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!
Kolachies from my Grandmother’s recipe!
I cannot wait to my cousins Pecan Cup Cookies!! mmmm
Puppy Chow! I love the peanut buttery chocolatey crunchy sugary goodness.
i am excited about my mom’s cheesecake . . . she always has a new recipe!
p.s. I made your turkey pops for Thanksgiving and they were a huge hit!
Sugar cookies with buttercream…I just don’t make them any other time of the year…can’t wait!
Hello!! =) this is the first time I see your work… you are amazing!!!! reallyy… I wanna be like you hehe
Take care… best wishes
Ana?
The ultimate classic: FUDGE (hold the nuts!)
Sausage/Cheddar balls
gingerbread cookies
I can’t wait to have cakepops! That’s right – I made cake balls last year and they were a big HIT, so I’m doing the pops this year. :D
Too bad I cant make it to Toronto!
Not sure I can enter the contest…do you ship to montreal?
Regardless, we dont have fixed traditions for the holidays, but Im looking forward to baking lots of cookies and trying new recipes!
homemade caramels – made by me!
I can’t wait for creme brulee cheesecake… it’s my mom’s specialty! I love the site so much! Trying to convince my fiance to get me a stand mixer for christmas so I can play! I am making cakeballs for our wedding favor 12/5/10
Our homemade fudge!!!!!
Pecan tarts! My mother-in-law has an awesome recipe that I now make every year and everybody loves them.
I can’t wait to eat ‘chocoladeletters’ and ‘taaitaai’! I live in Holland and we celebrate ‘Sinterklaas’, which actually is the Dutch Santa Clause (a holiday we don’t celebrate like in the US). Along with Sinterklaas come a lot of lovely, typically Dutch sweets which I love! (picture of the sweets in website-bar)
Instead of eating, I can’t wait to try out stained glass cookies this year. =) I’ve always avoided sugar cookies or any roll out due to the dough melting fairly quickly.
Homemade toffee. I could eat the whole batch, that is why I only make it once a year!
anything and everything sweet!!!
PICK ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmmm, which to choose? I can’t pick. I LOVE yummy Christmas desserts as much as I love to make them all. Fudge, peanut brittle, homemade peppermint patties, peanut butter balls, classic sugar cookie cutouts, cutsie holiday cupcake pops (a new addition this year)… I could keep going, but that’s probably good.
Gingerbread cookies!! This year I couldn’t wait and made them in August :)
I’m really excited to make Buckeyes again this year! I grew up in Ohio, eating them every year and always looking forward to them. After moving to Wisconsin, I’ve loved making them for folks up here who’ve never had a buckeye candy before – let alone have even heard of them. They may not have heard of the candy before, but after they taste them, they NEVER forget about them!
TOFFEE!! :) Thanks for the giveaway!
I can’t wait to eat s’mores with delicious toasted marshmallows in them ?
Pie and lots of it!!
My mother in law’s pecan tarts! delicious!
i love trying new recipes!
I can’t wait for my Grandma’s Banana Cream pie! Yum!
Christmas cookies! I can’t wait to bake them and to eat them!!!
cookies with the kiss in the center…yum
homemade toffee that my mama makes :)
I’m looking forward to eating Butter Tarts! Yummy Yummy in my TUMMY! :)
Ginger cookies – a new holiday favorite at my house!
I can’t wait to have my Grandma’s crazy gingerbread. Super simple to make, and they turn out cake-y like gingerbread cake.
German’s Sweet Chocolate Cake, always a Christmas favorite!
Darn it !!! I was in Toronto last weekend ! sigh….guess I’m gonna have to make me something sweet to make me feel better :)
I can’t wait for some gingerbread – it tastes like the holidays to me. yum.
I am so looking forward to no bake chocolate cookies with oatmeal and almond butter : )
Can’t wait to do my traditional holiday baking!! Usually do a variety of things but always have homemade sugar cookies!! May try my hand at a cake pop this time!! Your are inspiring!
i currently live in london, england and i miss all sorts of american food. i’m really looking forward to spending time in texas at christmas and eating good mexican food. but the holiday treat i am looking forward to eating is peanut brittle and banana pudding.
i have asked for the cake pop book for christmas but would love to receive one from you personally! :)
hope you and your family have a merry christmas!!!
I love our famous family pink stuff, could eat it all the time!
I can’t wait to eat the “Frosted Mint Jello Mold” It’s lime Jello with mint jelly and chunks of cream cheese. If you like mint and cream cheese, it’s wonderful!!!
I cannot wait to eat Loveknots. They’re a Polish fried treat, sort of like a doughnut. I used to help my Mom make them, but now I’ve graduated to making them all on my own! :) My Dad won’t be there anymore to eat them, but I want to carry on the tradition that he so enjoyed.
