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Baking With Heart

As you know I am always attracted to a company with a social mission, especially one so sweet and delicious as this! I recently heard about Greyston Bakery, a bakery located in Yonkers, that helps to improve the lives of those living in its surrounding community.  The bakery does this by hiring people from the community, regardless of their work history, providing training and paying them fair/living wages.  The Greyston bakery started as a small scale bakery providing high quality baked goods for renowned NYC restaurants but expanded into the “mix-ins” category.  I was so happy to hear that their "Do-Goodie" brownies are the exclusive supplier of the brownies used in all Ben & Jerry’s ice cream!!  Looks like I’ll be running out to get some of Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie a bit more often now!  I love the concept of a company that exists solely to help the world.  It is so refreshing to see.  Proceeds from the bakery also support the community initiatives of The Greyston Foundation.

Kim Cattrall Dishes SheerBliss® Ice Cream

The ice cream company SheerBliss® seems to have everything. This brand is the first to package ice cream in metal tins to protect freshness and it is the originator of the flavor Pomegranate.  They also recently announced that Kim Cattrall of "Sex and the City" will be the celebrity spokeswoman for this decedent dessert! Sorry Carrie, you missed this scoop!

Got Milk?® Chocolate Drinking Straws™

When Michael Litton founder of the San Francisco Chocolate Factory™ joined forces with the Got Milk?® campaign, Hershey's must have uttered "oh moooo!"  SF Chocolate Factory's Got Milk? Chocolate line includes chocolate bars, syrup, powder and one of the best things ever, chocolate flavored straws that are rich in antioxidants.  Getting children to drink their milk just got a whole lot easier.

Handpresso®: Have Coffee, Will Travel!

Leave the kitchen!  Make coffee in the living-room, in the garden, or on the go...be your own barista anywhere with Handpresso® winner of the 2008 iF Product Design Award.  Made from environmentally friendly materials, Handpresso® takes the espresso coffee experience to a new level.

Mother's Day Mini Cakes: The Gift that Gives Back

Just in time for Mother's Day, a new line of mini cakes from Feed Your Soul, a company founded by former Wall Streeter Mya Jacobson.  Here's a gift that gives back to both the charity of your choice and to the environment by way of eco-friendly packaging.  Mya has made it her mission "to provide a quality product that embraces a concept, one which generates an appreciation for life, for living every day, for doing the simple things that truly feed your soul. Remind yourself or someone you love how good it feels to truly taste life: bite by bite."   See Mya recently  featured on the Donny Deutsch show The Big Idea.