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Time to get in the baking spirit

It’s October and one of the most fun months of the year to bake and share sweet treats.

Cute. Spooky. Scary. Ooey. October is all about having fun in the kitchen and treating people to a smile.

Want to get your bake on and get in the baking spirit? Want to trick out your treats?

Well, how about a brand new KitchenAid stand mixer to get you started?

Sounds ghoulishly good to me.

Enter for a chance to win a KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer in one of the Spooktacular colors above.

  • To enter, just leave a comment on this post and tell me which mixer color you’d like to win … oh and if you know what treat you’d like to make this Halloween, I’d love to hear that too.
  • Deadline to enter is Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 at 7:00 pm ET. Sorry, Time’s Up! Winner announced below.
  • One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Wednesday evening.

Good luck guys!

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Okay, here we go… drumroll please…  And the winner of a brand new KitchenAid mixer is … Debi!!!!

YAY Debi – Boysenberry IS a fun color! Happy baking this Halloween!

 This giveaway is sponsored by me.

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8,001 comments on “Time to get in the baking spirit”

  1. That Contour Silver is just too hot! I’d use it to make pumpkin marshmallows.

  2. boysenberry!…and this halloween i am making pumpkin cream cheese macarons :o)

  3. The Tangerine is really beautiful! I’d have to start with some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with that one!

  4. Grey! Matte finish is so sexy.

  5. Would absolutely love the tangerine!!! What a great belated birthday gift it would be. I can see creating all our fall favs with it. Such an inspiring color!!!

  6. I’m thinking that Orange mixer is pretty awesome…definitely perfect to brighten up any kitchen!

  7. white will suit perfect in my kitchen.

    pumpkin cake balls foor my pupils

  8. Onyx black! Traveling to NY next week. Hoping to get some new inspiration for a halloween theme cake.

  9. onyx black! like to bake halloween themed cupcakes :))

  10. I would make boo-berry cookies for my little ones :3. They’re gorgeous.

    Contour Silver :3

  11. Onyx black- I plan on making lots and lots of cookies! Yum Yum

  12. I don’t own a mixer! I do everything by hand. While it still turns out great, I’m sure a mixer will cut the time in half! I love the tangerine mixer!

  13. I’d go for the contour silver! I’m a pastry chef and do not own a kitchen aid at home! Can you believe that??? Id make tons of sugar cookies, spooktacular cakes and lots of pumpkin spiced loaves! Mmm.

  14. I’m making banoffee cupcakes with a gooey surprise! Would love the Contour Silver! Love bakerella! Inspired me to make 120 cake pops as wedding favours! X

  15. The Onyx Black one is calling for a nice little spot in my kitchen :-)

  16. I absolutely love the tangerine!! Such an inspiring color. I would love to create all my fall favs with it :)

  17. Please, boysenberry be mine..!!! :)

  18. I would love the boysenberry or black mixer…been dying to try cheesecake pops and toll house cookie pie for the longest! but would be greatful for any color :)

  19. This Halloween treat is going to be pumpkin cheesecake tarts drizzled with caramel and garnished with marshmallows! I love the tangerine coloured mixer although would absolutely love to win any of the beautiful colors above!

  20. Tangerine is the best! I want to make brain cupcakes :)

  21. I’d love to win the contour silver! I’d be baking lots of pumpkin everything!

  22. I love the canopy green.

    I’d make some pumpkin bread. Nice and festive.

  23. Oh I’d love the grey, thank you

  24. I would love the Boysenberry mixer. I am always baking and adding color to my cookies and cakes. It would great having a mixer to reflect the baking.

  25. I would love to have boysenberry so that I can bake pumpkin pie cupcakes.

  26. White! Definitely white! :)

    And for Halloween.. Something scary looking :)

  27. I love the onyx. And the rest of them and your site for giving me reasons to drool over mixers! I’m planning on making spiderweb cookies and cupcakes.

  28. I’d love the boysenberry one! its so pretty!!

    I will be making a cake.. half halloween and half bday!! my dads bday is on halloween! I also really want to make the cookies that look like dead fingers! they are so creapy but so amazing!!!

