Congratulations to New Momma at 9 Months and Beyond! You won! Please email me your address! Thanks everyone for entering. And make sure you visit my neighbor to learn how to make your own cookies. I’m going to attempt it myself!!
I think God must really like me.
Remember when I told y’all about my new next door neighbor……the creative lady who Bakes at 350?
Well. She’s been letting me taste-test some of her treats!
And I hold her completely responsible for the way I will look in a bathing suit this summer.
The other day we had dinner at their adorable house (I’d love to show y’all pictures of her cute home, but it seemed a little rude to snap my camera over pasta). We feasted on spaghetti and meatballs, Caesar salad with hand-made, heart-shaped croutons and this for dessert.
I’m thinking I won’t be able to get by with Girl Scout Cookies again when I invite them back to my house.
But I also won’t be baking up my own cookies.
Need I remind you she makes these:
And these:
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Today is your lucky cloverleaf-shaped day!
Because one lucky winner will win A DOZEN handmade, delicious Spring cookies!! (Value $42) And she’s pulling out a new Spring cookie cutter just for you, so I’m sure it will be AMAZING!
Go look around her blog and leave a comment telling me how lucky I am so have such a great neighbor!
Oh, and I reserve the right to taste one of your cookies, just to make sure you’re receiving the highest quality.
Kidding.
Sort of.
U.S. shipping only and this giveaway closes Wednesday night!
Oh wow, you sure are lucky!! What a talented neighbor you have!! I would love to help sample if my services are needed!
I wish my neighbors baked cookies like that!!!
Ooooohhhh yum! Now this is a giveaway I HAVE to win! I have tried to make cookies that look like hers… but hers are just perfect every time!
And just where do y’all live? I want to be your neighbor, too! So many creative people on one block. Of course, you’d have to roll me down the street ’cause I’d weigh 2,000 lbs. Her treats are gorgeous. Hope I get to try them.
I have her blog in my list of favorites (ever since I saw it on your blog) and check for new goodies every day! I also would rather BAKE than cook, so I feel we are kindred spirits! LOVE her stuff!
You are SOOO lucky!!
Those are little masterpieces!
Cookies are my most favorite sweet!! And I love sweets!!! It is fun to eat the beautiful ones like she creates! Lori
Mmm..cookies.
She does a great job.
I have been enjoying Bridgets blog ever since your valentines cookie posting. Thanks for the Link-ee to Bake @ 350.
yeah!
You ARE lucky – those kinds of cookies sold for big bucks at my former job at a catering company!
Oh, I love her blog! I am so glad you introduced her to us. All the food looks amazing. I would be delighted to taste a sample of her wares! Plus, I took her Works for Me Wednesday advice and bought a bench scraper! I cannot wait to use it.
Oh, I don’t have to hop over to her blog to know that you are seriously lucky to have her as a neighbor (and her you…..while you may not be as slim and trim as you were before all the cookies but she will be as you’ve been helping with all cookie calories!) I’ve been checking out Bridget’s blog for awhile. She’s mega talented. Thanks to you (both) for a cool giveway.
~ingrid
I just love her cookies! Although I have a collection of cookie cutters my cookies are boring in comparison. I bet her’s taste as good as they look, too.
I love her blog. I started reading it when you featured her a while back, and now I’m hooked. She is so stinking talented. My son loves, LOVES cookies… Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
Wow! How exciting that you live next door to her! I’d be tempted to visit every once in a while…her blog made me hungry!
Oh my gosh, if I had a neighbor like her I would be gaining weight. It’s so hard to resist delicious home baked goodies. Those lemon vanilla scones and poodle cookies looked delcious.
Oh wow- I gained a few pounds just looking! DELICIOUS…
oh my goodness! those look amazing. i think i’ve gained a few pounds just looking at the photos. and now i’m hungry and must go find something sweet to eat!
I don’t know who’s luckier, really. I can’t imagine having a blogger in my TOWN let alone as my neighbor.
Heck, I’d just like someone I knew IRL to know what a blog IS.
Lucky duck.
I would love to bake some of these beautiful cookies.
Yummy. What I wouldn’t give for smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision. My kids will probably get most of these and they won’t appreciate the beauty of them–I’ll enjoy from a distance as they claim them all!
