Across the web today, 19 of my food blogger friends and I have put together collections of our favorite baking, cookie, cupcake, and kitchen essentials and TWO giveaways to go with them!
First, on each blog… you’ll have a chance to win some of that bloggers favorite items. Once you’ve entered their giveaway… you’ll look for a CLUE that will allow you entry to win a Kitchen Aid Pro Stand Mixer!! Once you collect all 20 clues, you’ll use the phrase you collected to enter to win the KitchenAid Pro Stand Mixer!
So, grab your coffee and dig in… cause this is going to be FUN!
Let’s begin with my Cupcake Baking Essentials…
These are just a handful of the tools I use every time I’m in the kitchen to bake a batch of cupcakes. They range from what I wear to keep me clean to what I bake my cupcakes in! They are all essentials to my success!
- 1. Boojiboo Apron – I own three of these apron and I absolutely LOVE them. Not only are they cute, but they keep me clean while baking and cooking. I use my apron every time I am in the kitchen.
- 2. Wilton Cupcake Pan – I know there are a lot of cupcake pans out there to choose from, but I really like the 12-cup pan from Wilton. It’s sturdy, inexpensive and does the job well. No need to spend an arm and a leg on a fancy cupcake pan… this one from Wilton is a winner!
- 3. Martha Stewart Silicone Spatula – I have half a dozen spatulas in my kitchen, but this red silicone spatula from Martha Stewart is one I go to time and time again. I love that the handle and the are connected and that it’s super sturdy. It scrapes well and I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a good spatula.
- 4. German Wire Whisks – I’ve tried many whisks over the years from metal to silicone… but none of them compare to the wire whisks I found at the Tedi € Store here in Germany. Not only are they very inexpensive, but they work incredibly well. I bought several of them and won’t use anything else from now on!
- 5. German Cupcake Corer – This was another find at the Tedi € Store. At only €0.50, this cupcake corer was a real deal! It works perfectly to get out the centers of cupcakes for filling… and at this price, I can afford to have several!
- 6. German Mixing Bowls – When I bake there’s usually a need for more than just the bowl of the mixer. These mixing and prep bowls come in handy when I need to sift flour or mix other ingredients before adding them to my mixing bowl. They’re also great for one-bowl batters and doughs. I also found these at the Tedi € Store!
- 7. Wilton Disposable Piping Bags – I always pipe the frosting onto my cupcakes and every time, I use a disposable bag. There’s just something about being able to toss it out when I’m finished with that make these bags so convenient. They’re a must-have for cupcake making.
- 8. Sweets & Treats Boutique Paper Straws – One of the most easy ways to make your cupcakes adorable is to put a topper on it. I use these straws to make signs, banners, toppers for my cupcakes. They come in all kinds of patterns and colors.
- 9. Sweets & Treats Boutique Grease Proof Cupcake Liners – Hands down, these are my most favorite cupcake liners. Not only do they look incredibly cute on my cupcakes, but they hold their color and pattern… no matter what kind of cake I bake in them. My good friend, Shannon Harvey of Sweets & Treats Boutique keeps me fully stocked with her liners… which is a good thing, cause I’ll never go back to grocery store liners!
Enter to WIN all my cupcake baking essentials!
So, you want to WIN all of these great cupcake baking essentials? All you have to do is fill out this form below! Giveaway open to US addresses only. APO/FPO accepted. Winner chosen 12/15/13. a Rafflecopter giveaway
KitchenAid Pro Scavenger Hunt!
Oh my goodness! I’m so excited to be giving away my first Kitchen Aid Pro Stand Mixer to my fabulous readers! Entering to win is easy! Simply visit all the blogs participating, collect all the clues (in order) and enter the winning phrase below! Remember…. you need to collect all the clues before you can enter to win the KitchenAid Pro Mixer! If you don’t have the correct phrase from the Scavenger Hunt, your entry will be invalid. Good luck!
Click on all the blog logos below to enter to win their giveaways and get another Scavenger Hunt code!
KC Bakes Hoopla Palooza White Lights on Wednesday Something Swanky Haniela’s Creative Juice The Partiologist The Decorated Cookie Bella Cupcake Couture Java Cupcake Hungry Happenings Texanerin Baking A to Zebra Celebrations Life Made Simple Sugar Swings Dieter’s Downfall Pint Sized Baker Pass the Sushi
My favorite baking tool is the oven!
I would bake a Put the Lime in the Coconut Cake!!!!
