who are the twins. We were born and raised in Fort Myers, FL. We have two older sisters; we have Italian/German in our blood so food was a main topic in our family. We were definitely that family who continual looked forward to our next meals!
Don’t you just love my little grin and how Lori is not looking at the camera?? Love our brown paper lunch bags??
From a very young age were taught to make our own food mainly due to having 4 girls in the house we all wanted something different.
And now we are all grown-up : (
Lori and I really had some unique food habits. We ate completely different things while growing up. Lori wanted everything plain and I wanted everything with either cheese or mayo (which Lori hated both). Our mom was smart, a great way to avoid many fights she made us start packing our own lunches. This was the beginning for us girls to fall in love with cooking.
When did we start baking:
Although our baking really did not start till we were in high school. Our second oldest sis, Jen, was the one that taught us to bake. She loved it and still does, but due to severe food allergies she no long gets in the kitchen as much. She would create some delicious things for us to enjoy…our favorite mint chocolate chip cookie sandwiches, cinnamon buns, her famous sour cream coffee cake, and much more. As she went off to college, we started playing in the kitchen. And realized we loved baking!
Our grandma’s side of the family were German bread bakers, so I guess you could say baking runs in our family. It is in our blood to make things for others. All throughout college we would bake for our teachers, family members and friends. Everyone loved it!! And so did we! We got more joy for baking for others than ourselves.
Lori and I at graduation...yes with our Pluto and Stitch suff animals, hey we are Disney lovers!
How did you know you were going to have your own company?
We both majored in business during college. During college we worked for an entrepreneur so we got to see what was involved in starting a company from scratch. We knew we would have our own company one day just not sure what that would be nor when. After college we went home for a year to figure out what we wanted to do with our life…like most college grads due, right??
What happened next?
Well to make a long story short Lori moved to Richmond, VA as Michelle moved to Denver, CO. Both of us felt we needed to finally spilt up after 23 years of being together! Well as we both worked for other companies we started realizing what we were doing was not making us happy! So the massive research began and our dream started to be come real on paper. After many hours of talking on the phone, emails, and texting we knew it was going to be an online bakery. We wanted it to be a different type of bakery but still was not sure exactly what that would be. We had so many crazy ideas running around in our heads.
How do you realize you had food allergies?
We started to experiment with alternative foods and diets. We tried all different types of cleanses, food combinations, etc. because all during college we suffered from stomach issues. This is a health problem that our whole family suffers from but we did not really know why we were always feeling so bad all the time. We thought we were eating healthy. Nothing really worked.
Then our health started deteriorating and we started eliminating things out of our diet. We realized our bodies did not like gluten, wheat, peanuts, and dairy. For us we were never upset that we could not enjoy certain foods. We were actually excited to finally start feeling better and actually eating this way helped make us eat healthier. And we slowly starting cutting back on our meat intake. We were never really big red meat eaters though we did like our chicken and fish. But after years of still not feeling better we decided to try anything that help and if that meant no meat, etc. then so be it.
What changed?
We got more relief once we stop eating meat though we still were not 100% better. This lead us to even more confusion and determination to figure our health out.
Another year past and we both ended up in Raleigh, NC. Still working for other people, ugh. We kept working on the side as we also figured out what our bodies liked to eat and not eat. We then started creating meals that were safe for us and realized we wanted to help others that had limited diets.
Overtime and more research, our business plan changed (we wrote two different business plans, which is a must if you are thinking of opening a business). We decided to start as personal chefs and put our online bakery on hold.
How did we chose this career?
People reminded us since we love to bake and cook why don’t we do it for a living. It was like light bulb going off in our heads. So then came about Twins Kitchen Personal Chef Service, yep we both got certified through United States Personal Chef Association. And our first few months of business was a test. We both did not have good sales skills and had to learn to go out and sell ourselves. You must learn to grow thick skin! We gained some clients but realized there was still something missing. We were not having as much fun as we had thought having your own business would be.
Let me tell you starting up a company is not as easy as it may sound…unless you have tons and tons of money saved up. Now we had some savings, but still nothing to prepare us for what we thought. It takes a lot of work, many long hours and lots of sacrifices.
What happened next?
Baking!
