As promised, a giveaway!!! It's books like this that get me in the Christmas mood. As a matter of fact, it's probably what started this whole cookie obsession. Every holiday season, I would find myself
drawn to all of the beautiful cookie covered magazines and books. I must own twenty of them, and I still can't resist a new one. I found this one the other day while I was out on a little shopping venture. I was so impressed with the chocolate cut-out recipe inside, I decided one of my lucky readers might need one! This book will be hours of happy holiday fun for the family!
If you would like to win this book, there are three ways to enter. Entrants are eligible for all three options.
- First, you can leave a comment on this post telling me about your favorite Christmas cookie or Christmas cookie memory. Be sure to leave your email address so I can contact you.
- Second, head on over to Facebook and like the Sugarbelle's fan page, then come back and tell me that you liked it, OR that you are already a fan, again, don't forget to leave your email addy!
- The last way to enter is to Tweet about this giveaway...let me know and leave your email! =)
As for me, I am up to my neck in Christmas cookies and I LIKE it!!! So many cookies, so little time. This is my collection for today. Very traditional and fun. Keep coming back throughout the month. There will be many more giveaways, tutorials, some recipes and an exciting announcement =)
*Giveaway Closed*
I love the good old sugar cookie with peppermint flavoring. Yum! I love your cookies by the way!
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not my favorite Christmas cookie isn't a sugar cookie - I like Italian Pizzelles for the holidays!
ReplyDeleteLove this giveaway...I've been wanting to plan a Cookie Exchange for a while now. Pick me! Pick me! :o)
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I am your biggest FB fan!!!
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Plain old shortbread cookies r my very fav!! Love them! Sugar cookies are next! I am already a fan on your facebook page too!! LOVE your work and all your posts!
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I tweeted!
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My mom makes waffle cookies....yes, with a waffle iron...they are my favorite at Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI am a fan/"liker" on facebook.
I just did an RT on twitter. (I am Y4Lunatics)
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Good luck everybody!
Tiffani
My family is Moravian and every Christmas we make Moravian Christmas Cakes. It's a family event from start to finsh. Making the dough takes 26 cups of flour! The dough rests for a couple of weeks and then when it's time to roll and bake the children get to stay home from school that day. They are rolled so thin that you can almost see through them. I've done this every year of my life and I'm now 34 with a child of my own. Talk about special cookie memories! We will make dough this weekend. I'm now doing cookies similar (but no where near as beautiful) as yours and enjoying every minute of it! I would love the cookie cookbook and put it to great use!
ReplyDeleteI neglected to mention, but Moravian Christmas Cakes are actually very very thin ginger cookies.
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Ooo, a cookie book I don't have! And haven't even seen! Wow!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy mom didn't really bake, so I don't have any great childhood cookie memories. But two years ago, we got an order from Target for 700 gingerbread cookies for their employees. My daughter worked with me on the entire order and learned how to make dough, bake cookies, and decorate. It was so much fun spending time with her, that it made the work worth it! :) brenscakes@yahoo.com
I liked your Facebook! (I'll have to hope my two chances pay off...I don't Twitter!) :)
ReplyDeleteOh my, these are just perfect! I think your cookies are getting me in the mood!
ReplyDeleteSo glad I'm already a fan on FB
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My favorite cookie is the snickerdoodle
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I am already a fan of yours on FB
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I don't know if I have a favorite Christmas cookie - I like to try making new recipes every year for our cookie exchanges (I participate in 3 of them). I love anything chocolate :0)
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I don't tweet :o( guess I only get 2 entries.
Being from a big Italian baking family, I don't know if I can pick just ONE Christmas cookie - but my favorite Christmas cookie memorie is that HUGE plate of Christmas cookies piled on top of the big Santa plate in the middle of my Nona's table! There were no less than 6 types of cookies on that plate at all times! YUM!
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ReplyDeleteI "liked" you on Facebook! I'm so glad you have a FB page - I just can't get enough of your AMAZING cookies!!
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(sorry about the deleted comment - forgot to leave email!)
My favorite cookie is a sugar cookie (I always go for a christmas tree)!!
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I'm a fan on facebook!!
