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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. The contour silver would match the fixtures in my house.

  2. I actually love the Grey! I’m planning on making some pumpkin cinnamon rolls at some point :D

  3. The boysenberry is beautiful. My girls would love the purple!
    We’re going to make Halloween sugar cookies or course, and some pumpkin whoopie pies

  4. The Chrome…..will be making lots of pumpkin cake pops, cookies, and a pumpkin cake :-)

  5. I love the Contour Silver mixer! We’re waiting to close on a house, right before Halloween! I think I’d have to make or well try to make Minion cake pops because my daughter has been asking for them =P

  6. Another great giveaway Bakerella ! I love the countour silver and I will definitely be making some pumpkin flans : )

  7. I love the grey! I haven’t decided on treats yet, but I am sure it will have some chocolate and peanut butter and maybe some caramel too!

  8. I love the contour silver and I would make a cake.

  9. My twins were born on Halloween night nine years ago. I always make two cakes because they have different interests. I’ll be making a horse cake and a penguin cake this year! I’d love the Boysenberry mixer!!

  10. I love the gray!!! Would love to make a creepy cake this year.

  11. Not sure why, our of all those colors, but the Grey just “speaks” to me! Id make a bunch of Halloween cupcakes with it!!!

  12. I’d love the white- reminds me of the one my mom had, and she loves getting creative for Halloween! I’d also make her chocolate cake.

  13. I would love the onyx black one. I will be making an awesome Halloween/ Birthday cake for my best friend.

  14. boysenberry is beautiful. making mini cupcakes this year

  15. Want to try the carefree caramel cake. Would love the contour silver one! :)

  16. I would pick the contour silver. The first thing I would bake would be pumpkin spice muffins!

  17. Ewey gooey caramel cake.

    And a tangerine kitchen aid would make my day!

  18. love the boysenberry. my girls like anything with chocolate:)

  19. I would love to win the tangerine colored one. I want to bake something with pumpkin in it but I just made PW’s Halloween Bark last week.

  20. I love them all but metallic chrome would be my pick. Can’t wait to make a range of spooky cupcakes and cookies for Halloween this year :)

  21. I would love the contour silver. I plan on making candy corn bark!

  22. I like them all! I think I would go with a Metallic Chrome tho ;)
    First on the list to make would be the pumpkin spice bread

  23. How fun! I love the Tangerine mixer! I’d like to finally try my hand at a salted caramel flavored macaron.

  24. White!! I’d make PUMPKIN everything.

  25. My daughter would just love to own one of these beauties. A white one would be perfect. :-)

  26. love boysenberry. making choc chip cookies

  27. I love the Boysenberry…a perfect color for Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer! Wow!

  28. Pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting.
    Love the contour gray

  29. I’d love the Boysenberry one. I plan on making pumpkin pancakes.

  30. I love the Onyx Black. I would make some spooky cookies if I won!

  31. Tangerine!!! I’ll be making caramel apple cheesecake

  32. Tangerine! And pumpkin pie, of course!

  33. I would get all the kids in my neighborhood and we”d make “poo” cookies. ( just spritz cookies but they think the cookie press looks like its pooping!) I’d love the canopy green mixer or the orange! Fun colors!!

  34. What a giveaway! I’d love to win the grey one.
    I’ve never prepared anything special for Halloween but I’ll try to do some this year. Regards,

  35. Boysenberry! I would probably make pumpkin infused sugar cookies! My kiddos could help too!

  36. Metallic … and cakepops of course! :)

  37. I love them all … but I would choose boysenberry!

  38. I love the Metallic Chrome Kitchen Aid. I would certainly be a big asset to my holiday baking. Can you smell those delicious pumpkin pies? I can’t forget my 1 year old grandson…some spooky cake pops for him! Thanks Bakerella and Kitchen Aid!

  39. Tangerine, for sure!

  40. I’d choose boysenberry!!! Caramel apple dip for me!

  41. The Boysenberry is awesome! I will be making pumpkin everything this Halloween! Already tried 2 types of muffins and and a delicious loaf mmmmMmmmm! :D

  42. Love the tangerine!!! :) Can’t get enough of pumpkin bread this time of year. :)

  43. I would choose Onyx Black, I think… that’s a tough decision! I really need to start my Halloween crafting, I have a lot of ideas this year! :D

  44. I would love any of the colors. My mixer broke and Christmas is coming. Love Boysenberry

  45. My girls and I love the boysenberry. We are going to make some chocolate chip banana bread. Want to try to make pumpkin cake pops with the girls. First attempt at cake pops for all of us!

