Giveaway: Decorating Cookies Party by Bridget Edwards

UPDATE: WE HAVE A WINNER!!

It's Joanna, whose comment was chosen at random: "My favorite cookie EVER is a bar cookie that's a family recipe called "Revel Bars" ... they're an oatmeal cookie with a thick layer of fudge, and topped with dots of salty oatmeal cookie on top and they're to DIE for. Starbucks used to make a version of it that was not nearly as good."

Sounds like a tasty cookie to me!

Listen up. I want to give you a book!

I don't know if you're familiar with Bridget Edwards of Bake at 350, but if not, you're in for a treat. She is a cookie decorator ROYALE. And she is willing to teach you her secrets in two books: her previous release (which I loved) entitled Decorating Cookies: 60+ Designs for Holidays, Celebrations & Everyday, and now, her brand new book, Decorating Cookies Party: 10 Celebratory Themes. The new book includes 50 designs to be made from a few master cookie recipes (one of them is even gluten-free, people). 

So, you want to win the book?

All you have to do is tell me the following:

What is your favorite cookie in the world and why? 

Yes, that's an open ended question. It could be a store bought cookie, your grandma's recipe, or one you make. Just tell me why it's so special!

I'll choose a winner one week from today (that's Friday, October 3rd). Meantime, you can buy the book here if you need it ASAP! Since the publisher is sending this out directly, I'm honoring their request that the entrants for this giveaway have US or Canadian shipping addresses, please.

Comments

[Risha]

My favorite cookie is a gooey chocolate cookie with dried cranberries and white chocolate chips in it! I could eat so many of them!

[Sarah Werner]

I love chocolate chip cookies, but I think my favorite are snickerdoodles! They remind me of my childhood, my mom made them for us all the time and those are a cookie I could eat a while batch of by myself! :)

[Racheal]

My favorite cookie is a Pfeffernusse. There is something about the texture, the hint of spice and the snowy outside that I love so much!

[Ashley]

Speculaas, because they are so yummy dipped in tea and they will always remind me of my grandma.

[Paola]

My favorite cookies are any type of sandwich cookie! Especially when they're filled with chocolate or cookie butter.

[Amie]

My grandmother's swedish spritz. She makes them rainbow colored and fills them with a thick fudge ganache and has done this for every family get together since the 20's. They are in my opinion the most perfect cookie in the world. Buttery, crisp, not too sweet but not too dry or crumbly and every bite is a reminder of how much she loves us all. Over the years there have been full on riots when the trays emptied even before dinner was served and no matter who else makes them using the same ingredients, method and tools, they are never quite as good ad Gigi's.

[donnamarie messer]

NY black and white... simple, perfect, classic :)

[sydney85]

My favorite cookie is a gingerbread cookie that my daughter and I started making 20 years ago. I always make up a batch when she comes home at Christmas.

[Cookie]

Vanilla wafers. My love for them inspired my grandfather to name me Cookie. I still go by that nickname 56 years later!

[Samantha S.]

My favorite cookie is shortbread thumbprint cookies! They're my favorite because the recipe is one that I've experimented with it a bunch and figured out the best flavors to make them. They became cookies that my family identifies with me. :)

[Kat Dornian]

I love gooey chocolate cookies with as many multiples of chocolate as you can get: chocolate dough, chocolate chips, chocolate brownies, nutella.... I have never brought this idea fully to life, but every combinatiin so far has been great.

[Cara]

I love my salted chocolate chip cookies, straight from the oven, or a warm Specialty's Milk Chocolate Chip cookie...

[Karly K]

Shutterbean's Momofoku Marshmallow Cornflake cookies!

[Tracy a]

I love shortbread cookies with a hint of lemon!

[Stephanie]

I love gingerbread for all of it's spices and reminding me of Christmas.

[Emily L.]

I love cookies in general! My current addiction, however, is to ginger digestive cookies :-)

[Bianca]

peanut butter and chocolate! the best combination :)

[MalloryMarek]

Hi Cakespy! My favorite cookie is my moms sugar cookies. The cookie is the perfect flavour and texture to with the frosting. The frosting always a light pink shade due to the marchino cherry juice she adds. Pure heaven.

[Joanna]

My favorite cookie EVER is a bar cookie that's a family recipe called "Revel Bars" ... they're an oatmeal cookie with a thick layer of fudge, and topped with dots of salty oatmeal cookie on top and they're to DIE for. Starbucks used to make a version of it that was not nearly as good.

[Jamie]

My all-time favorite cookies are homemade soft chocolate chip cookies! Good luck everyone!

[Katie - ThePerfectBrownie.com]

My favorite cookie is a chocolate chip cookie that I modified from the one printed a few years ago in the New York Times. It's sprinkled with salt and may be the highest form of chocolate chip cookie ever created.

If you're intrigued and want the original recipe, it's on the NYT site here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/dining/091crex.html/?_r=0

Also, will eat Walkers Shortbread until I'm tied up and dragged away from it. :)