Who’s ready for Sarah’s Favorite Things 2016? From kitchen gadgets to baking ingredients, these are my current must-haves.
I look forward to this post all year. Mostly because I get to share the top 10 things I’m loving right now, but also because it’s the biggest giveaway on my blog. This year, it’s even more amazing so be sure read all the way through to the end of the post. Alright, let’s get started with this mighty fine list. Ready, go!
1. Instant Pot 6-Quart Pressure Cooker
My new love. I’ve only had my Instant Pot for 3 months, but I use it 3-4 times a week. It has it’s own little place on my kitchen counter, right where it belongs. It cooks soups and stews in 30 minutes {plus 10-15 minutes to pressurize}. With so many preset settings, it also has a slow cooker setting so it’s replaced my crockpot! I just can’t say enough good things about the Instant Pot. Oh, it also has a sauté feature, which is kind of awesome.
2. So Delicious Salted Caramel Cluster Cashew Milk Ice Cream
If you haven’t had this INSANE dairy free ice cream, go out right now and get yourself a pint. Seriously. It is so decadent, so creamy and so indulgent. Swirls of caramel and chocolate covered cashews in a rich cashew milk based ice cream. I totally understand why this deliciousness flies off the shelf. It’s just that good.
3. Rodelle Organic Baking Cocoa Powder
I only recently discovered this high quality, dutch processed cocoa powder from Rodelle at our Coscto. I picked it up because it was such an incredible deal. I’m so glad I did! It adds such a deep, rich chocolate flavor to all of my cookies, cakes and chocolate treats. Love that it comes in a 25-ounce resealable bag too.
4. Norpro Grip-EZ Stainless Steel Scoop
I shared this scoop last year in my favorite things post, but it was the smaller size {which I use for cookies}. This is the 3-tablespoon size and I use it for filling my muffin tins when I’m making cupcakes, muffins and cornbread. It scoops out just the right amount!
5. Bob’s Red Mill Organic Coconut Sugar
Most of you know I’m completely addicted to this stuff. Organic coconut sugar from Bob’s Red Mill. I bake with it all. the. time. It’s even better than brown sugar and bakes beautifully in so many baked goods. I even add it to my coffee cause I just can’t get enough.
6. Good Karma Strawberry Probiotic Drinkable Yogurt
New to me this year, this probiotic drinkable yogurt from Good Karma is pretty tasty! It’s made with their flaxmilk, is gluten free and vegan. I’m smitten with the strawberry flavor, but it also comes in plain, good greens and blueberry. My kids drink it in the morning before school and I like to add it to my smoothies. Good for that gut health!
7. Pyrex Glass 2- Cup Measuring Cup
Every baker needs a Pyrex glass measuring cup. They come in handy for so many things, especially with that pouring spout. Durable and made to last. The 100th anniversary addition is turquoise {my fave} and it’s pretty darn cute.
8. Scanwood Olive Wood Utensil Set
I seriously use these spoons every time I cook. My gorgeous olive wood spoons meet all of my stirring and sautéing needs. I’ve had many of them for years and I’m hooked. Sturdy wooden spoons. Another kitchen essential.
9. Nordic Ware Natural Aluminum Commercial Baker’s Quarter Sheet
This little pan has become my little friend. I use it for toasting bread in the oven, for baking brownies, for making bar cookies. It’s just the perfect size. A 9×13-inch shallow baking pan, with oh so many uses. Nordic Ware makes really good baking pans and this one does not disappoint!
10. Bread Srsly Sourdough Bread
Gluten free vegan sourdough bread delivered right to your door. Yes, please! I know so many friends that are gluten free and have missed sourdough bread. You don’t have to anymore because Bread Srsly bakes, sells and ships the most amazing gluten free vegan sourdough bread. You can find it in some Whole Foods and also on their website. They have classic, seeded, kale, sweet onion sourdough loaves, as well as sandwich rolls and dinner rolls.
Now onto the AMAZING giveaway!! I’ve got 3, yes THREE, $100 gift cards to share in my holiday gift card giveaway. How fantastic and exciting is that? Here is what you could win….
- $100 Amazon Gift Card {sponsored by So Delicious Dairy Free}
- $100 Target Visa Gift Card {sponsored by Good Karma Foods}
- $100 Bob’s Red Mill Gift Card {sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill}
You can enter to win EACH of the gift cards separately. Simply enter in the widget{s} below and leave your comment{s} as well. Giveaway ends Tuesday, December 14 and winner will be chosen Wednesday. Merry Christmas to all!