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Hi (: i normally ate log cakes and simple home cooked dinner from my mum. so i remember very little about christmas cookie except for once. my friend bought this snowman shaped cookie and candy for me with really beautiful deco on it (: i fell in love and demand for it every year (: is another way to keep in touch with my best friend too (: now, is my turn to learn and bake something nice and special for my friend not only this year but every year. So, with this book, i can bake it every year and try out the recipe (: (:
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Cheers
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My favorite is a good 'ole fashioned brightly decorated sugar cookie!
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I am a fan of Sugarbelle on Facebook.
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A Christmas tradition that my mom and I have is to make several different types of cookies (LOTS and LOTS of cookies)! We try to give each family member a tin full of cookies when they come over on Christmas (that's if we don't eat most of them straight out of the oven!!).
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I have tweeted about this giveaway.
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Already a fan on facebook!
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ReplyDeleteI love the blog and all I see in it. The cookies that I like for Christmas are the spicy, the Gingerman.
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I want want want this book! I am so the person who judges a book by its cover and I can just tell this is a winner ;) My favorite Christmas treat is FUDGE!!! Yummy! I love to make pounds and pounds of it! My favorite baking tradition however is sugar cookies. It is funny, before my sugar cookie craze, Christmas was the only time I would make sugar cookies because I used to think of it as such a production, now I just do it daily! I LOVE LOVE LOVE your Christmas collection, love your colors! I want a tutorial!!! xox!
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One of my favortie Christmas cookies is coconut date balls my mom used to make. I love Chocolate crinkles too!
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I love the cranberry white chocolate cookies. They are to die for
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I also follow on facebook
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I'm a FB fan!!
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First of all thanks for doing a giveaway and thank you for making and posting so many gorgeous and colourful cookies that never fail to make me smile!!
ReplyDeleteI love shortbread at christmas, it's so simple to make and super yummy
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My favorite Christmas cookies are gingerbread men. My mom always does a lot of holiday baking, and one year when we were kids she decorated all of the gingerbread men (and girls, lol) to look like all of the kids and family. She packaged them all up and hung them on the tree. On Christmas Eve we got to eat our cookies! I love the blog re-design, thank you so much for the chance!
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I also am a facebook fan! Thanks again for the chance!
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Hey Callye! GREAT giveaway idea!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookie is a potato chip butter cookie recipe my grandmother used to make! Not too sweet, rich, and with that little sweet/salty flavor that is so yummy!
My email address is biscottie67@yahoo.com :)
Sounds like this month is going to be lots of fun!
I tweeted about it @sassysweetscake
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ok, entries 2 and 3...?
ReplyDeleteI'm an avid follower on facebook already, going to share the contest news there, and I just tweeted about the contest, and linked to your blog :)
(Can't believe I hadn't found you on Twitter yet! lol)
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Ooh! I would love to finally win some blog candy! This book looks great! I love your work!
ReplyDeleteI just became a fan on Facebook! Can't wait to see your daily cookie designs!
ReplyDeleteMine is a pumpkin spice cookie. jenny and sullivan and parker at comcast dot net.
ReplyDeleteOoohhhh!! i am already a fan on facebook (or cookie stalker would be more like it!) i love your work and hope one day to be half the cookie artist you are! the book looks awesome.....would love a chance to win
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I'd love to win that book to give to my daughter who is just venturing out on her own. Cookie memory - decorating Christmas cookies with my sister as we grew up and then decorating with my own two kids. They are both in college now but we decorate Christmas cookies together. TRADITION!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookie memory is when my mother used to make peanut butter cookies, they were so delicious! After awhile, she stopped and now she can't find the recipe!
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Already a fan on facebook! =) btw..loving your new blog look!
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When I was little my Mom made some incredible Italian cookies, many assorted kinds but my absolute favorites were called Bow Knots. Yummm, I can almost taste them now!
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This book looks so fun! Candy cane cookies always remind me of my mom:) She made them every year as far back as I can remember; now I make them!
ReplyDeleteI "like" you on Facebook now, one more way to see your beautiful cookies!
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My favorite Christmas cookies are from a sugar cookie recipe from my great grandmother. I remember baking them with my mom and sister as a kid and continue to use the same recipe now in my own baking and hope to share with my son, once he is old enough.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie are Snickerdoodles!