    Thanks for the opportunity to win a mixer!!!

  29. I am baking banoffee cupcakes with a gooey surprise! Love the silver one! Love bakerella! Inspired me to make 120 cake pops as wedding favors! X

  30. The boysenberry is calling my name, I love it. I would make skull cake pops.

  31. Grey please, how exciting for the winner :-)

  32. Contour silver please..

  33. Oh, I love the tangerine one.

  34. I love the grey one..

  35. I would love to have the Boysenberry one. ^^ Its color will catch everyone’s eyes when they see it.
    I would like to make Popcakes with Halloween Theme.

  36. I’m from Spain. Can I enter? I like boysenberry and I’m going to do pumpkin cupcakes and merengue ghosts.

  37. I would love to have boysenberry so that I can bake pumpkin pie cupcakes.

  38. I love the tangerine; and it would be perfect to prepare my pumpkin cheese cake.

  39. I’m making cake pops and chocolate covered oreos for Halloween this year. May do some sugar cookies too if time permits.

    As for color it’s completely impractical but I love the Boysenberry one

  40. I would love the canopy green one! Making all things pumpkin for the next month or two :)

  41. The mixer in boysenberry is absolutely gorgeous! First thing on the agenda would be a batch of macarons!

  42. onyx black
    smooth and slick, would class up any kitchen

  43. The Boysenberry KA mixer is very stylish! I would make pumpkin spiced loaf with it for Halloween!

  44. Onyx black please! I’d make my voodoo doll cake pops for Halloween with it – choc-orange flavour, yum!

  45. Would love a contour silver one, why? It reminds me of an old industrial mixer my mum used to have during my childhood days.

    What I would love to make are red velvet cake pops, but with a jelly that is barely set in the center, so I could decorate the cake pops like eye balls and when kids bit into them, this sweet red jelly substance oozes out!

  46. the contour silver is the best addition to my baking repertoire! will be baking speculoos cupcakes, cookies and tarts for the season!

  47. I’d love the Tangerine mixer! I’m going to bake a spooky multi-colored cake .

  48. The Boysenberry KA mixer looks very stylish! I would use it to make pumpkin bread this Halloween!

  49. Boysenberry, and I would be making vampire cake pops and pumpkin spice cookies and cupcakes. Oh and not forgetting a nice brownie with red cherries for a bloody finish. ;)

  50. i like the silver one its my dream to have
    i wish my dreams come true.thank u

  51. Hey ! I’m french, so sorry for my bad english !
    White is the most beautyful, and i want to use it to make lollipops marshmallows ;-)

  52. I think the Tangerine is such a refreshing color, I’d have to choose that one. I have a ceramic pitcher in my collection that would match it exactly.
    Skeleton cookies (using the Williams Sonoma cookie cutters and my new Wilton decorating tips) are on the To Do list for this Halloween. I am also eyeing a spider web cake on one of this month’s magazine covers…

  53. I would like The White one please.
    I am making gingerDead men (cutter by Fred) For Halloween!

  54. oooh :DD i’ve always wanted a kitchen aid mixer!! and the Boysenberry color is spooktacular! :D

  55. The canopy green one! That colour is gorgeous. I’m thinking of making something biscuit-y with cinnamon. The colder weather is making me crave cinnamon everything!

  56. Boysenberry!! I love that colour!!
    For Halloween I make carrot or pumpkin cupcake witch cream cheese frosting.. and a lot of icing cookie: witch shoe and hat, Frankenstein, owl, ghost, bat, tumb, zombie, pumpkin (I love Halloween becouse I’ve got birthday then :) )

  57. White is amazing

  58. Boysenberry!
    I’m going to make pumpkin cupcakes

  59. I would love the white one please!
    I will make gingerDEAD men(cutter by Fred) for Halloween!

  60. Boysenberry

    I love making pumpkin rolls with cream cheese filling.

  61. I love the contour silver! It would be great for mixing up pumpkin pies and spice cookies and all the Christmas candy!