You are lucky because of the amount of skill and knowledge your neighbor has. The fact that she is willing to share it is awesome.
mellisa.willis@sbcglobal.net
How fun! I remember when you talked about finding out who your new neighbor was. I knew you wouldn’t scare her away!
How fun to win some cookies in the mail. That would be exciting!! She does an amazing job. I love the wedding cookies. Wish I would have thought about that 6 years ago.
If you get to eat some of her homemade Hostess cupcakes then you are definitely one lucky neighbor.
Your so lucky because when she opens her window the smell comes your way and it smell as if your the baker. YOu’ll never have to buy those candles that smell like a bakery again.
oooooo….I have wanted one of her cookies for a long TIME
What talent! You two make a great team! Lucky ducks!
I have been enjoying Bridget’s blog. Glad you two have encountered one another.
You’re totally lucky. I read her blog for a while about a year ago- I had to give it up for the waistline.
Seriously, her stuff is amazing.
What wonderful cookies! You are lucky to have such a great neighbor. I’ll be back to drool often.
You are indeed very lucky to have such a great and talented neighbor. My neighbor got me hooked on curry chicken salad. And she doesn’t let me taste test anymore – lol
From your first post on your new neighbor i have wanted to live next to guys so I get to enjoy the cookies too!! Not fair!
It’s always nice to find a friendly neighbor…one that bakes well is even better.
I love her blog. She makes such cute things…
chopf712@yahoo.com
I have been stalking her blog since you first mentioned it. She is very talented and I love that she gives hints and instructions for it all.
Yummy!
Tia
OOOH YUM! I’m so jealous. Can your neighbor come teach my neighbor how to make some yummy and beautiful cookies like that?
Yep, you were right! You are one lucky neighbor, and I’m afraid my waistline might be sorry for finding her site. Yummy!
I subscribed to your neighbor’s blog shortly eafter you introduced her…I SO wish that I could decorate cookies like that!! Count me in on the giveaway!
mjsmith723 at gmail.com
Talk about a welcome wagon!
Yah I’d say your one lucky lady. I’d love to have a neighbor who can decorate cookies so well. I’d love to learn how to do it! Maybe I should go over and meet my neighbor, maybe I’ll be lucky and have a baker for a neighbor too!
Umm, YUM! I want a neighbor so talented, generous, and delicious!
Mmmmmm…such yummy treats! You are indeed fortunate in your neighbors. I use to have a baker neighbor, who always baked scrumptious things for us–then we had to move out of state.
How I miss those goodies!
My daughter and I love the site, it gets the creative juices flowing.
vanillamarti@yahoo.com
Wouldn’t I love to live next door to her, or you for that matter. Everything looks really yummy.
I wish she was my neighbor. I loved her recipe for thor hostess cupcakes. I have made that recipe 2 x already. She has a greaqt blog.
Well, I already have her bookmarked from “Running” into her through a cupcake blog
She has some fabulous ideas! I am already tring her cute iced poodle cookies idea for a “puppies and kitties” birthday party for my one and two year olds. Should be a blast.
I pray everyday that someone like you very own neighbor will move into the vacant house we have nextdoor to us. I would LOVE to have a creative friend to “play” with and chat with. Oh to dream. Did I say I was jeallous of you yet? Well, I am.
Those pink poodle cookies are too cute. You are very, very lucky. I want to be her neighbor too.
Oh, everything on her site just looks so wonderful — the scones, the pie, the cookies!!! You are truly blessed to be living near such a culinary genius. You may have to corrupt her kids with a little boxed mac n’ cheese someday when they’re over at your house, though!
I don’t normally like lemon flavored foods, but I know I would like those scones! Those Meyer lemons look good by themselves.
Thanks for all you do for us in Blogland. You are very blessed (not lucky) to have Bake At 350 for your physical neighbor. But we are all neighbors now, because of Blogland! So I too am her neighbor, and yours too. I hope you like new neighbors!
I know that whomever you choose for the give-a-way will be honored and grateful.
Sharinskishe
PS. Her cookies may look too good to eat, but I am guessing that we all would eat them. I am sure they are good enough to eat if they are good enough to look at.
And my favorite flavor is Chocolate! Not Shamrock green!!!
A blogger that bakes!? That is the kind of neighbor I’m looking for! Everything on her site looks good to me!
Would love to try the Spring cookies. Thanks for a super website!
Pamela
MissDenise73@mac.com
Who doesn’t love a good cookie?! You are lucky.
