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Today for #SummerDessertWeek I have a fun mermaid inspired recipe for y’all!
These colorful Mermaid Pudding Pops are a fun treat to make at home with the kids.
Get creative and decorate with sprinkles, drizzle with candy melts, and add mermaid tail picks for handles!
My kids especially like the mini pudding pops made in the ice cube tray!
Scroll down for the recipe.

Welcome to the 2nd Annual #SummerDessertWeek event hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife. This sweet week-long event is filled with fun dessert recipes from amazing bloggers and some great giveaways from our generous sponsors! We can’t wait to share all of these summer-themed desserts with y’all and celebrate summertime sweets all week long!

There are 23 wonderful bloggers participating in this year’s event! With over 60 recipes being shared this week we just know that you’re going to find a new summer favorite! Plus, don’t forget that we have 5 (five) great giveaways for you this week too! Scroll down to take a look!

These beautiful mermaid wine glasses from Susquehanna Glass inspired this recipe!

Enter to win your own set in the #SummerDessertWeek giveaway.

Mermaid Pudding Pops

Ingredients

2 boxes instant pudding mix {flavor/color of choice}
4 cups milk
food coloring {if needed}
assorted sprinkles
colored candy melts melted, for drizzle
You will need:
Popsicle molds and/or an ice cube tray
Popsicle sticks/mini spoons/mermaid picks

Instructions

Prepare both pudding mixes in two separate bowls by adding mix and 2 cups water and whisking for two minutes until thickened.
I used strawberry cupcake flavor {pink} and white chocolate {white} and separated the prepared white pudding into two bowls.
Add 2-3 drops of desired color food coloring to each both and mix until color is throughout. I used purple and blue.
Now get creative! Add sprinkles in the bottom of some pop molds and then fill with one or 2 colors of pudding. You can also top with sprinkles.
Add sticks or picks to the center of the pops and place in the freezer for about 2 hours.
Remove from freezer and let sit for a few minutes until you can gently remove from the molds.
You can also drizzle colored candy melted on the pops and add sprinkles on top.
Serve right away or place back in the freezer until ready to eat.

Notes

You can use ice cube trays and/or Popsicle molds depending on if you want large pops or mini pops.

Prepare both pudding mixes in two separate bowls.
I used strawberry cupcake flavor {pink} and white chocolate {white} and separated the prepared white pudding into two bowls. Add food coloring of choice. I did blue and purple.

Love this colorful sprinkles mix I found at Walmart!

Add sprinkles in the bottom of some pop molds and then fill.with one or 2 colors of pudding.

You can also top with sprinkles.
Add sticks or picks to the center of the pops and place in the freezer for about 2 hours.

Remove from freezer and let sit for a few minutes until you can gently remove from the molds.
You can also drizzle colored candy melted on the pops and add sprinkles on top.

Serve right away or place back in the freezer until ready to eat.

Enjoy these fun frozen treats this summer!

Check out the amazing #SummerDessertWeek recipes from our bloggers today!

Ice Cream Recipes:

No Churn S’mores Ice Cream from Big Bear’s Wife
Strawberry Mojito Popsicles from The Spiffy Cookie
Happylicious Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream Parfait from Desserts Required
Toasted Almond Ice Cream Bars from Kudos Kitchen by Renee
No Churn Banana Pudding Ice Cream from A Blender Mom
Mermaid Pudding Pops from For the Love of Food

Sweet Summertime Cakes:

Coconut Lime Pound Cake from The Food Hunter’s Guide To Cuisine
Old Fashioned Cocktail Upside Down Cake from Forking Up

No-Bake Treats:

No Bake Lemonade Pie from 4 Sons ‘R’ Us

Baked Desserts:

Strawberry Cream Cheese Tart from Eat Move Make
Strawberry Sour Cream Pound Cake from The Bitter Side of Sweet
Grocery Store Iced Oatmeal Cookies from The Beard and The Baker
Cream Cheese Pastry with Almond Filling from Shockingly Delicious
S’mores Pizza from Daily Dish Recipes
S’mores Cookie Bars from The Domestic Kitchen

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Patriotic Push Pops and Pampers #BETTERFORBABY Giveaway

Nicole Hood — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 20:07:00 +0000

For this upcoming July 4th weekend I wanted to make something patriotic and fun that Ava would enjoy. It’s upwards of 100 degrees here in Louisiana and my girl loves to be outside! So I decided to make these Frozen Yogurt Push Pops for her {in red, white, and blue, of course}.

