Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Just a quick post to announce the winners of our giveaway…
The following posts were selected randomly from all of the awesome and kind people who posted!
Congratulations Winn, Nancy Cavagnaro, Linda Jacobson, Sheila Mom to Seven, and Mera Tucker! And thanks so much to all who participated!
Winners, please shoot us an email with your address and we’ll send you a Notta Cookie and one of each of our four new cutters!
Thanks again!
Karen
Wow, quite a response! Nearly 850 responses! I wish I had enough sprinkles for everybody (and enough money to ship them all! đ )
Thanks so much for entering! Here are the 3 winners:
Yvonne Horowitz
(Entered September 18, 2013 at 3:02 pm)
Comment: You can never have too many sprinkles!
Gayla G.
(Entered September 18, 2013 at 2:42 pm)
Comment: I love sprinkles!
Kim (Barefoot n Baking)
(Entered September 20, 2013 at 10:29 am)
Comment: Sprinkles!!! Who doesnât love sprinkles??!!
Go ahead and shoot us an email through karenscookies.net with your addresses and we’ll get your sprinkles sent off!
Thanks again!
We have some winners! Thanks so much to everyone who entered. I loved reading about your moms, and I hope you all had a great Mother’s Day weekend!
The winners of the 4 new cutters are:
yesmakemylunch
My mom is amazing! There for us whenever we need her!!
Samantha B
My mom is one of my best friends. Sheâs supportive, but letâs me figure things out on my own. Sheâs there every time I need her. I hope my girls grow up to say the same about me!
vtay 1
Yay new cutters!!!!!!!!! My mom would meet us at the door after school with fabulous homemade treatsâŚI had an idyllic childhood
Eileen Bartsch
I would love to win a set of these. Thanks in advance for the chance to win them. Eileen Bartsch
Elizabeth
These are FABULOUS!!!! Iâll definitely be buying these!!!!
Congratulations to the winners! We will be emailing all of you shortly. If you don’t see an email and you’re one of the winners, give us a holler at contact at karenscookies dot net. Thanks for reading my blog, and thanks for sticking with me even though I don’t post very often! Cookie decorators are the best! Have a great week!
Thanks to all who entered! And thank you for all of the birthday wishes for Lorene! She enjoyed reading them. I hope everybody had a happy Thanksgiving! Here are the winners:
Michele J
wow! such great sponsors and it sounded like a super event. Definitely going to try and make the next CookieCon!!Jennifer
Great assortment of goodies! Would love to be lucky enough to win some.Leigh Ann Shaner
So bummed that I missed it, but will definitely make plans for next year!Abigail Maartens
Congratulations on a successful Cookie Con! The blogging world has been singing your praises, you must be very proud to have brought all the amazing cookie people together. Would love to receive a bundle of goodies â will help cheer up the grey UK autumn!Lindy
I would have loved to have gone to CookieCon, maybe next time! It is a long way from Australia, so having it somewhere easy to get to (West Coast) and plenty of notice on the dates would be great đ The Homespun Christmas Tree is gorgeous and the pixie dust shaker is just a fantastic idea!!Glenda Zavadil
Happy Birthday, Lorene!
I wasnât able to attend CookieConâŚbummer! What a great group of people gathering together to make cookies!! I canât wait until I am able to attend!
Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Cookie Making!!Sarah Reyna
how awesome is that. so nice of you to shareâŚthank youâŚNatalie Byrd
Didnât get to come to CookieCon this year:( Hope to make the next one! Happy Birthday Ms. Lorene!
I’ve sent an email to all of the winners so look for that. If you’re on this list and you don’t see an email, email us at contact at karenscookies dot net with your shipping address.
I hope to see lots of you at the next CookieCon! We have scouted out venues, and will have more information about the next one soon, so keep an eye on the web site (www.CookieCon.net). We’ll put updates there as soon as we have some definite information.
Happy Monday!
Ok, I just LOVED LOVED LOVED looking through the links to the beautiful frame cookies everyone posted! We are still very excited to have these new designs! We ran all entries through a random number generator and it picked…. (drum roll)
Tatyana!
She made these beautiful cookies here:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/88915337@N04/8103998939/in/photostream/
Congrats on the $100 Gift Certificate Tatyana! I’ve already decided that we’ll be having another contest in the future. We should be getting in a new (and much larger) batch of these cutters in within the next few days!
Thanks so much to all who entered!
Sorry for the delay in announcing the winners…. but here they are!
Joyce Scott
These are soooooooooooo cool!!! I would love to have these wonderful cutters!
Thanks ever so much!!!~~~~~Anna
Wow, they are amazing! I would love to win! And thanks for the 15% I´ve just placed a huge orderâŚKatie B
I, too, would love to win this set!Lynn
Love them. Theyâd be a perfect B-day gift for me. If I donât win, Iâll have to buy them!Donna B
Definite âmust-haves!!!! Love âem! Blessings, Donna B.Emma Gonsalves
These are crazy gorgeous! I see endless possibilities! Pick me! Pick Me!!!Rachel
You always make things look awesome, Karen! Even with cool cutters like these, you made them awesomer than stuff I thought up before I saw what you did with them.Esther
Gorgeous piping work, KarenâŚ.donât sell yourself short! And I absolutely adore these new cutters!Madri
So excited about these cutters!!! đMichele Posey
Oh I would love to have these!
