I’m hosting a fun giveaway today from my publisher, Chronicle Books. Last year they launched a GIVE BOOKS holiday campaign to encourage people to share the love of books during the holiday season, to support local bookstores and to help promote literacy. And I’m excited that they are doing it again this year. But this year they are doing it bigger. Giving bigger. They’ve joined forces with First Book, a non-profit organization that provides access to new books for children in need. And for every #GiveBooks tweet, pin, and online pledge, Chronicle Books will donate a children’s book to First Book.
Here’s how you can help them reach their goal of giving 10,000 books this holiday with a simple tweet, pin or pledge.
And now let me show you ten books I picked out from Chronicle that I want to give this holiday. They’re cookbooks of course. Sweet ones.
Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts
Secrets for the Home Baker
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey
Desserts for the Serious Sweet Tooth! Every one of the recipes in this book are calling my name.
Cake Pops Holidays
Hmmm… this one looks familiar. I couldn’t resist : )
Pretzel Making at Home
Make your own crunchy, chewy, savory or sweet artisan pretzels. Fried Pretzels with Cinnamon Sugar? Why yes.
Hand-crafted Candy Bars
From-Scratch, All-Natural, Gloriously Grown-Up Confections
Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit
Okay, this isn’t a cookbook but you do get to make cupcakes. That counts, right. Besides … it’s Snoopy with adorable liners and flag toppers. Chronicle has the cutest gift items too.
Flour, too
Joanne Chang shares recipes for her Café’s most loved sweets and savories.
Tartine Book No. 3
This soon-to-be-released cookbook is third in a series of collectible titles from Tartine Bakery & Cafe in San Francisco. We’re talking bread baking and pastry making.
The Model Bakery Cookbook
Sensational artisan baked goods including Peach Streusal Pie, Brandied Pumpkin Pie, Amber Ale Bread and their famous english muffins that I can’t wait to try.
The Little Paris Kitchen
Rachel Khoo shares simple, classic French recipes in her cookbook that’s just as charming as she is. Plus there’s French desserts. Win! Win!
Speaking of win. How would you like to win these 10 awesome books? I’m giving them away to one lucky reader and it might be you.
To enter for a chance to win all ten:
- Leave a comment on the blog post and tell me which of these books sounds fun to give or which one you’d like to get the most.
- Deadline to enter is 8:
00 pm ET on Saturday, November 9th, 2013. Sorry, time’s up. Winner announced below. - One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Sunday… just in time to receive them for the holidays.
Good luck and of course, I hope you can help #GiveBooks to children this holiday.
P.S. – Receive 30% off + free shipping at ChronicleBooks.com (*excluding personalized products). Promo code GIVEBOOKS (valid through 12/31/13).
Okay – time to announce the winner! And time to give away a bunch of sweet books. Congratulations Katie Z!!!
Cute kitty cat illustration by Gemma Correll.
Oh..I wish I could have all of them…but I would love #4..the pretzel making one…I have always wated to try making pretzels :)
All of them sound great, the ones I can’t wait to see are Model Bakery, and Flour Too.
Not sure why my post isn’t showing so I will try again! Handcrafted candy bar would be my pick,although they all look amazing!
Hard to pick, but I love the Snoopy Cupkcake Kit most. And the Candy bar book as a gift for others.
I think Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey would be right up my sweet tooth alley but I love cooking and baking so any (or all!) of these would be amazing!!
I am a candy maker during the holiday season so would love to see the candy bar book.
Flour, Too!
Little Paris Kitchen sounds so interesting! I wonder if it has a croissant recipe inside? I would love to try my hand at making croissants at home! Stickey, chewy, messy, gooey sounds just delightful!
Wooooooow! I’d like to have the Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts! Tks!
I would love the Holiday Cake Pop book and the Doughnut book!
Hand Crafted Candy Bars looks like fun, because of course I already have Cakepops Holidays!