This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase items through some of the links, I earn a small commission off the sale at no extra cost to you. Helps keeps the recipes coming and the blog up and running!
This giveaway was sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill, So Delicious Dairy Free and Good Kharma Foods. All opinions are my own.
1) I need a roasting pan. I use my cake pan and I’d really like a bigger pan for cooking.
2) This is a hard one. I’ve been gf for many years and tend to stick to what I like. I tried some new cookies the other day that were on sale and they were good.
3) Snickerdoodles always bring back childhood memories! I’m wishing I had some now.
On my wish list is the Insta Pot.
A cookie scoop!
A new gluten free item I discovered this year was New Pop!
Spritz cookies bring back childhood baking memories.
I have canning supplies on my wish list this year! I just learned how to can and now I’m ready to really get into it.
A gf product I discovered this year was Trader Joe’s crispy peas. Freeze dried peas (they have beans too!) that are like snacking on chips but better for you.
A holiday cookie that brings back childhood memories is gingerbread or peanut butter blossoms! Mmmm.
the peanut butter cookies with the chocolate star or kiss in the middle!
I want a silpat!
Gluten free crackers that taste good.
I would love an instant pot this year.
I would love a double tablespoon cookie scoop!
I tried bobs red mill 1-2-1 flour blend. Amazing discoveryyyy!
I would love new cookie scoops and silicone pan liners. Mine are all starting to look a little beat up!
Gingerbread cookies bring back memories for me.
I discovered Annie’s Gluten Free Snickerdoodle bunnies this year. We used them for pumpkin pie crust and it was *amazing*!
Russian Tea Cakes always bring back childhood memories. Our next door neighbor made us a big platter every Christmas.
I’d love a silpat!
i’ve been wanting to get an electric mixer for a long time. i’ve been trying to do it by hand for way too long.
as far as gluten free products go, i’m in love with Central Market Exotic Mediterranean Blend Vegetable Chips. they’re delicious!
the holiday cookies i remember were of course chocolate chip cookies because we always set them out for santa. we always sat down as a family to decorate sugar cookies and gingerbread men as well. now i’m passing that one to my own kids.
New cookie sheets are on my wish list!
So Delicious Cashew milk ice cream is our new favorite!
Sugar cookies bring back great memories of my Grandma and decorating them with her and my sister.
I would really like to have a pineapple corer/slicer! That’s one job I do not enjoy! 🙂
Little Northern Bakehouse makes the most AMAZING gluten free bread – their cinnamon raisin bread is so good even non-gluten free friends prefer it instead of regular bread!
One cookie that was always around at Christmas was my grandmother’s chocolate chip cherry cookies. They were so chewy, crunchy, soft – every texture you would want in a cookie! They were my favorite by far and they always remind me of Christmas 🙂
I would love a standing mixer to start making bread!
I discovered decent gluten free pasta that I didn’t accidentally turn to mush. Haha!
Sugar cookies always take me back to Christmas. But honestly, Cinnamon rolls are what do it for me. We had them for breakfast every Christmas!
I need silicone baking liner!
A KitchenAid’s on my list!
I discovered Chex!
Baking tool: silicone muffin molds
I came across Gluten Free Brown Rice English Muffins by Food for Life, they are great.
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For a cookie, that would be a sugar cookie
One baking tool on my wish list this year is a Stand Mixer made by KitchenAid.
One gluten free product I discovered this year is Udi’s Gluten Free Pizza!
I’d love to get a Kitchenaid stand mixer.
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Oooo ! Yes! SO fun!
My #1 kitchen gadget this year is a new expensive chef’s knife 😉
Good old tollhouse chocolate chip cookies bring back the best childhood memories of baking in the kitchen!
BFree!! Best new GF product I’ve found this year!
It has to be my Kitchen Aid Stand mixer. I can not make my pies and cookies without it. It mixes every thing so smoothly and effortlessly!
I discovered Bisquick Gluten Free Pancake & Baking Mix. It makes great pancakes!
One baking tool on my wish list this year is a new frying pan, a good one where nothing sticks.
One gluten free product i discovered this year was gluten free pasta shells.
A kitchenaid mixer is on my list!
I discovered gluten free Cheerios!
Would love a few new dishes.
My favorite cookie memory from childhood is going to my Grandmothers where she would have at least a dozen different cookies and chocolates made.
I want to get that cooking scissors that cut veggies or pretty much anything!
