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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. Old Fashioned Sugar Cookies, recipe from my Grandma, with lots of nutmeg! Made with the Boysenberry Kitchenaid!

  2. Hi Bakerella!! I would love to win the Tangerine mixer as it makes me think of Halloween too! Making some treats using pumpkin would be a great idea :)

  3. OH I would definitely need to go with the way cool canopy green! But Tangerine & metallic chrome are close! A cross of each would be cool!

  4. The orange one..candy corn color..just lovely

  5. The Boysenberry mixer makes my heart skip a beat!
    I would love to use it to cream butter and sugar for some deep dish s’mores this Halloween!

  6. I love the canopy green!
    I will make chocolate chip cookies! mmmmm

  7. I’d love to win the green one – I want to try my hand at making bread!

  8. I’m going to have to be boring and go with the Onyx Black, just because I’ve always wanted to keep my appliances neutral so I can change my kitchen colors around if I want without having to buy all new stuff! And I’d definitely be whipping up a wide array of pumpkin goodies…cream cheese stuffed pumpkin muffins maybe?

  9. I’d love the boysenberry!
    I think I will make Red Velvet cake :)

  10. I looove the contour silver one! And i am thinking about trying my hand on some scones!

  11. I absolutely love the boysenberry! Thank you for the giveaway :)

  12. Love the boysenberry it is so cool… if I I have to match my curtains I would go with onyx but why when you can make more curtains. :D So what would I make.. the sky would be the limit now if I win… since I lost my old stand mixer in the move this year… My boys and I would make cookies, any kind…for spookie spookie Halloween as my 3 year old son loves to call it, we would make ghost shape shape cookies, with homemade royal icing with sprinkles of course. Then I would make cake pops just because they never get out of our house when I make them for an events. Joy comes into our house when I bake.. you should see my hubby and boys face when they wait for the new creations out my kitchen

  13. I’d like the Onyx Black! Oh, and I’ll be making spider web cookies!

  14. I would love the Contour Silver

  15. I would love to win the Tangerine. This halloween I really want to make pumpkin choc chip cookies xxx

  16. Oh I like so much the grey one! But I don´t know if its possible to join this game from Germany? Hope so ;-)! For HAlloween I create this year some black pumpkins with white paintings on it and on the table I serve a cheese filled pumpkin and for the kids red velvet ghost and rip muffins. Love your webside so much ;-)! And know I´m wishing myself a lot of big luck! Greetings from Germany Anne

  17. Waow! I like silver or black. I don´t have mixer and I would use it to make every kind of dessert
    Good luck everyone!
    (sorry for my english)

  18. Hi, I think your the best for this giveaway and I’ve been dying for one of these forever. I would love the white it looks amazing. I’m making ghost pops for Halloween this year :)

  19. I’d love a contour silver mixer! I’m hoping to make some creepy, crawly spider cake pops. :)

  20. Onyx black for sure!!!

  21. Cookies… I love making spooky cookies for halloween.BOO! Now what color mixer hmm… Love the green, that would put a huge smile on my face every time I used it.

  22. Being on Social Security winning a white KitchenAid would be a wonderful treat for me. As for Halloween – I’m going to trick out some cupcakes for the residents at the local nursing home and for the kiddies who come to my door – they will get some pumpkins and ghouls on a stick made from rice krispie treats dipped in dipping chocolate.

  23. I love the onyx black one! And I love your website :)

  24. tangerine for halloween cookies!

  25. I would love to have the Onyx Black mixer to make a fun Halloween cake for my grandsons.

  26. Pumpkin Cheddar Muffins – I´d love the grey one <3

  27. Onix black, planning backing a pumpin roll or pumpkin cupcakes

  28. Lots of cookies. In contour silver.

  29. The gray……i would make red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing…

  30. Onyx black! It’s so beautiful… Greetings from Mexico! We love you!!

  31. Love the Boysenberry. Mini Wickson apples dipped in homemade caramel. And then rolled in peanuts.

  32. am learning to bake and decorate sugar biscuits so keeping it simple for halloween and planning on ghost biscuits. would be so great to mix the icing in the tangerine kitchenaid!

  33. Surprise Me, I wouldn’t say no to any of them.
    I’d whip up some velvet blood cupcakes (red velvet).

  34. I love clean things so I’ll go with white! This is awesome. Can’t even imagine winning something, let alone winning something this great. Thank you.

    I believe I’m gonna try my hand at a new cake recipe. I haven’t decided yet which one. :)

  35. White please!

    And ghoulish meringue for Halloween!

