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Community Coffee Review and Giveaway - Holiday Gift Guide

By Patricia

Now that the holidays are here, one of the things I really enjoy is a delicious cup of coffee brewed right at home. While I do love going out to my favorite neighborhood coffeehouse, the crowds and noise of being out during this busy season can be a little overwhelming. So whether in the morning or the evening, I enjoy drinking coffee, and it is always a lot of fun to try different brands and holiday flavors.

I was so happy to be sent the Season's Greetings Variety Pack for our Holiday Gift Guide from Community Coffee. This pack includes four different kinds of coffee including Holiday Jazz, Dark Roast Signature Blend, Bread Pudding, and Cafe Special Medium-Dark Roast blend.

Community Coffee is an excellent coffee, it's taste and aroma is rich, flavorful, and delicious.

On Thanksgiving night after my family and I had eaten ourselves silly, I brewed a pot of the Bread Pudding flavored coffee. It was a huge hit with everyone, and we all agreed it was perfect for the holiday season. And brewing a pot of this flavor will make your whole kitchen smell like you are baking bread pudding in the oven.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I enjoyed sharing the other three kinds of coffee with family and friends who dropped by. We all agreed that Community Coffee was delicious.
Community Coffee offers ground, whole bean, flavored, decaffeinated, seasonal coffee and more. They also offer beautiful Holiday Gift Packs, and gift ideas for the coffee lover on your Christmas List.

This family owned and operated company has been in business since 1919. Based in Louisiana, the Saurage family has made it their mission to produce and sell this high quality coffee for four generations.
Visit their website at communitycoffee.com to see all of the products they sell, and for more information.

 Community Coffee would be a welcome gift for anyone on your Christmas list who enjoys drinking delicious coffee.

Popcorn and Pearls is happy to be hosting a giveaway of the the Season's Greetings Variety Pack.


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 *Limited to US residents 18 years old and above. Giveaway starts Nov. 27, 2012 and ends on Dec.12, 2012 at 12:01 am EST. Winner will be emailed and has 48 hours to respond before another winner is selected. I was not paid for this giveaway or post. The opinions on this item are 100% mine and may vary from others. The sponsor is responsible for providing the prize. I was sent an item to review for my post.

Super Chocolate Bread Pudding Made With International Delight Iced Coffee

My family loves to drink coffee. We drink it anytime of the day or night, and in every season. The summertime is when we love drinking iced coffee on a regular basis, so there is always a couple of cartons of International Delight Iced Coffee in the refrigerator. It's fun to dress it up when I have guests over by adding some whipped cream and shaved chocolate sprinkled on top.

My family and I are also big dessert lovers, too. I particularly love bread pudding, warm right out of the oven, or well chilled, and with lots of whipped cream of course! But I needed to bring some new zip to my plain bread pudding, and so I decided to make chocolate mocha bread pudding using International Delight Iced Coffee instead of the usual milk that bread pudding recipes call for.
I think this is going to be delicious!

I headed to my local Walmart to pick up the ingredients I would need to make my chocolate bread pudding. Since I was using Mocha flavored iced coffee and chocolate chips, I bought some Sweet Cream creamer to balance out all that chocolate.

I have assembled all my ingredients and I'm ready to start my recipe. I love how bread pudding is so super easy to make, and I see it on dessert menus of great restaurants quite often. It's also easy to change the flavor by adding yummy sauces like caramel. Although I have made regular bread pudding many times, I have actually never made chocolate bread pudding before, so I am excited to see how it tastes. I think I need a little glass of International Delight while I work!

Instead of using regular whole milk like I usually do, I'm using International Delight mocha flavored iced coffee. I love the creamy chocolate taste of it!

I'm adding some yummy Sweet Cream coffee creamer for extra richness. Plenty of this creamer goes in my coffee cup everyday, because I am loving this flavor.

Here it is, right out of the oven. As it was baking, the smell of chocolate and cinnamon was heavenly!
With the mocha flavored coffee and plenty of chocolate chips, I'm sure this is going to be yummy! If you would like to try baking or cooking with International Delight Iced Coffee, here is my super easy recipe for this chocolate bread pudding. #IcedDelight

            Ingredients:

            2 cups International Delight mocha flavored iced coffee

            1/2 cup International Delight Sweet Cream coffee creamer

           2 large eggs
              
            1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon

            1/2 cup sugar

            6 cups of torn bread

           3/4 cup of chocolate chips

            Whipped cream

            Directions:

            Pre-heat oven to 350.
            In a large bowl, mix together iced coffee, creamer, eggs, sugar, and cinnamon. 
            Add the bread pieces and stir until all the bread is fully covered in coffee and egg mixture. 
            Let it set 10 minutes.
            Pour into a lightly greased casserole dish. 
            Bake for 45 minutes.

            Eat warm or cold, topped with whipped cream.
            Serves 6.
    

This chocolate bread pudding turned out absolutely delicious! There are lots of requests from family members to make it again, and I will be, very, very soon!

        

           






*I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and International Delight #IcedDelight #CBias #SocialFabric All opinions expressed in this post are my own.

         

Get Your Chocolate Fix With A Triple Chocolate, Irish Creme Coffee Float

Now that the summer sun has finally decided to shine here in Seattle, it's time to start thinking about refreshing summer drinks. My usual favorite drinks for warm weather are iced tea, flavored lemonade, and sparkling water.

My family loves having root beer floats this time of year, and the vanilla versus chocolate ice cream is always up for debate. I personally love chocolate anything, especially chocolate ice cream. Since we are such coffee lovers in my family, this year I decided to make coffee iced cream floats instead of root beer floats.

I knew I would have to come up with something pretty tasty to get my family on board with my new idea, so I headed to Walmart for some ingredients

Since I love, love, love chocolate, I decided to make what I call a Triple Chocolate Irish Creme Coffee Float. International Delight Irish creme is one of my favorite flavors of creamer, so I thought it would be yummy with all that chocolate!

I am making my float with International Delight Iced Coffee. I like to keep it on hand in the refrigerator because my family and I really like it. We always use International Delight coffee creamers too, they have so many great flavors. I forgot my Irish Creme coffee creamer, and had to run back into the store for it.

Hard to make a Triple Chocolate Irish Creme Coffee Float without the Irish Creme!

                                      Here is what you need to make this delicious coffee treat:

                                      -Carton of International Delight Iced Coffee, Mocha flavor

                                       -International Delight Irish Creme coffee creamer

                                       -Chocolate Ice Cream

                                        -Hershey's Chocolate Syrup

                                         -Can of whipped cream

                                         -Finely Crushed Oreo Cookies

I put 1 cup of iced coffee, 1/4 cup of International Delight creamer, and a few squirts of chocolate syrup in a bowl. I wanted to make sure these ingredients were blended together well, so I whisked them all together instead of just pouring them in the glass.

I put plenty of chocolate ice cream in my glass, and poured on the iced coffee, creamer and chocolate syrup mix. So easy, and I could really smell the chocolate!

Triple Chocolate Irish Creme Coffee Float #IcedDelight

Top with plenty of whipped cream and crushed Oreo cookies, and you are ready to enjoy!
This is such an easy and delicious summertime treat using International Delight products.

My family loves these coffee floats, and I'm sure I'll be making them all summer long. Yum!! #IcedDelight




 *I am a member of the Collective Bias™ Social Fabric® Community.  This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias™ and International Delight #IcedDelight #CBias #SocialFabric All opinions expressed in this post are my own.