Thursday, November 25, 2010

My first giveaway!!!

Sometimes when the world seems dark and nasty, filled with daily horrendous news, we need a big dose of goodness to remind us of how it also has its great side. And when that goodness comes your way, make sure you appreciate every moment that it remains.

Mine was Cupcake Camp Montreal this passed Thursday. I cannot express how deeply touched I was/am to see so many people came together for a great cause. I can honestly say that I am SO proud to have been a part of such an awesome event.

20000 cupcakes were donated by bakers and sponsors like myself.
2500 awesome Montrealers braved the cold and waited in line for hours at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, not counting those who never actually made it inside...
$34000 was raised for Kids Help Phone and La Tablee des Chefs.

Booya!

  
 I donated 200 of these COOCOO BANANA SPLIT cupcakes: banana cup(cake)bread, Italian meringue vanilla buttercream, chocolate drizzles with a cherry on top.


   
This was my entry for Montreal Theme cupcake.

Now, as you all know (or not... but the fact that you are reading this means you now do...) that I am one of the 100 food bloggers featured in the Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook that was released on October 19th. Thanks to Barnaby Dorfman and Sheri L.Wetherell, I was even able to meet a few fellow published bloggers at the party a couple of weeks ago in NYC.

To top all this off, the nice people over at Simon and Schuster sent me over a copy of the book so I can hold a giveaway, just for you! Isn't life great?!

So, if you are in Canada and would like to win this awesome cookbook, simply leave me a comment (please, no anonymous!!! LOL!) about anything really, and the winner will be announced on Sunday evening,  December 12th. I will most likely be using random.org for the choosing process.

I must keep this post short and sweet (literally!) and go back to baking goodies for the bake sale tomorrow. We are raising money for Movember like we did last year, and all profits will go to help fund research to keep our men healthy :) Good night and good luck!!!

11 comments:

Unknown said...

Oreo Brownies are eeevil! (Also, woo! Cookbook!)

appelsj said...

Oh! Oh! Oh! Cookbook! me! me! me!

I wish I could have gone to Cupcake Camp, but Montreal - Québec is a bit far away... maybe we can organize one here too :)

Unknown said...

Movember Peanut Butter bar is gone, baby, gone! In my tummy! :-D

Anonymous said...

Yeeeeaaahhhh!! Coookbook! Pick Me!! ^_^

The Movember event was a success!
great cupcakes, cookies, brownies and LEeeeeemon barre... yummy!!

my info: jessica_larive@hotmail.com

Jessica Larivé

Catherine Langevin said...

Yay! Giveaway! :P
Moi je veux avoir le cookbook juste parce que tu es dedans pis que je vais pouvoir le montrer a ma famille pis dire: Regardes, regardes, c'est la recette de mon amie! haha ^-^
Congrats chérie!
Contente qu'on soit allé a Cupcake Camp encore cette année! :D

Julie said...

Tramie in a cookbook?! Finally!!! I want it! I want it! + i really need help when it comes to desserts and i am starting to run out of ideas for daily meals!

David et Eve said...

Étant donné que tu mentionnes ''So, if you are in Canada'' m'exclus automatiquement de ton tirage ; ) j'en profite pour te dire que le Foodista CookbooK est génial. Félicitation !!!
Eve

Gustavo Soto said...

Well knowing myself....If i win the book I will read it once...then I will show it to every life-form that tries to communicate with me... and then I will preserve it in a Hyperbaric Chamber or maybe .... i Will send it in a time capsule to the deep space so one day other alien race could see how advanced in cupcake science we are!!! Congratz Trammie !!!

Anonymous said...

I'm here for the cookbook!!

catharine.ellie [at] gmail.com

Susan said...

I would love to win the cookbook. I love cookbooks and have quite a collecton of them. My daughter Jeanine (The Baking Beauties) has her recipe for gluten free onion rings published in the cookbook.

Unknown said...

Simply said:

1. I love to cook,and
2. I love to eat.