  36. Boysenberry of course..here go my cranberry n white choc cookies for the treat!! hoohaa..

  37. Tangerine!! And I’m throwing a fall themed desert potluck at work for Halloween, so many treat ideas are in order from mini pumpkin pies to ghost and bat cookies.

  38. I would definitely pick Onyx Black and I would make my yummy pumpkin bars!

  39. I have been looking up recipes for carmel and candy apples. My son’s birthday is a few days before Halloween and I want to make homemade carmel apples for his party! I like the boysenberry!

  40. Metallic Chrome would work in my kitchen when making spook tabular cupcakes and cakepops. I hope my dream will come true.

  41. Boysenberry! Amazing colour!

    Spooky cake pops for Halloween!

  42. I would love the Boysenberry one. Such a pretty color. I am making milk chocolate popcorn balls.

  43. I’d love the mixer in Tangerine.

    This Halloween I’m making a cemetery cake!

  44. I love the Boysenberry one!!! And I will be doing a Pumpkin and Chocolate Bundt Cake :D

  45. I would love the boysenberry one!
    I’m not sure what I would make – work has several potlucks coming up that I could really use this for though!

  46. I like Boysenberry the most!

  47. Chocolate covered ghost shaped krispie treats !!!! The tangerine would be the color for me!!!! Thanks bakerella!!!!

  48. I would love the canopy green colour or the tangerine. Heck I’d love any of them! And I had so much fun making some of your Halloween cake pops last year I think I’ll be making them again this year x

  49. Boysenberry .. . white …boysenberry … contour silver … boysenberry … so many beautiful colors. I plan on making meringue ghosts.

  50. Boysenberry is my favorite!!!
    For Halloween I would be making pumpkin muffins and cookies.

  51. I would love yo have the grey piece

  52. I would love to win this for a friend for her wedding. She has a Kitchen-Aid on her wish list. I would let her pick out her favorite color. There are too many beautiful colors to choose from.

  53. I’m going to make Halloween decorated sugar cookies for my husbands office at Ft. Lewis. :-)

    I love the Onyx Black mixer.

  54. As grey is my favourite colors, the Contour Silver take my heart!
    Personally I’m going to make some Frakenstein-Marshmallow, as I’ll go on a show the night of Halloween, we -my friends & I- need some treats easy to take away ;)

  55. Oh wow ! I’m tryin to bake a lot of your ideas at home. The grey Kitchen Aid would be so much fun!
    All the best !

  56. I love the white one!
    And I’ll be making some spooky cookies and fun cake pops for a Halloween party!

  57. I would love the white one to go in my new kitchen and would love it to help me make my friends wedding cake x

  58. Onyx black would look very stylish while I mixed up chocolate cupcakes for the kids halloween party.

  59. I would go for the Orange kitchenaid: perfect for making Halloween cupcakes here in Italy where, in fact, we traditionally do not celebrate Halloween. It’s about time to start!

  60. Thanks Bakerella for this wonderful opportunity!!! I would love the tangerine colored KitchenAid mixer!! This Halloween I am looking forward to making peanut butter cookies with orange spiderweb frosting on top with my new tangerine KitchenAid!!

  61. I will make some orange CakePops.
    Ich would like the contour silver one.

  62. I like boysenberry color! It’s beautiful… I would have it to make a lot of chocolate cupcakes!!

  63. Oh I’d love a classic white one!

  64. I would love the canopy green to make sticky dark gingerbread cakes!

  65. Onyx Black.

  66. definitely boysenberry :) I would be making pumpkin spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.

  67. Tangerine I would make lots of decorated sugar cookies.

  68. Boysenberry is the one for me. I am planning on making ice scream sandwiches for halloween

  69. Love the boysenberry!

  70. Love the Contour Silver!!

  71. I love Fall, so anything with pumpkin sounds good to me! I am kind drawn to the orange mixer because it feels welcoming. :)

  72. Love the grey one! I’ll be making Halloween Cake Pops for my 3 year old twin nephews nursery school class and cookies for the older nieces and nephews classes. And I’m baking Paula Deen’s Fresh Apple Cake for me!

  73. The white would make the perfect TREAT for my Mum who has always dreamed of having a Kitchen Aid!! We would love to whip up some halloween cupcakes using this! :D

  74. I’d love the orange one. I am planning to make dark chocolate almond coconut bars.

  75. Orange! And cake pops of course! :D

  76. I’m loving the sleek Onyx Black mixer! That would make my cake-pop baking much easier this fall! :)

  77. If I was the “Lucky Baker”, then I’d pick the white one for sure. I would bake Halloween cupcakes!!!
    Good Luck Tina!!

