I was at Hallmark the other day picking up Christmas cards, and I stopped to peruse their holiday ornament selection. Over the past couple of years, the store has been adding more foodie-themed ornaments to their collection and this year they have the perfect one for bakers: a miniature stand mixer! The ornament, which is dated 2010, is bright red and has a cute retro look to it. The mixer doesn’t have an movable parts, but it’s not difficult to picture the little paddle attachment mixing up a batch of cookie dough. The ornament is called the Merry Mixer, and I picked two up while I was there, one for my Christmas tree and one to give away to a lucky reader!
To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment below with your favorite food-related holiday present – one you’ve either given or received – before Thursday at 12pm PST. One winner will be chosen at random and I’ll ship the ornament out asap. Be sure to leave your e-mail address in the comment form (it won’t be visible on the site) so that I can contact the winner.
For more gift ideas, check out my 2010 Holiday Gift Guide for Bakers or pick up a copy of The Baking Bites Cookbook! And don’t forget to enter your gingerbread creations into my Holiday Gingerbread Cookie Contest, too!
Update: Comments are now closed. Thanks for playing, everyone. The winner is Erin of Erin Cooks!
Josie
December 14, 2010Every year I look forward to baking up batches and batches of cookies to tuck in with little presents for all my favorite people 🙂
Karen
December 14, 2010Such a cute ornament! I always make cookies to give as gifts and each year it is a different recipe. This year I’m going with chocolate oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
Katie M
December 14, 2010I love getting and giving chocolate covered pretzels 😀
kellyo
December 14, 2010I love my aunt’s caramel popcorn!
Erika
December 14, 2010My then-boyfriend now-husband got a Kitchenaid mixer for me one year and I love it! I use it all the time and can’t imagine having to go back to my old hand mixer.
debbie
December 14, 2010This year it has to be apricot bars that my friend made!
sara
December 14, 2010My fave holiday food gift has to be the sugar cookies I make and decorate and give to everyone I know!
Lanita canup
December 14, 2010I love to make homemade baked items. This year I made Cinnamon rolls. They are so good!
sharon
December 14, 2010Aww,adorable! I love giving caramels with sea salt.
Liz @ Blog is the New Black
December 14, 2010Def my mizer from LAST year!
Liz @ Blog is the New Black
December 14, 2010*mixer
Carole
December 14, 2010I give an assortment of sea salts to my foodie friends.
Danielle
December 14, 2010I’m giving my husband some salted caramel marshmallows this year that I’m pretty excited about!
June
December 14, 2010I love to give christmas toffee as gifts to friends.
Cathy
December 14, 2010The nutcracker that I gave my husband. If he’s not careful he can totally pulverize any nut! Crazy thing!
Lauren
December 14, 2010What an adorable ornament! I’ve received a lot of food & cooking-related holiday gifts over the years, but one of my favorites was a pasta crank for making homemade pasta. I need to use it more often!
Cin
December 14, 2010silicon baking set!
Stephanie
December 14, 2010How cute!
I asked for mini bundt pans for Christmas this year. 🙂
Chris M.
December 14, 2010Cookbooks! Especially new ones. Thanks!
Sarah
December 14, 2010Custom decorated sugar cookies! They always go over well.
Lesley
December 14, 2010I received a kitchenaid mixer about 5 years ago as a gift. Best gift ever!
dani
December 14, 2010love my princess house cake stand…. it is perfect for all sorts of sweet treats 🙂
Sue
December 14, 2010I love to give cookies, and I love to get cookbooks!
Adorable ornament!
carmen
December 14, 2010i love to give homemade cookies. : )
Kris
December 14, 2010Homemade caramel corn and peanut brittle!
Jacqui
December 14, 2010I LOVE the ornament!! My best Christmas present was my KitchenAid stand mixer. I use it all the time!!
blackbookkitchendiaries
December 14, 2010when i was 12, my dad gave me an oven for christmas to do my holiday baking:) it was just the best thing ever:)
Caroline
December 14, 2010I love giving cookies, and fudge!
