Dancing Deer Baking Co. Giveaway

While a lot of my friends do live in the Boston area, some of my best friends live as far away as San Francisco, Indianapolis, and Hoboken (okay, that's not that far but definitely not close).  And that's not mentioning my friends and family who live in England, South Korea and Australia.  While I can't celebrate every special occasion with my friends in person, I always try to find a way to let my long-distance pals know that I am thinking about that.

Dancing Deer Baking Co. is one of my favorite companies that I turn to when I want to send out a special (and sweet) treat to help celebrate birthdays, engagements and job promotions.  As you can imagine, these next few months are some of the busiest months for Dancing Deer as the holiday season approaches.  I was really excited when the folks at Dancing Deer invited me to tour their factory as they gear up for this busy holiday season.  And then I was bummed when I realized that I wouldn't be able to make due to a work commitment. 

The folks at Dancing Deer, however, were kind enough to cheer me up by sending a package from their Gourmet Sandwich Cookies Collection for me to review.

The cookies arrived this past week but I was still battling the flu and couldn't dig into them right away.  On Friday night, Bret and I finally opened the package.  I was happy to read that my package had been packed for me only two days earlier!

The cookies come in two flavors - Boston Cream Pie and Chocolate Peppermint.  Both feature a layer of chocolate ganache spread between either two vanilla cookies (in the Boston Cream Pie sandwich) or between two chocolate peppermint cookies (in the Chocolate Peppermint sandwich).  There were twelve individually wrapped cookies.  Bret and I decided to split one of each flavor.

For the record, I am not a chocolate person.  While I like chocolate, I'll never choose chocolate ice cream, chocolate cake or a chocolate cookie.  It was no surprise that I liked the Boston Cream Pie cookie sandwich (which actually tasted like Boston cream pie) but surprisingly my favorite was actually the Chocolate Peppermint cookie sandwich.  The cookies were so chewy and soft.  I loved the peppermint flavor in the chocolate cookies and I couldn't stop raving about them.

So, in the season of sharing, Dancing Deer is offering one of these Gourmet Sandwich Cookie packages to one of my readers.  The reader that wins can pick when and where it ships during the holiday season.  You can enjoy these cookies yourself...or send it to someone as a gift!

There are two ways to enter:
1.  Leave me a comment telling me the best thing you've ever received in the mail.  Was it a postcard? Flowers? Cookies?
2.  In a shameless act of bribery, vote for me as Boston's Best Local Blogger here and leave me a comment telling me that you voted.

Voting ends on Friday, November 26th at 11 PM EST.  A winner will be drawn via Random.org.