I would love the Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey cookbook. My son is in Culinary School and I am going to order him some of these books for Christmas:)
Tartine! Looks too good to resist ahhhh. Holiday baking is the best kind of baking!
I would love to work on my classic French cooking skills by receiving Little Paris Kitchen. As for gifts, my best friend is getting Cake Pops Holidays!
I would most like to win Hand-crafted Candy Bars! I have always had a thing for candy bars, they are compact little perfect deserts, ready to give away or carry around with you, so I would love to try these lovely recipes!
I would love to have the cake pop book!
I love to bake… any baking book would do and I am a strong believer of kids learning through fun.
How do you even choose? Of course I want Cake Pops…but since I already have that one ordered :) I have always wanted to learn to make doughnuts yum!!
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey! All the books sound fabulous, but that one seems right up my alley! Yum!
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey I would love to keep for myself. I would love to give away the Cake Pop book!
I think the snoopy package would be the best to give. It would definitely brighten someone’s day. And, for me, I would love the french cookbook…I’d love to try some new recipes!
I’d love the Little Paris Kitchen book! I’m also pledging to give books this year–high five!
holiday cake pops for sure! i have your first book but not this one :) super fun giveaway! i love Chronicle Books.
Oh I’d definitely love to receive Hand-forged Doughnuts or Hand Crafted Candy Bars. Gotta try something new!
I would loooooooove the Flour Too book. The best book to giveaway is your book though. Everyone adores your cute cakepop designs.
The pretzel book and donut book look like fun! But I know my daughters would love the Snoopy cupcake set!
I would love the doughnut book and the Cake Pops book! I love doughnuts and want to learn to make them at home. My 16-month-old daughter loves them, and I think it would be fun to surprise her with a homemade batch.
The Model Bakery one for sure! Been to that bakery and never knew they had a book out!!
I’d give the Snoopy cupcake book to my cousin. She loves cupcakes and her whole family names their dogs after Peanuts characters.
Ooooh! The little paris kitchen has been on my want list for ages! What a wonderful giveaway :D
My husband and my daughter both love pretzels, so the pretzel making book would go over very well in my house.
Hand-crafted candy bars!
You’re asking the impossible! I’m a cookbook junkie! I sit and read through them as I would any novel. And my favorite part of owning any cookbook is having a chance to lend it out with markers on my most turned to recipes.
The Handcrafted Candy Bars cookbook looks divine!
I have to go with the Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey. Yum, yum!!!
I’d love to flip through the handcrafted candy bars cookbook and the model bakery cookbook.
I would love the Little Paris Kitchen! French dishes are a favorite when entertaining!
Flour,too please!
You Holiday Cake Pops of course! I gave it as a gift last year and even got you to sign it! This year I would love it for myself!
The Model Bakery. I just watched a Barefoot Contessa episode in which the English Muffins were featured… they look amazing!
It is such a difficult decision… love The Holiday Cake Pops of course, but Pretzel Making at Home would be something fun to try with the kids.
The Little Paris Kitchen – for when we return to France!
Hard decision for a cookbook collector. I definitely need the companion to the Cake Pops book so definitely the Cake Pops Holiday book for sure.
I LOVE to give books for any occasion! The Little Paris Kitchen is a perfect gift for my daughter.
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey! I need it!
I really really want the hand crafted candy bars book. But I think I would like to give the Snoopy Cupcake Kit to some budding young bakers I know, and the Tartine book to a good friend who loves their stuff. Great choices overall. Who wouldn’t love to have them all!?
Very hard to choose!! I’ll say sticky, chewy, messy, gooey looks yummy to me!
The Little Paris Kitchen looks great! Thanks.
I really want the book “the little paris kitchen”. I love the international kitchen. More french ????????????????????
I’d love Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey and would give my daughter the Snoopy Kit because she loves to make cupcakes!
Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey
It would have to be book #2—-love baking with my granddaughters and for my girls
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey — how can you go wrong with a title like that?! That sounds like just the ticket for all my baking needs. :)
I would keep the doughnuts book and gift the others to lots of baking friends!
I adore the cake pop one of course! But Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey looks VERY interesting!
i would love to get the little paris kitchen!
The candy bar book looks divine, but the Snoopy cupcake kit is so so darling so I’d have to go with that one as my favorite to give and get! I love Peanuts. :)
I have had a thing for homemade doughnuts lately so I would pick Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts!!!
The Cake Pops one of course!
yummmm! Cooking books!
Hmmmm…this is a hard decision…of course the Cake Pop book!!! My girls love all things Bakerella!!!! Plus, my birthday is November 8th, that would be a great gift! :)
I would LOVE the Hand Crafted Candy Bars the best! Also the Peanuts cupcake kit would be adorable!
The Little Paris Kitchen looks lovely!
I’d like to give sticky chewy messy gooey an I’d like to have Tartine Book No.3
Hi !! I´d like your book and Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts because l love the doughnuts. Thank Bakerella!!!!
I have never won anything, in my lifetime. My 9.25 grandchildren would love the added array of treats, nana bakes for them!
I would love to own that pretzel making cookbook!
I’d love to have “Hand-crafted candy bars”!
Is this open worldwide? I hope so!
I would give the Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit to my cousin! He has just started realizing how fun it is to make cupcakes, especially decorate them, and he loves Snoopy, so this would be a perfect gift for him!
I would love the Top Pot Doughnuts cookbook – my parents recently moved to Seattle so it’d be a fun way to make them at home!
Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey sounds like fun!
They all look so interesting. I would probably give the Snoopy and Friends Cupcake book to my 5 year old niece who has recently discovered her love for baking.
I love the Snoopy liners so I would use them and share. I think my sister-in-law would like the Little Paris Kitchen book so I would pass that along to her.
Golly it’s a toss up between Hand Forged Donuts and Handcrafte Candy Bars!!
I would love to win them all and then I wouldn’t have to choose!
They all look so fun! I am dying over those Peanuts cupcake liners, though. WANT!
oh they all sound so delicious, my favorite would be the Pretzel Making At Home, seen the website with promo code, ordering a few books Thank you for sharing
I think the Hand Crafted Candy Bars one would be awesome because you can make everyone their favorite treat and package them up pretty for a special Christmas gift from your kitchen! Who doesn’t love homemade goodie gifts??
They all look wonderful, but the Snoopy and Friends cupcake kit would be wonderful for my niece.
Hard to choose between Cake Pops holiday and Snoopy cupcake kit for most fun!! Thank you!
I would love to give my dad the “Tartine Book No.3” because he would enjoy experimenting and making everything in that book!
They all look exquisite, however, since my 30th birthday is this Saturday, I think the pretzel book is calling my name!
The Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit and the Cake Pops would probably be the funnest, and most loved at our house!
I would love to give my sister The Little Paris Kitchen, she is obsessed with anything French!! Thank you!
The Little Paris Kitchen
Sticky chewy messy gooey… That sounds like the kind of treats I like to eat and make!!! Love it!!!
The Model Bakery Cookbook would be great to give or keep. It covers all areas of baking and I’m always looking for great baking projects to make and share.
Wow, they all look wonderful and since I already have your cookbook, I’d give that one to a friend. I’d love to have the Handcrafted Candy Bar cookbook. The cover looks good enough to eat!
So many great choices! Hand Crafted Candy Bars would be wonderful to “taste-test” and give as presents!
Sticky Chewy Messy Gooey sounds wonderful! I bet I could make all kinds of great stuff from that cookbook!
I’m most excited about the Tartine one… but they all look good! I love cookbooks!
I’d love to give the siticky messy chewy gooey!!!! =)
I would love to win The Little Paris Kitchen. I would love my cooking and baking skills with French recipes. I love experimenting with recipes and this sounds like it may provide me with a challenge. Thank you.