My sister makes a delicious cupcake pops!! So yummy!!
Love the pictures!
I cannot wait for more pumpkin cheesecake. A friend made it for me for Thanksgiving and I am demanding more for Christmas! So delicious :D
This year my favorite treat (that I am looking forward to again) is Paula Deen’s Deep Fried Cranberry Sauce Fritters!
Toffee….or sugar cookies…or candy canes!
Can’t wait for yummy brownies and freshly baked cookies!
This weekend I’m making cinnamon rolls for the very very first time!! I’ve only worked with yeast once before… eep!!! But deliciousness will win out in the end!!!! :D
I would just like some more pumpkin pie please! I only eat it twice a year, at thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s one of my favorites with lots of whipped cream!
My MIL’s sticky buns…Christmas morning! Yum!!
We make our famous fancy-decorated sugar cookies every Christmas and they are SOOOO good!
I cant wait to enjoy a nice warm cup of cocoa with some Bailey’s Cream with a hint of Caramel. As I take a sip of my cocoa will take a big bite of Honey Bun Cake…… MUAH DELISCIOUS!
Chewy Cherry Bars. Hands down
Sugar cookies , they are the best at christmas!
Peppermint bark and Hickory Farms anything. Totally spells christmas for me. :)
cake balls and peppermint brownies!
Nanaimo bars! My great-grandmother used to make them every year at Christmas. I’m taking them over this year.
She could never pronounce Nanaimo, so I grew up thinking that they were called “Nominal Bars.”
Lets see here…Swedish butter cookies, nanaimo bars, and apircot buttons. My grandma made these for us every year when I was a little girl and now it is my turn to make them and I can’t wait!!
meow wow wow!
I just want anything with chocolate! mmm!!!!
GINGERBREAD!!!!! I actually asked for a book for Christmas about making amazing gingerbread houses! Hope I get it :D
I can’t wait to make the Brownie/Pecan pie that you recently posted. I can’t believe my two favorite desserts have been combined into one! WOO HOO!
My mother in laws Christmas pudding which I thought I really detested! But it turns out I love it!
Can’t wait for homeade and decorated sugar cookies!
I usually make some kind of cookie or candy for family Chirstmas gifts. This year I am making cake balls! I can’t wait to try them. I hope they will become a classic in my family.
Christmas cookies of coarse <3 loading them up with unessecary icing and then gobbling them down, the best tradition!
I love the pretzels with the M&Ms stuck fast with the chocolate. Yum!!
I can not wait to eat Christmas cookies! I look forward to them all year.
I can’t wait to eat a cake i will be making with my new bigtop cupcake
My own delcious homemade gingerbread cookies, warm from the oven with a glass of milk. Yum!
I CANNOT wait to make gingerbread houses and peppermint bark!! Oh I love all the baking this time of year!
Gingerbread cookies and Ginger Snaps!!!
I am making 6 different kinds of cookies for my friends and family this year including my favorite, macaroon cookies with Hershey kisses http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/8064/KISSES-Macaroon-Cookies.aspx
I can’t wait to eat them!
Hmm…grandma’s gingersnaps OR candy coated pretzels?? It’s a toss up! :)
I love Christmas Stollen!
I can’t wait to eat Christmas cookies and try your cake pop recipe for the holiday :) It will be fun and memorable for sure :)
My mom’s Apricot Nector cake.
So EXCITED about Saturday!!!! Can’t wait to meet you and get my book signed in Toronto!!!
Homemade meringues
Mmm, sugar cookies. :D
Everything! I love to do holiday baking with my sister and I look forward to all the sweets! Thanks..
I love sampling all the treats during the holidays…I love sugar cookies, fudge, cake, etc.
Pecan snowballs! I think they’re actually called Mexican wedding cakes, but either way they are delicious.
I am SO excited for my grandmother’s sweet potato pie, but even more excited for the pumpkin pie POPS I’m making this year!
I LOVE my mom’s thumbprint cookies – cookie rolled in nuts with frosting star center- YUM!
Homemade Egg Nog! with a side of chocolate fudge
I can’t wait to have Christmas cookies. Each year I make all of the ones my grandmother made and especially love one called Santa’s Whiskers.
Gingerbread cake with lemon glaze!
I can’t wait for my Grandma’s Cheesecake Cookies!!!! They rock!!!
I love to bake at Christmas. I am so excited about the Spritz cookies!!
Pumpkin bread! Mmmm.
I can’t wait to make and eat some spritz eggnog cookies. I’ll be making much more – sugar cookies, cut outs, peanut butter balls…. I always make extra for all the neighbors and friends.
Cut-out Christmas cookies…so fun to make and taste good too!
