Two of my favorite things. Two of you. The Giveaway!
Written by joythebaker on April 10, 2009 – 8:29 am -
What do puppies with giant paws, foggy mornings, warm chocolate chip cookies and my bright, red spatula have in common? That’s easy… they’re just some of my favorite things in the world.
If you hadn’t already figured it out, you guys are totally up there on my list of favorite things… right up there with puppies with giant paws. You and your cute tea cup pictures. You with your kind comments. You with your thoughtful recipe questions. I just think you’re dreamy. I suppose that’s why it has become one of my new favorite things to give things to you… let’s do it again.
Two of you get two of my favorite things: an express shipped box of chocolate chip cookies made by Joy the Baker (for someone here in the US), or a brand-spanking-new, colorful spatula (going international, because Customs doesn’t like when I send fresh cookies).
All you have to do to win some of my favorite things is leave me a comment telling me where you’re from, and some of your favorite things. Seems fitting, right?
You’ve got until this Saturday April 11th at 10:38pm PST to get your comments in. That’s when I turn back into a pumpkin and pick the winners.
Also… I like you!
Tags: chocolate chip cookies, giveaway, recipe
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Hello Joy.
I come from the (greatest) city in the world, Des Moines, Iowa, where the most beautiful girls in the world reside… according to Jack Kerouac, anyway. But I live in Minnesota where I go to school.
My favorite things? Hmm..
The feeling I get whenever I feel slightly annoyed with my mother, and then when I come home to visit her, I realize how much I love her.
I think that there is no problem that tea and oatmeal (NO raisins) cookies cannot solve (this might count for two favorite things: mantra and snack)
Listening to thunderstorms.
Coffee. So much coffee.
Dancing to techno music…in my room…alone. Trust me, it’s better for both of us this way.
Baking, and feeding the masses.
The french language
Edith Wharton
Rice.
Paint(ing)
parentheses, if it wasn’t obvious
Joy the Baker
Hi, I am from close to the middle of Michigan.
I like…
sunny days
the color white
the beach
a really good book to get myself lost in
kindness
hi from pdx!
favorite things (an abbreviated version in no particular order)
- foggy mornings
- reading a book, a purring cat on my lap and a cup of tea
- snapdragons and tigerlilys
- the face my cat makes when my boyfriend tries to play with her
- BAKING! especially for other people
- my recently acquired kitchenaid mixer in imperial grey (so sexy)
- the smell of the ocean at night
- a good microbrew stout
- pretending i know how to take photos
- aotearoa
- hiking trails all to myself
I love your photography – always gorgeous.
I’m from Sacramento and I love:
Walking in the morning with Sage Muffinhead (my dog) by the river…when it’s cold and there is fog covering the water…and I can hear the geese, but can’t see them…and then through the mist I spot a white heron gliding in for a landing.
Finishing a software project; giving me time to pour a glass of wine and cook, or bake. It doesn’t matter which and it doesn’t matter what.
Telling a story (usually with me being the dunderhead), and making my children laugh, full belly laughs, until they have to wipe away the tears.
Hello Joy! My name is Ashlie and I am from Salt Lake City, Utah.
These are a few of my favorite things:
blog stalking
reading magazines
taking a relaxing bath
baking
gardening
my kids
laughing
eating
I’m sitting in my study in Texas waiting for your cinnamon roll muffins to bake. I love my husband, CHOCOLATE, Jesus, coffee, my family, and my two dogs but not all in that order. I’m especially a sucker for a fabulous homemade chocolate chip cookie. I’m an accountant by day so baking is my passionate outlet.
Good evening! I am from Nebraska, cool tonight with rain tomorrow!
My favorite things: Sunday dinner at my folks (my 80 year old mother still cooks for the family on Sundays!), my kids and grandkids, anything yeast, quilting, not being at work, my cats, owning my own house……… I am sure I will think of more, but that’s a good start!
I’m from Front Royal, Virginia.
My favorite things are: my son’s kissable cheeks, cinnamon rolls, spring flowers, and Christmas trees.
Hey Joy,
It is so tempting for my top 5 to be food, so I’m going to go for diversity.
