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.
Pecan pie
I love cheesecake!!
A few years ago, I made sweet potato gnocchi in brown butter. Although time consuming, they have become my favorite.
Gotta be the stuffing!
Apple pie!
Wow! That’s so hard to pick. I love everything about Thanksgiving! For my family, the hands down favorite is Peanut Butter Pie.
Stuffing is by far my favorite!!
Turkey….gobble gobble.
Pecan pie :)
Pumpkin cheesecake!
Sweet Potato Casserole!
I love the cranberylicious Kitcen Aid mixer. Congratulations on your achievement of being the creator of cake pops. I see them not only on your website but in bakery’s now. You created a revolutionary idea in baking but of course you know that.
Turkey and mashed potatoes :))))
I love leftover pie – especially when eaten for breakfast the following morning!
Stuffing! :D
My new favorite? Pumpkin cheesecake pops!
green bean casserole!!!
I LOVE pumpkin pie (and the rest of the meal as well)!!!
I love green bean casserole, and candied yams!! The pumpkin pie is awesome too…actually the whole meal!
Sweet Potato Casserole!
Mashed potatoes! Yum.
cornbread dressing!!!
My aunts cranberry sauce!
I love my mom’s stuffing!!!
I love rolls! I know I should say something more exciting, but I am definitely a bread girl. Bring on the carbs!!
Thanksgiving day sandwiches with mashed potato , turkey (dark meat) , cranberry sauce and stuffing. So delicious, it melts in your mouth !
Thanksgiving day sandwiches with mashed potato , turkey (dark meat) , cranberry sauce and stuffing. So delicious, it melts in your mouth !
Candied Sweet Potatoes!!
I love making my grandmother’s Sweet Potato Casserole!
I love mashed potatoes, cheese caserol and turkey
My FAVORITE Thanksgiving dish is a family recipe for sweet potatoes, using orange juice and brown sugar! Easy as pie and much healthier!!
I love Stuffing!!!
We always make pistachio salad!
Gosh Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I love pretty much everything, but I would have to say my favorite is my aunt’s stuffing. She uses sausage, cranberry, celery, and those ingredients add a little heat, sweetness, and crunch. Can’t wait to have it again this year!
I guess it would have to be pumpkin pie. But seriously, what’s not to love about an overflowing smorgasbord of favorites!
Homemade stuffing, thanks.
Has to be the homemade honey yeast rolls…. hands down!
Thanksgiving sandwiches
stuffing!
Cranberry Swirl Bread and pumpkin muffins
I don’t think I can pick just one! But if pressed, I would say pumpkin pie. Can’t get enough of it! Thanks for doing the giveaway!
Pecan pie. Actually all pie :) I love your grandma’s pecan pie recipe!
Mine would be the stuffing!
My mother makes the best cranberry salad, ever. Without her cranberry salad, it just wouldn’t be thanksgiving.
We love to make pistachio salad!
I enjoy the entire dinner. i come from a big family (9 siblings) and even though we are close, this dinner we all share at my parents house. But if i have to choose my absoulte fave, it would be dessert; homemade cheese cake :)
Love that stuffing drenched with homemade gravy….yum!!!!
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is Sweet Potato Crisp! It is basically whipped sweet potatoes mixed with yummy ingredients and spices mixed in it, topped off with a candied crust. It is soooooooo fatning, but boy is it yummy and worth the calories once a year !
I love the turkey! We get ours from a local farmer;)
I love to make thanksgiving sandwiches ! With turkey mashed potatoes cranberry sauce and stuffing. So so yummy ! ????????
Pie!! Preferably my aunts chocolate pie ?
Stuffing
I love sweet potato pie, my oh my!
My favorite thing is the stuffing!
My moms cornbread dressing.
I’m a sucker for anything sweet and sweet potato with cream cheese frosting is my fav!
Crabmeat and Shrimp Stuffing drowning in gravy!
Mashed potatoes!
Mashed potatoes with gravy!
Pecan Pie!
I love sweet potato casserole! Mine has pecans and brown sugar on one half and marshmallows on the other. Yum Yum!!
Chocolate Cream Pie
Cranberry sauce
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Stuffing! A word that also describes my Thanksgiving meal :)
Apple Pie… Pecan Pie… Pumpkin Pie…
I love all of them!!!
