Good luck to the remaining contestants....I will be reading your entries & I can still vote for you!
Showing posts with label foodbuzz project food blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foodbuzz project food blog. Show all posts
Friday, September 24, 2010
Project Food Blog Ends for Carpe Cupcakes!
So I got voted off the island...axed...shot down...sent down the river...bought the food blog farm. You get the idea. But it was fun and I got to make some blogging friends along the way.
Good luck to the remaining contestants....I will be reading your entries & I can still vote for you!
Good luck to the remaining contestants....I will be reading your entries & I can still vote for you!
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Voting for Project Food Blog Ends Today
Just a reminder...voting for Project Food Blog ends at 6 PM (PDT) today. Vote for your favorite blogger!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Project Food Blog Voting Begins!
Voting is open for the first challenge of Project Food Blog 2010 - via the link on my contestant badge. BTW...clicking on my badge does not actually vote for me, it just takes you to the contestant page. When you get to the voting page, click on any contestant's heart icon to vote for that blogger. Voting will close on September 23rd at 6 PM (PDT).
I posted my entry for the first challenge on Monday, September 13. If you think my blog is worthy of a vote, I would appreciate your support. Enjoy the competition!
I posted my entry for the first challenge on Monday, September 13. If you think my blog is worthy of a vote, I would appreciate your support. Enjoy the competition!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Project Food Blog - Challenge # 1
Sometimes the journey is the destination…
My blog is a journey through the cupcake universe. My initial goal was to carefully design a series of spontaneous cupcake adventures and write about them, but the project morphed into much more than that. I don’t blog to acquire a certain number of readers or to be linked to other sites. I blog about cupcakes because I love cupcakes. I am flattered and encouraged when readers take the time to comment on what I write, because my blog is about learning, sharing and interacting with others.
Participating in challenges to choose the next food blog star…put me in coach! No professional culinary training. Never been published. But what I lack in culinary arts and writing skills, I make up for with passion for my topic. I want what I write to resemble a conversation between two friends having coffee in the kitchen. I have outstanding cupcake days and not so successful ones, and I will share them all. Project Food Blog is a little bit like American Idol or Survivor for food bloggers and my goal is to not get voted off the island the very first week. None of the challenges involves cupcakes, but I will hang on as long as I can!
So how did I decide to blog about cupcakes? A friend of mine makes fabulous wedding cakes but hates to make cupcakes. She got an order for wedding cupcakes and didn’t want to make them so she called me. I made 200 cupcakes, decorated them with fresh roses and displayed them on a metal plant stand that looked like a tree. I started getting calls for recipes and tips for displaying cupcakes. The rest may or may not be cupcake history.
A major inspiration for me as a food blogger is that I love how food is connected to memories…holidays, special events, family celebrations. My mom’s carrot cake at Thanksgiving, my uncle’s mincemeat pie (yuck!) at Christmas, my grandmother’s biscuits every day of the week (made with lard but oh so good), my aunt’s chocolate cake with seven-minute frosting (birthdays), and our neighbor's canned Coca-Cola ham for Easter. No matter what the food is or how much we like or dislike it, we associate it with the people in our lives and special times we have shared. Every family should create a cookbook of their own recipes (the destination) and make notes about how those recipes became traditions (the journey)...and of course every family tradition should include cupcakes!
My blog is a journey through the cupcake universe. My initial goal was to carefully design a series of spontaneous cupcake adventures and write about them, but the project morphed into much more than that. I don’t blog to acquire a certain number of readers or to be linked to other sites. I blog about cupcakes because I love cupcakes. I am flattered and encouraged when readers take the time to comment on what I write, because my blog is about learning, sharing and interacting with others.
Participating in challenges to choose the next food blog star…put me in coach! No professional culinary training. Never been published. But what I lack in culinary arts and writing skills, I make up for with passion for my topic. I want what I write to resemble a conversation between two friends having coffee in the kitchen. I have outstanding cupcake days and not so successful ones, and I will share them all. Project Food Blog is a little bit like American Idol or Survivor for food bloggers and my goal is to not get voted off the island the very first week. None of the challenges involves cupcakes, but I will hang on as long as I can!
So how did I decide to blog about cupcakes? A friend of mine makes fabulous wedding cakes but hates to make cupcakes. She got an order for wedding cupcakes and didn’t want to make them so she called me. I made 200 cupcakes, decorated them with fresh roses and displayed them on a metal plant stand that looked like a tree. I started getting calls for recipes and tips for displaying cupcakes. The rest may or may not be cupcake history.
A major inspiration for me as a food blogger is that I love how food is connected to memories…holidays, special events, family celebrations. My mom’s carrot cake at Thanksgiving, my uncle’s mincemeat pie (yuck!) at Christmas, my grandmother’s biscuits every day of the week (made with lard but oh so good), my aunt’s chocolate cake with seven-minute frosting (birthdays), and our neighbor's canned Coca-Cola ham for Easter. No matter what the food is or how much we like or dislike it, we associate it with the people in our lives and special times we have shared. Every family should create a cookbook of their own recipes (the destination) and make notes about how those recipes became traditions (the journey)...and of course every family tradition should include cupcakes!
Carpe Cupcakes! ya’ll….
cupcake art by P Davis Designs
Payton Davis (my niece)
the first wedding cupcakes by
Carpe Cupcakes!
tie-dyed cupcake batter
giant birthday cupcake
gingerbread cupcakes
flowerpot cupcakes
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Project Food Blog Begins
I am a contestant in Project Food Blog 2010. Click on the Foodbuzz link to learn more about the project, challenges, rules and prizes. You might even decide to join in the fun yourself!
There will be a series of challenges that I will be required to write about and you will be seeing those here in the coming weeks. Feel free to give me advice along the way.
If you glance to the right you will see a link to my contestant profile. Voting begins on September 20th and I will post a link that explains the voting process. It's a little bit like American Idol or Survivor for food bloggers and my goal is to not get voted off the island the very first week. None of the challenges involves cupcakes, but I will hang on as long as I can!
Wish me luck!
There will be a series of challenges that I will be required to write about and you will be seeing those here in the coming weeks. Feel free to give me advice along the way.
If you glance to the right you will see a link to my contestant profile. Voting begins on September 20th and I will post a link that explains the voting process. It's a little bit like American Idol or Survivor for food bloggers and my goal is to not get voted off the island the very first week. None of the challenges involves cupcakes, but I will hang on as long as I can!
Wish me luck!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Foodbuzz - Project Food Blog
This blog recently joined the list of Foodbuzz Featured Publishers and I have added Foodbuzz widgets on the right side of the blog pages. If you haven't already, please give Foodbuzz a look. Great for sharing recipes and interacting with other foodies.
Over the next few weeks I will be participating in Project Food Blog, the first-ever interactive competition where thousands of Foodbuzz Featured Publishers will be competing in a series of culinary blogging challenges for the chance to advance and a shot at the ultimate prize: $10,000 and a special feature on Foodbuzz.com for one year.
Grab a cupcake and stay tuned for more info....I will be asking for your votes & support!
Over the next few weeks I will be participating in Project Food Blog, the first-ever interactive competition where thousands of Foodbuzz Featured Publishers will be competing in a series of culinary blogging challenges for the chance to advance and a shot at the ultimate prize: $10,000 and a special feature on Foodbuzz.com for one year.
Grab a cupcake and stay tuned for more info....I will be asking for your votes & support!
Devil's Food Cupcakes with Coffee Buttercream
iced: cupcakes and cookies (photo link)
Carpe Cupcakes!
(from Valentine's Day blog post)
(these cupcake photos have nothing to do with today's post - I just liked the photos)
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