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!
Any Christmas cookies!!!
Ok, so it may not be a sweet treat, but my all-time favorite food is roladen. We only have it once a year, for dinner on Christmas night. Thin slices of beef wrapped around bacon, pickle, and onion… a dish my Mom remembers from Germany before she moved here. I start craving it around oh, September or so..
Any kind of Christmas cookie!
Your blog is one of my favorites! I can’t wait to eat my mom’s german chocolate cake!!! :)
Bakerella! So sad I missed you in Toronto =( Wish I could have been there!!!!
I can’t wait for gingerbread and ginger snaps…. mmmmmm
Classic frosted sugar cookies…still warm from the oven.
My favorite holiday treat is eggnog! It tastes so good on a winter night.
My favorite treat . . . Cookie Day (one day every December) that me and my girlfriends get together and make cookies from sun-up way past sun down. We bring a bunch of ingredients and a bunch of recipes some new, some tried and true. We bake and chat all day – it is great.
Cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning with my family!
Anything sweet!! Cookies, cakes, pies, tarts….
I am a sugar cookie girl. Can’t wait, can’t wait, can’t wait!!!!
peppermint bark
Cake pops of course! :o) …and the pie!
I am excited to try your snow globe cupcakes
I can’t wait to make a gingerbread house…and eat it!
pecan pie, pumpkin pie, and butternut squash fondue!!!!
i don’t really know if amborsia is classified as a holiday food…. but when my aunt didn’t make it on thanksgiving, i was SO SAD! D; but, now she promised to make it for christtmas, and now i CAN NOT WAIT FOR IT! SO EXCITED!
I can’t wait to eat peppermint brownies
Um…jello cookies usually make an appearance this time of year. And a new fav is peppermint bark. I’ve never made it, but it sure is yummy!
gingerbread men!
I can’t wait to make and eat fudge! I make chocolate and peanut butter and I eat lots!
Christmas ham. its the special hams that come out during the Christmas season. i suspect they are the same hams that are sold all year round, but then maybe not. :)
I can’t wait to eat more pumpkin pie!!!!
I can not wait to eat my grandmothers homemade pecan pie! Its to die for! and it is the best part of all of my families holiday season:)
i love decorating sugar cookies with my best friends!
I can not wait to have my mothers Sugar Cookies that the entire family goes nuts about!
Pumpkin roll! Pumpkin muffins! Pumpkin cookies! Anything pumpkin!
and I can’t wait to do the classic sugar cookie decorating…
mmm love the holidays :)
I am not sure I can pick just one, but I have not had any pecan pie yet and that is definitely one of my favorites.
Can’t wait for peppermint bark!
I can’t wait to eat Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Buns – my Mom learned how to make them from her mom, and they’re the best breakfast I’ve ever had. An extra bonus is that they’re super fun to make, too!
anything sweet! I love that the holidays bring out the special once-a-year treats!
Molasses sugar cookies!!!
I can’t WAIT to eat my friend’s coconut balls covered in chocolate. I’m sure they have a more elegant name, but I never bother to find out. I just inhale them!
My Grandma’s Apple Pie. :)
I cannot WAIT for my mom’s sand tarts. She makes me my own batch EVERY year!
I”m looking forward to our yearly sugar cookie surplus! Topped with cream cheese frosting and all the fixin’s….mmmmmm!
My favorite holiday treat is the fruitcake I bake for my dad. We share it every Christmas Eve. I have baked him a fruitcake every year for nearly 20 years.
Cookies…any kind…I just loovvve cookies. And cranberry bread…yummm…!
does homemade cranberry sauce count as a treat?
This year I am dying for chocolate whoopie pies with peppermint buttercream filling.
Candy canes! I love em’!
Soy sauce basted Tofurkey!
Or pecan pie…yummy!
Although,I may try your brownie pecan pie ;)
I can’t wait to back my “snowballs” (aka Russian tea cakes) and “kiss cookies” (aka peanut butter blossoms). Yumm!!!
I can’t wait for some fudge!! And I’m going to try chocolate peppermint whoopie pies!
Ohh how I’d love to win a (signed) copy of your book!! I just checked it out from the library and I’m swooning with love. :D
The two things I love about the holidays are Egg Nog and Hershey’s candy cane flavor. Yum. I can bake the rest of the stuff year round- these can only be acquired at the holidays.
home made chocolate truffles.
Can’t wait to eat Russian Tea Cakes / Mexican Wedding Cookies / Pecan Snowballs – whatever they are called, I LOVE THEM!!!
