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.
First of all, hats off to the chef -15 homemade sounds like heaven on earth ? They all look delicious, thank you for the fall pie bucket list!
I’m blown away with your giveaway! I have to say that I love baking anything with dough in fall, when I need something more filling than veggie soup. I would place chicken pot pies on the same level as tomatoes soup, the king and queen of my fall menu ?
Happy fall cooking everyone ?
Our favourite Fall recipe is apple crumble with the smell of cinnamon and apple. We love the crisy buttery top.
Am looking forward to trying the Oatmeal pumpking bundt cake! My favorite thing to bake in the fall is my
mother-in-law’s apple cake… simple and delicious with a crusty top and soft interieur. Its whips up so quickly
and is gone just as fast!
Pumpkin cupcakes with maple cream cheese icing. Whipped up a batch at my mom’s the other day. Would have been awesome to have had this stand mixer to do the job.
Favourite thing to bake in the fall? That’s a hard one. One day it might be pumpkin pie and another day it might be apple crisp or carrot muffins or cranberry scones or chicken pot pie or some new recipe I’ve found.
In the fall I love to bake pumpkin cheesecake. I don’t love pumpkin enough to eat it that often but once a year in the fall at thanksgiving is delicious!
Hi Aimee, I was drooling over your pie photo on social media but only just realized you had this amazing giveaway. I have your first book and it would be cool to have tools to make the making easier. Hope to see you at FBC!
Ugh. Forgot to mention in my previous comment that I do tend to reach for pumpkin – fresh or in cans for quite a range of cooking, baking.
I’ve been making pumpkin muffins on repeat 🙂
It’s a tie between pumpkin pie and cranberry oatmeal cookies! I’m sure scheming of a pie party for winter solstice now….
Buttery, flaky pie! All the pies, especially apple!
Love making your pumpkin chocolate donuts!
I love fall baking because it just kicks off the start of the cozy season of crinkly leaves, beautiful snowfalls and glowing fireplaces!
My number one thing to bake is Pumpkin Spice Biscotti!!! Perfect snack to have around during big cottage get-togethers, including Thanksgiving!
My favourite thing to bake in the fall is either bread or pizza……or chocolate cake! I can’t choose. Ok, if I must, then it’s chocolate cake. Mix in walnuts and chocolate chips and I a.m. happy.
All the pies from your “pie social” looked amazing! My favorite thing to bake in the fall is banana bread 🙂
Wow, amazing giveaway!! I love to bake apple crisp in the fall and it would be so fun to make homemade icecream to top it with!
I love making apple crisp and pumpkin muffins.
Some of my fall faves to bake are yeast breads, cinnamon rolls, and various cookies. These scents remind me coming home from school and being greeted at the door to hot rolls or cookies Mom had baked.
Wishing all a happy baking day!
I love to make cider gel pie in the fall. It’s a very old and cherished family recipe.
Fall always makes me crave butter tarts. No nuts, no raisins (an argument for another post and time lol) I have apple pie that comes in at a close second. Congrats on the new book btw! Xo
I love making apple pies in the fall. I use a mix of tart and sweet apples. Sometimes I add pears. So many ways to make apple pie!
Pumpkin pie would be my favourite!
I love making anything pumpkin, but especially pumpkin biscotti!
Honey cake(old family recipe) and pies with meat and cabbage served with borsh!
My favorite is a childhood recipe for banana,cranberry nut bread.
Fresh baked bread with soup.
Looks delicious!!
My favourite thing to bake in the fall is apple crisps. So fast and easy! I also like trying new pumpkin recipes when I have the time.
My favourite thing to bake when the cooler weather rolls around is Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Squares! But I’ve never made a pie from scratch before, so that is definitely on my fall bucket list to do this season!
Mu favourite things to bake are bread, tarts, pie and cake of any kind
My favorite thing to bake is my cranberry-chocolate cookies! The perfect snack!
This is so exciting! I love following your seasonal posts and recipes here at simple bites and on insta 🙂 My favourite fall baking project is probably apple dumplings – there’s nothing quite like flakey pie pastry wrapped-up around a whole apple and topped with some blackberry ice cream!
What a fun give away!!! My favorite thing to bake in the fall is a pumpkin raisin muffin recipe from my grandma. And of course we bake and puree our pumpkin no canned pumpkin!! Just made a batch for a Friend who had a Thanksgiving baby and left them on her doorstep.
My favourite thing to bake in fall is molasses cookies! But anything with pumpkin, carrots, or incorporating those warm spices like nutmeg, ginger and cardamom is high on my baking list this time of year.
So excited for this giveaway!
I love to bake breads and cookies (ginger spice, pumpkin, etc.)
Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Every year, I look forward to baking pumpkin dump cake with yellow cake mix and tons of butter.
This time of year – anything with apples!!
I love baking your chocolate chip
Zucchini bread. Yum!
It is so hard to choose. My kids would select chocolate chip cookies, but I would probably go with bread, pizza dough and dinner rolls – I love the smell of bread proofing.
I love to bake so many things in the fall…apple crisp, pumpkin pie, fresh rolls. I also think anytime is a good time to make homemade ice cream 😉
I’ve made a sweet potato cheesecake that just tastes so right this time of year.
During fall I like to bake anything with apples – crumbles, muffins, and cake!
Pumpkin pie
Favourite reason to cook in the fall is for comfort food and thankful that the oven won’t heat up the whole house. I love making Oat Fudge Bars and treating friends.
Mmm, fall baking is my favorite! Hard to decide, but a good loaf of pumpkin bread is hard to beat. Apple pie is great too. Too many good choices!!
I like to bake pies in the fall. Everyone loves the way it makes our home smell delishious!
LOVE making my very berry pie- blackberries, raspberries and blueberries.
What an awesome giveaway! Fall is the best time of the year to bake anything with apples and mulling spices. Also zucchini bread, muffins and loads of granola (not exactly baking but still).
Apple crisp is my favorite fall baking project, with a generous amount of crumbly topping…and a beautiful scoop of vanilla ice cream to top it all off. I need this mixer and ice cream maker, don’t I?
My favourite thing to bake in the Fall is my Apple Banana muffins. Apples from our backyard which the kids picked themselves. They bring it to school for snacks and some extra apples are donated to their school’s Breakfast Program. Loving a win-win situation.
Apple pie is my favourite thing to bake in the fall.