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!
Ummmmm….Cake pops!!! YUM!!!
Hi im 13 and i bake alot. I rlly cant wait to make and eat cake pops! XMAS cake pops! :DD
I rlly hope i get a book! *crosses fingers*
I can’t wait to eat my Coca Cola jello salad! I could eat it all year long but only allow myself to make it at the holidays!
I can’t wait to bake and decorate sugar cookies with my younger sisters! I stumbled into a Williams-Sonoma in Philadelphia and was very disappointed that they didn’t have your book for some reason!!
MINCE PIES! nom nom nom :)
Peach Pie! I’m awful at making it and it never turns out so I have to wait til Christmas time when other people make it. It’s perfect with vanilla bean ice cream! Yummo!
I am making cake balls for Christmas and can’t wait to eat them. I love everything made with cream cheese :)
I can’t wait to get my hands on mint double fudge brownie! yum yum!!
All kinds of cookies!!! Every year my family gets together and spends an entire day making cookies to eat and to share :)
I can’t wait for my mom’s classic shortbread cookies – so delicious!
Mmm.. Gingerbread men are definitely my favorite. If I could make gingerbread cake pops, they wouldn’t survive more than a few hours in my house.
I love me some pumpkin pie. Any variety will do, that delicious nutmeg and ginger combo is just to die for! :)
homemade english toffee……yummmy…
I can’t wait to make and eat the Fanny May mint chocolate bars. They are so good! I wonder if I would be able to make them into cake balls?
I LOVE YOU. and your cake pops :)
I love pecan pies, but i cannot wait for classic gingerbread cookies! So cute.
Can’t wait to have my Mom’s chocolate cream pie!
You are such a delightful, happy lady! I always look forward to checking your site. I’m searching for a fun idea for my son’s mother’s day out Christmas party. I most look forward to making cookies for Santa with my little boy (he’s 3) this year. We had a great time last year and I know this year will be even more fun!
I can’t hardly wait to make peppermint bark, and spiced walnuts!!
I don’t think there is one thing that I don’t want to try but Homemade chocolates very good thing to have at this time of year.
My favorite is actually a beverage- my grandmother’s spiced tea, yum!
My mom makes these cookies every Christmas called angel wings that I just LOVE!!!
My sister and I make fudge for friends and family.
I love shortbread cookies!! Especially sprinkled with red and green sugar. They have been tradition since I was a little girl and now I make them for my little girls.
I’m trying to collect all of my favorite recipes that my grandmother used to bake so I can make them with my children. Especially her chocolate chip cookies, and pineapple squares!
Can’t wait to start mass Christmas cookie production for all my nieces and nephews :) Hopefully some cake pops too!
LOVE your pops and such!!! Pick me!!!!
My favorite Christmas goody is orange balls. I make the same ones my mother and grandmother made. My kids love them!
I can’t wait to make pretzel rings with rolos in the middle topped iwth an m&m. I eat them all the time! :)
Pecan puff cookies and baklavah!
peppermint brownies!!!
Oh how I would LOVE LOVE LOVE one of these books!!!
I can’t wait to eat Italian almond paste cookies at Christmas!
I can’t wait to make some delicious candy cane cookies… Family tradition :) They are delicious!
Can’t wait to eat swiss handmade cookies! Milanesini, Brunsli, Zimsterne….yummy!
I’m looking forward to tasting all the cookies my kids and I will be baking this Christmas but I can’t wait to bite into some fudge!! I think I might have to make some right now, it sounds so good. :)
I’m on a major cookie kick lately and can’t wait to eat all kinds of holiday cookies!!
I LOVE the cupcake nails!
I promise I’m not an alcoholic when I say this..but I cannnnnnnooot wait to get my hands on some Egg Nog Daquiris!! SO.DARN.GOOD!
I love my mom’s chocolate mint brownies…nothing is better to me than chocolate and mint at the holidays!!
Decorated sugar cookies! So much fun to make.
Anything chocolate!!!
