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Time to get in the baking spirit

It’s October and one of the most fun months of the year to bake and share sweet treats.

Cute. Spooky. Scary. Ooey. October is all about having fun in the kitchen and treating people to a smile.

Want to get your bake on and get in the baking spirit? Want to trick out your treats?

Well, how about a brand new KitchenAid stand mixer to get you started?

Sounds ghoulishly good to me.

Enter for a chance to win a KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer in one of the Spooktacular colors above.

  • To enter, just leave a comment on this post and tell me which mixer color you’d like to win … oh and if you know what treat you’d like to make this Halloween, I’d love to hear that too.
  • Deadline to enter is Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 at 7:00 pm ET. Sorry, Time’s Up! Winner announced below.
  • One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Wednesday evening.

Good luck guys!

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Okay, here we go… drumroll please…  And the winner of a brand new KitchenAid mixer is … Debi!!!!

YAY Debi – Boysenberry IS a fun color! Happy baking this Halloween!

 This giveaway is sponsored by me.

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8,001 comments on “Time to get in the baking spirit”

  1. Tangerine would be perfect in my new kitchen *___*

  2. I would love the Contour Silver. I would love to mix up lots of bread dough!

  3. LOVE the tangerine (actually love them all). I would be a busy baking beaver – all things pumpkin for Halloween. Since we have lots of family birthdays this time of year – lots of cakes, especially flourless chocolate ones.

  4. Contour silver!

  5. Tangerine, I love!! I want to try and make those pumpkin rolls with cream cheese filling! Yummm

  6. I love the grey! It would match my walls. For my son’s kindergarten class party I am dipping marshmallows in chocolate, then in orange sprinkles, with a candy eye on the top :)

  7. I would love to have any color they are all so beautiful but if I had to choose it would be the white one. One of many things that I am planning on doing are the Oreo Cheesecake cupcakes.

  8. All of those colors are so pretty! I’d probably go Boysenberry. :)

    I made a pumpkin pie liqueur a couple weeks ago that went pretty fast at the tailgate my husband and I went to. I think I’ll make it again for Halloween. :D

  9. Boysenberry is beautiful!!! Perfect for sugar cut outs with my 5 year old ;-)

  10. I’d love the contour silver or onyx black. I plan on making thanksgiving cupcakes!!!! Thanks for your beautiful work and be an inspiration for us.

  11. Pumpkin Panuche cookies would be sooooo yummy for the holidays…I love the Boysenberry color!

  12. I would absolutely love one in boysenberry!

  13. Tangerine mixer would whip up some awesome pumpkin spice cookies !

  14. Tangerine! Orange is my favorite color! Didn’t wrap my head around halloween yet!

  15. I love the grey. This time of year it is great to mix anything up that has pumpkin in it!

  16. Contour silver =)

  17. I love the Boysenberry one!

  18. I can’t wait to make Halloween sugar cookies!! I would love the grey mixer, it would be amazing to have!! :)

  19. Boysenberry!! :)

  20. Tangerine, Boysenberry or Canopy Green!!!!

  21. I go grey!

  22. Green please! (My kitchen is green and white!) I would make the 14 Layer cake that you featured! I have made it several times before. It has the perfect amount of chocolate icing – A LOT!! https://www.bakerella.com/fourteen-for-the-fourteenth/

  23. Love the silver! Would be the perfect bling for my kitchen!

  24. Wow! I adore that Boysenberry color!!! If only they made cars that color :) And next week we are making “bone” sugar cookies with the cutters from Williams-Sonoma.

  25. I’d love the boysenberry color! I would bake cupcake with halloween decoration

  26. I love, love, LOVE the canopy green mixer! I’ve already made some Halloween cake pops this year, as well as some chocolate covered Oreos in Halloween theme, but I will be baking some Halloween themed cupcakes for a Monster Bash at my children’s school this year and I cannot wait! I’m thinking some bloody cupcakes with shards of “glass” in them.