Congratulations everybody! I will send emails to all of you shortly. If you don’t see my email, send me a quick email to contact at karenscookies dot net with your mailing address and we’ll get them sent right out.
Thanks to all for reading and commenting! I loved reading everybody’s comments and appreciate your kindness! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Thanks to everybody who entered!! Wowee! It was a definite Karen’s Cookie Blog record for the number of entries. We had a large influx of entries from our friends in Spain who were sent by Bea Trigo from El Rincon de Bea, a longtime friend to Karen’s Cookies. Bienvenidos! Thank you for all of your enthusiasm and kindness. Unfortunately there can only be one winner… this time. I’ll definitely do this same type of giveaway again soon. I didn’t realize what a hit the basic shapes would be! I’ll give more away soon. But for now…
We have a winner! The winner of the 9 sets of basic shapes cookie cutters is Marilena. She said:
Wowwwwwwwwwwww!!! Fantastic giveaway!!!! Love ALL cutters!!!! Thanks!!! Saludos desde Mallorca, en EspaĂąaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
I’m so glad you’re excited about the cutters, Marilena! Have fun with them! I sent you an email, so watch for that. If you don’t see my email, you can email me at contact at karenscookies dot net with your shipping address. Congratulations!!
Now a couple of questions asked within the comments of my last post:
First, several of you asked if the cookies are weak at the seams when you piece them together. I have found them to be very sturdy using my recipe. In fact, I baked a couple and broke them on purpose. I gently bent them to see where they would break– if they would break along the seams or somewhere else, and neither one broke at the seams. They each broke somewhere else. I haven’t had any break accidentally either. My recipe does spread a little bit, so I think that might help to fuse the pieces together. If your recipe doesn’t spread at all, you might have more trouble, but I’m not sure. You may just have to experiment a little and see what happens.
Another question asked was if you have to do anything to stick the pieces together before baking. You don’t. Sometimes I’ll rub them a little at the seam, just to make sure they are flush and even, but that’s all I do. No need to dampen the seams with water or anything like that. Just place them on your cookie sheet and bake. I do pat them down gently with a spatula right after they come out of the oven to make sure they’re nice and flat.
I hope that answered your questions about piecing together cookies. Please let me know in the comments of this post if you have any other questions about it.
Thanks again to all who entered the giveaway! I always enjoy reading your comments!
Here are the winners of the oval cookie cutter sets:
Melody James
I LOVE your cookies! They are so cute! And what great ideas you come up with for these basic cutters! I wish I had half your creativity! Adorable!Christine
I think those are cute Karen! I especially like the pumpkin with the candy inside and those spiders holding the candy are are so cute! My Grandsonâs 1st birthday is Saturday the 29th, so we are doing a Halloween themed party! Planning on making the cute little mummies, pumpkins and candy corn cookies for the party bags and I am going to attempt the âgreat pumpkinâ cake (using a bundt pan) for his 1st birthday cake, canât wait to see the orange frosting all over him! LOL Again, thatâs for sharing and have fun getting your little ones ready for Halloween! đGlenda
This blog makes me want to bake! Iâd love to try some of these ideas!!!!Sandy
WOWâŚgotta try thoseKenni
Those pumpkins and monster faces are too cute! I also love that you cut up the oval to make candy corn.
Congratulations everybody! I’ve sent you all emails, so look for that. If you don’t see an email, you can write to me at contact at karenscookies dot net with your mailing address.
Look at me all on the ball for announcing the winners. Woo hoo! đ
Thanks to all who entered to win the Rectangle Cookie Cutter Set! I enjoyed reading your ideas and your sweet comments about my cookies. Thank you so much!
Here are the winners:
Missy
I would try all the designs you did. Love the candy bars and the little tricker treaters.
Gisele Oakes
They are all totally adorable! Wish I had the patience to do cookies like that!
Heather D.
These are so creative! I love thinking outside of the boxâŚor rectangle!
Congratulations, ladies! Have fun with your rectangles! I’ve sent all of you an email, so you can just respond to that email with your mailing address and we’ll get them sent right out. If you don’t see an email, you can write to me at contact at karenscookies dot net.
I have another little giveaway coming up later today, so stay tuned.
We have some winners! The winners of the Wilton Witch Set cookie cutters are:
Isabel:
I love it!! thanks a lot from Spain,
Jen:
Those look like fun. For the cauldrons what about having it bubble over in electric green bubbles with luster dust? It could be a spooky brew!
Emily:
I think I say this about all of your cookies but these really are some of my favorites. Have so much fun at cookie camp!
Congratulations to all the winners! I have sent you all emails, so check your box, or send your mailing address to contact at karenscookies dot net.
A Cookie Camp recap coming up…
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