  78. That tangerine color is fabulous! It would look just as pretty in spring as in autumn. The fall treat I am looking forward to trying is apple cider caramels. Thank you for the chance to win!

  79. The boysenberry mixer is beautiful! Can’t wait to make a good old fashioned apple pie!

  80. Im gonna make some eye ball cake pop or balls. And some mummy cookies this coming weekend. Your website is an inspiration for me. I got into baking even more then i was when i found your site. Your awesome! Hope your are doing well and staying healthy! Color i would choice would be silver or tangerine.

  81. Mettalic Chrome! Mini pecan pies… hopefully!

  82. Most definitely the white :-) I will make pumpkin cupcakes with a cream cheese frosting! (yum!)

  83. Contour Silver

  84. We would pick the tangerine. It’s a beautiful machine and should stick out above all else. For sure we would make tons of Christmas cookies.

  85. Oh they’re all so beautiful, and I’ve changed my mind ten times in the past two seconds, but I think the Onyx Black would look beautiful in my kitchen :D

  86. Oh gosh the Grey one is gorgeous!!
    Think I’ll be making some witches fingers out of shortbread for Halloween xx oh and some cake pops of course!!

  87. I have always liked orange so I would pick Tangerine!

  88. love the tangerine!!!would definately be making pumpkin icebox pie…this halloween!!!

  89. GREEN!!! :-)

  90. Metallic Chrome! I’d be making lots of pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting. Yum!

  91. boysenberry or white!!!
    .. ur blog is a great source of inspiration
    thank u

  92. Oh gosh the Grey one is gorgeous!!
    Think I’ll be making some witches fingers out of shortbread for Halloween xx oh and some cake pops of course!!

  93. The grey is so classy! Definitely that one :)

  94. Tangerine would be perfect for halloween :)

  95. Oh, I would love to win the Canopy Green… :) I am thinking triple chocolate caramel cookies for halloween :)

  96. I’d love the tangerine one because it looks like a pumpkin !

  97. Tangerine would be perfect for halloween :)

  98. I would love the Green one. Green is my favorite color as it reminds me of nature. I will make a natural pumpkin pet treats and cut them into shapes and decorate them. My pets need a Halloween treat too :) …

  99. I’d love the GREY one in my kitchen! For Halloween I will make make some spooky monster cupcakes!

  100. tangerine! :))

  101. Tangerine. I plan to make my grandmother’s cookies.

  102. I’ve got my eye on the boysenberry. And, I’ll use it to make a pumpkin chocolate cheesecake.

  103. I like the Boysenberry Mixer. Something really yummy. Maybe white chocolate cupcakes.

  104. They are all so beautiful, but if I had to pick I would say Contour Silver. I can’t wait to make a pumpkin roll :)

  105. I would pick the boysenberry color one and then get some cool decals for the mixer – like the wonder woman ones that I found since I can’t get the limited edition one from brazil that Kitchen Aid made. Either way I would totally love my mixer and give it a name as well!

  106. Wow this is a great give-away! I could surely use a KitchenAid, since I’m moving out from my parents house in just a few weeks. I’m planning to bake banana bread and cheesecakes as often as I can there. I love the canopy green one – it’s the same colour as my glasses are!

  107. perfect!!! i would prefer the boysenberry!!

  108. Contour silver and I will be making sugar cookies cut out into ghosts! I loveeeee decorating cookies and giving each one of them a special personality!

    Great giveaway!

  109. boysenberry plssss. i really need one of these. totally in love!

  110. I love the black!!!!!!
    im excited to make a pumpkin spice cupcake with maple cream cheese frosting

  111. The matte grey is calling my name!! For some reason I’m feeling inspired to try my hand at some Halloween themed cake pops this Halloween…hmmm…I wonder why… :)

  112. Boysenberry looks so pretty! Definitely the boysenberry one.

  113. I would go with CANOPY GREEN and I will be making a big big Big birthday ( chocolate cake with orange vanille cake) cake for MMEEEE :) because it’s my birthday in october wwoooohhh. HALLOWEEN HERE I COME!!!!!! :)

  114. I love the grey one, huhmmm I’m thinking about pumpkin cupcake :3

  115. I absolutely adore the Boysenberry one!

  116. Onyx Black for me! I love to make chocolates, like turtles, dipped fruits, and my bearclaw truffles as soon as the weather turns chilly.

  117. I love the grey one…. and here in Greece we do not celebrate Halloween… but if we were I would definitely make some spider cookies.

