I had the most wonderful, incredible, emotional and unforgettable few days at the first-ever international cake pop conference in Philadelphia this weekend hosted by KCBakes. I was the keynote speaker and shared my story of creating cake pops back in 2008. It was the most humbling experience talking to so many people whose lives have been touched by cake pops. From simply inspiring creativity in the kitchen to completely changing the way people make a living through home businesses and large scale bakeries, pop products, boxes, books and more – Cake Pops are so much more than just a little ball of cake on a stick.
Here are some of my pics from the weekend – view them individually on Facebook.
Now … since I was away from the kitchen this past weekend, I didn’t have a chance to bake anything fun for you today. So I thought I’d continue the cake pop love and give away something here on the blog that I also gave away at the conference.
Enter for a chance to win
1. A 5 qt. KitchenAid Stand Mixer in Cranberry … or color of your choice if you don’t like pink as much as I do. : )
AND
2. The NEW line of Bakerella for Make’n Mold products now available in stores exclusively at A.C. Moore Crafts.
To enter for a chance to win:
- Leave a comment on this post and tell me what your favorite dish for Thanksgiving is. Easy as Pumpkin pie.
- Deadline to enter is
November 14, 2014 at midnight ET.SORRY, TIME’S UP! Winner announced below. - One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Saturday!
Good luck!
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We have a winner! And, Oh my gosh, I am totally craving Thanksgiving dinner right now. I think my favorite is dressing and cranberry sauce, oh and cream corn casserole. Yum! Thanks for sharing your favorite dishes. And the winner of the mixer and products is…………
Congratulations Danielle! Enjoy!
Giveaway sponsored by me.
Jellied Cranberry Sauce!!! :)
Turkeystuffingmashedpotatoesgreenbeansmarshmallowsaladhotbutteredrollscreamedcucumberspumpkinpieeggnoghotapplecider. One sentence so that counts as one right?!?!?
stuffing!
That’s a hard one…either my moms cornbread dressing or pecan pie!
I really love the delicious mashed potatoes my daughter makes.
I love to have squash casserole at Thanksgiving.
I always look forward to making and eating pumpkin bars with cream cheese icing. Thanks for the giveaways!
I’m a dessert person! I like to bake different desserts for Thanksgiving: pumpkin trifle, pumpkin pie, chocolate pie, and butter cakes. PS – I probably would squee with glee if I saw you at a conference. Or better yet, at the cake store!
Momma’s butterhorn rolls with real butter and turkey gravy on it. Soooo good!! Thank you for your inspiration with cake pops
My mom’s stuffing! So stinkin’ good. I learned how to make it since I lived out of the country a couple of years and wasn’t able to come home for Tgiving.
My grandmother’ stuffing.
HAM!!!
Cornbread pecan cranberry stuffing! YUM!!!!!
My favorite dish for Thanksgiving, is the cold turkey sandwich that comes later! Yummm…….
I love my momma’s stuffing! She makes the best stuffing ever! If that’s all I got to eat on that day, I’d be a happy girl!
Mashed Potatoes
Cajun turkey – the smell of it baking and the taste are to die for!! <3
Apple pie <3
Apple pie <3
Absolutely love turkey and the stuffing
Dumplings!
My favorite is the mashed potatoes my dad makes with cream cheese all covered in turkey gravy. I could eat that all day.
sweet potato pie!
My mommas stuffing! She makes the best stuffing ever! If I onlybgotnto eat that all day…I’d be a happy girl! ????
My Maw-Maw’s cornbread dressing! It’s seriously the BEST stuff ever!
My favorite dish for Thanksgiving is Turkey and stuffing with pumpkin crunch for dessert.
Mashed Potatoes!
Mashed Potatoes!
Pumpkin spice cake!
Stuffing and Gravy!
That’s a toughie…but I’d have to go with mashed potatoes! I make mind a la the Pioneer Woman (aka with cream cheese) and then I infuse my butter with garlic and rosemary. Yum! My mouth is already watering!
My best favorite is the stuffing with gravy and a slice of cranberry to go with it! A once a year YUMMY in my tummy!
Sweet potatoes candied with brown sugar and apple cider :)
II would have to say, my favorite is dessert! This year, I’m making a pumpkin cheesecake parfait.
Stuffing!
Bring on the carbs!! And a great dutch apple mile high pie!
I enjoy baking chocolate pumpkin cupcakes with marshmallow frosting!
Ham and cornbread dressing
Cranberry sauce-the kind that comes straight out of the can and retains the can shape :)
Our family has loved the home made canned corn recipe with cream in it. We lovingly called it “Grandma’s Corn”. Always a favorite!
Roast potatoes. We make them every year, and I love them.
My mom’s Poor Man’s Pie – Yummy!
I love stuffing best!
In Italy we don’t celebrate thanksgiving, but I love pecan pie!
I love sweet potato jacks!!!