  62. I am from Spain. I like the Boysenberry one. It’s perfect for my bloody cupcakes…

  63. The boysendberry. For halloween, i would make a boo cake pops

  64. Thanks for the giveaway ! Halloween cake pops, sugar cookies, mini cheese cakes, I could go on for hours! Boysenberry looks beautiful but could also live with the gray one!

  65. I would love the white mixer! I am going to making Caramel Apple Fudge!

  66. I love the boysenberry colour!!

    And I would make a pumpkin and nuts bundt cake with chocolate ganache! It’s so delicious!

    Thanks for the giveaway :)

  67. Oh, I’m seriously loving the boysenberry color! I’ve already made some really good pumpkin bread and I’m sure there is more to come.

  68. I would love the white one! I’m planning on making anything pumpkin-y :)

  69. I’ll make some pumpkin cupcakes and some dark chocolate bat cookies and maybe some delicious layered cake with chocolate + mixed berries and spiderweb dekoration. The tangerine colour would be perfekt for me. :)

  70. Mummy Cakeballs!
    Canopy Green!
    :)

  71. Boysenberry! I would love to try out my next recipe, pumpkin snickerdoodles, in this mixer.

  72. I love pecan pie. Any time of the year! And the Boysenberry is my dream color <3

  73. The boysenberry one looks good. =)

  74. Mummy Cakeballs!
    Canopy Green!
    :)

  75. I love the Tangerine >. < For a treat this year I want a lot of pumpkin cakepops with terrorific looks <3

  76. Love the silver color. I am learning how to make gluten free food for my Granddaughter

  77. I’d have to go with the Contour Silver. I don’t have one thing in mind to make but I’m sure it involves sugar!!! :)

  78. onyx black! for my gf!

  79. Boysenberry is my favorite color! Perfect for making pumpkin scones.

  80. I would love the grey one, but it was a tough decision :)

  81. I like the Boysenberry mixer. Would love to have one. We are thinking about making “peanut butter cup cheesecakes” or “cream cycle fudge”.

  82. I’m torn between boysenberry and grey.

  83. Love all the colors but I’ll go with the contour silver. I’m gonna make your mini pumpkin pies. My nephew love them!

  84. I make meringues and whip up frosting by hand – good for the arms, but still a hassle! A bright green KitchenAid would be a dream :) This Halloween I would use it to make marshmallw teacakes.

  85. i would go with the black one…wishing myself luck

  86. I love the Contour Silver!

  87. Contour silver. .. and what I’m really want to make is some zucchini bread.

  88. The boysenberry color. I’d bake something if I had a mixer but I dont have one so I cant bake anything.

  89. grey looks slick… swedish visiting cake… scary huh

  90. Boysenberry!! I will be making some pumpkin shaped pumpkin pie pop tarts :)

  91. I must have the tangerine one, because Halloween is my favorite holiday! Top of my list for spooky treats is bat and spider cakepops, and an ‘open grave’ cake with a chocolate skeleton in it.

  92. I would love the white colour, maybe pumpkin pies for halloween!

  93. They are all fabulous colors! Excited to make a spooky Halloween cake!

  94. I would love the boysenberry kitchenaid!!! :D and i think this year I’d like to try and make a graveyard cake with ghostpops and crumbled oreos as the gravel-dirt underneath the cookie tombstones and everything!! :)

  95. (First attempt didn’t go through so trying this again) If I were lucky enough to win I’d LOVE the chic look of the Grey mixer. My current mixer is almost as old as I am and about to die, so it would be a dream come true to win! I would be making all kinds of things – but mostly cake pops! Also, cakes, cookies, pies, you name it – and don’t forget the frosting! ;) <3

  96. I would make shaped sugar cookies! Please send the Tangerine one to me!!

  97. I’d like the Boysenberry one

  98. Oh the Pumpkin bread it will help make. Love the Onyx Black

  99. I’m torn between the flat grey and the bright tangerine. But, I’d have to say tangerine – it would brighten my day each time I use it. I plan on making pumpkin whoopie pies and pumpkin spice donuts as the weather cools off more.

