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. I couldn't be more traditional with my favorite being apple pie. Some may say yawn, I say yum!
2. Every year, Stella, a friend of my Babchi (Polish for grandmother) would bring over a tin of cookies I later found out to be called Jello Cookies. They would be sprinkled with colored sugar corresponding to which ever colored jello she used.
JELLO COOKIES
3/4 c. shortening
1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
1 (3 oz.) pkg. Jello (orange, cherry & lemon are good choices)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 1/2 c. flour
Mix all ingredients, roll dough into small balls. Put them on a greased cookie sheet, then dip the bottom of a glass in sugar and press onto dough until flat, then put them in the oven. Bake at 350 degrees for 5 minutes or more.
Oh yay! Another fun contest!!
1) My favorite Thanksgiving dessert: My aunt's homemade apple pie with a slice of cheddar cheese.
2) My favorite Christmas cookie has to be chocolate bottomed macaroons! My grandmother used to make them every year when I was a kid!
1. My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is, simply, apple pie. And my mom's homemade pie cookies, too!
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=263456&package_id=660729
2. My favorite Christmas cookie is the Candy Cane cookie, a favorite of mine and everyone I know since I was a kid!
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,187,158186-230195,00.html
What a wonderful giveaway to kick off the Holiday season! My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is the standard pumpkin pie smothered with a big mound of fresh, whipped cream. For a favorite Christmas cookie I'd pick Russian Tea Cakes.
what a great giveaway. I cant get enough of pumpkin pie for thanksgiving and frosted sugar cookies for christmas. I am kind of traditional huh.
Yay!
Thanksgiving is my Mom's pumpkin pie AND and her buttermilk pie.
Christmas - A chocolat/caramel Turtle bar!
1. What is your favorite Thanksgiving dessert?
pumpkin pie
2. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
peanut butter kiss cookies
Great giveaway for the holidays!
For Thanksgiving definitely pumpkin pie, no doubt about it. I like to make mine with fresh pumpkin puree, but my BIL likes to make pumpkin pie for the holiday (the only time he cooks/bakes anything LOL), so I can't take that away from him :)
For Christmas, my ol' standby are the butter spritz cookies. I've found the perfect recipe in one of those holiday cookie magazine issues from Martha Stewart w/ the best consistency if you're using those tube cookie press things.
Oooh, for Thanksgiving, it would have to be the Lemon Cream Tart I made last year - delicious! (http://workingwomanfood.blogspot.com/search/label/Dessert%20-%20Pies%2FTarts)
For Christmas, it would have to be Sugar cookies, decorated really festively. Yummy!
Thanksgiving is pumpkin pie and cool whip.
Christmas cookies are my Czech great grandmothers Kolachky cookies with apricot filling.
My favorite thanksgiving dessert is the pumpkin pie recipe from the can of Libby's pumpkin.
http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/detail.aspx?ID=18470
And for Christmas it was the chocolate Crinkles from the Cooky book. http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/Recipe.aspx?recipeId=35432
My favorite thanksgiving dessert is the pumpkin pie recipe from the can of Libby's pumpkin.
http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/detail.aspx?ID=18470
And for Christmas it was the chocolate Crinkles from the Cooky book. http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/Recipe.aspx?recipeId=35432
1. What is your favorite Thanksgiving dessert? Pumpkin pie, of course! :)
2. What is your favorite Christmas cookie?
My Mom's snickerdoodles... not sure if she wants me to give up her recipe. :D
fave Thanksgiving dessert is pumpkin pie with cool whip!!
fave Christmas cookie... that's a toss up... we had a list of 10 MUST HAVE's last year... it's down to 6 this year.. I love my Grandma's sugar cookies, but I like his Mom's Russian Tea Cakes... however the red velvet cake balls may become our new tradition and fave. HA!
My favorite thanksgiving dessert is a chocolate silk pie with coconut crust. I dont' like traditional pie crust and was thrilled to find this alternative.
My favorite christmas cookie is a recipe my sister brought back from Norway where she lived for 18 months. It's called pepparkakor. It's like a gingerbread cookie but a crunchier. It is unusual because it has black pepper in it.