Oh my sweet deliciousness!! I would break down her door if I smelled those lemon scones!!
I’ve always wanted to try making scones. I’m quite positive mine would not be so pretty.
Beautiful! How come my cookies never turn out that pretty???
I found your blog through Bridget’s blog. Why don’t I get so lucky in the neighbor department? =)
Your neighbor is a good neighbor to have…:)
Any houses for sale in “THAT FAMILY’S” neighborhood? HA!
What a fun street to live on…and pretty, pretty please count me in for the cookie giveaway! YUMM-O
I’ve had her bookmarked in my feedreader since you mentioned her as your neighbor! And, I’ve favorited one of her recipes – that brownie with the caramels inside…mmmmmm!!! Once Lent is over, I am so making those!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I have also been reading her blog since you posted it before. My goodness, the woman has some talent, or as my 7 year old would say, “She’s got skills!” I can’t even make plain old sugar cookies, much less beautiful ones like hers!
Send them my way, please! We colored our lemonade green and have the Irish Stew in the crock pot. The kids and I are about to make cut-out cookies this afternoon…but wait! No shamrock cutter in the house?! Oh me, oh my…I think I need to be rescued!
The pink poodles are adorable. The shamrock cookies look delicious. Too bad she didn’t move to WV. I’m jealous. You are blessed indeed.
Really nice neighbor you have! Try to get those snapshots up sometime of her cute little home! Thanks for your cute blog too. I have been blessed by it.
Awesome! I found her through your blog and now I follow you both. She does amazing work!
Wow, what a great neighbor! The cookies are so beautiful I might not be able to eat them. Just joking, I’m sure I’d manage somehow.
I love her blog! I’ve followed it since you first announced the two you were neighbors. I’d love to have her as a neighbor (or you for that matter!) I’m hoping she can help me bake better. Thanks for the contest!
Yum! You’re luck to be her next door neighbor…those look delicious!
Oy! Who cares if I’m on a diet?? I wanna win!! =)
I’m pretty sure having a neighbor that’s a blogger AND a baker is pretty much the best thing ever. I love Bake At 350!
Okay Kristen! Yoru blog is always the icing on the cookie! And I love your neighbors blog too! She has inspired me. But I have to share something with you about the Amazing Grace of God! I know, you already know!
I use your blog as a sort of daily devotion about God, Husbands and Children…today I want to pay you back…
I had a horrible weekend in the midst of wonderful. Our 7 year old daughter was baptized on Sunday ( Amazing and joyous) and lets just say that my relationship is not what yours is with parents. after a termendous time spent losing my self esteem because of overbearing family that drove 10 hours to celebrate, I was exhausted, they hit the road and I was ready to complain and vent. I met with friends at church for our biweekly preschool playtime, and a lady walked in. Our group was the only in the church and she walked up to our director and asked for someone to pray with her. Wow! I was given the priveledge and God set me straight! I am so blessed and received so much from being of service to someone truly in need. My venting turned instead to praise and my broken heart was healed. ALl because of someone in need! I just wanted to share, thanks for reading!
Holly
Baking blogs are the best. And living next door to someone who HAS to bake regularly? Amazing. Just consider it your duty to test everything before she posts.
I totally subscribed. Look at all the funyumminess! Because, you know, I need 83 blogs to read, and yet another reason to bake and not lose weight! You’re killing me Kristen, but I still love you for it.
WOW!! That is my kind of neighbor. Wish I lived on your street. =P
I am *DYING* over here!!!!
Mmmm!! They look so delicious!! I so wish I had your neighbor!! I’d love to give her cookies a try as would my kiddies too!! They looks so yummy!!
Thanks for the chance!!
You are so amazingly lucky! I’d never lose ANY weight if she lived next door to me!
I’ll be glad to take those cookies off your hands, though. A one-time-only offer, you understand.
You are beyond lucky! I’ve been eyeing up her blog since you posted about meeting her. You are one lucky girl. I’d be happy to get some spring cookies, I might even be convinced to let my family try one or two.
Oh my..lucky indeed!
I’m trying to wipe the drool off my laptop..excuse me..
My girls would love some cute cookies!
Been wanting to bake cookies for 2 days now. Have to stop watching The Biggiest Loser, they have a sugar cookie challenge and now your giving some away, it must be ment for me to bake some or win some.