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ReplyDeleteWow, Callye! I'm fan of COOKIE books, Mags, etc... my favourite COOKIES are Mexican Wedding COOKIES and Gingerbread... mmm...
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie was always the chocolate frosted chocolate chip cookies my grandmother made. We all have the recipe now, and not one of us can make them like she did.
ReplyDeleteI love your FB page... all the nice comments you've received lately show how much you mean to everyone...
ReplyDeleteI'm a Facebook fan too!
ReplyDeleteTada!!! just tweet-tweet!! xoxo Thanks, SSB!
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great giveaway! And, I love your cookies!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite cookies for Christmas are gingerbread cookies. Baking and then decorating them with my family is becoming a tradition and I can't wait to do it this year!
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Favorite Christmas cookie.....I have several. Snowballs (Mexican Wedding Cookie), Chocolate Mint sandwich cookies, & Poppyseed thumbprints.
ReplyDeleteYour cookie set is gorgeous Callye. LOVE everything about it. :)
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And I already like you on facebook ;)
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I'm already a HUGE fan on FB. :)
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I just sent a link about your giveaway through my CookieCrazie FB page. :)
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I now "like" you on facebook!
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Oatmeal Lace Cookies - Love them...
ReplyDeleteWe are hosting a cookie exchange at work and we are searching all the websites so this would be perfect.
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I'm already a fan on facebook...that's how I found out about this great giveaway.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie is Springerle cookies.
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My favorite cookie would have to just be the plain sugar cookie - but nothing is plain when it is decorated....I am very partial to all things cute - especially santa.
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I am a fan of your facebook page and have been for a while . Thanks for a great chance to win what looks like a cool book :)
ReplyDeleteI'm a Facebook fan!!!
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I love sugar cookies! Like love them to a fault!
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I tweeted about it here, http://twitter.com/OSUWife
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The Christmas cookie making is by far the best memory of this time of year... each year we try a new recipe and then have a few tried and true (each year we say we are going to cut back... um... doesn't usually happen!) My favorite cookie besides sugar cookies are a choc. cookie with a PB center, hmmm... email address is kjwats@gmail.com
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookies are decorated sugar cookies. Doesn't matter what shape. I just love them.
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I love all the cookies my mom makes a Christmas. She makes a whole assortment. So Yummy!
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I am already a fan on FB. :)
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Definitely sugar cookies! My favorite Christmas cookie memory is decorating Christmas cookies with my brother who thought it would be more fun to make twisted Christmas cookies with trees on fire. He is always good for a laugh...
ReplyDeleteMy new favorite is making sugar cookies with royal icing decorations. My sister and I enjoy making them together, so its always fun. I pipe the outline, she floods. It works perfectly! :)
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I'm your facebook fan now too!!! I can always use an extra cookbook.
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Already a fan of your facebook, always excited to see what you do next!!! Big collector of cookie books/magazines too. Hadn't seen this one.
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My favorite Christmas memory is my husband and I taking our now 18 year old son, when he was small to the mountains of NC to pick out our tree in the blowing snow, My son and I jumped out to pick the tree out and ran back to the truck to let hubby get the tree cut and loaded.
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My mother made fruitcake cookies when I was little. She is NOT a baker, so I love the memory of her making these every year.
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I "like" you on Facebook! I think your cookies are amazing, you inspire me to keep trying & practicing. I even like the sock monkey cookies and I'm "afraid" of sock monkeys!! (I think they are kind of creepy along with clowns & dolls that talk and move their eyelids!!!)
ReplyDeleteYour Christmas cookies are Awesome as usual Callye!! Where again are you finding all the time to Blog, facebook, Tweet, Decorate, and raise a family??? If you bottle some of your energy I'd buy it!
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookies are sugar cookies!
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When I grow up I want to be as talented as you!
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My favorite cookie memory was when I was in kindergarden and my teacher made sugar cookies with buttercream icing for Christmas for us! I knew I had died and gone to cookie heaven. I love your blog and I "like" you on facebook. Thanks
ReplyDeleteMy fave cookie growing up was my mom making her fruitcake cookies. I HATE fruitcake but her cookies are delicious. We beg for them every year but she is tired of it now.
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My favourite Christmas cookie is gingerbread. It tastes great and makes the house smell wonderful!
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AND I'm about to tweet about you!