Thank you for the amazing giveaway!
My favorite dish is pumpkin pie with whipped cream!
Dinner rolls dipped in mashed potatoes and gravy. Drool.
Sweet potato casserole!
My favorite part of the meal is…everything!!!
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Turkey and mashed potatoes!
I love sweet potato bake. Made with fresh sweet potatoes, not canned. Topped with coconut and pecans.
Pecan pie has to be my favorite
That’s easy! Candied sweet potatoes! Ooh how I would love to gift this to my mom in red for Christmas!
Love it all! I always look forward to sweet potato casserole. :)
Pumpkin bread with chocolate chips
It’s a tie between green bean casserole and sweet potato casserole, I love them both!
Squash Pie or pumpkin pie truffles!
Stuffing. And how come I didn’t know anything about this cake pop con in Philly? I’m in Philly! Ugh!
i love love Ham & Yams
Sitting around the table with my family is the best blessing and ending the meal with pecan pie and pumpkin pie.
Mashed potatos and stuffing!! Together!!
Mashed potatoes are my favorite!
Pumpkin Pie made with a spice cake crust….yummy!
Stuffing!!
Apple pie topped with vanilla bean ice cream and smothered with caramel sauce!!! Yum!!
Sausage stuffing!
My favorite dish is my moms homemade hot potatoe salad which has potatoes, bacon, bacon grease, Italian sausage, green onions, and a delicious sauce it is alway served hot and is my favorite meal
stuffing!
I love Broccoli and cheese casserole with Ritz crackers crumbled on top!
Broccoli-Corn casserole…. family tradition. Yum!
My favourite is definitely the stuffing :)
I love stuffing…mmm.
I love everything about Thanksgiving dinner! I think my favorite though, would have to be my Mom’s dressing, and of course pumpkin pie!
As much as I love turkey, gravy, and stuffing; I’m going to have to answer with the orange jello fluff that my aunt has made and brought to our family thanksgiving for as long as I 8am remember. To this day, it’s hard to enjoy a thanksgiving meal without it!
I love that you have your own line of products! The PINK…!!! :D
Piles of stuffing!!!!
Mince meat pie is my favorite, and the winter holidays are the only time I get to have it.
Anything with pecans in, or on it.
The Turkey!!! We only make turkey once a year on Thanksgiving and I wait patiently!
Stuffing. Wheat, white, & cornbread with chestnuts & pine nuts. Yummy!
Green bean casserole!
Mashed potatoes with turkey! Yummy!
Pumpkin goodness, which I think is really called pumpkin dump cake.
My family will say that my favorite it mashed potatoes. They are probably right, but as I’ve gotten older I am gravitating to some other dishes – like a cranberry clementine sauce I made for the first time last year!
My wife’s English stuffing
stuffing
My mom’s cornbread dressing with just a little bit of moist, delicious turkey!
It’s a toss-up between my sister’s sweet potatoes and my other sister’s homemade rolls!
Mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie!!
Sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top!
Pumpkin cheesecake
I Love Stuffing with gravy Thanks, Dale
creamed corn…..yum
my Grandma’s famous cheese ball!
Deep fried turkey!!!
One of my favorite Thanksgiving dishes is sweet potato crisp ! It is delicious. It’s basically mashed sweet potatoes mixed with yummy ingredients and spices and then made with a candied topping. Although very fatning, it’s well worth it to eat once a year!
I love mashed potatoes!!!! Yum!!!
Fried turkey! YUM!!
My Mothers rolls
Definitely stuffing
My favorite thing to make at thanksgiving is the stuffing and the mashed potatoes. We make a great turkey too (brine then roast) but that is so easy there’s not much to it. I like the process of chopping uou the celery and onion for the stuffing and the mixing and flavoring the potatoes. Mmmm… Holiday food is scrumptious!
And the cranberry color of that Kitchenaid mixer is yummy! Thank you for the opportunity to try to win it!
Hmmmm turkey mash tatoes and gravy. Well let’s see the day after thanksgiving with turkey sandwiches. ;)
My favorites are grandmas homemade gravy and of course – the desserts!!!
Sweet potatoes with mini marshmellows
pie! always pie. :)
Mashed potatoes!
I love my mom’s candied yams.
Turkey in mole sauce with the leftovers!
