I’m hosting a fun giveaway today from my publisher, Chronicle Books. Last year they launched a GIVE BOOKS holiday campaign to encourage people to share the love of books during the holiday season, to support local bookstores and to help promote literacy. And I’m excited that they are doing it again this year. But this year they are doing it bigger. Giving bigger. They’ve joined forces with First Book, a non-profit organization that provides access to new books for children in need. And for every #GiveBooks tweet, pin, and online pledge, Chronicle Books will donate a children’s book to First Book.
Here’s how you can help them reach their goal of giving 10,000 books this holiday with a simple tweet, pin or pledge.
And now let me show you ten books I picked out from Chronicle that I want to give this holiday. They’re cookbooks of course. Sweet ones.
Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts
Secrets for the Home Baker
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey
Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth! Every one of the recipes in this book are calling my name.
Cake Pops Holidays
Hmmm… this one looks familiar. I couldn’t resist : )
Pretzel Making at Home
Make your own crunchy, chewy, savory or sweet artisan pretzels. Fried Pretzels with Cinnamon Sugar? Why yes.
Hand-crafted Candy Bars
From-Scratch, All-Natural, Gloriously Grown-Up Confections
Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit
Okay, this isn’t a cookbook but you do get to make cupcakes. That counts, right. Besides … it’s Snoopy with adorable liners and flag toppers. Chronicle has the cutest gift items too.
Flour, too
Joanne Chang shares recipes for her Café’s most loved sweets and savories.
Tartine Book No. 3
This soon-to-be-released cookbook is third in a series of collectible titles from Tartine Bakery & Cafe in San Francisco. We’re talking bread baking and pastry making.
The Model Bakery Cookbook
Sensational artisan baked goods including Peach Streusal Pie, Brandied Pumpkin Pie, Amber Ale Bread and their famous english muffins that I can’t wait to try.
The Little Paris Kitchen
Rachel Khoo shares simple, classic French recipes in her cookbook that’s just as charming as she is. Plus there’s French desserts. Win! Win!
Speaking of win. How would you like to win these 10 awesome books? I’m giving them away to one lucky reader and it might be you.
To enter for a chance to win all ten:
- Leave a comment on the blog post and tell me which of these books sounds fun to give or which one you’d like to get the most.
- Deadline to enter is 8:
00 pm ET on Saturday, November 9th, 2013. Sorry, time’s up. Winner announced below. - One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Sunday… just in time to receive them for the holidays.
Good luck and of course, I hope you can help #GiveBooks to children this holiday.
P.S. – Receive 30% off + free shipping at ChronicleBooks.com (*excluding personalized products). Promo code GIVEBOOKS (valid through 12/31/13).
Okay – time to announce the winner! And time to give away a bunch of sweet books. Congratulations Katie Z!!!
Cute kitty cat illustration by Gemma Correll.
I also <3 making donuts so the doughnut cookbook would be awesome
I really love the pretzel making at home and the cake pop for holidays!!!!!
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey! All things wonderful :)
Love them all, but I would love to own cake pop holidays and the snoopy collection.
If I had to pick one of the books it would be ‘Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey.’ The title of this cookbook sums up baking pretty well. I would ike to try some of these receipes for the holidays!
Thanks!
The Little Paris Cookbook looks amazing! I’d love to have it!
I’d love to give away the Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit to my favorite girl, my daughter. I’d love to win the Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey cookbook! How fun!
That handmade candy bars one…!!!!! MAN.
Love, love, love your book selection! Hours and hours of kitchen creations are in those pages!
I would give the Snoopy and Friends to my daughter-in-law, because she bakes a lot of cupcakes for my granddaughters. They all look so delicious, the Cake Pops would be very nice to make with my five granddaughters for Christmas, and bring them to church for the children church.
Tartine!
Mm I think Flour, too, but I’d love to spend an afternoon just readings them all!!
I would totally choose the Model Bakery Cookbook!
