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In May, we shared advice on how to become a better cook with posts about common cooking terms, utensils, and what to do when your recipe “fails”. We are continuing to help you build kitchen confidence this month with tips and tricks for becoming a better baker!
This month, our blogs will be dedicated to baking advice and recipes, plus we are hosting a giveaway (info on how to enter below)!
What Baking Basics is about:
Our long-time blog contributor, Anna, is helping us this month to bring you ALL the information on baking! Anna is a self-taught baker, who has experienced all the ups and downs that come with learning to bake successfully. We are excited to share new blogs and recipes to help you grow your confidence in the kitchen, whether you’re a novice or experienced baker.
We will be sharing one recipe each week, but you can find all the recipes right away by connecting with Anna’s Plan to Eat account under the username “The Little Blue Mixer”. Find the related Challenge recipes under the Course “Kitchen Confidence: Baking Basics”.
Anna will not only be sharing her knowledge on our blog, but also on our Instagram account! Be sure to follow us @plantoeat on Instagram and look for her Stories on baking (we will also save them in a highlight, for you to watch at any time!).
How to Participate:
For participation in the Challenge, simply fill out the giveaway form below! There is a separate giveaway option for residents outside the US, so please fill out the correct form.
One of the participation options is to share an image of any baked good you make in the month of September on your Instagram account! It does not have to be a recipe we share this month, any baked good is acceptable. This is not the only way to be entered into the giveaway, but we would love to see you put your new skills to the test!
When you share your picture, be sure to tag @plantoeat, @thelittlebluemixer and use the #bakingwithPTE hashtag.
We’ve also partnered with Redmond Real Salt for our giveaway! Redmond is a US-based salt company in Utah, where their pink salt is mined from an ancient ocean bed. We’re honored that Redmond sent us a prize package to include in our giveaway, plus a discount code for everyone to use on their site!
Use the code “plantoeat” at checkout to get 15% off your entire order at https://redmond.life/
To enter the Challenge + Giveaway, fill out the form below.
(non-US residents, please see the note and additional form below!)
The giveaway prize pack includes:
- A year subscription to Plan to Eat
- A unique Plan to Eat mug
- A Plan to Eat tea towel
- A grocery tote bag
- A prize pack from Redmond Real Salt (worth $100!)
- A baking tart pan
- Rubber spatulas
- A sterling silver pie server
- An oven mitt
The giveaway winner will be chosen on October 1st, 2021.
Per the terms and conditions, the above giveaway is only open to US residents, however we are doing a special digital giveaway for customers outside the US!
If you are outside the US, please fill out the second giveaway form!
This giveaway is separate from the above giveaway and will include an annual subscription to Plan to Eat and a $50 Amazon gift card! The winner will also be chosen on October 1st, 2021.
Please only participate in this option if you are outside the US. Thank you for your understanding and participation!
139 Responses
I love to bake but don’t use Plan to Eat to manage my baking plans. Looking forward to adding that to my meal planner!
Plan2Eat has become a daily staple of my meal planning, and I wouldn’t say no to a free year of it 🙂
I would love to win this as I have just started making special cakes and goodies for my family’s birthdays and monthly get-togethers.
That mug is so pretty. Thanks for the giveaway
What a delicious giveaway! I love Plan to Eat.
I would love to win the Baking Basics Giveaway as it would help to motivate me to start baking more.
I love how easy it is to save and use the recipes
Such a fantastic idea.. I love all baked goods, they are my weakness. However, I’ve been quite horrible at reproducing my favorites with gluten, egg, and dairy-free ingredients. I think this is going to help me get inspired and back into the kitchen testing the recipes!
I love Redmond Salt, but have not tried their flavored options…and I can never find a pie server when I need one!
I love Plan To Eat! I have been using this for a few years. I quit for a few months but I decided to come back since it just makes my life so much easier.
I love Plan To Eat. I’ve had a subscription for three years now and use it all the time. It allows me to make the most of my time, organizing the week’s meals, ingredients and of course, saving recipes so that we can try new things. I also love that I can easily change the recipe, making improvements as I repeat it, as well as my ability to rate the recipe.
So although all the prizes look amazing the one I look forward to most of all is the one year subscription to Plan to Eat!!
I would love to win this prize, because I have 3 children under 3, and I desperately need help getting organized. I tried the trial of your app and absolutely loved it, there’s nothing like it! It is Genius. We are moving across the country in two weeks, and attending a new church, so this subscription would be a life saver for us! Haha. Besides, I love the bake and these are lovely prizes!
What a fun giveaway!!
I would love to win this because baking is something I’m trying to do more with my two little girls and this would be something special to honor this adventure.