I have new pans on my holiday list
I discovered bakery on main hot cereal this year
1. a ninja nutri blender would be amazing.
2. gluten free gingerbread boy cookies.
sugar cookies always remind me of my grandmas homemade cookies
Currently on my wish list is a new set of GF cooking utensils! I have had THE hardest time trying to find the right ones!
That ice cream is my absolute favorite. So so good.
New cake pans are on my wish list this year
I just discovered that shock tip is gluten free
Ginger bread cookies always bring back memories of when I was a kid I love gingerbread
I have been GF for a while now so I’ve been through a ton of products. I did try for the first time, over the weekend, Flax Milk and a chocolate bone broth which totally threw me off guard! It wasn’t as bad as I expected it to be. Oh our new fav is Schar’s table crackers and what we call “veggie pringles” from Sensible Portions (Garden Veggie Chips)
I would like to get a Kitchen Aid stand mixer
I have not discovered any new gluten free products.
Cookie sheets! We just bought our first home a couple months ago and before that we moved so often that my cookie sheets are all bent and ugly that my cookies come out sloppy. I love all things baking and I love this giveaway thank you
gingerbread cookies bring back childhood memories
My favorite homemade childhood cookie (there were SO many) was oatmeal raisin cookies!
On my list is a pressure cooker. I’ve always want one for rice mainly we eat a lot of rice.
I would love a rice cooker.
I found gluten free Cheerios in my local Target.
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I discovered gluten free pretzels this year.
A blender is on my wish list this year.
I just got a slow cooker and I’m excited to use it! I also would love to have a high powered blender!
I discovered almond flour – wow do I love it! It adds such wonderful flavor to baking, and I know it is good for you, too!
Gingerbread men brings back holiday memories. We had a Christmas tree decorated with all edibles, and we would make these cookies and cover in saran wrap and hang on the tree with colored ribbon. It wasn’t a chore to take down the tree as the cookies still tasted great! Also had many other edibles on the tree!
On my wish list this year is an industrial-size roll of parchment paper! I go through a lot of it!
The cookie that brings childhood memories are cutouts with icing and decorations.
An espresso machine is on my wish list this year.
Schar Gluten Free Artisan Baker Multigrain bread is a new discovery that my kiddo loves…and I think it’s tasty too!
Frosted sugar cookies always bring back memories. My mom has the best recipe. I hope to try to make a version my kiddo can eat that actually comes close in taste and texture.
I would LOVE an ice cream maker. Have always wanted one. Would try to create delicious lower fat creations.
I could use a food processor!
Iced sugar cookies are essential for Christmas for me!
I discovered how great coconut butter was this year!
Spritz cookies were so much fun to make as a kid!
It’s not entirely cooking related, but I really want a butter keeper so I always have spreadable butter 🙂
I want the Philip’s Air Fryer.
I discovered Gluten Free Chex and Cheerios cereal.
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A new Silpat is on my wishlist.
Gingerbread cookies brings back childhood memories for me.
I like Smart Flour pizza.
I want a kitchen aid mixer
I didn’t know that gluten free cookie mix existed
I have a candy thermometer on my wishlist this year.
A GF product I discovered this year is quinoa pasta.
A holiday cookie that brings back childhood memories for me is shortbread.
I’m hoping for a new food processor – mine is 29 years old and making a funny noise!
I discovered Bone Suckin’ Sweet Hot Mustard. It’s SO GOOD
I have a kitchen scale on my wishlist as well as another bowl for my Kitchenaid mixer. My toddler has a gluten intolerance and we often use Bob’s Red Mill products. My mother-in-law, who has Celiac Disease, bought us “The How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook” from America’s Test Kitchen last year and I would love to have a kitchen scale to get precise with my baking. We have a 6-month-old as well and I am wondering if he will have any aversions to gluten; my sister-in-laws family is also gluten free due to allergies with their children as well.
We discovered Auntie Anne’s Gluten Free Organic Chocolate Chip Granola Bars this year! My toddler loves them…mostly because they have chocolate. I love that there is something quick and easy, and Gluten Free that he can have, that is also delicious. Also, my mother-in-law just told me there is Gluten Free Bisquick that she uses to make sausage balls–I had no idea.
We actually get the Granola Bars from Target! It is the only store around me that has them! And I just saw that they carry another flavor of Auntie Anne’s Gluten Free Granola bars–I think it is Oatmeal Cookie or something like that!
