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I promised you a Cookbook Give-Away and here it is!
Because I appreciate you all so much, I'm giving away a Brand New 2008 copy of "Martha Stewart's Cookies". (The fact that I love all the hype has nothing to do with it!) Check out the link to read the Amazon review and all the cookies you have to look forward to!
It's so Brand New, that I told myself I wouldn't open it. But I just couldn't help myself. I needed to know what was in it so I could get you all excited! Well, let me tell you...I want this book for myself and I may just go out and buy another one, just for me! Why do I want one so bad? Cause it's got lots and lots of ooey, gooey, gorgeous, mouth-watering close-up pictures!In fact, I think there's a photo for all 175 cookie recipes!
A free cookbook? Come On! What's the deal?
As Erika from Stampin' Mama would say..."So......what do you need to do to enter this Groovy Give-Away?"
I'm giving you a whole week for this Cookbook Give-Away.
Why so long? Because I want all of you to Spread the Love and send all your friends over to enter too!
All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and tell me what your favorite dessert is. Or tell me what recipes you're looking for, what you'd like to see more of. Tell me why I should give away more cookbooks. You get the picture! The more comments I get, the more likely I am to make this a regular feature.
If you do happen to have your own blog, you can help spread the love and mention my "Martha Stewart's Cookies Cookbook Give-Away".
And while you're at it, make sure to enter your email address into my Feedblitz box at the very top
of my blog so that you don't miss out on any of the fun stuff. (if you've already done this or you subscribe to my blog through a reader service like Google or Bloglines, you can skip this part)
*** This Give-Away is NOT limited to where you live.....so even if you are outside of the US or Canada, you can still participate.***
I'll pick the winner with the random number generator on Tuesday (4/29) at 9 pm Eastern Time and announce the winner here!
So, there you have it! Go and Spread The Love! X O
My all-time favorite dessert would HAVE to be tiramisu! Thanks for the chance to win this drool-worthy cookbook!
Posted by: Shelby | April 21, 2008 at 03:54 PM
Nice choice, I will spread the information.
As for my favorite dessert it has to be the french mille-feuille.
Posted by: Soulafa | April 22, 2008 at 04:05 AM
I don't have a blog...but I am spreading the word. Have been wanting this cookbook!
My favorite dessert...I love banana nut cake with cream cheese frosting...sounds pretty simple...but there's only one place I've ever been able to get it and I have yet to find a recipe for it. Another great dessert I love is champagne cake...it's from the same local bakery...can't find it anyplace else...and no recipe!
Charmaine
Posted by: Charmaine | April 22, 2008 at 09:12 AM
Those cookies look so yummy!! Favorite dessert? That's a tough one...I love desserts...way too much. :) I would probably have to say my all-time favorite dessert would have to be the simple little chocolate pie with some Cool Whip. YUM!
Posted by: Lori A. | April 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM
I do'nt have a blog, so I'm not participating in the "Groovy Giveaway", but I just wanted to say my sweet tooth screams for attention every time I visit....I love all the yummy photos, and I love how you are "keepin' it real" like Pioneer Woman, and show your little sink FILLED with dirty dishes at the end!
Posted by: Glee Scrap | April 22, 2008 at 12:13 PM
Hi Donna! Can I be a brown-noser and say how much I love your blog?! ;-)
My favorite dessert is vanilla ice cream (preferably homemade) with a thickly frosted cake (chocolate with cream cheese frosting or yellow cake with chocolate frosting). I also love French macarons, créme brulée, and American fruit desserts like pandowdy, crumbles and cobblers.
Posted by: Mari | April 22, 2008 at 05:55 PM
I do not have a blog, but I am forwarding your blog to 20 friends who love to bake!
My favorite dessert is my mother's chocolate chip cookie recipe. Can taste them right now fresh out of the oven.
Posted by: Janis LU | April 22, 2008 at 08:04 PM
Great idea! I have been 'eyeing' this book for awhile - trying to justify why I just have to have it. For sure I will add a link to your blog!
