I’ll start with the signings.
King of Prussia, PA. Short Hills, NJ and New York City, NY.
Three cities in three days…
… and full of fun.
… and meeting lots of great people.
This is Esther. … I love putting faces with the people that I’ve emailed with. She makes the cutest little wire whisk necklaces.
You must check them out.
… King of Prussia had lots of little cutie pies in the store.
Lots of them.
Including these charmers. So cute in their matching tees.
Even the Williams-Sonoma folks joined in on the fun. This is Brian and Mandy. Loved them.
Then in Short Hills, I met more wonderful people. These folks welcomed me with smiling faces.
And cute cupcakes. The lovely young lady in the pink scarf above made these. We may or may not have shared a cry.
This is Melanie. She’s a Pop Star of the Star Wars variety. Check em out.
Look at these two. Stylish. Both of them.
And these two. Smiling and having a great time, despite getting in a little car accident on the way to the signing.
So glad no one was hurt.
I love these photos. Trying to get everyone to look at the same camera at the same time is easier than it sounds.
Side wave.
Bye New Jersey.
Hello New York.
Again… everyone was so fun.
Including their sweetly painted fingernails.
Families came out together.
And young bakers did, too. This is Kaira. Another Pop Star.
And here’s Nora. If you remember seeing the Cupcake Kabobs all over the web… well, she started that.
Laughter all around.
And look – it’s Rachel from Cupcakes Take The Cake. I was so glad to finally meet her. If you love cupcakes and you don’t know about this site, or you’ve been under a rock, let me introduce you.
New York was a fantastic way to end the Book tour – or so I thought.
There will be one more recap and then that’s it.
I hear a bunch of you cheering because that finally means more baking … right?! YAY! YAY! YAY!
Anyway… Toronto is coming up this weekend. And it turns out I’ll be at two locations.
If you’re in Toronto, and can’t make the Williams-Sonoma signing on Saturday, I’ll also be at Teatro Verde at 4:30 pm on Friday. Hope to meet you guys.
And as usual… if you attended a signing and see your photo in one of the slideshows below, feel free to use it. Thanks again for making the tour so much fun.
Okay, okay … that was the signings.
Now for the books.
I’m giving away ten of them. Ten Cake Pops books. And signed if you like.
- To enter for a chance to win one, just leave a comment on this blog post and tell me what holiday treat you can’t wait to eat.
- Deadline to enter is Wednesday, December 1st at 5:00 pm ET. Sorry, Time’s Up! Winners will be announced below.
- Ten (10) winners will be chosen at random and announced by the end of the week.
Good luck guys!
Okay – Here they are. Here are the 10 Cake Pops Book Winners. Yay!
835 – Betty-Ann – …any one of my husband’s authentic, hazelnutty, German Christmas cookies…love, love, love them!
3987 – Leigh McGilvray – I can’t wait to eat mincemeat pies this holiday season! My mum just sent me the recipe so I can make them for the first time : ) I know the smell will remind me of home.
738 – trifitmom – pecan bars i make, yummmmmmmmm
5084 – Paula – I can’t wait for … mmmm flan!
4748 – Ashley M. – I’m looking forward to cheesecake!
2180 – Nadia – I love making (and eating) beautifully decorated sugar cookies at christmas time too! … but first I’m making cake pops for my hubby’s workplace charity fundraiser on Thursday!!! Welcome to T.O. this weekend!
4718 – Stephanie – Broken glass torte…made by my grandma!
5721 – Rachel R – baking, eating and decorating some sugar cookies with my lil one.
54 – Chelsea A – I love French Silk Pie this time of year! It’s an annual treat that I limit myself to making only for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s almost the same recipe as PW! Also, I love all the pictures and stories you share from your signing. I am amazed you remember all the details!
2750 – Julie – Banana split cake!
Congratulations everyone!
Chirstmas Sugar Cookies!! They are my husand’s grandmothers recipe and he lovegs it when I make them for him.
Mine are translated to “Aunt Metha’s hazel temptations” It’s a recipe that has been in the family forever, and it’s super easy.. Like a regular buttery cookie dough rolled thin, then a marengue on top and then sprinkled with finely blended hazel nut.. Finally it’s all rolled to get the awesome roulade effece.. Absolutely YUM! And the smell when they’re in the oven.. DEVINE!
