Yesterday I shared a sausage and potato bake you could make for Mother’s Day or any other day. Here is the perfect accompaniment. A Chocolate Swirl Muffin Cake. I found the recipe over at the Mixing Bowl. It is a fun way to dress up a Betty Crocker chocolate chip muffin mix. I had some on my shelf that needed to be used and this was perfect.
It is definitely for the chocolate lover. You could forgo the filling/glaze to make it less chocolaty if you still want the cake shape without the heavy chocolate flavor. This really could even qualify as a dessert and not a muffin due to the high chocolate content. I have also discovered the secret to getting your bundt cake to come out of the pan perfect every time is to use the Pam spray for “Baking”. Use the spray to grease the pan, give the cake 10 minutes to cool before inverting, and the cake comes out perfectly every time!
I also have a fabulous Mother’s Day giveaway. It’s a great Mother’s Day Family Night gift pack from Nestle. It includes a $25 gift card to amazon.com to order a movie or two of your choice, along with free coupons from Stouffer’s, Toll House Refrigerated Cookie Dough, Toll House Morsels, Nesquik, Ovaltine, Coffee-Mate, Wonka Exceptionals and Juicy Juice; as well as product from Raisinets and Wonka, with a $1.00 Wonka coupon, and a 30-day Glowelle kit. A great way for the family to celebrate with Mom!
To enter, leave a comment about your favorite Mother’s Day gift you have received or given to a woman in your life. You have until Sunday at 10 pm (MST) to enter. I am hoping that this will still get to the winner before Mother’s Day.
You can also enter the big giveaway for the the Mother’s Day to Remember Sweepstakes at nestlefamily.com and you can enter for a chance to win $10,000 dream prize package. Be sure to click on the link to enter!
Chocolate Swirl Muffin Cake
Filling/Topping:
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla
Cake:
2 boxes (16.4 oz each) Betty Crocker chocolate chip premium muffin mix
1 1/3 cups water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1. Heat oven to 375. Generously grease 12-cup fluted tube cake pan.
2. In 2-quart saucepan, cook all filling ingredients over medium-low heat 2 to 3 min, stirring constantly, until smooth. Remove 1/3 cup filling for glaze; set aside. Freeze remaining filling 15 min until thick like pudding.
3. Meanwhile, in large bowl, stir together all cake ingredients. Spoon half the batter into pan. Remove filling from freezer. Carefully spoon filling in center of batter to within 1/2 inch of pan edges. Spoon remaining batter over filling.
4. Bake 50 to 65 min or until top springs back when touched. Cool 15 min. Remove from pan to wire rack. Spoon reserved 1/3 cup filling on cake to glaze. (If too thick, microwave filling on high 10 to 15 seconds). Cool completely, about 1 hour.
(in my oven this was done at 50 min.)
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I am a sucker for the coupon books my kids give me. They are so stinkin cute and funny!
My cute husband doesn’t cook, bless his heart. Two years ago he wanted to make me breakfast in bed. He knows I love french toast. He came into the bedroom carrying a tray with two pieces of toast and a small piece of paper that said, “Oui, oui”.
The Mother’s Day after my first miscarriage (my first child), my parents gave me a plaque that said: “Our hearts still ache in sadness, secret tears may flow, what it meant to lose you, no one will ever know.”
My son was born 15 weeks prematurely. After exactly 4 months in the NICU, he came home three days before Mother’s Day. That is the best gift I will ever receive!
My favorite was last year’s gift. My husband designed and planned out a potting bench. He was working late into the night before Mother’s Day and surprised me the next morning. It was beautiful!
My favorite Mother’s Day gift by far has been the excitement of knowing that I am now a mother to two–one big boy and another little boy still in the womb!
My favorite Mother’s Day gift is a poem my husband wrote for me. I also enjoy a delicious breakfast of french toast and fruit (but not in bed). I’m too much of a clean freak too risk crumbs in my bed.