My favourite dessert has to be any dessert made with apples. I love apple pie and apple cake especially.
Posted by: Liliana | April 22, 2008 at 09:15 PM
Now why would I want to spread the word? The LESS people who enter, the MORE chance I have to win the book! hehe BUT...since it's a requirement, I'll do it. :) I have to say that my favorite dessert is usually anything with Peanut Butter in it - I LOVE Peanut Butter cookies and just saw your recipe, so I'll have to try it!
Posted by: Marni | April 22, 2008 at 10:35 PM
me, me, me!! but no i won't spread the word because less people means more chance for me to win! oops, i see that someone already pointed that out, hehe. but i would love to try some of these lovelies.
Posted by: mimi | April 23, 2008 at 07:45 PM
My favourite dessert is Pavlova, the only fat is in the whipping cream, You can prepare it the night beofre, whip the cream ahead of time and use whatever fruit is in season. It is also good for people who have celiac and cannot eat flour.Thanks for the opportunity to win this book, never met a cookie I didn't like.
Eileen
Posted by: Eileen McClean | April 23, 2008 at 08:29 PM
I'm a lurker, but I love your blog! My favorite dessert would have to be chocolate pudding. The best recipe I've found is in the Gourmet Cookbook and is simply decadent.
Posted by: rffoodie | April 23, 2008 at 09:10 PM
I think I'm the dippiest, dopiest, person ever as I've never been to your blog before. I would love to win this cookbook but only if it comes with a special spell that will make it so I can actually be successful with it. Seems even with great recipes I can still mess it up somehow! Anyway, I'm putting you in my Reader and I'll mention your giveaway on my blog tomorrow!
Posted by: Lorie | April 23, 2008 at 09:18 PM
I love sugar cookies, rhubarb bars, angel food cake--- too many treats to mention! I will spread the word about the cookie cookbook! That's a promise. Thank you for the giveaway!
Posted by: Karin | April 23, 2008 at 09:35 PM
I found your blog through Erika and her Bake it, Make it and Take it segment. I've enjoyed your recipes as they are not overly complicated and so far turn out quite tasty. I would like to see more fruity deserts. I love fruit and think it's a natural in baking. I tried your lemon tart recipe and the berry muffins and both turned out nicely.
Thanks for sharing your expertise!
Shawn K.
Posted by: Shawn Kreig | April 23, 2008 at 09:50 PM
I love to cook, bake, cook, bake..well as long as there is someone here to eat it and tell me how good it is :) -- but then that always happens (they know they won't get anymore great meals if they don't compliment the chef) So, I NEED to keep up with the demand and so you NEED to keep giving away cookbooks. I'd love a new crockpot book next!
Posted by: Johannah B | April 23, 2008 at 10:02 PM
I love fresh strawberry pie or strawberry cheesecake. Give me a good cookie for an anytime snack. I don't have a favorite.
Posted by: Karen R | April 23, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Oh, the cookies look so good! I would love this book!
Posted by: Amanda | April 23, 2008 at 10:26 PM
My favorite dessert has to be strawberry jello with the pretzel crust! Oh, I could eat that all! Other favorites include pumpkin ANYTHING! Thanks for the chance to win, I still love Martha! Beth G.
Posted by: Beth G. | April 23, 2008 at 11:03 PM
COOKIES...........SNICKERDOODLES ALL THE WAY!!!
Posted by: SMC | April 23, 2008 at 11:39 PM
I just discovered your blog by way of Erika's blog. I'm enjoying looking around and have added you to my Google Reader. My favorite dessert is pecan pie. In fact I love anything with pecans! Thanks for the chance to win.
Posted by: HeyHeyPaula | April 24, 2008 at 12:46 AM
I love desserts so it is hard to pick just one but I'll go with Chocolate Pecan Pie with vanilla ice cream.
Posted by: Linda2000 | April 24, 2008 at 01:11 AM
Wow! I love your blog! That cookbook looks awesome. It is hard to choose my favorite dessert because there are so many I like! So, for today, I'll say that Lemon Icebox Pie is my favorite.