  27. The tangerine mixer! Will be great for my cinnamon buns!

  28. Good Morning! I absolutely love the Tangerine one! as orange is my favourite colour. For Hallowe’en, I’m thinking chocolate peanut butter chip fudge! Thanks!

  29. I love contour silver!! I will be baking cookies and Pumpkin Roll!

  30. I think I might be in love with the boysenberry…wow, what a color! I’m not sure what I would make, maybe some fun chocolate chip cookies but with halloween m&m’s instead.

  31. I think the Tangerine would brighten my kitchen and make me happy every time I looked at it. And I think I need to make a dark chocolate cake with salted caramel buttercream for my friend Denise’s birthday which is on Halloween.

  32. Love the orange color. It’s my 5 year olds most favorite color and he enjoys baking with me. Cake balls are his all time favorite! I plan on making pumpkin cake balls for the kids to take to school and give to friends.m

  33. Love the canopy green but the boysenberry is beautiful too! I’m making pumpkin spice cupcakes with spiced filling and frosting, yum!!

  34. Halloween Cake Pops for my 2 year old Grandson. The white would be awesome. I have a wedding cake to do for a friend for over 200 in a few months, and my present KitchenAid mixer is over 37 years old. I’d be so grateful to win.

  35. I love the boysenberry!

  36. That orange one is so wonderful! I am planning on making pumpkin spice cookies and that would be a prefect match to fall baking.

  37. The boysenberry mixer would make a great addition in my kitchen. It would put my other appliances to shame that’s for sure

  38. I love the Tangerine! Not making any “treats” for Halloween but we will be having a snake sammies and roasted pumpkin seeds. Ask that question about Thanksgiving or Christmas and I will have a big list!

  39. I would choose the Contour Silver. We are repainting our kitchen and it would look great! And, a plate of molasses spice cookies wouldn’t look too bad, either…

  40. Canopy Green looks perfect! I am planning to make pumpkin bars with white chocolatechips =)

  41. The Boysenberry color is beautiful! what to make? cookies and pumpkin everything of course!

  42. Love the boysenberry but also like the silver!

  43. I would love the contour silver! I plan to decorate it with vinyl. I will be making cake pops and cupcakes with it.

  44. I’d love contour silver.
    I have lots of pumpkin recipes I’ve been saving to try this fall. I’d love to try them out in a new mixer!

  45. Orange and I want to make Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins.

  46. The boysenberry one looks absolutely stunning!

  47. I would love Canopy Green to match my vintage green kitchen!
    I will be making BooScotti!

  48. Boysenberry is beautiful. Would match in my kitchen perfectly! I would love to make Owl cake pops this year!

  49. Boysenberry!

  50. I do love that tangerine! I’ve always wanted to try making cookie dough with one of these.

  51. They’re all gorgeous, but my fav is the GREEN one! And Im thining of making my momma’s pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! :-)

  52. Tangerine would be gorgeous! I’m going to make brownies!

  53. I would choose the witchety black mixer to create a gooldish bloody hamburger cake with lots of marshmallow fondant icing oozing out of the sides with my lovely 14 year old daughter for her birthday/Halloween party! Thanks very much! :). Jackie and Hannah.

  54. I am loving the tangerine one!! I would make anything pumpkin; cookies, muffins, cake….! I love pumpkin! :)

  55. There isn’t a bad color in that bunch, but I think I’d go with Canopy Green. Or Metallic Chrome. Then again, the Boysenberry looks really cool, too. Decisions, decisions. Thanks for doing the giveaway!

  56. A tangerine mixer would be awesome in helping me make some brownies! :D

  57. I would love to make Candy Corn Peanut Mallow Bars in the Tangerine Mixer!

  58. Boysenberry, for sure. ;D As far as a Halloween treat…I saw this recipe for pretty awesome looking Zombie Brains that ooze green goop over at Make Bake Celebrate! I’d love to give those out.

