Queen Viv has been my friend for years, almost 2 decades to be precise. She has always been my fairy godmother. She watches over me and along with my darling Mr NQN was the first person to encourage me to start this blog two years ago. Ever since she has been one of my most loyal supporters and is a fantastic cheerleader whenever I have doubts and along with Mr NQN comes up with great ideas. She is like a big sister or mother figure to me (and her son Michael is about my age too).
Queen Viv is from New Zealand and when she recently visited I asked her if she would bring me back some Denheath Custard Squares. I kind of knew it wouldn’t happen, after all a box of custard squares and a woman travelling by herself handling her own luggage paints a rather awkward picture but one thing she did give me was an Edmonds Cookery Book. I had seen her and Miss America get so excited a few years ago when they saw a copy of it. It’s part of New Zealand’s history since 1879, apparently almost every household in New Zealand has a copy of this book and it’s one in which the recipes are said to be very reliable. When she asked me to make her some Belgium Biscuits I readily agreed.
I’ve tried a select few New Zealand biscuits in my travels and they seem to like short textured, almost sandy in textured biscuits with icing on them. The Afghan biscuits which are seriously, amazingly good are a good example of this pairing. These biscuits were delicious with a sandy and short richly spiced biscuit, a sweet raspberry flavoured icing, the tartness of the raspberry and the crunch of the pink sugar.
When I watched Julie & Julia recently it got me to thinking how lucky I am to be able to blog full time. Julie Powell had to contend with full time work and blogging and believe me I know how hard that is having done that for the first year and a half and I knew that it was possible but not feasible to do long term and still be able to write quality posts every single day. Unlike Julie (I’m thinking of her mum), I have a very supportive network including people like Mr NQN, Queen Viv, Miss America, Teena, Gina, M and The Second Wife who play Fairy Godmother to me as well as my parents who whilst I don’t think they fully understand what I do, support it. And it is them along with the fact that I’m doing what I love that means that working 9am-Midnight or 1am is no hardship, it’s a pleasure. In my former life as an Media Strategist in the Advertising industry, if you had asked me to work 9am-Midnight 7 days a week I would have quit within a few weeks. This however feels right, as if I were born to blog. I was told that American Express calls me a “Potentialist” i.e. someone that living a fuller life by turning their passion into a job. Although Ferris Bueller did say that isms (and by virture, ists) “in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself” so be it if I am one.
So now I lust after books and cooking equipment rather than designer shoes and bags (ok I still lust after those and I still want a Hermes Birkin or Chanel Classic bag) but I say farewell to the advertising corporate world Lorraine and hello to the happier (sadly slightly rounder) version of Lorraine. And do I mourn the loss? Only of the kilos!
So since I am spoiled for Fairy Godmothers, allow me to be someone else’s Fairy Godmother this time. I’ve partnered with American Express so that I can pass on some fairy godmother dust and give away to one reader…*drum roll please*…
A gorgeous Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer KSM150 in White worth $730 plus a copy of How To Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson! All you have to do is tell me in 50 words or less, how you will realise your potential with these two items!
***THE WINNER OF THE KITCHENAID COMPETITION IS:
GILLIAN T.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WIN AND I HOPE IT HELPS YOU TO REALISE YOUR POTENTIAL!”***
This competition is open to Australian residents and can only be shipped within Australia. You can enter once daily as long as your answer is different. Please do not email me your entries as they will not be counted. The competition closes on the 13th of December so one lucky person will be having a very, very Merry Christmas 
Lots of fairydust,
Love,
Lorraine
xxx
Belgium Biscuits
Adapted from the Edmonds Cookery Book
Makes 10-12 double layer biscuits
- 125 g (1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons) butter, softened
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice
- 1 teaspoon cocoa
Icing
- 3/4 to 1 cup icing sugar
- 1/4 tsp raspberry or vanilla essence
- a few drops of red food colouring
- water
Filling
- 1/2 cup raspberry jam, approximately
Pink sugar
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- a little pink food colouring
1. Preheat oven to 180c/350FCream butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg and beat well. Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, mixed spice, and cocoa on top of the bowl and then mix into combine and make a firm dough.
2. On a lightly floured surface roll the dough out to 3 mm thick. Cut out rounds using a 6.5cm cutter. It does sort of fall apart as this is a very short biscuit but keep going, you will get there (just make sure that the surface is lightly floured all over so that you can pick these up with a lightly floured palette knife easily. Re-roll scraps – it may seem more mottled and harder to roll together but don’t worry you can use this half of the dough for the bottom halves.
The cooked biscuits
With raspberry jam
3. Bake at 180 C (350F) for 15 minutes or until cooked. When cold, ice the more attractive looking half of the biscuits. Spread the less attractive biscuits with raspberry jam and place iced biscuits on top. Sprinkle with pink sugar before icing fully sets.
Icing
4. Mix icing sugar with flavouring and colouring. Add sufficient water to make a pink icing of spreading consistency.
Pink Sugar
5. To make pink sugar, place sugar in a ziplock bag and add a tiny amount of food colouring. Seal the bag tightly and shake the sugar and massage it with your fingers so that the colouring is evenly spread.
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Those cookies are uknown to me! Lovely!
A pity the competition is only open to Australian residents ;-P!
Cheers,
Rosa
Oh what lovely looking cookies, so pretty
Even though I’m not in Australia and, so, can’t win the amazing mixer and wonderful book, I am stopping in to say how much I love your blog. And how close I am to moving to Australia so that I can try for the amazing mixer and wonderful book. (All potential would be so fully realized with those babies, since, really, what more would any aspiring domestic goddess really need, other than the shoes to go with the success, perhaps?)
I am entering this competition on behalf of my mum who still lives in Sydney so that counts, right?
I started my blog in May this year and my dad bought my mum her first computer – a MacBook no less! – in June. My mum has learned how to use the computer though some telephone tutorials with me and some in person training at the Apple store which I made my dad buy but it’s been so awesome to connect with my mum every single day though my blog posts.
She has always been an avid cook and baker so my blog has opened up a whole new world for her – she’s even learned to comment!
I recently acquired my own Kitchen Aid mixer (like, yesterday) because my fab husband found a cornflower blue one on sale at Sears here and snapped it up. My mum is very jealous – she has always wanted one and imagine how fun it would be for both of us to learn to use the Kitchen Aid together, virtually though my blog…
It would be helping ME reach my full potential in the kitchen as I would be working with my awesome mum, but also the incentive to check out my blog for new Kitchen Aid ideas would help my mum continue in her online education.
Sorry – longest. comment. ever!
You’ve inspired me to start a food blod, well, a cupcake blog rather and with the mixer it would be so much easier to bake cupcakes and post. I love kitchenaid and have wanted one of their mixers forever.
I turn 30 tomorrow (20/11) and have always dreamed of being a domestic goddess. It’s about time I had the tools to help me be just that! With Nigella, Not Quite Nigella and my SIL (Amy – Taken to Pieces) to guide me, I might just have half a chance.
I admire your dedication and love the fact that you are so passionate about blogging and writing. Keep on inspiring us our Fairy Blog Mother! hehe… anyway, unfortunately/fortunately I have a kitchen aid already – called Daniel! haha… SUPER KIDDING.
I have both of these items, but 6 months ago I didn’t have my kitchenaid. Kitchenaid has given me more time (there’s nothing like multitasking, I get through a recipe so much quicker when I don’t have to hold a hand mixer!) given me inspiration to make things that seemed too difficult before (like marshmallow, that’s easy in the Kitchenaid!) and I still pass it on my bench and stroke it with affection!
Some of my favourite cakes are in how to be a domestic goddess too – Norwegian Cinnamon buns, baby molten chocolate cakes are good examples!
Your lucky reader will be so fulfilled Lorraine – what a great prize – thanks to Amex!!
I am a Mum to two small children and their nutrition is very important to me to start their eating habits out right. I try to make from scratch as much as I can and show them how meals come together but my little ‘ole mixer isn’t up to anything adventurous. I love baking and making pasta and have had a Kitchenaid on my What I really Want list for a very long time, yep no shoes for me, give me a Kitchenaid and I’ll be happy!
Wow Lorraine, you’ve turned into the Pioneer Woman, giving away Kitchen Aids! Some years ago I was studying what it is that makes people tick, their passion I suppose or even their shape. I discovered that I am food shaped
I express myself with food, show love and friendship, offer comfort and congratulations with food. A Kitchen Aid is a baker’s best helper and I know that it, along with Nigella’s fabulous, comprehensive guide to baking, would help me express my shape, and contribute to the roundness of everyone else’s.
I’m so jealous!! How I wish I live in Aus now!
Oh my goodness Lorraine- what a terrific prize. My Gran, who is one of my main role models in life, always said ‘If you use good quality, it is hard to produce bad quality~!’
Just a quick comment to once again state my jealousness at your full time blogging! Congratulations- you have worked really hard- and doesn’t everybody deserve to be doing something they love!
What a wonderful gift! My husband would never be able to get me out of the kitchen. I would have one less barrier to setting up my own cake business with the beautiful kitchenaid. I am already dreaming of the all the things I will make.
A Kitchen Aid is for me, like so many others, the most coveted piece of kitchen equipment.
I have arthritis in all of my joints (+ Lupus&fibromyalgia) and while I try to bake, there are many times I am simply to sore, even for a handheld electric mixer.
The first recipe I would attempt, would be this one here. they look divine.
I don’t even own anything close to a kitchen aid so if I won this, I might be able to learn how to cook some sweet things especially from the help of Nigella.
God bless u American Express! Oh how you know the way to a woman’s heart!
My answer to their question?
I can realise my potential with a holy grail mixer and an “all things delicious” bible by feeding the masses with the tastiest home-made goodies that money can’t buy.
i will be able to realise my potential with your fantastic prizes cause i will finally be able to bake properly again! my mixer gave up and died and i miss him very much!
-adorable cookies you made by the way, they are cute and look delicious!!-
Your story rings true, I’m a law student with a secret dream of working with food– I don’t know in what capacity but I know Contracts/Constitution don’t get me as excited as Corveture/Clafoutis. A KitchenAid and guidance from the Domestic Goddess would motivate me to keep creating and discovering.
I’m not going to be entering the competition, because I’m sure one of your other readers will make much better use of it than I will, but I just wanted to say that I am very glad you gave up the corporate world to do what you love and blog full time. The world is made a better place by passion and love, and not so much by people who are unhappy in their 9-5 corporate uniforms (though I do accept that some of them do world-changing stuff too).
Oh that kitchen aid mixer is just so so divine …… a true classic ….. yes much rather have fantastic kitchen appliances/accessories anyday ….. much love to the fairy godmother
My mixer finally gave up and died spectacularly about a year ago. Strangely enough I don’t seem to bake as much as used to now. Coincidence? I think not. It’s time I returned to being a Domestic Goddess and this prize would give me the push to do so.
PS Love the Edmonds Cookbook! I didn’t realise they spiral bound them nowadays. I have my Mum’s copy from the 1970s and it’s much loved. Tried the Geneva Slice? Yum!
My husband can cook and he married me for my baking abilities. I told him our children will grow up on choc-chip muffins. After years of hand-held mixers, owning a kitchen-aid would be dream come true. Our one year anniversary is coming up and the cookbook will definitely bring variety!
hi lorraine,
i must say u got me really excited abt this giveaway! i have been living away from home for 3 years now and have since been a subscriber to your blog having discovered that cooking and baking is –
1) the best way to put on weight (high metabolic rate, the Drs attest to this!)
2) pass the time when u miss people and home
3) feel so good about accomplishing that crazy cake u set out to bake no matter the costs having drooled over it and having no mom to whine to about making it for u!
I have been slaving for a kitchenaid (amidst other baking goodies… if only they had a Donna Hay store in melbourne!) on a ridiculous student budget and u would make x’mas a real baking affair for me if I should spy a kitchenaid closeby… =)
MY NZ friend gave me an Edmonds book – and it’s GREAT. So many of the recipes look like nothing much – just butter, eggs, flour – but they combine to make awesome things. the chocolate meringue shortcake is seriuosly scrum. We love the Afghans too, but with small children just leave out the walnut! (oh, will have to think about the competition – a kitchenaid would be FAB)
My husband’s DG is ‘Bree’ from DH (yes he watches) often commenting how perfect, a wife who keeps an immaculate house, cooks gourmet meals. This prize would well and truly take care of the ‘cooking goddess’ then all I need is a housecleaner/nanny or maybe a new husband!!
I have loved cooking since a teenager, I wanted to go to cookery school but being unsure of the future of this, I didn’t. It’s my biggest regret. I want to make quality biscuits and cup cakes to sell, but you need a very good mixer to produce these which I don’t have.
*gasp* so excited about this comp!
Those 2 items will definitely help me realise my dream. I have started making/decorating cakes, and want to turn it into more than a hobby……boy would the kitchenaid make that so much easier. And Nigella Lawson…drooooooool, hanging to try that book out.
Thank you for being an inspiration to so many. Great choice on career change, I am officially jealous
I bake every weekend and in particular at Christmas and Easter where I give my friends baked goods as presents. In the past year, using hand held mixers…I have now been diagnosed with tennis elbow! So to have a mixer where I dont have to do anything except add ingredients would be absolute heaven!!!
First, What an amazing offer this is..