Posted by: Dawn | April 24, 2008 at 07:30 AM
My favorite dessert is OREO's!!! Am I bad or what??? Ok, here's what I'm looking for... A recipe so I can make my own Oreo's... :O) Nancy P...
Posted by: Nancy P | April 24, 2008 at 08:19 AM
My favorite dessert is peanut butter cheesecake *drool*. I only make it on holidays because I always want it to be a special treat. You and your daughter share so many innovative recipes and craft ideas and I'm loving everything I read from your blogs. TFS such a wonderful gift with this cookie book!
Posted by: Carol | April 24, 2008 at 08:40 AM
That cookbook looks really good. My favorite dessert has to be a hot stick gooey cinnamon bun with a cream cheese icing on top. Well, with a blog like mine you know it has to be something made from dough :) Keep the recipes coming I enjoy reading them.
Posted by: Chuck | April 24, 2008 at 09:03 AM
My favorite recipe is for Rolo Cookies--everyone just loves them!
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Janet B | April 24, 2008 at 09:06 AM
Mmmm.. cookies. What's not to love? I think I need this cookbook! : ) Thanks.
Posted by: Dawn | April 24, 2008 at 09:09 AM
My favorite dessert? So hard to choose, but it sometimes depends on the time of year. Summer - strawberry shortcake; Fall - pecan pie or pumpkin pie. I could go on and on! Love your blog...thanks for the opportunity to win this great cookbook!
Posted by: Mary | April 24, 2008 at 09:19 AM
I cannot just pick one favorite dessert!! But at the very moment I feel like saying "Charlotte aux fraises". It's a french dessert that's like a very firm strawberry mousse (with gelatine in it)layered with soft lady fingers. It's delicious!
Thanks for the give-away, and sure I'll post a little note about it on my craft blog! :-)
Posted by: Bee | April 24, 2008 at 09:31 AM
Favorite dessert, hmmm, that's a toughy. I like them all. But if I really had to narrow it down, it would have to be cheesecake. Yum! Thanks for the chance to win. I'll be signing up for your updates. :) ~Julie
Posted by: Julie Miller | April 24, 2008 at 09:49 AM
I'm a subscriber ever since your daughter told me to! :) I love both your blogs!! You're both crafty and talented!!! *drool* hee hee
My fave dessert is ice-cream. I love ice-cream cake! Thanks!!
Posted by: bunny | April 24, 2008 at 10:10 AM
How can I narrow my favorite to one dessert. First off I love chocolate but my favorite desert is actually apple crisp. Go figure...an good ole grandma special.
Retired Heather
Posted by: Heather Fullerton | April 24, 2008 at 10:26 AM
WOW what a great give a way. I would so love to win this cookie cookbook. I am a baker at heart. For as long as I can remember my mom and I have been baking Christmas cookies together. We spend days (long days) mixing and baking for everyone! My kids just love bringing friends over to sample the days cookies. My mom has always cooked and baked - I can not remember a time when she didn't.
What i am looking for is a cookie my grandma use to make me. It was like a raviolli - it was a round cookie filled like a raviolli - filled with grape jelly. I loved that cookie. It was like a raviolli because it was 2 disks (cookie dough discs) filled with jelly and sealed like a raviolli. Am I confusing you yet? I have never been able to reproduce the cookie part. It was not a simple sugar cookie but more like a cream cheese cookie. So heavier than a sugar cookie. My grams had her own recipes in her head and since her english was broken I could not get the recipe. I was young and never thought to write it down as she did it. So many recipes lost.
Thank you for the opportunity to win this great book! I am saying a little prayer - I get picked.
Have a good day!
Posted by: Annette | April 24, 2008 at 10:31 AM
OHH what a great give a way!
My favorite dessert is a tie between creme brulee (don't know if it's spelled right but I sure know how to eat it) and cheesecake. OK now I'm hungry off to make peanut butter cookies, YAY!
Rose
Posted by: Rose | April 24, 2008 at 10:50 AM
Mmmm...Creme Brulee. I had it in Quebec and it was SO divine.