I can’t wait to have some of my mom’s peanut brittle and chex mix! I make it but it just doesn’t taste the same as hers!
Peanut Butter Blossoms or Peppermint Bark!!
gingerbread houses!
My mom NO-bake cookies! yummy!
you are such an inspiration!!! mwah! thanks to you!
I love my mother’s molasses cookies – chewy, soft and oh so good!
I can’t wait to start making my holiday treats that I pass out for gifts..pralines,fudge,cookies,peanut butter balls…I get the sweets overload !
I can’t wait to eat the cuppycakes, chocolate chip cookies and sugar cookies!! Yummie <3
My friend’s peanut butter fudge. YUM!
oreo cake pops and vegan gingerbread cut outs (they balance each other out!)
I can’t wait to have some good luck mochi soup!!! My mother in law makes it every new years eve for when the clock strikes midnight…and the whole ‘ohana brings in the new year with some mochi good luck soup…after we pop all the fireworks :)
My grandmother makes this awesome desert with chocolate cake, chocolate mousse, whipped cream and heath bar pieces. It is soooo good!
Oooh toughy! I would have to say, Spritz cookies!!
In Mexico we used to eat some treats call “churros” and i LOVE them! ;)
Can not wait to pecan tassies!
I enjoy making Petit Fours, and they are even more fun to eat!
I can’t wait to eat pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!! I am excited this year to make sugar cookies with my kiddo’s should be fun LOL
Since I’m heading to NYC for the holidays, I can’t wait to have a cupcake from Magnolia’s Bakery! Wouldn’t a sugar cookie cupcake be delicious?
I am really excited to make cookies, Christmas is just not Christmas without cookies! :-)
Oh my goodness! Just look at all those comments! I can’t wait for our traditional spit Roasted Pork – with the crackling of course!
Almond horns!
brownies and sugar cookies!! also chocolate fudge for mini snacks :D
I cant wait for the Ginger Cookies :)
Pie!
I can’t wait to eat my grandmothers fudge… She only makes it every christmas, and try as i might, I never seem to make it the same way she does. hers is always better!
apple crisp!
I can’t wait to eat whatever they serve in the Virgin Islands because we’re going away this holiday. I can, however, wait to eat fruitcake…
Chocolate Yule Log, I’m such a chocoholic LOL, but I’m looking forward to trying a better sugar cookie recipe this year… last time I tried it didn’t go so well! so I look forward to eating those!
I love trying out new recipes but will always have to make my sons favorites pumpkin with chocolate chips……yum
I can’t wait to eat my friend’s cupcakes with crumbled peppermint on top!
I can’t wait to make and eat homemade cinnamon rolls this Christmas… yum! With some hot cocoa, even better! Love your cake pops! So creative and yummy.
Can’t wait to bake/eat Mexican wedding cakes! Yum!
This Christmas, I would actually like to try a pumpkin roll! I’ve never liked pumpkin that much because it gave me morning sickness when I was pregnant. And so I never developed a likeness for pumpkin until a friend made me some pumpkin fluff. The pumpkin fluff was really really good. From that time on, everyone began asking me if I had ever tried a pumpkin roll before, which I have not. They began telling me how good they taste…….and so…..I think I’m going to go to the dutch market in my neighborhood and buy one to go along with my Christmas dinner! :-)
I can’t wait to eat the magic squares. They’re so delicious with the gooey sweetened condensed milk!
Ican’t wait to make fruit cake.
I love!!
I would love this book. I asked for it for my bday and didn’t get it :( My FAV holiday treat are Peppermint Mochas from a very popular coffee chain. Every now and then I treat myself to one.
I’m ashamed to admit it, but I can’t wait for a Little Debbie Christmas Tree cake :)
i can’t wait to eat fudge!
I can’t wait to eat my homemade fudge!!!! I think i may add some cake bites into my holiday mix this year too!!! YUM!
I can’t wait to eat to my mother’s cream cheese wreaths! They are a tradition in my family and only made during Christmas, so I plan on indulging when I go home for the holiday!
I love my dads treasure chest bars, maraschino cherries, chocolate and nuts! YUM!!
I can’t wait to try all of the cookies at the annual cookie exchange!
I love Christmas cookie time! I will be making Mexican Wedding cookies, Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies & my favorite – Great Grandmother’s Old Fashioned Sugar cookies w/ the maraschino cherry on top or pecan half, just the way she used to do!
I can’t wait to eat my Aunt’s peanut butter balls…they are AMAZING!!!!!!
My grandmothers date nut roll!
Chocolate peanut butter balls!!!! Yummy!!!
I would love to have some peanut butter cookies with the sugared fork used to make them. Actually, I might prefer to have the dough right now!
Pecan pie!! :)
I can’t wait to eat Christmas cookies!