All of these sound wonderful! I’d love to have the pretzel making book. I love pretzels but have never tried to make them at home. Maybe this year I will have to finally give it a try!
The Little Paris Kitchen is so so cute! My sister’s dream has always been to go to France, so I would give her this book.
Thanks!
Marcia
Tartine! I love that place!
Sticky, chewy, messy, gooey is my favourite! Well, I must admit all the books look really good! I would definitely give the doughnut book as a present to my sister, she loves everything doughnut!
Love them all! but my favorites have to be Pretzel Making at Home and Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts!
Thanks for an awesome blog!
Id love to read the cake pop holidays one!!!
I love the title Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey! That sounds like a fun book to cook (and eat) from.
I’m intrigued by making homemade candy but I’m drawn to the Tartine baking book. I love, love, love to bake.
Hand crafted candy bars, that sounds like so much fun!
Flour, too looks like a great one! As does Cake Pops Holiday (of course), Little Paris Kitchen…all of them look like great additions to anyone’s cookbook collection!
I would LOVE to give the Snoopy Cupcake kit to my 6-year-old nephew for Christmas. It would make him VERY happy!
The Tartine book looks fantastic!
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey!
They all look adorable but the Cake Pops Holiday caught my eye the most. I’ve always wanted to learn how to make those. Great selection of books!
I’d most like Pretzel Making. Sounds like such a fun thing to do- plus I LOVE pretzels!
The Little Paris Kitchen sounds like a great cookbook — maybe I could make something for my hubby on our anniversary to remember our Paris honeymoon!
I would like to give the Snoopy cupcake kit to my daughter. We are all huge Peanuts fans and she loves to make cup cakes.
I would love to get the Flour Too book. I have been to the bakery several times on trips to Boston and love everything I have tried.
I would love to give the snoopy kit to my nieces and for me – I’d love to get the Little Paris Kitchen cookbook to learn a little french cooking!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey sounds awesome to give or receive. I think that would be a fun book to have. But I do love Snoopy, so that would be a really close second. :-)
All these recipes look so DELICIOUS !!! But as I’m trying out also a lot of breads during the last time, I would go for the Tartine Book No3.
The Model Bakery book looks amazing!
I would love to have the book about doughnuts , i love doughnuts and i would love to know how to make them myself .
I would like to win #4 Pretzel Making at Home Wow Great Contest!
I am actually going to get the first one hand forged doughnuts. We have a twenty year old that loves experimenting in the kitchen. Doughnuts is one if his favorite
I’d be THRILLED to receive any one of those books, they all look like so much fun!
Oooh… a whole cookbook just for doughnuts?!?!?! Yum! Your cookbook would make an awesome gift for several people on my list, though… Great list! Thanks for the ideas!!!
I’d love to give the Snoopy Cupcake kit to my daughter or the hand crafted candy bars. Thank you for the giveaway!!
My brother recently spent several weeks in Paris, which would have been my dream, but alas, not in the position to go. In any event, I would the Little Paris Kitchen as he will be visiting and I would love to cook a nice French meal, dessert and all for him and then present him with the cookbook. Thank you for all that you do! You make it so easy and accessible to make great reciepes for family and friends. Get so many compliments and I owe it to you! Thank you.
They all look so good. I’d love to check out FLOUR!!!!
I have Little Paris Kitchen and LOVE it!!! I would like to try the donut book because that’s one thing I haven’t made yet ;D
I would give my mom Cake Pops Holidays. She’s great at making cake pops, but loves getting new ideas!
I would love to give Cake Pops Holiday to my best friend and get Sticky, Gooey, Messy, Chewy for myself!
This is tough but I think I have to pick the Little Paris Kitchen. YUM!
It’s a toss up for me on the Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey or the Little Paris Kitchen.
Little Paris Kitchen, I love Rachel Khoo recipes and I want it the most!
Such lovely books. Sticky, chewy, messy, gooey and Little Paris are the books I am most drawn towards.