Betsy, started your fab hunt, but the link to bella cupcake couture not working from your site, and do not see the hunt when I go directly HELP! Want to continue this journey! Helen
Thanks Helen… I’ll update it!
My favorite tool would have to be my mixer, oh wait I haven’t won it yet!
My favorite cupcake baking tool is a ice cream scoop
My favorite tool would be my mixer
I don’t know why I don’t own one of these mixers yet!! LoL
My favorite tool is the cupcake corer, so you can put a fun surprise inside for the person who gets to eat the cupcake! Yum!!!
My favorite tool would be my mixer!
I love my KitchenAid hand mixer… but I would gladly cheat on it with a KitchenAid STAND mixer.
piping bags 🙂
My oven!!!!!
Measuring cups are my favorite tool- until I get a kitchenAid!
My favorite tool is my tin cupcake pans that I inherited from my Grandma. I think of her every time I use them!
My favorite tool are my cookie scoops! I use them for EVERYTHING!
Oops. That should say tools not tool!
My favorite cupcake tool is my perfect cupcake pan.
spatula
offset spatula
An Icecream scoop has revolutionized cupcake baking for me:)
My favorite tool is my kitchen aid!!!
Cupcake liners – can’t bake without ’em!
My most favorite cupcake baking tool is my husband. He gets to do the prep work! 😉
-Holly
My favorite tool would be the piping bag, good luck to all
Browned Butter Maple Cream Cupcakes!
Favorite cupcake tool … A scoop.
I love different cupcake liners.
My favorite tool for baking cupcakes would be my my scoop so they are all the same size. Thanks for this great giveaway. Good luck everyone.
My favorite baking tool is my set of magnetic measuring spoons.
My favorite tool is to have really cute cupcake liners!!
My kitchenaid! Couldn’t make perfect buttercream without it!
Seriously. Me either.
For me, cupcake pans are the most important thing for making cupcakes. Definitely cannot make them look cut without the sturdiness of the specialized pan.
my favorite tool for cupcakes would have to be a great recipe!
My large cookie scoop so I always get the right amount for each cupcake!
Mixer
My mini ladle
First thing I would make would be homemade , from scratch, bread. Oh, I can almost smell it now !
My 30 year old Kitchenaid mixer is my favorite tool!
Gotta love KitchenAid!! They make machines that last!
I love cute cupcake liners!!
My Oxo Spatula. Love it!
My scoop!
My scoops 🙂
Favorite or must have baking took would be my mixer… which is dying, which is why I need a new one. Also, you can never have one too many spatulas! And the possibilities are endless as to what I’d make with a new mixer. First might be my fave cakes: Italian Cream and Humming Bird, and then I’d like to make some pasta. Def in need of all of these wonderful things!
i’m so glad Karyn got us all together for the giveaway! now i can check out all your wonderful recipes! yay! 🙂
Me too, Lisa! I can’t wait to read everyone’s posts!! 🙂
I love my Silicone Spatula for my baking needs.
my favorite tool is my scoop.
probably the cupcake liners. There are some super cute and festive ones out there.
I upgraded my pans two years ago, with two nice pans from Sur La Table, and it has made a big difference!
I’d make buttercream
My ice cream scoop to measure out the batter into the cupcake liners.
Cupcake corer!
my rubber footed mixing bowl
A wire wisk is essential for me to make cupcakes
I love my frosting decorating tips! There’s so many fun things you can do with frosting and the tips helps to make it happen!
My favorite tool would have to be the cute cupcake liners from Wilton.
Favorite tool is the ice cream scooper to measure the cupcake mix
My favorite cupcake “tool” would be the liners. I love the infinite options!
I’d make my grand mother’s pound cake. Lots of them.
my giant silicone spatula!
There is nothing like a good spatula……
My favorite baking tool is my mixer!!
My favorite cupcake tool is my large cookie scoop for filling the pan.
Love this! Thanks for the opportunity!
My kids! 🙂 And silicone liners
i love using an ice cream scoop for cupcakes
Love silicone liners!
my favorite cupcake tool would be my granddaughter’s help!!
I plan to make I WON Cupcakes…….
i would bake cupcakes all the time 😀
My favorite cupcake tool is my decorating tools
I would make cupcakes first if I won this great mixer. Then I would make all sorts of other goodies. Thanks for the giveaway. Good luck everyone.
