Do you have a favorite birthday cake recipe that always wows the birthday crowd?  Duncan Hines® is calling all creative bakers for the best birthday cake creations!  In honor of the launch of Moist Deluxe Confetti Cupcakes and Duncan Hines’ featured Cake Stackers game in 2K Play’s Birthday Party Bash video game for the Wii™ system – Duncan Hines would like to know what YOU bake to celebrate birthdays.  Share your best birthday cake recipe and photo with Duncan Hines and earn your chance to win a Duncan Hines 2K Play Birthday Party Bash Grand Prize Event.  The Grand Prize includes a Wii system, copy of Birthday Party Bash, 4 Confetti Cake Mixes, 4 tubs of Vanilla Frosting and a $250 check for party decorations (ARV of $500).  All contest participants will be entered into a sweepstakes for the chance to win 1 of 100 Birthday Party Bash video games for Wii (SRP of $19.99)!
 
“Duncan Hines is committed to providing new ideas that amplify the baking experience. We believe Birthday Party Bash is a fun, economical way to put a giant bow around that birthday baking experience and we’d like to celebrate this,” said Vice President of Marketing for Duncan Hines, Lora Van Velsor, “You don’t have to be a professional baker to create unique, innovative birthday cakes… we want people to show us their creations!”
 
Entering is easy! Go to www.duncanhines.com and click on the Birthday Party Bash Recipe Contest icon.  Submit your recipe using the online entry form, filling in all requested information completely. Recipes submitted must include the Duncan Hines product(s) used.  All entries must be received by January 30, 2010.  No purchase is required to win. Entries will be judged by a Duncan Hines panel of judges and cupcake experts/cookbook authors Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, authors of Hello Cupcake.
 
For more information, rules and regulations, log onto www.duncanhines.com and click on the “Contests” page.

Announcement from one of our readers:

“From August through February 1, 2010, phyllo.com is the place to win! Enter elegant recipes for Fillo and quick, easy Mini Fillo Shell recipes. Each week and each month, our professional judges will pick the two best recipes, one for Athens Fillo Dough and one for Athens Mini Fillo Shells. From the monthly winners the judges will select two first prize recipes and one grand prize recipe.

Weekly winners will be awarded $50 each, monthly winners, $120, one “Fan Favorite”, $600, two first prize winners will be awarded $1,500 each and the grand prize is $5,000!”

Today I’d like to announce the Don’t Dessert Pollinators Recipe Contest organized by pollinator.org.

photo courtesy of petrvlk

Submit a recipe using at least one pollinated ingredient for a chance to win a night at the luxurious Haagen-Dazs “Sweet Suite” located at the Hotel Triton in San Francisco as well as a year’s supply of free Haagen-Dazs ice cream!

ENTRY DEADLINE: June 8, 2009

ENTRY FEE: None

ELIGIBILTY: Simply send in an original dessert recipe that features pollinated ingredients such as chocolate, vanilla, cherries, almond, and strawberries. 

They are looking for a mouthwatering recipe which makes use of the bounty brought to us by pollinators.

Recipe submissions can be emailed to info@pollinator.org. For more details, please visit pollinator.org.

Winner will be announced during National Pollinator Week, June 22 – 29, 2009 on pollinator.org.