Cake Poll: WINter Wonderland Giveaway!
Monday, November 10, 2008 
Halloween and the election are over...whew! And now, we're at the cusp of the sweetest season of the year, that series of two months where we eat copious amounts of delicious pumpkin pie and christmas cookies. That's right--November is the point of do not pass go, do not diet until New Year's.
And in celebration, we're offering a seasonal sweets poll! It's a bounty of five sweet prizes--for five separate winners! The following prizes are being offered:
- One lucky winner will receive a cupcake tote bag from Penguinbot! Love is in the details with this sturdy, durable vinyl tote--it's delicately reverse-appliquéd with an adorable cupcake, with the an inner lining of bright, contrasting pattered fabric. It's an extremely well-made bag which would usually retail for $50 (and would be worth every penny). Even if you don't win, you should probably buy one (you know, to help the economy); you can get one here.
- Two lucky winners will receive Elisa Strauss' new book, Confetti Cakes for Kids. Even without kids, these recipes are super fun and the pictures are amazing to look at!
- Two winners will receive a pack of Cakespy Holiday notecards! Each pack includes an assortment of cards which are guaranteed to make this the sweetest holiday season ever!
What do you have to do to enter? Don't worry, it's easy. All you have to do is answer the following two questions.
1. What is your favorite Thanksgiving dessert?
2. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
But wait, there's more! If you copy and paste (or include a link to) a recipe for either of your responses, you'll be entered into the drawing twice! That's right...double your chances of winning!
SORRY--THE POLL IS NOW CLOSED!
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Reader Comments (219)
1.What is your favorite Thanksgiving dessert? My favorite would have to be pumpkin pie with lots and lots of wipd cream
2. What is your favorite Christmas cookie? Are an amazing cookie/truffle that my sister in law makes. She calls them "oreo balls" and I just found this link that has the recipe. Enjoy! (but dont eat more than two at a time b/c they are so rich!)
http://frugalupstate.blogspot.com/2006/12/oreo-cookie-truffles-recipe.html
1. My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is my aunt's pumpkin cheesecake.
2. My favorite Christmas cookie are my mother's molasses cookies...they're moist, chewy and spicy!
1. What is your favorite Thanksgiving dessert?
My mom's pumpkin pie. It has to be hers though - no one else can beat it!
2. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
Sugar cookies. Specifically these sugar cookies: http://www.giveneyestosee.com/other/sugar-cookie-recipe.html
Yum!
favorite thanksgiving dessert- pumpkin pie
favorite xmas dessert- sugar cookies!
Isn't it amazing what happens when you have something to give away...
My favourite Thanksgiving dessert -call me easy to please - pumpkin pie with whipped cream.
My favourite Christmas cookie - shortbread, the kind that melts in your mouth and you don't make for a whole year until the next Christmas - yeah, that one.
Oooohhhh....
My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is pumpkin cheesecake:
http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/pumpkincheesecake.php
My favorite Christmas Cookie is butter flavored spritz cookies:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1910,156181-229196,00.html
YUMMY! :)
1. What is your favorite Thanksgiving dessert?
It's a tie. Pumpkin pie or pecan pie. NO WAIT. My stepmom's pumpkin orange cookies. Mmmm.
2. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
Frosted (soft) sugar cookies. :) Homemade and decorated with love!
Oh man, sign me up!
1. I gotta say, few things beat pumpkin pie... Except maybe a chai-spiced pumpkin pie. Or a frozen chai-spiced pumpkin pie. Mmm...
2. Gingersnaps! They were the very first vegan cookie that I made and actually liked.
My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is my grandmother's Graham Cracker Pie.
My family loves these cookies at Christmas:
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Cookie-Jar-Gingersnaps
1. Apple Crumb Cake with with lots of powdered sugar on top. My family always gets it from this little bakery and it's the best!
2. Mexican Wedding Cakes/Russian Tea Cakes. You can find the recipe on my blog here: http://greenlovesyou.blogspot.com/2007/12/attack-of-mexican-wedding-cakes.html
mmm...now I want some!
1) Favorite Thanksgiving dessert is Libby's Pumpkin Pie (the recipe on the back of the Libby's pumpkin can). I have been helping to make it since I was little an now am teaching people how to make it when the time of year comes around.
Here's the link for the recipe
http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/detail.aspx?ID=18470
2) Favorite Christmas cookie has to be the cinna-spin cookie. It's a relatively new addition to my christmas cookie must make list, but it is definately my favorite. It's simple but yet cute in appearance and on top of it all it's delicious.
Here's the link for the recipe:
http://www.bettycrocker.com/Recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeId=45635
1) Favorite Thanksgiving dessert is Libby's Pumpkin Pie (the recipe on the back of the Libby's pumpkin can). I have been helping to make it since I was little an now am teaching people how to make it when the time of year comes around.
Here's the link for the recipe
http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/detail.aspx?ID=18470
2) Favorite Christmas cookie has to be the cinna-spin cookie. It's a relatively new addition to my christmas cookie must make list, but it is definately my favorite. It's simple but yet cute in appearance and on top of it all it's delicious.