I’d love to win this prize package so my daughter can continue practicing her baking skills.
Looking forward to the challenge.
I am excited about the great gifts in this giveaway and the chance to win a year’s subscription.
I love Plan to Eat!
I’m so excited for this challenge! It will allow me to live out my Great British Bake-off dreams at home 😂 Wpuld love to win, I’ve been a long time subscriber of PTE and sing it’s praises all the time!
Super excited about this! I use Plan To Eat almost daily – one of my favorite apps ever!
Sounds so exciting! Can’t wait! Yay!
I would love a subscription because I love Plan to Eat. And an Amazon gift is wonderful too.
Thanks for the amazing giveaway and for the baking basics challenge! I’d love to win because the fall is the perfect time for baking and I’m excited to learn some new skills.
This is a wonderful idea!!
That pie server is absolutely lovely! I consider myself an intermediate baker, but am excited to see what instruction you all bring to the ‘table’ this month!
Can’t wait to bake. Also just bought four packs of Salt on sons recommendation.
This is a fun giveaway. Thank you! I really enjoy the app.
So excited you are offering this opportunity to learn the basics of baking! I can turn out a mean pecan pie and some pretty yummy cakes but I can’t wait to learn more! I’m sure my husband will appreciate it as well, haha!
Looks like a lot of great prizes, especially a year worth of PlanToEat!
I love any excuse to bake. Thank you! And I just love the look of that mug. It looks a beautiful glaze. Subscribing to Plant to Eat was one of the better things I’ve done in the last year. It really helps me menu plan and I just love being able to walk into the supermarket with a ready made list. And accessing my recipes on my phone or tablet while I’m in the kitchen is also magic. Thanks for making my life that much easier.
I’d love to win because I am just excited to get back to fall baking!
Love Plan to Eat. Great for planning and shopping. Also made bread today and needed to make levain last night, can add a day ahead prep step!
I would like to win the prize so that I will be to put some of the skills I learn in the challenge to good use!
I’m so excited about this challenge! Plan to Eat was a Christmas gift and I have absolutely loved it! My favorite thing to do in the kitchen besides eat is bake! Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are a must. I would love to use the items from the prize to keep baking!
This giveaway looks great! I love to brake and these tools would be an asset to my hobby.
We’d love to win is prize pack to save $ on our Plan to Eat subscription & replace some of our worn out baking supplies. I’m also excited to try out the tart pan!
I love Plan to Eat as it makes meal planning so much easier, so getting a year for free sounds fantastic! The rest of the items just sound like icing on an already very awesome cake!
Love this!!! Looking forward to learning this month.
I love baking and really want to learn more and try new things ❤️
Love Redmond Real Salt.
What a fun goodie bag – including several things I don’t have in my kitchen already.
I’m excited about becoming a better baker and I’d love some brand new tools for my kitchen. The Plan to Eat mug is a beautiful color and the perfect shape.
I’d love to win! I’ve been a subscriber for several years now and Plan to Eat is my go to app for planning and recipes!
This is a great giveaway with a lot of practical tools that I don’t currently own. And I would love to give the Redmond Salt products a try!
I would love to win! I’ve been using Plan to Eat for years and we love cooking in our house.
Looking forward to this challenge. Hope it includes some gluten free baking recipes.
I love the package from Redmond Real Salt! Plus I love Plant to Eat!
Thanks for the chance.
Becky
I’d love to win because my girls are super excited lately to learn to cook, especially baking desserts!
I love to bake! This will be so much fun. I hope to learn something new!
I would love to win this package because my son and I have been learning to cook together and branching out into baking is the next step. I’ve already started a cookbook for him of the recipes he knows and loves (and cook on his own!).
I’m excited to learn more recipes and do some baking!!
I love Redmond Real Salt and Plan to Eat!
Hi! Thank you for this generous giveaway! My mom has been using Redmond Salt for years. I would love to have some in my kitchen to try out in my own baking!
Excited for this giveaway, thank you for including people from outside of the US!
I’d love to win the awesome REdmond salt and the free year of PTE to plan more meals for my family!
I would love to win because Plan to Eat has helped me organized my meals so easily. I love having my recipes in such a easy to use format.
I would love to win to get back into meal planning! Life has been so chaotic lately!
I’d love to win a year’s subscription to Plan to Eat AND to become a better baker. Thanks, PTE, for this exciting opportunity! Inspired by this month’s focus, I plan to get into the kitchen with my 12-year-old son, who thinks he might like to become a pastry chef one day.
I’ll be following along this month and winning the prize package would be great. I’m a pretty good cook but baking not so much 😕 I just absolutely love my Plan to Eat account, adding and finding recipes is a breeze.
