More people bake during the holiday season than any other time of year. Not only does cold weather mean that it’s nice to have the oven on, heating up the kitchen, but there are all kinds of parties and get-togethers to celebrate – and often celebrating means sharing homemade baked goods. I bake all year long and it always seems a little bit more special around the holidays. To make sure that your holiday baking goes smoothly, I teamed up with Pillsbury® to host a holiday giveaway that includes lots of goodies that will allow you to celebrate more easily – and more deliciously – than ever. The gift pack is full of seasonal mixes and frostings, and includes a gift card that will ensure that your kitchen is well-stocked with anything you might need for your holiday baking projects!
The winter giveaway includes:
- One Garland Green Vanilla Flavored Holiday Funfetti Frosting
- One Rudolph Red Vanilla Flavored Holiday Funfetti Frosting
- One Dark Chocolate Seasonal Cake Mix
- One Chocolate Peppermint Cookie Mix
- One Peppermint Frosting
- One Holiday Sugar Cookie Mix
- A $100 dollar Visa or American Express gift card
Total estimated giveaway value: $115
To enter the contest, just leave a comment below and tell me about your favorite holiday baking tradition or what you love to make. The winner of the contest will be chosen at random, so those who love to decorate gingerbread cookies to serve at holiday parties will have a equal chance to those who always whip up a batch of eggnog pancakes on Christmas morning! The contest ends at midnight Friday, December 6th and one winner will be randomly selected from the entries at that time. Don’t forget to fill in your e-mail on the comment form (it will not be made public), as that is how I will contact the winner, and good luck to everyone!
And if you need some inspiration when it comes to putting those mixes to good use, try making my Cranberry Pecan Shortbread Tart. It’s perfect for entertaining and you would never guess that it started with a sugar cookie mix!
I have been compensated by the J.M. Smucker Company to promote its Pillsbury Winter products, but the opinions expressed are my own.  ©/® The J.M. Smucker Company. Pillsbury is a trademark of The Pillsbury Company, LLC, used under license.
Gloria
December 3, 2013I love to make apple pie during the Christmas holiday. Yummy 🙂
Holly B
December 3, 2013My favorite is making gingerbread cookies with my grandmother’s recipe. Last year my mother scanned in all of my grandmother’s recipe cards and made a sweet little e-book with vintage photos for family members 🙂
Alexis
December 3, 2013I didn’t get to make pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving this year, so I need to do that soon to soothe my craving. And then cookie baking for work!
Trish Barton
December 3, 2013I make many different things for the holiday season and it starts with my homemade apple and pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving. Then, for Christmastime, I love to make tons and tons of cookies which change every year, but the one that’s always an absolute must is the sugar cookies that my kids and I decorate together. I try to buy a new cookie cutter every year just to add some variety 🙂
Colin
December 3, 2013My Mom and I always make Irish Soda Bread to enjoy over the winter break to go with our sugar cookies for dessert!
Nicole T
December 3, 2013I love making Ricotta cheese cookies! They are a perfect breakfast treat and my kids love them with frosting and sprinkles.
Eliza
December 3, 2013I always loved baking with my grandmother as a child. Now with triplets of my own I see the joy on their faces baking with me. From cookies to cake pops to mini cupcakes watching them become future bakers and decoraters to carry on the family tradition reminds me of my childhood.
Sarah
December 3, 2013My family always makes chocolate chip cookies for Santa
Carole R.
December 3, 2013We celebrate Chanukah in my house. However, I make lots of cookies (at least 20 kinds). Goes back to the days when I was a poor graduate student. Had NO MONEY to buy gift so I gave away cookie platters.
Stephanie
December 3, 2013We make sugar cookies, recipe from a family friend of ours. It’s so wonderfully imprecise (any other recipe would really get under my exacting baker’s skin) but they always turn out lovely anyway 😀
Bethany
December 3, 2013i haven’t made it yet, but I’m determined to make my own Peppermint Bark! I love it so much; I want homemade goodies to be my “thing”!
Melissa
December 3, 2013My favorite holiday tradition is baking with my mom, aunt and cousins the week before Christmas. We’ve been doing it since I can remember, and I hope it continues for a LONG time!
BethPR
December 3, 2013I love doing an assortment of cookies, and always, always my Mom’s English toffee with chocolate and walnuts.
Renee G
December 3, 2013Each year my husband and I take a day and make traditional cookies from Italy.
Donna Adams
December 4, 2013Me and my sisters used to have a baking day and make all our families favorites. My sisters made cookies and candies and I made pastries such as cream puffs and biscotti . It has been three years since we have done this , after our father died two days after Christmas the tradition ended, I guess because he wasn’t in the kitchen sampling the goodies, but now me and my daughters make all kinds of treats and ginger bread towns. We love to bake.
