Happy Friday, and happy Valentine’s Day weekend! If you read my post yesterday, then you know I have a lot of delicious eating planned. And you also know that I think this day is all about sharing the love, whatever kind of love that happens to be.
So, because I love you for reading my blog and commenting, and sharing my recipes and just being an all around kick-ass person, I’m giving away 3 x copies of The Cake Book!
This is an absolute babe of a cookbook. It was written by the badass baker Jemma Wilson (who’s YouTube channel I love) and photographed by my favourite food photographer, David Loftus.
They don’t call her Cupcake Jemma for nothing – this lady has serious cake chops, and I speak as someone who was never that into the cupcake craze. This book is totally gorgeous, and covers the basics as well as some ridiculously insanely delicious new twists. These blueberry cheesecake cupcakes have stolen my heart, and seriously, you have to check out the Velvet Volcano Cupcakes – mental in the best way.
This giveaway is sponsored by me (’cause I love ya!) and is open internationally! You just need to be over 18, and have a valid postal address. I hope you win! And if you don’t I hope you have an awesome weekend anyway. If you need some unconventional Valentine’s inspiration, check out yesterday’s post. Peace!
It’s hard to pick just one favourite cookbook! I think my favourite is a tie between Australian Women’s Weekly Bake and Raymond Blanc’s Kitchen Secrets
One of my favorite cookbooks is actually a Disney Mickey’s cookbook! Yes, I’m a child at heart.
How to be a Domestic Goddess – Nigella Lawson
My favourite cookbook is Bills food by Bill Granger. He is the chef I aspire to be. His food is thoughtful, tasty and simple. Xo
Thank you so much for hosting such a sweet giveaway! I can never pick a favorite cookbook-I mainly cook from a binder full of my grandmothers’ old recipes and favorites my mum has scanned from her large cookbook collection- or from my favorite food blogs! Hope your Valentine’s day weekend is fantastic and delicious!
Hi Sarah, Happy Valentine’s! Thank you for this opportunity! My favourite cookbook is Julia Child’s “Mastering the art of french cooking”. I have both volumes and I occasionally use it, so it’s not just sitting on my counter to decorate it, haha :)
Ah it’s so hard to pick just one fave cookbook! The one I probably use most frequently is Eva Longoria’s cookbook (yes, she has a cookbook!). I got it for something ridiculous like 7 bucks and it has served me very well, so many amazing Mexican recipes plus the best carrot cake I’ve ever tried! Tamimi and Ottleonghi’s “Jerusalem” is also a fave, my go to for delish vege dishes.
One of my favourite cookbooks is Delicious: love to cook by Valli Little. It has incredible, fresh recipes.
My favorite cookbooks are the BAKED cookbooks. Any dessert cookbook is my favorite lol.
I think my favourite cookbook is “the porter’s English cookery bible “, but if I win the giveaway, my favourite will be Jemma’s one!!
Hi Sarah! My favorite cookbook above all is written in italian, so i guess you don’t know it :-D (but it’s written by this lady: http://www.cavolettodibruxelles.it/) and the second one is “la tartine gourmande – recipes for an inspired life”. I calculated that I made out of it the 50% of the recipes, a pretty high percentage if you ask me! And I’m super-happy with them!
Hello! Thank you for this opportunity to win this fantastic book! My favorite cookbook is the one I got from my grandmothers, they put together all the best dishes we have. I hope I can pass it on one day. :)
Call me old school, but it’s the Australian women’s weekly’s cakes, biscuits and slices. So many winners that impress family, friends and workmates over and over again.
Katherine xx
Yummo that all looks so nice! My fave cookbook would have to be my gran’s ‘Commonsense cookery book’. Some of the recipes are a bit dated (umm…aspic? No thanks!) but there are some great staples in there like roast chicken, pavlova, scones and anzac bikkies. yum!
Favorite cookbook, wow that’s hard. I love Yvette van boven’s ‘Home Made’ series, which besides wonderful recipes is also beautifully styled. But I have also already made so many great things from the books of Rachel Khoo and Yotam Ottolenghi.