Piping bags
My favorite cupcake tool is my pastry bags & tips
Rubber spatula
I would make my dark chocolate cupcakes with a new kitchenaid mixer
The spatula is my fav cupcake baking tool 🙂
cupcake liners!
My favorite baking tool is my oven since I don’t have much more than that right now.
My cookie scoop is my favorite cupcake tool! Makes it so easy to portion them out!
My favorite cupcake,baking tool is the silicon spatula!!!
My favorite baking tool would have to be my grandkids. We always bake things together and they are excited to get started on our holiday bake fest coming up soon.
A whisk
Oh my goodness, I love that apron! I have a small obsession with aprons and I never bake without on one!
Seriously. Me too. I LOVE aprons and I’m never in the kitchen without one! My neighbor made fun of me for it once… like it was something foreign. Nope, I just love to bake!
my apron
My favorite cupcake tools are disposable decorating bags and fancy tips – it makes frosting them so quick and easy 🙂 Thanks for a fun giveaway!
My favorite cupcake making tool is my different sized scoops for my different cupcake pans..makes the world of difference.
My mixer
I would make Christmas treats for the holiday
Has to be bread.. I want to try the dough hook !!
My favorite cupcake tool is my mini muffin/cupcake tin.
I’d use the mixer to make a gingerbread cake!
I love spatulas! I have a ton of them!
I love my ice cream/cupcake/cookie scoops! The ALWAYS come in handy
I love my spatula. Sad thing is everyone in my house loves it too. I need to get more of them. 🙂
my scoop 🙂
my mixer
My mixer!
My favorite cupcake baking tool is my disher. Makes quick work of uniformly sized scoops of batter!
Favorite tool is a large open-star tip, like Wilton 2110, for frosting.
I love my silicone cupcake “papers”. No matter how gooey the cupcake, it still comes out of the wrapper!
I absolutely love the web site keep up the good work!
My favorite cupcake baking tool is all of the beautiful choices in cupcake liners – the possibilities are endless.
My favorite baking tool is the ice cream scoop! i use it to fill cupcakes liners or make perfect cookies~ 🙂
Great contest! 😀 id whip[p up a giant batch up pumpky cupcakes hehe
Love the whisk! I’ve always liked using it to mix, it’s kind of cathartic and relaxing once you get a rythm going. 🙂
my favorite cupcake tool is the wilton cupcakes measuring spoons
Seeing your blogpost, you reminded me my favourite cupcake tool is my apron!
My favorite tool would be the mixer but it’s nothing like this one!
a large cookie scoop for scooping out cupcake batter!
I like the mini cupcake pans because I can make them in my toaster oven.
I came here from Hungry Happenings.
My favorite baking tool is parchment paper, if that counts as a tool. If not, it’s my air bake cookie sheets.
I use the parchment paper all the time!! It’s a great tool!
Making Holiday cookies with that mixer would be such a breeze compared to the 1950′s era hand mixer I use now.
i just recently started using tips to frost my cupcakes, what a difference for presentation!
My favorite tool is Wilton Scoop-It Batter Spoons. These are the best and I highly recommend.
Right now… my hand mixer… in hopes it will be a kitchenaid mixer one day soon 😉
I love my cupcake corer. It allows me to surprise people with a delicious dulce de leche filling.
My spatula. Happy Holidays!
My favorite tool is a spatula!
I would make a birthday cake for my daughter with homemade frosting in the kitchen aid mixer
I love my scoop…perfectly fills the cupcake liner:)
Love cupcake liners
My favorite tool is my Trusty Ice Cream Scoop!
I’ve never made my own bread, my baking would be unlimited lf I owned a Kitchen Aid Pro mixer.
I would make yummy cupcakes with the mixer!!!
also my favorite tool is a spatula!
i am having so much fun!
Yay! I’m glad! 🙂
Love my cookie cutters and spatulas!
My favorite cupcake baking tool is the cookie scoop to get uniform cupcakes!
My cupcake pan!
Well…I don’t do anything without my kitchenaid! My favorite baking tool, though, would have to be a Viennese spatula. These spatulas are amazing for mixing icing colors, scraping bowls, and folding ingredients into your batter. I own 10 of them, so I can use them with each icing color I make when decorating. I LOVE THESE!!!!!!
Oooooooooh Tammy – those are cool!
I would make fresh whipped cream 🙂
My favorite cupcake baking tool is a big mixing bowl.I want to get one that pours eventually.
I love frosting tools!
