Happy Tuesday! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and enjoyed the time to be with friends, family and surrounded by delicious food! I’m a day late in announcing this week’s Foodie Freebie Friday due to a little medical scare yesterday that kept me away. Thankfully everything is okay now and I can breathe a little sigh of relief.
Since today marks the start of December, I immediately correlate the month of December with baking… and lots of it! So this week, a lucky reader will be enjoying a Pyrex 5 Piece Bakeware Set to put to use for holiday baking this month! I love Pyrex products because they are extremely durable and are great to use from oven to table as well. The only thing to note is that when using Pyrex or glass bakeware, you’ll need to adjust the oven temperature down 25 degrees from the regular temp. This will prevent over baking or burning since baking in glass is much different than baking in metal or stoneware.
Clear, nonporous Pyrex glass won’t stain or absorb odors and is saf efor oven, microwave, freezer, and dishwasher with a 2-year warrant. A reader will receive:- Pie plate
- 2-cup measuring cup
- Loaf pan
- 8-by-8-by-2-inch baking pan
- 9-by-12-by-2-inch lasagna pan
– Giveaway is only for those who live in the United States – my apologies to my international readers!
– You must check back on my blog on Friday to see if you’ve won so you can claim your prize!
To enter the giveaway, leave a comment answering:
– What’s your favorite this to bake during the holidays?
Deadline: Thursday, December 5, 2009 at 12 midnight CST.
ONE WINNER will be randomly chosen by Random. Org’s Interger Generator based on the number of your comment and will be announced on Friday, December 6, 2009. Good luck!
I love to make cinnamon muffins for breakfast and chocolate/raspberry cookies!
cheesecake, cookies and chocolate goodies to give to family & friends!!
I love making Peter Reinhart's cranberry bread! it's festive and gorgeous!
Roasted sweet potatoes!
I'm all about the mashed potatoes! I'm hoping to make the turkey next year. : )
I love to make muffins, cookies and cakes! Generally any thing that is considered baking, I love it!
I am not much of a baker but would like to learn. I hope to make bar cookies or brownies to give out to neighbors this year.
Sarah
seavila26@yahoo.com
mini cheesecakes, cupcakes and cookies!
I love to make things for friends, coworkers, and family around the holidays. I think my favorite things to make are chocolate treats!
I love baking the chicken wingette pieces. Sprinkle salt and seasoning and bake.
That and mac and cheese.
i love to bake lemon cheesecake bars!
I love to bake cookies
Chewy oatmeal cookies with dried cranberries and white chocolate chips!
Pecan Pie! My mother's recipe!
Carla
cpullum(at)yahoo(dot)com
I love to bake sugar cookies with royal icing. My family LOVES them, but they can be a pain t decorate (since I am just learning).
I also enjoy making nuts and bolts (chex mix) and puppy chow!
Muffins with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves + pumpkin and apples! yum!
I recently remodeled my entire kitchen and my old one didn't lend itself to much cooking at all. Since my new one finished 2 months ago I've become a cooking fiend and have subscribed to many a cooking blog (your bavarian pretzel recipe was my first experience with yeast!)
Anyway… all that to say, I don't have a favorite yet because I'm just getting started but the Ginger-Brandy Pumpkin pie i made for Thanksgiving was probably one of the best ever so I'll go with that 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win (sorry for being so chatty!)
I love baking cheesecakes and cookies during the holidays
Christmas cookies!
I love helping my aunt cook date nut cake. It is my absolute favorite.
Favorite to bake is pound cake.
This time of year, I add candied cherries, dates and pecans.
yummy!
Can I say sweet potatoes? It is my FAVORITE thing to cook ever – if you mean desserts I would say cake, only because I like to frost them!
Not much of a baker but cookie exchanges are always a good time. I am a big fan of trying out new recipes and those are always a fun time to explore the blogs and find a new and inventive kind of cookie!
Fudge! it's easy and there are so many different kinds to make. also you don't have to worry about it becoming stale like you do with cookies or other baked goods.
I love cake rolls during the holiday! I don't know why I don't make them all year since I love them so much.
I love cookies!
Peanut butter brownie cookies!
Thanks for the temperature tip when it comes to using glassware!
This time of year I love to bake cookies. I'm going to try my hand at dog biscuits this year!
I love baking Christmas cookies–m&m cookies, decorated sugar cookies, snickerdoodles…
any kind of cookie definitely
I just love baking Christmas cookies!!! I think I make at least a dozen kinds each year!
Cookies and Caramel Corn. yum yum!
I love to make brownies that are dressed up with something yummy like peanut butter or caramel or nuts.
I love making a huge batch of gingersnaps.
Derby pie! Any time of the year, I love Derby pie. Oh, and oreo truffles.
my sister and I bake cookies every year for family and friends.
I've been loving upside down cranberry cake this year! I've made 3 of them already.