Anything by Nigel slater is a favourite cookbook for me! Tasty and simple :)
What a great giveaway! My favorite cookbook is a german one called “Menu”, it has so many diverse recipes ranging from savory to sweet, even just leafing thorugh it is fun.
This books looks and sounds so good! Now I feel like eating cake for breakfast! My favorite cookbook is Veg! And for dessert i love thiss cookbook with 500 recipes you have to know.
My favourite cookbook is one made by my local primary school that got all the kids to share their home recipes, Such a great collection!
I love all of David lebovitz’ books. The perfect scoop is my go to book for everything icecream. He’s a legend!!!
Ooh this is so hard to answer – it changes all the time. At the minute I am loving Bake by Rachel Allen – her baked cheesecake is my Dad’s favourite dessert of all time!
My all time favourite cookbook is the first edition of the Crows Nest school cookbook. I have been using it since I received a copy by my loving Aunt on my 13th birthday. I am now 42 so it’s a bit special to me. Lots of home grown recipes and a lot of comfort in that book. Nothing beats a little bit of love when you cook. x
Thanks for hosting! Mmm…so many great cookbooks! I loved recently reading “French Market Cookbook recently. And anything by America’s Test Kitchen is usually a winner. And I love The Enchanted Broccoli Forest–I love me some classic Mollie Katzen illustrations along with my shepherd’s pie recipe!
Thanks for hosting! Mmm…so many great cookbooks! I’ve recently loved reading Clotilde’s French Market Cookbook–so much good food! And anything by AMerica’s Test Kitchen usually has reliably great recipes and they explain the kitchen science that happens, which is great for a nerd like me. :)
One of my favorite cookbooks are a piece of cake by Leila Lindholm. It’s a book you always can look in and find your long-waited or long-loved recipe in. Brilliant book for me who loves anything sweet as cakes! :)
Really? One?
I guess it would have to be The Bread Bakers Apprentice
I’m currently in love with Rachel Khoo’s Little Paris Kitchen book. Hell, I’m in love with Rachel Khoo!!
Thanks for the giveaway of such an awesome book!
Thanks for the giveaway. Happy valentines! My favourite cookbook is nigel slaters kitchen diaries.
Cookery the Australian way. My copy is over 26 years and it is still my go to cookbook, full of all the basic recipes I learnt at High school, my 12 year old son is also starting to flick through it and use it!
Cookery the Australian way, my copy is 26 years old and is still my ‘go to’ cookbook, It showed me the basics back in high school and now my 11 year old son loves to use it as he is starting to learn how to cook.
Have to sav my fav is smiten kitchen, it just has so many inspiring recipes
Deceptively delicious – my life saver at the moment, it is the only way I get anything that resembles vegetables into my daughter
Grans Old Commonsense Cook Book. Refer to it all the time.
How to Cook Everything is my go to basics book!
Oh that’s tough. So many great cookbooks out there. I think I’d have to say Plenty is my Current favorite! Thanks for hosting a giveaway, Sarah!
i have mad love for the sprouted kitchen cookbook – i can’t wait for the second one to come out in march.
Love all NIgella Lawson books especially her christmas edition
I love baking with Julia!
jerusalem by yotam ottolenghi
The Baking Bible by Rose Levey Bernbaum.
I can’t believe I haven’t heard of this book!! I love David Loftus’ photography too!!
One of my favorite cookbooks EVER is the Back In The Day Bakery’s first cookbook – everything I’ve made from it is perfect. The flavors are wonderfully balanced, and there’s a magical sense of nostalgia woven through the book.
I loooove The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. I think Deb is a genius.
My favourite cookbook? That’s a real toughy. I adore Ottolenghi. For christmas I got Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour and I love that too. I’m sadly lacking in cake and sweet cookbooks sadly…
My favourite cookbook? That’s a real toughy. I adore Ottolenghi. For christmas I got Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour and I love that too. I’m sadly lacking in cake and sweet cookbooks sadly…
My favorite cookbook (was also my first) is Chocolate by Better Homes & Gardens. But I’m also addicted to Seriously Delish by jessica merchant and the Cookie Dough Lover’s Cookbook.
