What’s your sweet style? Cakes, bread, confections, cute? What do you guys love or want to learn how to bake?
Check out the 10 books below and pick a mix of your favorite five to be entered for a chance to win them! FUN!!!
Surprise-Inside Cakes
Amazing Cakes for Every Occasion – with a little something extra inside
by Amanda Rettke
Photography by Susan Powers
These whimsical cakes are as cute on the inside as they are on the out. The step-by-step photos will inspire you to get creative with layers of cake.
Sweet Paul Eat and Make
Charming Recipes + Kitchen Crafts You Will Love
by Paul Lowe
Photography by Alexandra Grablewski
If you love Sweet Paul’s blog and magazine then owning this book is a no-brainer. Beautifully photographed and full of comfort and charm, this one’s a real keeper.
Eat More Dessert
More than 100 simple-to-make & fun-to-eat Baked Goods from the baker to the stars
by Jenny Keller
Photography by KCB Photography
This book will make you want to fill your table with treats… and yes … eat more dessert! Jenny’s easy and adorable recipes are showcased in dessert tables like Spring Garden, Princess Tea Party, Down on the Farm, Vintage Baby and more.
Meringue Girls
Incredible Sweets Everbody Can Make
by Alex Hoffler and Stacey O’Gorman
Photography by David Loftus
I love how many different ways a basic meringue can be used to create decadent desserts and colorful confections. I made these meringue kisses from the book last week and they were way too fun!
Glorious Layered Desserts
by Glory Albin
Photography by Gene Chutka
Layers of sweets in small jars. I’m in. Pina Colada Cheesecake Mousse, Peach Raspberry Almond Trifle, and Brownie Bottom Coconut Cream Dessert are just a few of the sweets to get you started or use her basic recipes to mix and match and make your own combinations.
The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
Recipes and Stories from a Southern Revival
by Alex van Beuren and Dixie Grimes
Photography by Ed Anderson
This book makes me happy inside. It’s divided up into Breakfasts, Main, Sides, Soups for every Season, Spreads and Sandwich Fixings, Casseroles and of course Southern Sweet Thangs! You’ll enjoy making this Mississippi Grocer’s best recipes.
Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
Deliciously Fun Party Ideas and Recipes from Seattle’s Prize Winning Cupcake Bakery
by Jennifer Shea
Photography by Rina Jordan
The famous Seattle cupcake bakery shares some of their most loved recipes along with basics for party themes and tips for entertaining.
Modern Pioneering
More Than 150 Recipes, Projects, and Skills for a Self-Sufficient Life
by Georgia Pellegrini
Photography by Georgia Pellegrini
Georgia is a friend of mine and she’s really outdone herself with her latest book. And while it isn’t focused on baking, it’s like an excite-o-pedia of fun projects and recipes to sharpen your skills. Besides red wine popsicles and beet marshmallows, there’s tips on gardening, making preserves, tapping your own watermelon keg and much more.
Pure Vanilla
Irresisible Recipes and Essential Techniques
by Shauna Sever
Photography by Leich Beisch
Okay, vanilla lovers, this book is for you. 80 recipes showcasing this beautiful flavor that usually takes a backseat to chocolate. You’ll fall in love with the Twinkie Bundt Cake, Vanilla Cloud Cake and I dare you not to make someone’s day with the Glazed Vanilla Bean Doughnuts.
Josey Baker Bread
Get Baking • Make Awesome Bread • Share the Loaves
by Josey Baker
Photography by Erin Kunkel
This step-by-step book would be great for the beginning bread baker. Josey Baker … yes his real name… starts you from scratch learning the basics and takes you on a journey through different types of flours to inspire you to have fun with bread.
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Pick Your Mix Giveaway for your favorite FIVE (5) books!
- To be entered for a chance to win, just leave a comment on the blog with your favorite 5 books from the ones above.
- That’s it. Easy peasy.
- Deadline to enter is
Thursday, May 29th at 7:00 pm ET.Sorry, Time’s Up! Winner Announced below. - One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Thursday evening.
Good Luck!!!
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Okay … it’s time to announce the winner.
P.S. – I loved reading all your picks. It’s fun to see what people wish for. I just wish I had an easy way to tally everything up. I get so curious about these kind of things.
