Fall Baking Kick-Off: Win a KitchenAid Stand Mixer
Last weekend, we hosted our annual pie social and over sixty of our friends showed up on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
Guests who love to bake came bearing pies of all kinds, until my table was filled with fifteen homemade creations. Some were bursting with local fruits such as blueberries, apples, pears and raspberries, as well as rhubarb. Others featured nuts like pecans or coconut, and a towering Banoffee pie held sliced bananas under a mountain of whipped cream.
We had classic pumpkin pie, too, as well as a huge pot of hot spiced apple cider to accompany the desserts. It was an afternoon to remember.
Surveying the spread, one thing was apparent: my friends are as excited for fall baking as I am.
Maybe we’re psyched about baking because we can turn the oven on without heating up the whole house, or perhaps it is because we’ve finally settled into a fall routine. My recent flurry of baking was brought on by a string of rainy, grey days that inspired pumpkin spice muffins, chewy oatmeal cookies and apple pie. You know, the classics.
Whether you are a pie maker, cookie shaper or cake baker, there’s something about this time of year that urges us to pull out the butter, spices, sugar and flour and get to work. And while a mountain of dirty dishes can’t be helped, there is one kitchen workhorse that helps make fall baking much easier: the KitchenAid stand mixer.
The KitchenAid Artisan Series 5-Quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer has a 5-qt Stainless Steel bowl with handle and 10 different speeds, which means whipping cream to stiff peaks and smashing butter and sugar into fluffy mounds is just the beginning of the mixer’s prowess. I mix up all my pie crusts with the paddle attachment (here’s the tutorial) and knead the dough for my whole wheat buttermilk dinner rolls with the dough hook.
When I prepare my Winter Fruits Pavlova, the egg whites are carefully whipped to perfection with the whisk attachment. And the After School Gingerbread Project would be a chore without the mixer to beat our Royal icing into peaks.
I hope you are feeling lucky, because my friends at KitchenAid Canada wish to gift one of my Canadian readers with their very own Artisan® Series Tilt-Head Stand Mixer!
(American readers, I do apologize that this is a Canadian exclusive, but I must remind you that my last giveaway was also a KA stand mixer, and it excluded Canadians. So it’s only fair! )
And that’s not all! Because I just launched a cookbook, because you are the best readers on the planet, we’re also giving away the KitchenAid ® Ice Cream Maker Attachment! Homemade ice cream to accompany all that pie? Yes please.
I love to use this awesome attachment for my homemade ice cream and sorbet. It makes up to 2 quarts of fresh ice cream, sorbet and other frozen desserts in 20-30 minutes. It’s super easy to clean and I love that I don’t have to store a whole other small appliance.
Fall baking recipes
Before we get to the giveaway, let me give you a few ideas of what you could bake up this fall. Here’s a sampling of seasonal sweets that are beloved by all and guaranteed to make your home smell incredible.
- Marmalade Pecan Pie – with coconut sugar, bourbon and a hint of chocolate.
- Pumpkin Olive-Oil Loaf – the best after-school snack.
- Maple-Sweetened Apple Pie – a tutorial for a naturally-sweetened apple pie.
- Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake – berries are almost finished, but citrus is coming.
- Pumpkin Spice Snaps – a healthier version of our favourite cookie.
- Oatmeal Pumpkin Bundt Cake – with maple caramel sauce. Need I say more?
- Apple Almond Galette – an exclusive recipe from my new cookbook!
- Pear Gingerbread – snacking cake at its finest.
That’s a good start, I think, don’t you?
GIVEAWAY
One winner will receive a KitchenAid® Artisan® Series Tilt-Head Stand Mixer! This beautiful mixer has 10 speeds, a 5-quart mixing bowl, and will be in White, as pictured above. (MSRP: $599.99)
BONUS PRIZE! The KitchenAid ® Ice Cream Maker Attachment. (MSRP: $159.99)
Total giveaway value today? $760.
KitchenAid Canada will ship both the stand mixer and the ice cream maker attachment to the winner’s front door. Please note that this giveaway is exclusively for my Canadian readers.