  59. I’d like the contor silver, so pretty! I’ll be making zombie cookies with some new zombie cookie cutters I got for my birthday :)

  60. White :) I love your blog! I can’t wait to make brown butter icing pumpkin cookies.

  61. Contour Silver!
    We’re on a cookie quest for Halloween.

  62. Definitely Boysenberry! So pretty!

  63. Metallic chrome. I want to try to make English muffins for our Mummy Pizzas. Having a mixer to make enough for my kiddos’ classes would be fantastic.

  64. I love the contour silver. I’m going to be making pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. They are my favorite fall treat, and while they may not be fancy, they are delicious.

  65. I like metallic chrome! So excited to bake all the goodies this holiday. I have a 6 month old baby and am already getting into the spirit. I’d love to use it to bake some cookies :)

  66. I would be torn between the boysenberry and tangerine, but either would be a perfect addition to my kitchen. First thing I’d make is a yummy chocolate chip,pumpkin bread. Maybe some big,chunky,oreo stuffed,chocolate chip cookies.

  67. The Boysenberry is beautiful!! I will be making gluten free cake balls and some Halloween Bark!!

  68. I would go with the Grey….I love the matte look of it! Thanks for the give away!

  69. I LOVE the Tangerine coloured KitchenAide. That would definately put me in the mood for making up a batch of pumpkin cakepops!

  70. I love the Boysenberry mixer! I made Pumpkin Blondies last week. They were a huge hit at work!

  71. LOVE the boysenberry – never seen that one before

  72. Boysenberry! I’m excited to make some spooky cake pops this season… So yummy! And homemade bread to go with the partridge from this hunting season!

  73. What a fantastic giveaway! I’d love the black onyx mixer! The Halloween I’m thinking about making pumpkin seed brittle.

  74. Tangerine! But really I love all of them, I think I will make cookies:)

  75. I love the grey! I am planning on making a ton of pumpkin pies. I just can’t get enough of them in the fall!

  76. Decisions, decisions. I love the Boysenberry, but the Tangerine and Green are also beautiful. You decide for me! And this Fall, I’m going to try Biscoff S’Mores cupcakes!

  77. Love the silver mixer!

  78. I working on all things pumpkin. Next is gluten free pumpkin chocolate chip muffin. I would love the canyon green. Thanks

  79. Contour Silver….I would love to win this to make cookies and many other goodies!!

  80. Onyx black! I recently saw a recipe for Cauldron Cakes (I can’t be the only HP aficionado) and I want to try them out myself. I don’t seem to remember you doing any HP cake pops. Now I’m off to search your archives.

  81. Oh my the Boysenberry color is amazing!

  82. Contour Silver… pumpkin nut bread!

  83. I’d like to mix things up and go for a fun color- tangerine!

    Thanks for the fun giveaway!

  84. I LOVE WHITE

  85. After some deliberation, contour silver. And my friends require me to bake your Comfort in Cookies (the PB choc w/dark choc chips) only they refer to them as Crack Cookies because of their addictiveness.

  86. Boysenberry! I’m excited to make some spooky cake pops this season… So yummy! And homemade bread to go with the partridge from this hunting season!

  87. I would love to win Onyx Black because that would go worth my kitchen decor and Halloween theme. I would love to make Devil’s Food Cake iced in chocolate frosting on Halloween with ghost chocolate pops and pumpkin cake pops.

  88. oooh, it’s so hard to choose, but I’d go with the silver.

  89. I love the Boysenberry one and I can’t wait to make candy corn cupcakes! Thanks so much for the chance!

  90. I like the boysenberry.My Pumpkin cheesecake is in order!

  91. Boysenberry…Anything with pumpkin…

  92. I love the purple boysenberry color. Some brownies on Halloween would be good.

  93. I love the contour silver mixer. My kids and I make Halloween candy cookies every year. It’s our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe made using their stash of trick or treat chocolate instead of chocolate chips.