Love everything dessert and The Model Bakery Cookbook seems like it would expand my possibilities besides my current chocolate topped with chocolate!
I will buy the Cake Pops Holidays as a gift and the Flour, too for me ;)
I own Hand-Forged Doughnuts and your Cake Pops book so those would be great gifts, and I know good homes for the Pretzel Making and Hand Crafted Candy Bars.
I of course have my eye on Tartine no.3 and Model Bakery.
The Handcrafted Candy bars book looks amazing! Gain 10 pounds just looking at it :).
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey all the way! This might satisfy my daughter’s chocolate obsession and sweet tooth.
my 13 yr old son is the pretzel maker at our house! I had no idea there was a pretzel cookbook – how cool it that? We could have different kinds! He would love that book!
I am stuck at a three way tie between the adorable Cake Pops book, Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey, and Hand Crafted Candy Bars!
I would love to have Tartine #3. I love his books and his breads are to die for!!!!!!!!!!
The holiday cake pops has been on my wish list. But the pretzel making one looks yummy too. I love pretzels!
Model Bakery, but all of them appeal to the baker’s heart.
Definitely Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey. Anything with ice cream and fudge on top is calling my name! Yum!
I would love to get Hand-forged Doughnuts for the holidays. I’ve been anxious to create my own doughnuts. I think my sister would really enjoy Flour, Too
My favorite is the Hand Forged Donuts and I would give Cake Pops as a gift because I already have it and I love it
doughnuts, cake pops, pretzels, and four, too!
definitely doughnuts…
I’d love to get the new Tartine book and your cake pops holidays too. I just made my first cake pops for my son’s 4th birthday party a few weeks back and I can’t wait to try a few more for Christmas!
Pretzel Making at Home for my mother, and The Little Paris Kitchen for me! :)
Books are the BEST gift for kids. My niece and nephew could open their own library at this point. :)
My mom would LOVE the Handcrafted Candy Bars cookbook! I’d go for the Pretzel Making at Home or the Hand-Forged Doughnut ones (if I only had to choose 2) :-) Good luck everyone!
I would definitely love to add the Flour and Tartine books to my collection!
I want all of them! But if I had to choose: Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey sounds pretty compelling. ;)
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey looks amazing!
I’d give the Snoopy Cupcake kit as a gift ’cause it’s just adorable! I’d love any of those books but especially would enjoy making doughnuts, so I’ll have to go with the Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts book.
Oh these are fantastic!
I want the donut book- and the peanuts cupcake liners… LOVE THEM ALL
Tartine and Model Bakery look good.
Love handmade candy bar.
Would LOVE them all, but Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey speaks to my serious sweet tooth!
I’m torn between the doughnut book and the Tartine book! It’s too hard to pick! The doughnut book would give me an excuse to buy a doughnut pan though, so that’s a plus.
I’d love to have ALL of them but if I HAD to choose one then I would choose the Snoopy & Friends Cupcake Kit and the Cake Pops Holidays so I could have some fun with my kiddos. I realize I picked TWO when I said ONE but I really love books.
oh i would totally have to get that sticky chewy messy gooey book! that sounds devine!
All of them!!! I can think of someone for each and every one of the cookbooks!!!
Thanks
The one I’d want the most for me would be Cake Pops Holidays, to give would be Snoopy kit for my sister in law who loves all things Snoopy.
I’d give the Snoopy cupcake kit as a gift ’cause it’s just too cute! And I’d especially love the Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts book as I’ve been wanting to practice making doughnuts.
They all look great, but I’m very excited about the Tartine one!
The Pretzel making book! You’d be the life of the party!!!
I would love the Snoopy & Friends cupcake kit to give to my nephew Linus.
I’d love to give Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey to my youngest brother. He loves to bake and he loves chocolate like non other I know. :-) And recently with university stress, he needs some uplifting.
