A new bonkers pantry giveaway, plus baking gear, cookbooks, and more...

Prizes for breakfast lovers, bakers, and dessert-makers.

Hi all, this giveaway has CLOSED, but don’t worry! A new one is coming in December!

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I think about dinner every day, but this time of year, all I want to do is get into the kitchen to bake something good. And since I want to make your November baking and breakfast-making just a bit more fun, I have a few gifts to share.

This set of five frankly bonkers giveaways is possible thanks to some generous sponsors—I think you’ll be excited about all of the prizes here, whether you’re just getting into sourdough, perfecting your pie-crimping, or ready to focus on cookies.

There are two different ways to enter—be sure to scroll down for the full instructions and giveaway rules. Don’t forget to follow all three steps for your entry to be considered complete.

There are so many kitchen and pantry prizes here that this email will definitely get cut off in your inbox. This link should get you to the web version, I hope.

Giveaway #1: Pantry Glow-Up

• Samin Nosrat and Guittard Chocolate Good Things Bundle: This set includes my go-to Dutch process cocoa, plus Guittard organic Akoma 55% cacao baking chips, Guittard 64% cacao baking wafers, and a copy of Samin’s new cookbook. Use code DINNERPLAN15 for 15% off at Guittard.com →

• Pistakio Pistachio Spread creamy and crunchy duo: Drizzle on toast, spoon onto ice cream, add it to your baked goods, or just eat out of the jar.

• Trio of Unified Mills Flours: Freshly milled flour makes a big difference in baking, and the traceable all-purpose flour, einkorn flour, and bread flour from Unified Mills actually tastes like the grain it came from. Use code DINNERPLAN for 15% off your order at Unified Mills →

• 3-Jar Coop’s Fudge Gift Pack: Serving ice cream sundaes after a dinner party hits that nostalgic note with minimal effort. Add Coop’s small-batch Original Hot Fudge, Salted Caramel, and Peppermint Hot Fudge to your toppings bar.

• Box of 3 dozen Bougie Gougies: Store these cheese puffs in your freezer and pop them in the oven for an easy flex. You choose: original or cacio e pepe.

• Tour of Portugal olive oil gift set: Wildly Virgin partners with small farmers across Portugal to make these olive oils from heirloom olive varieties. Use code DINNERPLAN15 for 15% off at Wildly Virgin →

• Tahini assortment from Soom: I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that tahini adds a wonderful nutty flavor to baked goods. Warning: You might use up the chocolate version fast once you start swirling it into your morning oatmeal. Get 15% off on Soom 2-packs using code DINNERPLAN15 on Amazon → (Look for “use a gift card, voucher, or promo code under your credit card on the payment page.)

• Effie’s New Flavor Sample Box: You may already be obsessed with Effie’s Oatcakes, but have you tried their spicy ginger biscuits? This buttery assortment includes the classic Oatcakes as well as the ginger, hazelnut, and Gruyère biscuits.

Giveaway #2: For the Cookie-Maker and Pie-Baker

• In Kat Lieu’s 108 Asian Cookies, the miso-enhanced Cowboy Cookies are bedazzled with broken Pocky sticks. The giant Levain-inspired cookies get revamped with matcha, red miso, and white chocolate. Kat shares Filipino ube meringues, Vietnamese chewy sesame candy, and Chinese walnut cookies with salted egg yolk. The time to start planning your cookie boxes is right now.

• The Baker’s Dough Whisk from King Arthur Baking was designed to mix your muffin batter and cookie dough without overmixing.

• Organic decaf matcha (and a frother) from Matcha.com.

• A few of my Thrive Market baking staples: Color Kitchen’s plant-based rainbow sprinkles and nonpareils, plus If You Care Parchment baking cups, and the ultimate convenience: precut parchment baking sheets.

• The Essential Cookie Companion from King Arthur Baking Company. Now the tough part is deciding if you’re going to make Walnut Butterballs or Linzer Cookie Bars or Toffee-Coffee Brownies first.

• Tilit Contra Pro Apron: This pocketed apron protects your cute sweater and keeps your most important tools handy. Use code TILITNYC15 for 15% off →

• This tablespoon scoop will help make sure your cookies are even and round, with that pro-bakery look.

