It’s that time again! Auntie Apple Aprons is giving us an apron from her Confections Collection to giveaway. The Confections Collection was made just for Valentine’s Day and would make a great gift for your sweetheart in the kitchen. The winner will get to choose between the “Dark Cherry Chocolate” apron or the “Strawberry Shortcake Apron“. For a chance to win, all you need to do is leave a comment letting us now what your favorite kind of chocolate is or favorite chocolate dessert. The winner will also receive some Made By Ducky goodies (my favorite chocolate chip cookies perhaps ) Good Luck!

Make sure to add Auntie Apple on Facebook and Twitter to stay up to date with her latest apron creations.

The giveaway is open to those with a US shipping address only. One  winner will be chosen at random on Wednesday February 9th 2011 10pm PST and will be notified by e-mail. Thank you.

Thank you to everyone who participated. The winner is Sasha!

Photo from Kellyn Bakes

Cupcake of the day goes to K Bakes, an art director form Dallas, Tx. These Garfield cupcakes are perfect! They would have been awesome at The Hundreds x Garfield Art Show Opening.

Italian based studio zo-loft won 1st place in the designboom competition “Dining in 2015” with their idea “din ink”. Ball point pens with plastic fork, spoon and knife caps. The exciting part is that they are in production, which means you should be able to get your hands on these pens soon!

“The design takes the iconic bic ballpoint pen lid, and re-imagines it as a set of pen caps cum cutlery:
a fork, knife and spoon respectively. the product turns common office tools found on any desk
into common utensils. now your ballpoints just has a good excuse to be chewed : use them for din-ink.
the product is made from food approved materials – non-toxic eating tools, packaged in a 100% biodegradable,
compostable wrap! the designers suggest to cut along the dotted line on the package to turn it into a reusable seal bag.
available in black and blue, ‘din-ink’ adds a bit of humor to the bad habit of eating at the office.” – designboom.com

All designers are familiar with the Pantone color world. You can now find Pantone notebooks, mugs, tins, bags..etc and now COOKIES! Kim Neill made these Pantone Chip sugar cookies for her clients. Great idea! She also blogged step by step directions to re-create the cookies. What’s your favorite pantone color??

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Williams Sonoma has these awesome Star Wars Cupcake Decorating Kits for sale online right now. There are two kits, the Rebel Alliance which features Han Solo, Princess Leia, Yoda and Luke Skywalker  and Galactic Empire which has Darth Vader, Boba Felt and two Imperial Stormtroopers.

What better way to make a gift guide by entering a giveaway as well? Chronicle Books is hosting a giveaway to one lucky blogger who post’s a book wish list that equals up to $500. The winner and one lucky person who comments will win the list! Enjoy and leave a comment for a chance to win!!

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Two of my favorite desserts include flan and bread pudding. Creme Caramel must know me well because these are the two items they specialize in. Creme Caramel’s original bread pudding and chocolate bread pudding will be offered at Eat My Blog this Saturday as well as Artisanal L.A on December 11th and 12th. You know where I’ll be.

Eat My Blog is back this Saturday at Tender Greens from 10am t0 4pm. If you haven’t been to any of the previous ones, you sure are missing out. Its a HUGE charity bake sale with donations from food bloggers, bakers, chefs, businesses and restaurants and all the proceeds go to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Go enjoy a delicious experience for a great cause!

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Here is your chance to try I heart pies…with beer pairings!?! This Sunday December 5th, be there!

The holidays are coming up and what better gift to give than a individual pie maker! Breville Pie Maker is available exclusively at Williams Sonoma online. Ten minute pies? Yes, please.