Pepparkakor (spice cookie)
3/4 C sugar
1/2 C butter, softened
2 TB unsulfured Molasses
1 TB cinnamon
3/4 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cardoman
1/4 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp salt
1/16 tsp black pepper
1 egg
1 TB milk
2 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
Combine sugar, butter, molasses and spices. Beat till light and fluffy. Add egg and milk next. Mix well. Gradually add flour and baking soda. Beat till smooth. Refrigerate one hour. Roll out to 1/4 inch thick and cut out and bake at 350 degrees for 6-8 minutes till golden. I like to melt some chocolate chips in a bowl. I put them in a small ziploc bag and cut the corner off. I then drizzle lines of chocolate across my cooled cookies. Yum!
Classic French Silk Pie with Coconut crust
Coconut Crust:
1 1/2 C flaked coconut
3 TB melted butter
combine and press into pie pan. Bake 325 degrees for 15 min. Don’t cook longer even if it looks too light. It burns quickly once it’s done.
Chocolate filling:
1 C sugar
3/4 C butter, softened
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
3 1oz squares of unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
3 eggs
Beat sugar and butter till light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla, cream of tartar and chocolate. Beat in eggs one at a time, until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes) Pour into pie shell and refrigerate until set. (3-4 hours) Top with sweetened whipped cream
(1 C chilled whipping cream and 2 T powdered sugar)
You'd think these simple questions would be easier to answer! Um, er, well, my favorite T-day dessert would have to be anything with pumpkin in it: pumpkin pie {made with half & half, not evap milk}, pumpkin creme brulee, pumpkin sorbet, pumpkin bread pudding, well, you get the idea.
My favorite Christmas cookies would be either gingersnaps or a sugar crinkle cookie, neither one could be too crisp, but just done enough on the outside to give a little bite while still soft in the middle!
Love all the goodies to giveaway!
What a fun poll!
1. My favorite Thanksgiving dessert will have to be a slice of yummy pumpkin pie with home made whipped cream.
2. Favorite Christmas cookie is a thin crisp sugar cookie that my in-laws' neighbor brings every year... I should try and get the recipe.They are shaped in rein deers and christmas trees.
Thanksgiving dessert = pecan pie with whipped cream dollop'ed on top. Christmas cookie = a home-make sugar cookie with buttercream icing (not that hard royal icing stuff. Sure it looks pretty -- but cookies are for eating.)
1. Thanksgiving dessert: Flourless Choc cake! YUMMY!
RECIPE LINK: http://nigella.com/recipes/recipe.asp?article=3622
2. Fave Christmas cookie: sugar cookies!
RECIPE LINK: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Easy-Sugar-Cookies/Detail.aspx
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My favorite Thanksgiving dessert would definitely be pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Christmas cookies are all yummy but I like the frosted sugar cookie the best. a.haun@sbcglobal.net
So much dessert love here already!
My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is Nigella Lawson's Millionaire's Shortbread. You can eat it any time of year of course, but it's so rich that I feel you can really only get away with it when you're being really naughty.
Here is the recipe on my flickr site : http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannahliesje/444234353/
My favourite holiday cookie is one which I discovered in Bon Appetit magazine last year. They're called Brownie Thins and they have chopped pistachios sprinkled on top - delicious!
My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is my grandmother's apple pie. She makes the best pie crust EVER.
My favorite Christmas cookie is spritz, with one end dipped in dark chocolate. So good.
1. Pumpkin Pie OF COURSE!
2. "Spritiz Cookie" candy cane dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with finely crushed candy cane.
My favorite Thanksgiving dessert is apple pie with a crumb topping.
My favorite Christmas cookie is sugar cookie with tea berries.
http://www.cupcakerecipes.com/easyrecipe.htm
1. Pecan Pie is my newest favorite
http://centralcooking.blogspot.com/2007/11/pecan-pie.html
2. These scream christmas of my childhood to me
http://centralcooking.blogspot.com/2008/09/timeless-classic-oatmeal-scotchies.html