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!
My friend makes these excellent pretzel, hershey’s hugs, and m&ms treats that are AMAZING! Plus they only take like 5 minutes!
I can’t wait to make Chocolate Unbaked Cookies – my absolute favorite, but really I just can’t wait to eat any and all cookies that come my way.
Home-made gingerbread cookies! When they’re baking it smells like christmas (:
I’m excited for my grandma’s cookies!
lots and lots of cookies! and all the amazing holiday coffees, like gingerbread and peppermint mocha mmmmm!
I’m ready for some good old pressed cookies!
I can’t wait for macnut buter cups! yum!
Peppermint chocolate fudge bars!!!
Sugar cookies
Snickerdoodles! The touch of cinnamon is so wonderful! :)
i can’t wait to eat peanut butter blossom cookies!
Cookies, and Egg Nog. Mmmm…
I cant wait to eat my momma’s home made chocolate chip cookies warm right out of the oven (and the dough) :)
I love chocolate fudge, preferably with peppermint.
Love me some bakerella! Can’t wait to have your book in my hot little hands! Thanks for being so awesome!
My mom never bake so i had to depend on friends so i quess i would have to say Oatmeal with Cranberries and ginger since im Australian livin in Henderson Nevada . I love sugar lots of it Happy Holidays and the best to you and yours Merry Chirstmas. love and Blessings Cheyenne
I’m making donuts for hanukah :) yum.
I really want to try cake pops for christmas :)…..To try something new.
Buckeye Balls!
My mom makes this breakfast casserole for Christmas morning– and ONLY on Christmas morning! I can’t wait to eat it!
All those delicious Christmas cookies!
the holiday treat I can’t wait for is chocolate snowball cookies! i call them my 2 hour cookies because it takes about that long start to finish to make them!!
Homemade sugar cookies and fudge. I LOVE the holidays! A signed copy of your book would make this holiday so much more joyful! :)
Mounds Bars!
Rosettes! and lefse. My family will be getting together soon to make rosettes over about 3 days and then work to distribute them to family everywhere that we can!
I can’t wait to bake and decorate and then of course eat christmas sugar cookies with my girls.
Well to be honest….anything sweet will do, but I really enjoy my mother-in-law’s apple pie. So good!
I can’t wait to eat some anise cookies! My favorite! But…I can hardly wait for Christmas to come. I’ve asked for your Cake Pop book so I hope I win! Sorry everyone. I REALLY want to win!
I love cheeseballs! And chocolate-peanut butter fudge. Oh, and caramels. And what about decorated cookies? Yes, it’s safe to say I love it all! (But not the fruit cake. Eww.)
cake balls! red and green for christmas!
I can’t wait to eat chocolate cake with peppermint buttercream icing!! I would love a signed copy of your book!!
I have NO clue how I only just heard of you and your fabulous blog, but OH MY! I’m in love :)
I can’t wait for Oreo Truffles! (I only eat them during Christmas because we avoid HFCS the rest of the year)
I can’t wait to eat fruit cake–I know sounds weird but my mom makes the most amazing fruit cake known to man and it’s not door stop quality :)
I can’t wait to make some cake pops for Christmas!
i can’t wait for classic shortbread dipped in chocolate!
The treat that I can’t wait to eat is white chocolate peppermint bark! I always make up big patches and give them as gifts to family members, they love it!
My absolute favorite holiday cookie would have to be peppermint chocolate chip cookies!
I cant wait for my girlfriend to her chocolate chip cookies with andes mints…they are pretty awesome!
I live in Japan right now where it’s going to be difficult to find ingredients for some of my favorite Christmas sweets. But, my parents visited recently and brought me hazelnuts so I’m going to make chocolate hazelnut biscotti. I’ve sort of made it my own tradition to make biscotti, put it in cute bags and give it as gifts to friends and co-workers. We’ll see if it works in my tiny little oven here!
Buckeyes!!