I always give books :)
I can already think of a recipient for Hand-crafted Candy Bars, so that’s my pick, though the Messy Gooey book made me drool a bit.
I <3 them all! But most definitely # 3 Cake Pops!!! :D
Hand crafted candy bars…yum
Would love to have “Hand-crafted Candy Bars” . . .my passion is to be a chocolatier :) Although, I do really love the Peanuts Gang . . .and would gift that one to many, many people.
Oh my. Such a hard decision! The Pretzel Making cookbook caught my eye the most, surprisingly. I suppose since it’s on my baking bucket list! The others are just as awesome. I would give my mom the Snoopy Cupcake Kit, since they loves Snoopy. =o]
I would love to have the hand crafted candy bar cookbook!
I would probably give half away and share the joy of baking/cooking. With the Snoopy set to someone with children. I would be keeping Little Paris Kitchen and the Candy Bars. Would love to try my hand at that.
Sticky, chewy, messy, goooey has the most cover appeal for me!
I would love any of the yummy books on your giveaway. The pretzel book looks interesting only because I already have cake pops and candy bar book. Love them!
I’d give the Snoopy cupcake kit as a gift ’cause it’s just too cute! And I’d especially love the Top Pot Hand Forged Doughnuts
Hand Crafted Candy Bars, looks the yummiest and fun for meeh!!!
Snoopy would be such a cute gift for my friends with kids,
Hand-Crafted Candy Bars !! Yum!
It’s a toss up between the Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts book and the Hand Crafted Candy Bars book. I *really* want both of those equally. I can think of someone I know for every book on the list actually.
Cake pops, doughnuts, and the cupcake kit!
I love them all but I have a dear friend who helps everybody almost all the time. She is very giving and I would give her the “Hand-Forged Doughnut” for Christmas. She loves to bake and is also a great cook and her last name is Cook!
with my Paris-obsessed 13 year old peering over my shoulder looking at this list of books, I would definitely have to say we’d love to eat our way through the Little Paris Kitchen cookbook
Kindof obsessed with all of them! I have yours so next up I would love the pretzels and candy bar ones! They all look awesome! Hope I win!
I love the Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit! So cute!
Cake pops holidays for me and Snoopy and friends to my little baker ;)
I would love to give the donut book and candy bar book to a friend that is in the process of opening a sweets shop/bakery…I always give books at holiday time, as gifts…
Hand crafted candy bars. I really like to make candy at Christmas, for gifts.
Homemade pretzels! YUM!
Sticky, Messy, Chewy, Gooey sounds like the perfect cookbook for baking with my grandchildren.
*I* would love sticky, chewy, messy, gooey… but they ALL sound like fun! Thanks!
The Model Bakery Cookbook- I love their English muffins …
Little Paris Kitchen looks lovely, but I do LOVE pretzel – so much indecision!!!!
Cake pops holiday is definitely at the top of my list to keep and to gift would be Little Paris Kitchen to my cousin Rachel, because she just got done with culinary school for french cuisine and would love this! Fingers crossed:)
I love the “Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts” cause I wish to master the making of Doughnuts at home.
I would be a little greedy and keep the cake pops book for myself. I would give the one with bread and pastries to my friend Jessica. I’m sure I can find suitable homes for some of the others too.
Cake pops, doughnuts, and the cupcake kit!
Ms. Bakerella, it is much too hard to choose just one! So using the dart to the dartboard method I came up with Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey as my first choice.
The Little Paris Kitchen cookbook looks delightful. I just visited Paris for the first time this past summer!
They all look like fun but Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey wins just because of their title!
Oh my god, Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey, some of my favorite words there. They all look so amazing though!
Well, I’d love the cake pops one, of course! Those are the BIGGEST hit at kids’ class parties…
I’d LOVE to get AND give The Model Bakery book–and you can’t go wrong with Snoopy and cupcakes!!!
I would love to give The Little Paris Kitchen to my mom, the French teacher!
They would all be amazing, but I would pick the homemade candy bar one. :)
WOW great books!!
