Holiday Gift Guide and Giveaway: For the Coffee Lover!

2011 has been a pretty amazing year for My Baking Addiction. I can’t quite put into words just how thrilled I am with the response the site has received. I’m just so happy that you guys continue to enjoy my recipes and photos and sometimes rather ramble-y descriptions of family vacations or what cupcake liners are my favorite.

You certainly listen to my rambles more than Brian ever would care to, and for that, I think you deserve lots of lovely presents! Don’t you?

In the coming weeks, I’m going to be giving away some pretty spectacular packages, packages designed for very specific people in your life. Up first, we’ve created a gift guide and giveaway for all the coffee lovers out there.

Over this past year, I’ve had the best time being a Keurig Ambassador. Before I started in that program, I liked coffee, but I didn’t love coffee. Between my Keurig, the awesome flavors Green Mountain Coffee makes, and Amber’s insistance that I add a Keurig milk frother to my life, coffee has become a full on obsession in 2011. I can no longer imagine life without my Keurig or my Cinnamon Roll K-Cup packs.

One of the things that used to stop me from starting my day with a fresh, piping hot cup of coffee was the time and effort it takes to make a regular brewed pot of coffee. I leave the house much earlier than Brian does.

Our work hours are quite different. So by the time he’s ready for coffee, whatever I might have brewed is old and definitely past its prime. It seemed silly to go to all that effort for just one travel mug full of coffee. Easier to stop at a coffee shop or forgo all together, you know?

But since we added a Keurig to our kitchen, I look forward to my morning commute just a fraction more now. (Let’s face it, it’s still a morning commute.) The bright spicy cinnamon scent wafting through the car on my way to work makes me happy. And a latte with my Keurig when I get home from work? The perfect pick me up while I get started on the evening’s baking adventures.

I hope that you love each of the items we’ve selected for this coffee lover’s gift guide and giveaway. You should be able to pick out a few favorites from the Green Mountain Coffee Variety Pack, and they’ll store elegantly on your counter with the K-Cup Pack Carousel.

I thought the Keurig was the most phenomenal invention to coffee – that is, until that adorable little milk frother entered my life. If you’ve seen my Facebook updates, you know that this little gadget has created a full on addiction. In seconds, I have perfectly warm, extremely frothy milk for the latte of my choosing – at a fraction of what it would cost me down the street at Starbucks. And I don’t even have to change out of my PJs to get it!

Happy Holidays, my friends. Thank you for an amazing year. Here’s to many more!

How do you win?

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Simply tell me – how do YOU take your coffee? Do you prefer a flavored coffee? Do you have to have a flavored creamer, or half and half? Is it sugar, honey, Splenda, or Truvia in your cup? I’d love to know!

Want extra entries?

Each item you do will get you ONE chance to win (for a total of FOUR extra chances), if you ALREADY do any of these things, they DO count! So make sure to comment for each item! You MUST leave each entry as a separate comment or only one comment will count!

1. Follow @bakingaddiction and @GreenMtnCoffee on Twitter and tweet the following statement then come back to this post and tell us you tweeted.

I want to win the perfect Coffee Lover’s gift set from @GreenMtnCoffee hosted by @bakingaddiction! Enter here: http://su.pr/289wQ9 #giveaway

2. Follow My Baking Addiction on Facebook. Come back to this post and leave a comment that you did so.

3. Follow Green Mountain Coffee on Facebook. Come back to this post and leave a comment that you did so.

4. Subscribe to My Baking Addiction’s email updates. This is different than the MBA RSS feed! When you click the link, you will see “Get My Baking Addiction Delivered By Email.” Once you subscribe to the email updates, you will get an emailing confirming your subscription.

Important Details:

-This giveaway is open to USA residents only and will run until Saturday, December 17th at 11:59 pm EST.
-Winner(s) will be generated via a random number generator software program. Winner will be notified via the contact email provided on the comment contact form.
-Winner(s) will have until 12/20/11 to claim their Coffee Lover’s Gift Set or we will choose another winner.
-Winner will receive the Coffee Lover’s Gift Set as shown above {$301.34 value}. Product will be shipped by Green Mountain Coffee.
-See Official Giveaway Rules

Disclosure:

This giveaway is provided to you by Green Mountain Coffee. The views and opinions expressed on My Baking Addiction are purely my own and based upon my personal experiences with the Keurig and Green Mountain Coffee products. I was given the product(s) free of charge; however, I was not monetarily compensated for a positive review or giveaway.