  46. The Contour Silver is gorgeous! I want to make some spooky cake pops for Halloween!

  47. love the canopy green and tangerine ones. they would be such fun to cook with. making choc chip dough truffles

  48. I would love to use the contour silver mixer to help me make some Halloween cake pops!

  49. Tangerine!!! I love this mixer!

  50. I love the orange. My Mom would go crazy for it.

  51. Contour silver candy corn cookies!

  52. White. Great giveaway!

  53. Cannopy green is such a happy color, I would choose that one. Thanks!

  54. White or Black!

  55. I love the tangerine and black! So hard to choose! I want to bake a cake and maybe some cake pops this year :)

  56. I LOVE the contour silver! I plan on making sweet potato cheesecake bars!

  57. The boysenberry one is beautiful! And for Halloween I’ll be in Italy, so there will be lot’s of biscotti :D

  58. Love the Onyx Black, perfect for cupcakes!

  59. orange

  60. Contour silver and I am making candy corn cookies!

  61. I would like the black mixer. I have found some really cool halloween food ideas on pinterest that i want to try and ill be making cake pops for our school.

  62. I would love to have the boysenberry mixer! My little guy and I are baking simple rice Krispy treats in the shape of pumpkins :)

  63. I love Halloween! Its a difficult choice but I’ll go with the Boysenberry

  64. Love the contour silver. I plan on making Halloween cake pops for my nephew’s birthday party.

  65. The tangerine colour is so fresh and fun! I will be attempting pumpkin pie for the very first time- in honour of my American friends! Thanks, Bakerella :-)

  66. I would love to win the boysenberry one as well :))) I’m really into making great marzipan and fondant cakes right now. And because I’m trying to make an incredible Star-Wars cake for my boyfriend I’m confident, to make some Halloween cakepops as well after that. <3

  67. Love the Boysenberry!!! But the green is pretty nifty too. I’m keepin’ it simple this year – chocolate cupcakes with some orange icing.

  68. Contour silver

  69. LOVE the Boysenberry!!! Will make brownies for the neighborhood party but dying to make your Caramel Cake!

  70. Wow!!! The ‘Canopy Green’ looks amazing! I’ve never seen that color on a mixer.
    Pulling that bad boy out to make my delicious Almond pound cake would be excellent.
    Thank you!!!

  71. The silver.

  72. The Contour Silver
    Candy Corn Cookies

  73. I love contour silver!

  74. You are so lovely for sponsoring this giveaway. I’d pick onyx black! For Halloween, I always like to make spooky Rice Krispie treats, but maybe this year I’ll be ambitious and try some Frankenpops.

  75. I don’t know what it is, but I just LOVE the Canopy Green! Our Halloween treat will be fall inspired cake pops (of course)

  76. Owning a purple stand mixer is on my bucket list, so I’d definitely choose the boysenberry. And use it to make some salted caramel cupcakes, perhaps?

  77. Fantastic give away! Thanks in advance (:
    I’d love to get that grey mixer. Looks great.
    A pretty smart idea for halloween is that trick with Tic Tac Sweets. To relabel them with ghost poop, vampire vitamins…
    Probably old stuff but it was new to me :)

    Kind regards,
    Sarah

  78. oh le inox black est juste super :!!

  79. the metallic chrome Kitchen Aid mixer would go nicely in my recently remodeled kitchen. I would use it to make sugar cookies that I would decorate for Halloween. thanks!

  80. Such a hard decision. They are all such beautiful colors but I would choose the white. I would make my pistachio bundt cake as soon as I received it. Thank you so much!!

  81. The onyx black is just beautiful! I’ll be making pumpkin cheesecake and caramel apple cupcakes!

  82. I love the boysenberry! I would make some pumpkin whoopie pies!

  83. Metallic chrome! And I’m going to make cake pops and decorated cookies! :)

  84. Love the ORANGE!!

  85. I live the boysenberry and tangerine, but the oractical side of me says white because it will match my kitchen no matter how the decor changes.
    Every Halloween I make giant pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies decorated with buttercream icing for my kids.