I can not wait for my grandmas Jello cheese cake. She only makes it for the holidays, and I TRY to make it but you know it never comes out the same as grandmas. Happy Holidays :-)
christmas cookies with buttercream frosting! YUM-O
Gingerbread cookies and houses! My Mother-in-law’s recipe is the best!
Grandma Hansen’s krumkaka and lefsa
My grandmother’s apple pie. In classic Swedish tradition, it’s not too sweet but more savory. So good.
I can’t wait to eat my Grammie’s Christmas Pie. In fact… we had it for Thanksgiving!
I will be recreating my Gramma’s cookies this Christmas! I can’t wait to get bakin’!
The gingerbread! We make a house and some gingerbread men too. They’re one of my favorite parts of the season. :)
My mom’s homemade caramels – delicious!
i can’t wait for decorated cutout cookies!
I absolutely cannot wait to eat, actually I just can’t wait to see my husband who is away with military training right now, but after I finally get to see him I hope to shove a a piece or two of peacan pie in my face!
Cranberry nut muffins with lots of butter! (and a glass of red wine, of course :) )
I’m more of a savory gal and can’t wait to have my mother in laws cranberry salad. Tart and sweet at the xsame time.
I can’t wait to make gingerbread men this year!
i can’t wait to eat my grandmothers homeade chex mix!!!! its the best part of christmas!
so simple but my family loves to make rice krispy treats and add fun things like m&m’s and recess pieces and dip in melted chocolate, just a fun time together and a yummy treat!
Loving the ideas you’ve created! Keep up the great work!!
can’t wait to make one of your holiday pops!!
Red Velvet Cake!
Gingerbread!!
Gingerbread!!
can’t wait to eat all of it. I’ve been on a diet!
Hot cocoa every night in December, yumm!
Just one??? I love making up goodie plates for friends, coworkers, family and neighbors. If I choose just one goodie it would be Oreo truffles.
the cinnamon rolls I make for xmas morning.
Gingerbread men. And of course, cake pops.
I can’t wait to eat my mom’s chocolate torte. She only makes it at the holidays and it is AWESOME…mmm, I can taste it now! :) :) :)
Well, all of them really! But if I had to choose one it would be my mom’s turtle bars~heavenly!
My mom’s pumpkin pie!!!
PW’s spicy molasses cookies. Mmm Mmm good.
I have always wanted to try making french macaroons… and this christmas I’m finally going to try! I’ve decided on Hazelnut Chocolate Macaroons. Cant wait to see how they taste. Wish me luck! :)
I’ll be working a crazy schedule this month, so I’m looking forward to whatever my sweet wife makes.
I tried pumpkin bread pudding thanks to PW over Thanksgiving, and I can’t wait to make it again!
Peppermint bark cookies! Though I am looking forward to making sugar cookies this year to decorate the tree.
I LOVE the classic, melt in your mouth shortbread cookies! Sooo good!
Pretty much anything and everything involving peppermint!!!
I can’t wait to have some of the apple cake that my sister made for Thanksgiving again!
Mmm, rum cake.
I absolutely have to have my Mother-in-Laws Jam Pudding with Bourbon, butter sauce!
I love tiramisu… even though I made it for Thanksgiving, I’m excited to have it again!
Around the holidays we always make divinity choc full of pecans! Yummy, I cannot wait.
Mmmm… can’t wait for homemade pecan pie!
anything with pumpkin!
Frosted cutely (is that a word?) shaped holiday cookies…must be sweet, buttery, and soft!
I can’t wait for my husband to make turtle brownies. Oh and of course chocolate cupcakes. MMMMMMM
I’m more excited to just decorate cookies with my mom while laughing and catching up on the happenings in our lives… although, eating them always prove to be good as well!!!!
Bakerella –
Good afternoon. I cannot wait to eat peach cobbler and banana pudding.
Sugar cookies! Duh!
I love white trash!!! so yummy!!
Chocolate Windows (it is basically chocolate, butter & colored mini marshmellows that is formed into a log and then cut into slices)
I love the combination of peppermint and chocolate and cannot wait to have some peppermint brownies!!
I am going to make the Pumpkin Bread Pudding made by Bobby Flay in his Throwdown with Pioneer Woman. Hope its as great as they say and can then be added as a new tradition to our future holiday meals.
how do you choose?! all christmas treats are yummy!
Rum Cake!
I can’t wait to eat my mother’s pinwheel cookies. They are fussy to make but turn out so pretty. I have been enchanted with the colors (pink, green and yellow) since I was little. They look a lot like spring, but for some reason are always made for Christmas. : )
rum-ball cookies!
I cannot wait to eat my favorite creme-de-menthe fudgy brownies that my grandma and mom make. Yumm!