I’m so excited for this giveaway! I love using Plan to Eat to help me plan our meals and I’m excited to have an excuse to try out some new baking recipes since switching to a plant-based diet.
Looking forward to learning and sharing!
I would love to win as I love using Plan to Eat and would love to use it again next year!
Love this app because it’s so easy to use. Would love to win a free year!
I would love help cooking more efficiently in my kitchen!
I’d love to win and would share the prize with my daughter who will be moving out on her own.
Fun tools!
Plan to eat is the best.. I use it daily.. It is easy to navigate and easy to import your favourite recipes
Such a generous giveaway…thank you! I would love to win this package because I LOVE everything that is included! Plus I love trying new products out, especially in the kitchen!
The perfect time of the year to work on your baking skills – I can’t wait. Thanks PTE!
I love Plan to Eat AND ReLyte!
I’d like to win this giveaway because I love cooking pans and utensils and my husband is a connoisseur of salt. I think we’d love everything here!
I’d love to win this and share the joy of cooking/baking with my kiddos!
this is such a fun giveaway! I have used PTE for years now and it really helps me stay on track with feeding my family.
Planning on gifting a subscription to everyone in my family. Best money I’ve ever spent!
I really thought my own system for meal planning was all I needed, but Plan to Eat has really simplified things and made it easier for my wife to collab on meal planning.
I love that my kids took up baking during the pandemic…they’d ‘zoom’ bake with their grandparents while I worked my hospital job. They’d bake the same recipe in real time over zoom. It was a nice way to make memories and keep everyone safe.
My biggest baking challenges are knowing when/how to adjust my recipe to mile high altitude in denver. I tried a new bundt cake recipe a few weeks ago and it completely overflowed the pan, then sank. It tasted great but looked awful.
As the seasons change, I would like to focus on trying healthy recipes for baked goods. It seems like too many healthy recipes lack flavor or have a weird texture.
I love to bake but have gotten out of the habit as life has gotten busier. This would be good motivation to start again.
Looking forward to starting our Plan to Eat journey! A dear friend has been using this as a resource for years and loves it!
I’d love to win this prize because, honestly it’s fun to win things. I LOVE the mug and I know all of the goodies will get used. I’m sure my kids would love to help me bake some delicious goodies using any of these things.
What a great prize
Thank you.
Looking forward to brushing up on my baking skills!
I love Plan To Eat! I would love to win this prize pack because I think that mug is super cool!
I love using Plan to Eat and the accessories are so cute!
I’d love to win this! I’m gluten and dairy free (and egg free) and look forward to inspiration this month (and hopefully some recipes that I can substitute things I can actually eat for the items on my “no no list”)!
Oh my gosh, I am so excited about this giveaway!!! I’ve been watching and waiting on both your Facebook and Instagram accounts looking for when you would do another mug giveaway, and this particular giveaway includes something I’ve ALWAYS wanted since I registered for my wedding gifts 25 years ago…a sterling silver utensil!!! Oh, I hope I win!
What a fun challenge. I would love to win this package. I am a long-time user of Redmond Real Salt and the Plan to Eat website/app has been a big-time and life saver for my family of six. I am self-taught in baking as well, and always looking for tips to increase what I already know.
We’ve been using Plan to Eat for several years now and couldn’t manage meal planning without it! I love these challenges and giveaways. I’d like to win this prize package because I don’t have a tart pan and I’d like to start cooking tarts 🙂 Also the mug looks awesome.
My daughter and I *love* to bake and share with our friends and family. I started Plan to Eat this past year and it has been really awesome, I feel so much more organized. This prize package looks really great and would be wonderful to start my daughter’s kitchen collection.
I consider myself a baker, not a cook, probably because I enjoy savoring the results of my baking efforts more than my cooking. I am retiring at the end of this month and look forward to having time to bake more often. It would be wonderful to have these new products to use.
In 2020 when news reports and advertising were geared to all the “free” time everyone had for home projects, baking, spending quality time with family, etc., I thought there must be something wrong with me because I did not have all that free time. I was working way too many hours and doing online school with my daughter. I am grateful to have a job and that I could help my daughter, but it was an exhausting year on so many levels (not that it’s changed much in 2021). I am absolutely ready to do some baking this fall, and get my daughter and me back into a more normal groove with life. This challenge seems like the perfect push to get me started.
Looking forward to learning more about baking basics!
Me and my husband used to live in married student housing, we just moved to our first real apartment and are building our kitchen, among all other areas, to be functional and beautiful. We’d love to bake more together and this would help us do just that. It would be wonderful to finally have a pie pan and learn his favorite recipe from his mom.