I’m excited to eat some snickerdoodles!!!
mhhh napolitan cake :) or any kind of cake ….. amazingly delicious
Fudge- and my homemade peppermint patties!!!
My step-mom’s chocolate chip cookies- they are the best!
i am excited for gingerbread cookies.. mmm!!
This is my first Christmas with my husband and I cannot wait to eat gingerbread!! That stuff is a party in my mouth with every bite!
I heart peanut butter fudge. :)
I can not wait to drink some hot apple cider…yummy!!
My mom makes homemade doughnuts at Christmas. I DREAM about those babies sometimes… Sigh… Wipe the drool… Counting the days:)
My boyfriend’s GINGERBREAD COOKIES!
Cheesecake! I am finally going to attempt my grandmother’s recipe, something we only ever got at Christmas =)
I already got to eat my mom’s apple cranberry crisp so I’m down to pumpkin cookies and snickerdoodles.
ritz crackers with peanut butter dipped in white chocolate
I can’t wait to eat white chocolate and candy cane bark.. nothing reminds me more of the holiday season!
My grandma’s ginger cream cookies.
I’m looking forward to some Cheesecake!
My gran’s Christmas Stollen. She makes it every year after an original German recipe and it is just the best! I think this year I’ll surprise her with some stollen pops in return…
I’d love a book!
I love cookies so much I host a cookie exchange every year.
Im super excited to make cookies for gifts for my friends and family!!
Homemade peanut butter balls with chocolate on top. Mmmm…so good.
My Dad’s Butterscotch Butter Balls that he makes every year on Christmas morning. Yummmm!
Christmas Cookies! My Mom and I are making LOADS when I visit next week!
Buttertarts…..Mmmmmm……………
Bring on the KRUMKAKE!!! This time of year makes the Norwegian in me come out in full-force…
bailey’s brownies! well, anything chocolate.
can’t go wrong with the classic rice krispie treats! Dressed up for the season with red and green m&ms
I’m going to make a batch of Oreo truffles and eat them all in the course of a week.
My mom’s english toffee — I have yet to find anything that can beat it!
batches and batches of holiday sweets of all sorts! ; )
Our gingerbread house!
I can’t wait to eat toffee grahams! :)
I can’t wait to eat dessert dirt! crushed oreos, vanilla pudding! yummers!
pumpkin anything or peppermint chocolate anything! :) or better yet… one of the cake pops i’ll be making after i win one of these books!
Can’t wait to get baking – this year I’m trying three new cookies and I’m excited to see how they turn out!
I absolutely love my mom’s frosted sugar cutout cookies. They are the best and I gain five pounds every December eating them. LOL!
My mother is an Alabama girl, born and bred, but she makes an awesome Japanese Fruitcake – nothing like the malingned holiday ones. I can’t wait to taste that perfectly yummy confection!
This would make a perfect Christmas gift ! I can’t wait for PB Kiss Cookie!
Christmas cookies, my weight in Christmas cookies!
My mom makes cream horns from scratch every Christmas! They are my favorite and we only get them once a year because they are so much work!
Butter cookies!!! My mom makes THE BEST!
I can’t wait to eat bread pudding, but I’ll have to figure out how to make a lactose free version this year. :o)
Cookies, cookies and more cookies! We have about six different kinds that are our traditional Christmas favorites. I can’t wait.
Jelly donuts and latkes for Chanukah!
my mother makes the best rugelach – my favorite!
peppermint ice cream!
peanut kisses! cant wait!
Gingerbread cookies (:
I already had my pumpkin pie, and I’m making a cheesecake next week!
I can’t wait to eat coconut cream pie!
My favorite is Pumpkin Pie! I also love the caramel rolls we have on Christmas morning.
Looking forward to the yummy cookie buffet lovingly prepared by my step-mom each year…too many to list…but yum, yum yum!!
Hmmm . . . that’s a tough one, since there are so many great holiday treats! But I would have to say I can’t wait to have gingerbread cookies and these amazing cinnamon rolls that my father-in-law makes on Christmas morning., Yum!
I can’t wait to eat homemade christmas cookies! Thanks for the giveaway!
I can’t wait to eat my great-grandmas famous Buckeyes! Not only do they taste fabulous, but they also bring back many wonderful memories.
omg.. I want that Bakerella book! I can’t wait to eat the classic holiday sugar cookies with the delicious dreamy sugar cookie icing!!!