• King Arthur Baking Company’s Pure Vanilla Plus combines Madagascar and Tahitian vanilla with a touch of sugar to create a bold and subtly sweet vanilla paste.

• Scent your biscotti with Fiori di Sicilia (think citrus + vanilla). This article convinced me that it’s a holiday pantry essential.

• Kuhn Rikon’s Swiss Metallic Peeler will make quick work of peeling all those apples for your pie…

• …then you can cut them up with your brand-new paring knife.

• Earlywood French Rolling Pin: This handmade tapered rolling pin is a joy to use on all sorts of doughs.

• Sweetie Pie: If you’ve gotta have pumpkin and apple and pecan, too, you’re gonna need another pie dish, like this 10” ceramic pie plate with its vintage-inspired blue pattern.

• Double Balloon Whisk: With its extra wires, this whisk gets you to whipped cream faster.

Giveaway #3: The Key to Fresh Tortillas

• Masienda Tortilla Starter Kit: I’ll be real with you. If I had to pick ONE prize from this truly unreal list of prizes that I’d personally be most excited to receive, it’s this top-rated tortilla press and heirloom masa harina set from Masienda. Fresh tortillas whenever you want them? Dreamy. Use code DINNERPLAN15 for 15% off at Masienda →

Giveaway #4: The Baking Library

• Try your hand at triple-chocolate croissants, passionfruit mousse-filled maritozzi, gochujang babka, flaky croissant-crusted pot pie, buckwheat palmiers, and more delights with Christina Wood’s Pastry Temple. (Bookshop here.)

• Nicole Rucker’s Fat + Flour comes highly recommended by Hetty Lui McKinnon and Adam Roberts. I have my eye on the oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies, the ricotta pie, and the milk chocolate and peanut butter brownies. (Bookshop here.)

• Laurel Kratochvila walks you through Poland’s streusel-topped and egg-enriched braids, rye loaves, and yeasted cakes, plus lots of cookies in Dobre Dobre. There’s so much in here that I want to bake. (Bookshop here.)

• Classic and new French bakes like a cocoa powder-scented yogurt cake, a tart with ganache and raspberries, and chocolate and pistachio sablés show up in Chocolat by Aleksandra Crapanzano. Good news: There’s a whole chapter on chocolate mousse. (Bookshop here.)

• Is there a baking book more aligned with The Dinner Plan’s mission of finding joy in the kitchen than Helen Goh’s Baking and the Meaning of Life? Probably not. Baking, Goh writes, can be “a creative outlet, a way to nurture ourselves. A deeply absorbing process, sometimes almost meditative, it provides a sense of autonomy and satisfaction, a way to care for ourselves emotionally by focusing on the soothing rhythm of the work.” And when that work is done, you wind up with a chocolate mousse tart with ginger poached pears! (Bookshop here.)

• The new edition of David Lebovitz’s Ready for Dessert includes some retooled recipes and a few additions, including softer, chewier chocolate chip cookies and an easier gâteau Basque. The photography’s gorgeous, too. (Bookshop here.)

• Sure Thing Desserts by Matt Lewis focuses on relatively unfussy, easy baked goods: lemon drizzle cake, cornbread blondies, a chocolate loaf cake that includes rye flour for flavor. I’m putting the malted buttermilk waffles on my must-make list. (Bookshop here.)

• I never know what to make when a classroom birthday or visiting friend requires a GF dessert. Dana Pollack’s Bake It Gluten Free offers dozens of ideas, including simple cookies, layer cakes, cupcakes, and pies. I love the idea of the apple and brie galette. (Bookshop here.)

• Justin Burke’s Potluck Desserts is full of sweets to share with your chosen family, like maple-walnut cheesecake squares, big sheet pans full of frosted chocolate chip cookie bars and caramel apple pie bars, and brûléed bread pudding with butterscotch sauce. (Bookshop here.)

• Maureen Abood’s Lebanese Baking offers a treasure on every page: baklawa crinkle showered with pistachios and dried rose petals, yeasted cardamom date rings, coconut semolina cake, and savory breads like labneh and dried mint manakeesh. The knafeh section alone is enough to make it worth picking this one up. (Bookshop here.)