  86. Ohh, my birthday is on Halloween so I NEED the orange one to go with my witch collection! ;)

  87. I would love the metallic chrome…. I’d whip up some meringue kisses!

  88. Spooky sugar cookies all the way. I love the boysenberry

  89. Tangerine is a nice pop of color, but Boysenberry looks nice too. Hmmmm, cinnamon shortbread would be delicious!

  90. I think gray would be awesome in my new kitchen! My little man turns 1 on the 12th so cupcakes and other goodies are on the to make/bake list. :)

  91. Canopy Green! And since I’m 9 months pregnant, I’m really just hoping for a baby…that’s treat enough for me!

  92. Pumpkin whoopsie pies! Boysenberry please. Happy baking!

  93. I would love the tangerine mixer- it is beautiful! I would make brownies, pumpkin cupcakes and frosting, and sweet potato pie!! Great give away!
    Cindy

  94. Pumpkin roll bars! Everyone’s new favorite, although we’re fairly pumpkin-obsessed. Tangerine for the win!

  95. LOVE the green, Will match my husband’s tractor!! My Halloween treat of choice is old fashioned caramel popcorn with peanuts. Takes me back to when my mother would make the treats for the neighborhood trick or treaters.

  96. I’d love to win the Contour Silver.
    As for what i would make first, probably some ghost and eye ball cake pops.

  97. GREEN!!! I am making lots and lots of cookies.

  98. There are so many stuff you can make.
    I think I would like to try and make spiderwebpancakes.
    (just make a pancake and right after you poured the batter make spiderweb with a dark coloured batter )
    Contoursilver or boysenberry looks great.

  99. I’d probably go with the contour silver. And I’m planning on making decorated sugar cookies for Halloween.

  100. Love all of them, but partial to the boysenberry. Have a pumpkin cake I’ve been dying to make.

  101. Boysenberry.

    I would def be making brownies with a orange colored ganache :)

  102. I love the tangerine!

  103. BOYSENBERRY!!! I’d love to make the frankenstein head cake again :)

  104. Chocolate chip cookies and use a toothpick to drag out legs on the chocolate chips. Should be sufficiently creepy for the office folks

    Is boysenberry a new mixer color? Love it!

  105. Tangerine, Canopy Green, or Boysenberry :)
    I plan on making pumpkin rolls, chocolate and peanut butter fudge, and banana nut bread.

  106. I love contour silver and onyx black.
    I don’t have any plan to Halloween yet.. =(

  107. I think they are all beautiful, but I’d probably go with the contour silver. This would definitely make Christmas baking easier!

  108. I would go for the boysenberry. What a beautiful colour.
    Gingerbread!!!

  109. Tangerine or boysenberry

  110. I would go with the canopy green one.
    Maybe I make some meringue ghosts.

  111. I love the canopy green or contour silver! And, I’m going to give the spider bites a try. So cute! :)

  112. How about some pumpkin whoopsie pies!! Boysenberry please. Have fun baking everyone!

  113. Eyeball cakepops are always a spooky treat for this time of year and the kids love them! All the mixer colors are beautiful but the white would look best in my kitchen :-)

  114. I am having a hard time deciding between the Boysenberry and Tangerine – I love both!!! I think the first receipe I would like to make would be decorated sugar cookies for my little ones to share with their class.

  115. TANGERINE – I love it :-) And I love your beutiful blog !!!!

  116. Oooohhhhh!!!! Tangerine is my favorite! I’m sure my chocolate chip cookies would taste way better if made with this….

  117. I super duper love the TANGERINE. Perfect to mix with Home Made Mango Ice Cream this coming Halloweeeeeen! Yum! :))))))))))))

  118. I like the Grey! I’ve got some pumpkin cookies with brown butter sauce on my cooking agenda!

  119. The tangerine color is amazing! It would go perfectly with my pumpkin rolls :)

  120. I love the tangerine color. I see my grandmother’s pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies in my future with such an awesome mixer on my counter. Thank you for the opportunity.

  121. I would love the KitchenAid Mixer in the Tangerine color. It would look great in my new kitchen and help in making my Pumpkin bread. What a beautiful fall color!