To Enter the giveaway: Leave a comment on this post and answer the following question: “What is your favourite thing to bake in fall?”
Giveaway ends Sunday, October 15 at 11:59PM EST.
Good luck to all and Happy Baking!
** This giveaway has ended. Big congratulations to Tricia of Calgary who had this to say about fall baking: “I love to bake bread and muffins…anything with the fall spices..apples ..pumpkins..squash!!! YUM!” **
Tricia, your fall baking just got a whole lot more fun.
KitchenAid has generously provided the stand mixer and attachment for this giveaway, but all opinions are my own and based on a decade of working with KitchenAid appliances in my kitchen.
I like to bake muffins in the fall. Pumpkin walnut, orange cranberry and apple pecan are our favourites.
All your recipes look fabulous Aimée! My favourite things to bake are maple-cinnamon-glazed pumpkin scones and chewy ginger cookies, although your pumpkin-spice snaps sound like they might become a new favourite!
The one thing that I always end up making during the fall season is some sort of spice cake. I generally make a gingerbread cake with a dollop of real whipped cream, or something that my Mom used to make called a tomato soup cake which is essentially a spice cake…it takes a can of tomato soup instead of eggs. It’s quite amazing and a crowd pleaser for sure.
Finally a contest Canadians can enter! We are excluded from most blogs and instagram contests I come across. Thank you–I would love to win this! When we lived in Germany we had a decent stand mixer (though nothing as amazing as this one). We had to sell/give everything when we moved (back, in my case) to Canada. Now I just have a 20$ hand mixer! I would love to use this for many things, like mixing dough for bread. I have never tried to make ice cream before–I am sure my kids would love it. My favourite things to bake in fall are apple crisp, cinnamon buns, and anything with butternut squash in it.
My favorite thing to bake in the fall (and in every other season but especially in fall) are ginger, molasses, chocolate chip cookies. They make the house smell heavenly and are best eaten next to a lit candle with a book in hand.
Happy Fall!
I absolutely love the idea of a pie social! Its something I would love to do with friends this fall. My favourite thing to bake is probably apple crisp – which is never complete without ice cream, of course!
My favorite thing to bake in the fall is a large sheet pan of fresh Plum Cake. I get very excited every year when I see the big crate at our locally owned grocery store piled high with Italian Prune plums. These are great plums because they’re small, firm and slice up nice. They are wonderfully tart after they’ve been baked which complements the white cake and streusels that layer them in this recipe. A large dallop of whipping cream, whipped up the old fashioned way, completes this dessert. It’s delicious. We love to eat these prunes fresh too while they last but nothing compares to the plum cake they make. Italian prunes have been a part of our family heritage for decades and get us excited to bake and eat every fall season.
My favourite thing to bake in the fall is carrot oatmeal muffins!
My favourite thing to make in the fall would be
Chocolate chip cookies. ( or any cookies for that matter!). I’ve only had a hand held mixer so this would make me sooo happy if I won this ?.
I have a few things I like to bake in the fall but my fav purity is apple crisp.
I really enjoy following your blog and I’ve used many of your recipes to feed my family. Thank you!
My favorite thing to bake in the fall would be pumpkin pie. I love the smooth, custard-like texture of pumpkin pie filling and it’s especially delicious when you make it from scratch. I’m a big fan of Kitchen Aid and I hope I am lucky enough to win the stand mixer and the ice-cream attachment. Thanks!
Ontario pears are in abundance right now. I love to bake my spiced pear and caramel galette with buttery ginger crust.
Gorgeous, local and oh so delicious!
My mom got a KitchenAid mixer in the 1950’s! When I had a family, she gave it to me. Now my son owns it! I’m sorry I gave it away! For this offer, you had me at Ice Cream maker! I love reading your blogs! Thanks Aimee!
I love fall! My favourite thing to bake in the fall is a date cake.
I love to bake with apples! Apple crisp, apple pie…
My favourite pie to bake is Apple Pie!
I love baking gingersnap cookies!
I love to bake Mom’s Molasses Cookies. Yum!!!!
