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Orchard’s Finest Giveaway and Five Fab holiday tips

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Today, I have a yummy Orchard’s Finest giveaway for you along with some fun tips for the holidays!  I am a big freezer jam fan, but the next best thing to freezer jam in my opinion is preserves.  Smucker’s Orchard’s Finest preserves are delicious.  They have amazing flavors:

  • Pacific Mountain Strawberry
  • Coastal Valley Peach Apricot
  • Northwoods Blueberry
  • Michigan Red Tart Cherry
  • Fall Harvest Cinnamon Apple
  • Northwest Triple Berry

I love the apple and triple berry flavors.  They all have nice pieces of fruit in them and are so easy to spread.

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Not only are these preserves tasty but they have the cutest packaging!  The jars are the perfect size and shape and I love the gingham lids!  You could wrap a bow around a jar and you have the perfect little gift.  Smucker’s even has recipes to use the preserves.  You could attach a recipe to use the preserves to the jar too!  They would also be a fabulous addition to a gift basket.



Today’s I have a prize pack is provided by Smucker’s which includes:
  • Orchard’s Finest product sampling in branded crate
  • $100 certificate to Cooking.com
  • Holiday entertaining accessory

I even have 3 of the packs to giveaway!  To enter, leave a comment telling me what flavor of Orchard’s Finest preserves you would like to try or I made a list of Fab Five things to do with Orchard’s Finest below – you can tell me which of those tips you would want to try with Orchard’s Finest!  You have until Wednesday Dec 14 at midnight (MST) to enter!

Fab Five Tips for Using Orchard’s Finest Preserves
  1. Combine 3 Tablespoons of Orchard’s Finest Preserves with an 8 oz package of softened cream cheese along with 2 Tablespoons sugar for a fruity cream cheese spread or filling for stuffed french toast.
  2. Heat 1/2 cup Orchard’s Finest preserves in a sauce pan until warm.  Then carefully mix in 3 cups of partially thawed berries.  Continue heating until the berries are heated through.  Serve over pancakes, waffles, french toast, cheesecake or crepes.
  3. Use Orchard’s Finest Preserves as a filling for cupcakes.  When the cupcakes are cooled, use an apple corer or knife, cut out a 3/4 inch round plug from the center of each cupcake creating a pocket in each cupcake, saving the plugs.  Fill a ziploc freezer bag with 12 oz of preserves.  Knead the fruit in the bag for a few seconds to soften it.  Snip of a corner of the bag with scissors and pipe the fruit into the pockets, filling the pockets of each cupcake.  Take the cake plugs you reserved and break them in half.  Keep the top piece and do what ever you want with the bottom half.  Place the plug on top of each pocket to seal it off.  Then frost cupcakes as usual.
  4. Use Orchard’s Finest Preserves as a glaze for your ham. Cook ham and then brush the entire ham with a coat of the preserves.  Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes.
  5. Use 1 1/2 Tablespoons of Orchard’s Finest Preserves with 1 Tbsp brown sugar, 1/2 Tablespoon white sugar, and 3 cups of fresh diced fruit for a yummy fruit salsa.  Refrigerate for 15 minutes and enjoy with cinnamon sugar tortilla chips.
Laura

173 Comments

  2. Mmmm – mmm -mmmm! They all look so tasty. I would want to try the Triple Berry – on Christmas morning. Yummo!

  8. I wanna use it as a filling in cupcakes! I’ve seen some great jam-filled cupcake recipes floating around 🙂

  14. I want to try the blueberry! Sounds delicious! I would definetely try it with the cupcakes…I want it now! Sounds delicious and I love the packaging! 🙂

  21. The Michigan Red Tart Cherry sounds delish! And since I will probably never can my own preserves, I think these Smucker’s versions are as close as I’m gonna come!

  32. Those are some awesome ideas for using these YUMMY preserves. I would love to try the Triple Berry in a homemade poptarts recipe I found recently on pinterest! Thanks so much for this generous giveaway event!

  35. I would like to try Northwest Triple Berry.
    I would love to try tip #3 – Use Orchard’s Finest Preserves as a filling for cupcakes.
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  38. I LOVE the Strawberry and Peach Apricot!! I am definately going to try the french toast idea! My family loves french toast and I’m always trying to find something to mix it up a little bit. 🙂

  42. I would love to try the TRIPLE BERRY!! I live in Utah also do you know where you can find the Preserves in the crate. THANKS!

  45. I wanna use it for filling for cupcakes, of course!! 😉 and i really wanna win this giveaway!! 😉 thnx for the chance!!

  46. I just tried to comment and don’t know if it worked…so I am trying again. I would love the to try the Michigan Red Tart Cherry it sounds delicious and I bet it would taste great mixed into plain yogurt too!

  48. I would love to try the Michigan Red Tart Cherry – which I bet would also taste amazing mixed into some plain yogurt!