I have always wanted to start my own blog, but have never had the courage to do so.I love all the talent out there and the amazing blogs I visit each and everyday.. This mixer might just be the push I need to get started.. Truly an amazing offer
We are a family of 8, and therefore spend a LOT of our family life in the kitchen. Our children are involved in menu planning, shopping and cooking our meals (in between arguments). As a result, my eldest daughter (13) has become a bold and ambitious cook who adores Nigella’s recipes (and her turn of phrase). I would love to present her with a mixer and cook book to encourage her passion and a gift that will carry her through the rest of her life. Meredith xo.
p.s. how wonderful you can blog full-time. No wonder this site is such a feast for the senses.
p.p.s. sorry about maxing out the word limit…with six kids I don’t get out much..can you tell?
Those biscuits look so pretty.
Love the touch of coloured sugar on the tops as well. I’ve never heard of these before, I wonder if they taste similar to Linzer cookies…
Such a nice giveaway, I agree when you say that someone will be having a very nice Christmas!
First off, lovely biscuits, and what a generous giveaway! I’d love to realise my potential in baking (especially crazy yeasty baked goods). I’ve always been a bit scared of baking, but I know there’s a Nigella in me begging to get her hands in some flour
An acrostic:
Kind Lorraine,
I would adore a kitchenaid.
Truly this would be the icing on the
Cake.
Help me in my
Endeavour to become a queen in the kitchen.
Not Quite Nigella, choose me!
Already
I am drooling over the scrumptious things I could make. Please make me a
Domestic goddess!
Kitchen Aid! I dream about such a tool!
Since I started making cakes and decorating them for my partner’s work birthdays. I’ve been doing everything with a wooden spoon. Including making buttercream frosting! I swear I had muscles by the end of that night. It took absolutely forever to beat the butter so it was smooth and soft enough to blend with the sugar. Just thinking about having a kitchen aid makes me excited!
Hi Lorraine,
I’ve been reading about your blog since beginning of this year and since reading your blog it encourage me to try the desserts that you put in the blog. I have not been doing any desserts before that.
My friend has already have the kitchen aid and she always tell me that i should get one for my own for my convenient as she knows that i’m still using hand electric mixer until now.
i will try my luck to enter the competition
i’m still using hand electric mixer until now however if i have my own kitchenaid, I might be able to try more dessert that you put in the blog and inspired to create my own dessert
Hi Lorraine
Nigella’s How to be a Domestic Goddess and the KitchenAid will help me live up to my true domestic goddess potential because I’ll be able to bake to my hearts content. I love to bake and find it relaxing, and I love being able to give home made goodies to my nearest and dearest.
What an awesome competition! I’ve just finished high school and I have time to burn. I was planning to cook up a storm anyway, but this mixer would make it so much more fun. And I’d love to start out with Nigella’s recipes (and the ones from your site).
I am 20-something, living the dream in an inner-city flat, love big glasses of wine and cooking for friends but I’m missing the sparkling appliances. Help me NQN!
Lorraine
I have been inspired by a lot of things this year, Masterchef, Julie + Julia and this blog. Next year I am going to do some cooking classes and realy try to fullfil my dream of cooking as a job and not just a hobby. The Kitchen Aid is part of that dream. Seriously.
Hi Lorraine
I’m very excited for this competition, my entry is below.
As a recent converted disciple of the temple of Nigella I have started to realise my potential to become more Nigella-like by seizing all cooking opportunities… practice makes perfect, but the right tools can get you there quicker (!!!) and I sure could do with having handy a lovely Kitchenaid and a copy of How to Be a Domestic Goddess.
Sarah x
For years I’ve dreamt of a Kitchenaid, of the perfection just out of my reach
Oh to be able with relative ease to stiffen egg whites to glorious peaks
Together with Nigella I could become a domestic goddess too
At one with my Kitchenaid, family and perfectly mixed food
OMG! This is a fantastic giveaway, i never had a food processor but it would make my life so much better! We always make pasta and pizza from scratch and with this mixer making the dough would be much quicker!
I aspire to be a domestic goddess, some days I succeed and make my son and husband very happy. Other days I fail and it’s takeaways for dinner again. Recently due to a miserable pregnancy and a dying handbeater we’ve had more than our fair share of failures.
I would love to emulate Nigella, by having her cook book open, at each scrumptious recipe, all the ingredients in their little dishes and a gorgeous Kitchenaid, beating or whipping to my hearts content…absolute heaven.
You were definitely born to blog! The thing I love about your blog is that it’s really YOU! Always entertaining and informative. A few kilos never hurt no one, right?
What an awesome prize! Someone will be having a very merry christmas indeed!
Ever since having our son, life has been amazing, but there isn’t money for luxuries like this! Mr.2 and I bake every weekend and I let him pick the recipe. I love this time together with him, and he loves to get messy in the kitchen with his Mumma!
Oh! My mum’s a Kiwi, so I’ve grown up with the Edmonds cookbook (instead of the Golden Wattle). The Afghans are totally yummy. I also noticed in NZ, and in the Edmonds, that ginger flavoured sweet things are far more common there than in Australia.
Baking is my passion but time is my enemy! A mix master would make life even sweeter. I would get to do what I absolutely love in less time and therefore more often! I buy cookbooks rather than clothes and would choose to read them over gossip mags any day!
The kitchenaid isn’t for me, but Mum.
The mixer we have was a wedding present to Mum – 40 years ago. It now struggles to mix anything and has only one remaining beater. Needless to say nothing has been baked since 1994.
Sad but true, that is my culinary sob story.
With my kitchen aid I’ll aim to make,
Many a fine, tasty cake.
Inspired by your super blog,
Belgium cookies, cinnamon biscuits and chocolate logs.
It sure won’t be quite Nigella,
But it sure will please the fella.
I’ll use it every day,
So please Lorraine, pass it my way!
wow what a great prize! I have my usual rotation on 5 things that I can and always bake…very little variation on that!a kitchenaid might force me out of my baking comfort zone..or maybe I will just keep making my 5 things but faster and quicker :p
i would give the fabulous kitchenaid 2 my wonderful husband 4 xmas since masterchef he has become a lovely foodie buying pastry brushes and zesters 2 create masterpieces 4 ourfamily a beautiful appliance 4 a beautiful man xx
Lovely post Lorraine – it’s always nice to hear about the bloggers themselves
Since I began blogging, I’ve been discouraged from posting recipes because of lack of resources and time to make my cooking successful and as beautiful as I would like. Now that I have time and have just bought a dslr, I hope to start posting recipes as well, and your lovely prizes would give me the encouragement I need to do so!
Hi Lorraine,
That is a fantastic prize you have there! Good on you for dong so well with NQN. At the moment I am trying to get a specialty cake business off the ground(gluten free and vegan). As every cake and tart will be hand made by me at home in my little galley kitchen, the Kitchen Aid sure would go a ways to help! The recipes in ‘How to Be a Domestic Goddess’ would be both very adaptable and also serve as inspiration.
Hi Lorraine, fantastic blog! It it so wonderful to see you give up everything you had in persuit of what really makes you happy. Goon on you
I am a student studying marketing and am constantly trying to come up with ways where I can fuse my passion for food and cooking with my marketing and PR interests. Your blog is very insperational to me!!
As far as the kitchen aid goes..I nearly wet my pants when I saw you post this comp!! I am a little baking-obsessed..and my specialty is pavlovas! Oh how I dream to one day be able to slowly pour in the sugar into the egg whites which are whipping away in a kitchen aid bowl rather than have the bowl run away from under me because I am trying to juggle a hand-held mixer in one hand and a cup of sugar in the other! A girl can dream!
P.s. You must try Nigella’s Chocolate Pavlova with raspberries, it’s devine!
p.p.s I can’t wait to bake your watermelon cake as soon as exams are over!!
I have had my eyes on one of these kitchenaid beauties since I can remember, the simpleness and ease of the product looks so much easier then a handheld mixer! The domestic goddess in me will be very much alive if I win this.
My house should smell like vanilla but at the moment it smells like textbooks and stress – ah exams!
I would actually like this as a gift for my husband, who is the cook in the house now that I’m pregnant and unable to face food. It’d make an awesome new daddy gift.
I love baking, but my mixer died on me a month ago. I’m on the brink of desperation as I have to bake for Christmas … It’s my birthday the 1st, this will be the best gift ever. I love recipe books too … I have a bookshelf full of them!
OMG those two exact things have been on my wishlist for so so long!
I’m so desperate to win, i don’t know what to say! Writers block..not a good start for someone wanting to start a food blog!
I already have a Kitchenaid. Her name is Mia.
I love her.
But I would love to win this one for my daughter who is about to move out of home, out into the big wide world *bites nails*. I have started a super secret blog of recipes and tips for her, and I would love to present this mixer to her along with the url for her special blog AND yours, of course!
Lovely biscuits. My friend Tammy at Wee Treats by Tammy has also made these before, and I am keen to try them. (I have already made Belgian slice.) Don’t like the NZ lolly slice much though – the appeal escapes me.
Anyone can write an ode, and these pink biscuits are very ode-worthy.
I’m out of the running (sadly) being in the U.S., and I hope my comment doesn’t muddle the competition somehow, but I just had to say how much I love this entry! It really captures my ambition — struggling and building this little piece of personal truth and determination into a raft sturdy enough to float on. I have so many plans for adjusting Willow Bird Baking in hopes of doing just that! We shall see
And such a lovely raft you’ve built. Pretty in pink cookies as well!
Oh gosh I have been wanting a KitchenAid for YONKS!!
I’ve been dying to do more complicated cakes which are just too delicate for the food processor – and I dont even have an electric beater.
Please oh please Lorraine, this would be the most amazing prize to win!
Imagine a dormant volcano, waiting to explode. This NQN is a picture of my cooking life. Two years of marriage has moved the tectonic plates of my domesticity and a whole world of taste & flavour is ready to rain down…
If only I had the right equipment & inspiration!
Hi NQN,
I’m new to your blog and it has become a daily read for me.
A Kitchenaid is my dream appliance, I have gone thru countless hand beater, electric beaters, my big old clunky mixmaster. But something just isn’t right, my egg whites don’t whisk good enough. I need a Kitchenaid. I’m going to be home with a new baby for the next six months and feel baking will be my outlet.
I learnt how to bake the old-fashioned way as my Mum’s assistant and now I am doing the same with my 3 year old. Its so special sharing these skills with her, the gorgeous Kitchenaid will just make it that much more fun!
I have set myself the challenge of making two wedding cakes for friends in the new year – the combo of the two items would be just what I need to fulfil my baking potential and keep the brides happy -especially as my little hand blender just died – this is fate!!!
Hi Lorraine
I arrived from Canada thinking I was here temporarily. Bought a handheld beater to aid in making goodies. Beater is on it’s last beats and wish to celebrate being here since 1984 making a Nigella cake using an iconic kitchenaid. Oh to beat and consult a Nigella cookbook simultaneously.
What a fabulous giveaway. If only I lived in Australia.
The biscuits are lovely! xoxo Mum
I dont want the mixer but I just wanted to say those biscuits look YUMM-O! I think I have to make a blue/purple variant though because I only have marionberry jam
Hi Lorraine,
I have been inspired to write a cookbook dedicated to my mother, auntie and grandmother whose recipes have never been documented. Having a tool like the Kitchenaid would certainly help make this process easier, unlike my grandmother who did absolutely everything by hand. Thanks for the opprtunity.
How I long to be a Domestic Goddess. I know with the Kitchenaid I can fulfill my dream. I long to welcome it into the bosom of my home
Love the tribute to Edmond’s!
Although I’m not in the cheffing profession, I’ve always dreamed about completing a patisserie course and opening my own bakery. In the meantime, I’ve fulfilled my passion in baking treats at home and one day plan to sell these treats out of my own kitchen! Having the mixer would help of course, as I venture into the harder recipes that require machine muscle! Nigella is definitely one of my favourite celebrity chefs, and I’m building my very own ‘Nigella style walk-in-pantry’!! 
Lorraine, you were sitting quietly during our Baroque dinner while we oggled over Kitchenaids not knowing that you were secretly planning on giving one away today!!!! Mysterious but cheeky!!
Anyway, on to my answer (and I hope I make it to 50 words or less!).
A Kitchenaid is truly a kitchen’s aid – mixing, kneading, & with the right attachments, mincing too! Nigella’s exciting & varied recipes will surely complement the versatility of a Kitchenaid and being a huge Nigella fan, it would be an honour to attain even a fraction of that much desired Domestic Goddess status.
… 53 words! Dear Universe (and Lorraine and AMEX and Kitchenaid)… I hope I get it! *crosses fingers*
I dream everyday of the wonderful things I could make with a longed after Kitchenaid. I watch cooking shows just to watch these wonderful mixers in action. *sigh* I truly will be a domestic godess with one of these in my kitchen.
I so need the Kitchenaid for ME! since my two girls, 8 and 7, have become serious bakers and cooks themselves after watching MasterChef and I can’t get near my rubbishy old mixer.Whats more, I like to think I’m at least as sexy as our Nigella!
I would absolutely love to win either the Kitchen Aid or the Book.
For me, its all about cooking with my kids. We cook every few days, either making biscults or cakes, or my daughter helps me with dinner. I love cooking and making things from scratch so I know that what I am giving my children isnt full of additives which is very important as my children have reactions to them.
Is this what’s been missing from my life?
A kitchenaid to release those artistic and edible abilities that have been hiding, waiting for this wonderful companion to make its presence in my kitchen.
The many concoctions with the help of NQNigella’s book I will to serve to my guests.
