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Fab Freebie: Save Room For Cake

***This giveaway is now closed. See who won below!***

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Our lucky winner this week is… N Shirley (whose favorite dessert “to both make and eat is Virginia Apple Pudding – even makes the whole house smell good!”) Sounds delicious. Congrats!

We’ve had a few questions about why all contests aren’t open to international readers, so here’s that info for you. We actually ask every single vendor who approaches us to do a giveaway if they’ll ship internationally and we remind them that the more folks are included, the more exciting it is for everyone. We LOVE you all and always want to open our giveaways to as many people as possible! It unfortunately comes down to each company’s policy (some folks are set up to deal with customs/shipping internationally while some companies are not legally able to vend things beyond the US – even if it’s just a book or a gift card). Sadly, we can’t change companies policies, and if we held out for international prizes and rejected everything else, we could no longer host weekly giveaways – which we’ve done for years. Hope that makes sense! We’ll continue to do our best to include as many of you guys as we can (we’re so glad this cookbook is open to Canadians too!).

With Thanksgiving just days away, think of this week’s giveaway as a warm up to all of the delicious food you’ll be stuffing your face with come Thursday. The mother-daughter team behind Philly’s Brown Betty Dessert Boutique is celebrating their new cookbook, The Brown Betty Cookbook, by giving away a copy along with $100 towards Terrain, whose wares appears on the cookbook’s pages. So if you’re like us and drool equally over amazing desserts and stylish kitchenware, you’re in luck. Seriously. I think I got a sugar high just by looking at some of the pictures.

Brown Betty Cookbook Giveaway

  • PRIZE: The Brown Betty Cookbook and $100 towards Terrain
  • TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “CAKE ME!” and tell us…
  • BONUS QUESTION: … what’s your all time favorite baked dessert? Are you a sucker for a chocolate layer cake? Or could you eat warm chocolate chip cookies ’til your stomach bursts? Maybe you’re dying to stuff a cupcake in your face right about now?
  • GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Wednesday, November 21st at 8pm EST or at 10,000 entries (whichever comes first)
  • NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
  • PRIZE SHIPS: This cookbook giveaway is open to The United States & Canada (anyone in the US or Canada is eligible to win the cookbook, although the gift card is only valid in the states).
  • USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winner will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here on Thursday for the announcement of our winner. Good luck…

PS: And if you’re looking for more info and even excerpted recipes from the book, check out some of the other stops along The Brown Betty Blog Tour: Martha Stewart Weddings – Daily Candy Philadelphia – Oh Joy! – Poppy Talk – The Culinary Life – Sweet Paul – Style Me Pretty – Serious Eats

Note: We aren’t paid or perked for hosting these giveaways, we just do ‘em to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQ page for more info. Pics courtesy of Brown Betty Cookbook and Terrain.

Comments

  3. Kim says

    CAKE ME! My all time favorite baked dessert would be cheesecake. I make a pretty decent one, but I like all the fancy flavors found in restaurants, too.

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  5. Sarah says

    CAKE ME! My favorite baked dessert will always be my great-grandmother’s Ranger cookies. Warm and chewy simple oatmeal cookies with coconut…. Absolutely the best recipe ever.

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  8. Danielle Blake says

    CAKE ME!

    Carrot cake! I think it’s mostly because of cream cheese icing. I’ve never been a huge fan of overly sweet icings and cream cheese icing is just perfect that I can have a thick layer without getting over-sweet.

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  9. Tessa says

    Cake me!! I think I’d have to go with flourless chocolate cake. It’s so crey, smooth, and rich! I make my own and cover it with a chocolate ganache that’s a little spicy thanks to a dash of cayenne pepper.

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  10. Christina says

    CAKE ME!!! I LOVE warm gooey brownies with vanilla ice cream on top—-oh I want some RIGHT NOW! Also, my fantastic husband made me an apple raspberry pie made from scratch for my birthday a few months ago and it was A.MA.ZING! So those two are my faves, though I’m all about the sweets lately and would gladly eat just about anything sweet right now!

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  12. Sarah says

    CAKE ME! My favorite cake to bake is lemon layer cake with vanilla bean frosting. It is amazing. But at our favorite Mexican restaurant I’m such a sucker for tres leches cake – to die for!!!

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  13. Barb Carr says

    CAKE ME!

    My all-time favorite dessert is: ALL OF THEM. Seriously. If it has sugar in it and it’s baked, I love it (actually…. it doesn’t even have to be baked). Especially when I was pregnant– I craved sugar in the worst way, so I spent my pregnancy developing recipes for healthier versions of banana oatmeal cookies and tres leches cake. I figured if I was going to indulge, I might as well make it as healthy as possible!

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  19. Laura says

    CAKE ME!
    I have a chocolate cake recipe I’ve made since high school that all my friends love, and always ask for it when we get together.

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  20. Melissa says

    CAKE ME! – My favorite is oatmeal cake. You frost it while it’s still warm which is so cool cuz you can then eat it warm. Hard to do with most frosted cakes!

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  22. Heather says

    CAKE ME! My favorite cake ever is a recipe of my Finnish grandmother. (Her English wasn’t the best, but she demonstrated a lot of love through this cake!) It consists of layers of white cake, thick cream, strawberries, and chocolate shavings. The cake soaks up the strawberry juices. Ah – craving it now! I’ve never been able to recreate it properly. It’s one of those recipes where “cup” is not a measurement, but a very specific drinking glass in my grandmother’s house that she used to measure out flour, sugar, etc. Wow! I wrote a lot. I guess I’m just passionate about this cake. :)

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  28. Sarah K. says

    CAKE ME!

    I’ll be boring and stick with the classic chocolate chip cookie because it’s a staple in my life… but let me just be honest and say I adore all things baked (barring anything with coconut).

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  31. Lauren says

    CAKE ME!!!

    I LOVE red velvet! And I mean LOVE! The combo of delicious, dense, slightly cocoa cake with homemade cream cheese frosting cannot be beat!

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  33. Danni says

    Cake me! I love that you are featuring Brown Betty! I’m in Philly and their cupcakes pretty much got me through any rough school days (PhD program). A couple of years ago they made a special rum butter cream for my husband’s birthday. Truly the best!!

    I’m so happy they have a cookbook and I will surely buy it even if I don’t win.

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  35. Julie says

    Cake me! I love all sweets. My favorite right now is spice cake with cream cheese frosting – yum! Happy Thanksgiving!

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  45. misa says

    cake me! my very favorite, i think, was a browned butter butterscotch pie i made for thanksgiving a few years ago. but i’m also a fan of just about every cookie in martha stewart’s cookie cookbook.

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  49. Audrey says

    CAKE ME! I’m a sucker for soft gooey cookies…chocolate chip are irresistible…but sometimes a soft ginger cookie with chucks of crystallized ginger have me begging for more!

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