I can’t wait to eat salted caramels! Yum!!!
Can’t wait to eat ALL the cookies my mother and I make!
http://blog.honeydesign.com/christmas-cookies-2009/
Real gingerbread with lots of spice! I think you’re great : )
I’m dying for some symphony bar fudge…it’s SO easy and SO yummy!
Scotcheroos!!!
Christmas cookies of course!
Fudge!
I can’t eat sugar, but I love baking for my family and friends and for our church family. The smell of warm mince pies and mulled wine is just heavenly.
I can’t wait to try your brownie pecan pie. No chance at Thanksgiving, may have to do a trial run between now and Christmas!
Sugar cookies! (and decorating them with my kiddos!)
My family makes “Krumkake” cookies for our traditional Norwegian Christmas, and fill them with raspberry cream. But honestly, Christmas cookies in general are soooo my thing.
Decorated Sugar Cookies and Peppermint Bark!!! My daughter is 18 months old and I can’t wait to let her decorate cookies with me this year!!!
Gingerbread men!!
I can’t wait to eat my friend’s homemade triple chocolate cake <3
I can’t wait for Cinnamon Flop. It’s a family tradition that started with my grandmother and continues with my step mother. I won’t be going to thier house this Christmas, but my husband and I just bought our own house and I can’t wait to start the tradition in our home!
Cake balls! My office staff loves them and waits for them :)
That’s a hard one! It’s a tossup between peanut butter balls/buckeyes and peanut butter fudge. Or maybe some of my husband’s aunt’s famous pumpkin crisp……
I love latkes for Chanukah!
Oh my! I so wanna have your book! But it’s not yet available here in Manila.
I’m looking forward to baking and eating gingerbread cookies for the holidays. =)
peanut butter fudge is my holiday standard yumm! but you can’t go wrong with a sugar cookie
My mom’s peanut butter treats. Like peanut butter cups, but better!
I can’t wait for gingerbread cookies! YUM!
Hopefully a box of Purdy’s chocolates – a local (BC/Alberta) company … Thank you for the giveaway!
Butterballs! They’re the simplest cookie in the world – basically just flour, sugar, vanilla, and lots of butter – but they’re my absolute favorite and I only have them once a year so they’re that much more special.
Love them!
Oh I’d LOVE a copy of your book!! The holiday treat I can’t wait to eat are my grandma’s saltine cookies – sound strange, i know, but they’re amazing!! Happy Holidays!
Of course I can’t wait to eat more cakepops. Did you even have to ask!
Happy Hollidays
Lisa
I love to eat chocolate covered cherries and creme drops. I know you can get those anytime during the year, but I like to limit my intake to the holiday! Thanks Bakerella!!!
I cant wait for my Mother-in-laws Christmas cinn rolls. She makes them every year for all of us & sends them home on Christmas eve so we can all have them for Christmas breakfast. Nothin better than that!! Thanks Mama Meeks!
I can’t wait to make gingerbread men with my kids and watch them eat them! Myself, I’m going to eat pecan pie when they go to bed! ;o)
i can’t wait to make and eat some cowboy cookies!!!
Candy Cane Cookies. My best friend in schools mom made them every year! Now whenever i go to a christmas function i’m on the hunt for them and can usually find one somewhere!
Any sort of sweets…especially chocolate!
My mom’s special ginger cookies!
I love bakereall and the cake pops phenom!!!!!!
You are Awesome!! Just Awesome!!!!
I am excited to start making my Christmas cookies!
I can’t wait to eat seven layer cookies and butterscotch haystacks!!
Peppermint Bark! YUMMO!!
I love Springerle cookies.
This is silly, but I always love the Friendly’s jubilee roll…yummy! Besides that, I just want to curl up on the couch with some tasty hot cocoa. :)
Homemade shortbread. Dipped in milk chocolate. Mmmm.
Snickerdoodles and Divinity!!
I cannot wait to have cake pops for the holidays!
I want some gingerbread cupcakes!!! Thanks for the giveaway!!
I can’t wait to bake!
molasses cookies – it’s not Christmas without them!
