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Big Bean Jelly Belly Contest

// February 28th, 2010 // No Comments » // Candy Contest

How would you like the chance to run the Jelly Belly Candy Company for a day? I sure would lol.. Well, Jelly Belly is holding contest “The Big Bean” and it is free to enter without purchase. Below are ways that you can enter. Of course more ballots = more chances to win!

How to Enter:

1. You’ll get 1 extra sweepstakes entry the first time you visit the Factory Game, submit your first Jelly Belly jelly bean flavor and its BeanBoozled counterpart, and 1 extra entry the first time you visit the Marketing Department.
2. Tell friends through this site and get 1 additional entry with each friend you tell!.
3. Get 2 BONUS entries when you complete all three of the departments!

Prizes:

The sweepstakes big prize is:

A trip for four to the Jelly Belly Factory and $10,000 cash!

Check out more prizes here:

Instant Win Game:

Take your shot for the chance to win one of thousands of great prizes instantly. Each day you log in to the promotion, you will receive a new Instant Win game play.
Jelly Belly “Research & Development” Contest:

Create a tasty, real Jelly Belly jelly bean flavor and its BeanBoozled counterpart and you could win a brand new Wii Kit with the Ballistic Beans game.

and just for fun…

Design a Box of Jelly Belly jelly beans and then share your creation with your friends!
Play the Jelly Belly Factory Game – keep up with all the orders as they come into the factory and make sure the Jelly Belly packages get to the shipping department in time!

Deadline: July 31, 2010

Good luck!!

Wrigleys Olympic C.H.E.W. Contest

// February 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Candy Contest

The 2010 Winter Olympics start this Friday!! I can’t wait to watch the Ski Jumping event and of course Ice Skating. Back in October it was announced the Wrigely’s gum manufacturer would be participating in the C.H.E.W campaign for Canadas. It stands for : Canadians Helping Each Other Win. The event has raised over $390,000 for the athletes so far!

Wrigely’s has a contest where everyone is basically a winner. Here are the prizes and contest information below

To enter you just have to buy any of the following brands and head to the official contest website to enter your serial code of the product you purchased.

• Starburst
• Skittles
• Hubba Bubba
• Lifesavers

Prizes include:

• Olympic Tattoos
• Screensavers
• Downloads
• Toques

Good Luck!!

p.s. Buying this gum would make a great collectible item, if that’s your thing!

Couple Wins Candy Contest With Covered Lighthouse

// February 5th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Candy Art, Candy Contest

What a great idea! A candy covered light house. I recently read that back in January a couple entered a candy contest and decided to design and make a candy covered lighthouse. It is amazing and original.

Here is a link to the original contest and the news article.

National Chocolate Week UK

// October 12th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Candy Contest, chocolate candy, Halloween Candy

From October 12th – 18th is National Chocolate Week in the UK. This week marks a time where people of the UK can indulge in great chocolate and participate in many sweepstakes and chocolate tasting around the country.  Check here for the online events at the Chocolate Week website.

Chocolat Hotel has offers for the week as well. Right now they do have a contest Spooky Halloween Competitions

Chocolat Hotel has Halloween Recipes as well. Check out one below

Halloween Cup Cakes

Serves: 12 Cupcakes
Ease of preparation: Easy
Preparation time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

Cupcake Ingredients

• 85g Dark Chocolate for Cooking
• 85g Butter, cut into 2cm cubes
• 100g Soft Light Brown Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 Egg Yolk at room temperature
• ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 tbsp Soured Cream
• 75g Self-Raising Flour
• 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
• Pinch Salt

Icing Ingredients

• 30g Confectioners Icing Sugar
• 2tbsp Organic Cocoa Powder
• 75g of Soft Unsalted Butter
• 25g of meted Dark Chocolate for cooking (optional)
• Boo Box Halloween chocolate shapes to decorate
• Pumpkin Munchkins

Equipment

Sieve
Piping bag + Nozzle
Muffin tray

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180/ Gas mark 4 and line a muffin tin with 12 paper cases.
2. Put the chocolate, butter and sugar in a heatproof bowl and place over simmering water and allow to melt, stirring continuously. Set aside to cool slightly.
3. Whisk together the eggs, vanilla and soured cream. Stir this into the cooled chocolate mixture. Sift over the flour, cocoa powder and salt and fold in. Spoon into the paper cases, filing to around 2/3 full.
4. Bake in a preheated oven for approx 20 minutes, until the muffins are risen and just firm to the touch. Allow to cool for 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
5. To make the chocolate topping melt the dark chocolate over lightly simmering water. Allow to cool.
6. Beat the butter, confectioner sugar and cocoa powder together. Add in the cooled chocolate a table spoon at a time until a thick consistency is achieved. Thick enough to pipe.
7. Place the icing into a piping bag fitted with a piping nozzle of your choice and start from the centre of the cake and pipe outwards.
8. Decorate with Boo Box! Halloween chocolate shapes and Pumpkin Munchkins.

2009 Halloween Candy Round-up Fun

// September 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Candy Contest, Candy News, Halloween Candy

It’s one of my favorite candy holiday’s of the year!! Halloween. I’m so excited and I can’t wait to see some new and scary candy out there! Plus costumes although this year, I bet the Michael Jackson costume will be the most popular..

With a little over a month until Halloween and I will be posting Halloween Candy Contest, New Halloween Candies, Halloween Candy List and more! Hopefully, I can push in the candy contest that I didn’t have chance to start due to vacation and moving around… But now that I’m pretty much back on track. Be ready for Halloween reviews and posts!