Hi Lorraine,
I’d love to win the prize because my boy loves to help me in the kitchen and I was to improve on my cake making and decorating skills so he has fabulous cakes to amaze him and his brother every special ocassion!
Thanks,
Maria
Hi Lorraine,
I felt a tingle go down my spine when I saw “Kitchenaid” and “giveaway” in the same sentence!!
I will realise my cooking potential because with Nigella’s recipes and the strength and reliability of a Kitchenaid, my egg whites will be whipped to perfection, my butter creamed until snowy white, dough will spring back to the lightest touch and my cakes rise to dizzying heights !!!
Thankyou American Express and Lorraine for this wonderful contest.
Those biscuits look amazing. And i’m desperately trying to find figs to make the figs in gorgonzola sauce that you posted before. Maybe I will just settle with zucchini flowers stuffed with cheese. Not as nice, but still cheesy.
Shamelessly I’d love to win a KitchenAid.
1. Turn oven on
2. Open Nigella’s how to be a domestic goddess (or god pls?) and pick something yummy.
3. Put ingredients in the Kitchen aid and turn on. Get away from flour flying everywhere.
4. Try and fix what went wrong.
5. Start over until dreams are realised.
Oh to win a kitchen aid AND a Nigella Lawson cookbook. How absolutely fabulous darling.
I think that would be all I would need. I love to bake and do so ALL the time however it is time consuming with the hand held mixer.
A kitchen aid would give me more time to create more baking masterpieces.
I have one Nigella book but not the Domestic Goddess – that would be just great.
Please consider me.
I am a new member and am enjoying your comments tremendously.
Lots of Love Netti x x x x x
My most basic dreams have been fulfilled, I can think of no better place in life I’d rather be. HOWEVER, with a kick ass kitchen aid I’ll have ascended towards culinary heaven and I might just make something nice while I’m there.
Hi, this is my first time leaving message. Far away from there, I’m living in HK. Dunno how many readers of yours are living overseas. I do like your blog. Following you blog makes me happy!! I love cooking I love Australia. I am so agree to what you are saying today. Turning you hobby into your job. How lucky you are, and that;s my dream too! I’m glad you achieve this goal and keep enjoying your life!! Congratulations!! And wondering when and how my dream will become truth!
Cheers
Kitty
To the Fairy-Godmother,
By day I’m a simple unassuming student. By night, I am a baker.
I show people how much I love them with my baking. Baking in itself has the potential for world peace.
And with a Kitchen-Aid and the handbook to Domestic Goddessry, I think I and the people around me, will have some serious potential for a sweet, sweet life.
Thank you, sincerely. x
so pleased that you enjoyed belgium biscuits – they are my dad’s favourite! We usually sprinkle the tops of ours with raspberry jelly crystals whcih is a fast and easy way to get pink sugar :0)
Must ask my NZ friend Rosalind to get me a copy of the Edmonds Cookery book next time she visits her homeland. She once gave me her Aunt’s ’secret’ recipe for Silver Clouds and they were delicious!!
OMG another fantastic giveaway from you Lorraine, your prizes just keep getting better and better! I’d love to win this Kitchenaid prize and cookbook as it’s just in time for Christmas baking. I bake batches of Italian Biscottini as I pack them in a decorative way and give them as xmas presents. It would save me all the elbow work and I would have more time to flick through the cookbook!
I,too have a Kitchenaid. A must have for any serious cook. Yesterday mine turned out 5 lbs of Maple breakfast sausage and 3 1/2 lbs of Mexican chorizo. I live in Colorado (USA) and have never heard of the “mixed spice” in the recipe. What is in the mix and in what proportions? Thank you for your daily posts. I never miss one.
Rob
If I won this prize, I would realise my potential to be a baking goddess for my son so that he may learn how wonderful it is to make your own ‘bikkies’ and to eat them warm straight out of the oven, rather than out of a packet like he does now.
Those biscuits/cookies are SO pretty! I wish I had a Kitchenaid. It’s been on my wish list forever since I toyed with it once at my friend’s kitchen.
I’ve just had a baby boy who used to kick every time I was cooking or baking in the kitchen (needless to say he was VERY active!)so a kitchenaid would be the best first chrissy present for ‘Little Chef’ and he can learn to read by reading Nigella recipes!
Boo Hoo…I don’t live in Australia. What a simply fabulous prize! Good Luck everyone. But I am looking forward to tackling those scrumptious cookies!
Stay Cozy, Carrie
I dream of my own kitchenaid
As the biscuits and cakes all are made,
Feeding my brood –
They’re demanding MORE food –
Wrists aching, how I yearn for an aide..
Pls excuse the pun, it’s almost the witching hour and inspiration is lacking! Seriously owning one is a dream of mine, not yet realised – and I need all the help I can get to be a domestic goddess with 3 kids, a puppy and a husband – and I’m not sure which create the most chaos
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My goal is to increase my bottom, and night-time refrigerator snacking much like the Goddess herself. Thus, it is obvious that her cookbook and a kitchen aid are the essential tools to accomplish this…
How do we enter the competition? Do we place our entry here or e-mail it somewhere?
Mmm… My dream is to open my own little cafe near the beach, a cafe where the signature pastries and cakes will be made by the proprietor (yours truly). I’m still working in corporate job right now while still learning the trade, and the stand mixer will go a long way towards that dream!
Cheers,
dare I say that with this I would be a whizz in the kitchen
I would love to win this kitchenaid mixer but I don’t know where I could put it – didn’t know you blogged full time – sounds yummy but I know what you mean about the kilos when at home with the food!
Lorraine, yes, you are lucky to be able to blog FT, and so am I due to being off from work because of my knee injury. However, I don’t have a family to feed, so if I did blog FT, so much food would go to waste! lol I need to start gearing up for mommyhood! Wait, maybe I should find a hubby first..LOL
That said, those biscuits look simply gorgeous, and uhh, wouldn’t mind winning something
If I had both of those items I would never leave my kitchen!
I would love to be able to give my friends homemade goodness for no reason at all just because.
My cooking muscles have almost atrophied away but reading your blog has sparked my interest again. Who wouldn’t reach their potential with such a fantastic kitchen gadget?
Heya Ms NQN!
Thought i’d do a very unmasculine thing and enter your Kitchenaid competition!
here it goes (its suppose to rhyme too!):
I love food, I love baking, I would love nothing more than to be domesticated and do some caking!
My day-job is boring, yes its no fun, so let me win to bake some Nigella Norwegian Cinnamon Buns!
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall,
I have prayed and prayed,
and stood up tall,
in hope for a brand new Kitchen Aid.
(okay i admit that was a terrible poem, but well i guess i just wanted to be different…hehe)
I would love to realise my potential of baking goodies every week! However I never seem to find the time. The KitchenAid mixer would definitely help the time situation and the cookbook would give me yummy recipes to bake!
With KitchenAid by my side, I can finally learn How to be a Domestic Goddess. It’s Forever Summer in my Kitchen, even at Christmas when it’s an Express course in How to Eat. Nigella Bites my boredom, she inspires me to create Feast’s for those I love, she motivates me try something new and she arouses my love of food. With Nigella and KitchenAid – life is marvellous.
*pick me! pick me!*
Every Sunday I bake. Hubby is out and I get the kitchen to myself. I love my kitchen but its tiny. Organisation is the key. A Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer might be the key to reach my potential. I love collecting and trying new recipes, Domestic Goddess will inspire me.
I am sure to develop RSI by baking as much as I do for my friends and families parties! I have been struggling for aaaaaaages baking bulk quantities and burning many $15 dollar hand mixer motors in the process and can only dream of listening to the pur of a kitchenaid!
Hi Lorraine!
I’ve been following your blog for a month or two now and I’m really loving it and enjoying it. So much so that I have recommended it quite a few times to different people. I was just wondering if you knew anything about replacing normal flour with gluten free flour in this recipe and if it makes much of a difference? My sister in law is gluten free and I would love to bake her something nice. Thanks!
Hi Lorraine,
I went through a period of time, horribly depressed, with very little will to live. It’s been a long road, to find happiness and joy in life. When I find myself just not feeling quite right, a little time baking in the kitchen making something for someone sets me right. I think the KitchenAid (which has been my dream for a few years now) would open up a world of possibilities, to continue my journey in finding joy for myself and giving joy to people.
oh and to enter the comp…:
I’ve just become a new mum and since I’m home full time now (but with a 24 hr job), armed with a Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer and Nigella’s cookbook, I could be a domestic goddess mum!! I would just need regular trips to the hairdresser to look fab too!
I have always loved to cook dinner from a new recipe each night. My problem, however, is the failing baking department! Maybe it’s because I keep buying $19 hand-mixers… I keep hinting to Mr Angie about buying one for our anniversary (sad I know). Maybe he doesn’t think it’s romantic!
I have absolutely, consistently fantasised and drooled over the Kitchenaid mixers – the hardest part in my fantasy is deciding what colour to choose, I am glad you have chosen for me! I was once called ‘Martha’ but long to be called ‘Nigella’, maybe with this mixer I can bake my way to that coveted title.
ooh those doo look good. Much like the napolitaine i made.
OMG what an awesome prize!!! I don’t think it can get any better!
My entry would have to be for my sister:
This would help her so tremendously as she doesn’t cook many sweets at all. All the hard work would be taken out with the KitchenAid and having Nigella Lawson’s book on hand would ensure perfect results every time.
Hi Lorraine,
Baking makes me happy and it makes the people in my life happy because they can see that it cheers me up whenever I’m down. I want to realise my potential to make the people in my life happy as they make me by baking for them.
Your blog is lovely. Keep up the good work!
These cookies look delightful. Now, I want at least 5 of them!!
MMMMMMMM,….
I’m belgian and i know there biscuits. They are wonderful
Hi Lorraine,
What fortutious timing!! This is the first time, I’ve ever read your blog! A friend put me on to it citing this post you did about making your own marscapone.
Anyway, my entry for the kitchenaid mixer, I’ve been drooling over one forever. I keep waiting for one of those specials where they throw in something good like an extra bowl. Having one would make doing those mega batches of cookie dough for school fund raising stalls, much much easier!
Thanks and have enjoyed reading your post today.
I’d finally be able to make the Chocolate and Pistachio cake of Nigella’s, a friend made it years ago and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.
Dear Lorraine,
I’ve tried to make some sweets through the aid of a food processor, although the results have been lackluster. Due to some personal hardship I’m not able to afford a stand mixer. I’d like to be able to further my cooking skills and feel disappointed that financially I am limited in my creations.
I’ve found such happiness and serenity in getting lost in cooking a dish, I’m sure you can identify with getting lost in the creative process of cooking. It’s a wonderful sanctuary to escape to in a world filled with madness.
Sincerely,
Allustrielle
Nigella + Kitchenaid = realising my inner Martha Stewart potential! Pretty please!
J’imagine toutes ses saveurs !
I love love love my new KitchenAid mixer! it’s red hot and sexy and all things amazing. Now I don’t have to suffer too much as a result of my klutziness (I’m always burning/bashing/bruising myself accidentally) since my KitchenAid beauty does all the mixing, kneading, everythinging.
I’m not sure if I’ll be allowed to take it to class in cooking school but tillt hen I’m going to reap all the benefits.
The jam belgian cookies remind me of posh jammie dogders. Do you get those in Australia?
Those cookies look fantastic! You have a great site
they look soo pretty!!
i should try this for my daughter!! m sure shell love it!! love the pinkish color 
cheers!!
Every kiwi has a copy of the Edmonds cookbook, its a bit like a cooking “bible” for us!
I live here in Syd and run my own bespoke cupcake and handcrafted b day business and quite often look back to my very tatty floured crusted! edmonds cook book for inspiration….I couldnt do without it
I confess that I own both parts of the prize. Nigella has shaped who I am as a cook, and therefore in to a certain extent, who I am as a person. She loves food with an infectious abandon that mirrors my own. I received my Kitchen Aid when I graduated from university in my mid thirties and it continues, several years later, to give me great joy. Both items have given me confidence in the kitchen and I would like to be able to give that to one of my sisters in law – a great gift to help them realise their potential.
My sister and I have a long running dessert competition. Of late she has been winning, with kitchenaid and the domestic goddess at my side no-one can stop me!
Ok here i go…
I am too in the communications industry doing PR, whilst i love the people i work with and the clients i get to engage with, its not the satisfying career i hoped for. It doesn’t make me want to stay back for long hours nor does it make me jump out of bed to get to work in time. I day dream of other things…You see i am a very creative person with a huge passion for Food. My idea of heaven is coming home after work and baking (last night was 2 layered chocolate cake with kahlua and coffee icing – perfect parterned with a warm tea for my bed time snack)and coming up with recipes(im starting to put together a book). I am also working on a series of fun artworks based on food and the happiness it brings me. This is the only thing that keeps me feeling OK about work (that i know i have something great to go home to)I have been wanting and wishing and hoping for a kitchen aid for as long as i can remember (when i saw your blog i nearly fell of my chair with excitment) it would make such a difference to my cooking and my experimenting with recipes. (and dare i say give me the push to do something about my passion just like you)Oh the time,the joy, the food that will come from one will bring me a huge amount of joy – it would change me! Now to get on to Nigella Lawson – well she has been a huge inspiration to my baking (her chocolate cheesecake is something else…) im glued to the lifestyle food channel watching her, and also how she has built her career around food. She is so passionate about what she does which is what i want in life…. Ok so i better stop now… fingers crossed. Thank you
This awesome giveaway will help me to become the domestic goddess I aspire to be – to be balancing my soon to be born babe on one hip while the Kitchen Aid will be my third arm. I already own the Nigella Book, but would love to give your copy to my gorgeous sister who has recently started her own food blog.