Carmen
what an awesome website she has aren’t you the lucky neighbor?!…I think the margarita cookies are so cute and they make me want to go to our favorite Mexican place, sit on the patio and sip a frozen margarita!
What beautiful cookies!! Don’t enter me since I can’t eat them..but wow..what lovely goodies!
Holy comments! LOL! Well, you are one lucky lady. I love the pink poodle cookies. Too cute. You’re right though… that baking can lead to BAD, BAD swimsuit summers!
Those look colorful and yummy.
I would totally be over there every afternoon to “borrow a cup of sugar” and see what she was baking next.
Kristen…you sure are blessed having this wonderful lady as your neighbor! Her blog is just beautiful and her cookies look awesome! Thanks for introducing her to us and sharing your stories…I especially liked her blog about your son coming to visit and her wanting to hide the camera where she was taking food pics…..and he was just so matter of fact and asked if she had a blog! Too cute! It is a friendship that was meant to be!
You do have one great neighbor! Wish I had a plate of those cookies right now! Someone is going to be one lucky winner. Jackie
I would love to have a neighbor like that! I am an aspiring baker my self.. to have as much talent as she does would be soo neat!! Those cookies look amazing!!!
I think I gained weight just looking at her blog. You are lucky to have such a gifted neighbor!
Thanks for the chance to win some goodies!
You are very lucky! I would weigh over a ton if I lived close to her!!! I LOVE COOKIES!!
I’m so jealous of you!! I love drooling over Bridget’s cookies, and you get to do it in person!! I would love to win a batch of these delightful treats!!
Those Meyer Lemon Vanilla Scones look oh so tasty!! Lucky you
i sure hope she shares her yummy goodies all the time!!! that would make her a fab neighbor!!!
i’m gonna have to go back to her blog for the scones recipe!
So lucky you are we are! Awesome giveaway. That ice cream pie looked delish? Maybe she could pack that on some dry ice and send it this way? The cookies look yum too!
Please let me know if there are any houses for sale on your street. I think I might have to leave my family behind, but it might be worth it.
You are lucky!!! I have one of them in my church that bakes AMAZING THINGS! One time she gave me a “mistake” of her’s and I swear that she could sell the recipe for millions.
Ahhhh I’d love some cookies… don’t need them, but I’d love them!
You are lucky to have her as a neighbor because not only do you get goodies, but they are made from scratch!
Yum Yum Give Me Some! : )
Cute cookies again! You’re blessed to have a nice neighbor that shares.
karen at b5media dot com
She’s my hero! I’d love to rub creative elbows with both of you.
You’re lucky to have each other!
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!
Sharon
slw_kerr@yahoo.com
So glad you are blest with this wonderful neighbor. What a talent! LOVE the poodle cookies! So original.
What talent! (Baking, photography, writing…take your pick!) I wouldn’t make cookies if I lived next door either (and I try to be ‘cookie mom’ for my kids’ schools). I’ll have to check her out more often for tips on how to do it better. I’d love to sample her wares!
You are very lucky. I’ve always wanted to bake with Meyer Lemons, but then I remember – oh yeah, I don’t bake. Perhaps your lovely neighbor will inspire me…
Meyer Lemon Scones?! Pink Poodle cookies?! I wish it were my neighbor!
you are indeed lucky to have such a talented neighbor. I like to bake, but never got into the whole decorating thing. Her vanilla scones made me gain weight just looking at them. thanks for the giveawayand info on her site.
barbaraeford@yahoo.com
My word – she makes beautiful cookies. Almost a shame to eat them they are so nice. And I think I gained 10 lbs just looking at them. The poodles were so cute!
You are luck to have such a talented neighbor!
You’re right…with swimsuit season coming…I’m almost glad she doesn’t live near me. Those cookies look amazing! Truly works of art – almost too good to eat (almost!). Thanks! Beth W.
I think I might be living in the wrong neighborhood. All my boring neighbors do is host wienie roasts.
What a great give-a-way! I have been eyeing her yummy cookies for a while and would love to give them a try! Thanks!
I actually found your blog because of HER blog, I love her stuff, she makes me want to cook more!
