On the sixth night of Hanukkah, Smart Bitches gave to me…. cookbooks, gift cards, and spices from Penzey’s!
Hey, that almost rhymes. Nice!
Today we’re celebrating RedHeadedGirl and her love of historical cookery, and also of things that smell good when you bake them!
There’s been a lot of historical cooking this year, and we want to help you make some delicious treats, too!
Here’s the prize pack – ready? Hold on to your aprons!
Included in this giveaway are:
A Penzey’s 4-jar Baker’s Gift Pack, including China Cinnamon, Natural High Fat Cocoa, Baking Spice, Double Strength Madagascar Pure Vanilla Extract.
A copy of The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy:
A Smart Bitches apron, so you don’t get your clothes dirty when cooking all the things!
Plus – a $25 gift card to the bookstore of your choice! You need more cookbooks, right? Of course you do!
So, ready to enter? Leave a comment below and tell us: what’s your favorite thing to make? Do you love baking cookies? Pie? Brownies? Saffron buns? Gingerbread? Anything so long as it’s delicious?
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age and ready to tote and read. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. No dolphins, kangaroos, small fur-bearing animals or trees were harmed in the production of this giveaway. Only organically-grown alphabetical letters were used. Stiff penalties for early withdrawal. Comments will close on or close to 8:00am EST Saturday 12 December and winners will be announced soon after.
Cheers, happy cooking, and Happy Hanukkah!
ETA: We have a winner! Congratulations to Lisa J! I hope you bake up something terrific. Thank you to everyone who entered and celebrated with us!
Oven-baked cranberry orange preserves with cardamom, from the cookbook Helen Witty’s Fancy Pantry. SO good. SO easy. The scents and tastes of winter and holidays, ready to eat all winter.
I bake cookies during the holidays, from Thanksgiving until the new year, baking cookies as needed. Our neighborhood cookie exchange party is tomorrow night, so I will be baking Gingerbread Spritz from the Wilton recipe tonight!
I love cooking and baking most of the time. Antipasto is my fav for the season. (it’s hot here and an Italian influence). Baking wise peanut butter and choc chip cookies American style and I’ve developed a new love for gingerbread cookies. While I’ll always be partial to shortbread sometimes they are not easy to master.
I love baking cupcakes! They’re fun to eat and fun to decorate.
Brownies, cakes, cookies. As long as it doesn’t require a crust, I wanna bake it!
I love baking with yeast, especially challah and other sweetish breads. I would love to try some medieval baking recipes.
Birthday cakes. They’re fun to customize & quite tasty.
Okay, you made me think. I like basic tasty baking. Bread, cakes, cookes, pies, anything that doesn’t take 100 ingredients or steps to complete.
It’s a tie between bacon brownies and lemon ‘baby’ pound cake. It’s called ‘baby’ cake because the catalyst for making it was a student who wanted me to bake her flour sack baby in return for actually completing the project.
Does whipped cream count? I like to use different varietal honeys, just to depart a more subtle flavor in the whipped cream.
I really like to make cookies with my cookie press. I don’t like to use cookie cutters, so this way I get cute shapes without the frustration.
For non sweets, I like to make noodles from scratch. It’s really not that hard, but I don’t often take the time to do it.
I make a lot of sandwiches. 🙁
My favorite recipe is something I found on Sally’s Baking Addiction website, which is a can-do-no wrong site: iced chai spice snickerdoodles. So very good. (Her brownie recipe is also fantastic).
I am addicted to making white chocolate, cranberry, and pistachio muffins. They also look great because they are red, white, and green.
I love to bake chocolate, chocolate chips brownies. Honestly I love it as long as it’s sweet and even better if it’s chocolate.
My favorite thing to make shifts constantly, but right now I’m on the hunt for the perfect scone recipe.
i always enjoyed baking cookies
I love making curries. So much flavor…only one pan.
I love to bake bread. Right now I have a really small oven, so I have to make small loaves. There is nothing better than the smell of warm bread, followed by the taste of warm fresh bread with butter and honey. Yum!
No-bake cookies. Because I’m not so great at the baking of things.
Well, there’s no point in being modest – I make extremely good egg rolls. And spanakopita. And any book with people having a cream tea prompts me to bake scones. Now I’m really hungry.
My favorite things to bake are french bread and chocolate cake. Sometimes all in the same day
We’ve been making a lot of banana bread lately – my son enjoys making that with me. something about smashing bananas…
I love making French macarons. It took me at least four times to achieve the perfect macaron, I did it. People are so impressed!
Spicy Ginger Crinkles except I prefer mine raw to baked. Likewise with chocolate chip cookies.
Penzey’s is awesome!
“Favorite” is really hard, but I can accurately say pies and cakes. I love baking fruit pies in the summer, and bundt cakes the rest of the time. And fruit cake for Christmas- I love letting the fruit marinate in port for AGES (which reminds me, I need to be about that!).
Every year we (mom, grandma and I) make great grandma’s Ranger Cookies for all of my employees. The last year Grandma was alive, we made over 500 for 100 employees. Grandma was 95 and we could barely keep up. Grandma has passed and I haven’t made them since. Perhaps this year
Eggrolls – labor intensive, so it’s only for special occasions
Cream cheese lemon squares and butter tart bars. They are yummy.
I’m best at cookies, but I’ve only just recently able to churn out baked goods that aren’t both burned and raw.
Chocolate chip muffin, anything with puff pastry, and I have a kick ass recipe for cranberry orange scones.
I love to make brownies from scratch, using my mom’s Betty Crocker cookbook she got in the 70’s as a wedding present.
I love making Indian food. I don’t do it often, since it’s a gigantic pain to cook for one, but when you’re away from home, there’s no comfort food like the stuff you grew up with.
Anything as long as it’s delicious!
I prefer to make easy things that I can’t burn. So cookies, brownies and my mother’s recipe for carrot cake.
I love making chocolate chip cookies. I have experimented with different extracts, nuts and chips but the best is still Nestle’s original recipe. Plus everybody loves them, even my friends with allergies. (I try not to let those friends eat them but sometimes you can’t stop someone when the craving is there.)
I love to make scones, cookies and brownies and freeze all of them so I always have them on hand.
And, I don’t make it often but I have a great Nigella cheesecake recipe that is one that requires no baking. It’s all mixing and then in the fridge to set. It’s completely delicious.