My favorite thing to do on Mother’s Day is to, well, do my favorite MOM things with my 4 boys! I LOVE being a mom, so I celebrate with them by doing all of the things that make it fun to be a mom – playing board games, making treats, eating dinner together as a family, tucking them into bed, – all good things that I know I will miss as they grow up and move away from their Mom! With 3 teenage boys, that sad day is not too far away, so I am soaking up as much Mom time as I can get.
My husband and kids make a shadow box for me every year for Mother’s Day! Even though I know it is coming, I anticipate it more and more every year! It always has such neat pictures and artifacts from throughout the year. Things my husband kept, like show tickets or seashells, that I didn’t even realize he had kept them!
My favorite mothers day gift is breakfast in bed from my kids. Then they give me all their cute handmade gifts that they made at school.
My favorite gift for me is always time with my husband and kids with no work to do or distractions.
This is my first mother’s day as a mom so we’ll see what I receive, but I gave my mom a hand written note last year that thanked her for teaching me how to be a mom.
My son was born May 5, 2005 and Mother’s Day was the 8th that year. Having my firstborn in my arms for Mother’s Day was the greatest gift ever!
Flowers and homemade cards from my boys and my husband made a delicious dinner and dessert.I felt so loved!
My favorite gift on mother’s day was a card colored by my 2 year old.
Every year my mom and sisters get together and have a girls weekend around Mother’s Day. We started as a gift for my mom, but it’s fun for all of us.
My favorite Mother’s Day gift was a plaster plaque imprinted with my daughter’s handprint! She’s 28 and I still have this great gift.
The best Mother’s Day gift is fresh flowers! I don’t get them often, so it’s a nice treat.
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When I lived far from my family I think the best mother’s day gift was sending a dvd of her only grandchild
…going to the local tea house with my mom and sister.
Last year, my siblings all coordinated and took black & white photos of our families holding letters to spell out the word “FOREVER.” We had it custom-framed for my mom, and she loved it!
My favorite mother’s day gift is from my husband and my little girl. I was pregnant with our second child and I love gardening. I was so sick and had not got much gardening done that spring. So…while I was out, my husband and my daughter surprised me and planted some petunias all around our yard and in some pots for me. Best of all they made a family stepping stone and placed it in our main flower bed.
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My kids had their photo’s done and put together a 5 framed collage with beatiful ribbon and iron rod for the kitchen. Perfect.
The best gift I got from my kids were homemade coupon books. I got to use some coupons for back scratches, foot rubs, painted fingernails, chores, etc. However…the kids thought all the work they did for each coupon was hard and kind of a pain. I was still trying to collect on some later in the fall that year, but all their excitement was gone. So now I have the remains of my favorite gift from them. But what I got to use was fabulous. They have stuck to flowers and gift cards ever since.
This is my first mothers day as a mom, so this mothers day will be so special!
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A few years back my mom was watching my kids for me while my husband and I went to dinner for mothers day. When I got back to pick them up, my mom and had had my kids all color me a picture and she had gotten a few decorative frames and had put a picture from each one of my kids in them. I proudly display them on the top of my piano to this day! It made me feel so loved
I have two year old twin girls and my first Mother’s Day gift was a Mother’s Bracelet with their names on it. They have me wrapped — wrist and finger!!!
I’m still a fairly “new” mom, so my experience is limited. I’ve got a set of twin boys that are two and now a 4 mo. old baby girl. I loved getting a gift certificate to get a massage from my husband. He knows how to pamper me!
Each year my siblings and I give our mom a picture of her grandchildren … it has been so fun to see how the kiddos change over the years!
The best gift I got was my five-year-old daughter trying to make me breakfast along with a cookbook her Kindergarten class made.
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I have 5 kids.. and I loved the year they made me breakfast in bed all on their own. That was perfect.
My 5th child (I have 6), a son, was born on Mother’s Day almost 14 years ago.
That was the best gift I’ve received on that special day by far. However, this is a two parter comment…
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I gave my mom a Foosball table, diamond earrings, and many other nice things, but her favorite gift by far has been a tea maker haha! She loves her tea.
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