To celebrate the 2nd blog anniversary of My Cookbook Addiction, I will be giving away some of my favourite cookbooks and prizes for the month of May!
I never gave blogging a thought until I had to set one up for a Web site I was working on (Auberge des Gallant). When I was setting up a ‘test’ blog to become familiar with the dynamics, I was wondering what to name the blog. Let’s see, I love to knit, read, bake, cook and then I looked at the bookshelves stuffed with cookbooks around me – hence My Cookbook Addiction.
In the past two years I have had the pleasure of meeting so many wonderful, passionate food bloggers, joined baking/cooking groups, Daring Bakers and Daring Cooks (founded by Ivonne of Cream Puffs in Venice and Lisa of La Mia Cucina), Tuesdays with Dorie( founded by Laurie of Quirky Cupcakes) and learned so much about the world of food blogging.
I made a best cyber friend Donna (Spatulas, Corkscrews and Suitcases) whom I had the pleasure to meet and whose support has kept me blogging.
Talk about a small world, my husband met the husband of a Montreal food blogger at the workplace. During a conversation they discovered that their wives were food bloggers! My husband sent me an email from work that day asking me if I knew of the blog Under the High Chair. Of course I did! Aimée has a wonderful food blog with amazing photos and she is also hosting a book give-away for Mother’s Day!
Then there are all the food bloggers who stop by to visit and leave such nice comments! Thank you!
The first cookbook giveaway will be Field Guide to Cookies 
This is one of my favourite cookie cookbooks. It’s jam packed with delicious cookie recipes that you will make over and over again. One of my favourite cookie recipes is Fig Bars (I love figs!!).
Cookie Basket – Gift Idea for Cookie Lovers
Bake a few different types of cookies from the book and include Field Guide to Cookies in the basket OR bake a few different types of cookies for yourself and keep the book.
In order to participate in this cookbook giveaway, just leave a comment stating why you would like to win this book and mention your favourite cookie recipe by May 9th. I will use the Random Generator to choose the winning comment and will post the winner on May 10th!
ciao for now..
Congrats on your 2nd anniversary!!
I’m always looking for new cookie recipes, so I would love to have this cookbook. My favorite cookie recipe is my grandma’s peanut butter cookie recipe
As a fellow cookbook addict, I love the name of your blog! I also have a serious cookie addiction and am always on the lookout for great new recipes to add to my website, http://www.best-ever-cookie-collection.com.
I would so appreciate adding this cookbook to my cookie cookbook shelf.
My favorite cookie recipe is for old fashioned soft molasses cookies that my mom clipped from her hometown newspaper decades ago.
It’s always nice to have great cookie recipes. I have a six year old grandson and another on the way. My favorite is a sugar cookie with butter cream icing on top. 🙂
Susie
I would love to win this book because I’m crazy about baking: it would make a great addition to my collection.
My favourite cookies so far ar the World Peace Cookies we made for TWD a while ago: delicious!
I keep running into fabulous recipes out of this book – love to get my hands on it! As for a favorite cookie? It changes weekly, but currently it’s a chewy PB cookie with chocolate chips.
Don’t think anyone loves cookies more than me. Great contest and the blog is looking AMAZING!!
I am always looking to learn more recipes.. especially cookies! My favorite is choclate chip. Thanks for the giveaway!
looks great- please include me I love learning to cook- even an old fart like me can learn new ways and get ideas
I want to win because I have passed down my love of baking to my two daughters, and that love was handed down to me from my mom. I Love cookbooks, I read them like they’re novels! Thanx for the chance to win.
I’d love to win because I can use all the help I can get with recipes. My favorite cookie recipe is from my ex mother in law and it’s potato chip cookies – they’re wonderful
msboatgal at aol.com
Congrats on your Anniversary! I would love to win this recipe book because cookies are my ALL time favorite dessert to make. I am always on the hunt for wonderful cookies and from all your bragging it seems like this cookbook would be a PERFECT fit for me and my cookie obsession! Its very hard to pick a favorite cookie because I LOVE so MANY!
Lets see…hmmm…one of my favorite cookie recipes would have to be:
Glazed Fresh Apple Cookies
Super yummy cookies, especially in the fall!
