It’s here, it’s here!
Time for our annual eight straight days of giveaways to celebrate Hanukkah! We have so much fun planning these, and we’ve been working on each gift pack for months.
As we did last year, each night celebrates reading, along with some themed prize packs that celebrates the different interests of the Smart Bitches crew. I hope you like them!
Ready for the prize for the first night of Extrava-Hanukkah?
Today we’re giving away a prize pack celebrating everything RedHeadedGirl loves — good television and movies, cooking, baking, and of course, Outlander!
The first night prize pack includes:
An Amazon Fire Stick with Alexa Voice remote
A copy of Outlander Kitchen!
A DVD copy of Outlander: Season One, Volume One
A Penzey’s Spice Mini Baker Gift Set, including “Powdered China Ginger, East Indian Ground Nutmeg, Ground China Cinnamon and our Ceylon Cinnamon.”
So you can watch everything will baking pretty much all the things! Someone’s home will smell delicious very soon.
Ready to enter? Leave a comment below telling us what baked or store-bought treat you never get tired of enjoying while you read. (This thread will make everyone hungry, I bet!)
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 years of age and ready to read and bake and embrace deliciousness. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Oven mitts should not be worn while reading unless you’re turning the cookie sheets around with one hand and reading with the other. Use only in a well-lit area so you can see all the words. Keep away from fire or flames unless it’s a menorah. Comments will close at or near 12pm ET on Sunday 25 December and winners will be announced shortly afterward.
Good luck, Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!
ETA 12/25: We have a winner, thanks to the power of random integers!Â
Congratulations to mel burns, comment #122! Thank you to everyone who entered – I hope you’ll join us for the next seven days of Hanukkah giveaways. We wish you a Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and most of all, Excellent Reading!
Currently enjoying some iced sugar cookies while I curl up with a book. Seasonal sugar coma, here I come!
Homemade granola bars!
Nutmeg Bread which I bake, using an entire freshly grated nutmeg.
Be happy to supply the recipe as a Happy Holidays gift if requested.
Pumpkin butter bars from a William-Sonoma recipe I got years ago! They’re magical!
Snowball cookies, which I grew up calling Mexican wedding cookies. Whatever we’re calling them, they are always delicious.
Hmm…such choices! I’m actually more of a savory girl – Kettle BBQ Chips are my jam – but when I go for sweet, I go for those Lindt chocolates. They actually melt in your mouth and I DIG that! For baked goods, I’m a basic bitch – chocolate chip cookies with milk.
homemade chocolate chip cookies
Cinnamon rolls! With cream cheese frosting. I always have cinnamon candles going if nothings baking. Thanks so much for the lovely giveaway!
I love a good gingersnap, especially in the winter.
Brownies! Just thinking about them makes my mouth water!
Salted chocolate fudge!
Peppermint bark is what I look forward to every holiday season
Popcorn popped in coconut oil with palm sugar, cinnamon, and salt. SOOO GOOD!
Oh lord this is the contest for me! I love me some James Fraser! Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to my favorite Bitches!!
Uuungh, I just finished making my holiday favorite: coconut almond crisp cookies. If that sounds weird, well, it is. I have 4 autoimmune conditions, which means my diet is *super* restricted to avoid flares, but it didn’t stop me from figuring out how to make holiday cookies for myself out of ingredients I can eat (and when I sneak them into cookie trays, other people like them, too!)
Uuungh, I just finished making my holiday favorite: coconut almond crisp cookies. If that sounds weird, well, it is. I have 4 autoimmune conditions, which means my diet is *super* restricted to avoid flares, but it didn’t stop me from figuring out how to make holiday cookies for myself out of ingredients I can eat (and when I sneak them into cookie trays, other people like them, too!). Obviously, I will be eating these over the stack of novels I am pretty sure my family got me, because I shook all the presents. I am a menace.
Most recently, it’s been chocolate-covered gummy bears but traditionally I love snacking on popcorn while reading. 🙂
Christmas sugar cookies and buckeye balls
I will be baking my all-time favorite cake this evening: Devil’s food chocolate with cream cheese frosting. Yes, I know it’s not really reading friendly; however, with my Kindle propped up on the table and a tall glass of iced milk, I’m in my very own heaven and don’t care.
Happy Holidays to everyone! And may 2017 not only be better than 2016, may it not turn into the dumpster fire we’re all dreading. Best wishes.
Garret’s caramel corn. I could eat buckets of it.
Easy choice! Molasses Crinkles.
Fudge! Especially peppermint fudge, I make the best!
Sticky buns with pecans on top, or maybe cream cheese icing.
I love Hershey Dark Chocolate mini – the ones that have nuts, plain and rice. I have to special order to get the best price. But they definitely make the reading pleasurable.
Home made Walnut chocolate chip cookies
Will I be kicked out if I say Doritos? They’re so trashy-addictive. But I try not to indulge *too* often…
Cheese, oatmeal dark chocolate chips, and dried cherries.
Cookies baked with my bestie! Baking and books are better with a buddy.
Orange Rolls. Yum!
I like crunchy things, but it’s hard to keep my hands cleans. Maybe something I could eat one-handed while reading on a Kindle. Also, holiday desserts, no matter what they are are always good with books. And coffee cakes and coffee.
In general brownies are my favorites, but I really miss my mom’s baking. Cream cheese iced shortbread cutout cookies, strudel, Hungarian kokash (like strudel, but chocolate filled), the list goes on and on. Happy Hanukkah!
Orange Rolls. Yum!
PEZ! Doesn’t get your fingers dirty and won’t slow down reading.
My SUPER guilty pleasure recently has been Ben & Jerry’s Milk and Cookies flavored ice cream.
This time of year, I make a ton of julekake (Norwegian holiday bread with cardamom, candied citron, dates, raisins, and walnuts). So buttered julekake toast and tea!!
Sorry if this double post. My first post disappeared.
Anyway I love my homemade pumpkin cookies. I can fool myself that they are healthy.
Much as I love baking, I don’t actually eat a lot of sweets – dumping them on others is more my style. But oh boy, I could eat *so many* crossaints/pain au chocolat.
Chocolate
Sweet Potato & Roasted Onion Triscuits are my kryptonite.
The list of goodies are long, but I’m a fan of savory, so the one baked good I can’t turn down is a good ham and cheese croissant! Which I guess with ham isn’t the best Hanukkah Treat but there it is!