My favorite is my mom's cookie press cookies, but that could partly be because of the memories they provide. :)
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Okay, I tweeted!
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saw yr wonderful creation. nice to know yr blog. yr creation is inspirational and will look up to you again.
ReplyDeletekeep it up! Merry X'mas
I have been a fan already. Absolutley LOVEEEEEE your cookies! jenyomom@comcast.net
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ReplyDeleteFavorite memories......Well moms baking was more cajun burnt, so my memories would have to be teaching myself to bake. Have perfected chocolate chip (peoploe have said I should go comete against Mrs. Field LOL) Now mastering decorating sugar cookies! You are an inspiration.
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my favorite christmas baking memory was i think i was 12 or so and me and my neighbor decided to make christmas cookies after making them we had a powdered sugar fight I'm pretty sure he started it but it was really fun the cleanup not so much lol thefancyladycupcakes@yahoo.com
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and i tweeted
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I really don't have a favorite from childhood but one of my favorites is the mexican wedding cookie. larroyo@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteI just liked your FB page. I have been following your blog for a short time now and I must say that you do such an amazing job on your cookies. larroyo@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cookie memory was when I was in kindergarden and my teacher made sugar cookies with buttercream icing for Christmas for us! I knew I had died and gone to cookie heaven. I love your blog and I "like" you on facebook. Thanks
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i already liked your facebook page!!
ReplyDeletei really like making russian teacakes. there's just something about the powdered sugar. this is the only time of year i make them, so I always make 8x's the batch
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ReplyDeleteHi, I don´t celebrate christmas but LOVE your work and would like to win the book.
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First, I want to say....I would DO ANYTHING to spend one day with you to learn how you make your cookies so beautiful and festive.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory was when my Mom would let me and my sister help her with cornflake wreath cookies!
thanks for sharing your time and talents!
Ansa
My favorite Christmas cookie - chocolate crinkles.
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Usually, I just love PUPPY CHOW, but this year I'm on a sugar cookie kick, thanks to you. :)
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Liked you on FB!
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liked you on FB
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my fav cookie memory would have to be when my daughter and i made our 1st batch 2gether
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i'm already your FB fan. :-)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie is Chocolate Ginger cookies.
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Like!! no only do i like you facebook page i LOVE it but that is not an option! wish i could make cookies 1/4 as good as you! I tried it for thanksgiving and got a huge F! icing consistency was just not working for me... ended up with a container of icing that later separated with icing on top and water on bottom =( You have some real talent! keep up the good work and don't let anyone or anything bring you down.... remember when one door closes another opens! God Bless.... Keyla yanica1@yahoo.com
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And I typically make a gazillion or more cookies at the holidays..I make 15 or 20 dozen a week any week, so you can imagine how all-out a cookie addict goes at Christmas. The ones people like best are my peanut butter blossoms, or (for a non cookie thing) my fudge.
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My favorite memory of Christmas cookies is decorating them with my Grandpa. He was so much fun! Miss him tons.
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My favorite Christmas cookies are the red and white candy cane kind you twist together, I used to make them as a child with my mom and grandma. Still a favorite!
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I liked you on facebook as Holly Mahoney
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My favorite Christmas cookie, is one my mom makes, and I refuse to make it because then she won't make them for me anymore :) so I let her make them for me, so there is one treat every year I sit back and enjoy and can't wait for her to make them, just for me! Pecan Lassies, they have been my favorite of hers since I was young.
ReplyDeleteI like you on facebook :) and love seeing all your creations in my feed!
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but forgot to leave my email on all my entries :) I am so forgetful!!!!
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Hola!
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What a great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteone of my Christmas favorites would be linzer cookies and anything with walnuts.
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I like you on FB.
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i hope that your exciting news for us is that you have located a commercial bakery & able to share your talent with so many!
ReplyDeletewishing you all the best!
I just tweeted.
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I love plain old chocolate chip!
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It's hard to choose but my favorite Christmas cookie would have to be sugar cookies with buttercream icing and sprinkles like my grandparents used to make.
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ReplyDeleteGrowing up my family made pizzelle cookies. I always thought it was strange by grandma would store them in an old Folger's coffee can. They were a perfect fit, so why not!
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I'm a fan on Facebook.