I LOVE to bake and bring goodies into work – my weekend baking is my escape from the usual grind! I would love these fab products so that I can keep baking away
Believing in yourself, mixed with a little inspiration (like your blog!) and the support of your loved ones is ohhh so important in realising your potential.
My husband always remarks that I get a sparkle in my eyes when I bake. When he first told me this I got quite teary because I thought, “Wow, this wonderful man of mine really understands me and recognises my passion!”
The mixer and lovely Nigella Lawson cookbook would be a wonderful sprinkle of fairy dust for me, and allow me to take my baking to a special level that I know I have the potential to reach
Ladybird x
These biscuits are really pretty and I love the raspberry filling…delish! What a fantastic giveaway, Lorraine!
Kitchenaid-less, no less,
I use a wooden spoon and stress
Sponge cakes don’t rise
Macarons I despise!
Meringues – impossible,
Profiteroles? Completely tossable.
How I wish for a sleek silver machine,
Then I’d be baking, cupcakes with cream!
With Nigella’s help, I’ll hopefully be able to see,
Soon, the Domestic Goddess in me.
PS. Thanks so much for putting up such a super competition! i’ve loved reading through all the replies so far… it’s amazing what a kitchenaid can do to inspire peoples!
A 48 word poem (by one of the rare male entries.)
Kitchenaid, a name? a lifestyle?
so many thoughts this name deploys.
If I had one, I’d find the right style,
of bakery to be enjoyed.
Biscuits, bread, banana muffins?
These can already be done by me,
But if I had a Kitchenaid,
my house would be a boulangerie!
Dang!!! I’m from the U.S.A.
I’m expecting my first baby and and currently don’t have a mixmaster at all, I borrow my mum’s, and it actually has me really worried. I love cooking and definitely will be home-made biscuit barrel full kind of mum, but with so many expenses the mixmaster priority keeps going down the list – babies don’t really need a cot do they?
Hi Lorraine,
What an amazing competition – when I saw your status on Facebook my first thought was ‘it’s got to be a kitchen aid!!’.
I’m aspiring to open my own cupcake bakery one day. I take orders from friends and family, and am slowly gaining a fan base through word of mouth and my facebook page.
Currently I’m working with a $20 hand held mixer – as you would probably understand a kitchen aid mixer would definitely help a great deal more than my $20 hand mixer(and Nigella’s book with that wonderful cupcake on the front?! Perfect!!) and would also help to prevent my kitchen from being covered in a fine layer of icing sugar when I make my buttercreams
Kat xx
Ever since my lovely wise sister purchased the ultimate kitchen accessory, i knew it was my destiny to become a baking queen. So sad i was to see my sister leave with ‘Big Red’ at her side before i even had to chance to try. Oh how i miss them.
Have already entered the competition so this is just a question.. Why Belgium biscuits not Belgian? (love etymology)
Bet you’re having fun with all the entries..
Yum cant wait to try these biscuits. Though they would be easier to make with the Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer.
Thanks for the opportunity
Kitchenaid
Ignite my passion
To
Create culinary delights. to take,
Here there and everywhere.
Egg tarts
Neenish tarts
And my famous lemon tart.
Inspires me
Desire it
I have a fairy Godmother, she is my Mum! She had a fairy Godmother too, it was her Mum. I now have two small boys of my own and I can only hope I can be a quarter of the woman my Mum and Nana are. All those family recipes, waiting to be baked, cooked, rolled, tasted, basted and shared. That beautiful shiny mixer for my Mum so we can show the boys how to make Nana’s cheesy onion bread, Big Nana’s sausage rolls and white chocolate cheesecake. My own Aussie Yanky Thanksgiving pumpkin cheesecake… oh the bliss! The SHINY BLISS!
Baking is my First love. My passion.
Baking with my trusty handheld mixer my mum bought in the 90’s is…fun(Not!).I’ve never been able to afford a benchtop mixer. I bake all the time trying to perfect my recipes. My plan: To own my own cafe/cake shop
Pride of place this will see,
A handy aid to a cupcake addictee
My current mixer is so clunky;
making batter too lumpy.
This piece of modern engineering
Allowing me to be far more daring
Think of all those cakes I could make
I’m a piggy who loves to bake!
With these two prizes, me and my two boys 4 and 2 could cook up a storm in the kitchen! And I could hope that helping mummy in the kitchen might lead my 4 year old to actually try more food.
Once upon a time a devoted reader and aspiring domestic goddess was making a pavlova. Halfway through, the 25 year old Kenwood died in a splutter of smoke and sparks. The goddess lost not only the pav but her partner in baking… A new Kitchenaid would make her smile again!
I believe that with this wonderful Kitchenaid mixer I’ll be able to create wonderful things in my kitchen with my eyes closed….with my eyes closed I can believe I’m a kitchen goddess
)
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Fabulous prize, thank you for the chance…cheers
*SQUEAL!* Oh please fairy godmother Lorraine, can I please have a mixer so that I can use the time I save to pay some attention to myself? I want to look like a domestic goddess so I’ll need the manual too thanks!
Thank you with lots of fairy kisses!
A domestic goddess I will be.
With this fab book and kitchenAid you will see.
I’ll mix up a storm.
My family will adorn.
And the delicious foodie praise will come to me!
I just realised yesterday I posted too many words (61)? Does it still count? LOL
Short and sweet – I want this because it will help make my life awesome.
Lorraine you never cease to amaze or please me….. this opportunity is fantastic!
“Short of my ultimate dream of Nigella being in my kitchen, having her cookbook and a Kitchenaid would be AMAZING! I am domestic but I definitely would become a Goddess!! Oh what a feeling tossing the electric mixer and stepping away from the bench!! Potential – baking would become enjoyable!”
Take care,
Jo
i am a mother of three small children and married to a serious “food head” who was brought up on delicious Northern Italian cuisine
Together over the years we have tried hard to imitate his mothers cooking and in the process have become obsessed with food blogs, food shows and cookbooks.
Now my kids and I have discovered a new love of baking and cooking too. With the help of the “kitchen aid” and Nigella’s book I am sure I will be able to take our culinary skills to the next level.
Wow…what a fantastic prize to won. I have always dreamed of owning a kitchenaid….and would also love the cookbook. I have 6 children so am always baking something or other to fill their hungry tummies. I also make special cakes for many people in town and these 2 lovely tools would make life so much easier!!
Thanks for the opportunity to win these marvellous prizes- I would certainly use it to replace my 30+ year old kitchenmaid that had a horrible death last week as I was trying to make some treats for my ever growing grandchildren.I would love the book to as I admire the way Nigella cooks and does things so simply yet they look so fabulous. I used to make treats-Biscuits,cakes and numerous other things for my family on a weekly basis using my mixer but that has now come to a halt as I don’t have the time to do everything by hand.
How will I realise my potential with this amazing prize? Well, I willa actually be able to mix something! At the moment, since my handheld beater’s gave up the ghost 6 months ago, it’s been all hard arm beating work. I would love this prize!
Belgium biscuits were new to me as of about a week ago, and I’ve seen them mentioned several times since. Yours look fantastic!
This Christmas I’ve volunteered to do the traditional Christmas lunch for the extended family, and I want to do it all properly, including my mum’s famous pavlova. Not even owning a handheld mixer, and having had several whisk-the-meringue-by-hand failures, I’d adore something that could help me make the perfect Christmas lunch!
A gluten free diet is required,
My old mixer is nearly expired.
I bake daily and am getting tired.
But with Kitchenaid I’d be inspired.
My Christmas menu would be admired.
Look out Nigella! It will be me that’s desired!
As a struggling uni student, I don’t quite think my mother understands the therapy I seek through baking – and her lack of understanding means we don’t have a KitchenAid. This Christmas I want her to understand my ‘outlet’ and with a KitchenAid, we could make some great recipes together.
First of all, thank you for the inspiration, and such a generous prize.
I don’t have the lusciousness of Nigella, or her fabulous talent, but,harmed with her cookbook and a beautiful white Kitchenaid I reckon I would have the style to lick a beater or two!!
Surviving on one wage
since I became redundant,
to save for a KitchenAid would take an age,
but my kitchen could be so much more, um, abundant!
i dream of foams so light they float,
of crunchy biscuits that i chocolate coat,
of cakes, puddings, pastries and dough,
i am a baking goddess – see how i glow,
alas all to soon i wake,
with no Kitchenaid with which to bake,
my dreams crumble, my heart breaks
Dear NQN
I have a food obsession and absolutely love the way Nigella presents food.
I also love the retroness of the Kitchenaid, and I believe both of these could help me realise my dream of going to France to learn Pastry making, this would be a great start!
Thanks
I have never owned such a lovely mixer and I am now in my 50’s! My little electric handmixer has started making strange noises-I’m afraid it’s about to die. Baking is my passion, which makes me the perfect candidate for this giveaway! I HOPE!
As a nineteen year old girl (and part time model), I have found that cooking isn’t generally highly favoured by others my age. In the fashion and modeling industry people actually scorn when I tell them what delicious treats I baked the night before! It doesn’t bother me in the slightest though as I love everything about food; the experience, sense of satisfaction, the memories, the ability to form new friendships over sharing recipes… the list goes on! I use my cooking to give to others – my younger brother has Down Syndrome, so every week I bake him, his carer and his friends treats, just so I can see the smiles on their faces. These gifts will enable me to realize my potential by enabling me to keep giving to others! (and stop injuring my wrist in the process by old fashioned hand mixing!)
My potential to become the perfect wife will be most improved. I can see him now tasting my cakes ( now mixed so no lumps) with glee, oh wait… hang on… to be the perfect wife I have to clean dont I? ok so tasting my cake with his eyes closed!!
Hi Lorraine,
The KithenAid mixer will help me realize my dream of starting my own cupcake business one day. Being a public servant doesn’t provide much opportunity for creativity, so my outlet is through baking. But what I love the most is seeing the look of delight when someone takes their first bite of one of my creations.
Thank you for the opportunity!
Oh! I forgot..
I love you blog! I’m only a new subscriber – I stumbled onto it when I Googled Halloween cupcakes mid October, but since then, I have not misses a story. I read them at work while I’m eating either lunch or dinner (I’m a shift worker) and it always puts some excitement into my day (or night). I love your writing style and the great photos that accompany each story. When I first starting reading your blog, my first thought was – this is a woman after my own heart! I’m so happy that you’ve had the opportunity to realize your potential as it’s given me much joy reading your reviews and baking stories.
Ahh… my potential: Well, as a mid-thirties mama I too have said farewell to the corporate world to be a full-time stay at home mum to my 2 beautiful cherubs, 3 yrs and 4 months. My goal for the next 3 years is to raise two happy, healthy well-adjusted girls who know their way around a kitchen. Food is family to me, so this prize would help me create traditions and rituals within my family to give these two beautiful cherubs of mine a childhood to remember.
After a week of hiking with school(including carrying all food and equipment) my teenager sat in the car and commented “this week has really made me appreciate everything that you do for me Mum”. I’d like to share this prize with her as we plan our next meal together.
You are lucky to have someone like Queen Viv to support you
. And those are some fab looking cookies daaaaaaaahling!
I am lucky enough to already have a kitchenaid which i simply adore. Its absolutely indispensable, everyone loving to cook and bake should have one 
.
Moi already sees herself as a goddess, domestic and otherwise daaaaaaaahling
Thank you for holding such a wonderful competition. I cook and bake and have done so since childhood. I use a hand held mixer which makes life difficult with some recipes, because of this i would dearly love to win. I am trying to master a tea cake that will last at least overnight, maybe this mixer can help me.
Lorraine, your blog has been a brilliant tool in my foodie toolbox. I have enhanced home, work and social life with recipes and ideas I have found here. A Kitchen Aid is the type of tool that takes everything up a notch, removes restrictions and enables great freedom and exploration. As for Nigella, she is a wonderful example of someone who, while not a chef, has made her great passion for food permeate every part of her life, spilling over into everyone else’s. I’d like to be like that too:)
Hi Lorraine,
This prize will realise my potential by fulfilling my happiness.
I show my love through food. I am happiest when I am able to feed the people I love. I hope to make the world around me a happier and a more loving place, one Nigella-inspired creation at a time.
And most of all, my wife will be overjoyed! That is the best part. We cannot afford a luxury such as this. It will be a dream to bestow this prize. Not to mention, the ultimate Christmas gift! A Kitchenaid mixer is the only thing I would allow my wife to lust after. And likewise for me, it would be Nigella. =)
Dear NQN,
I am a big fan of baking, and I have just started receiving little cupcakes and cakes order. The only mixer that I have is a very old phillip hand held mixer that my mum had as one of her wedding present. It is old, and not so reliable sometimes.
The kitchen aid will help me during my time in the kitchen baking, especially during christmas time. And the book will always give me inspiration
would love to win and try to be a kitchen goddess – the only way to do that is to try using the book and mixer together love your recipes and blog
I want to realise my full potential as a good husband. The Nigella guide is the KNOWLEDGE I will need to build a good foundation in the kitchen. The Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer is just the TOOL for the job!
I’m an avid baker, and I hope I can win the kitchen aid and the book because these wonderful prizes will be very useful and helpful!
