Duh! I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier: It's time for the first annual Eat First Christmas cookie giveaway!
Free to a good home: a selection of 13 (a baker's dozen) homemade holiday cookies. Your winnings will include six thin and crispy cut-out cookies like the one shown above (now slightly smudged, because Wilton's decorating gels in a tube don't exactly firm up, even after an hour in the freezer, live and learn!).
The baker's dozen will also include a couple cut-outs decorated with colored sugars only, a couple decorated gingerbread cut-outs and a couple lemon-poppyseed crisps (right).
To enter: Please leave a comment in the comment field below. You must be a resident of Syracuse or Central New York and you must pick up your cookies in person at a time and place TBA. Family members excluded. A winner will be selected at random, notified by e-mail and announced here.
The deadline to enter is 12 noon Friday, Dec. 17. Good luck!
Hi, Jill --
Nice to see you here! You are in.
--Margaret
Posted by: Margaret @ Eat First | 12/17/2010 at 08:28 AM
These look yummy...Nancy F. told me about your blog and tried out the American Cafe down near DeRuyter last spring. It was quite quaint and a nice ride!
Posted by: Jill Emery | 12/17/2010 at 08:24 AM
Good Morning, Lisa, Linda, Nancy and Amber --
Four more visitors and four more names in the hat! Stay tuned for an announcement of a winner later.
Cheers,
--Margaret
Posted by: Margaret @ Eat First | 12/17/2010 at 07:55 AM
I started to bake, but before I started the 2nd recipe, I noticed that the cookie monsters in my house had gobbled up the first batch. . . I would love to get a variety (from you!) Thanks.
Lisa
Posted by: Lisa Lopez | 12/17/2010 at 06:54 AM
Cookies? Did someone say cookies?? I'm in!
Posted by: Linda/Metro Home Style | 12/17/2010 at 06:48 AM
Margaret cookies? YES!
Posted by: Nancy Fasoldt | 12/16/2010 at 11:58 PM
Pick me! Pick me! I'd be happy to take those beautiful - and, I'm sure, tasty - cookies off your hands!!
Posted by: Amber Smith | 12/16/2010 at 10:57 PM
But Claire ... some of the best cookies are plain cookies! Thanks for stopping by. Merry Christmas to all the Dunns!
Posted by: Margaret @ Eat First | 12/16/2010 at 07:15 PM
Margaret, I wish I could make beautiful Christmas cookies. Sadly, they are plain at best. I hold your abilities in high regard.
Claire
Posted by: Claire Brennan Dunn | 12/16/2010 at 06:21 PM
Amber and Beau -- You are in. Thanks for visiting my blog. Come back often!
--Margaret
Posted by: Margaret @ Eat First | 12/16/2010 at 07:59 AM
Yum!!!! Please enter me. :-)
Posted by: Amber Lough | 12/16/2010 at 12:18 AM
I would love to win a few holiday cookies - having to start baking a bunch for the local Catholic Charities.
Posted by: Beau | 12/15/2010 at 09:27 PM
Dear Peggy, Seth, MJ, Gina -- Thanks for visiting, and for the compliments!
Peggy, I promise you Bailey has not licked any cookies. That was Buster's thing (RIP, Buster).
--Margaret
PS: Janet entered to win on the wrong blog post, but I'm including her anyway. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Margaret @ Eat First | 12/15/2010 at 09:22 PM
I'm always looking for cookies. I would love them, as long as Bailey didn't lick them first.
Posted by: Peggy Bertram | 12/15/2010 at 07:50 PM
We know these cookies will live up to the initials of their maker... Gives a whole new meaning to MMmm... Happy holidays Margaret!
Posted by: Seth and MJ | 12/15/2010 at 06:39 PM
Please enter me in the cookie contest. I know how good your cookies are.
Gina
Posted by: Gina Chen | 12/15/2010 at 06:14 PM
Hi, Elizabeth and Trisha --
You're in! Tossing your names in the hat. Early entry doesn't have any advantages, except I'm glad you two were the first to stop by!
Cheers,
--Margaret
Posted by: Margaret @ Eat First | 12/15/2010 at 04:29 PM
Cookies please! I've eaten all of mine already and it's not even Christmas. I need a cover-up!
Posted by: Elizabeth Wimer | 12/15/2010 at 02:40 PM
OK Margaret - if I'm the first entrant, does that give me an advantage in your drawing? Oh how I admire your tweeted kitchen abilities! And oh how I would love to win your cookies!
@TrishaTorrey
Posted by: Trisha Torrey | 12/15/2010 at 02:36 PM