Cookies…gingerbread, sugar, chocolate crinkles…you name it, I can’t wait to eat it!
I can’t wait to make holiday cookies with my little chefs. :)
Peanut Butter Balls!!!!!!
I am looking forward to a little trifle – so delicious and nothing says Christmas like 1 gazillion calories in a cup :)
Being from the UK Mince pies or our ‘traditional’ treat….but I dislike them intensely! AND I’m a veggie so no turkey for me. I’m going stick with Chocolate. Nothing beats chocolate…..apart from cake.
So yeah, my holiday treats will be chocolate and cake and Tea..and more cake :)
Pumpkin whoopie pies! I can’t get enough of them. Soooo good!
Every year we make “trash”…mini pretzels, peanuts, M&M’s and almond bark….totally addictive!
red velvet cake please!! =)
I can’t wait to bit into some cheese straws! Yummmm!
I can’t wait to “snack” on all of the assorted yummy cookies we have at my family events!
Since I’ve been watching my weight, I try to avoid sweets if possible…but I definitely can’t resist my aunt’s Nutmeg Log cookies!
I can’t wait to eat mexican wedding cookies! As well as three kings bread! They are all very yummy!
Anything and everything mint I can possibility get my hands on. And I am stocking up on those delicious Andes mint baking pieces I can only get my hands on at Christmas. :)
I can’t wait to eat my mom’s homemade apple pie :)
My mother makes Coconut Dream Cake only at Christmas and has my whole life! The whole family looks forward to it every year and I can’t wait.
I can’t wait for fudge, caramels and truffles!
Your book is on my list, but I doubt I will get one, unless I get it from you.
I love gingerbread lattes from Starbucks! also love your blog!!
MORAVIAN COOKIES!!!!!!!
A savory item…my Moms beef & onion cheeseball! She only makes it for Christmas. And I love cut out cookies decorated all fancy ?
I love pannetone (sp?) bread. It makes amazing bread pudding.
pecan pie, Christmas munch mix, cookies of all shapes and sizes – I love Holiday eating!
I’m a southern girl so I am looking forward to pecan pie – although I may have to try your chocolate brownie version this year… Thanks for the great ideas and I hope you make it to Florida on your book tour!
My friend Alice’s rum balls. So yummy!
I can’t wait for some good ol’ fashin peppermint bark. YUM!
Traditional spritz cookies!
I can’t wait for gumdrop cookies- Yumm!!!
It’s not the holidays without spritz cookies. Pressed like Christmas trees, snowflakes, wreaths and pinwheels and all dressed up with sprinkles and sparkles. Yum.
pumpkin bars, yum!!!
I can’t wait to eat sugar cookies. I don’t make them that often, but for Christmas, they’re the best! Also, I LOVE making homemade cinnamon rolls every Christmas morning. Best. Ever.
Never made a cake pop but want to, so would love to have the book to help me do it. So many goodies that I love, maybe peppermint bark is #1 that I can’t wait to eat.
Shortbread…always! yum! Even better with toblerone inside!!!
I can’t wait for chocolate balls!! They were my Nannie’s recipe and I love making them with my kids :)
My husband and I spend Christmas with a friend and her two daughters. She makes the most amazing carrot cake!! It only comes out for Christmas dinner and I can’t wait to cut off a slice of that delicious cake.
Peanut Butter Pie gets me every year!!!
Seafoam Candy! Which is also called a number of different things. It’s a very old fashioned candy that my Dad used to love to eat when he was a kid. I make it every year now, and my parents insist I make a few batches just for them, no sharing!!
My favourite holiday treat is white chocolate peppermint bark or a classic yule log. They’re both so yummy and so traditional in our house. Yay!
Italian Christmas Cookies!
Every Christmas, my Mom makes batches of her ‘ginger sparkler’ cookies for everyone who has waited all year for them. I can’t wait!
Looking forward to sharing treats with my granddaughter. Her first holiday sugar cookies!