Favorite holiday treat to make–that’s almost impossible to pick one thing. I do love fudge and pretty much only make it during the holidays.
It’s a tie between anything peppermint flavored and Sugar Cookies (which would be best not peppermint flavored, I think)…I love the holidays!
Christmas trees and santas hat cake pops….
Im so excited, this will be the first time that i will make cake pops for christmas.. I cant wait..
I know it’s nothing special but i love the Classic Sugar Cookies! Decorate them anyway you want to and everyone loves them!
my absolute favorite is chocolate almond shortbread bars. I could eat a pan by myself… Rum balls make a very close second!
My mother-in-law’s date nut bars. I have a batch in the oven RIGHT NOW!!!! Can’t wait!
i put one on my wishlist!
I’m looking forward to homemade pumpkin bread made with my own roasted pumpkin. YUM!
I’d love to have a book and I can’t wait to eat some peanut brittle!
Meringue cookies! I’m also going to make some cakeballs with a peppermint icing!
Muddy buddies (chocolate-peanut butter Chex Mix) and pine bark (caramel and chocolate on saltine crackers). Oh my!
Homemade shortbread cookies with REAL butter. Melt in your mouth! :)
Oh my gosh, my Grandma’s Peanut Butter Fudge. I’m not a big ‘holiday’ person, but when Christmas rolls around, so does the fudge and I get so excited! c:!
Mini pretzels dipped in white chocolate and peppermint. Yum!
Jello poke cake with the cool whip frosting! My mom used to make it for my birthday, Dec. 24th. We will be celebrating the holidays together this year and I hope she will be making that cake. I haven’t had it in years.
I can’t wait to eat Buckeyes! They’re the perfect blend of chocolate & peanut butter…yum!!!
Can’t wait to fill our Christmas cookie jar with… everything! :)
I can’t wait to eat some cake pops!!!!
pie. I love pie.
I’m excited to eat chocolate pie covered (COVERED) in whipped cream, and cake, and lemon meringue pie …
my mother makes stollen (german raisin bread) – so simple and yet when you soak the raisins in wine, ooooh it’s so good!
I cannot live without fudge during the holidays!
Red Velvet Truffles! =)
My mother in laws joe frogger cookies. They smell like Christmas.
I’m hoping for pumpkin pie. Or pecan. Or even sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top (can you tell I missed Thanksgiving this year?!). Holiday classics!
There are so many things,,,,,,,how to choose? The cookies, breads, ohhh and homemade chocolate covered cherries!!
I’m going to try making Baklava for the first time! and also those cute little pies in a jar that you had posted about from Our Best Bites blog. I think i’ll make some for gifts!!! :)
gingersnap cookies and honey cookies..
Biting into them makes me feel like a kid in my moms kitchen again!
can’t wait to make my great great great grandmother’s sugar cookies (the original recipe actually said ‘dash of this, a smidgen of this..it was very hard to figure out the exact amount but after trials and trials, we were finally able to recreate the cookies) and buckeyes!
I cant wait to make and decorate christmas cookies with my cousins! They always turn out great.
i cant wait to eat gingerbread cheesecake ive started making for the holidays. also to try out some snowmen&reindeer cake pops , my turkey ones were a hit at thanksgiving, as were my cupcake pops for my daughters 1rst birthday!!!!!!!
I love peppermint chocolate popcorn! And its so easy to make that i get it whenever i want.
Nanaimo bars!
I can’t wait to make and decorate cookies with my kids!
I can’t wait for the homemade biscotti my aunt always sends me, it makes me feel a bit closer to her for the holidays.
Christmas Stollen ! I wait all year for it…..yummy
My favorite cookies – german chocolate swirls : )
Last year I made cookie boxes for friends and family and my favorite thing in them by far was the Pistachio Christmas Ribbon Bars I found on Christmas-cookies.com. I can’t wait to make them again this year and make a batch or two extra just for myself.
Tassie cookies! They are the epitome of the holiday season!