What do males love more than gizmos? I will use this glamorous machine as a means to lure my unenthusiastic husband into the kitchen to prepare our dinners. I will have an extra hour a day to reach my potential…
Female teacher, 24, seeking dream occupation as cupcake baker. Likes: baking cupcakes, tasting cupcakes, watching others eat cupcakes, and long walks on the beach. Dislikes: inevitable weight gain, handheld electric mixers. KitchenAid and fabulous cookbooks essential. Interested parties reply by email.
As a male, that title’s fine,
But, alas, it shan’t be mine.
A kitchen fairy I may be,
But alas a goddess ne’er be.
With a Kitchenaid I’d conquer,
Any recipes Nigella could offer
I’d whisk them up right in a flash
Not-Quite-Nigella it’d be a smash!
I could provide such a variety for my family. Mealtimes would become a constant series of happy surprises! Nothing would be wasted again with the family budget benefiting. Greater variety means better eating and better health! Can you tell how excited I am!?
Since moving out of my parents place earlier this year I have been unable to do much baking due to lack of equipment. This mixer and cookbook will allow me to get back into the swing of things!
It is a sin to covet what others have but here I am unashamedly doing just that.
Ooh what decadent scrumptious delights I would be able to create.
Santa (in Lorraine’s clothing) please, please stop me sinning I promise to leave you culinary delights every Christmas with glasses of bubbles
I’ve been an avid fan of baked goods all my life, but have only really participated on the eating end. I have begun to start baking and experimenting with my own recipes lately, but I haven’t gathered all the equipments yet- this would definitely accelerate my learning curve!
All my friends who are great bakers have a Kitchen Aid Mixer and with this 1 maybe I could enter their illustrous ranks .. Need all the help I can get … sure is better than mixing by hand although I get a workout. Thanks for your great comps and prizes
I can show my friends’
i really can cook
with my new helper the Kitchen Aid Mixer
they think im plain as can be
all because they dont see me cook
well i will show them
when i win this test
and put all my effort to be the best
With Nigella and a Kitchen Aid, I will be:
Whisking Whipping Kneading Munching Stirring Baking Bonding Churning Topping Mixing Frosting Tasting Loving Eating Blending Folding Swirling Yearning Scoffing Devouring Beating Chomping Licking Creaming Sharing
I would have realized my culinary potential and, even sweeter, licked the bowl every time.
Love your blog. Found it a few months ago looking for a recipe, now I’m addicted.
Would love to win this Kitchenaid- recently I was admiring the display at Essential Ingredient and dropping the hint that it would make a wonderful gift as I have never had an electric mixer.
I am still using the 1974 edition of Edmonds Sure to Rise that I “borrowed” from my flatmate many years ago. The updated version would be great.
What an awesome & generous prize! Love your blog! My <50 words..
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Having recently fulfilled our dream of a tree-change I am becoming more involved in the community – kinder, CFA etc.. This inevitably involves cooking and a Kitchen Aid would be just the tool to help out.(I have 48 Christmas cupcakes to make next week!!)
I can finally perfect our favourite family dessert, Pavalova! Makes it a lot easier without having to hand whisk everything!
Those biscuits are really pretty andpink. Any idea why they’re calle Belgium biscuits?
How unfair it is that the giveaway isn’t for the rest of us.
I’ve always dreamed of opening a bakery cafe (and even have a name for it). I also have dreams of owning a Kitchen Aid mixer to make it easier to test recipes. Combined with Nigella’s cookbook, i will be well on my way to hours of baking, testing and welcoming.
Recipe for Realising Potential
Place brand spanking new Kitchenaid on bench, dance happily
Prepare ones body weight in flour, sugar & butter.
Sift through How to Be a Domestic Goddess.
Bake a selection of treats, like Molten Chocolate Baby Cakes.
Bask in praise for hand made, love filled, baked delights.
I don’t think I’ll ever be a domestic goddess, I can’t stand washing and ironing BUT with the Kitchenaid and cook book I could be a BAKING goddess and that’s alright by me
Dear NQN,
I’ve just discovered your blog, and am addicted! Unfortunately, I have yet to discover my inner domestic goddess – with two under two, I am ‘two’ distracted, you might say. What my IDG needs to emerge and flourish is a Kitchenaid Artisan Mixer.
Yours,
DG Wannabe
I love baking but have never made a sponge cake or pavlova because it takes sooo long with hand held electric beaters. Perhaps the Kitchenaid and Nigella could help me unleash the full kitchen goddess I know is within!
Hello well I am no goddess thats for sure but my wife is amazing from washing to vacuuming and cleaning the house making my lunch and doing the washing up and “wow can she cook” whilst holding down an executive job, i think that she is a goddess!
I’m starting to really get a roll on with cooking at the moment, and am trying new things. New cakes….and bread!
And who wouldn’t want to lick the bowl and beater of a Kitchenaid mixer if it turns you into a domestic goddess?
In the 6yrs I’ve been married, I’ve worn out 2 hand held mixers (the second one happening the other day) and as Christmas approaches I have to make many a “pav” and cheesecake to make as I am the designated baker…this kitchen aid mixer would be an enormous help, plus, I really really want one!!
I am entering this competition – unashamedly for me – anyway – all of my family are overseas!
The home foodie! Baking, cooking, food shopping, trips to cafes and restaurants, poring over recipes through magazines, cookbooks and food blogs. Passion, creativity, meditation, Homesickness – in the end cooking and baking makes me – ME.
Nigella plus a Kitchenaid – couldnt think of a better combination for the quest of the home foodie
Another entry for me please!! I – very sadly – do not own even one Nigella cookbook! How can I even claim to be a domestic goddess without one!!
I have…
*2 kids under 2
* just found out this will become 3 under 3 next year some time
*a 30th birthday on the 30th
* a great desire to be a DG
* a wide gaping hole on the kitchen bench where a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer should live.
mixer would look nice under my tree
Hey NQN,
I thought I would try something else.
I really love cooking. In fact, it drives everyone I know insane. Would love a KitchenAid to help me start baking more.
Why do I want these items??? I want to pass on to my children the love of cooking. Knowing the thrill of taking flour, milk, butter and eggs and turning it into something delicious. It is the potential to share family traditions.
Cheers,
Rebecca
I know I have sinned…
I have always identified myself as a good cook,
But I have been secretly baking with ready-made cake mix!
Oh…please let me amend my sin with the Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer
I promise to produce the best dessert with the aid of the Domestic Goddess.
One gorgeous Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer KSM150 in White – $730
One copy of How To Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson – $30
Winning the above items and allowing my goddess domesticity to emerge – priceless
if life begins at 40,I better start living it.
I’ve been limited to those simple recipes that don’t require machines because I don’t have one! Naturally I’ve been lusting for the creme de la creme of mixers. Oh please please please help me bring out the domestic goddess that I know is in me!
So far I have not been a goddess in any way but with the Kitchenaid mixer and a Nigella Lawson book just watch me in the kitchen. I love to bake and what a great help these two items would be.
Jeanette..
I have been cooking for my family for 18 years and the ‘goddess’ factor is wearing off! A new toy and Nigella’s influence could put some excitement back on the menu. Especially if I lick the spoon Nigella style!
These items would be the kickstart I’d need to publish my own cookbook – “How to be a Domestic God”.
I usually buy the finished product because not only does my arm incredibly sore mixing but it’s so time consuming. The kitchen aid would bring the EXCITEMENT back into baking and how to be a domestic goddess would help me with some fresh ideas…..pick me PICK ME….PLEASE!
I already am a kitchen goddess wannabe, But winning a Kitchenaid and Nigella’s cook book would see me, Transported to loftier heights to some degree, By tooling me up with the equipment – for free, Enabling me to create delights ala culinary, Emulating a fully fledged domestic goddess totally !
With the wave of Nigella and Kitchenaid’s wand I shall be transformed from Domestic Disaster to Domestic Goddess and spread the love in the shape of Nigella’s delicious cupcakes throughout my kingdom!
This new age women will bring back good home cooking back in the kitchen Well with a little help
I think I’ll channel Nigella’s liberal use of adjectives for my entry:
There’s something almost dreamlike about the prospect of owning this gorgeously futuristic, crispy-white, wonderfully handy mixer. I rather think it’s almost as exciting as the idea of winning a book full of Nigella’s scrumptious, heart-warming, homely, glowing, beautifully comforting recipes and tips. Quite frankly my idea of domestic heaven!
I’m a little weakie that can’t whisk, whip or beat for to long, always having to beg my husband to help me do it. This prize will give me wings, so I can soar to greater heights with my delicious creations (all by myself!!).
I will present them to my wife, offering her all the support she needs, as she begins her quest on conquering the making of desserts. She’s great at everything else, but lacks here because she says her hand held whisk is ‘lame’.
With the beautiful Kitchen Aid Mixer and Nigella’s Domestic Goddess Cookbook I will realise my potential of becoming the fabulous baker I have always dreamed of being.
The most intricate biscuit, cake, and dessert recipes will be an effortless pleasure using the Kitchen Aid.
The proof is in the pudding!
This Beaut baby is all it would take, to see me reach my potential and constantly bake!!!!!
Mixing and baking the whole day through……. Lots of goodies for me and for you!
I like to think I cook like Nigella (although the look is quite different!)With this wonderful package I’d live my dream cooking beautiful food and prove – I am a domestic goddess!
I’d love to win this wonderful kitchenaid mixer as we have so many birthdays and i’m always making cakes for my family this would make my life easier and more time to enjoy my children.
A little ‘divine intervention’ in the kitchen would go a long way toward helping me realise my Domestic Goddess potential.. a white angel (in the form of the KitchenAid Artisan) to gently nudge me in the right direction, and perhaps – finally – a heavenly pavlova will appear this Christmas!
A little ‘divine intervention’ in the kitchen would go a long way toward helping me realise my Domestic Goddess potential.. a white angel (in the form of the KitchenAid Artisan) to gently guide me in the right direction, and perhaps – finally – a heavenly pavlova will appear this Christmas!
Home from work and onto dinner,
Aiming for a something that’s a winner!
A Domestic Goddess: I do try,
Without ever wanting to cry!
A handy new Kitchenaid,
Means no need for a maid!
Imagine the creations I could make,
If my kids gave them a chance to bake!
Starting from scratch my ideas will hatch into a beautiful creation that will be an admiration as the love comes from within to share around with my kith and kin!
I have wanted a Kitchenmaid Artisan mixer since the beginning of time…Well at least since they came on the market!
I could make so many more goodies and recipes for everyone.It would save me so much time and I could make all the wonderful recipes on this site
I am in awe with the magnitude of information on this web site. Thank You for the inspirational content.
By gently folding Nigella’s decadence into Kitchenaid’s bountiful elegance, I’d whip up many a feast par-excellence
I have but one whisk this Christmas, if you only could bake it come true,
It is to own a KitchenAid mixer, and a Goddess cookbook too.
I’ll kiss you under the misteltoe,
I’ll make you warm egg-nog,
Or if you like, i promise each day,
To comment on your blog!
Oldies are goodies. Most new mixers won’t last the distance these days. But Kitchenaid mixers are the equivalent of the old Sunbeams and Kenwoods, which go trouble free for years, and could cope with my poor attempts at baking for my kids. Like trying to whip hard butter with a whisk!
These items would complete my life because I’d finally be able to make an amazing dish so that when I invite a special certain girl around for dinner she will finally be amazed by my cooking abilities and I will be able to win her heart. As we know, the quickest way to a woman’s heart is through her taste buds!
Can you imagine the magic that could be created in the kitchen….A ray of sunlight through the window sparkling off a pearly white KitchenAid mixer, then read a spell from the tome How to Be a Domestic Goddess, and viola…..magic!
Kitchenaid and Nigella, will make me a kitchen Goddess,
I will use them every day,
In my baking more or less.
I’ll whip up fancy feasts with Love,
My cakes will be heavenly, from above.
My biscuits will melt upon your tongue,
A chorus from the heavens then will be sung.
Yes I will be a Goddess, plain and true,
With Nigella’s cookbook,
And Kitchenaid,
IT”S TRUE!!!
No more mixing by hand, with a Artisan and this beautiful book, many wonderful creations can be achieved. All types of baking, cooking and tasting will now be apart of this kitchen and family.
I cant cook but if i am left in am empty kitchen, (which is what i have now since my flatmate has moved out) with nothing but a cookbook and a mixer, i am sure to learn how to bake out of desperation.
My Mum is a domestic goddess and brilliant cook. I know she dreams for me to be the same, especially now that I’m seeing someone who she pictures me marrying in the not too distant future…hehe. Help me show them both that I can reach my potential as a domestic goddess.
My 5-year old (soon to be 6) princess squealed with delight when she saw me looking at these biscuits and begged some to be made for her impending birthday!It would be a piece of cake (or biscuit), if only I had an Artisan….
I love your recipes, as they inspire me to be more adventurous in the kitchen. Thanks.
With a shiny white Kitchenaid would be able to whip up a batch of molten baby cakes in the time it takes to repeat Nigellas’ motto, “to achieve maximum pleasure through minimum effort”…well almost!
Dear Lorraine,
I own kitchen gadgets and cook books but not these. They both make me sigh wistfully. I have fun and relax when I cook but I don’t bake. I admire people who do, perhaps with Nigella’s guidance, and a KitchenAid even a sponge layer cake could be pain-free.
Having been a devotee of Nigella for years, I would have to say, the kitchenaid would the put to use on a Pink Party. Lots of pink cakes, biscuits, maybe a stwarberry mousse or semi-freddo and pink champagne – what’s not to love!