Fresh Apple Cookies
Butter
Brown Sugar
1 Egg
2 C. flour
Baking soda
Baking Powder
Salt
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Apple Juice
1 C. Finely Chopped, Unpeeled, Apple
Powdered Sugar
Vanilla
Apple Glaze
1 T. Butter
1½ C. Powdered Sugar
⅛ tsp. salt
2½ T. Apple Juice
¼ tsp. vanilla
Preheat Oven to 400. Cream ½ c. butter and 1⅓ c. brown sugar. Add 1 egg and beat well. Sift together 2 C. flour, ½ tsp baking soda, 1 tsp. baking powder, ½ tsp. salt, 1½ tsp. cinnamon, ½ tsp. nutmeg. Add ¼ C. apple juice to creamed mixture. Stir in 1 C. finely chopped unpeeled tart apple. Drop by tsp. on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 400 8-10 minutes. Prepare Glaze for use immediately on hot cookies.
CherryBlossomsDesign at hotmail dot com
I would like to win because I love to cook. I’m now teaching my older girls so this would be great. My all time favorite cookie recipe is the Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip cookie recipe.
hafner611{AT}gmail{DOT}com
We have a cookie walk every year to raise fund for our church. I also do bakesales for different charities and I could use some new recipes.
My favorite cookie recipe is called ginger mounds.
1 gingerbread cake mix
1 cup chopped almonds
1 cup raisins
1/3 to 1/2 cup water. Mix everything together and roll into 1 inch balls. Bake for 10 minutes at 350. There is no eggs in this recipe.
Happy blogaversary! Why would I like to win this book? Because I LOVE cookies! Who wouldn’t? My latest fave is what kind of like a chocolate shortbread – basically butter, cocoa powder, & icing sugar. Yum!
Congratulations on your 2nd anniversary!
I would love to get my hands on this book, as cookies are one thing that I never seem to find the time to try new recipes for. I make my standard chocolate chip and oatmeal and the regular Christmas stuff, that’s about where it ends. I would love a book to push me to try new varieties!
It’s not just a matter of “liking to win” I need to win. I make lousy cookies. I’ve resorted to just buying the kind you slice and bake! Only one cookie has survived being mixed up by me, Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies and that’s because it’s a cake style cookie!
Wish i had this book as i seen in lot of blogs great review about this book.
I think mine is cliche , love the chocolate chip cookis they are one of my favourite.
I have two boys and a nephew who LOVE cookies! This cookbook would be great for us to try different kinds. My favorite cookie recipe is Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies:
1 (8-oz.) package cream cheese, softened
¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 ¼ cups flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup finely chopped pecans
1 ¼ cups raspberry preserves
Beat cream cheese and butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy. Blend in vanilla. Gradually add flour, beating until well blended after each addition. Add baking soda; mix well. Add pecans; mix just until blended. Cover. Refrigerate 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350°. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place, 2 inches apart, on ungreased baking sheets. Indent centers. Bake 10 minutes.
Fill each cookie with about 1 teaspoon preserves. Continue baking 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on wire racks.
i would love this book because i too have a cookbook addiction… just not the funds to support it (i have maaaaaybe 5 total) but i always get lost in the cookbook section at any store 🙂
and my favorite cookie recipe has to beee…. iced lemon cookies. they are cakey and soft and they always come out perffectly round. yum-o!
I absolutely love to bake, but i would like to win this cookbook so that I could give it to my sister as a wedding present. She is not much of a cook, but can bake cookies like nobody else. Her chocolate chip cookies, or perhaps her oatmeal raisin cookies are my favourite, and I would love to give her some more recipes to try.
As one very famous, blue, fuzzy creature would say, “ME WANT COOKIE!
It is hard to pick a favorite cookie but I do love the No Bake cookies with the chocolate, oatmeal, peanut butter and raisins. Easy and oh so delicious.
Congratulations on your anniversary.
See, now I love fig bars, but it would never have occurred to me that I could make them myself…and that’s why I’d love to win this book! My favorite recipe is my Mom’s recipe for pizzelles:
3 eggs, beaten
2 cups flour, sifted (approx.)
3/4 to 1 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp anise seed
Add oil, anise seed and vanilla to eggs. Stir in sugar. Add flour and baking powder and stir until batter can be dropped from a spoon.
If too sticky, add more flour.
Bake in the pizzelle maker.