Sugar cookies for sure! What other time of year can you REALLY accept that much sugar in one sitting! But hey if Santa does it…why not me?
Love this time of the year so I can make gingerbread houses. The more elaborate the better!! I take one in for my son’s class and its always so fun to see the kids ooh and ahh..then destroy and devour!!
usually its pavlova (being in australia its just too hot for something…hot) but im headin to vietnam so not too sure what kind if hawker street food its going to be…v excited to go though!!
Cranberry Caramel bars!!!!
Chocolate fudge…yumm…old fashioned sour cream cookies…and the family recipe for peanut crisp…..love this time of year……..yummmmy
Every year my mom and MIL come over and we make Italian Pignolatta. They’re little balls of fried dough that you stack up like a Christmas tree, pour warm honey over and finish with shaved chocolate, toasted almonds and colorful sprinkles.
Love a pistachio and glace peach chocolate slice, made in mini bar tins, and can slice to serve with coffee or sparkling
All of the Homemade Christmas Cookies & Candy I bake with my sister n law and my daughter….We have so much fun!!!
I don’t know if this really counts as a treat but I always look forward to my in-laws cafe con leche. Also I plan to make some very large rather scrumptious peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Yay Christmas!
chocolate santas! :)
my boss’ macadamia nut pie! mmmmmmmmmmm
My favorite holiday treat to eat would have to be peanut butter bossoms, but I’m looking forward to trying out Mexican chocolate crackle biscuits as well. :)
I cannot wait until my sister and I get into the kitchen and make our goodies. This is a tradition for 20 years + . We make fudge and chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter balls; seven layer cookies, scrabble and all sorts of other yummy-ness!
Homemade fudge. My mother-in-law’s peanut butter fudge and my father-in-law’s chocolate fudge. It is a family tradition. They are in their mid to late 70’s and still making it!!!
Fruitcake! Hahha, just kidding. I really love peppermint hot chocolate, chocolate ganache tortes, and my famous sweet potatoes!
I want to eat Carmel Apple Pie from Costco… but I live in Germany – no Costco here.
Rocky Road! Yum!!
My mom’s fishdish. She makes it once a year on the 5th of december because of a dutch holliday called ‘Sinterklaas’.
Anything with the newly discovered flour buttercream!
Turkey.
we only have it once a year, so it is something to look forward to.
“Pan de pascua” Kind of a fruit cake, but loaded of spices and made with panela sugar, cocoa and ruhm. That cake os the reason why I wait this holyday so impatiently xD
Chocolate!!
Pick me! Pick me :)
I live in sydney, Australia so our xmas day is a hot one. I am most looking foreward to my mums homemade mango icecream that we have with homemade xmas pudding and brandy butter!!!! Also really looking forward to attempting the reindeer, snowman, xmas tree and santa hat cake pops!
My Aunt’s Party Snack Mix :)
Excited about making and eating some chocolate fudge!
Every year after we have completely stuffed ourselves with TOO much food we still manage to fit in Plum Pudding with Brandy Custard and a Summer Fruit Pavlova!
Chocolate caramel slice!! The best!!!
My dad makes the best custard, can’t wait to have it on the christmas pud!
So, are you ready to go global?
Here in Brazil we are waiting- I bought mine with amazon, but there is a pretty large group of people who would go crazy with your book!
My favourite is Rocky road :)
I am looking forward to Chai Spice cookies! My new sister in law and I are planning on a special baking day so I can teach her to make them!
well, I know it’s not a “sweet”, but it is sweet- we splurge on one Honey Baked ham a year, and we do it at Christmas. I love it so much. Can’t wait!
I can’t wait to try and bake gingerbread man’s cookies!:D
Hot chocolate and chocolate chip cookies FTW :)
Love them haha
Making Ganache with my daughters! From going to the store and picking out the different types of chocolate, bringing it home and melting it, adding the cream, taking a deep breath, adding the vanilla, taking anther deep breath, and licking the spoon, and testing frequently to see when it is hard, there is not much better than that!!