Kayla
December 14, 2010My favorite foodie gift is to give homemade cookies to friends and family. This past weekend I made around 400 cookies, with 10 different varieties-I ended up with 10 tins of cookies that made their way to various houses over the past few days.
Debbie
December 14, 2010That would definitely be my Kitchenaid Stand Mixer!
jody
December 14, 2010So cute. Please enter me.
brilynn
December 14, 2010That’s so cute!
Fav. foodie gift was Dorie Greenspan’s Baking From My Home to Yours!
Darlene
December 14, 2010What a cute little treasure!!! My favorite food-related Holiday gift was a Kitchen Aid mixer from my husband. The first thing I made was marshmallows.
Thanks for offering this giveaway.
mary kellogg
December 14, 2010A set of Kitchenaid RED mixing bowls to match my red KA food processor and mixer.
katie
December 14, 2010my mom got me my red kitchen aid mixer last year…best present!!!
AmyH
December 14, 2010My favorite foodie gift is anything edible made by someone else…I’m always so impressed by my friends’ creativity!
Pam
December 14, 2010Mine is all the holiday baking I get to do…. and most importantly share with everyone 🙂
I love this ornament and if I’m not lucky enough to win it, I will most likely go out and buy one myself lol
Michelle Ho
December 14, 2010Homemade baked goods or cookbooks!! 🙂
Sar
December 14, 2010Homemade treats!
Stacey
December 14, 2010Best kitchen-ish gift I got was a long time ago. My grandmother made my mother and I matching aprons when I was about 6. Mom still hangs them both in the kitchen for when my niece comes over and wants to cook! 🙂
Catherine
December 14, 2010Every year on Christmas growing up I would help my mom make Swedish Christmas Bread in braided wreaths. Then we would wrap each loaf & my dad & I would drive all over the city to deliver fresh warm bread to friends! That’s one of my favorite memories, & now that I have a small family of my own, I plan to try my hand at continuing the tradition this year.
Tashi
December 14, 2010That’s so cute! My favorite holiday food gift is the plate of homemade goodies that my neighbor makes us for Christmas every year. Christmas cookies, fudge, mmm!
Lisa
December 14, 2010I actually made homemade vanilla extract this year to give as gifts and I’m super excited to give them to all of my “baker” friends and “non-baker” as well.
Cheryl
December 14, 2010How cute is that!? My favorite present is actually related! It was my Kitchen Aid mixer that I had pined over for years. Love it!
Amy @ whatjewwannaeat
December 14, 2010OMG that ornament is too adorable. I want it- and I’m Jewish! I live for my Kitchen Aid mixer I got as a birthday gift last year.
Rachel
December 14, 2010For Hanukkah this year I got a yogurt maker- a very useful (and very unexpected) food-related present.
Laurel
December 14, 2010My mother-in-law often gives me cookie cutters and holiday-themed spatulas for various holidays throughout the year. They’re all great for baking with my 2.5 y/o son, who loves helping me bake and loves decorating sugar cookies even more. Using the special spatula with the spiderweb or Christmas tree on it makes it even more fun for him.
But my favorite baking-related present is my KitchenAid mixer, which was a complete surprise from my mom a few years ago. It was incredibly sweet and generous of her and when I opened it, I then opened the box it came in because I figured she was playing a gag on me and had put a sweater in a KitchenAid box.
Elizabeth
December 14, 2010My 4 year old daughter and I made peppermint bark yesterday with a Bon Appetit recipe that I have had tucked away for a long time. We had a wonderful time together and the bark turned out delicious!!
sarah
December 14, 2010I am pretty sure (fingers crossed) that my boyfriend is getting me a kitchen aid mixer for christmas this year. If I am right, then this will definitely be my favorite food related present. If I am wrong, then my ice cream maker… mmm homemade ice cream.
Rosie
December 14, 2010What an adorable ornament!! Geez, I’ve received so many foodie related gifts that it’s hard to pick a favourite. I’d have to go with my kitchen calculator. I use it OFTEN!