That was the missing link. Sure we still enjoy cooking but baking was what we really enjoyed and could do it all day long. So we signed ourselves up for farmers markets, and that is when everything changed.
To be continued…
While you wait to find out what happens next be sure to check out these amazing giveaways:
Blender from Gena
Chocolates from Natasha
Coconut oil from Averie
Ice Cream maker from Lori
Living Raw Magazine from Robyn
AND OF COURSE OUR VALENTINES GIVEAWAY and RAW GAIA FACE PRODUCTS!
Posted by: Pure2
Posted in: Hot Topics, Miscellaneous
Tags: chocolate, Twin Cakes Bakery
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 05:34 PM
Hey again
Twin Cakes Bakery has added a few new items to the Pure2raw store.
In addition, for a limited time only Valentine’s Day special treats. The special starts today Monday Feb 8 and ends Saturday Feb 13.
Treat your loved ones or yourself to healthy, fat burning (a.k.a coconut oil filled) raw desserts! We have things for chocolate lovers, white chocolate lovers, and peppermint lovers ; )
Valentine Flavors are:
Peppermint Goji Berry Cocoa Kreme Bites
Chocolate drizzled Vanilla Kreme Bites
White Chocolate Snow Caps Brownie Bites
Heart Shaped Chocolate Cookies
If you get your order in by Wednesday we will throw in a special treat!! It will be a surprise, so get your orders in now ; )
Go ahead a spoil yourself with these non-guilty treats!!
In addition to these new items we are hosting another giveaway.
Pure2raw Valentine’s Day Giveaway
One lucky winner will receive:
Twin Cakes Bakery limited time Valentine’s goodies – Peppermint Goji Berry Cocao Kreme Bites and Heart Shaped Chocolate Cookies.
And some delicious nut butters from Artisana and our favorite Raw Gaia Chocolate Face Mask.
And now not all our readers will go away empty handed because the great people over at Raw Gaia are offering ALL our readers a special Valentine’s Discount of 15% off!!!
Just got to their site http://www.rawgaia.com/ and enter the coupon code: pure2raw
Go shop now because you are not going to want to miss this opportunity!! : )
Giveaway is going on till Friday Feb 12th!! Will announce the Winner Feb 13th.
Sorry you will not be receiving your goodies till after Valentines…we did not plan this well, LOL, but hey they you got something to look forward too!! More chocolate : )
Rules of Giveaway:
1. Leave a comment telling us your favorite Romantic movie
2. Mention the giveaway on your blog, if you have one, and come back and let us know you linked it back to us
3. And please tweet if you have a twitter account…this is optional, although appreciated ; ) xoxo
Now go shopping!!
With love,
The Twins
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Friday, January 29, 2010 at 05:58 PM
We are open for business!!! Our online store is live ; )
Check out our product benefits page for more information.
Then move on over to our store.
You will notice 3 product categories. Our RAW flatbreads, crackers, and snack bites. Orders right now are shipped via UPS.
These are some of our products, we will be adding more over the next few days. This is new to us, so please bare with us. There might be some bumps along the way, but we are soooo excited to offer our products to you all ; )
But we hope you all enjoy our goodies as much as we do, and some of our other fellow blogger friends Stephanie, Heather, Lori, Gina, Gena, Liz, and Katie.
Glad to you see you all liked the veggie mash Lori enjoyed earlier this week and we plan to re-create it tonight for dinner. Yes warm pureed veggies is perfect on a cold, snowy night : )
AND…
Well as we have previously mentioned we are going to be AUNTS!!!
We got a text from our older sis this morning and we found out she is having a BABY GIRL!!!! Another girl added to our family ; ) Sorry dad! Yep, Lori and I have 2 older sisters, plus our mom, so five girls! YIKES!! Now another little one is being added : ) We are so happy for our sister and her husband.
And we have briefly talked about her diet on here, and she is not 100% raw nor 100% vegan, although she most of the time her food choices are vegan. For those of you who have asked as about being pregnant and raw/vegan please check out the amazing Kristen who is a great example and is going through the great journey of motherhood. Plus there are many other great raw moms out there….Debbie, Lori, and check out this great list of super moms ; )
Have a great weekend. We have a feeling we will be snowed in, so might be taking the weekend off ; ) Maybe
Till next time,
Michelle
The Twins
L&M
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