My mom makes the most OUTRAGEOUS nut cups in the world! My sister is pretty good at them, but there’s something about Mom’s =)
Banana split cake!
I can’t wait for the cheesecake!
My grandmother’s Pecan Dreams!
I can’t wait to eat Christmas cookies!
Russian Tea Cakes or Hermits. Haven’t had them in ages and I vow to make them this year…for the first time EVER!
Great Grandma’s Melt-in-the-Mouth cookies! Buttery, crunchy, nutty goodness…
Scandinavian Almond Bars…easy to make, rich and delicious!
There are two, no three holiday treats I can’t WAIT to eat! First, I make fudge and peanut brittle each year at Christmas. YUM! Can’t WAIT! Last, and CERTAINLY not least, my mother-in-law makes homemade pork tamales each year at Christmas time, and we help by spreading the masa on the corn husks. We usually get about 3-4 dozen tamales to stick in the freezer for the rest of the year, but she also steams about 2 dozen before we leave, and we get to eat FRESH tamales for dinner at her house!
It’s been a few years since we’ve made our family recipe for Nutmeg Logs… used to be one of my favorite cookies and it’s one I’ll definitely be pulling out this year.
I cannot wait to make some fantastic cake pop creations for my Pre-K cuties! They will LOVE it! So excited to unleash some creativity on CAKE! :D
I would have to say christmas themed sugar cookies — for some reason as soon as the holidays approach, all I want to do is bake and decorate sugar cookies! I find they make the perfect treat over the holidays because they are nice and light! It’s rather hard to have a heavier treat when holiday meals tend to be soo filling! <3 your work bakerella!
Sugar Cookies, sweetly decorated.
Baklava is my favorite!!!
I would LOVE to win one of your signed books, Angie!
My favorite holiday treat? That would probably be Mom’s my chocolate cream pie or maybe her Cherry O’ Cream cheese pie!
Yum!
Hello!
I can’t wait to eat/eat the AMAZING pecan fudge pie that my sister & I make each year: soooooo sweetly satisfying!
Oh I can’t wait for peanut butter cookies! … Think I’ll make some tonight :)
Dreyer’s Peppermint Ice cream.
gingerbread men, delicious and adorable!
Gumdrop cookies!
I live in the Netherlands but have family in Spain.
They always send us a package for the holidays with sweets in it.
I really love the mantecados which my grandma always sends.
For those who don’t know then. They are some kind of (sand)cookies with almond, coco, chocolate or you name it flavors.
Mmmmm, delicious!!!
peppermint ice cream!
english toffee…..aka almond roca…..aka so yummy. but my mom already bought a tin @ trader joes that I may or may not have eaten half of it on my own already. but that is ok. its the holidays. oh…and I cant wait for the italian feast come christmas day, or the mexican food on Christmas Eve…..ok I must admit I love to eat.
Buñuelos they are a Mexican tradition at my house… They are pretty much a fried flour tortilla dipped in a cinnamon mixture yum yum yummy !!!!
My mother’s sugar cookies! I tried to bake them last year and I wasted about a bag of flour trying to get them right!
Looking forward to making and eating my coconut Italian cheesecake.
Can’t wait to eat a sinful slice of cheesecake!
I love the Kentucky Kernels – these are bourbon balls (covered in dark chocolate, of course!) Yum!
My favorite holiday treat to make is pie or sugar cookies!!! I just love how the house smells when making them!!!
I can’t wait for my Mom to make her famous chocolate covered cherries! They are so much better than the store bought ones! Mmmmmmmm
Jelly donuts! the ultimate Hannukah treat :)
Molasses Cookies. Nothing like the smell of those babys baking in the oven!
I am really excited to eat the traditional sugar cookies. The frosting tastes sooo good. I also am happy because my mom is letting me make cake pops for Christmas!!!!!!!!!
Hands down my kids are dying for Red Velvet Cupcakes!
Snickerdoodles, Reindeer cookies & my Momms’s ButterNut Cake. Your Red Velvet Whoopie Pies have become a new Christmas favorite as well!
I can’t wait for my mom’s Italian Cream Cake. It’s been my choice for birthday cake for many years and she called with an IOU for one earlier this month. This cake is incredible, but it’s got nothin’ on her!
