Talida Bakes

A huge thanks goes out to those who took the reader survey! I appreciate all the feedback you gave, and I will do my very best to implement your suggestions this year.

And now, the winner of the matcha giveaway is…….. Judy from Boston! Judy, I will email you to get your mailing address so I can send some matcha your way! I hope whatever you end up making with it turns out wonderfully!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Today is the last day to enter the matcha giveaway by taking my reader survey! One reader will be chosen at random to receive two tins of my favorite brand of matcha.

Imagine all the possibilities with that much matcha! What would you make if you won? Here are some matcha recipes from the archives for inspiration.

Matcha Profiteroles

Matcha Icebox Cookies

Matcha Macarons

Matcha Cupcakes

Matcha Cheesecake

Don’t forget to take the survey to enter! The drawing closes tonight at 11:59PM PST.

Sunday marked 5 years for this site, and it’s the perfect time to ask for your feedback in the form of a survey! I want to grow and improve this site to make it a valuable resource for y’all, but I need your help in giving me honest and constructive feedback.

And to include a little incentive for you, I’m going to give 2 tins of my preferred brand of matcha, Maeda-En Culinary Quality Matcha, to one survey participant! The survey below will be open indefinitely, but you must submit the survey by Thursday, January 12, 11:59PM to be entered into the drawing. One entry per person.

[continue reading Reader Survey and Matcha Giveaway!]

As you may have guessed, this post’s purpose is to say, we have a winner for the Alice’s Tea Cup Cookbook Giveaway! I modified my random dish generator to tell me who the lucky reader is. (That’s the little spreadsheet I wrote to give me dinner ideas when I’m fresh out)

And the cookbook goes to…

Like many others living in the New York area, I love Alice’s Tea Cup. I love their selections of scones and tea, I love the flavorful potato-chicken hash, and the sense of whimsy I feel each time I visit. When I read through Alice’s Tea Cup Cookbook, I was even more charmed to learn that many recipes incorporate tea as key ingredients!