  94. I would love to win the metallic chrome, it would make sugar cookie baking a lot easier for Halloween.

  95. Onyx black would be my choice to make a caramel apple cake.

  96. I love the canopy green color!! I also want to make a graveyard cake :-)

  97. Decisions, decisions. Hmmm…I love the Boysenberry, but the Tangerine and Green are also beautiful. You decide for me! And this Fall, I’m going to try Biscoff S’Mores cupcakes. Mmmmm!

  98. I love the boysenberry but the classic gray would be nice too :)

  99. Love the grey mixer. Looking forward to making some pumpkin-spiced cupcakes for halloween!

  100. Oh, I know it’s not very halloween-y, but WHITE…because I’m currently loving the Scandinavian modern style decor ;)

    Thanks for the great giveaway!

  101. I love the Contour Silver one! And I can’t wait to make some Pumpkin Spice muffins soon =).

  102. It’s not terribly spooky on its own, but I love the contour silver! I think the very first thing I’d make is whipped cream. Silly, but I completely lack the patience to do it by hand!

  103. My ex bought me a mixer while we were still together, then kept it and gave it to his new girlfriend when he broke up with me. I could definitely use a new one! I love, love, LOVE the Contour Silver!

  104. Metalic chrome!!!! Cupcakes and cookies for kids!!

  105. I would take the white..love the starkness and empty pallettte of a clean white canvas :)

  106. GREY! It looks so classic. I would use it to make chocolate pecan pie for Thanksgiving! Thanks for the giveaway!

  107. I would love t win the black mixer, black a night and a Halloween cat.

  108. I love the green, it would look great in my kitchen!

    So many thing to make this spooky season, not sure which one to pick yet.

  109. I love the metallic chrome!! I think I would make some Halloween themed cupcakes!

  110. Oh I just love the Canopy Green. Although I’m a blue fan, but green comes next :D. I’m making caramel popcorn, you can’t go wrong with classics.

  111. i’d go with the boysenberry :)

  112. Contour Silver
    I’d love to make some chocolate, chocolate chip cookies! I know, sounds boring but they are just sooooo yummy :-)

  113. Any colour would be lovely but if I really had to choose I’do go with Boysenberry mixer which is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I plan on making douzens of cookies and cupcakes-which I love decorating!!! And some traditional Greek sweets… ;)))))

  114. I love the Boysenberry! I think I will be making pumpkin cheesecakes this season! Fall is my favorite time to bake!

  115. Onyx Black!!

  116. I would love the boysenberry or onyx black!! :)
    I would make lots of goodies but a favorite of mine is apple cake.

  117. Green!! Live it!!

  118. Boysenberry or onyx, Please! I’m thinking it’s about time for ginger cookies.

  119. The orange is awesome! I would probably go with the grey because it would match my kitchen.

  120. Contour Siilver is sleek. I am going to a halloween bunko and have no idea what I’m bringing yet.

  121. I’d love to get Tangerine KitchenAid :) My favourite color is grey, but this one is more “alive”. Or maybe it’s because it’s pumpkin season? ;)
    On Halloween I will definitely make white chocolate brains with raspberry filling :) Made them last year and they were sooo coll-looking and delicious <3

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  122. I love the contour silver. Would live to make salted caramels this season.

  123. Tangerine!!! Homemade marshmallows. Thankyou!

  124. Onyx black. And as far as what treat I’m still unsure. I might just make my fabulous chocolate chip cookies and call it a day. Nothing better than a perfect chocolate chip cookie!