“Cake Pops”, of course :)
ooohhh the little Paris kitchen sound lovely!!
I would love the Model Bakery. Fun giveaway- thank you!
That’s a no-brainer. Cake Pops for Holidays by Bakerella!
The Home Forged Doughnut one looks amazing!
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey sounds just about perfect.
Hand-crafted Candy Bars, because I already have yours :)
I would love to have the Little Paris Kitchen for my daughter. She loves to cook and is hoping to make a trip to Paris so it would be perfect!
The pretzel book is calling my name!
sticky, messy chewy gooey!!!! I would love to
have it!!!… =)
Tartine!! Bread and pastry making is all mine!
Oh my!!! All of them look amazing!!! If I had to choose (which I hate doing), I think I would choose……..Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey!!! I LOVE the name!
I’d love to give the Hand Forged Doughnuts cookbook – I know lots of people who would love it! (Including me :) )
I would love to get the first book. I’m a member of a group of proud and outspoken donut-lovers, and having the ability to make them from home would only serve me well.
I’d love to win The Little Paris Kitchen. I loved my visit to Paris two years ago because of the quaint bakeries. I quickly became a local Parisian by chewing on a baquette as most Parisians do on their way to work and I on my way to exploring one of the most romantic cities in the world. I’d be fun to attempt to create a dessert with the friends whom I went to Paris with.
I will give the Snoopy & Friends kit to be BFF who LOVES the Peanuts!!
One of my oldest and dearest friends is a HUGE Peanuts fan and it would be awesome to give her the Snoopy and Friends cupcake kit. Last year I gave her a dancing Snoopy for Christmas.
I’d give away your book of course because everyone loves cake pops!
LOVE First Book thanks so much for calling attention to the great work they do! I would LOVE the Snoopy kit!
Hand crafted candy bars! Yum!!
They all look great! I usually give books to the kids in my life, but I should definitely be giving books to the adults too! Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey is the book I want the most!! It sounds like there will be some Awesome recipes!
I would love the Snoopy and friends cupcake mix. My sister and best friend absolutely LOVE Snoopy and the Peanuts gang! I would love to make some cupcakes for them both!
I think any of these books would be great to give or receive! I am a sucker for the Snoopy and friends cup cake kit though. It would be so sweet to make cup cakes with those liners!
They all look awesome and it would be hard to part with any of them. I have several friends that I know would love to receive any one of them
Oooh, I love to give and receive books. They’re my favorite. I’d love Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts.
I covet them all, but the candy bar one looks divine!
I love cookbooks!!! I would love to give the cake pops book to my girl friend who has a 3 year old who loves to bake. I would love them all but I guess if I had to choose maybe the tartine one or the little Paris kitchen!
I would love to give flour, too..i have the first book at it is amazing!!
They all look so great. But would really like sticky chewy messy gooey and little paris kitchen
I love Chronicle books! I’d probably keep the Tartine one for myself, but of course I’d have to read all of them first before giving them away… thanks for hosting the giveaway!
Cake Pops of course!
I also really like the Snoopy & Friends cupcake kit!!
Selfishly, I would love, love, love the Hand-crafted Candy Bars cookboook and or course, cake pops! They would all make lovely gifts!
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey! That book looks irresistible!
Cake Pops of course. I’ve tried to make them, but mine have turned out a big flop. I’m also a big Snoopy fan, so I would like that, too.
The Snoopy Cupcake kit is just too cute! I want one! :D
Tartine book no 3.
Cool collection of cookbooks. But I think the one I would use the most is Tartine Book No. 3.
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey looks amazing!
I am a bakery cookbook gal. I love # 7, 8, and 9. Yea!
I love them all but I must say, Snoopy and Friends would be awesome!!!