I am a novice when it comes to making things. i always need to follow a recipe or look in a book so something like this book would be a huge help. One cookie I am awesome at making is peanut butter cookies. Those are my favorite
jason@allworldautomotive.com
i love baking especially cookies and am always looking for new recipes thanks for the giveaway
I would love to win because I LOVE to bake!
My favorite cookie recipe is Date Nut Pin Wheels!
heatheranne99 at hotmail dot com
A book on cookies, love that.
kenleana@pacbell.net
I would love to win this to try out some new recipes for the Christmas Cookies that I bake every year. My favorite cookie is the good old chocolate chip cookie.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Kimspam66(at)yahoo(dot)com
because my kitchen bookshelf is running over, and my cookbook collection is spilling out onto counters, tables, chairs…I obviously need another cookbook! I love cookies:) my favorite cookie is biscochito, or maybe springerle, or….I can’t choose. I love them all!
I would love to win where I could get some new ideas for cookies. My favorite cookie recipe is the oatmeal cookie recipe found on the back of the Quaker Oats box.
Thanks!
1bmore @ gmail .com
Ooooh, I’d love to get a new cookie cookbook! It’s been ages since I bought a new cookbook. My favorite cookie would have to be Peanut Butter. Thanks for the give-away!
Paula
cpalawson@aol.com
We LOVE cookies around here! My favorite cookies is oatmeal chocolate chip.
i’ve tried one recipe from this cookbook and loved it! (my new fave choc chip cookies). i haven’t hit up the bookstore to pick up a copy yet though! happy blogoversary!
I love cookies, my favorite is an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie I made up.
Congrats on your second blog anniversary! I love to collect cookbooks and to make cookies! My favorite recipe is a simple peanut butter cookie! laura j
I would love to win this book because I live with the cookie monster. Little variation to any diet is a good thing, right???
I love cookies! I truly enjoy baking cookies with my two young kids. We are always looking for something yummy to put in the oven!
Our favorite: Rocky Mountain Cookies!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Congratulations on two years! I’d like to win this book because I could use some new cookie recipes – I think I’m in a bit of a rut. My favourite cookie recipe is oatmeal raisin cookies.
jane says
I would like to win this cookbook to bake some cookies with my daughter on Mother;s Day.
My favorite cookies are chocolate chip cookies baked with crisco
I am also a cookbook addict! I guess I should have googled that and I would have found your blog! I love to make peanut butter cookies because they are so easy, great to make with kids!
I would love this book because I love cookbooks. I can’t even count how many I have anymore.
My favorite cookies are chocolate chip and chocolate no bake cookies.
One of my favorite cookies is a mocha truffle cookie. Very easy to make and very good. I would love to win this cookbook as I have heard positive reviews and I enjoy trying new cookie recipes.
vicanddi@yahoo.com
I would love to win this because I tend to make the same basic cookies (chocolate chip, sugar) and I would love to get some new recipes. My favorite cookie is my mom’s sugar cookie recipe, yum! Thanks for the giveaway!
mattandjen[at]gmail.com
I would love to win this cookbook – I have a handful of “ol standbys” that I ALWAYS make. I would love to shake it up a little. I am sure my 5 yr old wouldn’t mind either!
My favorite cookie recipe is the back of the E. Guittard semi-sweet chocolate chip bag!
I’d like to win this cookbook because I’m in the market for a new baking book!
My current favorite cookies are Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies. YUM!
I love all things cookies and don’t have this book yet, so Random Generator, pick me! My favorite kind of cookie is chocolate chip, as for favorite recipe, that’s undecided! I love the Levain copycats out there, but I also love a bunch of others, including Elinor Clivans Chock Full of Chocolate Chip Cookies from her Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook. Fun giveaway!
Happy 2 years of blogging!
Cookies are my favorite thing to bake. I don’t have this book yet, therefore, Random Generator, pick me! 😉
My favorite kind of cookie is chocolate chip. My favorite recipe, that’s a toughy. I love Levain’s Bakery and the copycats out there. But another favorite is Elinor Clivans Chock Full of Chocolate Chips Cookie in her Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook. Mmmmm!
Favorite cookie — isn’t that like asking which child if a favorite? How could I possibly choose?
Shortbread, gingerbreads, choco. chip… and my recent discovery of Dorie’s Peace Cookies all reign up there on my Top 10 list….
Since they are so new to me, I’d have to choose the Peace cookies as today’s fave.
thanks!