By Ali Divine Domesticity | Leave A Comment
The folks at Penguin Group were kind enough to contact me to review a brand new cookbook, The Sweet Melissa Baking Book, by Melissa Murphy. The FUN news is that I also talked them into providing FIVE extra copies for a giveaway for our Blissfully Domestic readers. Do I love my peeps, or what?
Lets get down to the nitty gritty.
My first impression of the cookbook was that it has an eye pleasing, neat and tidy layout. The recipes are classics, but often with a twist to shake things up.
Just a few of the recipes that I bookmarked are: Mom’s Banana Apple Bread, Golden Almond Fruitcake (Fruitcake!), Sweet Almond Cake with Lemon Curd and Lemon Mascarpone Frosting, and Carrot Cake with Fresh Orange Cream Cheese Frosting.
The final verdict: If you love to bake, this cookbook is right up your alley!
Onto the giveaway! To enter, simply leave a comment on this post. Easy peasy.
This contest is for US residents only. One entry per household, please. Five winners will be chosen at random by me, using the Random Integer Generator. I will contact the winners via email, so make sure to list your valid email address if it is not listed in your profile. You must reply with your mailing address within 3 business days. If I don’t hear from you by that time, I will pick a new winner.
PSST! If you would like one more chance to win, visit Divine Domesticity, my personal blog. I am giving away one copy of The Sweet Melissa Baking Book! Be sure to check this post at Divine Domesticity to enter. Thanks Penguin Group!
*PLEASE NOTE*: Comments will close for entering this contest at 9:00 AM Monday, March 17th
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Am I really the first comment? Wowee, wow, wow. I’d love a chance to win the book! Just found your blog last week from The Nesting Place, which I found from Mrs. Wilt’s Sparrow’s Nest. What a fun blog you have!
The books sounds lovely.
Looks like I book I would love! Thanks for the giveaway!
Deborah
Looks like a great book. dayspringdawning@yahoo.com
Thanks for loving us
Eye-pleasing, neat and tidy – all sounds good to me.
I LOVE cookbooks–especially baking ones! Count me in the contest!
Oooh! Count me in too!
Good cookbooks are one of my passions (that, and eating the stuff I cook-ha!)
I love your site. I would love to have this cookbook, I am, uhm…. running short on recipes….yeah, that’s the ticket. In all seriousness, I am getting low on recipes that I haven’t tried.
YUM!! Always looking for something new to surprise my sweetie!! Thanks.
Just found your blog…Love it…Count me in on the cookbook giveaway!!
love your site, I will be back!
hmglissen@aol.com
Would love to win a new cookbook. How cool for you to be giving these away!
Ok I’m not in the US, but my mother-in-law is and she would be happy to send it on if I win. Does that count?
P.S. For future contests, given the global scope of the internet, you might consider allowing international entries if they pay postage!? Most of us would be more than happy to do so!
Sounds delicious! Thanks for doing the giveaway!
Add my name to the pot! Looks like a good cook book!!
I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover… but that cover MUST be an exception!! YUMMY!
Hope I can be the lucky one to win it!
Just found you through Mrs. Flinger… love your site!
~Christine
Please count me in!
Me! Me! Me!
That book looks amazing.
what a great prize; please add my name!
LOVE your site – please add my name too! Love from New England…
This cookbook sounds great! Thanks for offering this! ~Tanya~
the4moyers(at)msn(dot)com
Yummy! Enter me please.
Susan
I hope I’m not too late to comment! The baking books looks divine.
This is my first visit to your blog…adding you to my Bloglines.
ooooh sweet melissa i’d love to win!
I love to bake! This sounds like a great cookbook.
Thanks for thinking of us. Sounds like a great book.
oooh a cookbook! And baking at that! My fav!
I’m newly married (and new to the site), so cookbooks are continually sought! (So, I thought, why not leave a post for such an opportunity?) Baking…YUM! My husband would be most happy. Thanks for the offer!
Ooh, sounds yummy. Does it come with someone who will bake all of it for me?
I love cookbooks! Count me in!
The book sounds great! Count me it, too.
I’m not a baker but this would make an excellent gift for my coworker who loves to bake.
I am drooling just looking at the cover!
I’m always up for a free cookbook.
I totally want that book! By the way girls, the site is looking awesome!
I LOVE cookbooks and would love to add this one to my collection!
Ooh, pick me; pick me!
Enter me please!
Today is my birthday, how great would it be to win something that encourages me to eat more chocolate?
Sounds awesome!
Blessings
Hannah
If the front cover is any indication, this book must be FILLED with YUMMY recipes! Thanks for sharing the great giveaway!
I’d love the cookbook! Thanks for the opportunity.
I love baking! This cookbook looks wonderful.
Im in…again! This looks like a great fun cookbook.
Pick me! Pick me!
Hook me up, that stuff sound delish!
Ohhh, enter me please!
sounds great! Count me in the drawing!
I wanna be a baker, I wanna be a baker
yum yum!!