I love them all but Tartine No. 3 or The Handmade Candy bars sound fun and something I have not tried! I love making new things and these sound amazing!
They all sound fantastic, but the one I’d be most excited about is Little Paris Kitchen. I was a French major in college and love all things sweet, so it would be perfect for me!
Wow. These all look incredible and I want them all! I have a sweet tooth so they look amazing but I would love to try out some homemade pretzels! Yum!
Flour, too please :)
I would love to give the candy bar book to a friend of mine! She does a big Christmas Bakefest every year during the holidays and I sure she could find some more goodies to add!!
Flour, too for sure! Joanne Chang is an amazing baker.
As soon as I saw The Little Paris Kitchen I thought of my wonderful sister in law. I know she would love it!
TARTINE… I’ve had my eye on this one since the minute it was released. Pretzel making sounds like incredible fun though…
I’ve had my eye on “Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey” for a while now – it looks amazing!
Oh, my, word. Every one of those books sounds positively delightful. I think the doughnuts are calling to me though. My husband’s office enjoys receiving hot doughnuts in the morning.
Handcrafted Candy Bars – Yum!
Little Paris Kitchen — I love Rachel Khoo!
I’d love to GET the “Tartine Book No 3”, but even more so, I’d love to GIVE the snoopy cupcake set!
The Model Bakery Cookbook! I am broke college student who just wants to bake all the time! This is an AMAZING cause! great job!!!
Little Paris Kitchen looks great!
I would love to get Tartine Book No. 3. I have both of their other books and always try to visit their bakery or restaurant whenever I’m in SF. It’s the one cookbook I have to have this holiday season.
Model Bakery and Tartine No. 3!
I have a *small* cookbook addiction, but I don’t have ANY of these! They all look amazing. Thx for sharing the list! :)
My boys(husband included) would love to see a snoopy themed cupcake party. I love giving and receiving books for the holidays.
Other than your book…hard to choose just one, but Hand-crafted Candy Bars look delicious!
What could be better than Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey!!
Oh this is the best giveaway! We love books in our home. I have 6 of these on my wishlist for Christmas. I would love Tartines 3rd book. Great choices!!
would love to drool over the pretzel book! they’re all beautiful though! :)
They all sound great especially that cake pop one which is on my Christmas wish list ;). I would also want to add “Flour too ” to my collection.
Thank you Bakerella!
I would love the Snoopy cupcake liners!
Definitely the Handcrafted Candy Bars!!
I’d love Joanne Chang’s “Flour Too” book!
The Model Bakery Cookbook would be my top one out of the list for gift giving.
I think the Model Bakery Cookbook would be the best to give to my mom!
i would love to give the snoopy kit!! it looks like so much fun!! but i am definitely most excited about the flour, too and tartine 3 books!!
What a mouth-watering stack of books! I think they all look delightful! The one that intrigues me the most is the donut one:) Thank you for the chance!
I would LOVE The Little Paris Kitchen the most. My sister loves cookbooks and I think she would like the Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey book! Thanks for the giveaway!
I’d love to receive any of them but if I have to choose, I’ll choose Flour, too.
All of them seem to be great books, but if i need to choose only one I think The little Paris Kitchen will be.
I simply would love Tartine No. 3 as my first choice. I love trying new recipes and French cooking/baking. Little Paris would be my second choice and Flour, too my third. What a treat (no pun intended) to win all of them!
Oooh I would love the Top Pot book. I’ve never made donuts at home before and would love to try. That would be perfect!
Definately Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey…love love LOVe to receive it! That is all the components of a great dessert to me! But really, I’d love them all!
I’d like to get Little Paris Kitchen…and I’m going off to buy my Mom the snoopy cupcakes right now!
Any of these lovlies would make a wonderful gift for friends and family. I personally would love to get my hands on the doughnut book, oh mama it looks crazy yummy!
I’d be most interested in the ones that have both sweet and savory dishes in them, since I’ve been trying to cut back on the desserts a bit. Maybe flour, too or Tartine No. 3.