Yes I know it is not the usual thing to make, but with ganache we can make everything from Frosting to Truffles to Hot Chocolate to Ice Cream Topping to … (well, you get the idea!)
Mmmm, Can’t wait!
cinnamon rolls!!! jum jum jum
Wow! How to pick?!
I choose … long pause … still pausing … hmmm … Peanutbutter Pinwheels!!
Peanut Brittle!! Yummy!!
i’m so looking forward for my mums homemade with fruit filled gingerbread cookies – the best in the world, just to die for!!!
Million Dollar Fudge!!
I love love love your baking ideas, especially the cake pops. I`m looking forward to the yummy pavlova my family makes on Christmas Day – a giant meringue covered with cream and berries. So Australian
A mouthwatering local Saudi recipe; known as the caramelized dates mini cheesecakes. YumNESS!
Buche de noel! I made one for the first time last Christmas and it turned out soooo good! Can’t wait to eat some again this year!
My favorite is chocolate dipped strawberries. Easy to make, fun to make, and delicious ot eat. Please enter me in. Thank you. Chloe Patricia
Hmmm…just one….okay…COOKIES!!!!
I love chocolate mint whoopie pies.
My mother’s fudge. Oh dear, I may or may not have drooled a little.
My homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!
Date nut pinwheels!
The holiday treat I can’t wait to eat is my aunty’s tri-colored mochi! Yum!
I can’t wait to eat my mother in law’s kolaczky. She makes the best Christmas cookies!
Well, right now I’m looking forward to my birthday cake in 2 weeks. LOL
But for holiday treats, probably the Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks. I only allow myself to drink it this time of year, otherwise I’d be in Starbucks every morning. LOLOL But really, anything chocolate and peppermint is good for me, and in December there’s usually a plethora of that combo to choose from.
I honestly can’t tell you what I am looking forward to the most… everything is so yummy!!! My favorite time is between Thanksgiving and Christmas when all of the yummy peppermint stuff is coming out. Yummy!!!!!
good old homemade cookies of course!
key lime pie! so awesomely good!
Beigli Makosh (Hungarian poppyseed roll)—more poppyseed than roll with a buttery sugar glaze on top.
i can’t wait for my moms awesome spritzer cookies….they are a once a year treat!
I cannot wait to eat my grandmother’s divinity. Every time I eat it – it reminds me of the wonderful woman she was and the great memories she left behind. She even hand picked the pecans from her tree for the divinity!
Christmas sugar cookies decorated with love (and lots of icing)!
Your cakepops are AMAZING!!!!!
Nanaimo bars! I love them and look forward to them every Christmas!
My mom makes the best soft ginger molasses cookies. Nobody can make them like she dose. We also have a family poppycock making gathering which is always great fun!
Anything that is not an egg or toast. Hopefully chocopots and biiiiiiig oatmeal raisin cookies.
Lots of cookies! And of course, candy canes! (:
I cannot wait for the mini cheesecakes that my aunt makes for Christmas!
I would hope for a signed on :) even if i have one already!
Christmas cookies! It’s an annual tradition at our house.
Come to Tempe, AZ please!!!
Latkes!!
Krumkake (?spelling)
I can’t wait to eat gingerbread cookies or maybe just some cut out sugar cookies! I love both of those classic treats. Also, I can’t wait to drink peppermint hot cocoa!
red velvet cake! love the holidays!
red velvet cupcake reins supreme! :)
pecan caramel cheesecake, peanut butter blossoms, peppermint bark, etc…. love all the holiday goodies!!!
I know it’s kind of goofy but the thing I love the most is my mom’s home made fudge, it’s so bad for you. I hope she mails me some since I’ll be in Virginia this year :(
I would like one of these books. I really would Macaroons my mom is coming to visit us and I am secretly hoping she’ll make them :]
Oh my gosh. So hard to choose. Anything with chocolate! I’m really craving s’mores.
