The Tomte Cake and Giveaway

December 6, 2022 by
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As I was scrolling through social media, a good friend posted photos of her girls making a Tomte cake (photo below of the cute Hartzell girls). And you know me – I am all about baking, cake and anything Nordic or Swedish. I commenced to google and ended up ordering two sets – one for myself and one for my sweet niece, Charlie.

The Tomte Cake is a book written and illustrated by Miranda Tompkins. The idea came about one evening while discussing gingerbread houses. The pre-packaged houses are huge, they taste like cardboard, the packaging is wasteful – it is basically a craft project that gets tossed. Miranda’s creative juices started flowing to make something memorable, delicious and fun!

In an hour and a half, she wrote The Tomte Cake book and took a year to beautifully illustrate the title. The gingerbread pan and Tomte character are produced in the USA. A set includes the book, the gingerbread pan and the adorable little Tomte character. Right now a set is on sale for $52 – and if you buy multiple sets (gifts!) the savings grows.

I think this is a cozy tradition to share with your children, grandchildren – and even other adults. I will bake a Tomte cake every year. The recipe for the cake comes with the set but it is also on Miranda’s website – and I have indexed it here: Tomte cake recipe with vanilla nutmeg buttercream frosting.

The story: Tomte the mischevious gnome accidentally falls into some cake batter and gets baked into a gingerbread house. Don’t freak out, he’s fine. It’s a children’s book! Bake the cake: Recreate the story by baking your own gingerbread house cake, and hiding Tomte in it! Find the Tomte: Legend has it that whoever finds Tomte in their cake has good luck for the rest of the Christmas season.

I have not received anything to recommend Tomte. I purchased two sets myself. I emailed Miranda as I was hoping she could mail one of the sets directly to my niece as it is getting close to the 25th. We ended up corresponding and I told her I wanted to do a post about Tomte. Miranda agreed to a giveaway. My two sets are on the way – one of them for myself and the other for one of you! (Miranda is mailing Charlie’s set directly to her.)

Order a set or more for your family and friends – Miranda runs the family business with her husband and you will be supporting a family-run small business with products made in the USA. (Book printed in China as most are). I love that the house and Tomte can hang around during the season with your holiday decor.

Special thanks to Miranda for providing one Tomte set for this worldwide promotion (since I am shipping out doing a worldwide promo – Miranda only ships US). Entry options include answering the following question in the comments section of Rafflecopter.

Visit the Tomte site and read “Our Story” and leave a comment on Rafflecopter about what Miranda wrote the story on and with what implement – don’t leave the answer here – just comment “I commented”.

Please note that you must be logged into the Rafflecopter contest before posting or your entry won’t be counted. For more information on this process, please see our step-by-step help post. Once you log in and enter your member name you will be directed to the next entry option – the blog comment. After that, there are additional options that you can complete for more entries. Be sure to check your spam filters to receive our email notifications. Prizes can take up to 6 weeks to arrive from the publishers. If you are not already a Member, you can join at no cost. The contest ends at midnight on February 1st, 2023.

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  • laureljean  on  December 6, 2022

    Just ordered mine and had it sent directly to my daughter-in-law. What a wonderful gift and tradition!

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    jotted down the words as they came to her in the back of her daughter’s unicorn coloring book with a purple crayon

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    Ha – on her daughter’s unicorn coloring book in purple crayon!

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    Amazing it only took and hour and a half to write the book but a year to do the cover

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    This will be a fun addition to my Nordic inspired Solstice celebrations.

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