  125. Silver is needed in my kitchen!!! I would love to make my homemade cheesecake….mmmmmmm

  126. Ill be baking “pumpkin fritters” for halloween dinner:)
    Would love to own my very own Onyx Black KitchenAid mixer

  127. I like metallic chrome! So excited to bake all the goodies this holiday. I have a 6 month old baby and am already getting into the spirit. I’d love to use it to bake some cookies :)

  128. Green!!! Love it!!

  129. I’d love the contour silver and I’d make a mouthwatering carrot cake in it, then the cream cheese topping!!

  130. I would love to win the boysenberry mixer.

  131. Oh definitely the boysenberry color! That is amazing!

  132. I would love the Boysenberry! Such a gorgeous color! I can’t wait to make ghost, pumpkin etc cake pops!

  133. I love the Grey, it looks so classy. I will be making a big batch of pumpkin roll and freezing for the holidays… Thank you for the consideration

  134. I like grey. And for a treat — some sort of cookie!

  135. What an awesome way to start all the extra baking for the holidays! For Halloween, iced sugar cookies… the kids love the spider webs, pumpkins, and ghosts! and … Contour Silver, please and thank you!

  136. I would love the tangerine! I plan on making pumpkin crunch bars!

  137. The Boysenberry is awesome! I have 3 kids in elementary school, I will be baking, and baking, and baking for their school Halloween parties. I need to make some pumpkin gobs for at home soon, they have been calling to me.

  138. I would love the Onyx black. I’ve always dreamed about my very own KitchenAid Mixer! :)

  139. The amazing tangerine! I would make some spooky cookies – iced & sprinkled!

  140. Onyx black would match my new kitchen perfectly!

  141. I would love the Boysenberry or Onyx Black! I can’t wait to make ghost, pumpkin etc cake pops! It’s going to be awesome!

  142. I love the boysenberry, and I think I want to try to make some modern popcorn balls! Not to give to trick-or-treaters, of course, but to enjoy at home.

  143. All of the colors are wonderful…since I don’t have a mixer any color would be great! Thank you for a chance.
    As for a treat for Halloween…Halloween bark is my fave to make.? the salty/sweet mix.

  144. The silver – it would look so pretty on my counter!

  145. Love the Boysenberry!

  146. That Contour Silver is stunning! My mom just bought me another jar of pumpkin pie spice as a not so subtle hint to keep making pumpkin bread.

  147. Boysenberry!!! But they all are pretty.

  148. Thanks for offering this awesome giveaway. My favorite is the grey mixer. I would love it for my new kitchen when we move . I’m going to try my hand at some of the cute cake pops from your book this October! I just made orange construction cone cake pops for my son’s construction birthday party. They were adorable!

  149. Love the countour silver!

  150. Oh no! How can I choose between all those pretty colors!? My top three would have to be white, boysenberry and tangerine. And the treats I would make? Probably some cream cheese frosting to go on top of warm pumpkin bread. And then topped with orange sprinkles!

  151. I would love the boysenberry mixer! I haven’t decided what I want to bake for Halloween this year. I may bake pumpkin cookies or cupcakes.

  152. Awesome giveaway!!!
    I love the Contour Grey!!! I am goingto make some spooky spider cookies!!!!
    Thank you

  153. classic contour silver!! Love

  154. Contour Silver or tangerine are cool! I think I’d make some blondies or banana bread. :)

  155. contour silver

  156. Love the black! I want to start making more cookies to surprise the kids. Awesome giveaway. Thank you!!

  157. I love that green! and I would make some ghost cake pops :)

  158. Tough one, but I think I’d go with the Tangerine (orange being my favorite color and all). And to go with it there would be many batches of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies – my fall specialty!

  159. I LOVE the Tangerine!

  160. The Tangerine one!

  161. The boysenberry is to die for!

  162. Green. We enjoy pumpkin bread, hot dog “worms” and roasted red pepper soup.

  163. I Love the Grey Mixer! What a great giveaway!
    I am making Candy Corn sugar cookies, each layer of dough the color of the actual candy. Make them every year for my kids and they love them!
    Thanks for the chance to win!