With time on my hands I keep telling myself I’ll bake more. Yet I haven’t, it’s such a shame that life has become so different to that of our Mums. I remember helping cook, licking bowls and learning. Sadly it’s so easy to go the supermarket these days. The kitchenaid and book will be the catylyst to get me baking and pass on much needed skills to the kids.
One Kitchenaid Stand Mixer + One Nigella Cookbook = Happy 30th Birthday
My mouth is already watering for all the deeee-licious beauties that one could expect to cook from the two very generous gifts.
A kitchenaid would help me realise my potential in the kitchen
By making my boyfriend start listin’
All of the treats
(some small feats)
That he’d like for Christmas!
I’m a enthusiastic foodie and studying nutrition at uni, but I recently have become disenchanted with cooking (due to boring everyday meal duties). I love Nigella’s approach to food and I know winning this prize would spark my interest again (especially the mixer, it’s all wooden spoons here)!
I’m from a family of SIX girls! Being the eldest, I help my parents out financially as they can’t work. This can be difficult when you’re a full-time student doing cancer research. I find baking therapeutic, these items will definately provide me that kick start into baking.
Domestic goddess I may not yet be, but with a Kitchenaid and the help of Nigella, it may just be a bit closer to reality!
Entry No 2: Decide quickly Lorraine as I’m starting my Biscottini baking from the 1st. LOl
with the cookbook and mixer it would be like having a fairy godmother in kitchen to guide me I would bake delicious goodies for family and friends. I lived in nz for many years I love edmonds cookbooks and the kiwi biscuits are amazing their great cooks over in kiwiland.
I just achieved a lifetime milestone, completing my BA as a mature age student whilst working full-time as well. My husband returns from Europe next weekend after 6 months’ absence — a perfect excuse and the time and headspace to finally be the domestic goddess I’ve dreamt of being!
With Nigella’s book guiding me and kitchen aid mixer by my side the inspiration to feed my family with nutritious and delicious comfort food will be flowing for sure. Domestic Goddess here I come.
OH,all my wishes could came true.
A Kitchen Aid and Nigella’s book…now I could really be a domestic goddess and I don’t even need a wand… beats my hand held mixer.
Love & fairy sprinkles to all.
Under the guidance of Nigella and the help from a Kitchenaid mixer, I’ll potentially be one step closer to ‘foodie’ utopia!
Dear Lorraine,
My husband and I have just bought a small cafe in Bondi where we spend every second night cooking away in the kitchen together, making cakes, curds, quiches and cookies. The Artisan Kitchenaid would make our dream complete. That and a few more customers…
Andria The Ditzy Tart at 11 Curlewis Street
I see a big house, In a sparkling kitchen, a happy family. Children have rosy cheeks, the smell of cinamon wafts. A brunette wearing an apron reaches into the oven and the children hush! But wait says the mystic…all of this is only possible if you win the Artisan Kitchenaid…
Instead of using the old hand beater I have now… I could be using the new Artisan Kitchenmaid and have my hands free. I then could be holding my copy of How To Be a Domestic Goddess in one hand and a glass of Moet in the other.
A mix master would make all of the following possible for Christmas- I would spread the love to friends and colleagues and maybe even keep my mixer going 24 hours a day to provide good christmas fare to the people of Gunnedah: choc and cinnamon fruit mince tarts, Little fondant-iced Christmas cakes + the perfect pavlova. Ultimate Aussie Christmas.
Entry No 3: all the Biscottini ingredients are laid out ready for 1st Dec, baking day! Now , all I need is that beautiful Kitchenaid mixer to make the ensuing batches ( and there are lots of them ) efficient, delicious and faultless.
I just love to bake! Not only because of the delicious treats you can create but also because I bake with the people I love in mind. To lend a hand where needed or simply let someone know I care. The possibilities are endless when these prizes!
I’m excited just thinking about the things I could bake with a beautiful Kitchenaid and Nigella’s help!! I love nothing more than spending the day baking with (and for) my kids, husband, friends and extended family, and with these prizes it can only get better!
My definition of bliss: licking a Nigella cake batter of a Kitchen Aid beater.
Sigh…my eyes have glassed over….
I could potentially be the shining star at the Xmas lunch table this year by knocking off my sister in laws prize winning rocky road with a creation from Nigella whipped up in the Kitchenaid!
Keeping my dream alive,
Where I can break away from the 9 to 5,
So I can bake all day,
And produce fabulous cupcakes on my tray!
My fiancé knows I am a goddess, but despite all my trying, he is not convinced that food is worth being obsessed over. Perhaps with a that fab mixer and some Nigella magic I’ll be able to convince him how great food is (and hopefully pave the way for going out to more restaurants!)
The potential realised with a kitchenaid are endless! I dream of so much time saved and my favourite recipes tasting even better. I would dare to take on more adventurous recipes knowing I had the equipment to get me through. It would mean more chances of doing what I love!
I love the biscuit recipe. Here’s how I’d realise my potential with these two items.
Through his stomach to his heart I must go
But alas, the kitchen is my greatest foe.
With the Kitchenaid and Domestic Goddess to hand
Now my campaign is fully planned
Whisking, mixing, baking
All my true loves delights I’ll be making.
I love the Biscuit recipe.
Here’s how I’d realise my potential with these two items.
Through his stomach to his heart I must go
But alas, the kitchen is my greatest foe.
With the Kitchenaid and Domestic Goddess to hand
Now my campaign is fully planned.
Whisking, mixing, baking
All my true loves delights I’ll be making.
helP me, i LovE cooking And baking cakeS but i don’t havE enough time for Pracising It! it Could Keep Me Entertained for hours!
(Lame subliminal message, I know)
xox Sarah
Because it’ll be the PERFECT XMAS presents for me. Really really obsessed with the KitchenAid Artisan Mixer(http://passionatemae.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-beauty.html). Nigella? She’s a goddess. Made her Nutella Cake for a birthday, OMG, DELICIOUS! The book with the Artisan would be such a dream come true.
With a Kitchenaid mixer and the Domestic Goddess, Christmas will surely be a culinary success!
Entry No 4: Am suffering RSI and Tennis elbow from all-day baking today. If only I had a Kitchenaid to ease the pain…
Being a young family with an 8 month old baby and another one on the way I can only imagine the possibilities of the lifetime this machine and cookbook can bring. From making my daughters first birthday cake and everything else along the way till her wedding cake!
Your blog makes me itching to be one of Baking Queen. The thing which hinders me is only that I don’t have a stand mixer and kitchen aid is expensive. I can see you, Kitchen Aids, Nigella and American Express as my would-be-fairy-godmothers *cross fingers*, it would be PRICELESS combination
Lorraine, these babies will help take me a step closer to my dreams of becoming a Patisserie Chef. I always dream of being in the kitchen baking all the time, I guess it is because it makes me HAPPY.
My new blog would get a whole lot more interesting with these prizes
I’m sure my baked creations would triple!
My goal for this year (I don’t do resolutions) was to master the art of ridiculous, over-the-top & beautiful cakes. I’ve made some amazing treats already- with a tiny hand mixer! These gorgeous prizes would be handy for the last hurrah (09) & to continue brightening up loved one’s lives with CAKE!
These biscuits look amazing!! And I sure wish this giveaway was open to international residents!! Please do one of those too soon! I’d be so grateful!
I may not have Nigellas’ charm,
Nor the Kitchenaids classic style,
But put us in the kitchen together,
and the results would be more than worthwhile!
Christmas wish? KitchenAid mixer and Nigella Lawson’s wisdom to fulfill a simple dream.
Baby girl’s first birthday and being the perfect Mum.
Mixing by hand, Santa’s not bringing a mixer, money disappearing like quicksand.
Need practice making a number one, pink with white spots,
Perfect to knock everyone’s socks off!
My answer?
I have a temperamental stove which makes cooking lovely things very difficult and therefore supremely frustrating and disheartening. But how could I not be pulled back into the kitchen to try and try again with these two gifts from the culinary Gods?
Ode to my Aid
Come to me my lovely,
for you are destined to be my aid.
Alas, there may be some beating.
And forgive me, some whipping too.
But I shall never forsake you.
Together we shall make sweet perfection,
And I will forever more be your domestic goddess.
Inger from Brisbane
I’m re=entering on the basis that I had to make royal icing by hand for my son’s school fair. “Nuff said.
What a great addition to my kitchen. I currently pass off items I have purchased from the local bakery to my friends and mothers group, as those I have cooked. I will no longer have to lie, and I will be able to look in my childrens eyes again, when I saying lying is bad.
Having recently moved out of home with nothing but a wisk to my name, I feel like I am a long way from achieving domestic goddess status. What a stocking stuffer the kitchen aid would be.
I plead guilty to also hand mixing everything, having only recently bought a small hand mixer. Somehow my biscuits and cakes lack a certain airiness (shall we say?) – please help me!
My last baby will be going to school next year…I decided a seachange is needed to fill the void…been baking more these days, for the kids, for the church and been pouring over internet for creative ideas… and lusting after a kitchen aid for xmas!
A domestic goddess I struggle to be,
A dream hampered by work, study and family.
NQN and Nigella can rescue me,
Through helping me bake the perfect receipe.
Kitchenaid mixers, 90 years of success,
And NQN’s blog – the inspiration, the best!!
I will bake something for you…and for the lovelies at Kitchenaid…and for your charity of choice… full potential?… maybe if not it’ll be a start!
Oh how I would love to win the essential ingredient for any great kitchen – the Kitchenaid mixer. I am sure my culinary potential would be reached by the first night of having it in my hot little hands!!
I have just recently set up my own cupcake business, that is to say that I have finally registered my business name “Nell’s Cupcakes”. I have an old sunbeam mix master that is good, but my dream is to own a Kitchen Aid mixer. I have dropped a few hints to my husband, but as I have spent all available money on setting up my business, alas there is no money left for one of these beauties! Love your blog site Lorraine, you are truely inspirational! Even if I don’t win, sentiments remain the same!;-)
I’m terrible at writing entries to competitions because my mind just always comes up blank, but i’ll try:
My mother’s old mix master was given to her, as a hand-me-down, by her mother, so basically it’s REALLY old. So old that often in the midst of making orders of cupcakes and cookies and things just for myself (nothing like eating batches of triple choc caramel brownies alone haha) the mixer burns up and shuts down. My mum doesn’t see this as a reason to get a new mixer because ‘it still turns on’, so why on earth would we need another?
There is nothing I love more than cooking and to be able to cook the thing I love would really make my Christmas!
It’s a simple case of cause and effect – winning a Kitchenaid and the Domestic Goddess would give me reason to spend more time in the kitchen cooking up scrumptious batches of sweet things for Christmas (because treats don’t count at Christmas time right?!)
Winning “How to be a domestic Goddess”,
Would surely improve my kitchen finesse!
Nigella’s recipes and ideas ‘d be inspirational!
My bking in turn, would be sensational!
And an ARTISAN KITCHENAID mixer?
-So essential!
Resulting in me realising my great potential!
It took me a very long time to realise that great equipment really does help turn out a fantastic end product. 30 years on & finally choosing my dream oven, I’m sure would turn into “The Domestic Goddess” I am meant to be with the addition of a Kitchen Aid
These prizes could make me a sort of kitchen guru,
I could make perfect fondue, choux and creme patissiere too.
(singing)
Deck the halls with cakes and biscuits
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Tis the season to get baking
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
Mix and beat with a Kitchen Aid mixer,
Fa la la, la la la, la la la.
Oh, if only I could be like Nigella,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
I already bake all my Christmas gifts but my 16 year old black and decker mix master could do with an upgrade!
As I’m already a Domestic Goddess I would love to win both Nigella’s book & Kitchen Aid for my newly married (August 2009) niece,Sarah. I am not working so this would make not only a great late wedding gift but also a BIG THANKYOU for looking after my late mum who passed away on 28 September 2009. Sarah works an Antiques store with my sister & gave up her job without pay to look Mum & also forfeited her honeymoon to be with mum, her Babcia,1 month before mum died of lung cancer, Sarah was my mum best friend besides being a GREAT granddaughter So I really believe she deserves the best
with nigella and the kitchenAid at hand, i am so excited about all the yummy pastries i am going to make, and of course sharing it with people I love.I want it so badly!!
Oh, how my dream is to become a domestic goddess. One thing essential to becoming the perfect domestic goddess is a fabulous wedding registry with a beautiful Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer first on the list. Without NQN, I may be waiting an eternity for this fantasy to come true.
Nigela the domestic goddess, had a very useful book
all of the other ladies, loved to think that they could cook
but they were missing something
they needed a desperate upgrade
to the super amazing artisan kitchen aide
then one foggy xmas eve
Lorraine came to say
Emily with your hopes so bright
go and bake throughout the night
all of her other ladies
gasped and jumped up with glee
Emily had baked a perfect afternoon high tea!
I’m waiting here with eggs sugar and flour
Counting down the nervous hours
When the Kitchenaid arrives at my address
It will make me feel like a domestic goddess
But because I’m really a burly fella
I’ll always be, Not quite Nigella
I’m an aspiring domestic goddess and bake every weekend for my loved ones. Having a kitchenaid would be a great help as I only have an electric hand mixer. I hope to establish a cake shop in the near future. I wouldn’t mind if I receive one this coming xmas
Cant wait to get my hands on them so that I can turn my baking passion into a career of a lifetime
When I moved out of home my mum set me up in the kitchen with a good set of knives and a quality mixer – both of which are going strong 25 years later. I’d like to do the same for my daughter.