  118. Contour silver :) Very chic for a kitchen supply. Greetings from Germany

  119. I would love to win any one of these colors! I’m entering for a very special and giving family member who more than deserves this!

  120. Hello and good morning !
    I will bake pumpkin pie, so yummy and the Boysenberry one would be so happy in my kitchen !
    Thank you !

  121. Ooh I haven’t seen that boysenberry before, but I really like it!
    I’m going to probably make a round (ie baked in a bowl) pumpkin cake this year.

  122. hmmm the white one is like a little ghost to me … so sweet !!

  123. canopy green
    Im gonna make choclate rolo nuttella cookies

  124. I will be making my favorite thing this Halloween. CAKE POPS!!! Will make some spooky ghosts and Jack- o- lanterns. I’m going to also make cake pops that are cube shaped dice for my Halloween Bunco party. I heart boysenberry. :) or should I say Boysen-scary! lol.

  125. Contour Silver or Boysenberry. Both look pretty cool

  126. I hope to make some spice cakes, pumpkin butterscotched cookies, and citrus tarts this fall. I really love the canopy green mixer. It is such a perfect color!

  127. ANY :) But I’d love that grey one. Or the onyx black or tangerine!

    First thing I would want to make are The Walking Dead themed cake pops!

  128. I’d love a boysenberry mixer :) to make mummy cupcakes

  129. I love the green! and i’m dying to make something with pumpkin. I’ve been traveling international for work since early september, living out of hotels, and I can’t wait to be home and baking again. I’ve actually been picking out recipes on pintrest for weeks trying to decide what to make first. it will most definitely be pumpkin.

  130. For Halloween this year I was planning on making spider shaped brownie pops and the itty-bity bat cupcakes!!

  131. I would make some yummy black velvet cake with the Black one.

  132. Oh wow it would be great to have a kitchen aid, the Boysenberry is adorable. For halloween i will try pumpkin cupcakes with orange creamchesse frosting.

  133. I’m not picky any color would do but I think the onyx black looks sleek. Oh and I am going to make homemade graham crackers :) thanks for the gaw

  134. Love the Boysenberry machine.
    I would make Pumpkin-youghurt Muffins in it :-)

  135. CONTOUR SILER…MMMMMM….. BUTTERCREAM, CUPCAKES, CAKE POPS….

  136. It would be a dream come true , I love all the colors but white would match my kitchen best!

  137. I love the tangerine colored mixer. I think i will make ghost pops or /and depending how motivated i am pumpkin cookies.

  138. Oooo it’s a real toss up between the boysenberry or the onyx black. I think boysenberry pips it though, purple is definitely my favourite colour. I would definitely use it to make halloween themed Macarons – I’ve yet to try them because all that beating egg white by hand has put me of so far :D

  139. Boysenberry is gorgeous and I am thinking pumpkin scones!

  140. Onyx Black so I can make spooky cupcakes

  141. Contour Silver

  142. The Boysenberry one of course!
    And I’d like to make spooky cupcakes :D

  143. Love Contour color!!!
    I will make decorated butter cookies.

  144. I love snickerdoodles! The cinnamon just screams fall for me! I love the silver and the boysenberry!

  145. Hi!!!
    I’d love the tangerine one… I love orange! *_*
    And, if I had money, I’d prefer to go to Disneyland… I went in 2006 and I really enjoyed it in Halloween.

  146. I love all the colors, but green is my favorite color! I would make a pumpkin roll for my daughter.

  147. Any colour would be great as my granny ancient kenwood has just died. But the tangerine one is pretty funky and would clash brilliantly with my hot pink kitchen walls :-)) x

  148. For sure the Tangerine or Canopy green! Love love love the brights! And I really really really want to make a great chocolate mousse cake! My mixer stripped a gear last week so feeling a bit ‘naked’ without it!

  149. The tangerine mixer looks awesome! I would make chocolate pumpkin muffins!

  150. I love the elegant look of the grey model. And I will make cupcakes with pumpkin-shaped toppers :-)

  151. I love the tangerine! I can’t wait for fall and all the pumpkin and Apple treats!

  152. The colors are all really nice, but I like boysenberry the best. This Halloween, I would love to make Oreo balls (maybe dyed orange with a green stem to look like pumpkins?) or my mom’s recipe for glazed pumpkin cookies.

  153. I would LOVE the tangerine – It would match my hair! I’m thinking of trying some little individual pumpkin pies this Halloween, and probably some spooky shaped chocolates :)

  154. I love the super-shiny chrome mixer.

    I’ll be making Halloween cupcakes in a few weeks for a bake sale.