I would probably giveaway the snoopy kit to my niece…and the pretzel book to my best friends husband…and i would enjoy the rest…I would share with my sister of course !
Thanks for an opportunity to WIn!
I would love to get the ‘Hand-crafted Candy Bars’. I have a little guy with a peanut allergy and so many candy bars are off limits for him. It would be awesome to make him some of his own :)
“Snoopy and Friends”, looks simple enough that even I could do it (and who doesn’t LOVE cupcakes???)!
Little Paris Kitchen!
I SO want to make those candy bars!! And doughnuts …. but really, who wouldn’t love ANY of them?
Hand crafted candy bars and the donut one! Of course they all look spectacular!
That ‘Pretzel Making at Home’ book looks wonderful! I’ve made pretzels once or twice, but I’d love to use that book to make more!
They all look great but Sticky, Messy, Gooey, Chewy looks delicious!!
Hand-crafted Candy Bars sounds absolutely yummy–and fun!
One of my goals for 2014 is to try my hand at cake pops for the first time, and the holiday ones really speak to me :)
Thank you for the chance to win.
Heather
Canyon Country, CA
I have the Flour cookbook so I would love Flour, Too. But they all look great!
The Snoopy cupcake kit looks so cute!
I LOVE Snoopy and would be thrilled to be able to make cupcakes using those adorable cupcake liners. The books all look fabulous though and I’d also love to see the recipes in the Pretzel and Candy Bar books as well. Awesome choices in books by the way! :)
My kids would like the snoopy cupcakes. I would like the sticky, chewy, messy, gooey!!!
They all look so good. I think I would have to cook something from all of them, but sticky, chewy, messy, gooey looks yummy. and with Christmas quickly approching, christmas cake pops would be a big hit.
I would love to add all of these to my collection. I certainly intend to give books as gifts this holiday. My favorites are Cake Pops Holidays and Flour Too are must haves for ME :)
I can think of someone to give each of these books to…apparently my friends & I all like to eat :-)
They all look great. I’m not sure I can pick a favorite!
I’ve already purchased several books to give as Christmas gifts. I think the Pretzel Making book looks fun – definitely something I’ve never done before. Many thanks!
I’d love the Charlie Brown cupcake book (for my hubby!) and the Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey book for myself and my friends :)
Love First Book and have donated to them in the past! I plan on doing so this year as well. Thanks!
I like Snoopy. My girls loves to bake cupcakes a lot.
Hand crafted candy bars
I’d like flour, too. Can’t go wrong with sweet *and* savory!
I think Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey is my style!
Pretzel Making At Home! Yumm!!!
They all sound like so much fun, but I really want The Little Paris Kitchen. :)
Well of course, Cake Pops Holidays would definitely be the funnest to give!
All of them look amazing, but I’ve been wanting to make doughnuts for a while now, so number 1 would be great!
Would love the snoopy cupcake liners.
cakepops always top my list of favorite books….but ALL of these look fabulous. yay!
The Pretzel book looks so great! I have been wanting to make my own pretzels forever! :)
They all look fabulous!
I’d definitely give Top Pot Hand Forged Doughnuts to my Mom, doughnuts are her new baking addiction!
And I’d have to keep Cake Pops and Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey for myself.
Pretzels!!
The Little Paris Kitchen – I just recently saw an episode of Rachel Khoo and loved her show! Everything she made was great! We attempted her eggs in pots and it was delicious! She made it French cuisine look easy! I’d love to see what else she has to offer!
Nice giveaway. I’d like that Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit, it looks like a lot of fun!
They all look great, but I’d love to add the Little Paris book to my collection!
I’d love the Snoopy & Friends…I’ve been a fan since childhood and my Christmas tree is full of over 37 years of Hallmark Collectible Snoopy Ornaments.
I would love to give the Little Paris book to my sister, who lived in Paris for 2 years in her twenties. She could relive the wonderful pastries and bread!