I have several cookbooks I use often but one of my favorites comes in the form of a magazine– Southern Living. They have some of the best recipes, I keep going back to make again and again (like the pot roast from one of the most recent magazines, I love it so much I have to make it at least once every couple weeks).
Anything put out by the america’s test kitchen is instantly my favorite cookbook!
This cookbook looks amazing! I need more dessert cookbooks. My current fav is a crockpot cookbook.
Seriously Delish – Jessica Merchant ????????????
My favorite of all times cook book is my 12 years old recipe collection from the French kid’s’ magazine “Astratpi” http://www.astrapi.com/ . They are so creative and easy you wouldn”t believe!!!
So far I would say my favorite cook book is one written by giada. Love her food.
My mom’s cookbook!
It may be old-fashioned but I refer to my Betty Crocker cookbook frequently.
Currently, Seriously Delish by Jessica Merchant
Ooooh the book looks gorg! Sign me up!
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I’ve accumulated too many to narrow it down, but I almost always have success with Barefoot Contessa and Pioneer Woman’s Recipes. Thanks for the giveaway!
Picking just one favorite cookbook is hard. I am no where near the chef I would like to be but I will say that I think my current favorite book to turn to when I need a simple and quick meal is The Simple Art of Eating Well.
Thanks for the awesome opportunity.
Xo
Brittany
I would LOVE to add this beautiful cookbook to my collection!
I would LOVE to add this beautiful cookbook to my collection!
My favorite cookbook is the one by Magnolia Bakery that a friend brought back for me from a trip!
Picking one would be like picking my favorite child…haha I do love to collect those old grange and ladies auxiliary cookbooks. They also have the best standard recipes in them!
Love the Back in the Day cookbook!
hard to pick one cookbook because i have two separate favourites for savoury and sweet dishes! i’ll say that i do love ottolenghi’s “plenty”, because i admire his originality and the consequent awesome flavour combinations!
Southern Cakes!
I love the Hummingbird Bakery recipe book.
It’s the best for cupcakes!
my favorite cookbook is Greenspan baking cookbook
My favorite cookbook is Seriously Delish by Jessica Merchant. I love her blog and droll over everything she makes!
One of my favorite cookbooks is Crust and Crumb, by Peter Reinhart.
My favorite cookbook would have to be Dorie Greenspan’s “Baking: From My Home to Yours”. I love the cheesecakes!
I have a folder from high school that has recipes in it from when I did home-economics, I still cook from these!
ooo, that purple icing is so enticing. My fave cook book is The Songs of Sapa by Luke Nguyen, because it’s full of amazing recipes, but also for sentimental reasons (my partner gave it to me early in our relationship) Naw…
I keep going back to Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen… I love everything I’ve made from it!!!
My favorite cookbook right now is Skinnytaste!
I’m obsessed with the Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cuisine by Chef John Folse. So gorgeous.
That is like asking which child is your favorite! I have a LIBRARY of cookbooks (over 100) and I love every one of them. Maybe “The Art Of Oriental Cooking”.
The USA Cookbook.
Can’t say that I have a favorite, cause I have a lot…I do like taste of home though, such nice pictures. Would love this cookbook…please!
I love “the silver palate” cookbook. Haven’t made a bad recipe out of that sucker. All around Delish. made their pot roast recipe last night-best one i’ve ever had (and i went to culinary school).
I hope I win! Also, I don’t have a favorite cookbook yet, as I’m still fairly new to cooking.
I always go back to the old fashioned better homes and gardens cookbook for all the basics!
I really love Joy Wilson’s Homemade decadence. It has some great recipes.
I love Joy the Baker and all her books and Jamie Oliver too
My favorite cookbook is my copy of Joy of Cooking. It was my grandmother’s copy and it was well loved so I always know when I am cooking a recipe she cooked a lot.
Any of jamie oliver’s books.
My favorite cookbook is Joy of Cooking. I have my Grandmother’s well loved copy so I always know when I’m cooking a recipe she made a lot.
My fave cookbook is what I’ve made myself from blogs and fave family recipes as well as stuff I’ve made up. Its in a folder from when I first started to cook. Its bulging from all the bits of paper but I love it!