I absolutely love cookie exchanges because I always bake Peanut Butter Pinwheels…a family favorite!! Peanut butter cookies with a chocolate swirl throughout!
My best friend and I always bake Christmas cookies when I am home for the holidays. (Michigan is home and I live in California now) It's become an annual tradition of ours 🙂
My grandma's rugelach. Sooooo yummy.
Cookies! But I'm pretty darn excited about the hot chocolate cake I just pulled out of the oven!
I'm not a huge baker. But I do love brownies. I like experimenting with different additions. Like caramel or nuts, etc.
I love baking anything for the holidays! I've been on a big bars/brownies kick recently.
Cookies, all kinds!!!
I love making shortbread, spritz and biscotti, among many other things!
Cookies and pies! I love holiday baking!
I wouldn't mind baking anything, to be honest. But I make a point to have pumpkin pie on at least one occasion during the holidays. I'd also love to bake some gingerbread.
Cranberry Pecan Cookies
Banana Bread!!
I love making stews!
I love to bake cookies!
I try to bake all of the cookies that both of my grandmothers are known for, and my stepmother's gingerbread. It just wouldn't be the holidays without them!
Although my brother and I are both grown, we still go to our parents house every year on Christmas Eve to bake cookies for Santa. So, my favorite thing to bake for Christmas is M&M cookies for Santa 🙂
I love to bake cookies with my mom and give them away as homemade gifts! Thanks for the giveaway, love Pyrex!
Cookies, and more cookies! They are so perfect for sharing!
I love baking cookies, especially sugar cookies.
Well of course I like to bake everything! I've made a living of it. lol
My favorite thing however, is making a yule log. It reminds me of being a kid and putting together the miniature meringue mushrooms, marzipan holly berries and leaves, and chocolate covered almond pine cones for the cake. When you're little there's nothing like helping out your parents in the kitchen. Of course, now I'm the one making the yule log and letting the little ones make the decorations. It's the best 🙂
Cookies. My mom, sister, and I made over 1200 cookies this past weekend.
I love making rosettes and potato chip cookies.
Love to make cookies & cakes.
I'm still working on what my favorite since I don't feel I've had enough holidays in my own kitchen to see what I like to bake the most. But, right here and now, I'd say Chocolate Chip Cookies!
love baking lasagna…
My family enjoys my pound cakes so I enjoy baking them. I'm looking forward to baking cookies though.
I love to make pumpkin and pecan pie during the holidays.
Wow, picking one thing is tough! I guess cakes, any flavor, with or without frosting. Cakes are my favorite comfort giving food.
Cookies!
But I'm thinking this year I might want to experiment with making candy…
Oof, favorite has to be cookies, molasses cookies, though I just found a to-die-fir banana bread recipe that I must make again and again and again until my thighs are the size of blimps.
Cookies!
Broccoli cheese casserole, gingerbread, monster cookie bars, and my mom's cream cheese sugar cookie cutouts!
-Lisa
(the_boda@hotmail.com)
My favorite to bake this time of year is my Cream Cheese Braided Bread.
Ron Merlin
http://themerlinmenu.blogspot.com
Baking in general is one of my favorite holiday activities. This year I'm looking forward to finding the right pumpkin bread recipe. That stuff is so addicting!
Cream of coconut cake! Its a dense buttery pound cake that I soak with coconut milk and a little rum….soo good.
I am usually a traditionalist and make cookies, but this year I think I will be making red velvet cakeballs.
My favorite thing to bake is Christmas Presents… it doesn't matter what they are, this year I have items ranging from Aztec hot chocolate cookies to Blueberry, Walnut, Cranberry Quick bread… around twenty items in all…
Not to mention all the X Mas baking for our own home – I keep cookies and matching cookies (candy and cookies that taste good together on the same plate) and little starlight mints out all month long. Right now it's spiced nuts and Sugar Cookies.
I like to bake cookies- my favorite is sugar cookies and decorating them for Christmas!
I love to bake cookies!
I love making cookies for coworkers and friends. I just made a batch of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies this week, in fact!
evitawylie at hotmail dot com
I love baking anything apple or pear related. Also you can't beat Christmas cookies!
Cookies! Sugar cookies with crushed candy cane to be exact.
pumpkin cinnamon rolls!
I like to make cookies to give out as Holiday Gifts!
My favorite thing to bake is and always will be what first drew me to baking: cookies!
It's not baking, but my mom and I always make a big pot of soup for the evening after the big holiday meal. We serve it with grilled cheese sammiches!
Cookies, cookies, cookies!
Cupcakes!
Sweet potato pie! It's less guilt inducing than pecan and still delicious!
Anything sweet really. I tend to bake a lot of everything and hand it out to friends and neighbors so that I won't be tempted to eat it all.
Hands down Apple Pie is my favorite! I just can't get enough.
Cookies!
Oh, I hope I win so I can replace the piece I just broke…!!
