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.
A little slice of pumpkin and a slice of pecan pie please!
pigs in blankets!
hmmm…. sweet potato casserole!! dessert for dinner!
Pumpkin Pie.
Sweet potato pie
turkey stuffing!
I love mashed potatoes and anything pumpkin!!!
I love cranberry sauce mixed in with my stuffing…sandwiched between two pieces of turkey. This most often occurs at 1:00 in the morning after company is gone :)
I love mashed potatoes!!!!!!!
Cranberry salsa….sounds strange but it is oh so delicious!
I love to make a sweet potato casserole with a double (or triple) layer of crust on the top! Sweet, crunchy, buttery goodness!
Apple crumble
Anything pumpkin!!
Mashed Potatoes with lots of butter!
Sweet potato orange cups are my favorite! And cranberry bread is also top of my list.
I would have to say the whole meal, there is something about sitting down to a turkey dinner with the works and having that feeling of pride on a job well done while looking at the faces of loved one devouring the meal. Happy Thanksgiving everyone
Stuffing
I love Cranberry Salad with Orange Cream Cheese Dressing.
Love the mashed potatoes with giblet gravy
Pumpkin Pie! Glad you had fun at the convention!
Pumpkin cheesecake!
My mother’s chicken and dressing!
When I think of thanksgiving I can still smell my mom cooking glorious turkey in a brown paper shopping bag! Fabulous smell
I don’t celebrate thanksgiving here in the UK but if i did it would be the turkey or mashed potato :)
Stuffing is my favorite!
Beef tenderloin—-YUM!
Sweet potatoes and marshmallows
Thanksgiving is my favorite meal so it’s a tricky, but at heart I know I am a green bean casserole sort of girl.
My favorite dish is the stuffing!!
I <3 apple pie!
I love apple pie!
Sweet potatoes with cranberries and pecans. I could eat the entire dish!!
Mashed potatoes with gravy!
I love green bean casserole
Dried fruit stuffing,yummy
A cranberry orange relish made with fresh cranberries, canned mandarin oranges, and dry jello! It is so good!
Even with all of the fancy dishes this thing I look forward to most is Jello Salad :) thanks for the chance to win!
CARAMEL APPLE PIE, yum!
Sweet potatoes and my moms cranberry salad
apple pie!
Stuffing!! (I love the crunchy stuffing on the top!!)
I love cranberry relish and broccoli casserole!
My mama’s stuffing is my fave!!
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is definitely stuffing. It’s the only time of year I get a chance to eat it. Pumpkin pie is a close second though.
I cannot wait for pumpkin pie! YUM!
I don’t celebrate thanksgiving because I am English but I love turkey and stuffing.
Well I really like peas and growing up my mother did not like them but for thanksgiving she would always make peas as one of the vegetables. They are round and green. Maybe that is why I like cake pops,they are round too.
I’m a sucker for warm Rhodes rolls and some really creamy mashed potatoes. Love!
Good ole macaroni & cheese.
The stuffing!
Thanks!
It’s a toss up between pecan pie and cornbread stuffing.
Stuffing of course!
I’m a sucker for warm Rhodes rolls and some really creamy mashed potatoes. Love!
Stuffing!!!! Love it the day of and cold the day after!! :)
green bean casserole!
Sweet potatoes with candied pecans!
Pumpkin bread
I love mashed potatoes and gravy! I just wish I knew how to make the PERFECT gravy!
The dessert!!
Sweet potato casserole! Extra marshmallows!
Stuffing, because it is so tasty! Your photos are adorable too!
No Thanksgiving here in Germany. But I will make an apple-walnut pie on 27th (because my parents will be back from their holidays then :D)
Mashed potato w/gravy and cranberry & sweet potato casserole.
the stuffing!!! and dessert, I love an apple pie!!!
Stuffing!
My grandmother always made the best stuffing with sausage.
The star of the show: the turkey!
Mashed potatoes with GRAVY!!
My sister-in-law’s pecan sweet rolls!
I love sweet potato casserole!! It was great seeing you at cake pop con!
Unfortunately we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here in Denmark, but from my year abroad back in 1996 i definately remember the pecan pie and the Apple Pie (I’m a sucker for the sweet stuff ;-) )
I love pumpkin pie yummy
Mashed potatoes with gravy and stuffing!!
Candied sweet potatoes. The ones that pre-boil and then slice and fried in butter, brown sugar and cinnamon until crisp.
Haven’t had the good fortune to enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving before but would love to try both Pecan Pie and Pumpkin Pie – they sound amazing!!
Sweet Potatoes, for sure!
I love sweet potato casserole!! It was great seeing you at cake pop con!
Mashed Potatoes!!
It’s so hard to choose just one!! But I would say my all time thanksgiving favorite is sweet potato casserole!
Sweet potato pie
pecan pie!!
Dessert!
Oh my, it’s gotta be the Apple Pie!! It’s the most perfect ending to the most perfect meal ever!!!
Pumpkin Pie
Mashed potatoes are the best!
Turkey is my favorite dish. I like the dressing too.
Hands down, my mom’s saurkraut, turkey & dumplings
I love, love stuffing.
Stuffing, made from scratch, cooked in turkey!
a pie with apple caramel! With vanilla ice cream :)
My favorite dish is the mashed potatoes and gravy!
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is Pastor Ryan’s Roasted Ricotta Roma Tomatoes by the Pioneer Woman! YUM. There are never leftovers!
P.S. This mixer will look SPECTACULAR in my kitchen! ;)
Gotta have some stuffing!