Check out the recipe below and learn more about Pampers #BETTERFORBABY and all the ways you can enter to WIN! {Scroll all the way down for my giveaway!}

Pampers believes that babies bring out the best in all of us. That’s why there’s nothing they wouldn’t do to make life #BetterForBaby.

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You can also view the video on Pampers.com –www.pampers.com/en -us/about-pampers/better-for-baby

Pampers is unveiling the “Hush Little Baby Lullaby” campaign

This program recognizes how babies have the ability to bring out the best in all of us and that is why we should do our part to make life better for them.

As the brand who supports the happy, healthy development of babies for more than 50 years, Pampers is committed to doing their small part to making life #BetterForBaby through their core brand commitments including:

Protecting premature babies.
Helping families in need through product donations.
Preventing maternal and neonatal tetanus.
Reducing their environmental impact.

In fact, at the launch of this program they are making a significant donation to each of these charities: Graham’s Foundation, UNICEF and Feeding America in recognition of their valued partnership in helping Pampers support the happy, healthy development of babies.

#BetterForBaby Contest

Since babies bring out the best in all of us, we are asking you to tweet your pledge on how you will make life #BetterforBaby. Each pledge is an individual promise of how someone can make a little difference in helping to make life #BetterforBaby.

My pledge is “I plan to stress less to make life #BetterforBaby

To enter the contest simply:

Tweet your pledge to make life #BetterForBaby.
Include this link – http://bit.ly/1Cr6k4A – to the #BetterForBaby video in your tweet.
Lastly, be sure to include the program hashtag –#BetterForBaby – and the contest hashtag – #B4BDivas.

One random winner will win an Apple Watch worth $400! Contest ends July 15th.

Scroll down to the entry form below to enter to win a Pampers Prize Pack!

You could win:

Pampers Swaddlers and Wipes
Magic Bullet Baby Bullet Baby Care System – to make your own baby food
Spring Floral Scarf – from a company that gives percentage of proceeds to build orphanages in India
NALGENE Reusable BPA Free water bottle

Ingredients:

Makes 4 Frozen PushPops

2-3 tbsp strawberry Greek yogurt
2-3 tbsp blueberry Greek yogurt
2-3 tbsp vanilla Greek yogurt
1-2 drops blue food coloring, optional
Frozen pop molds

Directions:

I found cute plastic frozen push pop molds at the store {monster shapes!} but you could also use dixie cups with popsicle sticks stuck in the middle too.
Use individual yogurt cups and scoop a couple tablespoons into each pop mold.
Since these are patriotic and I wanted red, white, and blue I did that order with blue {blueberry} being the first yogurt I added to the mold then white {vanilla} followed by red {strawberry}.
Optional: you can add a couple drops of blue food coloring to your blueberry yogurt cup before adding to your molds to make it a more prominent blue color.
Free upside down pushpop cups {mine come with a lid to place on top} on a flat surface in your freezer and freeze overnight or at least 6-7 hours.
To serve, remove a pop from the freezer and let sit at room temp for 10 min. then it will be soft enough to push up, but still frozen too!

How cute are these Monster Push Pop molds I found at TJ Maxx?

Ava loves Monsters Inc. so she got a kick out of these!

Use any single serve flavored yogurt.

I like Greek yogurt because it is thicker and creamier.

Wash your molds and get them ready to fill on a flat surface.

I added 2 drops of blue food coloring to my blueberry

yogurt to make it a brighter blue.

Add a spoonful or two {depending on the size of your mold/cup} of blue yogurt to your pushpop container.

Now top with the same amount white {vanilla} yogurt.

And finally add red {strawberry} yogurt to the top.

Add the pushpop molds to a flat surface in your freezer {please excuse my messy, packed to the gills freezer!} and freezer overnight or about 7 hours.

When you are ready to serve, remove the pops from the freezer

and let sit at room temp for 5-10 minutes until they are slightly

softened and can by pushed up.

How adorable are these Patriotic PushPops?!

Ava and her Daddy enjoyed these all week long, especially after playing outside.

They are the perfect summertime cool treat!

Enter to win a Pampers Prize Pack valued at over $100!