Tim orourke
December 4, 2013Cookies cookies and more cookies.. Can’t get enough
Michelle
December 4, 2013We usually go on holiday for christmas
Debbie Jackson
December 4, 2013I love making the traditional pumpkin roll
Brenda G
December 4, 2013Christmas Cookies is my all time favorite. If only I could decorate them like the professionals do. But my Grandson thinks they are perfect, and what better judge could I have.
Sherry Lykins
December 4, 2013I love making Orange Cookies with my daughters!
Cassy
December 4, 2013Love making cream puffs! They are some work, but totally worth it in the end.
Sarah
December 4, 2013I always do gingerbread with the kids, but my favorite are the whipped shortbread cookies my mother-in-law taught me to make.
Katie Rose
December 4, 2013I try to make a dozen different varieties of cookies for the 12 days of Christmas but with pregnancies and tiny ones it’s been more like a half dozen.
Franny
December 4, 2013These look like so much fun!
cen
December 4, 2013I began learning the art of bakung recently. And I love making cupcakes.unfortunately, I’m not good in making fillings and frosting. Then I discovered pillsbury frostings. They’ve became my bestfriends.
Shaina
December 4, 2013I love making peppermint bark and chocolate covered pretzels! Last year my roommate and I and her daughter & friend spent a day in the kitchen baking all kinds of holiday treats and we plan to do it again this year too!
Helene
December 4, 2013I look forward every year to Cookie Baking Day – although it sometimes stretches out to a week before the holidays. It is a favorite because I just love to bake holiday goodies with friends and family. My favorite cookie are simple jelly thumbprints – because my elderly mother always liked to be the “thumb”. It was actually my father who taught me how to bake, because my mother worked. So later in life we had fun together with her joking that she was an essential part of the cookie making process with her thumb.
Kellie
December 4, 2013I love making iced orange cookies with my father for Christmas.
Deckled Edges
December 4, 2013I love making buche de noel every year.
Jodi Stewart
December 4, 2013I love making butter cookies in my cookie press. I got the recipe as a “family secret” and have been using it for years, its so delicious I have never had to change an ingredient. Whether I am decorating them for a cookie exchange, as a gift or watching my kids do the decorating it is one of my holiday “baking favorites.” My holiday isn’t complete until I make these cookies!
Sarah A.
December 4, 2013I make tons of pumpkin bread during the holidays. I LOVE pumpkin bread.
nancy odonnell
December 4, 2013I love making anything with the kids – from Gingerbread houses to sugar cookies 🙂
Kelli
December 4, 2013I like making chex mix & fudge & seasoned pretzels to give to family, friends & co-workers.
Dalia
December 4, 2013When I was a teenager, my brothers used to love my oatmeal cookies. I started with the basic Quaker Oats recipe, but added mashed banana, chocolate chips, walnuts and raisins.
It had been years since I baked, but last year did Whole Wheat chocolate chip & walnut cookies with my 5 year old nephew. If I do say so myself they were absolutely delicious.
Wehaf
December 4, 2013I love making and decorating classic sugar cookies! It’s a great family activity.
Anna C
December 4, 2013I love to make fruitcake (it really is good) with my mom!
Melissa
December 4, 2013My kids and I love to bake sugar cookies and decorate them.
rachel
December 4, 2013I still love frosting cookies with my mom. 🙂
Lisa Brown
December 4, 2013I love to bake cookies of all kinds, with my favorite holiday cookie, being the gingerbread cookie.
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Susan
December 4, 2013I love that my old gas oven heats up my kitchen on cold winter days when I’m baking something wonderful.
Theresa Z
December 4, 2013Hungarian walnut kalacs!! (nut roll) Made 6 for my sister at Thanksgiving. She was giving thanks!!!
Lisa
December 4, 2013I love having my niece come over and we bake all of our family traditional cookies. It is a great time
Carolyn G
December 4, 2013We bake Mexican wedding cookies for Christmas
Ashley K
December 4, 2013I love making cookie baskets with my sister for my family and friends. There’s something about baking that just puts me in the christmas spirit!
Jamie
December 4, 2013My grandmother’s triple layer brownies and Mexican wedding cookies.
Kristi
December 4, 2013I love making tons and tons of cookies with the help of my family every year especially sugar cookies and chocolate chip
Heather Russell-Weber
December 4, 2013I love to make cupcakes, traditional, vegan, gluten free, sugar substitute & full fat!
Mandy K
December 4, 2013I love to bake and decorate sugar cookies in Christmas shapes. I also love to make peanut butter fudge, and chocolate chip cookies and peanut butter cookies
Katherine
December 4, 2013Ginger Snaps!
Rebecca Ledford
December 4, 2013My favorite holiday baking tradition is making sugar cookies on Christmas Eve with the kiddos. I let them do as much of the decorating as they can handle. And at the end of the evening, we leave a plate for Santa with milk and a letter. In the morning the kids find a plate of crumbs, empty glass, and a special just for them present from Santa.