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Redpath Sugar Cookies & Giveaway!

It’s not without a lot of excitement and a little bit of nervousness that I made these cookies this past weekend.

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Secretly, I’ve always been inspired by this adorable vintage truck here (I know, inspired by a truck, but it is adorable), and was happy to actually have a reason to make a cookie version. It’s the Redpath Acts of Sweetness truck, and I made them in honor of an exciting upcoming event, Canada’s Baking & Sweets Show, presented by Redpath Sugar.

I know many of you won’t be able to make it… Silly geography… but you never know, a trip to Toronto for some sweet fun could be just what the doctor ordered, or something to plan for the future. For now, hope you enjoy the cookies and the shortbread recipe below.

You might be wondering why I’d be nervous making these cookies. In this case, it’s not the edible ink image decorating technique, but what I was thinking about while making them. Thinking about presenting at the Baking & Sweets show. I’ll be at Redpath Sugar’s booth, showing how to decorate cookies, and am so excited to meet you there and I suppose just a little, wee, teeny tiny bit nervous about demonstrating in a new setting. So please come and say hi. I promise to give you lots of cookies. No, really, can’t do that. But I will be demonstrating decorating techniques twice a day, and making cookie dough once per day.

The Show goes from Sept. 28th – 30th, and there are so many amazing things happening! I mean, besides Ace of Cakes, the DC Cupcake Girls and other cake celebrities being there, there’s a chance to win a $30,000 kitchen, classes taught by these amazing cake artists, tons of interesting exhibitors and truly, so, so much more. If you’d like to get a ticket, here’s all the information you’ll need.

You should know that although Redpath has sponsored me to demo cookie decorating at the show and the giveaway below is sponsored by them, the cookies and post itself aren’t sponsored – I’ve truly always loved their 1 kg bag of icing sugar and experienced success using their sugar for baking.

Notes about decorating these cookies:

  • The image for the truck didn’t turn out as I would have liked – I just used a photo from the internet and should have asked for a (good quality) photo.
  • Used this royal icing for decorating
  • Here’s a tutorial on edible ink images
  • You can also find the same shortbread recipe here.

And now on to the giveaway!

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Baking & Sweets Show VIP and Regular Ticket Giveaway!

Giveaway Prizes:

Prize #1 – 4 VIP tickets to the show! VIP’s get front row seating to all the demos they wish to attend! i.e. Ace of Cakes, The DC Cupcake Girls, Anna Olsen, SugarStars among others.

Prize #2 – 2 regular attendance tickets to the show!

Prize #3 – 2 regular attendance tickets to the show!

The tickets are good for a day of your choice; Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

Winners!

Congrats to the Nadine, Carol and Liz for winning tickets! Hope to meet you at the show! 🙂

How to Enter: Giveaway Closed!

It’s easy!

There are 3 possible ways of entering:

2. Tweet this post and leave another comment here saying you’ve shared it there. 

The winners will be chosen randomly at random.org. The contest closes at 7pm EST on Sunday, September 23rd, 2012. I will email winners and ticket choices are on a first-come first-served basis. (The winner who returns my email first has first choice).

Good luck!

Happy baking and hope to see you soon!

xo,

Marian

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  3. What a “sweet” prize & the cookies are adorable. I would love to meet you in person & put a “face” to all these amazing treats.

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  14. Ohhhhhhhhhhmygosh!!!!!

    https://www.facebook.com/nineeer

    I facebook’ed it, Marian!
    This is CRAZY… I can soo relate that you are nervous and all but YOU ARE SO perfect in what you do, people will love it to watch you decorating cookies!!

    I WOULD SO LOVE TO BE THERE!!! that would be the best.

    XOXO and much love,
    niner

    🙂

    btw these cookies are amazing!!!!

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  16. I would love to win mostly because I’d love to beet you in person.. And front row seats to see Anna Olson would be amazing!

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  20. I’d love to win! I’ve been seeing advertisements on TV and was wondering if I could make it (I’m about 2 hrs away and doing my graduate degree, so busy busy!)

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  22. And now I just facebooked too… I really want to win! I’d love to meet you and see you work, you were one of the first bloggers to inspire me to start decorating cookies, and I still use your one cookie recipe!

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  29. I will definitely be at the show and am quite excited to meet you! I’ve been following your beautiful blog for a while now and have been very inspired by your cookie artistry!!

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  34. This is a one a million type thing, but why the heck not! Marian, I would love to participate in your contest!

    Good luck to everyone who entered!

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  41. i wuld love to win this 🙂 i have been inspired to be a professional cookie decorator by yours and many other cookie blogs since i was 16. I wuld love to learn new tricks 🙂

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  44. I was planning on going to the show with my mom but I’d LOVE to win tickets =) Thanks for offering them!

    P.S. I love your site and style! Can’t wait to see you decorate in person!

    Reply

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