To celebrate the 21st book in Lynsay Sands’ Argeneau series, The Immortal Who Loved Me, Avon asked if they could give away a 4.5 quart Kitchen Aid standing mixer here at the hot pink palace.
Like I would say no to anything that involved the remote possibility of baked goods, right?
Why baked goods? As Caro, the lovely publicists who came up with this buttery idea wrote to me, “Since the heroine, Sherry Carne, owns a kitchen goods store, I thought it’d be fun to give away a fancy KitchenAid stand mixer, because honestly, who doesn’t want one of those? It’s like the Cadillac of cookie equipment.” She’s not wrong – I have one, and I use it all the time. So let’s get to it, eh?
The grand prize is an Ultra Power® Series 4.5-Quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer from KitchenAid, in the winner’s choice of color – and this thing comes in red, green, blue, pink, yellow, and something that looks a lot like Tiffany blue – it’s kind of amazing.
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Standard disclaimers apply. This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (I’m sorry). Void where prohibited. Must be over 18 and prepared to cream some butter to win. Euphemisms not included, except for the paddle attachment. But wait! There’s a second giveaway, too, for a second prize! In addition to a complete set of Sands’ Argeneau books – that’s a lot of books, too – the second prize also includes a set of two AirBake cookie sheets, size 14″x16″. (I have these cookie sheets and love them like madness.)
Standard disclaimers apply. This giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents only (I’m sorry again). Void where prohibited. Must be over 18 and prepared to bake like baking has never been baked before. Euphemisms absolutely included, in every possible way.
The giveaway will end at 12pm ET on Monday, 23 February. Winner will be announced 24 February 2015. Please email me with any questions or problems, ok? Good luck, and happy baked goods to everyone!
I would totally bake a batch of big chocolate chip cookies (because bigger is better where chocolate is concerned.
I’d make cookies! Cookies without nuts…because no, cookies should not have nuts!
Nuts do not belong in cookies. It’s a waste of space where chocolate should go.
If I had that fine mixer I would make bread, lots and lots of bread. Homemade bread (especially sourdough) makes the best cheese toast. Plus, it makes the house smell so wonderful!
Gotta say, as a pregnant lady, I would quite simply BAKE ALL THE THINGS! at the moment. But seriously, I’d love to have a mixer so I could actually make decent meringue for lemon meringue pies.
How about a cheesecake? Can you ever have too much cheesecake?
Bread. Specifically sourdough. Bring on the kneading hook attachment!!
Oh, lawd. I’d make cupcakes with buttercream icing!
I would probably bake a cake first, as I would use it as an excuse to eat a whole cake.
Cookies!!!
What a lovely giveaway ^_^
If I won I’d love to use these to bake my usual winter banana chocolate chip muffins
I absolutely love to bake and I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting with cookies lately…white chocolate/cranberry/pistachio, dark chocolate/cherry/pistachio, and caramel/chocolate/pecan to name a few. I also just started playing around with cheesecakes and c a rooms toppings/sauces. I love kitchenaid and the cookie sheets look really neat too. Can’t wait to read the latest Argeneau book, love those sexy vampires!
Buttercream frosting
OMG, now I want cookies.
I bake all the time but am learning how to make gluten free baked goods.. it’s a big change! This mixer would help a lot! I always seem to need at least 2 going at the same time… lol
Awesome giveaway! And nuts in chocolate chip cookies are the bomb! LOL
I make cookies more than anything else, but I might start with a carrot cake – I have a great recipe – or the Italian chocolate/ricotta cake I saw the other day.
I’d make my great grandmothers strawberry cake! No nuts YUCK!
chocolate chip cookies
Nuts: Meh, I don’t really care.
If I won, my family would demand that I make my coconut custard rolls.
Too many choices about what I would make!!! Ginger crinkle cookies probably. And awesome varieties of breads…
Cookie muffins! Cookies cooked in a muffin pan. Extra crispy edges, extra gooey middle. Amazing.
Hmmmm, I do have all those egg whites in the freezer so sea foam candy may be the first thing I’d make.
Cookies and romance? What could be better!
First thing I would do is to fire up the mixer and make old fashioned chocolate chip cookies (WITHOUT NUTS)!
If I win, I will give it to my sweetheart, who has always wanted one of these, and he will make rugelach, and seeded cookies, and raisin bread, and we will eat them together.
Some cookies I make must have nuts, like the ones made with pecans and brandy then dusted with powdered sugar and dipped in melted chocolate. Oh mama, I do love me some of those cookies!
If I won the first recipe I’d make would be a from scratch, red velvet cake with cream cheese icing.
I would make a cheesecake.
Walnut butter cookies for my dad and just about the whole list of Xmass cookies I didn’t feel good enough to make in December.
Chocolate chip cookies, definitely and absolutely without nuts
I’d look for one of the oh-so-many recipes I’ve seen that call for a stand mixer and that I’ve never been able to make before–probably some kind of bread or cake.
Homemade marshmallows. You can never go back.
I would probably make the dough for calzones first.
I love kitchen aid everything, but their mixers are amazing. I would be up to my ears in cookies and bread if I had one.
I feel like romance novel baking involves anything filled or penis-looking. Chocolate eclairs! Cannolis! Penis-shaped cakes! THERE ARE SO MANY OPTIONS.
Don’t even get me started on the baked goods you could make look like lady land. The amount of times I have seen someone make vagina-shaped cupcakes are…precisely one. Still, it’s possible.
Wow what a great giveaway! Instead of using it just to bake I would use it to make my soaps and body butters(lotion)!
I would like to make cookies.
I recently discovered The Great British Bake Off and obsessively watching past episodes. So I would bake a Victorian Sponge cake with the new mixer.