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Cakes, cookies and more The folks at Victoria’s Sweets Bakery-Café take pride in making homemade baked goods. Made-from-scratch cakes include black forest, black truffle and almond razz, as well as cheesecakes. Victoria’s online store also includes several kinds of cookies including lemon sandwich, oatmeal-cranberry, chocolate chip and “checkerboard.” Pies include sweet potato, French silk and key lime flavors. Cookie gift baskets start at $23, and gift tins start at $28. Victoria’s
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Sweetums’ Cake in a Jar Sweetums’ Original Cake in a Jar, made by Sweetums Eats & Treats in Pinebluff, is a handy thing to have on hand for unexpected company or to send to loved ones. The cakes are baked in a mason jar and vacuum packed. Sweetums says the cakes have a shelf life of up to a year, or if opened will stay fresh for two weeks refrigerated, and they easily slide out of the jar. Flavors include butter macadamia, German chocolate, orange cranberry, mocha double chocolate chip, scotch almond snickerdoodle, white chip pumpkin walnut and holiday spice. Prices are $6 a jar, plus shipping. Sweetums Eats & Treats |
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Give renewable energy sources NC GreenPower promotes renewable energy production and clean air statewide. You can share these benefits with someone you care about with the NC GreenPower Gift Card. Honor a parent, spouse, friend, teacher or child by giving them the gift of green power generated here in North Carolina. Your gift card recipient will receive a special announcement informing them of your green power purchase and the environmental benefits that your gift has provided them. It’s a tax-deductible gift. You can view a sample of what the card will look like online and add a personal message to the recipient when you buy one. NC GreenPower |
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Organic lavender products Sunshine Lavender Farm has transformed this soothing and fragrant herb into calming bath salts, relaxing eye pillows and sachets, aromatic soaps, hand and body creams, lip balms, candles and more. The Orange County-based business grows lavender using organic practices to develop its fresh products. Lavender helps relieve stress and ease headaches. It can be used in the garden to help repel mosquitoes or as a recipe ingredient in the kitchen. Sunshine Lavender Farm sells its products online, through special events, and in stores throughout North Carolina, including Wake, Orange, Durham, Cumberland, Craven and Alamance counties. Bath Salts (16-ounce) are $12 and the Bed & Bath Powder (5-ounce) is $13. Sunshine Lavender Farm |