I cant wait to have leche flan! Yum yum
I can’t wait to eat some cut-out sugar cookies … frosted of course!! With Egg Nog. Doesn’t that sound good?
What can’t I wait to eat this time of year!? I especially love big, soft sugar cookies decorated to the T!
Every year I look forward to Peanut Butter Balls. It’s been a family tradition for longer than I can remember and thankfully I don’t have to wait long to eat them because Mom and I made them today! Yay!
Anything pumpkin!! Yum.
Peppermint bark. I love it!
chocolate peppermint pie!! Once a year, at Christmas…and its MINE, ALLLLLLLLL MINE
Grandmama’s tiger butter–peanut butter and chocolate! How can that not be the best?
I can’t wait to make christmas spritz cookies with my mom – it’s a holiday tradition and it’s what I give most of my relatives for the holidays. Who wants another scented candle when you could have cookies!
Any kind of Christmas cookie, love them all!
Mmm, grandma’s sour cream drop cookies and mini cherry cheesecakes! :)
Candy cane cookies will do it for me.
Mimi
I can’t wait for the holiday season! I’m excited to make little tiny loaves of gingerbread in some adorable mini-loaf pans I found on sale this weekend. :)
I am sooo looking forward to my grandma’s snowball cookies! She is no longer here but, I love to make them and remember her and when we would make them together.
And, Congratulations on your new book…it looks fabulous! :)
can’t wait for more apple pie!
I can’t wait for homemade turtle candies! So delicious!
I can’t wait to eat some homemade caramel corn!!!
I’m always a sucker for a yummy cherry pie!
sugar cookies! my favorite and a tradition in my family for many years.
Hmm, lots! Definitely cookies. And the truffles I made last year!
I’m a sucker for my mom’s lemon meltaways! Wouldn’t be xmas without them.
I can’t wait to eat sandies! I don’t know how to make it but I love eating them!
It may be cliche, but the sugar cookies are always the best! I can’t wait to decorate them, too (:
I absolutely adore gingerbread cookies. I plan to make pain cookies, men shaped, and a house complete with stained glass windows out of gingerbread this year. Yum!
My aunt makes the most amazing creme-filled cookie sandwiches over the holidays. I can never get enough of them!
My SILs oreo balls
my grandmother’s spritz butter cookies!
I can’t wait for French Silk Pie! That’s our Christmas tradition in my family.
I can’t wait to make a dessert my grandma used to make, called “float.” Its a less thick and nutmeg-y version of eggnog with egg whites. I’ve never had anything else like it!
Can’t wait to eat a piece of ricotta pie! This recipe goes way back in my family and we all look forward to it for the holidays.
I love to bake, partially because I don’t eat sweets – so I just get to look at my creations and share them with friends. Once exception though – Pioneer Woman’s Cinnamon Rolls. I can not WAIT to make (and eat!) them.
Sugar cookies! We bake em from scratch, then decorate them! We WERE going to do it this upcoming weekend, but you will be in town – Yay Toronto! – So we are going to do them NEXT weekend.
While it’s not what some folks would consider a “treat,” we have a tradition of having French meat pie for dinner one either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day (it depends where we are). I love French meat pie! And for dessert, my mom’s neighbor always bakes up batches of cookies and I always try to grab the chocolate-dipped shortbread ones before anyone else has a chance!
I can’t wait to eat gingerbread cookies, Christmas candy and more pie!
Every Christmas, for my wholelife, my mom made these cream cheese cookies. They are absolutely the best cookies I’ve ever had. Friends beg me to make these cookies, year round. Well this year, I’m making some here in Ottawa, AND my mom is making them where she lives. So I will be on a cream cheese cookie overload, and I can’t wait! (Although I make vegan ones, and she makes the real thing!)
i cannot wait to eat… my aunt’s toffee cookies. so bad, but so so so good.
I cant wait for the Christmas decorated sugar cookies and the gingerbread cookies!