Nigella is a woman who lives and breathes food, and not in a purely selfish or greedy way, but she shares her love with her family and friends and, through her books, with food lovers everywhere. Her writing inspires me to share my own love of food at home, with friends and at work and a Kitchen Aid is the perfect companion to her books, rendering anyone a domestic goddess or god.
Ok…time to vent. I’ve been trying to make some nice bread, but the *&@#$ breadmaker I have is sabotaging my efforts! Each time I leave it to mix, it fails to incorporate all the ingredients and I get I big lump of flour on the corner of my dough! I’m ready to kick it to the curb! I’m sure a KitchenAid mixer would help me whip up great Artisan bread without a hitch!
And I’m sure I could whip up a little sweet something special from the Domestic Goddess to calm me down after trashing the breadmaker!
(Domestic) Goddess at the kitchen bench top
With a KitchenAid mixer to tame
Nigella and NQN’s recipes to love
And Sarah was her name
She’s not got it…
but she’d love to win it!
With my handheld mixer
I mix it to the max.
I make, I bake, I decorate
and these are just the facts.
But if I win the Kitchenaid
I could be more productive.
Domestic Goddess maybe!
More time to be seductive?
(Hubby, ignore last line please)
Hi Lorraine,
It has always been and will always be a pleasure reading your blog. My primary school mate will be visiting during the xmas holiday and we will be flying down to Sydney to stuff our faces with all the goodies you mentioned in your reviews. I have also booked a high tea at QVB. I am salivating just thinking about it.
Recently I have been thinking if I really wanted to work in the corporate world for the rest of my life. I find baking therapeutic and always so satisfying to see the smiles on faces when I turn up with sweet goodies. And you are so lucky to be doing what you really enjoy and are passionate about.
Therefore, the Kitchenaid and Nigella will help me realise my potential in becoming a domestic goddess and bring every meal to a closing climax and fingers crossed that it will also rope in the man of my dream. The way to his heart is through his stomach, right?
Because I need a better mixer than my handmixer..and the Artisan, Boy, so gorgeous and Nigella, she’s great in what she’s doing, someday, hopefully, i’ll be as successful as her too.
Dear ArtiSanta
This year I have tried hard to be a Domestic Goddess by using my handheld mixer to bake birthday cakes and cupcakes for my friends and family. Please bring me an Artisan KitchenAid and a book by Nigella so I can do even better next year.
Love Megan
I love your gorgeous website and must admit I’ve always coveted a Kitchenaid. Two weeks ago my heirloom sunbeam mixmaster gave up the ghost. My mother taught me to bake on it and it was a kitchen treasure to me. I’d love to one day pass on something of even better quality to my children as well as the love and passion for cooking my mother gave to me.
Hi Lorraine, I realised I’m a capital-b Baker when I started creaming butter and sugar in my sadness after the sudden death of my horse, Rabbit, last Friday. I’ve been dreaming about a KitchenAid for ages but now, with vet bills, it’s even further away. Love your site, Melissa
Everybody knows that domestic goddesses can cook up a storm but the real secret behind them is that they have great tools and a cookbook and the mixer is the tool and the cookbook is the end to the means, with both of them I’ll fulfill my domestic goddess potential.
twas the week before xmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a mouse
Boxes stacked high, bubble wrap festooned, who’s idea was it to move?
A turkey, a pudding, mice pies and more
all to be made before guests pour through the door
a gleaming white kitchen aid stands on the bench
and a pastry cook book but its all written in french!
Pas de problème I say
My domestic fairy godmother is with me all the way!
Out of the oven and onto a tray
Well be eating and eating right through to boxing day….
Entry No 5:
With so many clever ditties and poems being sent, this is going to be a hard one for you Lorraine and/or KitchenAid to select.
So to make things easier for you, pick me and make me a Domestic Goddess for my Boxing Day birthday!! Yay
I love to bake, I’m a keen cake fixer,
But I have two kids and a handheld mixer.
With an Artisan KitchenAid, I could do better.
Nigella’s book I’d follow to the letter,
And then I’d be a Domestic Goddess:
Efficient, productive, creative and modest
I desperatley would like to win both the kitchenaide and Nigella Lawson’s cookbook. As a food addicted, stay at home mother to two adorable munchkins, my release is to cook, but alas with a single income a kitchenaide is only a dream! Imagine the sweets I could make that would feed my children into silence so that I could have a cup of tea in peace!
My cooking is enthusiastic, but horrendous. My gorgeous husband is forced to cook all of our meals and I fear for his stamina! With the kitchenaid and cookbook, I will blossom into the goddess I was born to be and my husband will be free to enjoy my goddessliness!
I’ve been heading to the bookstore just to read nigella’s books and I’ve been also popping by kitchen stores so that I can admire the KitchenAid. I am obsessed, and definitely would put it to full use!
(to the tune of Jingle Bells .. Music please….)
Kitchenaid, Kitchenaid,
You are my best friend,
Oh, What fun it is to bake
With you in my kitchen, Yeh!
Nigella, Nigella,
My fairy godmother,
With your gift and wide knowledge,
I’ll be the best baker!
These items would be ace for my kitchen, I can finally show my friends and family that a guy can and does love cooking and baking at his place. I love creating desserts!
There once was a girl called Renee
Who wanted to bake a soufflé
The recipe tricked her
But a Kitchenaid mixer
And tips from Nigella saved the day
please?
Surely whenever someone takes great pleasure from tasting something we have created, we have realised our potential… These two magical items would transform me into a Gourmet Goddess… a Baking Babe… a Food Fairy… a Pastry Princess… a Cuisine Queen… a Lawson Lady… (or less regal, a Belgium Biscuit Bitch!)
I’m a dad with a 19 month old daughter. When I cook dinner she runs into the kitchen with up-stretched arms saying ‘Up, Daddy, Cooking’. Some of my favourite memories are cooking together.
The mixer and cookbook would make a great addition for baking treats together on sunday afternoons.
Hi Lorraine
Here’s my final entry. I did post one yesterday too but for some reason it didn’t work (it was in uppercase because it was like a newspaper ad)?? I tried resending it again but with no luck.
Nigella’s Book
Oh! Look!
A KitchenAid
I’m made!
New tricks
Easy mix
No mistakes
Great cakes
Time saving
Kids behaving
Baking done
Good fun
Invent, create
Decorate
No mess
Success
Kids fed
Books read
Changed nappy
All happy
Huge gains
Peace reigns
Smiling faces
In their places
Opening doors
Applause!
I have a very fulfilling job as a librarian where I am able to indulge many of my passions, including my love of food. A Kitchen Aid and Nigella, therefore, would not be required to unlock earning potential but the goal of work/life balance. The ultimate kitchen tool and the friend to all working mothers (and everyone else) will render time in the kitchen fulfilling, productive and so much fun.
A Kitchenaid with all its power,
My hat’s in the ring at the eleventh hour!
Noone would use it more than me
For baking brings my world such glee.
A cheap old hand mixer is all I use
To give love to my comfort food . . .
. . . ‘Domestic Goddess’, it would be official
And give all around me quite a giggle.
Up since 6am in the kitchen
Imagine how much more I’d be mixin’
So, please, please, Not Quite Nigella and AMEX
There’s an empty space that’s so perfect on my kitchen bench.
If a fairy god mother bestowed these gifts on my I would surely have to rise to the occasion and buy a twin set and unleash the inner Nigella in me.
Unto us a cook is born, at Christmas time rejoice, thanks to Kitchenaid there’ll be bounty of food and convival fun, this wise mum heard the Nigella voice.
i have always had a love for baking but with being so busy at work i dont get that much time anymore this would inspire my to get back into it and save me time as well now the granddaughter has arrived i am looking forward to baking days
Oh Nigella you are such a naughty woman creating such a book of calorie laden yummy food. Thank you so very very much!
I think though I would do well to have a nice mixer as the hand beater is getting too much for me these days. I have a bit of arthritis you see.
Anyway, thank you to my friend for sending me this way and thank you for taking the time to put such a great blog on the Interwebs!
Cheers
Mine is a simple driving analogy at the moment my mixer is the equivalent of a clapped out VW with 500,000km on the clock. I would love to upgrade to a BMW style mixer with cooking manual.
Then I could cruise through tight recipes with ease and power.
Oh doh! I called you Nigella… got all excited. Apologies Lorraine. x
Every week I make cakes for my ladies group and use manual mixing,oh how much better my hands and cakes would be with a Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer KSM150 and Nigellas recipes to guide me
How wouldn’t I use the wonderful knowledge contained in Nigela’s book, I would be baking up a storm. Whizzing the mixer around daily, or my husband would be, he is a Chef, he loves Nigela also.
Thanks for the competition.
My excuse is bad equipment, which is true,
Got fab new pans, and I’ve come through.
No more burnt bits and I’m happy to try,
So with this mixer, my cooking skills will fly.
Cheesecakes and doughs will be my start,
Then meringues, that’s an art!
Well I can read and turn on a power switch so that’s got to be a great start, hasn’t it?!
I’ve got away without cooking for 45+ years. Working full-time plus running two businesses means I’m eating poorly and losing confidence in cooking!! 2010 sees major changes. With your mixer, book and a glass of wine, I’ll work hard ensuring I can look after myself (and future man) appropriately!
Perfect pavs,featherlight sponges,sticky toffee pudding,buttery biscuits are the order of the day when one has a Kitchenaid Mixer in the kitchen to stay,says this domestic Goddess to the Domestic Goddess Queen!!
A goddess I’m not
(I’m short and squat!)
But with this magic machine
I’ll create perfect cuisine.
I’ll bake up a storm
Following Nigella’s form
And my loved ones will bless
The Kitchen Goddess!
With these two items, it’ll make cooking a breeze. I’ll just hand it over to hubby, and he’ll do the rest. Quick and easy
Hi Lorraine,
I love baking so much! In fact everyone in this household is convinced I’m trying to make them fat I bake so much. Not the case, I just want to make them happy haha. With these I could realise my full potential as a true ‘Baking Goddess’!
I could be a chef, I could even be a head chef. But what would really make my day is to be a cook. It doesn’t have to be flashy, or even the most beautiful- what I really want is to be able to mix to my hearts content with my own mix master with Nigela’s star recipes to provide a meal not fit for a King or a Queen, but my very own family.
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Does that mean my lack of a husband means my cooking is #%^%# ??? Only way to test the theory would be to don the frilly apron, embrace my Nigellesque curves, and whip up a masterpiece with these two ‘mentors’!
Oh,oh,oh, how incredible to win this domestic double. My husband and I have been taking cooking classes together and he is soooo proud of his new found skills and proudly holds court whilst everyone watches him make pizza dough and pastry. We love creating yummy treats for our family, friends and neighbours but love even more the closeness creating it together has given us. This gift would help us continue to realise our full potential together.He has also inspired many other men to start getting creative in the kitchen!!!! You’ve got to looove that.
With a Kitchen Aid my Christmas would be saved, and my culinary creations by family and friends would be craved!!
I COULD REPOSSESS MY TITLE AS “THE BISCUIT QUEEN” – MY BISCUITS ARE LEGENDARY IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD BUT ALAS, THIS BUTTERFINGERED SAGITTARIUS HAS RECENTLY DROPPED B-O-T-H HER ANCIENT PYREX GLASS MIXMASTER BOWLS IN ONE GO – SMASH! – SO ALL MY BAKING HAS COME TO A SUDDEN H-A-L-T! XMAS COOKIES COURTESY OF NIGELLA?!
Rescue me,
Cooking is becoming a chore,
Rescue me,
I used to love it before.
Can’t do poetry
or competition “professionally”
A baker all my life till arthritis hit, a mixer would give new life to baking that my family and I miss so much, it’s my only expression of creativity so means a lot to me
Kitchenaid is the appliance that gets the work done, turning preparation in cooking, from a chore into fun!
With an Artisan Kitchenaid, and Nigella’s book,
I know I could be a first class cook!
How marvellous to own one of these appliances? Currently, I cant cook, bake or even refrigerate for that matter so it would be lovely to learn. I am sure with a new found toy and a recipe book to explain the way, I may just learn at 35!
I aspire to be like my Nanna. The epitome of a Domestic Goddess. Nurtured me with comfort food, food with love. With Kitchenaid, like her, strong, powerful yet beautiful, I could achieve my aspiration.
I believe I am already a Goddess – though definately not Domestic, and my current Kitchen Aid would rather be in front of the tv watching the cricket. Well I can’t be in the kitchen and look good too – or can I? That Nigella chick seems to manage it.
Fairy Godmother signed Lorraine,
Give me guidance, keep me sane
For friends, family, parties too.
Cooking’s the one thing I love to do.
With KitchenAid, Nigella I would impress,
Call me whatever, I’m a kitchen goddess!
I need to cook, I need to bake,
Please pick for goodness sake.
Ahhhh, to outcook Cadbury’s, Arnotts and Westons with the flick of a switch and a beat of the whisk, and to feed the male workers, children and visitors (and the odd animal) that frequently invade my goddess space on the farm with demands for snacks, nutrition and variety.
When this Princess entered life,
She had spatula in one hand and a cook book in the other,
30 years down the track,
I still have those flash backs,
With Baking and decorating my passion,
Like my husband’ love for fashion,
These items married together,
Produce masterpieces under any weather.
Instantaneously, without delay
I’d be in baking heaven straight away
Covered in clouds of sugar and flour
Granting wishes every hour
Creating magic for family and friends
So their tastebud joy never ends
My role in life so clear at last
Domestic Goddess unsurpassed!