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my favorite cookie time was whenI was little, my mom would make and bake cookies, pies and cakes. When she make cookies she always gave me and my sister the extra dough, we would play with it like playdoh and make some ugly cookies, but she would still bake them and we were so happy to show our dad when he got home. Now I like to let my little man at home decorate cookies with me, I still have not been able to give up the dough, too many cookies to make, but I always make him a few to decorate himself.
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Liked you on FB of course! As a mom with young kids I wanted to start fun christmas traditions. We started decorating sugar cookies on Christmas Eve to leave for Santa. We cut them out and sprinkle them to death before we bake them because that's the easiest with a 2 and 4 year old. Cant wait to do it agian this year! I just got into cookie decorating, so so glad I ran across your blog. I just love it!
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I know it is not a cookie but my fav was peanut butter balls....next would be plain sugar cookies and decorating them!
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Xmas favorite?!?!? Anything with nuts and dried fruit!
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I like The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle on FB!
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Hmmm, it's hard to choose a favorite! I have always loved fudge - and my mom and her closest sister would make 2 different kinds - so yummy! But my favorite memories consist of making sugar cookies with my mom and sisters and decorating them. Of course, we didn't decorate them anywhere near as fancy and beautiful as you do! But we loved doing it. We would do an egg-white glaze on some and just sprinkle sugar, frost and sand with sugars, or frost and then place dragees and other decorative bits on them. We were so proud of our creations!
ReplyDeleteThis last week, after seeing countless fb postings from the very talented wife of a friend over the past year about various cookies she's made for special occasions and friends, and now with Christmas fast approaching, I've been struck with the bug to learn how to decorate sugar cookies (and gingerbread and who knows what else!) with beautiful piped and flooded icing. And what a great idea to NOT just do this at Christmas. :) I've been looking through blogs and one recommnended yours and I love it so it's now been added as a favorite.
My challenge now though? To still make sure I keep cookie-making fun for the 10 year old. Like you, I can be a bit of a perfectionist. So my solution is to have some cookies separated into "his" and "mine" bunches. That way, we can each do it our own way. And if he wants to try some with piping I will bite my tongue!
I'm planning with a couple mom friends whose kiddos happen to be best buds with mine to set up a baking day for all of us together (an exchange) and this book would be PERFECT! So I would love to possibly win it.
My email is: fairielight (at) cox (dot) net
Thank you for offering this giveaway!
Pam
I also "liked" you on Facebook today. (Since I know you're there now!)
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My favorite Christmas cookie is my mother's recipe for cutout sugar cookies. The fun memories of cutting them out and icing and decorating will always be with me. Every kid in our neighborhood loved these cookies--and I carry that tradition on for my brother and nephews every year.
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I love your blog!! It is wnonderful! Thank you so much for taking the time to show us your cookies:)
ReplyDeleteI hope I win the book:)
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My all-time favorite Christmas cookies are my grandmother's coconut macaroons (which, sadly, I never got the recipe for before she passed away). I know they had sweetened condensed milk and red and green glaceed cherries pressed into the top--thoroughly bad for you in every way, but soooo delicious. :)
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One of my favorite cookies are sugar cookies
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I love Peanut Butter Blossoms!
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I am a FB fan!
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My favorite Christmas cookies are simply sugar cookies...they are so versatile...you can flavor them...color them...make wonderful shapes...just fabulous! I did not grow up making cookies and baking with my Mom...but now I do it with my kids...and they love it. Playing with frosting and colors...sugars..etc! Thanks for sharing your work!
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these are gorgeous! My favorite Christmas cookie memory? My son was 2 and we were setting out cookies for Santa....he took a bite out of every one before putting them on Santa's plate!
ReplyDeleteMy teenager has a passion for the peanutbutter cookies with the chocolate kiss. Last year, two days before Christmas I went to take them out of the freezer and there was ONE left. I think I had made about 70. I told him he was going to remake them and if he didnt he wouldnt be going to his grandma's house (my x-mother-in-law's). He said she would never let that happen. I disagreed, so we called her and she told him he better start baking. I have the best x-mom-in-law ever. :) Merry Christmas everyone!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite cookies are the traditional sugar cookies, santas, reindeers etc. Some things just never compare to your upbringing and comfort foods.