I can’t wait to bake and decorated sugar cookies with my little brothers, despite how difficult it may be! [getting a 4 year old and a 6 year old to calm down enough to bake is all kinds of fun haha]
Ohhhhh man… My mom’s fudge and pumpkin rolls. YUM.
Oh my goodness I hope I win!
I am looking forward to banana bread and fudge, Mmm.. I cant wait!
Cherry Cheese Bars are my husband’s favorite and I love them, too! Looking forward to making some for a party on Friday.
So excited about this giveaway! Thank you!
I can’t wait to eat my grandmother’s chocolate chip cookies!!
Home cooked Pho – it is the vietnamese version of chicken noodle soup!
Peanut butter balls !
I can’t wait for the fudge!!! It’s the only time of year I make it.
Looking forward to the gingerbread cookies!
My mother’s homemade divinity! It is creamy and smooth and puffy. I love it, and am thankful she only makes it once a year. Or at the very least, my doctor is thankful.
I can’t wait to eat some warm chocolate chip cookies and some hot cocoa!
I am a simple girl who loves all the holiday pies! YUM!! Apple are best for breakfast :)
I learned to make Pannetone last year. And I can’t wait to make a few more this year. My Pannetone-loving brother said I hit the mark on the one I delivered to him last Christmas.
SO excited for soft ginger bread cookies with tiny sprinkles!!! Oh, and hot apple cider!!! I know that’s a drink, but it’s just so good…!
I can’t wait to have some cheesecake, not sure what kind I’ll be making, but whatever it is, I can’t wait!!!!
I make Classic Greenfield Village gingerbread every year! so excited to make them this Christmas season!
My favorite holiday cookie is “Swedish Heirlooms” – an almond cookie dusted with powdered sugar. I’ve seen them elsewhere as Russian Tea Cookies – but none taste quite like those from my grandmother’s recipe!
I can’t wait to make and decorate cut-out sugar cookies! :)
What can’t I wait for??? I am going to attempt your christmas tree pops and can’t wait to try those, mini pecan pies, and christmas dinner (turkey, potatoes, gravy, ect…)
Cant wait to eat the mini apple pies from your website!
I love making gingerbread with orange cream cheese frosting!
My home made Pecan Pie… just thinking about it makes my mouth water!
I can’t wait to bake and eat Christmas sugar cookies. Yum!
my mothers Lekvar cookies. OMG! they are so good!
Sufganiot – deep fried donuts for Chanukah!
It would have to be pumpkin pie. Love the stuff.
I had sweet potatoe pie for Thanksgiving and I’m sure I will have it again for Christmas. Maybe even sooner!
oh boy. It’s just not the holidays without:
cheeseball
sugar cookies with lots of icing
“green fluff”
and
advent calendar chocolates.
i am loving publix brand barney’s santa’s white christmas icecream! my fave!
and all the yummy Christmas cookies. i best get baking!
Peppermint bark! Or my mom’s carrot cake, mmm…
Or…this year, for Christmas morning, post gift chaos, traditional breakfast my mother and I are going to kick our fear of yeast, step away from the dough boy and attempt PW’s cinnamon rolls!
Something i love getting around the holidays are gift baskets full of different holiday cookies and such =)
I can’t wait to have this delicious hot , punch, tea style drink that has a lot of fruits! It’s excellent.
My Dad learned it from his parents when he was growing up in Mexico :)
Gingerbread! (:
i love chocolate covered cherries…..with the clear filling, not the white stuff! :)
Sour cream sugar cookies! These cookies are always a big hit every Christmas!!!
My mom’s famous Double Delicious bars. Yum!!
Mom makes a snack called “Nuts and Bolts.” It is cereals, nuts and pretzels coated in a peanut butter mixture. This is a Christmas tradition and I can’t wait!
i cant wait to eat holiday sugar cookies
My mom’s “Russian Golf Balls”, they really are teacakes but she makes them so big we started calling them golf balls! :D
Hi Bakerella! I LOVE YOUUUUU!!!! I’m going to make Reindeer Chow this year for my entire office, can’t wait to try it out!