When I was younger it was mash potatoes and gravy. Now it is green bean casserole made with cream of onion soup. Also sweet potato chiffon pie.
German Chocolate Cake!
Cherry pie! Pecan pie! And pumpkin pie!!!!
Has to be my mom’s cheesy broccoli rice casserole.
Pumpkin Pie :)
I love me some creamy mashed potatoes! :-)
I love sausage apple stuffing.
Speaking of “easy as pumpkin pie,” that is my number one favorite, must-have dish for Thanksgiving. I use my mother’s recipe for pumpkin chiffon pie in a pecan crust, and it is Heaven.
Pumpkin pie hands down! The molds are pretty, if I won the mixer I would have to pick Blue Willow for my color.
fried buffalo wings with blue cheese dip,
Definitely the stuffing.
mashed potatoes and gravy
I love the cranberry sauce and the turkey! I’m loving the blue willow color that KitchenAid came up with!
Cranberry sauce and homemade Mashed Potatoes!….Yummmmm!!!
ROLLS!!!! Any and all kinds :)
Definitely the stuffed turkey! Love the blue willow color from KitchenAid! :)
I love my Mom’s brussel sprouts sauteed with pancetta! I never liked brussel sprouts until I had these and now I love them!
I would have to say the stuffing, its super good! LOVE your molds and if I got the mixer I would pick Blue Willow for my color!
It has always been the mashed potatoes with carrots that my dad makes.
Thanks so much for this giveaway! Very incredulous.
Gravy, gravy, gravy!
I never met a potato I didn’t like, so mashed potatoes is always a highlight for me!
My dad’s banana cream pie!! yummm
It’s a tie between dressing and my mom’s squash casserole!
Hmmm.. thats hard, but I think that I would have to pick the sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top! I LOVE the blue willow that KitchenAid has!
I love the turkey! I really like the blue willow color that they have!
Favorite Thanksgiving food, hmmm, I would probably have to say the pies, last year we had pecan, pumpkin, chocolate (my favorite!) and blueberry. Cobalt blue would be my choice for the mixer!
Favorite dish is easily mashed potatoes!! Happy thanksgiving :)
my mom’s potato casserole – always look forward to it.
I like to make my own mash-up: two small slices of pumpkin and pecan pie, respectively, which I mash together. I secure the union by putting ice cream or whipped cream on top. It’s like heaven. <3
Stuffing, hands down!
stuffing! more stuffing!!
thank you!
Sweet Potatoes baked with brown sugar, butter and walnuts. Then topped with mini marshmellows and broiled to a golden brown…mmm mmm YUMMY!!!
My mom’s gravy. So good!
Stuffing and gravy!
Pecan pie!
Definitely Sweet Potato Pie! Can’t get enough of that stuff!
I looove chestnut soup and mashed potoatoes <3
Sweet potatoes!!
Dressing! (and pie of course)
By FAR, my grandmother’s dressing! Already craving it!
Dessert! Specifically my Granny’s recipe for Grasshopper Pie!
My favorite dish for Thanksgiving has to be the stuffing! And it has to be make with Jimmy Dean’s sausage. Yum, I can’t wait!
The dressing is where it’s at!!
Mashed potatoes!
Loads of banana cream pie!
First, congrats- that is awesome- and second, I LOVE stuffing!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Ravioli! Because that’s what my weird Italian family does for thanksgiving. :)
homemade green bean casserole – and by “homemade” I don’t mean opening a bunch of cans. I mean, fresh green beans, mushroom sauce made from scratch, and frying up my own crispy onions and leeks. YUM
pumpkin pie!
Unfortunately in Holland we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, but an ideal dish to share with my friends and family is the so-called ‘Indonesian rice-table’ (variety of Indonesian food, Dutch invention). With the famous Indonesian layered cake (Spekkoek) as a dessert… Yum!
Cornbread dressing
I love the stuffing, with all those flavores….
My little brother’s perfectly brined and roasted turkey. Sublime!
I love mashed potatoes.
Stuffing!
Sweet Potatoes with LOTS of marshmallows!!
Sweet potato pie
It is a tie between good cornbread stuffing and cranberry fluff. Thanks for the chance to enter
In Puerto Rico is usually “tembleque”…it’s like a coconut flan, custard type of dessert. I always make pumpkin roll with cream chees filling, pumpkin pie and pumpkin cookies. Dessert is the best part of any meal. That’s the whole point of eating food…DESSERT!
Dressing!
Sweet potato casserole hands down with brown sugar and nut topping. Yum-Oh! :)
Even though I have them other times of the year, definitely mashed potatoes! They just taste better on Thanksgiving!
I love apple pie at Thanksgiving!!
The main event-turkey!!! Dark of course!
I love stuffing!
It’s a toss up between dressing and pumpkin pie. :)
Pecan pie tarts —- I can eat quite a few with a cold glass of milk.
