Wednesday, December 7, 2011

first book review and giveaway!!

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Jenny "Lemke" Anwar! Please check your email for notification and send your address back within 48 hours. 

Thank you to everyone who joined the giveaway! Stick around because I will be having more cool giveaways in the coming weeks! 

Giveaway winner was chosen by http://random.org 





 

I'm happy to finally host my first giveaway here on Pink. My first item is a book and it's just in time for the Christmas Holiday! This book was sent to me from Colleen's Book Nook.  The item is Christmas Baking for Children from Usborne, written by Fiona Patchett and beautifully illustrated by Nancy Leschnikoff.


This book has 47 pages to guide you through a great Christmas baking experience. The illustrations will appeal to both young and old alike. It is written so that kids can follow along easily, but it is so much fun that any adult who enjoys baking will love it, too. It has a baking skills section to start you off in the right direction, and then jumps right into the recipes. There are recipes for cookies, shortbread, brownies, cupcakes and more. It also has sections devoted to toppings and fillings, decorating ideas, and wrapping ideas if you decide to give out your treats as a gift.

The illustrations are very cute. The cookies and other treats look delicious! Any child would love to help create or receive these special Christmas desserts and any adult can follow the easily written directions. This book is good for beginners, like me, but anyone can gain inspiration from the beautiful pictures of the finished products.

A few notable recipes include:
  • White Chocolate Brownies
  • Chocolate Christmas Cake
  • Stained Glass Window Cookies
  • Shortbread
I will be leaving the giveaway open until Friday at 12pm PST - so that I can mail it out that afternoon and you can get it with plenty of time for some Christmas Baking!

First here are a few rules:
This giveaway is open to residents of the US and Canada only. 
The winning entry will be verified.
The winner will be chosen via Random.org
The winner has 48 hours to respond to notification email or a new winner will be chosen.
This giveaway is open from posting time until Dec 9, 12pm PST.

 

And finally, here is how you can enter! Enter as many times as you'd like.
  • One Entry - Follow on one of the following: Google Friend Connect, GooglePlus, Subscribe to RSS, or Subscribe by email. Come back and leave a comment telling me which one you chose. (You can find all subscription options on the sidebar of the blog.)
  • One Entry - "Like" Everything Goes With Pink on Facebook and come back to leave a comment telling me that you did. 
  • One Entry - Follow me on Twitter. Come back and leave a comment telling me that you did. 
  • One Entry - Facebook Share this giveaway (via FB icon below this post). Leave a comment that you did. 
  • One Entry - Tweet about this giveaway (via Twitter icon below this post). Leave a comment that you did. 

Good luck to everyone entering. I am looking forward to offering more cool products that I think everyone will like. I will be definitely trying to mix it up for all the readers! I will post the winner on Dec 9th, shortly after the deadline.



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