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It's Giveaway Time on Cookie Connection!

Yes, it's your lucky day. I've finally got the site's first official giveaway ready for any and all interested takers!

 

I'm calling this one The Great Spring Summer Cleaning Giveaway, because I had every intention of doing it in the spring, but cookie decorating derailed me at that time - and thus further cluttered my work space . . .

 

All of my mounting cookie stuff, including things I bought because I couldn't find what I already had, reached a crisis point last week when I desperately needed to de-clutter in order to prep for my upcoming OSSAS demo. (Seriously, I had no counter space left to roll out cookie dough!)

 

I'm a wee bit embarrassed about how much excess I'd amassed (pretty darn wasteful), but I somehow feel less remorseful knowing that it's going to end up in a better, more organized home! Pictured below is just a small subset of what's up for grabs. These items have never been opened or used; they're just duplicates or triplicates of things for which I have no immediate use . . .

 

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As I said, that's not it. I'm also giving away the following (more photo closeups in the attachments):

  •  An assortment of gorgeous candied mini-roses from Crystallized Flower Company;
  • 15 lb container of Henry & Henry Kwik Fluff meringue powder;
  • 1 lb bag of CK Products meringue powder;
  • 20 ounce bag of Ateco meringue powder (Wondering about the meringue powder surplus?! Side-by-side tests of different brands for an upcoming blog post!);
  • Several envelopes of floral and other patterned wafer paper cutouts from Queen of Tarts (similar to this set);
  • Several 1 pound bags of CK Products fine-grained sanding sugar (lavender, pink, yellow, and probably a couple of other colors!);
  • 3 or 4 small containers of The Baker's Kitchen coarse-grained sanding sugar and pastel confetti;
  • Scads of mini pink royal icing roses from Fancy Flours; and
  • La piÈce de rÉsistance - this fabulous, specially handcrafted (I tease!) tiny cookie cutter key chain!

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I haven't bothered to ring up an exact value on the giveaway, but my best guess is well over $500! (The crystallized flowers alone - there's quite a bunch - retailed for about $100.)

 

And so how do you enter to win? That's easy - just tell me what you most want to learn about cookie decorating in the comments area below, and I'll use a random number generator to pick the winner when I return from vacation on August 13 (5 pm central time). Only one comment per person, and please remember, childhood protection and privacy laws prevent us from publishing personal photos, so please avoid them in your comments and posts. They will be deleted. Note: You must be a Cookie Connection member in order to post and play! Simply join on the home page; it's free! (Signup box is in the upper left.)

 

Have fun, and please help spread the word by clicking any of the share buttons at the end of this post. Thanks!

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Images (5)
  • Some of the Loot: But Wait - There's A Lot More!
  • Closeup of Royal Icing Decorations: From Fancy Flours
  • Closeup of My Personal Stuff: My Video Series and An Unused Notepad
  • Closeup of Cool Plunger Cutters: From PME
  • La Pièce de Résistance: A Quirky Cutter Key Chain!

Comments (265)

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Julia - What an AMAZING Giveaway - Thank you so much for the opportunity.  Wow!  There is still so many things I have yet to try that I want to learn!  I want to learn how to perfect shading/highlighting with an airbrush as well as with my piping, I want to learn how to do scroll work "freehand", I would also love to learn the 3D / "puffy" accents that I see some do.

 

 

I would love to learn how to better use a 1 or 1.5 tip.  Either my icing consistency is wrong, or I'm not applying appropriate pressure, because I always end up with broken or squiggly lines!  Fantastic giveaway  :-)

 

Great giveaway.  As a beginner, one of the things I need to master is applying the proper pressure so that the lines of frosting at the edges of the cookie aren't big blobs.  Also, I look forward to working up to creating my own cookie designs, and not just imitating the works of art you all create and share. 

I love creating iced cookies and watching people's reactions when they see them.  I need to learn the art of patience when it comes to letting one section of icing enough time to dry before applying the next, thus giving a more cleaner cookie.

I want to learn to decorate a christmas house but with good taste.  I want people braking pieces easyliy that say is a good flavor! I tried once and was no flavor enough and once I tried with a kit cookie baked and flavor was very bad. 

And I want to know why I can't glue a colorflow piece to a dry decorated cookie  only glue when decorated cookie is wet. (a bad experience I had)

 

What a great package!  Thank you for your generosity!  I would love to learn how to do pressure piping on cookies to give my cookies more depth, and possibly how to do 3-d painting on them as well.  Thank you again!

I have only just found my new love, baking! After a hard year of losing my mother in an accident. I needed to find something to occupy myself and after seeing on youtube your clip on decorating biscuits I was hooked. I'm no way near as good as you but I am having so much fun learning and creating. I am now a Cookie Lover!!!  

I always like to learn more tips about royal icing: how to handle it, how to store it, how to dry it, how to get all the consistencies, and I'm super interested to read the post you mention about comparing meringue powders!

I would love to get an airbrush and learn how to use it, I am not brave enough to buy one yet! I would also love to learn better time management skills, I always wait till the last minute and start stressing out which takes the fun away

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