My cookie/ice cream scoops
I’d make italian chocolate cookies with the dough mixer b/c they are so hard to mix by hand.
My favorite cupcake tool is an icecream scoop. I love evenly filled cupcakes.
The rubber spatula is my favorite cupcake tool, scrapes your bowls clean and smooths frosting better then anything else.
My favorite cupcake baking tool…hmm, well, it might be my celebrating home muffin baker. Or the silicon cupcake cups. 🙂
my favorite baking tool is parchment paper
my piping bag with accessories…..Merry Christmas!
my favorite baking tool is my favorite rubber spatula
My KitchenAid mixer for sure!
My cupcake tins of course! Can’t have cupcakes with those.
My favorite cupcake baking tool is the scoop. Makes it so easy to fill the tins.
My favorite cupcake baking tool is the apron!
My oven!
With a new KitchenAid Professional Mixer, I think I’d start with bread
spatulas and pretty papers and mini muffin tins.
I have a lot of favorite tools
Cupcake papers! I have thousands of them!
my favorite cupcake tool is my daughter who makes the most beautiful and delicious cupcakes! She grumble the whole time though having to use my 30 year-old kitchenaid hand mixer which needs to cool down frequently lol
My stand mixer!
I’d make my kids their favorite cupcakes!
Favorite cupcake baking tool is a spatula since I don’t own a nice mixer.
My favorite baking tool is definitely my hand mixer! Just waiting on a KitchenAid to make it better/easier making larger batches!!!!
My favorite tool is a piping bag!
My favorite is cupcake wrappers!
I love my scoop that helps me make each of them a consistent size.
My favorite tool is my mini scooper to make mini cupcakes 🙂
my favorite tool are cupcake wrappers.
Ice cream scoop! Very handy (cupcakes, cake pops, cookies)
I love to make cheesecakes and the Kitchen Aid mixer would be great for the heavy batter.
my favorite tool is my mixer without it i could make nothing!!!
My favourite cupcake baking tool is my grandmother’s mixing bowl set. It makes me smile everytime I make cupcakes 🙂
My cupcake batter measurer
My favorite cupcake baking tool is the cupcake baking pan!
My Fav cupcake tool is my Chicago Metallic Batter Dispenser….help pour batter in nice and even.
My favorite cupcake tool is a batter scoop to keep them all the same size.
My favorite cupcake tool is my ice cream scoop! My favorite kitchen tool is my wire whisk, but mine sure needs updating!! Also, I would just to win that that awesome apron because I don’t even have an apron!! Thanks for an awesome giveaway!! 🙂
I love my KitchenAid stand mixer.
Thank you for being involved in the giveaway!
My favorite cupcake baking tool would be a silicone spatula
When it comes to cupcakes, my oversized piping tips are my must-have tool.
I LOVE the greaseproof cupcake liners!
My favorite tool at the moment is my piping bags….. I would love for it to be my mixer however Ive gone through 5 hand mixers in about 7 months so the Kitchen Aid would help me tremendously in my busines
My favorite tool is a good quality pan.
My favorite tool is a stand mixer but unfortunately I don`t have one at the moment so I have to use beaters!
Just noticed I couldn`t edit my post but it`s all about the cakes!
I’d make a double batch of bread with my new mixers.
My favorite tool is the stand mixer, it would be even more when I win it 😉
My favorite tool is the rubber spatula!
My favorite would be the cupcake liners.
my favorite yellowmixing bowl
Cute paper liners!
My favorite cupcake baking tool is my rubber spatula
When using ice cream scoops for cupcakes, what kind/size should I use?
My cupcake pans.
What a wonderful Christmas gift.
Cute cupcake liners
My favorite tool is the cupcake liners.
My favorite cupcake item is cutesy wrappers.
I would love this for my new business
My decorating tips!
Mixing bowl
My handy red sptula is my favorite tool
I would use the mixer to make crum de crumb
I love my portion scoops!
For cupcakes I really like my scooper because it creates less mess. My 16 year old Kitchenaid mixer is my very favorite kitchen tool.
My scooper
My favorite tool is a plastic spatula.
my kitchenaid mixer
I love all the decorative cupcake papers!
My mixer is by far my favorite cupcake making tool!!
i love silicone cupcake molds the most
One of my favorite baking tools is my Wilton cupcake decorating set!
My favorite baking tool is my stand mixer!
I love my scoop to make even size cupcakes
My favorite baking tool is my flat bamboo spatula/spreader that my friend brought me from Japan.