My favorite thing to bake is cookies, for sure. And I love doing it with my 3-year-old – we already picked out the ones we're going to bake for Santa!
I LOVE pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! They are so easy to make, and it always reminds me of fall!
shen[dot]margaret[at]gmail[dot]com
My favorite thing to bake around the holidays are Christmas cookies. I love making all the different kinds, rolled sugar cookies, cranberry white chocolate chunk, oatmeal scotchies, spritz cookies, peanut blossoms, etc.
My favorite things to bake (and eat) are pies-mostly fruit pies and candies like fudge, peanut brittle and toffee.
Cookies, candies, pies, cakes ALL OF IT!!
My favorite thing to bake is Pizzelles with anise flavoring and anise seeds.
Cookies for a cookie swap party because I know I'll be coming home with lots of sweet treats.
Pumpkin bread, no question!
sweet potato casserole
I like baking pumpkin bread and pumpkin muffins for Thanksgiving. For Christmas I make chocolate chip pound cake, which we lightly toast and top with Nutella.
pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting!
chanaynay30@hotmail.com
Cranberyy Pecan Poundcake
My favorite holiday cookie to bake are the mint candy cookies, made with the Andes mints, they're so yummy.
I love making spritzes and peppermint candy canes to hang on the tree on Christmas Eve.
Cookies – I love making Ginger Creams with my mom & Candy Cane cookies with my dad!
I love baking apple pecan cheesecake! Cookies are a favorite too!
I love to bake pies!!! Apple and pumpkin are my fav to bake, and pumpkin is my husband's favorite to eat!
Cookies! All varieties, really. I'm not partial!
Cakes! I don't get the opportunity to make them very often, but I LOVE them.
strudel!
I like baking pies for Thanksgiving and cookies for Christmas – I always make goodie bags of cookies for my coworkers and my husband's coworkers.
Cut out cookies, toffee, and biscotti.
I love to bake cookies!
roasted potatoes and squash
I love making Spritz Cookies and Pumpkin Dump Cake! YUM!
I've been baking so many muffins lately, I can't wait to get back to cookies, or maybe some pecan pie bars!
Sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles, of course!
I like to make some of my grandmother's cookies. Everyone loves them and it brings back great memories. -Sandi
white chocolate orange cranberry cookies! always a crowd pleaser.
Christmas cookies for sure (gingerbread, sugar cookies, buckeyes, sandies, mmm)
I love to bake cookies. My favorite are ricotta cookies that my gradma taught me! Delicious.
I don't bake much, but I sure love to eat all the holiday inspired baked goodies!
I love to bake cookies! I am looking forward to it!
I love to bake! During the holidays I make apple cheesecake bars, brownies, cupcakes, and cookies!
In my group of friends I'm known for baking cupcakes. Now that it's the holiday season I'm taking some of my signature recipes and adding some holiday cheer (i.e. more chocolate and some peppermint)!
Challah bread and banana breads of varying flavors.
For Dessert, I love to make apple crisp and Christmas cookies. Don't forget the chocolate mousse to dip your christmas cookies in. Delicious!!!
Has to be gingerbread cookies! Love the way they make your house smell, and even better, they taste delicious. And they may or may not be my idea of breakfast many a wintery morning!
tokyoshoes (at) hotmail (dot) com
My favorite thing to bake during the holidays is biscotti!! I love it to have with my coffee or tea & making gifts of it for family & friends!
Classic Christmas cookies, with the almond extract….takes me right back to my childhood!
I love to bake a lot of things during this time of year, but mostly cookies. 🙂
Meringues!
Cinammon Peanut Butter Cookies, Sugar Cookies and Dog Treats!
Sorry to hear about your scare, but I am happy to hear your OK. Happy holidays!
Oatmeal cookies, peanut butter cookies!!!
Holidays are the perfect time for baking cookies!
My favorite thing to bake during the holidays is cookies, cookies, and more cookies!
Caramel apple pecan pie! It's the biggest hit whenever I make it.
I love baking different types of cookies. I go from classic chocolate chip to out of the box like pepermint mini tart cookies!
cookies remind me of christmas time! we love ricotta cookies, pumpkin cookies, white chocolate chip chocolate cookies, chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles, mint squares, magic bars, and sugar cookies.
cookies!
I'm traditional! I love making cookies. But last year I made a red velvet cake and after frosting b/w the two layers, I put green food dye in the frosting and covered it in green frosting for a red white and green cake. I think that will be a new tradition, along w/ the cookies!
I love baking Christmas cookies!
I love to bake cookies and pastries, anything that I can make look pretty.
Our family loves to make cookies and tons of them
I love making pumpkin bread with cream cheese frosting.
I have a killer pumpkin chocolate chip bread that I have requests for all year! It's so easy, and makes 3 big loaves. Any one want the recipe?
Gingersnaps! They are my favorite.
Everything. I'm not usually a baker, but Christmas time makes me want to make Christmas mince pies, florentines, and cheesecakes.