Looking forward to the winner announcement either way, as I’m grateful to have an opportunity to enter the giveaway regardless of outcome!
I love baking and cooking, these prizes are a lot of fun!!
I am looking forward to the baking challenge.
How fun, I’m ready for some fall baking!
I love PTE! It makes using my recipes easier. I want to win, because I’ve never won any prize before. Thanks
I love to bake and there are lots of great things in this giveaway! My pie server just broke (it was a wedding gift), so it would be lovely to win this one.
Love your website and fairly easy to use.
So excited to bake this fall!
I would love to win this prize because I am working at rebuilding my baking gear with better quality items after a cross country move.
I love giveaways! Would like to win this as I could definitely use a free annual membership!
The prize package has some nice things in it. The free sun for a year to PTL would be a help to me.
Suzanne Allen
I could use all of these items… and Redmond salt is my favorite!
Love Plan To Eat and this prize package is swaggerific!!
I’d love to win because Plan to Eat has made meal planning easy and flexible. I can’t imagine feeding my teens without it.
I love to bake!
Thanks!
Can’t wait to see the recipes!
I love, LOVE, my Plan to Eat subscription, and if I won I would love to share it by buying another one for a friend because I’m planning on keeping it going anyway so a free year for me would really be a free one for a friend! 🙂
Also my husband and I love and use Redmond Salts all the time!
I love free stuff
YAY more baking EQ! I love all the bits and pieces here and its definitely time to replace my oven mit LOL
I love PlantoEat and would love to have the items above as I would love to improve my baking with great ingredients and tools!
I would like to win the prize package because I love Redmond Real Salt and would love to receive these nice items.
Plan-to-Eat adds the convenience of an awesome recipe manager to its function as a meal planner. The unique mug an tea towel would be great visual/ useful reminders to plan and… who does not want fancy baking supplies?!
I love to bake, have since I was little baking with my grandmother who taught me. I don’t usually enter things like this but it looked interesting.
Plan to eat is my absolute favorite! I use it every day!!
This looks like so much fun! Always looking for an excuse to spend more time in the kitchen!
I would love to win more resources to cook & eat healthy.
I would love to win this contest to help my husband hone his baking skills he started learning in the last year!
I love to bake and would love to try these salts!
I’d love to win because I love to bake, I love swag, and I love Plan to Eat, and this giveaway has all of that! Thanks!
Fall baking is my favorite and the kids love it too!
Wow, this is great! Thank you!
I love this giveaway. I already love to bake, but I am always open to new recipes and techniques. And, who doesn’t like pretty new things to use in their kitchen. I look forward to trying some of the recipes from the challenge soon. And who knows….maybe I will end up with the tart pan and cool mug?
Would love to win, I love Plan to Eat!
I love plan to eat for an easy way to save recipes i Google instead of having to search through hundreds. I intend to use the grocery list part of it once I can get back on my feet from constant lockdown challenges with small kids 😅 🙃. Thx
Who wouldn’t want an Amazon gift card?
I’m still kinda learning how to make meal planning a habit and having an additional year free of plan to eat would help me a lot. I started off great and then started slacking.
I love baking and haven’t done it for awhile. I’m looking forward to learning new techniques and refining old ones. Plan to Eat is a great tool. Saves me money!
I started using Plan to Eat after moving to a tiny rural town. We only grocery shop once a month (when we head to town) and I was struggling to remember everything. PTE made it so easy to plan for the entire month and populates my grocery list with no issue. So grateful for this service!!
I have been using PTE for a few years now. Absolutely love it!
Planning my meal plans every week and going shopping once a week for all my ingredients has really organized me and actually has created extra time on my hands because I’m not constantly going to the store because “I forgot something”…
I absolutely LOVE Plan to Eat! Although I’m a good cook I’m not a good baker at all. Looking forward to learning new techniques to help.
I love my Plan to Eat subscription and pink salt!
I love to bake, but I really have only ever baked savory breads. I have not ventured out into the world of sweets. I’ve been a little intimidated by it because it takes more ingredients than most breads (flour, yeast, water, and salt). I’ve never even made a cake from scrath.
I’d love to win the giveaway, mostly for the tart pan and PTE mug & towel. I don’t have a pie or tart pan, and I’m hoping to bake some during this challenge.
Love that Plan to Eat mug! And the tart pan, and the pie server, and the spatulas . . . Thanks for a great giveaway!
I’ve been a Plan to Eat member since 2010. My kids are big fans although they don’t have subscriptions, yet… I’d like to gift them this subscription if I win.
I love using Plan To Eat to organize our meals each month but haven’t used it much for baking. Would love to change that and get better at baking!