1. Carrot cake with cream cheese and butter caramel frosting
2. Dishes (my cat — she’s a fluffy, curious little black siberian)
3. My KitchenAid mixer
4. Running
5. Warm days in the beginning of spring, because we haven’t been getting a lot of those around here in Evanston, IL.
6. And, of course, Joy the Baker! And what a great blog, too
Tim
I’m from California and these are some of my favorite things…
being bicoastal
traveling
cooking
true stories
sociology
baked potatoes
elephants
latin america
gnocchi
$12 martinis
firetrucks
alice in wonderland
tango eyes
caprese
ahi
bagels with butter
the ny times
starbucks
wine
a few of my favorite things…
my life!
belly laughs
my dog’s sighs
outside happy hours that last well into the night
good friends, good wine and good weather
75 degree days without a cloud in the sky
napping on lazy rainy afternoons with the windows open
baking! – new recipes that I can’t wait to try
music, good new music of any kind
my husband
that’s just a few!
I’m new to the whole baking blogging world and I love your recipes! can’t wait to try so many of them!
My two favorite things:
Pizza (any kind)
Jellyroll
favorite things –
-finding out that my 2.5 year old niece has an imaginary friend
-the seeds that I planted 3 weeks ago starting to peep through the soil as little sprouts
-seeing people doing kind things for strangers
I’m from Alaska and some of my favorite things are:
frogs
baking
books
my daughter and hubby
my kitties
your blog (seriously – this site always makes me smile!)
a good cup of tea or coffee
the reaction I get from people when they try my baked stuff
my friends
learning new things
Keep it up Joy! You certainly do live up to your name. =)
I was born and live in California
Some of my favorite things are:
I love cake decorating, baking and cooking
Trying to new flavors of tequila’s
and having family night on Saturday with hubby and kids
Wow. I bet your cookies are really good
I’m originally from Savannah, Georgia but now live in Northern California. These are a few of my favorite things:
- Wild Georgia shrimp: battered and fried, steamed with cocktail sauce, or low country boiled… any which way.
- When my cats cuddle up to my sides while I’m working on my laptop.
- lazy Saturday mornings.
Hey Joy -
I’m from NJ (born in London though), and I love:
1 – Rainy Sunday mornings when I stay in bed.
2 – Warm apple muffins
3 – Spending hours talking to my friends and laughing together.
I think I’m the last one (so far!) to enter.
I’m from Washington State…you know of the Pacific NW ; )
Here’s a few of my favorite things:
My Kindle (seriously it is so awesome)
My husband *he’s seriously awesome too : )
My 3 girls
cookbooks
Ruby’s microbrew beer
coffee
popcorn
Gerbera Daisies
listening to music (all kinds)
Trader Joe’s
the smell of the library…kind of musty but still magical
my computer
The Office
My students
Johnny Depp
and this website…love it!
I’m from NYC and my favorite things are rainy days with french toast and hot coffee
Hello
I am Marina from Australia and my favorite thing is eating a hot chocolate sundae and after each spoonful i like to pop some salty fries in my mouth. The combination is just heavenly to me : )
Hi Joy,
I’m from NJ but was born in Manila. Some of my favorite things:
1. first cup of coffee of the day
2. last cup of coffee of the day
3. having a purring cat on my lap while reading my latest library book (with a cup of coffee)
4. trying to sort through 27 chocolate chip cookie recipes and deciding which one to bake
5. watching my kids eat the chocolate chip cookies I made and tell me that they’re awesome (which is also what they said about the other 26)
6. listening to my son play the cello
7. spending time in the kitchen with my family (my husband cooking, I’m baking and the kids help)
Hi. I’m Melissa from Oregon and wow! I’ve never seen so many comments on a post before! Some of my favorite things are sleeping in, Hawaii, creme brulee, watching movies, and being home with my little family.
I’m Carol…originally from NH but now live in north central MA….once a New Englander always a New Englander I guess!!!
My favorite things???
The way the kitchen smells after a day of baking…especially bread or cookies…..oh my….
And speaking of bread……one of my favorite things is making bread-from start to finish…by hand…I especially love kneading the dough-I can get lost in the whole process.
I love love love spending time with my family,…..my Mom just turned 90 and is still is sharp as a tack….my daughter is married with 2 boys so of course I love spending time with them.
Quiet time with my husband……doesn’t happen often but I cherish when it does….we sit and talk and just “be”……………
My favorite time of day-at night-going to bed with a good cookbook or cooking magazine waiting to be read……I read them both cover to cover like novels.
My vegetable garden is another favorite thing-can’t WAIT to get out and play in the dirt.
Talking to my best friend of 50 years is also a favorite thing-we laugh until our sides ache.