  100. I love Boysenberry, some princess cupcakes for my baby

  101. The onyx black one, please! To Bake halloween cookies!!

  102. I love the Tangerine colored one! Something I like to make around Halloween is pumpkin donuts!

  103. I LOVE THE TANGERINE!!! LOOKS AWESOME!!!

  104. Sorry I jumped the gun when I posted…. Comment 563 is me!

  105. Grey or white!

  106. The boysenberry is so pretty… I’d use it to make halloween cupcakes

  107. Kitchen aid stand mixer…. My holy grail cookie baking friend. I am only able to use this when I’m at my moms house because she owns one, but it’s great bonding time! These are great colors, white, boysenberry, and tangerine call my name!

  108. Canopy Green would be perfect to stir up some truly spooky treats for Halloween…since it’s the color of SLIME! Maybe a little twisted, but it would be so much fun…

  109. Love the grey one!

  110. I quite like the idea of a canopy green mixer. A blood orange cheesecake sounds quite halloweeny also :)

  111. Boysenberry looks like a fun color in the kitchen. October it’s time to make pumpkin cookies with chocolate chips

  112. Would LOVE the Grey in my kitchen!! What would I be making? Lots of cake pops, cakes, cookies, you name it! My current mixer is on the fritz so a new one would be a dream come true!! <3

  113. I’d love to get my hands on the contour silver but I wouldn’t be picky on the color if I won one, I just want a mixer that won’t burn up on me when I’m mixing bread dough for some amazing cheeseburger buns I make or if I want to double or triple a cookie recipe!! ;)

  114. Boysenberry….sophisticated and girly all in one….love it.

  115. I would looove the Contour Silver! It would be great as a birthday gift since my birthday is on Halloween. I would like to bake a bash of ghost cupcakes with marshmallow icing and this mixer will be a great help ;)

  116. I’d loved all of them, specially the boysenberry one and I plan to make some halloween cake pops with it

  117. Tangerine is an awesome colour for halloween. Brightfully spooky theme cookie & cake pops is the best treats for this festive.

  118. The Onyx Black looks so striking!
    I’d love to whip up a batch of ghoulish red velvet cupcakes, or some pumpkin pasties with that beautiful machine!

  119. I would love to win the black on for my babygirl (30) lol to help her with her hobby baking which if I must say myself she is getting very good so finger’s crossed for my not so little chick,I thing she is making a halloween doll cake this year for her little chick x

  120. Thank you for offering this giveaway. If I were to be the lucky one, I would chips the black one. This October & Halloween season, I plan to make a lot birthday cupcakes.

  121. I would love the boysenberry! it would go great with the rest of my décor, and I would make mini cupcakes decorated as pumpkin heads!

  122. Boysenberry!! I want to make pumpkin muffins or mini pumpkin pies! Everything pumpkin :)

  123. Contour silver! What an awesome thing to do!!
    Thanks!! Xoxo, Jen

  124. Love the tangerine, sooo appropriate for Halloween

  125. Oh I’d love the white one! Just like the snow in winter, when baking is so special heartwarming. :)

  126. Omg boysenberry! If only they made a mixer named snozberry :)
    Making caramel apple cupcakes tomorrow in my green apple KA mixer. Maybe I’ll have a fruit salad of mixers :)

  127. Ooohhhh!! The bosynberry no contest :) it’s simply beautiful!!! As for Halloween treats not sure yet but probably something with chocolate :)

  128. the boysenberry pleeeease! pumpkin cake pops for halloween!

  129. The one in contour silver is beautiful. I’m going to make chocolate ghosts on sticks and a decorated halloween cake.