Posted by: Kari Follett | April 24, 2008 at 11:04 AM
I have such a sweet tooth and you are asking me for my favorite dessert? Cake, yes; pie, yes; cookies, yes; candy, yes...oh my, the choices! I rarely bake anymore because my hubby isn't a "sweets" person, but I have to admit I've had people ask numerous times for my Mexican Chocolate Cake (yum). My personal favorite (I think) would be Apple Turnover, Apple Dumpling or Apple Kuchen. BTW...your blog (and Erika's) is WONDERFUL. I love how you both have managed to so cleverly combine your passions.
Posted by: Jo Ann B | April 24, 2008 at 11:22 AM
I would have to say my favorite dessert is cherry cheesecake,there is just something about its flavour that I pick it over anything else! Thanks for the chance to win.
Posted by: Judy Rozema | April 24, 2008 at 11:32 AM
My favorite dessert is yellow cake with chocolate frosting. That with a big, cold glass of milk and I am set!
Thanks for a chance to win this cookbook, we are big cookie fans around here as well.
Posted by: Kim Williams | April 24, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Hi,
I found you through Erika, and my gosh an hour later, I am still reading your blog. What a life you lead, cooking, sailing, freezing in the winter!
Thanks for having this contest to win the Cookie book, maybe someday it will be your own cookbook we will have a chance to win.
Thanks, and I am off to make the peanut butter cookies!
Hugs,
Di
Posted by: Diana Gibbs | April 24, 2008 at 12:16 PM
I love cheesecake. Just plain cheesecake. I love it so much. I love cookbooks.I love to try new things. I have 2 kids and they love cookies, so anytime I can get some new recipes the better. Thank you for doing this wonderful give away!!!!
Posted by: Erin | April 24, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Ok, I have to admit, that I love your recipes! And, ummm not for myself (well sorta for myself) ...my hubby is the cook in this house! He's awesome too, but he lacks in the dessert department, so Ive been printing your recipes for him, lol! Thanks so much for this chance to win this cookbook, I've been drooling over it...
Posted by: cathy tidwell | April 24, 2008 at 01:56 PM
Ooh, I was eyeing this cookbook the other day at Barnes and Nobles.
My favorite dessert would have to be strawberry shortcake, you can't beat the simplicity and fresh flavor, plus the fact that strawberries make it "healthy."
Posted by: Carla | April 24, 2008 at 02:07 PM
My favorite dessert is anything with chocolate in it. I am a chocolate freak!
Posted by: Jennifer | April 24, 2008 at 02:53 PM
Wow, it's hard to choose just one, but I'd have to go with butterscotch brownies. Yum!
Posted by: Laura | April 24, 2008 at 03:29 PM
I love your blog ever since I found my way over here from your daughter Erika's blog (I thinks she is so fantastically gifted by the way). Hmmmmm, my favourite dessert is something my mom calls Apple Schnitz pie. It's an apple pie with an oatmeal, brownsugar, flour and cinnamon crust on top. Kind of like an apple crisp. You pour some cream over the pie before you stick it in the oven and it's delish!!! I haven't made it in years (because i'd eat the whole darn thing) but it's requested as my pot luck item if I am down for desserts LOL.
Posted by: Andrea Murdock | April 24, 2008 at 04:08 PM
I love German chocolate cake...it's the best! :)
Posted by: Michelle | April 24, 2008 at 04:52 PM
You need a reason to give away cookbooks? Well I am seriously a collector. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Cookbooks. Any kind and my family and friends always appreciate new and different cookies for Christmas. PICK ME!!!PICK ME!!!
Posted by: Susan Hall | April 24, 2008 at 06:14 PM
I wish I had a blog to spread the word, but I will tell friends about your site. Looks yummy!
Posted by: Krissy | April 24, 2008 at 08:30 PM
My all time favorite baked good is cupcakes. This is my first time seeing your site but I love it. Thanks for the cookbook opportunity.
Posted by: Stacy | April 24, 2008 at 09:41 PM