I love this stuffing I make with bacon, mushrooms, spinach, cashews, bread….among other things. So good!
Sweet potato casserole and cranberry sauce with nuts.
Sweet potato pie!!!!
I love to bake everything. Pies,cakes,cookies etc
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is the stuffing – no table is complete without it!
Pecan Pie!
Pecan Pie :)
Sweet potatoes!
Stuffing, of course, and Pecan pie
A nice, juicy piece of turkey – white meat, please!
Have to say butternut squash with a bunch of yummy spices!!
I always make stuffing in a pumpkin–delicious!
Oyster Dressing…always makes me feel close to my maternal Grandmother, who died when I was twelve. She was a ninja in the kitchen and could make something fabulous out of virtually nothing! Wish she was here to see how far I’ve come in my culinary journey.
I love mashed potatoes with gravy!
Hard to choose, but I love all the side dishes!
Brussels Sprout and Green bean Casserole! :)
Stuffing
Pecan Pie! Just love it. And Fried turkey of course.
bite sized Black-eyed Susans…there’s never enough of them.
Green Bean casserole!
Mim’a fabulous squash casserole!
I prefer the turkey himself and as a dish maybe corn?
My favorite dish for Thanksgiving is the sweet potato pie my grandma always made.
Apple dumplings
Mashed potatoes and gravy are the best
My moms sausage and sage stuffing!
pecan pie!!
It’s all about the pumpkin pie….
Stuffing
It’s really hard to pick my favorite, because I love it all! But, I will go with green bean casserole (from scratch, no canned soup). :)
Mashed potatoes and apple pie <3 !!!
My mom’s lamb and rice – something we ONLY have on Thanksgiving!
Stuffing!!!
My mom’a pumpkin cream cheese roll.
My favorite Thanksgiving dish (besides anything that’s a dessert!) is the STUFFING!
Apple cranberry casserole!
Thanksgiving dinner is my favorite dish! I look forward to it all year! :)
Pecan pie, stuffing, brussel sprouts with bacon.
Corn soufflé all the way! And sign me for a pink one…yahoo!!!
Caramel apple pie!
tough question….i’m going with stuffing and gravy
A velvet chestnut cake is the best!
Persimmon pudding!
Turkey!!
I love the dressing!
Turkey, especially the leftovers straight from the fridge the next day…yummm!
Sweet potato casserole with lots of brown sugar and marshmallows!
I’m a dessert girl, and not even that picky: whatever is sweet and near me! :-)
Turkey!
We used to always have knishes, which I loved and miss!
I love making and eating pecan pie!
My mom’s lamb and rice – something we ONLY have on Thanksgiving!
I love making a big ole roast turkey.
Homemade gravy with stuffing
Definitely the Carmel Walnut Pie!
I make a wonderful corn pudding that tastes better than it sounds.
I love pu,pkim bread with chocolate chips and pecan pie! Thanks for the great giveaway that Kitchenaid is stunning, love its colour! :-D
Turkey with homemade gravy :)
Lots of pumpkin pie..
Mac n cheese
My mama’s cornbread dressing!
Hands down the stuffing!! Can’t get enough of it!
Mac and cheese
Deep Fried Turkey! Although I love all of the goodies to eat on Thanksgiving Day & the yummy leftovers the following days!
My favorite dish would have to be macaroni and cheese.
STUFFING JUST LIKE MY MOM MADE!
Pecan Pie
I always make a new cranberry sauce recipe for Thanksgiving.
Love the challenge.
Macaroni and cheese.
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is probably corn casserole. Yummmm…
Roasted acorn squash halves with homemade cranberry orange sauce inside! Yummmmmm!!!
Definitely pie.
Pumpkin carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and candied hazelnuts!! So good!
My favorite dish is home made corn bread stuffing or pumpkin pie
Green bean casserole
sweet potatoes with marshmallows
I can’t live without those yams smothered in marshmallow and studded with pecans! Yum!
I have to say homemade apple pie is my favorite
sweet potatoes!
Crusty rolls!
It’s got to be stuffing!
I love homemade peacan pie
Sweet potatoes with lots of marshmallows also stuffing and gravy. I like the sweet and savory.
How can you go past Pumpkin Pie? Classics never go out of style.
Roasted potatoes with gravy
My favorite is candy yams! I make at least 2 pans every year!
pumpkin pie!!! ????
A Pennsylvania Dutch dish called potato filling. My family looks forward to it all year long.
My mom’s stuffing
My favorite is by far masched potatoes with that wonderfull gravy my mother always makes……
Hope it´s OK that somenone from Sweden enters the competition?
Potato salad.
My favorite dish = llove love love pistachio cake for thanksgiving!
stuffing is like the best!!
Corn soufflé, no matter how much I have I always want there to be more. It is soooo good.
Cranberry Sauce! Yum!
My grand father’s shrimp cocktail – every time I try to recreate it, I am brought back to childhood holidays with my family.
My mom’s dressing!
Pumpkin gooey butter cake
I enjoy leftover turkey made into sandwiches and pecan pie.
Pumpkin Pie!
pumpkin pie made with baby bear pumpkins!
Applepie with salty caramel topping
Dressing with sweet potatoes over the top.
Apple pie!!!!
since I am from new zealand and live in australia, we dint celebrate Thanksgiving, but at Christmas my favourite dish is trifle.. made with fruit, custard cream and sponge cake soaked in sherry. ..yumm!
Mashed potatoes!
Stuffing is definetely my favorite!! Yum!