I can’t wait to eat the nut&bolts. The house just smells amazing when we make up a batch of them, and snacking on it later is even better :)
I can’t wait to eat peppermint ice cream for breakfast on Christmas morning :)
I love rumballs! It’s almost time to make a big batch….hmmm, maybe they should go on stick.
My mama’s buckeyes.
I can’t wait to eat poppycock! The gooey sweet and salty caramel popcorn nut mixture is heavenly: and I’ll make it using my grandma’s recipe, of course!
I love love love anything with peppermint! Chocolate Peppermint cookies, Mint Thins using Ritz crackers, peppermint bark, homemade peppermint patties…etc!
lots and lots of egg nog!
So excited for fruity pebbles!! Instead of rice krispies for making rice krispie treats, we use fruity or cocoa pebbles!!!
Every year my grandma’s friend gives us a huge gingerbread house and the cousins and I have made it a tradition to destroy it. Of course, it tastes even more delicious after working up a sweat! :)
Christmas!! I love all the goodies you only make once a year.
I’ll be in Belgium for Christmas so I will be eating Belgian chocolate and lots of it!!!
Would love to win one of your fabulous books. Thanks for the opportunity.
This year there will be a red pie-baking form under the christmas tree for me, so my the treat I like most this year, will be my first self (and not in a springform) baked cherry pie!
I can’t wait for … mmmm flan!
I can’t wait to make (and eat) “your type of pie”! :D
My moms white velvet cookies. They are the best.
Peppermint bark for sure! :)
I cannot wait to eat our traditional sugar cookies! Each and every one is hand decorated!
Peppermint Bark Whoopie Pies, yum oh and my daughters Chocolate Mint Cookies
chocolate chip cookies from scratch- if i dont eat all the dough before they are done baking!
I know it’s not necessarily a sweet treat but I can’t wait to eat my grandma’s tamales that she makes every Christmas! Yumm :)
warm sugar cookies are my absolute favorite!
Homemade Chex Mix!
Pizzelles!
I can’t wait to make melting moments – cookies. Happy Holidays!
Stollen! :D
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Red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting! MmmMmm!
I love Panera’s Holiday bread. It has all of my favorite things rolled into one!
I can’t wait to bake and eat “S” cookies, a butter spritz cookie that my Dad’s mom made when he was growing up…it’s a family recipe and we won’t share it with non-family…my sister-in-law didn’t learn how to bake them until she and my brother were engaged, and they’d been together for 9 years before they got married last year! It’s a family favorite, and Dad says mine are the most like Grandma’s :) :) :)
I can’t wait to have all the fab christmas cookies!!!! MMMmmm…
anything with dark chocolate!! yum!!
I can’t wait to get my grubby paws on my mom’s shortbread!
They should be in my mailbox any day now….
Tamales!! Menudo!! Oh, wait, a dessert…my grandma’s masa harina cookies. They’re cookies that taste an awful lot like tamales. :)
I cannot wait to make/eat my peanut butter balls! ::sigh:: love them!
I love peanut butter blossoms!
Oddly enough I want some holiday Puppy Chow!
I love my book! Lots of fun memories from the book signing. I’d love to be able to give one away to my blog readers.
My girlfriend’s krispie chocolate scotcheroos!! They are the best!
My grandma used to make mint brownies, and my mom has carried on the tradition. They are amazingly good, and I look forward to them every year. They take me back to when my grandma was still with us.
I can’t wait to eat my husbands grandmothers fruit salad and homemade whipped cream….seriously, the best stuff ever. Also, I am planning on making your brownie pecan pie and I can’t wait to try it!
I can’t wait for my grandmother’s strawberry candies!
I can’t wait to eat yummy Christmas breakfast (with Christmas coffee cake)
Fruitcake…my father makes it in October and soaks it in rum for two months… it’s quite divine.
gingerbread cookies!
We make ginger pigs for my husband and his college roommates everyyear. They still host a pig-out in the winter from their college days (30 years ago) so we make them for the holidays and the pig-out!
Festive shaped gingerbread cookies & shortbreads. Oh yeaaah! And roast potatoes. And pigs in blankets. And christmas pudding. Omnomnom :D
my mom makes the best frosted butter cookies! We’ve both become Bakerella fans! :-)
Raspberry cheesecake bars are my favorite! I only make them once around the holidays since we have NO self control when they are around!
cake!!!!
Date pinwheel cookies!
I cannot wait to have my rainbow cookies…love them. All the hard work is worth it. Yum!