I love following your Instagram account, and I found your camping recipes very helpful when I went camping this summer 🙂 Thank you Aimee!
When fall comes, I love to bake apple crips and everything apple actually! Thank you for this generous giveaway
It’s a tie between cheesecake and pumpkin muffins! And I’ve been dying for this mixer! ???
What a wonderful way to enter the fall season. My favourite thing to bake would definitely be apple pies. The kids go crazy about them and it’s such a wonderful treat! Xo
Now that the kitchen’s cool I like to bake multiple loaves of whole wheat bread for school lunches.
Pies of all kinds, but especially the classic pumpkin and apple. And I’ve been dreaming of a KitchenAid for years!
When the cools off outside I love to bake bread, delicious simple homemade bread ?
Scones to go with a hot coffee 🙂
Whole wheat bread for school sandwiches since it is so difficult to find a good one at the grocery store! However, baking is one of my favourite free time activities and I’m always preparing muffins, cheesecakes and banana bread with no added sugars, so that I have something delicious and healthy to snack on!
My favourite thing to bake in the fall? Pumpkin spice scones…Yum!
Definitely ginger spice loaf!
Thanks for hosting such an amazing contest! My favourite things to bake in the fall are loaves – lemon poppy seed, banana, zucchini… you name it!
Apple everything! Muffins, loaves, pies, pastries you name it! Loving the fall flavors harvest and what it inspires in my kitchen!
Love pies and cakes that include pumpkin or apples or cranneberies or caramel. By themselves are why nit all toguether! ?
My favourite thing to bake in the fall is a beautiful German plum cake! Soooo good!
OH I love to bake in the fall!! Apple pie, pumpkin pie and molasses cookies are some of my favourites!
My favourite thing to bake in the fall is muffins: banana, pumpkin, zucchini, cranberry, all the best fall favourites.
I love to bake anything with apples fresh from the tree. The kids favorite is apple crisp, and its gone before it has time cool 🙂
my favorite thing to bake in the fall is pumpkin muffins. 🙂
Yummy apple pie for me!
I agree with you, the rainy weather that we had all week-end definitely inspired me to stay inside and cook! My favorite thing to bake in the fall is a big batch of cretons. That is the only meat that my son likes in his sandwich; so I better make sure that I have a big batch made ahead to get me through the fall and winter!
My favorite fall recipe is my Chai Chocolate Chip Cookie! I baked 5 different batches until perfecting the spice blend and they make my home smell delicious!
(thank you for having a Canadian giveaway, we tend to miss out and it’s nice to see! )
My favourite thing to bake in the fall is loaf bread! Pumpkin, zucchini chocolate chip, apple, cinnamon coffee cake, gingerbread – the options are endless. It’s such a cozy way to wake up, with a cup of coffee and a slice of homemade loaf, or enjoy them with some whipped cream and hot chocolate or apple cider for dessert 🙂
I love baking in the fall to fill the house with the smell of baked goods and to warm it up. Ginger spiced cake and apple crisp are fall favourites!
Pumpkin cornbread
I love to bake muffins — something warm to reheat and slather butter on when mornings get cold! This sure gives me inspiration to branch out to pies though…
For sure, apple pie and cookies!
Pumpkin scones, muffins, anything to go with a hot coffee!
Pumpkin pie pecan pecan pie, cinnamon buns and all the cookies! Plus you have to practice a few yummy baked recipes for Christmas 🙂 I always borrow my mom’s Kitchen Aid mixer when I’m on a baking binge would love having one of my own. Don’t think I can bake without now!
I love baking. In the fall, apple everything takes over and it’s delicious. On special occasion pumpkin cheesecake.
Anything pumpkin is my favorite think to bake during this fall season
I just finished making winter squash purée to have enough stocked up for your wonderful Winter squash pie from your new recipe book. Last weekend I made three pies which got lots of rave reviews, with whipped cream sprinkled with a little maple flakes…Baking is my favourite thing to do.
Two of my favourite Fall recipes to bake are a pumpkin cranberry loaf and my apple pear ginger crumble, both are yummy!