  54. OMG! I muuuuuuuuust try Coastal Valley Peach Apricot!! I put Apricot preserves on just about everything, but now there’s PEACH-Apricot?! Oh my gosh… I have to try it, stat!!! Pleeeeease!?!!? 😀

  55. I want to try them all but I’d have to say the Northwest Triple Berry! I would warm it up & put it on top of vanilla ice cream!

  57. I love the cupcake idea! I’ve never thought to do that. I also like the idea of heating up the preserves and adding defrosted mixed berries. YUM! Can’t wait to try these!

  58. The strawberry & blueberry….also the cinnamon apple sounds interesting, I’ve never heard of anything like it! YUMMY!!!

  62. Oh, all the yummy sounding flavors; I just can’t decide which one I’d love to try. Instead, I think that I’d like to try the easy fruit salsa using the preserves, bet that would have been great with the Georgia peaches I bought earlier in the year. What a wonderful, tasty prize!

  63. I am dying to try the Cinnamon Apple but the Triple Berry in stuffed french toast sounds delicious! I don’t know how to pick just one!

  68. I would love to try the apple cinnamon!! All the flavors sound great, will have to check those out!

  69. I want to try the Apple Cinnamon! I know i sould make a filled sugar cookie with it. 🙂 Great giveaway!

  71. My husband and son love anything cherry flavored so we would have to try the Michigan Red Tart Cherry first.

  72. The Fall Harvest Cinnamon Apple. I dont think I have ever tried apple preserves before, sounds really good!

  73. I think I would love to try the Fall Harvest Cinnamon Apple. Sounds so good. Thanks for chance to win.

  74. Mmmmm! I want the Northwoods blueberry, heated, over waffles!!! I wish I had it right now!

  76. I really want to make the filling for cupcakes! I bet it would be a hit at my family’s Christmas dinner (or breakfast for my sisters! Haha)

  77. I would love to try the Coastal Valley Peach Apricote. I would use it as a topping for my ham. Yummy!

  81. I think all the flavors sound great and I would love to try to stuffed french toast idea, I love stuffed french toast!

  82. I would like to try the idea of putting the preserves on a ham as a simple glaze, It sounds wonderful

  83. These sound wonderful. If I were to pick only one, it would be the TRIPLE BERRY. I would like to try them on my mom’s Christmas Cookie recipe.

  88. I would love to try the Pacific Mountain Strawberry, mainly because I’m out of my home made jam and don’t want to spend $5 on a little carton of strawberries to make more!

  91. The Michigan Tart Cherry would be my first pick. I would first make the stuffed french toast. YUM!

  99. I would LOVE to try the triple berry! I love anything with lots of berries in it! I would probably put it over waffles or ice cream to be honest. It just looks so good!

  106. Coastal Valley Peach Apricot please to mix with the cream cheese. Would be also good on top of brie cheese! Sounds wonderful.

  118. All of those flavors sound delicious, but I’m most intrigued to try the cinnamon apple just because in my head apple is always jelly and hard to spread. That, and I add cinnamon to my homemade peach jam and it is wonderful. I’m sure it is delicious with apple as well.
    Oh, and the stuffed french toast looks wonderful. It was already on my menu this week, but without the berries on top – must add berry syrup.

  130. I would really love to try the Michigan Red Tart Cherry, but I have recipes that the other would be delicious in also!!

  133. I would love to try the triple berry! The prize package is so cute and so nice, I hope I win.

  134. I would love to try the Mountain strawberry . the tart Cherry. the Tripple berry, or the ciminan apple they alls sound Delicious

  135. I would try the Triple Berry first…looks so yummy!
    I would try that preserve heated and mixed with fresh berries over waffles…yum!

  136. That crate is so cute! I always love a triple berry anything so that’s most likely what would be opened in my house.

  147. I saw these in the store the other day and thought that the Pacific Mountain Strawberry looked really delicious!

  148. My pick would be Northwoods blueberry! I would put this on some of my homemade toasted bread. MMMmmmmmmm….sounds dellicious!

  150. I would love to try the strawberry and triple berry flavors!! I think using them as cupcake filling sounds DELICIOUS!! YUMMO!!

  154. I would like to try the Northwest Triple Berry but would use the
    Peach Apricot over a ham. Thanks for telling us about these jams.

  155. All 5 tips/ideas for using the Smuckers preserves sound delicious, but my kids love cupcakes and muffins so I would stuff the cupcakes with the preserves. My son recently asked me to buy some Apricot jam so I would try the Peach Apricot for sure! (PS I love all the photos on your blog!)

  157. I would love to try one of these as a glaze on ham like you suggested. I love ham and especially with a pinch of sweetness:)

  160. I would love to try either the Fall Harvest Cinnamon Apple or Northwoods Blueberry!! Too many potential uses to even list them!!

  162. I would love to try number 1 to make fruity cream cheese spread or filling for stuffed french toast.

  169. I’d use the cinnamon apple with a little almond butter grilled up in a nice little sandwich. Mouth watering now.

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