And the baking books go to Maggie! Congratulations. I think you’ll have tons of fun baking this summer.
I had to look close at each one to pick just 5
1 Surprise inside
2 Josey Bread baker
3 Eat more Dessert
4 Glorious layered desserts
5 Cupcakes & parties
Suprise Inside Cake
Eat More dessert
Glorious Layered Desserts
Cupcake & Parties
Meringue Girls
I can’t wait to get these books for my collection
Congrats Maggie!!:) Enjoy your books!
Top 5:
1. Trophy Cupcakes & Parties
2. Pure Vanilla
3. Surprise Inside Cakes
4. Glorious Layered Desserts
5. Meringue Girls!
Can’t get better than these.. Thank you!
Top 5
Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
Surprise-Inside Cakes
Eat More Dessert
Glorious Layered Dessert
Meringue Girls
My top 5
1. Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
2. Surprise-Inside Cakes
3. Eat More Dessert
4. Glorious Layered Desserts
5. Meringue Girls
My top 5 ARE
1. Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
2. Surprise-Inside Cakes
3. Eat More Dessert
4. Glorious Layered Desserts
5. Meringue Girls
Thanks for doing a giveaway!
This was a hard pick!! My choices are:
Surprise-Inside Cakes
Eat More Dessert
Glorious Layered Desserts
Trophy Cupcakes and Parties
Pure Vanilla
Trophy cupcakes and parties
Eat more dessert
Glorious layered dessert
Pure vanilla
Surprise Inside
I would love
– surprise inside cake
– meringue girls
– glorious layered desserts
– trophy cupcakes and parties
– pure vanilla
love
Glorious layered desserts
Meringue girls
Eat and make
Eat more desserts
Surprise inside cakes
Thank you
1. Sweet Paul Eat and Make
2. Glorious Layered Desserts
3. The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
4. Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
5. Pure Vanilla
yum!!!!!!!
Pure Vanilla
Cupcakes and Parties
Glorious Layered Desserts
Eat more Dessert
Sweet Paul Eat and Make
WOW!
Here’s my top 5:
1. Meringue Girls
2. Pure Vanilla
3. The BTC Old Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
4. Cupcakes and Parties
5. Josey Baker Bread
Thanks Bakerella!
I would like Sweet Paul, Meringue Girls, BTC Old Fashioned Grocery Cookbook, Josey Bread Baker, and Modern Pioneering. Thank you!
Josey Baker Bread
Trophy Cupcakes and Parties
Pure Vanilla
Surprise- inside cakes
Sweet Paul Eat & make
eat more dessert
meringue girls
cupcakes and parties
surprise-inside cakes
glorious layered desserts
I just MIGHT have a sweet tooth
1) surprise cakes
2) eat & make
3) glorious layered desserts
4) pure vanilla
5) josey baker bread
Here’s my Top 5
Surprise inside Cakes
Eat & Make
Glorious Layered Desserts
Cupcakes and Parties
Modern Pioneering
:) :) :)
mine are eat more dessert, surprise inside cakes, cupcakes and parties, glorious layered deserts and pure vanilla
1. Surprise-inside Cakes
2. Pure Vanilla
3. Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
4. Meringue Girls
5. Eat More Dessert
Since you’re making me pick!!
My top five
BTC old fashion cookbook
Simply vanilla
Modern pioneering
Josey bread baker
Surprise inside cakes
what an amazing giveaway!!
My Top 5 (hardest list I’ve had to make):
surprise inside cakes
sweet paul
pure vanilla
josey baker bread
btc old fashioned book.
oh gosh. now all i want to do is edit my list! ahhhh!!!!
Top Five — Love them all though
Sweet Paul Eat and Make
The BTC Old Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
Glorious Layered Desserts
Pure Vanilla
Modern Pioneering
Squeeeeeel… Fingers crossed!
Wow – tough choices! Thanks in advance for either the gift or the shopping list! My fab 5 are:
Surprise Inside Cakes
The BTC Cookbook
Modern Pioneering
Pure Vanilla
Josey Baker Bread
a whole cookbook for vanilla!? awesome!!
That gets all five of my votes
The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
Sweet Paul Eat and Make
Modern Pioneering
Josey Baker Bread
Glorious Layered Desserts
Josey Baker Bread
Sweet Paul Eat and Make
Eat More Dessert
Glorious Layered Desserts
The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
Top five:
Surprise Inside Cakes
Eat More Dessert
Meringue Girls
BTC Old-Fashioned Cook Book
Pure Vanilla
Hope I win!