I just love her cookies, well I haven’t had one, but they all look sooooo good. You are definitely very lucky!!
you are so lucky!! I am in love with those monogramed cookies!
oh, I forgot to link with my email -please sign me up for the sweetest giveaway. Thanks
As soon as you mentioned that Bake at 350 was your neighbor, I added her to my feed reader. Her post that day was for caramel brownies, which I made the same day. YUMMY!!! They were fantastic! I would LOVE to try some of her cookies…especially if I didn’t have to bake them and do the decorating myself!
You are very lucky indeed. I gained 5 pounds just browsing her site, and the ice cream pie you had for dessert ….yummm.
I check her blog every day hoping for some new, cute thing she’s made!
Andrea
henry@avnv.net
I’ve been reading her blog since you first mentioned it and she does amazing work! I enjoy the fact that she throws in things like the ice cream pie you were able to sample. Did she substitute a different flavor ice cream? I’d love to have a neighbor who could bake like she can, but I’ll settle for the prize here
Stephanie
dsmoore1 at centurytel dot net
She is amazing, since you first posted about her I have been following her blog, I don’t have a creative bone in my body so it is amazing to me what she does. I just loved how when you discovered her you said that “God gave you a deep love for the cookie”. I was laughing in my office for 5 min that day. I thought the poodle cookies she did in the last week or so were really cute and so detailed and the fancy cookies she did for the wedding were so sophisticated looking but those scones look to die for, I may have to try them.
I’d just have to hang out in her kitchen all the time!!!
Seriously, if she were my neighbor I may never bake again!
Lezl
I wish my neighbor baked cookies like that! I’d tell her so but she might quit cooking for me altogether since she’s my Mom!
I love your blog and read it every day!
There is no way I could live next to that very talented women because I would die from a cookie overdose. Her Valentine and St. Patrick day cookies are so beautiful. you are one lucky lady tohave her as a neighbor!
tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com
I don’t think lucky begins to describe it. Well, until you try to get in that swimsuit anyway.
Thanks for putting a link here. I LOVE to bake and get inspiration from other bakers! I’m going to have to work on my cookies now. My boys were impressed, also.
Bridget is a cookie Goddess! I aspire to bake suck beautiful cookies that hold their form. Mine are usually misshaped and so puffy that I have to whack them with a spatula when I pull them out of the oven. I love daisies, so I am going to attempt to create some daisy cookies that I hope will at least be recognizable, if not as gorgeous as Bridget’s!
none of my neighbors make anything that cool! no offense!
Yum I gained weight just looking at all the yummy things she creates! Very talented! Please enter me in your giveaway!
Love your blog I read it daily!
Kelly Bryan
Dacula, Georgia
I want Bridget to send her Nana McKee and I some spring cookies! I hope I win!
The only way I will get some cute cookies like that is if I win this contest!
I wish I could say I would make some myself, but….
You are so lucky to have her as a neighbor! I have been admiring her blog since you first pointed it out. you’d be welcome to taste-test one of mine, if I won!
She makes some beautiful cookies and yummy desserts. The ice cream pie that you made for you looked delicious!
I gain weight just looking at her goodies and it’s your fault I have her in my bloglines reader. lol. I have the ingredients to make the carmel brownies she had on there the other day and my daughter is nagging because I promised to try making the filled chocolate cupcakes. Yummy.
scrappylori at gmail dot com
I can’t tell you how jealous I am!!! That is one talented and kind neighbor you have there. The lemon scones and caramel brownies looked awesome…and you actually got to eat that ice cream pie?!?!?!I’d stay put if I were you!
You are so lucky! Bake at 350 has inspired me to try what I never thought I could, baking cute stuff that is good enough to eat.
As Mr.Rogers would say,
“Won’t you be my neighbor?”
tnaya
You are so lucky!! Your so lucky that I would say your not lucky and you should put your house up for sale but….my dh won’t move so I couldn’t snatch it up.So yeah your lucky.You rule,I drool.
I have been subscribing to her blog since you first introduced her…mostly just to drool at her amazing baked goods. I would love to actually taste some!
I found your post about Bake at 350 and fell in love!! I have been following for about a month now and I have used so many of their tips!! I tried to make my own cookies this St. Patty’s Day – cute, but I have A LOT to learn!!!
They tasted good, no matter how they looked. hehe.. I even frosted them!! I would love to get my own close up view of these wonderful inspiration cookies!! Thanks!
Oh my gosh, you ARE so lucky to have her as a neighbor. I want to be a neighbor, too. I want some of those delicious cookies, too. Wowzer.