Ooo. Ooo! Please, pretty please! Can I have one?
Count me in! I LOVE to bake!
I’m a cookbook junkie.
Looks positively yummy! Thanks for giving us a chance to win a copy!
I’m brand new to your site……..love it!! This looks like an amazing cookbook!!
I’d love to win a copy!
Count me in!
Looks delish! And what I always need is more cookbooks!
I recently discovered this website and love it! Thanks for the chance to win a cookbook!
YAY, I love new baking cookbooks. Hope I win
Ohhh, count me in! I don’t have a desert cookbook yet.
Oh yum!!
Looks like a fun cookbook!
Oh, I love to bake!
Yum Yum…count me in!
Okay, who doesn’t want a free cookbook? So fun!
*jumping up and down* Please let me win, please let me win.
Santa, I promise I’ve been a good girl this year!
Love Cookbooks! Love Giveaways
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~howiesgal
It’s so pretty!
Sounds like a great read!
I’ve posted this at my book review/contest blog – A Book Blogger’s Diary (http://abookbloggersdiary.blogspot.com)
Thanks!
abookblogger at gmail dot com
Yay! This book looks so awesome! Thanks for the giveaway!
Ooh! I’d love to win this – and my hubby would love to too! Thank you so much for the awesome giveaway
I love cookbooks! Thanks!
I love cookbooks. count me in.
~Amber
Dessert is my favorite meal and my favorite thing to make. Thanks for the giveaway.
Sign me up. =)
Looks like a fun cookbook! I’ve really enjoy BD — thanks!
My sweet tooth is just itching to come out and play!
I love to cook, count me in!
I would TOTALLY love to win!!!!!
I’m always interested in another new cookbook. Especially one with such a yummy picture on the cover!
This appealing cookbook looks as delectable as the recipes. Thanks for this wonderful giveaway.
A beautiful and enchanting cookbook. thanks for this special giveaway. Lovely.
This just might get my hiney in the kitchen
This cookbook looks fantastic! I am an avid baker. Please enter me in your contest!
Hi, My husband loves to cook and bake. I keep telling him he should be a chef instead of an electrical engineer. One man that worked with him did leave to become a chef! My husband will pour through cookbooks to plan our weekly meals. This dessert books looks and sounds wonderful. Please enter me in your drawing. Thanks very much…..Cindi
Thanks for having a give away!
Sounds like a good one.
Thanks for offering this contest. Please enter me.
mopsmomut[at]yahoo[dot]com
Yumilicious! Michigan address ready and waiting!
dbstout[at]juno[dot]com
Looks delicious! Please count me in!
I love cookbooks! This one looks terrific.
I’d love to win, so please count me in!
Jennifer
I just love cookbooks! Count me in!
Great giveaway! Count me in. bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com
Looks yummy! I love cookbooks!
A baking book– my cup of tea! Please enter me in the giveaway. Thank you.
My husband would love for me to win this, and love it even more if I baked him some special treats
Good luck everyone.
This looks like a gorgeous and fun cookbook!
tobefrank[at]tds[dot]net
Thanks!
Yummy! Please count me in!
daniela6968(at)gmail(dot)com
I love to bake… and I love new cookbooks! Thanks for having a giveaway..count me in!
What an awesome prize to win. I love to cook & bake and I am always looking for new recipes & cook books. I would love to be enter for this giveaway. My email is on my blog site just click my name
Good luck to everyone. Happy St. Patrick’s Day & Happy Easter!!
Thank You,
LindaH
I love to bake! Thank you so much for your generosity and for hosting this wonderful contest!
Count me in!
I would love this! Thanks for the giveaway!
I am a sucker for cookbooks…especially sweet ones. :0) Thanks!!
I love to bake and this sounds like it has some great recipes.
Oh this sounds fun! I’ve been exploring cooking and baking lately in an effort to get better at both.
What a “sweet” cookbook.
Oooh, I love cookbooks! And this one sounds delicious!
This book looks great. I love to bake!
I’d love to have a new baking cookbook!
I really need some new recipes. Thanks!
That dessert on the cover looks delicious and I’ve been meaning to start baking with my daughter. Winning this cookbook would be a great incentive for us.
stephanie@metropolitanmama.net
LOVE cookbooks! Looks like my favorite dessert right on the cover – flourless chocolate cake!!
what a great book
Yummy! I love new cookbooks.
Oooh, I love cookbooks and that sure looks like an awesome one so please include my name as well. Thank you!
Take Care,
Marilyn
Would love to have this cookbook!
It looks like a fun cookbook! I love to bake!
I love to bake and this cookbook sounds yummy! Please enter me. Thanks.
where is the bakery?
yuumy recipes!!
THE WINNER IS RIGHT HERE – PICK ME! THANKS.
Yummy! I am always up for a new cookbook.
I would love the chance to win this book! I think that my family would like it too! Thanks for the chance!
wow, i would love this book…
Yum!! Please count me in.
Thanks!
Heather