Pretty liners and a good scraper!
A pourable batter bowl
I love all the cupcake papers
My favorite cupcake baking tool is parchment paper and silicone cupcake liners 🙂 I love making classy little cupcakes that look a little artisinal with parchment paper or using silicone liners altogether
I love cupcake liners
I really like my silicone cupcake liners– they save me from having to buy paper ones all the time when I bake muffins and cupcakes.
Cute cupcake liners!
Everything looks so awesome got to love my cupcake pans.
I cant wait to make red velvet cupcakes!
My Stonewear… my #1 favorite cupcake baking tool!
My favorite are my pretty pink spatulas!
I would make cupcakes with the mixer if I won!!!!
My favorite cupcake baking tool has to be the silicone spatula 🙂
Nothing beats a good spatula. I will have to try the one you like.
Cupcake wrappers because you can get them in pretty much any design you can think of!
The apron is to die for….I never bake without one on!! –Katy
Pick me! Thanks for the contest! It was fun to jump around the web for clues
My favorite cupcake baking tool is my spatula.
I would use the Kitchen Aid mixer for everything-from cakes to cookies to breads.
I suppose the pan is my favorite.
My favorite tool would have to be my pan set 🙂 They are dying though after years of use
My wooden spoon!
My favorite cupcake baking tool is my big cookie scoop.
I love my spoonula.
ice cream scoop, it makes even cupcakes, the best trick ever!
my favorite tool is my stand mixer love it need it gotta have it
My favorite cupcake baking tool would be a ice cream scoop. it gives the most even amount of batter per cupcake so that everyone of them comes out the same in the end. But from your tools definitely the rubber spatulas. I wouldn’t want to miss a single drop of batter
My favorite cupcake baking tool is my set of decorating tips- it’s WAY faster and easier to add a swirl from a pastry bag than to use a knife!
My favorite tool would have to be my scoop to measure the batter. I was the worst at having different sized cupcakes or WAY over filling the cups. 🙂 I love your blog!! I have learner so much from you….like how to properly frost a cupcake. You’re awesome!!
I was led here by Hungry Happenings and I stayed when I discovered your 12 Days of Cookies! Those German mixing bowls look good. I always seem to need another clean bowl!
A stylish apron.
Ice cream scoop
Lots of cupcakes!
Favorite baking tool for cupcakes is my different size muffin pans.
My favorite tool would have to be a piping bag <3 being creative 🙂
silicon baking sheet is my fav must have
Decorating sleeve for me 😀
My favorite cupcake tool is my #16 ice cream scoop.
I love cupcake liners
Hand mixer. Thank you for great giveaway!
My favorite tool is my hand mixer.
My favorite baking tool is parchment paper, it’s absolutely indispensible!
my mixer
I love decorative cupcake liners… They are a must 🙂
my favorite baking tool is my mixer. they’re so useful!
I would love to make lots of different cupcakes and cakes with the KitchenAid mixer! 🙂
Favorite tool is my scraper!
I love my cookie spatula. Had it for many years.
My favorite tool is cupcake liners.
a mixer
I would make cake
Piping bag
I like my KitchenAid mixer and my large scoop.
I don’t bake a whole lot of cupcakes so my favorite tool would be my cupcake pan. 🙂 I don’t have anything fancy.
My favorite tool is a scoop!
pretty cupcake liners, they make the cupcake!!
My favorite tool is the silicone spatula
the German mixing bowls. I could also really use a left-handed measuring cup
My favorite baking tool is my double oven!
Ooohhh… I’m jealous! I’d LOVE a double oven!
I love to use my cookie scoop when I make cupcakes
I so could use one of these I could make bigger batches of frosting and fondant!
I don’t think I’ll ever do cupcakes or muffins without my big 2T ice-cream scooper thing from Pampered Chef. Perfect amount of batter in each one, each time! LOVE IT! The 1T scoop is perfect for mini-muffins/cakes, too.
I’ll have to look into those scoops, Margot! Thanks for the info!
Love love cupcakes! Yum!
My favorite cupcake baking tool is my scooper…gets just the right amount in there every time!
Great give away
My favorite tool would be my scoop. Thanks for the giveaway.
Our favorite tool is Spinderella, our Kitchen Aid Mixer. She needs a buddy!
What a great name for your mixer!!!
Love a scoop for even distribution of batter
Ice cream scoop.is my tool
This is sweet and funtastic!!
I love my kitchenaid mixer.