Surprise Inside Cakes
Eat & Make
Eat More Dessert
BTC
Cupcakes and Parties
Surprise Inside Cakes
Eat & Make
Eat More Dessert
BTC
Cupcakes and Parties
Surprise Inside Cakes
Eat & Make
Eat More Dessert
BTC
Cupcakes and Parties
1. Surprise-inside Cakes
2. Pure Vanilla
3. Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
4. Meringue Girls
5. Eat More Dessert
Love them all!!
Cupcakes and parties
Pure vanilla
Glorious layered desserts
Sweet Paul eat and make
Modern pioneering
What a fun giveaway! My choices are:
-Sweet Paul Eat & Make
-Eat More Dessert
-The BTC Old Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
-Modern Pioneering
-Pure Vanilla
Just Vanilla.
Surprise Inside Cakes.
Glorious Layered Desserts.
Cupcakes and Parties.
Eat More Dessert.
They all look so amazing!!
Sweet Paul (!!!!!!!!)
Cupcakes and Parties
The BTC Old Fashione Grocery Cookbook
Modern Pioneering (!!!!!!!!)
Josey Baker Bread
P.S. It’s my birthday today – just throwing that out there :) Thank you!!
Suprise-Inside Cakes
Sweet Paul Eat&Make
Glorious Layered Desserts
Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
Pure Vanilla
I’d take
Sweet Paul Make and Eat
Glorious Layered Desserts
B.T.C Old Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
Trophy Cupcakes and Parties
and
Pure Vanilla
I would love ANY and ALL of those books! But if I had to just pick 5, I would pick:
1. Eat More Dessert
2. Meringue Girls
3. Glorious Layered Desserts
4. The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
5. Modern Pioneering
Thanks for doing another giveaway! I love your site & always get excited when I get a notification in my e-mail! :-D
My top 5:
Josey Baker Bread
Pure Vanilla
Trophy Cupcakes & Parties
Meringue Girls
Eat More Dessert
Those all look so great! I’ll be keeping the complete list for future reference.
1. Eat & Make
2. Meringue Girls
3. The BTC Cookbook
4. Josey Baker Bread
5. Pure Vanilla
I would love pure vanilla, meringue girls, modern pioneering, josey baker bread and surprise-inside cakes.
My faves
– surprise inside cake
– meringue girls
– glorious layered desserts
– trophy cupcakes and parties
– pure vanilla
Wow. My favorites are: Surprise Inside Cakes, East More Dessert, Josey Baker Bread, Modern Pioneering, and Eat & Make
1.Eat More Dessert
2. Cupcakes and Parties
3. Meringue Girls
4. Modern Pioneering
5. Glorious Layered Desserts
Top Five!
Sweet Paul Eat & Make
Josey Baker Bread
Pure Vanilla
Trophy Cupcakes and Parties
The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
eeee! :)
Ok….first of all…#Meringue Girls!!!!!!!!
But could be intriguing also:
#Josey Baker Bread
#Modern Pioneering
#Sweet Paul Eat and Make
#Pure Vanilla
Thanks, <3
Claudia
I would LOOOOOOOOOOVE to have my top 5:
1. Surprise Inside
2. BTC Old Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
3. Modern Pioneering
4. Sweet Paul Eat & Make
5. Meringue Girls
My sweet style is cute!! My top 5:
1. Surprise-inside Cakes
2. Eat More Dessert
3. Meringue Girls
4. Trophy Cupcakes & Parties
5. Glorious Layered Desserts
I’m a HUGE fan of colorful sweets so my top pick would be:
1.Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
2.Meringue Girls
3.Surprise-Inside Cakes
4.Eat More Dessert
5.Pure Vanilla
So hard to choose! But here they are, my five :-)
Josey Baker Bread
Pure Vanilla
Modern Pioneering
Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
Sweet Paul Eat and Make
My top 5 are:
1.) Surprise Inside Cakes
2.) Meringue Girls
3.) Glorious Layered Desserts
4.) Trophy Cupcakes and Parties
5.) Pure Vanilla
My top five are:
Josey Baker Bread
Pure Vanilla
Cupcakes & Parties
Glorious Layered Desserts
Eat More Dessert
My top 5 are:
1.) Surprise Inside Cakes
2.) Meringue Girls
3.) Glorious Layered Desserts
4.) Trophy Cupcakes and Parties
5.) Pure Vanilla
Favorite five:
Meringue Girls
Modern Pioneering
Surprise Inside Cakes
Glorious Layered Desserts
Josey Baker Bread
Glorious Layered Deserts
Pure Vanilla
Trophy Cupcakes + Parties
Merigue Girls
Surprise Inside Cakes
These would be my 5
Sweet Paul Eat and Make
Glorious Layered Desserts
The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
Eat More Dessert
Pure Vanilla
I would very much love Eat & Make, Eat More Dessert, Trophy Cupcakes, Pure Vanilla and Josey Baker. Thank you for the contest and good luck to everyone that enters.