A Domestic Goddess in the makes,
Has a passion for creating beautiful cakes,
Baking in my house is a must,
With only two name that I trust,
With KitchenAid and Nigella by my side,
My two worlds will collide,
My kitchen the centre stage,
Where these two will engage.
My culinary attempts are sometimes a disaster.
With Kitchenaid I’m sure I’d graduate from cooking dunce to master!
Whilst Nigella can transform my kitchen life from tragic to magic & glum to fun…& that’ll keep everyone happy…
because my hubby says he loves her buns!
A Domestic Goddess in the makes,
Has a passion for creating beautiful cakes,
Baking in my house is a must,
With only two names that I trust,
With KitchenAid and Nigella by my side,
My two worlds will collide,
My kitchen the centre stage,
Where these two will engage.
To be able to cook wonderful goodies like my mother and nana used to would bring back great memories of my childhood.
KitchenAid mixer, kitchen queen,
A dream creator, speed machine,
Nigella Lawson, Domestic God,
Makes a cooks future certain, Not bold,
With my passion, cooking knowledge,
With your expertise, I’m ready for your college,
Set up in my kitchen, Take centre stage,
I’m your student, a new page.
Nigella Lawson, my culinary hero
How To Be A Domestic Goddess would improve my baking from zero
No more would my family scream
My cakes would no longer be a bad dream
With KitchenAid, I’d be no longer afraid
Of getting back into the kitchen – a new Domestic Goddess made!
Current cooking skills: 3/10
Current status: Single (largely due to current cooking skills).
Future cooking skills and potential: 7/10. I’m realistic – the mixer and the book will help, but the raw material (i.e me) won’t essentially change.
Future status : Double (largely due to future cooking skills) with a lovely man who doesn’t mind sampling my cooking – and who sticks around once he does!
I’ve been baking for over forty years – for the family, weddings, funerals, parties, baptisms, you name it. I’m keen for a new challenge, and would love new equipment to use at the same time!
There’s a million reasons why I’d treasure this prize but.. its mostly for the priceless gift that is to ‘inspire’..to be the inspiration so many to create there own cooking traditions and little masterpieces in their kitchens is the true gift
What a fantastic prize. One of my dreams in life is to open an independent bakery. A bakery that showcases peoples passion for baking. The kitchen aid would give me the confidence to be more daring in the kitchen, so I can realise my potential and one day open up this bakery. A domestic goddess. Well I feel that all women are. Nigella Lawson’s book just brings out your inner domestic goddess. Lorraine you continue to inspire people with your dedication to this blog and your love of food. You deserve all your success I am sure you will be destined for bigger and better things.
Arthretic legs don’t stand for long, am chief cook, bottle washer, hammer and tong. An Artisan mixer my own little aid to assist, keeps working for me so I don’t get over tired, angry and miffed. Churning out goodies from HTBADG. Our bellies are full, satisfied and happy.
I’m by no means a Domestic Goddess – I’d like to be! Armed with hints & tips from Nigella and with a fabulous Kitchenaid mixer on my side I’m sure I could find some inspiration and wow my family! No, where’s the wooden spoon…
Nigella, I’m a single 27 year old who has only just moved out of home and I need some aid in my kitchen! My benches are bare and take out food is my staple, so a kitchenaid and domestic goddess would be sure to get me making and baking.
I love cooking but am seriously kitchen-challenged… Any tool to help me out would mean no more cement hard biscuits, edible meals for my husband and a sense of accomplishment for me – after 30 years!
We had a family emergency last night and rather than sit and worry I decided to bake…And bake I did til about 2 am, until the handle of my wooden spoon snapped clear in two. Lets just say my dream last night revolved around a KitchenAid mixer!
You are never too old to learn so with a Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer and ‘How To Be A Domestic Goddess’ by Nigella Lawson I have no excuse not to realise my full potential in the kitchen
Buying a house starting a family with my new hubby some good tools of trade will make life easier & more fun. Hubby does so much always puts me first. Be nice to become that Kitchen Goddess to give a little back & whip up all he’s tantalising needs.
You’re a woman after my own heart, when I saw your Edmonds Cookbook, reminded me of myself years back when I went to NZ to visit family. What was the one and only thing I wanted to get when there? My own Edmonds cookbook, my mum’s had been used to death and I wanted one for when I had my own home, now it’s the first book I go to when I want to cook something. However would luv to be able to expand my repertoire with a copy of How to be a Domestic Goddess, I’ll be able to see if I am one!!
With such a book, and I’m no cook
A miracle is near, instructions clear,
What we create together, talked about forever.
Not a disaster, but a beauty, a master.
Kitchen Aid the artisan,
Nigella the artist an I’m the lucky one to put it all together
Nigella has earned the greatest reputation as Domestic Goddess, with lots of success. Like Nigella, i’m a busy modern mum of today, who needs her chores done quicker each day, Kitchenaid helps in every way. Kitchenaid’s the brain that gets preparation done, turning all my cooking into fun!!
(oops, that should have read:)
A goddess I’m not
(I’m short and squat!)
But with this magic machine
I’ll create perfect cuisine.
I’ll bake up a storm
Following Nigella’s form
And my loved ones will bless
The Domestic Goddess!
i could leave santa out something special (made with the kitchenaid) instead of the usual plain ’shop bought’ biscuits he usually gets!
my only chance of becoming a domestic goddess is to give these 2 gifts to my girlfriend. lol
In the kitchen I try to cook
Definitely need a recipe book
Splatters everywhere, a huge mess
Oh I wish I was a domestic goddess.
Out of nowhere, she appears
My fairy godmother to relieve my fears
With a new kitchen aid, I am blessed
I’m now a domestic goddess
No more sunken sponges,
only beautiful cakes
Thanks to my kitchen aid
I now make great bakes.
Having every recipe at my fingertips
I can now make the perfect tapas and dips
Realising my potential to whip up the perfect meal
Gets me cooking with great zeel.
In the kitchen I try to cook
Definitely need a recipe book
Splatters everywhere, a huge mess
Oh I wish I was a domestic goddess.
Out of nowhere, she appears
My fairy godmother to relieve my fears
With a new kitchen aid, I am blessed
I’m now a domestic goddess
Hi – I seem to be having trouble submitting a post here – hopefully this works:
No more sunken sponges,
only beautiful cakes
Thanks to my kitchen aid
I now make great bakes.
Having every recipe at my fingertips
I can now make the perfect tapas and dips
Realising my potential to whip up the perfect meal
Gets me cooking with great zeel.
In the kitchen I try to cook
Definitely need a recipe book
Splatters everywhere, a huge mess
Oh I wish I was a domestic goddess.
Out of nowhere, she appears
My fairy godmother to relieve my fears
With a new kitchen aid, I am blessed
I’m now a domestic goddess!
I am also having trouble submitting my commnet, it says I have already submitted but I can’t see it in the blog.
Such beautiful products will inspire me to bake beautiful biscuits, unleashing my inner domestic goddess with style….
I don’t have a handheld mixer,
everything is done by hand.
All day is spent in the kitchen,
with kids whinging when are they ready.
KitchenAid would be a saviour,
it’d be like an extra pair of hands.
Select my answer, grant my wish;
I’ll unpack the box, flick the switch,
AMEX an awesome Lawson dish!
Ever since I was a little girl and I watched my Mother bake effortlessly without following recipes, I grew up wishing I could do that. I am competent cooking a nice dinner but mastering the art of baking and passing that onto another generation would be a dream come true.
My days as “Goddess” may be over,
beauty fading as I grow older.
But look out Nigella, Curtis too,
my Kitchen Aid mixer is my secret tool.
Whisking, blending and beating with ease,
baking perfection is guaranteed.
Whether Sunday lunch or gourmet dinner,
in my family’s eyes, I’m always a winner!
My days as “Goddess” may be over,
beauty fading as I grow older.
But look out Nigella, Curtis too,
my KitchenAid mixer is my secret tool.
Whisking, blending and beating with ease,
baking perfection is guaranteed.
Whether Sunday lunch or gourmet dinner,
in my family’s eyes, I’m always a winner!
a hand me down recipe, that never quite works for me, need a helping hand, to make my family proud.
This recipe has been mastered from mother to daughter, my time to succeed. It is my destiny.
Sadly, I am not much of a ‘Domestic Goddess’. However, I am moving out of home in 2010 and think I might get slightly sick of microwaved meals, but if I have baked goodies to tempt me for dessert, I think I just might make it through
Would love to release the Nigella in me
Problem is it doesn’t come naturally
The thought of homebaked goodies and treats
The type of things my Husband and two sons would eat
All I need is equiptment
the tools of the trade
To release my Nigella and start my crusade!
My family comment how I ‘cook my way out of anything’ (open the cupboards and create delicacies without recipes), A kitchenaide would be awesome inspiration to spend more time passing this gift to my children to inspire them to be ‘natural’ cooks too, a money can’t buy gift for life.
Cakes, biscuits, slices
Oh what fun to create with these Kitchenaid devices
It is sure to improve my domestic goddess repertoire
So I can become the next Blonde Nigella star
Or so my family might think so……
‘How to be a Domestic Goddess’ and the Kitcheaid, what more can I say! These two out of this world items will realise my dormant potential to hopefully create her fabulous recipes picture perfect. It wil now be easy, peasy to be the ‘domestic goddess’ at home.
I have always said to make it as a domestic goddess the tools of the trade are required and a kitchenaid is the required and desired tool . I love baking but with Nigella’s help along with the kitchenaid I will be brillant a real domestic goddess.
There’s a domestic goddess inside me just screaming to get out; screaming in agony every time I force her to cream butter with $10 supermarket beaters. By the power of Kitchenaid and Nigella’s wisdom combined, release her from this ill-equipped culinary prison!
I am just about to get married. I cook for my fiance all the time but he is actualyy better at than me! I would love to be a domestic goddess wife for him!
Domestically disabled I am labelled
Yet the quickest way to a man’s heart
Is through his stomach, I am told
Thus this domestic dropout needs kitchen assistance
Maybe I could catch a fella with you – Nigella and kitchenaid to mix and make oh so tempting bakes!
Fairy Godmother I confess,
I’ve tried to bake my best,
But all these years without a Kitchenaid,
Upon each cake I’ve prayed,
Please be light and fluffy,
Not dry or too puffy,
But no longer to my husband I will beg,
For tonight I wish to my Fairy Godmother instead!.
My nine year old daughter is determined to teach me how to cook. I keep telling her the problem isn’t me it’s my tool’s of the trade This prize pack would (hopefully) prove me right and might even enable me to teach her a thing or two in the kitchen.
My potential to become the personification of the Kitchenaid itself with its sensual CURVES would be realized with this icon of supreme engineering…. Ironically cooking from a book written by the goddess of all things CURVY herself – Nigella… Which coincidentally will make me spend more time at ‘CURVES’ gym!
I need some aid to get my cakes made;
I’ll see my potential with a Kitchenaid;
I need some aid to be a goddess home made;
With Nigella’s book in aid, my
Christmas plans’ll be made;
Please, pretty please give me some aid, give me the prize of a Kitchenaid.
If you love Edmonds and afghans, you’d love “Ladies, a Plate” a cakebook from NZ. A Kitchenaid would allow me to do justice to the Almond Fingers and Coffee Cloud Cake. Everything I’ve tried from this book has been delicious, and her comments on the history of the recipes make me teary!
Whipping up a kichen tiz
a specialty I’ve perfected
sweat on my brow
I’m determined some how
to fluff-up those egg whites
before saying my last rights
My Kitchenaid would bless
my arthritis could rest
‘Domestic Goddess’ and me were born to be free
to create and bake
in kitchen heaven we’d create
the recipe for love
blended from above…
hand-beaten
kids all scatter
mum’s frying up a platter
the wisk is flicking
Whipping up a kitchen tiz
a specialty I’ve perfected
sweat on my brow
I’m determined some how
to whip up those egg whites
before saying my last rites
My Kitchenaid would bless
my arthritis could rest
‘Domestic Goddess’ and me
were born to be free
to create and bake
in kitchen heaven we’d create
the receipe for love
blended from above!
Even though am Not Quite Nigella,
Would create recipes using Nutella,
Domestic Goddess, Y-E-A-R-N to be!
Ultimately enhance C-R-E-A-T-I-V-I-T-Y!
Raising confidence, what could do,
If were a food, be THE ULTIMATE chocolate soufflé, TRUE!
With Kitchenaid Artisan Stand Mixer KSM150 by my side!
Could be Not Quite Nigella with pride!
Lorraine! We are all waiting to hear who won! Please post details! x
Imagine this frazzled frustated foolhardy domestic goddess with the secret ingrediant to success the first line of defence the kitchen aid coming to the rescue saving many meals and turning them into feasts no small feat and giving the rightful title of kitchen goddess with the goodies proudly to me.
Hi Lorraine, I can’t wait for you to announce the winner! *wishes hard*
What she said ^
Budding cooking enthusiast; attempting to write a cookbook and get it published. Also building a website. Uni student, equals little money, affording kitchen tools necessary to fulfil my dream; I can’t. I’d gain so much with the aid of better appliances & some words of wisdom from a domestic goddess.
I hope it is not too late to enter again.
With a Kitchenaid I will have no more excuses as to why my cakes are not light and fluffy with the help of some amazing recipes from Nigella.
Good luck everyone !!!!!
So who won?
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