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I'm a follower on facebook :)
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I am a happy facebook fan
ReplyDeleteMy family, spread as far away as Hawaii and NY, look forward to my Christmas cookie package every year.
ReplyDeleteIt really makes me smile. :^)
My favourite cookies as a kid...well not really a "cookie", but rum balls... my cousin and I thought we were SO bad for eating cookies made with booze. lol.
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Oooh and now I'm a FB fan!! :)
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I am your fan! You are such an inspiration!
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My favorites are the snow balls (to eat) but I need to have sugar cookies to decorate!
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I did all three! I twittered with the URL, I "Liked" you on FB and I'm commenting here.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie recipe was given to me by an older gentleman when my husband and I lived in Pryor Creek. They're fruitcake cookies and I've only seen one recipe that even comes close. (Barefoot Contessa)
Question #1: How do you get those beautiful colors?
Question #2: Do you have a tutorial for the oil patch cookies? I need to make some of those!
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Ooooh! I love cookbooks, especially cookie ones! I think my favorite Christmas cookie would have to be a cocoon, which is basically a shortbread cookie with pecans, baked and rolled in powdered sugar. I love the powderey sweetness that hits your tastebuds first, followed by the nutty, buttery shortbread. Yum! I think I need to go make some, now!
ReplyDeleteThanks for blogging again, Callye. I've missed it!
Have long been a FB fan of all of your wonderful creations! Thanks for all of the sharing of your incredible talent. Also, love the new blog look. I need to revamp mine, too. You've given me the inspiration to do so.
ReplyDeleteOh, wow!! I love your cookies! They are so beautiful! I love making cookies, but mine never look that goood...
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My favourite Christmas cookie memory comes from the first year my mother and I made gingerbread men. We live in Australia, and the day we made them it was about 38 degrees Celsius (that's what, about 100F?), and it turns out the recipe we used (and still do, cause it's delicious!) has a tendency to turn rather gooey when introduced to heat... You can imagine cutting the little men out and then attempting to move them - suffice to say, much hilarity ensued, with little dismembered gingerbread heads, arms & legs dropping off. Too funny. Nowadays we have airconditioning, so our gingerbread making is a lot easier (although a lot less funny!)
ReplyDeleteI love to make sugar cookies!! Also, I love the new look of your site - completely adorable!!!
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I'm also a fan on facebook!!
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My favorite memory is when my daughter (who is 20 now) was nine, I let her and my nephew decorate Christmas cookies to leave out for Santa. These cookies were the most gross looking cookies I ever seen lol! (Wet from too much icing) Well we left them out for Santa and when I woke to throw them out in the bottom (very bottom) of the garbage bag, I must've left a thumb print on the plate....so when she woke to check to see if Santa ate his cookies, she squealed with glee,"Santa was here and he left his fingerprint on the plate"...I just smiled because I thought it was the cutest thing! Until she also stated right after that, "I thought Santa wore gloves?" lol! Gotta love the kids!
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My favorite Christmas cookie has to be the pecan sandies I learned to make from my MIL. She is gone now, but each year when I make them, I feel her with me.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cookie is the plain ole sugar cookie...still warm from the oven.
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I'm a fan on Facebook! My favorite cookies are Snickerdoodles! Just made 4.5 doz for an event Friday! Mmmmm! Thanks for the kindness of a giveaway! Many holiday blessings to your family!
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My favorite Christmas cookie, isn't really a cookie....It's the Oreo Truffle! I only make them at Christmas, and it's a good thing because I eat them up fast!!
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ReplyDeleteFavorite Christmas cookie hands down was Grandma's five stack butter cookie Christmas tree. Five paper thin butter cookies in descending size that formed a standing tree with a fluffly layer of green buttercream between each and topped with a white candy pearl. I'm making mini-wedding cake cookies for a reception this week and am remembering those tree cookies fondly with every tray of doughy circles I cut out.
ReplyDeleteI have been creating my favorite Christmas cookie memories recently. My daugher is 4 yrs. old and she I roll out cookies, bake, and decorate together. I don't share a Christmas cookie memory with my mom (although there are lots of other fun memories I share with mom), but I am now sharing baking experiences with my daughter (she even has her own pint-sized rolling pin and apron)! Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
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