My favorite cookbook is Maida Heatter’s “Brand-New Book of Great Cookies” – but Actually, I love all of her cookbooks!
Ree Drummonds Holiday Cookbook
a cookbook from my hometown in hawaii
The 4 Ingredients cookbooks are my bibles as I am certainly no domestic goddess but even I can follow their instructions!
I love the Joy the Baker Cookbook!
I just discovered Jamie Oliver’s cookbooks.
Vegan Brunch by isa Chandra Moskowitz
My mums collection of recipes is my favourite cookbook! :)
Okashi Sweet treats is one of my favourite, featuring japanese deserts
I love The Cook’s Companion by Stephanie Alexander. What she doesn’t know about cooking is not worth knowing!!
I’m enjoying Around My French Table by Dorie Greenspan.
Bittersweet by Alice Medrich is my favorite; her sour cream gelato and blackberry buttermilk gelato have rocked my world.
Excellent giveaway….IF I had to pick just one….I would pick Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Fast Food’…..cheers, Valerie
Hello :)
My favorite cookbook at the moment is Asian after work by Adam liaw. So many ideas I’m there! I especially love the cheesecake recipe.
Choosing a favourite cookbook is almost impossible! I’ve used Rachel Allen’s “Bake” quite a few times recently, though, and I’ve got really delicious results every time, so let me just go with that :)
Mr Wilkinson’s Favourite Vegetables by Matt Wilkinson
I love everything about this book: the title, design and of course the vegetable-focused recipes. Some are a bit ‘cheffy’ as one expects from a chef-written book. But there are enough simple and creative new ideas to keep most home cooks happy and interested.
My book shelf is mostly filled with baking books out of which the most used and my favourite is King Arthur Whole Flour Grain Baking.It has many healthy baking recipes which is usually very difficult to achieve.
Currently LOVVVING the new Cabot Cookbook. It’s all about the cheese.
The Longaberger cookbook.
I’ve recently began investing in cookbooks. I keep turning to smitten kitchen’s book for easy and delicious recipes.
Too many good ones to choose from but right now I really like bakewise.
My fave cookbook right now is the milk bar cookbook!! has fantastic cakes and pictures too :)
My fav varies from day to day! however one of my favorite staples is weeknights with giada. the recipes are simple, fresh and quick
Nigel Slater’ eat!
One of my favorites is Flour, Too by Joanne Chang!!
On Food and Cooking, Harold McGee. Not technically a cookbook, but by far my favorite kitchen book OF ALL TIME.
It’s a crappy old notebook with recipes scrawled and glued, collected over many years!
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home, her ice cream technique was a revelation and her flavours just blow my mind. You can tell how much I love it by the grubby pages.
Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, IT’s full of cupcake magic!
my favorite cookbook would have to be “My Drunk Kitchen” by Hannah Hart. It’s seriously one of the funniest, most genuine books i’ have ever read. Her youtube channel is increcible and her book will make you laugh from cover to cover. Her recipes have inspired me to create culinary creations of my own.
All of the Hummingbird Bakery books – some favourites I go back to again and again, and always something new I have yet to try!
I’m thinking this would have be my favourite cook book “the cake book”
I have it out on permanent loan from the library!
Looks like a wonderful book. Hope to win it.
wow, I have so many, it’s hard to choose. I think I would have to go with any of the “Baked” books by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito.
I’m enjoying Donuts By Elinore Kilvans….so yummy!
Sounds like it will be this one
Suzy Spoon’s Vegetarian Kitchen!
Australian women’s weekly big book of beautiful biscuits – mostly for the best ever chocolate chip cookie recipe!
Donna Hay “Off The Shelf” is my favourite cookbook of all time. I pull it out when I need a little inspiration before dinner time.
I love any Laudree cookbooks! I love getting to know their secret for making macaroni, and then some lol!
The Country Women’s association collection! Love it! Reminds me of Mum and Gran cooking when I was little!
The Cooks Companion by Stephanie Alexander truly is my cooking companion… Together we turn excess into success!