I’d love to have Pretzel Making at Home…though all look great! And I love gifting books, always.
I would love to give my mom the Tartine No. 3 book! She loves Tartine and baking!!
Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey sounds so fun (and delicious!) These cookbooks would keep me busy, as well as my husband happy, through the holidays!
Little Paris
Hand crafted candy bars
Sticky, messy, chewy gooey is calling my name! And just in time for the holidays too:).
Little Paris Kitchen looks like so much fun!
I love cookbooks, so choosing one is tough. But I adore the city of lights and French food, so if I had to pick it would be The Little Paris Cookbook. That said, I’d love for you to help me avoid the whole decission making process by sending all 10 my way. Thais Bakerella! :-)
i think they are all great and would be fun to have. I love the cake pops holiday the most.
Cake Pops Holidays and Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit
would be so fun to give to my kids!
cake pops !!:) snoopy looks cute too
Ohhh I would love them all but The model bakery and the Little Paris Kitchen are my top choices! I just finished a cake decorating class and have always baked up goods for family and co-workers! What a great giveaway!
All of them sound excellent, but if I had to choose one (either to give a friend or for myself) I would probably pick Tartine Book No. 3. Love baking pastries and bread, especially as the Thanksgiving/Christmas seasons are right around the corner! :)
I would like them all but I would love the Model Bakery
Definitely Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey – it looks awesome!
I’d have to go with Little Paris Kitchen, for my mom who gave my daughter the trip of a lifetime in Paris this summer.
holiday cake pops please – I do not have that one yet!!!!
I would, of course, say the holiday cake pops but I already own it! I would give my husband Pretzel Making at Home since he could live off of pretzels and I would love Snoopy and Friends! My two year old son is absolutely obsessed with Charlie Brown!
Flour too looks interesting.
They all look lovely and I have friends who would appreciate them all. Great gift ideas that I will use. I will give “Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey to my college-age daughter this year. We share a love of baking, and I have made it a tradition to give her some kind of cookbook each year with the accessories to go with it, such as a pie book with pie plates, etc. We have great fun cooking together.
Wow! Love them all – but especially Handcrafted Candy Bars!
Love them all but would really love Flour, too and Little Paris Kitchen. Thanks for the chance to win.
Hand Crafted Candy Bars! That’s so unique! Love it!
Would live to try Top Pot Hand Forged Donuts! With Cake Pops Holiday a close second of course ;)
Hand made candy bars. The choices have made my wish list!
I’d most like to receive the doughnut and pretzel making books… and can already think of the perfect homes for the rest of the books!
I think I would give my Mom Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts because she loves donuts more than any other sweet!
Would love any of these books, especially cake pops holidays and would love to try the recipes in Flour, too.
I have a mother-in-law that is impossible to shop for, but she loves all things Paris. I would love to give her the Little Paris Kitchen book!
Little Paris Kitchen – I need to try some new, simple, delicious recipes.
The Model Bakery Cookbook, I love trying to make my desserts look like they come from a bakery!
I’d love to get the Pretzel Making at Home book!
I want the messy chewy sticky gooey book and then the homemade candie bar!
If I could give away a book I would give Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts to my mom who has wanted to make doughnuts for a while. And if I could receive a book I would like to get Hand-crafted Candy Bars because it looks like that would be a lot of fun to do :D
I would love to give and/or get any of these!!! But I’m really excited about Flour, too!
Have to go with Top Pots Hand Forged Donuts!! Would love to try to make them at home. With Cake Pops Holiday a close second of course ;)
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey looks like it is chock full of delicious recipes!!
There are 2 things I love and can completely take my stress away (ok, not take it away, but let me forget it for a while); books and baking. All of those books sound like a perfect gift for me, but I think of all of them I would want The Model Bakery the most. It seems like it would have a good variety of baked goods for me to try to bake and would be a good sampler overall.
Hand Crafted Candy Bars sounds like a lot of fun. :)