Mmm! I can’t wait for my grandma’s pumpkin roll….and possibly some holiday cupcake pops? ;)
Chocolate pecan pie :)
wow! so, i’ve followed you for awhile – before you became famous! i made your cupcake bites and cake pops for my kids bdays and a anniversary party. thanks for sharing all your lovely recipes! anyway, i just came over here today because i was searching for ideas on disneyfamily.com and saw that you are a provider over there! how cool are you? congrats on all your successes! i’d looooooooooove to have a copy of your book!
wahoo – i’d LOVE to win your cookbook!! i can’t wait to eat homemade peanut butter cups & chocolate peppermint bark :o)
I love making and decorating sugar cookies during the holidays with all the little kids in the family! It’s so much fun and of course a great mess!
I can’t wait for toasted panatone and shortbread cookies…yummers! It’s not Christmas without them :-)
I can’t wait to eat sugar cookies!!
Peppermint Marshmallows! Light, flavorful and no fat!!
My best friend’s mom makes the most delicious peanut butter bars, I wait for them every year!!
i can’t wait to eat mint chocolate chip cookies… and maybe some more of the pumpkin whoopie pies i made for thanksgving!
Pillow cookies – making them this weekend!
I can’t wait to bake Red Velvet Cheesecake, enough said!
All the special cookies that I only make at Christmas.
I can’t wait to make (eat) coconut cake!
Gingerbread men! Yumm! I love making them from scratch :9
Can’t wait to make and eat CAKE POPS! Also cookies!
I love all things chocolate and peppermint!
i cant wait to make and eat some christmas cake pops!
OOOOOMMMMGGGGGG!!!! Ravioli Dolci!! it is the best cookie dough I’ve ever tasted/made!!
I can’t wait to eat red velvet cake balls! I’ve made them for my family for thanksgiving, and they were such a hit, that i’m making them for christmas! I even shaped them into mini cupcakes, like you showed on your blog. For christmas, I might try red velvet cake balls in the shapes of christmas trees! I might try oreo too!! Thanks bakerella for the fresh, and creative baking ideas!
I really can’t wait to eat beautifully decorated sugar cookies. I have a great recipe that I love to use whenever I get the chance. So yummy, and even more yummy when it’s pretty :)
Fudge!
The brownies with the icing on top that you made for a friends birthday!
I cant wait to make some “lussebullar”. Swedish yellow saffron buns, mmmmm!
Every year my best friend takes on the task of making huge quantities of cookies for her family. It’s become tradition that I come over and help her bake and decorate all these wonderful treats. Not only to we get to have cookies, but we also get to share our love of baking, make a danting task a lot more fun, and have great girl time together
I’m most looking forward to baking with my best friend Jocey!
Ube haleya or purple yam pudding or jam? Its a family tradition to prepare during the holiday season, delish! Definitely love to have one of your cakepops book.
I love to eat peppermint icecream at Christmas time!!!
I can’t wait to eat tamales made by my mom :-)
My grandmother’s Peppermint Cake. So. Yummy.
I love Christmas candy, love making it and eating it!
Definitely excited to make red velvet cake balls! People know to expect them every year from me and I have YOU to thank for their excitement. So thank you!!!
Christmas cookies! i love them…sugar and frosted, gingerbread…favorite Christmas treat
Pecan balls!
Sugar Cookies!!!!
Buckeyes! They’re little balls of peanut butter and confectioner’s sugar dipped in dark chocolate. I make them every year and it seems like I need to make more and more as each year passes. I guess they’re pretty popular amongst my family and friends!
I cannot wait to try and make a maple crunch pumpkin pie! We tried it from Polly’s this thanksgiving and it’s up to me to re-create it.
Pumpkin Pie and homemade Russian Tea Cakes aka Mexican Wedding Cookies, Italian Butter Nuts, Southern Pecan Butterballs, Snowdrops, Viennese Sugar Balls or Snowballs! I use the Betty Crocker Recipe! MmmmmMmmmm!
Buckeyes!
Meringues. With chocolate chips. If I can figure out how to not bork them up this year….
Handmade fruitcake from the nuns in Maine. I look forward to it every year.
Can’t wait to eat peanut brittle.