  122. As much as I’d love the green or orange, I think I’d stick with classic white. This would be a shock to all who know me. lol

  123. I want boysenberry!

  124. I’m eager to try your caramel cake recipe with that boysenberry mixer!

  125. The contour silver would make a lovely addition to my kitchen… I’d love to use it to make homemade Snickers Bars!

  126. I think I will be baking caramel apple cookies!! I would like the Metallic Chrome or Contour Silver. Love the website!!!

  127. mi color preferido es de mora

  128. Oh my, I really like the grey, silver and chrome….but there is something about the boysenberry that I keep looking at. So hard to pick a favorite!

  129. I love the contour silver! I can’t wait to make pumpkin cookies decorated for Halloween!

  130. Love the white! I’d use it to make pumpkin spice cake with cheesecake filling!

  131. Tangerine or boysenberry! Making halloween cookies and cupcakes today!!!

  132. I would love the metallic chrome mixer, always wanted one of those!!

  133. Contour Silver….I can’t wait to make some Oreo Candy Corn bark this year.

  134. white, please. Something salty, nutty and caramelly.

  135. I’d go with the contour silver. I haven’t made pumpkin cake pops yet, so I’ll be trying my hand at those!

  136. Tangerine! Chocolate chunk cookies I just saw on Pinterest.

  137. Goosty meringues. my colour would be Red

  138. Tangerine would be a dream to whip up some fall and winter goodies. My 12 -year-old daughter is becoming quite the baker and the vibrant style these colors give this mixer make her new found hobby cool.

  139. Boysenberry one is gorgeous!

  140. I love the boysenberry mixer! And I would make pumpkin spice cookies with it. :)

  141. and i will make for Halloween witches cupcakes

  142. On a seperate note………|

    GOOD LUCK EVERYONE !!!! AND MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR!!!!!

  143. I’d love to win the boysenberry one! (: I’ve been wanting a kitchenaid for the LONGEST time and that along with your Cake Pops: Tips, Tricks, and Recipes book is ALWAYS on the top of my birthday/christmas/whatever-you-name-it-list. Sigh if only we could have all the money in the world. But I’m saving up to buy your book already:)

  144. The contour silver is the one for me …

  145. Onyx black would look so sleek in my kitchen for all of my holiday cooking! Pumpkin pie chocolate cookies are definitely on the list!

  146. Canopy green – love it – I am making pumpkin bread!

  147. I am in LOVE with the Boysenberry mixer, but alas I already have a Kitchenaid, so I’d take an Orange mixer for my firned who would love to have one!

  148. The onyx Black is witchtacularly spooky. I’d love to whip up some witch cake pops!

  149. Love the Tangerine! Can’t wait to fill my kitchen with all the fall baking season scents of pumpkin, cinnamon, apples and chocolate. That’s what makes a house a home.

  150. The Onyx Black one… Perfect to suit my pink & grey kitchen!!!
    Grettings from France !!!

  151. White is right for me! Along with some pumpkin pie and or apple pie cookies. :)

  152. I love the boysenberry color!
    And I love your giveaways! :)
    My sisters anniversary is on Oct 31, cake balls would be a (very!) nice present!

  153. I love the orange!! We will be making mini pumpkin cakes and probably some sort of halloween treats for class, haven’t decided yet, there are so many ideas, I just can’t choose! Good luck everyone!

  154. Happy Halloween! A friend and I have decided to make spidery chocolate chip cookies for the neighborhood goblins. It would be fun to mix the cookie dough in the tangerine mixer!

  155. Canopy Green

  156. I love the Boysenberry color but I’d probably be realistic and choose gray. Thanks for the chance to win!

  157. They’re all so pretty, but for a bold statement, I’m gonna go with the tangerine as the favorite. Cupcakes are the treat I’d make!

  158. I would love to have the boysenberry colored one:D

  159. Really- I would love any one of the colors- It would make baking even more fun, however since my selection is by request…. hmmmmm
    Contour silver since I have brush chrome on the rest of my appliances…. But that tangerine looks fun!

  160. Love Boysenberry! Would make sugar cookies made into pumpkin shapes and decorated with icing, candy corn nose, M&M’S eyes and melted chocolate mouth. A family tradition!