I have to say Pumpkin Pie is the favorite for me!
Pumpkin pie is the end all, be all for me!
I really like mashed potatoes!
Dessert – maybe Apple Pie /Apricot Muffins/Pie
Sweet Potato Casserole!
Sweet potatoes!
Pecan pie
Amana Fruit Pie- it has pecans, raisins and coconut and is very very yummy.
My daughter’s famous sweet potato casserole and dressing!! Sooo delish!
My recipe for stuffing! I can’t wait to have it loaded with turkey and gravy…. Turkey manhattan next day! YUM!
Pumpkin pie, yum!
Yam with marshmallow cupcakes ????
I love love love Carrot Souffle!
turkey wellington
Stuffing!
It’s just not thanksgiving without the sweet potato casserole. LOVE me some sweet potatoes!
pumpkin cream soup
Pumpkin Crunch Cake!
sweet potatoes with marshmallows!! and crescent rolls =)
beef-stew with paprika, such Hungarian mode
Pumpkin cheesecake
cheese cake
nut cake
mushed potatoes
apple pie
My favorite dish is anything on the dessert table. Who doesn’t love sweets during the holidays?
Last year I had the pleasure to celebrate thanksgiving with my friends when i studied abroad in Australia. We made an all vegetarian thanksgiving dinner and it was great! I loved all of it but my favorite was mashed potatoes (they are just so comforting and yummy) and one of my friends from Italy made sweet potatoe gnocci which were heavenly!
Fried turkey
My favorite christmas dish is my grandmma’s dominican tamales(pasteles en hoja, as we call it) and turkey. Bur everything in christmas dinner is SO delicious! xD
I love apple crumble and pumkin soup
I just love food around the holidays!! can’t pick one ;)
Sweet potato casserole! !
Pumpkin chiffon pie!
My Mom’s broccoli and cheese casserole :)
I’m going to keep it simple, and stick with green bean casserole!
I love German Apple Strudel with vanilla sauce!! Mhm, so delicious with dark brown sugar and cinncamon!
Sweet potato casserole!
Pumpkin Pie smothered in whipped cream!
Curried fruit! Or cranberry ambrosia.
turkey cake balls!!
cornbread stuffing wins every time…Happy Thanksgiving to all…May your holiday season be filled with love, peace & happiness
All of the above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Green Bean Casserole! Yum!
Stuffing, too!!
Stuffing
Sweet potatoes! Seriously. I just love them.
My momma’s “from scratch” Coconut Creme Pie!
Apple-Pumpkin pie, the best of both :)
Apple pie, of course! :)
Btw, I’m not form USA, so I’m not sure whether I can participate in a giveaway or not.
Dressing and homemade gravy.
Pumpkin pie all the way.
Baked squash of course!
Pecan pie and stuffing!!!!
Sweets all the way. I can go through a day on nothing but sugar. Pumpkin pie is a favorite in my house!
I love classic green bean casserole – green beans, cream of mushroom soup, fried onions = heavenly! :)
Apple pie, definitely:)
Hey,
I love desserts :D and my favorit is Apple turnover homemady after a sweet family recipe. We call it Apple pollow ;D and it is servet with vanilla/ chocolate ice cream and cream. yummi and it is the best to eat it warm because you have the warm apple turnover and the cold ice cream ….*-* ahhh I`m hungry
Woah! The slide show goes so fast! But looked like tons of fun! I have many favorites, but I’d have to go with stuffing! so yummy!
Homemade Noodles
amish chicken :) that’s baked chicken in cream and lots of garlic….yummy
cranberry orange apple relish
turkey
Two things: stuffing and mashed potatoes!
My mother-in-law’s sweet potato casserole! So good!
Dessert, always dessert
Homemade noodles!
turkey dressing…only get it twice a year
Our family recipe for au gratin potatoes. It’s been in our family for generations!
Sweet potato casserole
Pecan Pie
mashed potatoes
cheesecake!!! om nom nom :)
I actually love broccoli casserole!
Pumpkin pie of course. Real mashed potatoes with melted butter on top are a close second favorite.
Velvety Mashed Potatoes!!! :)
Has to be the sweet potatoes! <3 Granted pumpkin pie would be a close second..
Mashed potatoes!! Love this blog!
Pumpkin pie is my favorite.
I love sweet potato with marshmellow on top
mashed potatoes!
Pumpkin pie – yum!!
It’s the only time of the year I get a baked turkey, so as much as I love pumpkin pie, I will say turkey.
Cheesey potatoes :)
Noodles!
Turkey!
Fave dish is stuffing with gravy :)
My favorite dish hands down is sweet potatoes with toasted marshmallows on top! Yum!
Pecan pie!
Well, we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving over here in the Netherlands, but I’ve seen plenty of stuff I would like to try! Chocolate-pecan pie for example or buttery potatoes with turkey and cranberry sauce…it all looks great!
Stuffing for sure!