I cannot wait to make decorated sugar cookies! And I can’t wait to EAT peppermint chocolate cookies!
I know this isn’t the first time that you’ve given away your book on your blog but it just struck me today how exciting that must be to hold a giveaway of your very own book!! Congratulations! :)
Peppermint Bark is my favourite. I can’t wait to make it and eat a whole batch:) Looking forward to your Toronto visit.
I am SUPER excited for English Toffee. My grandma used to make it every year, and now my dad and I have taken over the tradition of making it. Yum!
I am making homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning… for the first time! I can’t wait.
I can’t wait to eat my mother in-laws decorated sugar cookies!! She has dozens of cookie cutters and goes all out on decorating them, they’re the best!
I can’t wait to eat my dad’s butter tarts – he always makes 3 versions – some with both raisins & nuts, some without raisins (for me), and some without nuts.
For me it’s more like holiday treats (plural) I can’t wait to eat! Sweet tooth? No, I have a sweet JAW! I can’t wait for sugar cookies, peppermint bark, hot chocolate topped with whipped cream, buche de noel, russian tea cookies, molasses chews, red velvet cake… the list goes on… and so do the pounds ;)
I normally make tons of different kinds of cookies, mostly to give away. But for eating at home, this year I’m going to make the scrumptious looking Red Velvet souffle recipe in the Dec. Southern Living magazine. It looks sooo good!
I can’t wait to eat peppermint chocolate bark-yum!
German Chocolate Cake
Can’t wait to eat lots and lots of mince pies! I’m hoping to bling mine up with some edible glitter this year :o) Love your book Bakerella!!
Chocolate Burfi…YUM!
Homemade chocolate truffles!
I can’t wait to eat my mom’s almond bars. She only makes them once a year at Christmas.
Anything sweet!
Almond cake. . . it’s fattening and delicious and I only make it at Christmas.
Looking forward to making and eating salty caramel shortbread cookies!
GINGERBREAD COOKIES. my mom makes the best ones. all soft and wonderful. we also decorate butter cookies during the holidays. they’re awesome, too. and i make some damn good cakes. [:
My grandmother’s recipe for chocolate pie. Tastes like it did when I was three – so long ago.
COME TO FLORIDA!!!!
I would have to say my Grandma’s Chex Mix. It’s not sweet, but it’s nice to have something salty to go with all the other sweet stuff I make.
My mom’s amazing pumpkin pecan pie!!
I can’t wait to make and eat pumpkin woopie pies! :)
Love all the cookies my mom bakes (about 7+ kinds) during the Christmas season.
Oh gosh. This is a difficult one. Sweet potato pie is my favorite but only seems to be eaten only at this time of year at our house.
I love my Grandma’s divinity! Yummy! Thanks for the chance!
I CANT wait for fudge covered peanut butter balls my family calls them “buckeyes” :)
I can’t wait for my Mom’s “Momma’s Christmas Cake” SO GOOD!
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies.
The mint chips only come out this time of the year so I look forward to them each year.
buckeyes
Definitely homemade gingersnap cookies! Or the ones from Whole Foods ;)
This is my first holiday @USA, we are from México, and there is a beberage I cant take this year… “Ponche de frutas” The translate is Fruit punch but it is so diferent than the regular fruit punch you know…
The entire holiday cookie platter! The ladies in my family are all wonderful cooks and I can’t wait to see what they come up with this year!
Spritz cookies! Simple, but a Christmas must in our household, for as long as I can remember :)
Can’t wait to (bake) and eat my mom’s Norwegian Fruitcake! (Don’t think fruitcake, think almond pound cake with all sorts of rum-soaked dried fruits—currants, citron, apricots, etc.)
I cannot wait to make my decorated sugar cookies. 150 for a Christmas service, then if any energy is left in me some for my family too!
apple pie!! mmmmmm :)
Lemon squares and peppermint bark!
MMMMM…crepes… plain, with nutella, with syrup, with chocolate, with bananas, with jam, with……….
homemade peanut brittle(: it’s gunna be quite the mother-daughter event when i get home from break from college.
p.s. you should come to colorado!
Peppermint Bark!! and Pine Bark! and Red Velvet Cake Balls!…the list goes on and on….and on and on…. :D
I’m excited to go home and eat chocolate sandies! One of my favorite things about the holidays!