This was fun…thinking about all of this has brought me great JOY!!!!!
Hey
I’m SC from Providence, RI!
Few of my favorites:
- Waking up to fresh rain by a white window, wrapped in white sheets
- Dad brewing coffee for breakfast
- Drunken nights with a table full of good food
- Being surrounded by plants, like standing alone in the middle of a forest
- Bangkok thunderstorms
Hi Joy!
My favorite things are:
terrycloth bathrobes after a long shower,
the smell behind my boyfriend’s ears,
ice cream bars,
getting into a car on a sunny but chilly (because of the wind) day and having it be all warm inside,
DiorShow mascara,
Ken Korach’s voice on the radio (A’s baseball),
old photographs,
and talking about myself!
My favorite things: stripes, yo-yos, bicycles with bells and baskets, lap cats, strong coffee, Japanese stationery shops, peter pan collars, polaroids, ranunculuses, homemade cookies and cupcakes, Fred and Ginger, Scrabble, the circus, and your recipes!
What a sweet giveaway! I’m from Atlanta, GA, but I’m now living in the Bay Area–I guess I had to experience living on both coasts
Hmmm, I have a lot of favorite things: chocolate chips, my trusty whisk, my candy thermometer (until I accidentally destroyed it by dropping it in boiling sugar the other day), best friends, and your blog!
Hi : ) My name is Paul and I’m a Photographer living in Chicago
Some of my favorite things are
-my camera
-collaboration
-ideas
-my mom
-blue boat shoes
-good food .. the kind of food when you bite into it. you just close your eyes and shake you head.
ooooh, I’m flying in just under the radar here! I’m Jennifer…originally from WA state, now I live in WV. BIG change…but it’s all good now that it’s been 8 years! Some things I love are my family, great books, makeup, coffee, food, my computer, tulips, the smell of rain, quiet mommy time….and ANYTHING chocolate!!!!
Just a few of my favorite things?
Fresh tortillas, limes, mangos
The view of Puget Sound from downtown Seattle
Reading cookbooks
Powell’s bookstore in Portland
Sour beers
Hammocks
Aston Villa Football Club
Seattle Mariners Baseball
Ottawa Senators hockey
Baking bread
Closing a book after finishing the last chapter. The way a dog moves around his paws to sit up straighter than he is already sitting when you say “sit”. Making homemade sangria and cookies with my two younger sisters. Feeling connected to relatives even when I don’t see them that often. Knowing I am going to accomplish a goal I’ve had since I was 13, this year, on my birthday (I’m turning 24)!
Here are a few of my favorite things…
Southern California (San Diego) late afternoons
Scharffen Berger Bittersweet Chocolate
Brunch on the weekend with a friends
oh, and bookstores
Fat puppies
Rain
Dark chocolate
Conan O’Brien
Good company
Eggplant
Beirut
Spanish culture
Baking..
*Favorite Things*
1.) The way my 18 month olds hair fuzzes out in the back when she first wakes up.
2.) Chocolate chip cookie dough. (homemade)
3.) Having a full tank of gas.
4.) Seeing your garden vegetables just beginning to sprout their heads above the soil.
5.) Giving someone a homemade gift.
6.) Listening to my three year old laugh loudly in her sleep.
Newport Beach, CA
Hey Joy, I’m from Crosswicks, New Jersey. A dearth of what makes my life a bit brighter are:
1) Finding a favorite new book, and getting lost in the story again and again.
2) The way moonlight transforms all things.
3) Bringing happiness to my loved ones, via food or laughter.
4) My favorite jeans.
5) Seeing my boyfriend walk through my door.
6) Arizona Green Tea
7) Iced coffee!!
The “Crack” of the caramelized surgar on a creamy creme brulee
The sound of a camera shutter when picture is taken.
The smell of brownies baking
A close embrace
So I know I’m late but just being able to state some of my favorite thing will help me get through my rough patch. So here goes:
The smell of the desert after it rains (nothing like it)
Peach Iced Tea
Grass between my toes
Classic Rock n’ Roll
Putting on clean pajamas after a long shower
Paying all the bills and still having some money leftover!
I did notice one thing in common about other’s posts–most things listed were all simple things. It seems for the most part favorite things are recession proof.