My favourite cookbook is Darina Allens Ballymaloe cookery course, foolproof recipes and a great source of information
At the moment I’m using my essential daily cookbook that I got with my Thermomix. Simple back to basic recipes perfect for me!
i’m loving the dominique ansel cookbook at the moment, ‘baking’ by dorie greenspan is another great one i use a lot, and my cook’s illustrated 20 year anniversary edition is a constant go-to for inspiration
I love a german backing book which focuses on a classic baking style:
http://www.amazon.de/Brotbackbuch-Nr-Grundlagen-Rezepte-urspr%C3%BCngliches/dp/3800182777/
my favorite cookbook is: what katie ate. the photography is absolutely breathtaking and i love her style of writing.
it depends on the day! Right now I’d have to say Baked Explorations
I don’t know if I can choose just one! I just made roasted carrots from Homemade with Love that I got for Christmas. It might be my new fav!
The Australian’s Women’s weekly cookbook from 1970,it has some great recipes!
With a Lebanese husband, my current favourite cookbook is Abla’s Lebanese kitchen by abla amad. Abla is a great cook and owns a famous Lebanese restaurant in melbourne (which I would love to visit one day). Abla was even on masterchef as a guest judge and the contestants had to make her baklava. I also love that the recipes in the book are authentic recipes (I’ve cooked for my-in-laws and they were very impressed by the dishes I plated up using abla’s recipes).
I’m a serious Nigella fan. Ithink my favorite cookbook is probably Kitchen.
My favourite cookbok is “Jamie at Home” from jamie oliver.
Thai Street Food by David Thompson – not only are the pics serious food porn, but the delicious recipes take you straight back to the beach in Phuket.
Rick Stein’s India is a heavyweight,
But it managed to pull my current date!
Great spice and not to hard,
A real cookbook star.
i have an extensive collection of cookbooks by the legendary margaret fulton! from basics, to fancy dishes to impress, margaret’s books have been my go to recipe books for many years !
My mums old womens weekly recipe collection. SO useful
Amazing giveaway! My favourite cookbook is a vintage cookbook from the ’50 my aunt has, i think is the Boston cooking-school cookbook but i’m not sure. The information about the basics of cake making really stuck with me, even if it doesn’t have pretty pictures :(
My favorite cookbook is Ina Garten’s Back to Basics :)
One More Slice By Leila Lindholm, i love her recipes and beautiful photos
My favourite would be Abla’s kitchen :)
Nourishing Traditions, a fantastically fabulous find that has changed my way of cooking, eating and living.
With so many to choose from, I was given a gorgeous Woman’s Weekly cook book a few years ago. With some gorgeous and easy to bake cakes. Then there is the Australian Bake Off Cookbook,
I love Jamie Oliver cookbooks – he makes things look so easy, yet packed full of flavour!
Fave cookbook is The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook
The Hummingbird bakery cookbook!
One of my favourite cookbooks would have to be Veg everyday :)
My favorite cookbook has to be Joy the Baker’s first book… man bait apple crisp is all you need
All of my women’s weekly cookbooks, they always turn out right and are easy as pie to make!
My favourite cookbook is community by hetty mckinnon. everything i make from it is completely friggin delicious, like seriously so good. Get on it. I do love baking though…
Hmm favourite I’m not sure but the forest feast is definitely the prettiest one I own.
Unless of course you release a cookbook then that will be my favourite!
I have so many cookbooks that i absolutely love, but i pick “Jeni’s splendid icecreams at home” because i really loooove icecream! Best of all? I found this sweettooth miracle through your eminent blog!
i have a little bit of a girl crush on cupcake jemma’s youtube channel – she’s just so cool! i’ve also had the pleasure of sampling many a crumbs & doilies cupcake and they are deee-licious. As for favourite cookbooks, it’s so hard to pick but I do love anything by david lebovitz. probably ready for dessert for making me really fall in love with baking. (ps pick me pick me pick me!)
It must be Jamie Oliver!
Woo cook books! My favourite is ‘the perfect cookbook’ by David Herbert. It’s got everything from light lemonade to melty chocolate brownies to rich ratatouille . He’s pretty boss.
I love Julia Child’s “mastering the art of French cooking”!