1. Surprise-inside Cakes
2. Pure Vanilla
3. Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
4. Meringue Girls
5. Eat More Dessert
I love them all!
My Top 5:
Surprise-inside cakes
Glorious Layered Desserts
The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
Modern Pioneering
Pure Vanilla
Oh so hard to pick but it would be:
1. Cupcakes & Parties (I love both)
2. The BTC (my family has southern roots but I’m a Cali.girl)
3. Eat More Dessert (this needs to be my everyday thought to live by–LOL)
4. Eat & Make (I like cooking and crafting)
5. Meringue Girls ( I love meringue)
B-T-W I LOVE your cute Cake Pop Recipes !
My top 5 picks are: Pure Vanilla, Cupcakes and Parties, Meringue Girls, Eat More Dessert, and Surprise-Inside Cakes
Ok.! If I have to pick. . .
1. Surprise-inside Cakes
2. Pure Vanilla
3. Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
4. Meringue Girls
5. Eat More Dessert
My picks:
Surprise Inside Cakes
Meringue Girls
Glorious Layered Desserts
Cupcakes and Parties
Josey Baker Bread
My top 5 :
1. Glorious Layered Desserts
2. The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
3. Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
4. Pure Vanilla
5. Josey Baker Bread
:D
Wow, great selection of yummy books!
My top 5 would be:
Meringue girls
eat more dessert
cupcakes and parties
glorious layered desserts
pure vanilla
Thank you for your GREAT blog!
1. Eat More Dessert
2. Cupcakes and Parties
3. Pure Vanilla
4. Modern Pioneering
5. Glorious Layered Desserts
Wow!! What a collection of all-star cookbooks! I think I would choose:
1. Sweet Paul Eat and Make
2. Eat More Dessert
3. Meringue Girls
4. The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
5. Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
My Favorites:
Surprise Inside
Eat & Make
Glorious Layered Desserts
Cupcakes and Parties
Modern Pioneering
Thank you for the great giveaway!
All of these look great! Here’s my top 5:
1. Meringue Girls
2. The BTC Old Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
3. Modern Pioneering
4. Pure Vanilla
5. Josey Baker Bread
I’ve been wanting an excuse to expand my expertise with desserts so i would choose:
pure vanilla
glorious layered desserts
eat more dessert
meringue girls
surprise inside cakes
sweet paul, cupcakes and parties, pure vanilla, josey baker bread, glorious layered desserts. thank you!
Surprise-Inside Cakes
Eat More Dessert
Trophy Cupcakes and Parties!
Pure Vanilla
Josey Baker Bread
Surprise inside
BTC Old Fashion cookbook
Cupcakes and parties
eat more desserts
Layered desserts
I thought I posted but it didn’t come up – my picks would be Pure Vanilla, Cupcakes and Parties, Eat More Dessert, Meringue Girls, and Surprise-inside Cakes
Eat More Dessert
The BTC Cookbook
Cupcakes & Parties
Pure Vanilla
Josey Baker Bread
Top 5:
Eat and Make
BTC
Pure Vanilla
Modern Pioneering
Cupcakes and Parties
Surprise Inside Cakes, Eat More Dessert, Meringue Girls Desserts Everybody Can Make, Cupcakes and Parties, Pure Vanilla
Top 5:
Eat More Dessert
Glorious Layered Desserts
The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery Cookbook
Modern Pioneering
Josey Baker Bread