They all look wonderful, but I’m thinking Little Paris Kitchen is what I’m in the mood for right now…
Hand-crafted Candy Bars!
They all look so wonderful but i would love to try recipes from The Little Paris Kitchen. I Love cookbooks even if I don’t cook as often as I should.
Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts and Flour, Too look super fun! All the books look great though.
I would like to give the Snoopy baking set to my niece who loves to cook with me. And to receive, I think I would like to learn all about what is in the Flour, too book!
Oops, that’s me with the “anonymous” comment! Here’s my contact info, so sorry about that! My favorites are Cake Pops and The Little Paris Kitchen :)
they all look great! I would love to have them all! I do love how you picked something Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang!!!
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey!
I’d love to get the Hand-Crafted Candy Bars book!
I’d love to receive any of them ~ they all sound great. The Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit I’d give to my granddaughter as she loves making cupcakes.
Little Paris Kitchen has me very intrigued. (Only because I already own Cake Pops :))
Oooooo-weeeeeee, ooooo-weeee, ooooo-weeee!
I choose Sticky, Messy, Yummmmmy, Gooooo-weeeeee!
(Yikes! I forgot the name. )
But you know what I’m talkin’ ’bout!
If I don’t win I’ll try not to pout…
There’s always next time or so they say.
Your delicious website makes my day!
The Snoopy and Friends Cupcake kit would be a great gift for a friend!! And the rest sound awesome and I would love to try them all out!!
The books I’d like most are your cake pop book and The Little Paris Kitchen! This is a really fantastic giveaway; thanks for doing it :)
I love books!! I always put books on my Christmas wish list and give books to others. The book that looks the best to me is Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey – yum! And since I am a huge Peanuts fan I also love the Peanuts cupcake kit.
Well, I already have all of the cake pops books so I would looove to try Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey! Sounds right up my alley!
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey!
I have always wanted to try and make donughts but haven’t had the know-how maybe that book would help?
The Little Paris Kitchen sounds awesome. I swoon over French desserts!
Well, first, I’d love to give the Snoopy & Friends Cupcake Kit to my 9 yr old niece for Christmas and second, I’d love to have the Cakepops Holiday book so we can make some of those when she comes to visit! Also, I have to say that since I was little I’ve had such a love for books, so I’m thankful that First Book & Chronicle Books is doing this! What an awesome way to share books with others! Blessings! ~H
Snoopy & Friends Cupcake Kit and Cake Pops Hoilday – great way to involve kids in baking.
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey has to be my favorite to receive, but I would love to give Cake Pops and Little Paris Kitchen. Coming from a family of book lovers (and cookbook collectors!), I think it’s great that Chronicle is doing this giveaway and giving books to kids.
the holiday pops book! i’m experimenting with cake pops and that would be awesome to have! :)
Oh I would love that Snoopy one! I would love to give my friend the cakepops one.
The Model Bakery Cookbook is my favorite. I would love to win one as well as give one.
The Handcrafted Candy Bars would be super fun but I do love the Peanuts cupcake kit! I think it comes with being a baking beagle owner :)
I can’t. I can’t. You want me to choose? How can I choose? UGGHHH…. Hardest decision in my life.
Okay, okay, okay…..
*deep breath in, deep breath out*
Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey would be my main choice… just as long as it comes with Top Pot Hand-forged Doughnuts, Cake Pops Holidays, Hand-crafted Candy Bars, Pretzel Making at Home, Snoopy and Friends Cupcake Kit, Flour, too, Tartine Book No. 3, The Model Bakery Cookbook, and The Little Paris Kitchen.
:D Sorry, but with delicious things like those, it’s hard for this sweets-die-hard to choose just one.
I would love the Tartine cookbook! I didn’t realize they had a third one being released now. If I don’t win, I know something that’s made it to my Christmas list.