As if I didn’t get enough of my fill during Thanksgiving, I’m looking forward to some more Turkey with garlic mashed potatoes. YUUMMM
Hmmm…my sweet tooth is enormous, but I’d say it’s a toss up between peanut butter fudge and english toffee!
Rum Cake! and Snickerdoodles, frozen cranberry salad, oh and did I say Rum Cake!! Yummy Let it Snow, I Love this time of the year.
FUDGE!
toffee!!! and apple cranberry pie!
Eggnog Cheesecake! I think I am more excited to make it though:)
Cracker Candy!
ooh, I would LOVE your book!! I cant wait to make, and eat 7 magic bars,,you know, the ones with the chocolate chips, coconut, graham cracker crust, nuts, and condensed milk> yum!!
my Grandma’s Sansrival… its soo good… I can’t really explain what it is but it’s so good. google it and see for yourself :)
here’s my best explanation: its like this its this creamy rich buttered almost kind of wafery and some crunchy dessert… it melts in your mouth.. the wafer thing… and ugh.. its sooo good.
Homemade peanut butter cups. YUMMM-o!
omg! really???? I WANT ONE PLEASE!! definitely some cookies and cream cheese cupcakes! nyum!
Chocolate buttersweets!
my daughter just reminded my that I’m excited to dip cherries and eat them by the handful
I can’t wait to have peppermint brownies! YUM! I hope I win, I hope I win!
Gingerbread of course!
apple-plum strudel — the kind where you have to pull the dough paper-thin by hand! My mom just gave me my grandmother’s recipe, and I can’t wait to try it!
My favorite holiday treats are biscochitos. They are an anise and cinnamon flavored cookie ~ delish! It only feels right to me to eat them around Christmas time.
i know its more of a thanksgiving treat – but pumpkin pie!
It isn’t a sweet treat, but I am looking forward to tamales!
Shortbread cookies =D
can wait for shortbread….
LOVE cupcakes! Never saw anything like this! Such a great idea! I can’t wait to eat my moms leche flan cake. Flan on top, cake on the bottom…YUM!!
Biscochitos! I can’t wait!
Peppermint Bark.Yummmm!
I would most grateful to receive an autographed copy of your new book. Would make my Christmas truly magical.
Thank you for having this drawing to give us a chance to own your book.
Best to you always in all-ways.
A Fan of your blog and website….
I adore peppermint bark cheesecake! It’s sinfully delicious.
I love anything made by my Grandma!
Hopefully we’ll make some black bottom cupcakes, which are so good, and also the potato casserole. Yummers! I would also love to make spritz cookies (tea dainties) that my mom and I always made at Christmas time with her Mirro hand mold, which I still have. Precious memories!!!
self-decorated sugar cokies!
this book would be awesome to gift
happy holidays!
I use christmas as an excuse to bake new things I’ve never made before, so this year I’m super excited to make baklava!
I’m looking forward to my grandmother’s English Toffee and my aunt’s Christmas Cookies!
Homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!
Libby’s Pumpkin Roll! I make it every year and there is almost never enough! :)
I can’t wait to get my hands on anything peppermint. I was stoked for pumpkin during fall and now i am excited for peppermint! Yum!!
Holiday Fudge!! I love to make fudge and give it away as gifts.
SUGAR COOKIES! yummo!
Peanut butter blossums…I know they are so simple…but it’s all about tradition!
Homemade caramel corn…it is soooo good right out of the oven. My absolute favorite, hands down.
i can’t wait to eat gingersnaps! yuum!
I just love Mincemeat pie, yum!
Hugs,
Jacalyn
Can’t wait to eat the Christmas desserts my mom prepares for our family Christmas party…such as caramel flan, tres leches and rosquillas en miel :)
real scottish shortbread, there’s no other!
Krumkake, Scandinavian Cookies, crispy vanilla cones made flat on a special hot iron then rolled with asbestos fingers before they cool. You can’t eat just one.
Red Velvet Cake Pops!!!