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Join us for a Pampers #BetterForBaby Twitter Party on

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Prizes include:

· Prize 1: Magic Bullet Baby Bullet Baby Care System ($60), Pampers/wipes

· Prize 2: PUR Baby White Vertical Faucet Mount and Filter ($25), Replacement Filters ($20), Pampers/wipes

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Stay connected with Pampers!

To find out more information on Pampers commitments to helping make life #BetterForBaby, www.pampers.com/en -us/about-pampers/better-for-baby

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Pampers Facebook
Pampers YouTube

Remember: Babies may be little, but they have this extraordinary power to bring out the best in us and in turn, change the world for the better! #BETTERFORBABY

This review and giveaway was made possible by Double Duty Divas and Pampers. I received product free of charge, but all opinions are 100% mine.

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H-E-B Baby Diapers and Toddler Friendly Patriotic Fruit Popsicles

Nicole Hood — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:32:00 +0000

My little baby is now a big toddler and I constantly think “where has all the time gone?” Ava wears 18m clothes and eats all sorts of food and says a new word every day (or it seems like it to me!). She now wears size 4 diapers and even though we have tried numerous diaper brands we just now (finally) found a brand we love: H-E-B Baby diaper brand! H-E-B is my favorite grocery store brand in Texas -even though I live in Louisiana, I am a mere 30 min. from TX and make frequent trips to Beaumont for dining, shopping, and H-E-B grocery store trips! I was pleasantly surprised that they make a quality baby diaper too! They don’t leak (a BIG problem for us!) and they are both thin and absorbent with 12 hours of protection! Even better the size 4 Jumbo Diapers she wears have a zebra on the front….we love zebras and Ava gets giggly excited looking at her zebra printed diapers!

Check out our fun new recipe for Patriotic Popsicles below!

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of H-E-B Baby Diapers.

Zebra diapers- “Hooray!”– says Ava

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Sometimes diapers tend to rub on Ava or make her break out. No probs with H-E-B diapers though since they have a hypoallergenic inner liner with Aloe and Vitamin E and a stretchy, soft outer cover and waist that fits Ava perfectly. Another plus? H-E-B offers a Money Back Guarantee on their diapers. So what do you have to lose? Try these diapers today on your little ones and you will be hooked like we are!

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Patriotic Popsicles

Ingredients

1 cup blueberries
1 cup strawberries stemmed
8 oz vanilla Greek yogurt or 1 1/2 single serve containers
1/4 -1/3 cup OJ

Instructions

Using a small food processor blend strawberries with 2 tbsp of OJ. Add a couple more tbsps of OJ if needed until smooth.
Remove to a small bowl and repeat with the blueberries.
Using small 3oz Dixie cups add a heaping tbsp of strawberry puree to the cup, smoothing the top.
Add a heaping tbsp of yogurt, smoothing the top, then finally add blueberries.
Insert a popsicle stick, half way into center and place all cups on a baking sheet or in a tupperware container.
Freeze for atleast 3 hours but up to overnight.
To remove from the cups before serving: run cups under warm water for a few seconds and the pops should pop right out.
I also poke a hole in a cupcake liner and push the bottom of the popsicle stick through so it make a cute cup to catch all the drips!

Notes

You will also need: 3oz dixie cups, mini or small popsicle sticks, and cupcake liners.

Dixie cups, Popsicle sticks (I used mini but next time I would get longer small sticks), and patriotic cupcake liners.

We also have a freezer stocked with frozen fruit for smoothies and popsicles!

Take a handful of strawberries and remove the stems.

Cut in half if you would like to and pulse in a food processor with a few tbsp of OJ until smooth.

Easy and tasty fruit puree!

I use nonfat vanilla Greek yogurt for the center portion of the pops.

Fresh picked and washed blueberries!

Puree one cup of blueberries with a few tbsps of OJ.

I place the Dixie cups in a Tupperware container that I can easily place in the freezer. You could also use a baking sheet

Add strawberries, then yogurt, the blueberries. Smooth down in between each layer.

Then add a popsicle stick halfway into the pop.

Place in a container and freeze for 3 hours and up to overnight.

To remove pops from cups run under water for a few seconds or simply peel the paper off.

Red, white, and blue Patriotic Pops perfect for the kiddos!

Pop a cupcake liner underneath and it saves the mess of drips!

Ava didn’t waste any time!

My teething toddler loved her Patriotic Pops!

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of H-E-B Baby Diapers.

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