I’m one of those wierdos that loves fruitcake. When I had my son on Christmas Day in 1980 my mother brought me nt fruitcake “fix”. It’s not Christmas without fruitcake!
Sugar cookies fresh from the oven!
Sugar and cinnamon roasted pecans! YUM!
I can’t wait to eat fudge….my mom-in-law makes the best!
cookies all kinds
pumpkin cheesecake!! :D
I love making sugar cookies and decorating them! Can’t wait!
I absolutely cannot wait to make Christmas Bark!
Melting snowmen cookies!!! Found them online last year and once I made them, I fell in love with them. They are so cute…it’s hard to bring yourself to eat them! lol (they are a bit of work though ;)
MMh, my favorite holiday treats hands-down are gingerbread cookies. The gigantic chewy kind—I can’t wait to make them!
Well, I make all the holiday treats so I can’t wait to eat my Snickerdoodles. Sugar and cinnamon, can’t ask for much more!
I bought a book, but would LOVE a signed copy!
im excited to eat some yummy white chocolate brownies!
Baklava!!
Fudge!
My family loveees when i make chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. I have a secret in making the cake so thick and gooey! And it never hurts to wash it all down with cold milk.
I’ll bake the gingerbread and my kids will decorate them! Boston cream candy, some to eat and some to give away. And I’ll find a reason to make the Brownie Pecan Pie recipe that you posted last week.
I can’t wait to eat Sapin sapin and Leche flan for our Christmas dinner. It’s a Philippines sweet treat that it’s just ooieeeeeee goodness :-)
i cant wait to eat a yule log!!!
mint spritz cookies!!!! The only problem is that the cookie gun is a little tricky but so worth it!
I can’t wait for the red velvet cheesecake!! mmmm…yummy!
hmmm … that’s a tough one! Buckeyes (choc covered p-nut butter balls), or maybe pumpkin roll. or maybe Mom’s cinnamon rolls …
I make homemade gingerbread houses for my family and four of our closest friends. Then we get the families together and all let the kids decorate them. It is my favorite holiday tradition.
I am looking forward to homemade ORange rolls…. YUMM!!!!! Its beginning to smell like Christmas in my home!! Merry Christmas
Pumpkin pie! I love it this time of year!
Honestly, hot cocoa and gingerbread cookies beats all! Atleast in my opinion, haha.
I didn’t get around to making a rum cake for Thanksgiving, so that’s on the agenda for Christmas. YUM YUM YUM.
Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing! So festive and delicious!
My mothers fruit cake.
Chex Party Mix! Which means I’m sitting in a room gabbing with my sisters.
I absolutely love your website and that you took such an amazing product and made amazing art. I am planning on making the sesame street cake pops for my son’s 2nd Birthday!
Thank you for being such an inspiration!
I LOVE cherry chocolates!!!
I always make Bailey’s cake with Bailey’s buttercream. A great way to consume booze.
Homemade Gingerbread cookies that I’ll whip up in a week or two with my daughter, and Sufganiyot, the traditional jelly donut for Hanukah!
I would love some chocolate chip lemon squares!
Really excited about homemade shortbread cookies. But maybe some cakepops are in my future…
Pumpkin spice cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting, peppermint-dark chocolate bark, and simple Chanukah (aka sugar) cookies :-)
Raisin cookies! I look forward to them every year.
peppermint bark + peppermint ice cream!! i know i can find peppermint-flavored treats other times of the year but there is something so magical about having it around the holidays with the cold weather :-)
gingerbread men – YUM!
I can’t wait for my mom to make her delicious Hello Dollies!!!!
Fudge!!!
Can’t wait to eat chistmas cookies and summer’s fruits :)
I can’t wait to eat cinnamon pull aparts Christmas morning with a latte!!!