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!
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!
Cheesecake!
A mug of chili goes well with most books
Archer Farms chocolate dipped biscotti, with a cup of earl grey!
Honestly, all of it. Cookies. Cupcakes. Actual cake… Mmm… This is bad!!
Ever since I was a kid, I have loved eating potato chips while I read. I just turned 56, and it is still my favorite reading snack. A close second during this time of year, is my homemade spritz cookies. Happy Holidays to everyone in the SBTB community!
Chocolate chip cookies with pecans and Kahlua. The best cookies ever! Yum!
Chocolate chip cookies with pecans and Kahlua. The best cookies ever! Yum!
I like something savory and crunchy, like biscuit dough rolled up with sausage and cheddar.
I have to say chocolate while reading. It doesn’t require me to pay attention too much to make sure I get to my mouth and not all over.
Maple sugar candy (not baked, I know, but delightful and I’m fully addicted)
Fortune cookies and white tea.
Savory or spicy popcorn is what I never tire of when reading
I just love adorably-decorated cookies!
I need a mug of PG Tips tea and a stack of milk chocolate McVitie’s Digestive Biscuits at all times.
I love a good back of cheddar popcorn to read with!
An iced coffee and peanut m&m’s.
My family’s pound cake recipe. It’s so good. So, so good.
I make them too rarely, but my cranberry lemon scones. With tea, they are the official best.
Cheesecake. Because I just made one and it looks delicious.
I never get tired of eating brownies when I read.
In my fantasy, I’m always eating homemade scones while reading. In reality, I will stuff my face with whatever is at hand.
Something my mom & aunt always baked that I bake now is “chocolate walnut cake” which is really yellow cake with walnuts and a chocolate frosting. Simple and good and often the breakfast of champions!
Chocolate chip cookies <3
Cinnamon & Sugar Cookie Chips!!!!
Well, I love making licorice root tea when I read, especially during the winter. And when I was younger, before I gave up junk food, Keebler’s fudge sticks were my go-to.
I can’t get enough pretzels!
Savory or spicy popcorn is what I never tire of when reading. I’d never thought of using chopsticks through..
Anything peppermint!! I remember buying the 3 pound peppermint stick. We would break a chunk off with a hammer, then crush it for tea, cookies or candy. I miss those huge candy canes!!
Tea cookies! Best recipe I ever found was in a cookbook that has recipes from (or based from) novels called The Book Lover’s Cookbook. They are divine 🙂
Wheat Thins go well with a book.
A luscious toasted and buttered sesame bagel with cream cheese.
Yum!
McVitie’s biscuits.
My own version of Chex mix that includes extra Worcestershire and baked french fried onions (add them after baking or they get soggy). I have to put it in snack sized plastic bags to control portions or I’ll eat the whole gallon bag before I know it when I’m reading.
I mean I eat the mix in the bag …not the bag…I’m not that distracted.
Chocolate chip cookies or lovely French macarons.
Torta Alemã! It’s a Brazilian sweet and buttered dessert and it literally means “German Pie”. German descendants in Brazil created this dessert and it’s good as hell!! I love to eat a slice of it when I’m reading around this Christmas time <3
I love butter cookies. Such a yummy snack to indulge (and often over-indulge) in while reading.
Baked a double batch of chocolate gingerbread cookies – yum!
Anything with dark chocolate — Dove makes a really fabulous raspberry sorbet on a stick coated with dark chocolate — it’s messy but fabulous.
Candied Peanuts are a readers delight.