Andie
Ridgecrest, CA
Hi Joy,
I know the time’s up but I wanted to answer your question regardless. I’m from Los Angeles and your blog comforts me. Some of my favorite things are watching movies, being introduced to new restaurants or cultures, exposing others to new restaurants or cultures, and exploring (nature or the city). I love love love that I am able to do this in such a wonderful and exciting place, and it makes me happy to think you’re hanging around somewhere too. Have a great weekend!
Not sure if I’ve made the deadline … it’s Easter Sunday in New Zealand. I love a steaming latte to wake me up each morning, I love reading with a latte at hand, I love lattes, I love being immersed in the sea, I love being able to cycle everywhere, I love checking this cooking blog each day for fresh inspiration. I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow, on Easter Monday (which is a public holiday over here), and make your cinnamon buns for my boyfriend and mother who have been anxiously awaiting them for days.
Favorite things:
Plopping myself down in front of the oven and watching baked goods slowly transform from wet lumpy messes into warm and delicious heaven.
The golden-green color of grass and leaves when the sun is shining on them.
Vienna Teng’s music.
Sitting down to dinner or a cup of coffee with friends, then realizing that three hours have gone by while you were talking.
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I grew up in the SF Bay Area of California, but I am a student at the University of Chicago, and currently studying abroad in Athens, Greece!
I currently reside in San Francisco!
Things I love
*sipping dark hot chocolate
*matt lauer from the today show
*getting lost
*going to bookstores
*mom’s tuna noodle casserol
*my dad, my hero and best friend
*kinder hippos from Italy
Sorry for being late, I sure hope you haven’t turned back into a pumpkin yet.
Hi Joy,
I should be outside in our sunny San Diego sunshine, but I wanted my fair chance at your cookies too! =)
Some of my favorite things are:
-my son’s teethy smiles
-all 3 of my kids giggling away
-my kitchen aid stand mixer
-my puter
-the smell of clean laundry -Downy
-chocolate!
1. chocolate chip cookies — i promise, not just because you’re giving them away! lol
2. melted cheese. it doesn’t really matter what it’s on…or even if it’s on ANYTHING…
3. my family and friends
4. my insane dog
5. the internet. i dont know where i’d get my recipe ideas without it!
6. my kitchenaid
7. the smell of the house when i’m baking bread — why don’t they make an air freshner that smells like that?
Sheesh Joy! Look at all these comments! I remember when you were numbered under 100!
So… my favorite things…
baby giggles
sunshiney days that only get up to 75 degrees
husband hugs when I feel like poo
my new talent at diaper cakes! Check out the blog… all the creativity of baking without the heat and tendency for occassionaly disaster!
blogging!
my two beautiful girls
tums to make my heartburn go away after a gluttony of all things sweet…
cheesecake
alright… I’m gonna stop. Its enough… really… it is!
Ok the game is over but hey, I enjoyed looking for answers to that question!
My name is Lisa and I’m from Paris, and my favorite things are:
- French pain au lait for “goûter” (afternoon snack)
- Rain
- Big old brick houses with wide dark small-paned windows and austere gate
- Warm chocolate when it’s cold outside
- The smell of freshly baked warm baguettes & croissants that goes outside Paris bakeries in the morning
- Cook books and buying books in general
- Carrot cake and eating the icing with my finger
- Evening cup of tea
- The smell of freshly ground coffee
- Baking for my family and friends (currently, homemade Bounty bars and truffes au chocolat)
I’m from Texas. My favorite things:
- a nice glass of wine enjoyed on the back porch with a good friend
- the perfect cappuccino
- sleeping in with my husband on a rainy morning
- those rare days when both of us are happy being outside
- cooking for my friends
Red Licorice
Tulips
books
spice cake and icecream in the middle of the night
Kijiji
new notebook
orange pekoe tea
hugs from my husband
herro.
i’m from lubbock, tx, which is one of my least favorite things. but i digress.
-coffee and a buttery, fruity breakfast pastry. i’m not picky.
-pigeons, especially the rosy brown ones.
-avocados, halved, with salt and salsa and a spoon.
-those vinyl stickers that don’t use adhesive.
-beautiful lattice top pies and the expressions of those eating them.
-googly eyes on everything.
-my fuzzy, gorgeous, enigmatic cat named pickles, who can’t stand me.
-nikola tesla, alton brown, ira glass, anthony bourdain.
-stop motion animations by PES.
-joy the baker and her glorious delicacies and her love and her dedication.
-sucking up.
love, claire.
Favorite things:
when a meal i cooked turns out better than expected
holding hands
the first smell from the flowers in spring
cookie dough