Ooh. Nanaimo Bars. Never store bought – ALWAYS homemade. And hijacked out of my Mom’s deep freeze. Yes, a little bit frozen. The best. And it’s a made in Canada treat…
cake pops!
What was the question again? I saw Cake Pops book and I started typing. I love baking and especially with the holidays I’m looking forward to tempting my skinny relatives.
In my family, Christmas is the time of year we all love! Why? It’s the food that brings us all together!
From Tamales, Turkey and all the trimmings, to all the baked goods my mom and aunts make- my mom’s nut chews to peanut blossom cookies, to my famous peppermint bark-we have it all!
I contribute my chocolate mint cookies. I use a low fat chocolate-chocolate chip cookie recipe and substitute the mini chocolate chips for Andes Thin mint pieces.
It’s like getting Thin Mint Girl scout cookies for Christmas! :o)
Gingerbread, I tend to make myself sick on the dough whilst I am making the Houses for sale. I love the stuff
YAY!!!
Can’t wait to eat ANYTHING holiday!! ;)
Chocolate covered peanut butter balls!!!!!!
Favorite holiday treat, hmmm hard. My favorite Christmas sweet has got to be chocolate truffles that my neighbor always makes and brings over. SO good!
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Can’t wait for pumpkin cheesecake and oh my…maybe even HoneyBaked Ham!
Oooh my Gosh what CAN”T i wait to eat!! I love Christmas goodies. I make big goodie plates for friends and the kids’ teachers, everyone…even the mailman! I love to share the goodies but don’t worry there are always plenty left for us at the house :0)
Looking forward to making and enjoying some Pioneer Woman’s cinnamon rolls!
Oreo Balls! Yummo!
I love good gingerbread cookies – that warm ginger feeling is such a wonderful holiday tradition.
ohhh have you done book signing in san francisco, ca? :( it’d be sweet if you did!
and a signed book from the fantastic bakerella would be a nice xmas gift to myself :)
I can’t wait to make, and eat, almond crescents! I found a new recipe for them and I can’t wait to try it out!!! :)
I can’t wait to eat my mom’s homemade butter toffee and bourbon brownies!
I love to make homemade sugar cookies & homemade frosting! They are the best!!
When I was a kid, my mom made Candy Cane cookies out of a butter dough or shortbread type dough and they were awesome. They are very time consuming, so I only make them once about ever 6 or 7 years.
Baking ROCKS!
I love peanut butter balls! I can’t wait for he holidays! :-)
I love making rice crispie houses (instead of gingerbread) with my family. Nothing sitting at the kitchen table decorating and hanging out all together!
I’m looking forward to my white chocolate bark with pistachios and cranberries. It’s our family favorite!
I cannot wait to eat homemade fudge! YUMM!
I love love love the chocolate chip pumpkin bread that my aunt bakes up for everyone, and the yummy yummy sugar cookies that my momma makes. And if I get this book, cake pops will become my favorate treat for all the holidays…
I’ll be making the chocolate sugar cookies and using the adorable cup cake cookies from crate and barrel that you featured on your website. I can’t wait to package them cute and give them as gifts!
mmm any combination of peppermint and chocolate…like peppermint bark!
Anything peppermint/chocolate! That flavor combination screams Christmas to me and I try to hold off until December to indulge. Oooh, and eggnog…
Almond Brickle!!!
I can’t wait to eat all the goodies! Cookies, caramel cake, hummingbird cake…It is all YUMMY!
Hmmm, so much to choose from!! I can’t wait to make Christmas cookies with my kids… and apple pie… and Christmas morning cinnamon rolls… and peppermint bark… and cake pops…
Home made turtles and Lefsa I have to but they are holiday traditions!!!
Best treat are some of the first gingerbread cookies out of the oven! Hoping to snag one or two of those this weekend when I start my baking.
I can’t wait to make gingerbread men! SO yummy!
I have my own little tradition of buying my first Cranberry Bliss Bar from Starbucks while I am shopping on Black Friday – yum!
My husband can’t wait for his mother or I to make his very very favorite cherry cordial cookies, he always requests his own batch.
Love seeing the pictures of the signings!