Giveaway #5: Bread and Breakfast

• OXO Scale: With its pull-out display, this scale makes accurate baking easier. Just add by weight, right into your mixing bowl.

• Nordicware Sourdough Kit: Everything you need to really get into sourdough this winter.

• In Sourdough for All, Kenny Jakobsson guides you through every part of the process so you can bake gorgeous boules, ciabatta, porridge bread, and more.

• Offset Bread Knife from Hammer Stahl: This knife is made to cut through thick sandwiches with ease; the offset shape keeps your hand away from whatever you’re slicing, and the scalloped blade cuts through your loaves without pulling or tearing.

• Casabrews 5418 Pro Espresso Machine: Start your day with a cappuccino at home from this fast-heating machine.

• The prize also includes two East Fork Small Mugs in whatever color you choose—I love using these cozy mugs every day. Shopping for the holidays? Use code DINNERPLAN for 15% off regularly priced items at East Fork →

• Marmalade Grove’s Best of the Grove Box: A sampler of fresh Ojai citrus plus Pixie Tangerine marmalade, Ruby Valencia and apricot spread, and Meyer lemon and honey marmalade. Use code SWEET for 15% off everything (including subscriptions!) at Marmalade Grove →

• Phoenicia Diner’s Pancake Mix: Guests at Phoenicia Diner in the Catskills always asked for the fluffy pancake recipe—now making them at home (in classic buttermilk, buckwheat, or a vegan rendition) is a breeze.

• Limited Edition Pecan Pie Yogurt from Ellenos: Pecans, Vermont maple syrup, and a crunchy cookie crumble makes this the ideal November breakfast or afternoon snack.

• Thrive Market’s Mini Organic Maple Syrup Sampler: Treat your pancakes and waffles to a drizzle of classic Vermont maple syrup—or syrup that’s dressed up with cinnamon and vanilla beans or concentrated blueberry juice. There’s a bourbon-barrel-aged bottle, too.

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HOW TO ENTER IN THREE EASY STEPS:

Giveaways are open to all subscribers of The Dinner Plan newsletter. Just make sure you follow all three steps to enter.

Step 1 (you’ve got options):

FIRST OPTION: The best way to enter is to become a paid subscriber to The Dinner Plan by end of day on Monday, November 10, 2025. If you like getting recipes and cookbook recommendations each week, and you want full access to this list of 99+ Dinner Ideas You Didn’t Have to Think Of, becoming a paid subscriber is the way to go.

Until November 15, I’m also donating $5 from every new annual subscription to food banks and organizations providing food to people in need right now.

DON’T FORGET Steps 2 and 3 to complete your giveaway entry!

SECOND OPTION: You can enter the giveaways as a free subscriber, too. Just make sure you’re subscribed to (not just following) this newsletter—and then enter the giveaway for free by sending in a voice memo for us to play on the podcast. Tell us a few things you have in your pantry, your fridge, and freezer—your voice memo should be about 30 seconds. All the instructions for the voice memo are here.

Again, DON’T FORGET steps 2 and 3 to complete your entry!

Voice memos must be received via email by end of day on Monday, November 10, 2025. Please let us know your username or the email you use on Substack when you send it in, especially if it’s different from the email you use to send us the memo.

Step 2:

Click on the ❤️ at the bottom of this page.

Step 3:

Leave a comment with your top two choices for a prize, were you to win the drawing. Are you most excited about that tortilla press? The pantry glow-up? All those baking books? Let me know which giveaway is calling your name—and your second choice, too. Got an organization you love that’s working to get food to hungry folks these days? Let us know about that in the comments, too.

That’s it! Go enter!

Rules: Ends November 10, 2025. Giveaway winners will be alerted by Substack DM and email—be sure to check your messages. If there’s no answer within 1 week, prize will be awarded to someone else. Sorry, U.S. addresses only, 18+, no purchase necessary. Giveaway not sponsored or administered by Substack or Instagram. Prize lists include affiliate links; commissions from your purchase help to support the show. Generally any discount codes cannot be combined with any other offers.