Orders for Valentine's Day - Gluten Free Bakery Items

Please get your Valentine's Day orders in by Tuesday February 10th by noon! Please call the Twins for your orders at 919-306-5304. Let us help create a beautiful and delicious treat for your special someone. Here are some of our Gluten Free/Vegan bakery items that will be available for purchase for Valentine's: Chocolate cupcakes with double chocolate frosting ( a chocolate lovers dream) Vanilla cupcakes with strawberry frosting Chocolate cupcakes with a strawberry filling Red Velvet cupcake with Cream Cheese frosting Double chocolate brownies with a chocolate glaze on top Raspberry brownies Double chocolate cookie Sugar cookie sandwich with a strawberry filling Cupcakes come in sets of 2, 6, or 12 Brownies come in sets of 2, 4, or 8 Cookie sandwiches come in sets of 2, 6, or 12

Survived our long weekend in Florida

Well our Gators won!! We are the National Champs!!! Go Gators. It was a great game. It was a late night...we did not get to bed till 2am Friday morning. We managed to get up a few hours later...at 7am...to get back in the car to drive back up to Orlando for the Disney half marathon. After a slight mishap with directions, we made it to our hotel...the Contemporary. The whole drive up to Orlando we were all re-hydrating with coconut water and snacking on our raw treats to keep us going. Yum...raw chocolate chip cookies...raw cranberry orange fig balls....raw brownies...raw cinnamon apple cookies After we registered for our race and did a bit of shopping at the Expo, my sisters and I had a lovely dinner at the restaurant in our hotel called the Wave. We all enjoyed an avocado orange salad with a side of steamed carrots. Perfect meal to end a long day and to only get up early to run/walk 13.1 miles. Disney was very nice to tolerate our gluten free dairy free request. This was our oldest sister, Carrie's, first half marathon. We all were so excited for her to experience the thrill of racing. We all laid out our outfits and food for race day and got to bed around 9:30pm, after watching the fireworks at the Magic Kingdom, which we watched in the privacy our balcony. Gotta love Disney!! 2:45am came quick...none of us felt we slept...but that was okay the excitement of the race took over. We all got dressed and enjoyed a small cup of coffee with a slice of raw date fig coconut bar. Then we were off the start line. We caught the last monorail out of the Contemporary at 4am that took us to Epcot. It was chilly... We stood in line with about 21,000 other racers. Then fireworks went off at 6am and the race started. The race was fun...taking pictures...being with the sisters...and of course being at the happiest place on Earth...Disney. The finish line was in sight and we all crossed it together and got our Donald Duck medals. We all look forward in doing it all again next year...will you??

We made it to Orlando

Well, Michelle and I survived our 10 hour drive down to Orlando to meet up with our older sister. It is was tough since we only got 3 hours of sleep, but we survived through having our raw fruit and veggie smoothies and some cupcakes. And lots of water. Plan to stretch our legs tonight with a walk and than a run in the morning. Got to keep the legs lose. We stopped by the local Whole Foods to get some more veggies, raw snacks and coconut water (our favorite to rehydrate our bodies) for us the next couple of days. Our journey does not stop tonight, but continues tomorrow. We are heading to Miami to see the Florida Gators play in the BCS Championship football game tomorrow night! Than returning back to Orlando on Friday to get some rest before a very earlier morning on Saturday for the race. So lots of good food and water to keep us --- gf raw vegan twins moving.... Who says you can not survive just off water, fruit and veggies and a few sweets of course!!!! We are proof that you can!!!

Final Countdown to Half Marathon for the Twins

As most of you already know we are running in our 2nd Half-Marathon down in Orlando, Florida at Disney. This is our third race at Disney we did our first half marathon back in 2006 and our first full marathon last year. Our second oldest sister had convinced us again to do another race so we decided to do the half marathon again this year of 2009. So, over this past few months we have been training for this race and now the final days are here. The marathon is this Saturday! We are very excited because all the hard work and dedication will soon pay off. Michelle and I are very competitive individuals and love to workout so marathons are great for us. I wish everyone would take the challenge of doing a half or full marathon once in their lives. It is a great feeling when you cross that finish line with everyone cheering you on. You really feel like you can do anything (well, which everyone can -- if you put your mind to it). We plan to do a better job this year of documenting more of our fitness tips as well as health and food tips. You all know that we are gluten free raw vegans who have a strong passion to help spread the word of health and fitness through better eating habits and working out. I promise it is not as bad as it sounds. Working out can be fun! We will keep everyone posted these next few days and how the race day goes... stay tuned.

Twins Kitchen on WRAL Raleigh News

Michelle and I wanted to share with everyone that we were on WRAL this past Tuesday. Twins Kitchen and Twin Cakes were featured on WRAL health news story for providing gluten free meals and desserts for all to enjoy! Twin Cakes is our bakery that focuses on providing healthy desserts that are gluten free, peanut free, soy free, and vegan. Please check out our bakery menu on our website under the Twins Cakes bakery tab. Please call for any orders at 919-306-5304. We look forward to baking up something sweet for you and your loved ones. Here is the link to the article and there is a link to watch the video. Thanks again to Zack who helped set everything up. WRAL Video link: http://www.wral.com/lifestyles/healthteam/story/4216751/ Please check it out if you happened to missed it this past Tuesday!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We just wanted to say Happy New Year to everyone! The twins hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season and many blessings for the new year!