  130. I would looove the Contour Silver! It would be great as a birthday gift since my birthday is on Halloween. I would like to bake a bash of ghost cupcakes with marshmallow icing and this mixer will be a great help ;)

  131. I would be tickled to death to win the contour silver mixer while I mix up brownies, cupcakes, and more for my students at Hickman High School! As a student teacher, I have already learned one way to my kids hearts, and that’s through deliciously prepared FOOD!! What a fun way to spend Halloween with them and a standing mixer would make it oh so easy to do! Thanks Bakerella!
    (Ps I made the “hamburger and fries” cupcakes/ brownies/sugar cookies a few years ago and people still talk about them!! None of my other creations have turned out as awesome as yours though ha)

  132. I LOVE the tangerine colored one! The first thing I would make would be great old fashioned cutout sugar cookies for Halloween.

  133. Bakerella!!!! (: I’d love the mixer in “Contour Silver”. This Halloween I’m so excited to make little “Ghost Pops”.

  134. I’d love the Orange and I would make banana bread!

  135. I would love to get the boysenberry mixer. For Halloween I’m thinking of doing some rice kripsies treat or cupcakes :)

  136. Oh I’d love the white one! Just like the snow in winter, when baking is so special heartwarming. :)

  137. l would LOVE the mixer in Tangerine! l would mix up some apple cider doughnuts!

  138. Bakerella!!!! (: I’d love the mixer in “Contour Silver”. This Halloween I’m so excited to make little “Ghost Pops”.

  139. Tangerine for certain! It’s so bright, fun, and happy! I’m ready to start baking pumpkin anything and everything!

  140. The boysenberry

  141. Bakerella!!!! (: I’d love the mixer in “Contour Silver”. This Halloween I’m so excited to make little “Ghost Pops”.

  142. The canopy green is amazing!

    This Halloween I’ve already made a bunch of decorated cookies. I’m trying to think of something else so I’m going to read the comments and steal someone else’s idea ;)

  143. Oooohhhh the bosynberry is just beautiful!!! As for Halloween treats haven’t made up my mind yet but probably something with lots of chocolate :)

  144. The Tangerine colour is so cool! For Halloween this year I’m planning some pumpernickel bread – that’s a totally spooky coloured loaf, right?!

  145. I love the boysenberry colour mixer!! It looks gotgeous! I’m gonna make pumpkin cupcake & pumpkin cookie :)

  146. So hard to choose! Love the Tangerine!

  147. Either the purple or orange, probably the purple! I’d make lots & lots of chocolate cupcakes :)

  148. I would go with the Metallic Chrome. Have not decided on what I am making for Halloween.

  149. I think I’ll have to go with Contour Silver, that’ll fit in all the appliances. Although i do love the Boysenberry one:..
    This Halloween I’ll be making pumpkin cheesecake – and possibly some other yummy things….

  150. love the boysenberry!! Plan on making pumpkin roll

  151. Contour silver looks fantastic – what an awesome prize :)

  152. I want to try making ghost cake pops and Halloween themed cupcakes this month :) and I’d love to win the Canopy Green mixer.

    Thank you for this great giveaway!

  153. I would enjoy the grey one I think, thanks!

  154. I’ll make some Halloween cake pops:) and I love the white mixer!

  155. I love the boysenberry!

  156. The retro girl in me wants the contour silver and the goth wants the black.

    I’ve always wanted to make those cakes that look like pots of dirt. Maybe layered in mason jars to look like a graveyard. Dig for coffins!

  157. The Canopy Green & Boysenberry are so pretty. I’d love to make a spooky Halloween Cake with my two little Boys ?

    Greeting s from Germany….love Bakerella ?

  158. I love the Onyx Black!!! I’d make Halloween cake pops of course :)

  159. I love the tangerine color! It’s such a happy color, just look at all the mixers, the tangerine one is smiling. :) I could make some pretty happy ginger molasses cookies with that bad boy.

  160. I’d love the green!

    I’m wanting to try making some pumpkin cinnamon rolls this fall.