I LOVE green bean casserole and pumpkin pie!! :)
For me, it’s a toss up between the cornbread dressing and pumpkin pie. But honestly, I really love my ultimate leftover sandwich the next day: turkey, dressing, gravy, and cranberry sauce piled on top of toasted bread. To die for!
That would be my problem, I like them all. We make the dishes we don’t get all year long until then. Each family member brings their best dish to pass. Need I say more? Heck yes more please.
I love the stuffing!!!!
Mashed potatoes!
Sweet potato souffle!
APPLE PIE.
My mom’s stuffing!
Of course the actual turkey with tons of gravey
Deep fried turkey!
Sweet Potatoes!!!
I make these delicious turkey spinach stuffing balls!!
Thanks Bakerella
Cornbread stuffing. :)
Most definitely mashed potatoes and gravy!!!!
Yumm!!
Stuffing and gravy. I wait all year for that.
Hot fresh rolls!
Pumpkin Panuche cookies!! Yum…
Broccoli casserole, especially the crunchy parts around the edges! Love, love, LOVE the cranberry color on the new Kitchenaid!
My mom’s stuffing! But that’s year round… so definitely apple pie!
Chocolate Pecan Pie
I’m a mashed potatoes & gravy girl, myself!
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is one I have not had since I was a kid. My grandma used to make creamy cucumbers, and I would eat helping after helping. I don’t know if it’s the creamy cucumbers that made it my favorite, or if it was my grandma, whom I miss so much.
mashed potatoes are my favorite
I love turkey and dressing.
Homemade noodles
I love sweet potatoes with pecans and brown sugar topping. Delish!!!
Kale salad with candied pecans, blue cheese, purple cabbage, carrots, and poppyseed dressing!
Sweet potatoes AND cranberries
I loooove eating stuffing and mashed potatoes together!
There are so many! But I have to pick two! Fried turkey & cornbread dressing! :)
Date Nut Pudding!
Mashed potatoes! My mom’s recipe calls for a lot of butter, cream cheese, and sour cream :P
It’s hard to have just one favorite, as we make all our favorite dishes at the holidays. Stuffing is the one we make just at holidays. My grandmother made the best stuffing and was my favorite as a child.
Have yet to come across any part of the turkey dinner I don’t enjoy! Stuffing is always a special treat though for me.
Brocolli Cheese and rice made in my grandma’s special metal casserole!
My favorite thanksgiving dish is my mom’s stuffing balls! !!! I would love to win. I love all of this stuff!
stuffing and sweet potatoes :)
sweet potatoes
It’s just not Thanksgiving at our house without cranberry sauce and several pies. Turkey and dressing is great, but we need all the rest of the goodies. I love, love, love, the opportunity to taste all the new dishes the rest of the family brings to the feast! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It’s all about good food, friends and family.
Pumpkin Pie
Cranberry sauce-canned or homemade, doesn’t matter to me!
Dinner rolls!
Pumpkin pie warm from oven with whipped topping.
Stuffing!
My favorite dishes for thanksgiving is the fried turkey, smoked ham and the homemade cranberry sauce!!
Pecan pie!!!!
Homemade stuffing…oh I can’t wait so ready for it now.
Sweet potato Crunch!!
Turkey with a little gravy!
Sweet potato casserole!!
i love it all, but if I have to choose one dish, I’m going with the sausage stuffing we make in my house! Yummmmm!!!
Sweet potatoes!
I’m a dessert kind of gal, so I always love the sweet stuff like pumpkin pie. My fiance’s mom makes some delicious mac-n-cheese though! Yum.
I love the stuffing!
I’m with you…pumpkin pie
Apple pie with homemade cinnamon ice cream!!
Sweet potato dumplings!
Green bean casserole is my favorite!
Mashed Potatoes, for sure!
Pumpkin pie & greenbean casserole! Yum!
Dressing
You really can’t go wrong with anything for Thanksgiving dinner but I always find myself going back for seconds on the mashed potatoes.
Apple Pie!
Sweet potato casserole
I LOVE my pumpkin cheesecake!!!
Dressing!!
Definitely anything pumpkin!!
My grandmothers stuffing with sausage mmmmm :)
Oyster dressing ! Yum !
Mashed potatoes!!!!!!
The roast turkey – yummy!