  164. Hi Bakerella, love your website!
    Those kitchen aid look sooo nice!
    I plan to make individual spooky gost shaped carrot cake :) And I’d very much like the boysenberry…
    Cheers

  165. I would love to have red. It would be such a pop of color and be the focus of my kitchen.

  166. I would go with black, even though that’s a little boring. Good luck to me!

  167. I would go with the orange mixer… Orange is the color of Halloween and the color of my favorite hockey team the Philly Flyers!! The first treat I would use it to make would be something CHOCOLATE for sure!! :)

  168. Tangerine is so festive for all the fall baking – apple spice cakes halloween cake balls…

  169. Canopy Green or Onyx Black…..Both are pretty.

  170. I am IN LOVE with that matte gray color. Perfect for mixing up all those pumpkin and pecan pie fillings…

  171. Loving the Tangerine mixer! Bright and fun to brighten the dreary days of winter ahead. On my to-do list this week is to make some pumpkin spice cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting.

  172. Tangerine and I’d make EVERYTHING in it….whether it needed a mixer or not. :)

  173. Contour Silver, please.

  174. Love the boysenberry colour. I’d make pumpkin muffins.

  175. I love the canopy green! I want to make pumpkin donuts. I keep failing at baked donuts (they end up looking like muffins…that stick to the pan and come out in pieces.) I am hoping that I will succeed at least once by the time Halloween comes around!

  176. I would LOVE a Halloween-colored tangerine Kitchenaid! Planning to make Pumpkin-Cranberry-white chocolate chip teabread.

  177. I LOVE the boysenberry one. I would make all kinds of lovely things with it to share with friends and family.
    Such neat colors! :)

  178. I would love to win the black one!
    My birthday is on Halloween, and this year I’m making several small sugar skull cakes. I’ll cover them in fondant and then invite my friends over to paint on Dia de los Muertos designs on them!
    Thanks for the giveaway, Bakerella! :)

  179. Love the onyx black! You should make pumpkin whoopies!

  180. we dont actually celebrate halloween at home, but at my son’s kindergarten they will have halloween sleepover next week, for which i am planning to bake some bat/ghost/spiderweb cookies, i havent decided on flavour yet but cannot be very special cos kids this age like simple things in my experience :). a friend of mine asked me to teach her how to make cake pops, so we are dated for halloween pops too :D. as for the kitchen aid color, all are gorgeous, but i’ll go with boysenberry! <3

  181. I love the Onyx Black and I am making witch hat cookies.

  182. I love the contour silver mixer. I plan on making a several pumpkin rolls for friends.

  183. I love the Grey!

  184. Wow, thank you for this giveaway! I’ll probably make snickerdoodles this year, because I kinda lack the time to make something bigger. I love the grey one :)

  185. Canopy Green. A couple of lovely apple pies and sweet potato pies.

  186. i love the boysenberry!

  187. Contour Silver, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chips Cookies

  188. I’d love the onyx black and would love to try something with pumpkin.

  189. Contour silver!

  190. Canopy green for sure! My kids and I plan to make homemade pretzels, Oreo truffles, and pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. If we win, we will make enough for all our neighbors!

  191. I would love the contour silver, & I want to make the Pitter Patter, peanut butter ghost cookies. Thanks for doing giveaway

  192. I’d like the boysenberry one, best treat is homemade paydays.

  193. I could make some serious decorated sugar cookies with one of these bad boys. White would be my choice…I know,a little boring, but would look great on my counter!

  194. I can”t wait to bake my pumpkin cookies with browned butter frosting…sooo yummy! I would choose the boysenberry mixer to give to my daughter who loves to bake with me. Her favorite color is purple and her birthday is Nov. 4–what a great surprise it would be’! :)

  195. I love the boysenberry color! And I’m making some pumpkin chocolate chip bars to bring to a party this weekend. :)

  196. Love the Grey! I’d be furiously baking a batch of sugar cookie cutouts to decorate with my girls!!

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