  161. I love the boysenberry!! If I could just find that recipe for my favorite pumpkin bread, that’s what I’d be baking

  162. Canopy Green! I wanna make a nice soft popcorn ball:)

  163. I would LOVE the canopy green. My attempt for this season is to make a different types of caramel apples. Yummm!

  164. The tangerine mixer makes me smile! Bright and happy! I’ll be making pumpkin everything and anything for Halloween. :)

  165. Love the silver one !
    I will be brownie and cake pops

  166. The boysenberry to make pizzella for Christmas

  167. ohhh i like the boysenberry so much <3
    i bake monsterrrrr cupcakes
    Julia

  168. Ooh, boysenberry for sure! I’m unable to throw a Halloween party this year :(, so my theme will have to come out in baking. Visited London this year, so I’m going with a lovely London “horrible histories” kind of thing – Jack the Ripper, Sweeney Todd, that kind of thing (seriously, London has a very ghoulish past).
    Cupcakes decorated to look like little meat pies, complete with hidden marzipan “surprises” – who knows, you might just come across a finger or an ear.

  169. Yay for the boysenberry!! I’d love it! :)

  170. I love the boysenberry one, I need a mixer.
    I will make pumpkin chesse cake mummies cake pops

  171. I love the contour silver one.
    Id like to try the almond cookies that are shaped like fingers for Halloween. Or maybe an Amaretto cupcake.

  172. I will go with metallic Chrome! I plan making cake pops and cookie/sweet treats for kids this Halloween!

  173. i kind of love the contour silver. so sleek! i’d love to be able to use it to make cake pops… it would be my first time!!

  174. I would love to give a new home to the Onyx Black :)

  175. Ooo.. so many decisions! It’s a real toss up between the black or the boysenberry.
    As for Halloween treats… undecided. Something witchy.

  176. I d love the boysenberry one! Probably i’d make some halloween cupcakes! ;)

  177. boysenberry, definitely! and I am dying to try to make pumpkin macarons!

  178. I love the silver color! I’d make m and m cookies!

  179. Oooo…I’d love the orange one, because it’d match my bright orange tea kettle on the stove :)

  180. Boysenberry! And I’d make ghost meringue cookies and festive French macarons!!

  181. contour silver or onyx black. mini pumpkin cheesecakes…

  182. Oh I love the boysenberry!!! Tangerine is just as beautiful though!! I have plenty of treats to make for Halloween: a cake, cupcakes and cookies, busy busy!!!

  183. Contour Silver. This year I plan to make a gingerbread haunted house with the kid or skeleton sugar cookies.

  184. If I had the green mixer, I’d make pumpkin scones!

  185. I’d like to have the one in contour silver! It is elegant and is easy to clean I think. It is less prone to scratches unlike the painted ones. I am in the Philippines, I am a big fan of yours, Bakerella! If I win this item, my sister in Wisconsin will pay for the shipping. I do my cakes using local brand hand mixer, but this heavy duty mixer will help me with marshmallow icing and meringue candies :)

  186. I’d love the boysenberry mixer!

  187. I LOVE the boysenberry! I’m thinking of making some Halloween “puppy chow” or “Muddy Buddies” as some call it :)

  188. That boysenberry color is divine!

  189. A caramel walnut cheesecake is on my mind lately… And I’d love the white one! :)

  190. Tangerine! It just pops out! I would love to make caramel filled mocha chocolate chips cupcakes this halloween! This mixer would help alot in my baking! :)

  191. Tangerine! And I will be making pumpkin chili and pumpkin cornbread with pumpkin doughnuts for dessert. I have a theme and I’m stickin’ with it!

  192. I’m pretty sure my pimpkin cheesecake would taste even better if it were made in that Tangerine one!

  193. Oh…I love the Tangerine…I would bake a Devil’s Food Cake and a Angel Food Cake this Halloween!

  194. For this halloween I think I’m gonna go with halloween inspired cupcakes. They look so darn cute! Oh and I’d love the Onyx Black one. Thanks!

  195. Oh I love the boysenberry!!! Tangerine is just as beautiful though!! I have plenty of treats to make for Halloween: a cake, cupcakes and cookies, busy busy!!!

  196. I love the colour of the Boysenberry! I’m planning to make something with pumpkin but can’t decide between cupcakes, caramel dip or pie :)

  197. Boysenberry – I love purple!

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