Every year–for New Year’s, actually–my family bakes cookies as part of our tradition. One of my favorite, from childhood, we call Tom Thumb cookies. I think they are also referred to as Pecan Tassies. We usually only get them for New Year’s or as a birthday special request.
one baking goodie I want this year is a new baking sheet. My old one is all warped!
I discovered so many great GF recipes this year, but for prepared foods, I discovered BFree GF breads and I love them so much!! They even have GF pita breads!
My favorite xmas cookie from childhood is and always will be gingerbread men. They are the best!!
1) My dad was complaining about the pans we have, so I already bought him a new set.
2) I haven’t noticed any!
3) Peanut butter cookies, since my dad handmakes them!
A new cupcake pan is on my list!
One gluten free product I’ve discovered this year is gluten free flour! We used it whenever my gluten free uncle comes over.
Chocolate chip cookies remind me of the holidays with my family.
On my wish list this year is a new blender.
A new gluten free product I discovered this year was Pamela’s pizza crust mix.
I cannot remember a specific cookie from my childhood but my mom always made the best milk tart!
i would love to have a food processor. After seeing how fast it sliced up sweet potatoes, I can just imagine what it could do with all the things I spent hours slicing/dicing up to freeze so I wouldn’t waste it. And I like the spiral thing, not sure if a food processor could do that.
We received some Paleo flour this year to try out.
Pecan crescent cookies. I remember my Mother baking them every year around the holidays.
Okay, I need to figure out how to properly measure flour. Is there any tool better than the spoon method? I figure you would know if there’s a best tool for that. A flour sifter? Is that still a thing – such a n00b!
I could really use a new mixer, i have one on my list this year!
Gluten free cookies!! now they are my weakness!
I want silicone baking sheets…for regular size pans, toaster over pans, and to use in the microwave. I have been using parchment paper for years and years and would like to not have to buy it so often.
This year I discovered Enjoy Life brand unflavored muffin mix that is GF, we love to add a little cinnamon and Lily’s GF vegan chocolate chips.
We loved making Mexican wedding cookies, spritz cookies and English toffee bars.
I have tried to do these gluten free.
Awesome Christmas list!!
I have a new handheld mixer on my list. I love my kitchenaid, but sometimes I need the handheld mixer for mixing something small and quick, or in a pan, etc. Mine has just about reached the end of its days.
We finally found gluten-free lasagna noodles! I don’t recall the brand but am so excited to be able to make lasagna for the family again!
I would like a candy thermometer for Christmas.
A new gluten free item I like is trader Joe’s frozen gf pizza crusts.
My favorite cookie is a pecan log.
I have bundt pans on my list!
I discovered teff
I used to live cut outs
A new kitchen aid is on my list!
I discovered using ground flax seed this year! It gives such a nice texture to gluten free bread.
new Kitchenaid Mixer!!
Also discovered a new flour blend that is amazing! Cup4Cup!
I’d like to get a cookie dough scoop this year.
I discovered a lot of alternative recipes to make life easier.
Thumbprint cookies always make me think of the holidays.
Well, it WAS an Instant Pot, but my Christmas came early and I got one over Black Friday weekend. Now, I just have to be a good girl. ????
I would love a 4 cup food processor
Gingerbread cookies always does it for me – I remember making them with my grandmother
I discovered Enjoy Life chocolate chips – so good!
On my wish list this year is a Nespresso—- not exactly a kitchen appliance, but this allergy baking mama needs a good jolt every morning!
I discovered the second How Can It Be Gluten Free cookbook by America’s Test Kitchen at my library. I was really excited because it gives dairy free options in this volume!
The ATK cookbook is on my wish list. Also All clad pans!
a pressure cooker
I discovered Bella Gluten Free Pizza Crust Mix. So simple and applesauce works beautifully in place of the egg!
I love chewy gingersnaps
gluten free banana nut muffins
The holiday cookie that brings back the most childhood memories are Neopolitan Cookies made from sugar cookie dough.
I need new nice mixer. ????
I have a Insta-pot on my list, and while I’m not gluten-free, I actually prefer Papa Murphy’s gluten-free pizza crust over there original crust!
The InstaPot is on my wish list, too!
I lost my waffle maker when we moved, so it’s on my list this year.
I discovered that I absolutely love coconut flour!
Frosted sugar cookies were a classic Christmas cookie in my family growing up.
The insta pot sounds like a game changer~! I need one of these in my life!
I discovered YumEarth GF licorice and I am in LOVE