Passing Daisies Photography

Want to know who is the winner of the Stonewall Kitchen giveaway?

Mmmmmm, pancake mix. 

Congrats to #5, Billie Jean! Please email me with your contact info and I will get this beauty shipped right out to you!

♥ 

I've decided on a new task for the blog. 

For Christmas, I got this little beauty: 

Which means I can now take pretty decent pictures. Way better than my iPhone could ever take. 

So, my challenge is the go through all of my recipes and 1) remake them and make sure they are worthwhile recipes, deleting the ones that aren't, and 2) take better pictures for the posts. This way, my blog can become higher quality and be more enticing to my readers! What do you think? 

For those who want to see some of the pictures I've taken so far, or want to request photos being taken of something for your blog, please visit my Facebook page: Passing Daisies Photography. I'm hoping to upload some pictures of food related items shortly! 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is looking forward to the new year. We survived the Mayan apocalypse (which clearly was accurate), so we can all be thankful to be alive :) Right? 

Happy New Year! 

Product Review & Giveaway: Stonewall Kitchen

How about some pancakes?

No? 

What if I told you they were gingerbread pancakes?

I thought so.

I was recently contacted by Stonewall Kitchen, asking if I would be interested in reviewing any of their holiday baking mixes. Of course, my answer was yes. How can you say no to something as delicious as gingerbread pancakes?!

I've always been a big fan of Stonewall Kitchen's products. They have so much to offer - jams, jellies, cookie and brownie mixes, and so much more that I can't begin to describe. You'll just have to head over to their website and check it out for yourself! 

But back to the topic at hand - gingerbread pancakes. Holy moley, was I excited when this arrived on my doorstep: 

Gingerbread pancake mix and gingerbread syrup!!! Yum!!

I opened the mix and got cooking right away.

Just mix it up and throw in some chocolate chips for an added bonus...

Ta-da! You have gingerbread pancakes! 

Let me tell you - these were awesome. They tasted just like biting into a freshly made gingerbread cookie with pieces of crystallized ginger in it (no - that wasn't in the pancake mix, but it tasted like it!). They were spicy and wonderful. The gingerbread syrup was the perfect companion for these pancakes, and provided just the right amount of added ginger flavor. The syrup was extremely thick and gooey, which made it fun to pour on top of the pancakes. 

Now, let me ask you a question - would you like to win the same thing I received from Stonewall Kitchen? The prize I am shipping out to one lucky winner looks like this: 

Who doesn't want to win that? I mean, come on! You even win a free spatula! I didn't get one of those. I'm completely jealous of whoever wins this little beauty. 

Here's how to enter (leave a comment for each entry): 

Pin this contest on Pinterest (mention "PassingDaisies.net" in the comments section) & like Stonewall Kitchen on Facebook (MANDATORY)

Bonus entries:

1. Follow Passing Daisies on Google Friend Connect/Blogger

2. Subscribe to Passing Daisies on email

3. Email me if you are interested in being a guest blogger on Passing Daisies with a potential topic and link to your current blog (please make sure you can write a quality guest blog. I am willing to guest blog for others as well!)

That's all she wrote, folks. Contest ends on DECEMBER 25 (Merry Christmas!) at 5PM EST. Winner will be announced and contacted shortly after.