Here's the link for the recipe:
http://www.bettycrocker.com/Recipes/recipe.aspx?recipeId=45635
Even though I'm from New Zealand and we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, I LOVE pumpkin pie - the sweetness, the spices, the smooth, creamy filling - and it's a vegetable, right, so it's healthy, surely...?
My favourite Christmas cookies would have to be gingerbread - yummy little gingerbread men, which have to be decorated to the relevant theme (I made some last weekend for the New Zealand elections - see www.cakesbyrosa.wordpress.com if you think biting off politicians heads might be the best way of dealing with them) - or even better, a gingerbread house, dripping with sugary icing and tasty candy decorations. Mmm...
my favorite thanksgiving dessert is the dark horse...pecan pie, although i recently discovered that my distaste for pumpkin pie was really a distaste for my mother's pumpkin pie. (please don't tell her i said that!)
my favorite christmas cookies are chocolate chip cookies, but i kind of like them sans chocolate chips, so...would you call those brown sugar cookies? and as far as i am concerned, you can't beat the recipe on the back of the nestle's bag. ( http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/detail.aspx?ID=18476 ) but again...maybe don't tell them i leave out the chips.
there's a lot of secrets in this comment...shhhh.
Such lovely things. :)
My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is Indian Pudding, warm with vanilla ice cream on top.
My favorite Christmas cookie is classic buttery shortbread, dipped in chocolate.
1. What is your favorite Thanksgiving dessert?
has to be my mom's custard pear pie. dude. seriously, i almost ate a whole one once. yes, AFTER eating a thanksgiving dinner. it's that good.
but i can't share the recipe with you. she'd kill me.
2. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
last year i made martha's hazelnut thumbprints and they have quickly risen to the top of my holiday baking list. here's the link:
http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/hazelnut-thumbprints?autonomy_kw=christmas%20cookies&rsc=header_44
my favorite thanksgiving dessert is Gingerbread Pumpkin Trifle. It's super easy to make which is nice on a holiday filled with cooking.
Recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/pumpkin-gingerbread-trifle-recipe/index.html
My fav Christmas cookie is Holiday Biscotti. I got the recipe off Epicurious years ago and make it every Christmas time. It isn't necessarily traditional but it's perfect for me!
Recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Holiday-Biscotti-with-Cranberries-and-Pistachios-108977
My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is warm pumpkin pie with whipped cream. (And yes, I know you aren't *supposed* to eat it warm.)
How can I pick just one favorite Christmas cookie? If pressed, I'd have to say my favorite is snowball cookies. Or Kiss cookies. Or... :)
definitely pumpkin pie. and more pumpking pie. pumpkin pie for xmas too. and chanukah.
Oh! Oh! Me, too!
For Thanksgiving, I love cranberry sauce. A lot. For reasons I don't totally understand. It's more delicious than it deserves to be.
For Christmas, it would have to be gingerbread (hands down).
My favorite thanksgiving dessert?
Apple pie...oooh, the buttery, buttery goodness!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/big-apple-pie-recipe/index.html
Favorite christmas cookies: Spritz cookies, especially if they're dyed green or some other horrific color my kid sister chose:
http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/1980s/1983/03/norwegian-butter-cookies
1. Apple Pie
2. Rosettes (crispy, powdered and fried, but still a cookie, right?)
Rosettes-
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon vanilla, lemon, brandy, anise, or rum extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
Vegetable oil for frying
Powdered sugar for sprinkling
In a mixing bowl, beat eggs and sugar; stir in milk and your choice of extract.
Combine flour and salt; add to batter and beat until smooth.
Heat 2 1/2-inches of oil to 365*F (185*C) in a deep fat fryer or electric skillet.
Place rosette iron in hot oil, drain, then dip in batter, three-fourths up on sides of iron (do not let batter run over top of iron). Immediately place into hot oil; loosen rosette with fork and remove iron. Fry 1 to 2 minutes per side or until golden. Remove to a wire rack covered with paper towel. Repeat with remaining batter, being sure to reheat rosette iron each time.
Sprinkle cooled cookies with powdered sugar and store in a tightly sealed container.
Makes about 4 to 5 dozen.
Note: These cookies freeze well.
Thanksgiving dessert? My mom's apple pie with vanilla ice cream. She usually makes me my own to take home... good woman.
Christmas cookie? Not really a cookie but a fabulous portable dessert and gift and wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-craving-amazingness food: seven layer cookie bars.
And here's my link. http://www.myfirstkitchen.net/blog/2008/7/19/seven-layer-cookie-bars.html
Fingers crossed!!
Thanksgiving dessert-- Most definately pumpkin pie!
Christmas cookie-- Soft gingerbread cookies with powdered sugar glaze....I could eat those by the stack!
Thanksgiving: Mom's pumpkin pie
Christmas cookie: Russian tea cookies