  161. I love the contour silver it will go great in my new kitchen!

  162. Love to get my hands on a chrome stand mixer. My friend will be teaching me how to bake apple pies from scratch and would like to make my baking life easier.

  163. I’d like the black to match my new fridge. making pumpkin breads and cupcakes with my girls, decorated as cats and Halloween themed.

  164. Tangerine and iced sugar cookies

  165. Boysenberry!! And I have been dying to try a chocolate turtle cake!

  166. Halloween truffles & cake pops! The orange mixer is gorgeous ?

  167. Decisions, decisions! Canopy green or tangerine – would be a tough choice. So many treats, so little time – pumpkin cream cheese whoopie pies, spider salted caramel brownies, chocolate orange black cat cake and I need a mixer to make them all!

  168. Silver or chrome.

  169. I would love to make eye ball cake pops this Halloween.y daughter loves to helpe bake MD I think it will be fun to do.together… if we had the white machine it will be a breeze. ;)

  170. Contour Silver!

  171. I would go with boysenberry ^-^

  172. chrome & sugar cookies

  173. canopy green is amazing! My parents go all out for Halloween….decorating the whole house, party, and all sorts of ghoulish treats. This year I am making radish/olive eyeballs & spider chocolate chip cookies. Thanks

  174. I love the tangerine!!

  175. Love the Chrome….and as for Halloween baking, I always do the most ghoulish “finger” cookies. The cookies taste delicious…if you dare to try them!!

  176. I love the contour silver color and Halloween always means baking anything with pumpkin in it!

  177. My dream is to have a white kitchen someday, so I’d need a white mixer to match!

  178. So many to choose from! I would choose Onyx Black!
    I am definitely doing lots of Halloween cake pops this year!

  179. I love the boysenberry mixer! I am going to make cupcakes and cookies for the fall season!

  180. The beautiful Tangerine color. I would use it to make wonderful Halloween treats for work.

  181. Classic black! :)

  182. I’d love the white one!

  183. I’d love the tangerine mixer! It would be great for helping me make pumpkin bread!

  184. Boysenberry! Mini pumpkin pies are on my to do list!

  185. My friend has been baking delicious apple pies for years and will teach me how to bake one this year. I’d love to make my baking life easier in a chrome stand mixer. Thanks. :)

  186. Silver, maybe? I mourn the loss of my 1930 Hamilton Beach stand mixer, which I got from a church friend when she moved to a nursing home. I used it to make my fabulous pound cake… and I tell you hand mixing a pound cake is a work out! There’s not a single color there that I wouldn’t be happy with.

  187. I think tangerine would brighten up the corner in my kitchen. Apple and pumpkin pies.

  188. Tangerine please! scary cupcakes

  189. Spooky Spooktacular mixer!!!!
    Awesome!!!
    This Halloween I am going to make Spooktacular spooky cake pops. For my daughter’s school. It’s a fundraiser for The Lowell School in Bayside, Nyc . It’s a special ed school for children adhd.
    And this month is AdHd awareness month I would like the Spooktacular tangerine colored one! Thx

  190. Contour Silver-awesome! Making good old fashioned apple pie, thanks for the great giveaway :)

  191. One of my favorite Halloween treats are called Spider Cookies. You melt some chocolate and mix crunchy chow main noodles into the chocolate; then drop noodles onto wax paper and let them harden. So yummy!

    As for a color, the boysenberry is beautiful!

  192. Definitely chocolate chip cookies in a canopy green mixer.

  193. I am in love with the gray.

  194. I like the boysenberry – it’s different! I’m going to make pumpkin flavored cake pops and shaped like a pumpkin too and dipped in orange chocolate with green stems and vine.

  195. Contour silver looks great! I’m thinking of making some pumpkin muffins- not exactly spooky, but delicious nevertheless

  196. Tangerine
    love the color and would love to make some wonderful cookies pumpkin right now a mint later!

  197. I like them all but would choose the silver for my kitchen. Think I will be making some good old fashioned sugar cookies for the girls in the dorm. They love surprise packages.
    Thanks for this opportunity, so sweet!

  198. BOYSENBERRY! OMG, I would die! So pretty. Of course I would use it to make cake pops :)

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