  155. I would love a Tangerine mixer!!

    I’m planning to make spiced carrot-cakeballs! :)

  156. Contour silver! And cinnamon rolls…

  157. Tangerine is getting my mouth watering! I’d like to mix up some dough for Halloween Spooky Fingers.

  158. The boysenberry is gorgeous! Also, I’m looking forward to baking apple cakes for the fall! :)

  159. I’d love the Boysenberry one :)

  160. Onyx black please :)

  161. Oh, my that grey one. That would spice up my new (secondhand) kitchen!

  162. I would like the boysemberry one! Anyway I love your site :)

  163. I love canopy green! It looks so pretty for my gorgeous ghost marshmallow cupcakes!

  164. I love the canopy green for mixing up some pumpkin pecan bars!

  165. The tangerine coloured mixer caught my eye straight away! So i’d go with that:) and i might make some mini ghost sugar cookies:) thanks for the giveaway!

  166. I would love the tangerine colored as it goes with the Halloween occasion. I’m gonna make ginger bread man for the kids!

  167. Boysenberry looks absolutely stunning! For Halloween, I love making your mini pumpkin pie bites and drawing cute jack-o-lantern faces on them!

  168. I love canopy green! It looks so pretty for my gorgeous ghost marshmallow cupcakes!

  169. Hola, Bakerella,me gustan todos los colores, cualquiera de ellos me iria bien pues no tengo ningura maquina de mezclar, para hacer las mezclas serian perfectas,y color ,no se……..creo la sorpresa seria mejor al descubrir cualquiera de ellos blanco etc . Me encanta todas recetas y probaria a hacer una de las tuyas .saludosssss

  170. I’m in love with the grey!
    And I’m thinking to make some decorated cookies for this Halloween!

  171. contour silver…my friends wedding cake!!!

  172. I love the contour silver!

  173. Onyx black I suppose if there is no espresso brown. I will be making yummy pumpkin cupcakes & cake pops!! ;-)
    thanks for this drawing!!

  174. What nice colors! I think my favorites would be the Boysenberry or Contour Silver. I’m seeing double layer pumpkin pie in my future :).

  175. The boysenberry is beautiful! I love everything pumpkin once it’s October.

  176. Definitely the Boysenberry one – so pretty! I’d put it to use making cheesecakes :)

  177. I love canopy green!! It looks so pretty for my gorgeous ghost cupcakes!

  178. I love the Boysenberry one! It would be perfect for me and my 7 year old sister to create our own spooky cupcakes!

  179. The Boysenberry is beautiful! I’d love to make pumpkin spice cupcakes

  180. contour silver…my friends wedding cake!!

  181. What great colors! I would pick the Canopy Green because it is my favorite color— but contour silver would go with my kitchen. What a connundrum!!

  182. Look at that tangerine color! On my to-do:
    Sugar cookies with insect imprints to make them look like fossils! Pumpkin cookies, and I want to give taffy another try (last time…not so successful.)

  183. My sister is a baker, my brother is a baker…and I’m desperate in the kitchen :/ Need help!!! (maybe from a grey KitchenAid :D )

  184. Love that Canopy Green! Though Boysenberry is growing on me…

  185. I hope to WINNNNN:))))
    I love the purple one…

  186. Oooooooh, the Canopy Green would be amazing! Thanks!

  187. Tangerine!!!! Ooh what to make!!! Something sweet and sticky me thinks!!!!

  188. i would looooove a canopy green one! it would match gorgeously with my kitchen :) i will be making “mummy sausages”:)

  189. Hello :)
    I would like the contour silver or the tangerine ! They look gorgeous !
    For Halloween, I am planning to make spooky biscuits !

  190. Metallic Chrome, Black, Silver, Grey…who can choose?! And equally difficult to decide what to make…pumpkin, maple, caramel…bread, cake, cookies…it’s all good!

  191. I think Jelly worms for my little boy and some spider cup cakes!!!i’ m in love with the boysenberry one!!!<3

  192. Tangerine and pumpkin whoopie pies are my favorite to make!

  193. Loving the tangerine!!!! I would love to create some fall favs with it. Such an inspiring color!!!

  194. Contour Silver and I would definitely make marshmallows.

  195. Boysenberry… tq.

  196. Well you can’t go wrong with the classic black! And I would make anything and everything because this mixer would make it SO much easier!!!

  197. I love the boysenberry. I need to make peanut butter s’mores bars — it’s been too long!

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