Bunuelos and mexican hot chocolate. My mom would always make thiswhen I was younger and still continues this tradition with my kiddos.
I can’t wait to eat Dutch Shortbread, it’s really buttery and topped with just enough chocolate. Perfect for having with tea on a cold winter’s night! :D
gingerbread!
Oh man, I love this time of year just because of the baking… It’s hard to decide what I love more… Cookies, caramels, or almond rocha!
I cant wait to eat the cookies me and my 4 year old daughter make together.
Christmas cookies and Baklava!
I love all the sweets associated with the holidays! Sugar cookies, gingerbread cake… I have my elastic pants ready for December!
sugar cookies with peppermint hot chocolate
Rice Krispie Squares! I like to melt Nutella over the top – sooooo gooooood!
French Breakfast muffins and quiche on christmas morning, as well as peppermint ice cream with homemade hot fudge
Hmmm….apple pie!
I’m looking forward to my Mom’s Christmas cookies!
LEMON PIE! I HAVE BEEN CRAVING IT SINCE THANKSGIVING!
My Mother-in-Law’s gingerbread cookies. A treasured treat every Chritsmas!
I can’t wait for apple pie and my aunt’s yummy potato salad.
p.s. I got your book for my sister-in-law for Christmas, but I would very much love a copy for myself! : )
ooh! Chocolate cake! YUM!
I look forward to having “wreaths”. They’re made out of melted marshmallows and corn flakes. I do not shape them like a wreath, I just drop them onto wax paper in “globs”, but we call them wreaths anyway. If I did not make them every year, my family would disown me!
My girlfriend who lives 2 hrs away hosts a cookie baking party for my 2 kids every year — I can’t wait to spend the day with her and tasting a variety of cookies that she will be helping the kids bake:) Thank you.
Lots and lots of fudge and peanut brittle!
such cute nails! i can’t wait to bake gingerbread cookies. i didn’t used to like them until i found this awesome recipe on allrecipes. now i look forward to making them!
My son & I just saw reindeer cake pops in a magazine this afternoon and decided we MUST make them. It’ll be our first attempt at cake pops! :)
The dessert I get most excited about around holidays-time is pumpkin pie, since it’s really the only kind of pie I go for (I’m not crazy about the texture of cooked fruit, sadly), but this year I think I want to attempt some sort of Christmas cookie — maybe even experiment with royal icing!
I can’t wait to eat my Mom’s pumpkin bread and my sister’s cupcakes!! Yummy!
I am looking forward to eating pretzel jello goodies. So tasty. And of course some cupcakes.
My grandma’s fudge recipe – the best ever!
I can’t wait to eat homemade cookies! Mostly M&M cookies. :)
Saltiness cracker bark!
tamales homemade by my MIL.
Any and all holiday treats should start and end with
CHOCOLATE ! Other than that, I’m not picky !
My great-grandma’s sugar cookies! It is by far the best sugar cookie recipe there is!
I’m excited for good ol’ Christmas cookies :) Iced sugar cookies are the best!
chocolate fudge brownie cake pops
rolled in vanilla
and again in crushed peppermint candy
My great-grandmother spent a good portion of her life perfecting what my family knows as her Burnt Creame Pie. After her passing it became my mother’s passion to master what took my great-grandmother a life time to learn. After a lot of work and failed pies my mother has done it! I know life far far from home, but every Christmas I know I will have a Burnt Creame Pie from my mother/great-grandmother waiting for me!
Baklava! especially since I managed not to get gestational diabetes with this pregnancy. . . . so ready to eat some yummy goodness this Christmas!
Birch tree cookies – dunked in white chocolate bark and then drizzled with chocolate, they look just like the trees!
I can’t wait to eat homemade chocolate covered cherries.
Toffee and nut bread. I’m SO excited.
Hi Bakerella! I’m 100% Swedish, so I am of course most looking forward to homemade Swedish meatballs with lingonberries! YUM!!!
Fudge and peanut brittle… Love it!
I cannot wait to make and taste some cake pops!!! Yeah!!!
cupcakes
Holiday treat I can’t wait to eat … well I’m looking forward to my Nana’s stuffing. Its amazing! But the holiday treat I’m looking forward to most is seeing my mom and Nana when I get home for Christmas. I can’t wait!!
Mint candy cane cookies!
I can’t wait for pumpkin cheesecake! Mmmmm!
I can’t wait…my Aunt Pat’s fudge…it’s the best!!!
Can’t wait to make baklava and rice pudding! Love your site :)