Welcome to the first edition of the Homemaker’s Challenge! If you would like to know more about this blog hop you can read this: Homemaker’s Challenge.
Next weeks challenge can be found here, What’s In Your Closet?: Fashion for Less Edition.
Every good challenge or competition starts with a creative meet and greet. Take something unlike you and make it reflect who you are. We are going to do that too: with cupcakes. Oh come on! You knew we had to start this way, didn’t you? 
Your Homemaker’s Challenge is to create a cupcake, or your interpretation of it, that tells us about who you are. Get creative. Think of your hobbies, heritage, looks, tastes, or think outside the cupcake wrapper and make a cupcake out of something other than cake. It is totally up to you but we must get a glimpse of who you are through your cupcake.
Once you have put your cupcake together craft a post and tell us about it. Show us pictures or videos. Remember, part of the challenge is to embrace new things as homemakers as well as honing your blogging skills, and yes, we know you have mad skillz! Show us!
One random participant will receive Bakerella‘s new book: Cake Pops. What’s cuter than a cupcake? A cake pop, of course! Wildly popular blogger Bakerella (aka Angie Dudley) has turned cake pops into an international sensation! Cute little cakes on a stick from decorated balls to more ambitious shapes such as baby chicks, ice cream cones, and even cupcakes these adorable creations are the perfect alternative to cake at any party or get-together. Martha Stewart loved the cupcake pops so much she had Bakerella appear on her show to demonstrate making them. Now Angie makes it easy and fun to recreate these amazing treats right at home with clear step-by-step instructions and photos of more than 40 featured projects, as well as clever tips for presentation, decorating, dipping, coloring and melting chocolate, and much more.
The winner is: Desi from Crunchy Mommy!
Our guest “judges” (Amy Stults, Holly Smith, and our cupcake expert, Kristen Schiffman) will be picking some of their favorites to share on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. If you want a bit of constructive feedback about your post then just put at the bottom of your post, “encourage me judges!” and that will let our guest judges know that you are interested in constructive feedback. Otherwise, just take the challenge for the fun of it!
Are you ready?
If you would like to participate in this weeks Homemaker’s Challenge then please do the following:
1. Link back to this post.
2. Submit your post permalink below.
My daughter loves to make cupcakes. This summer we, camp cooks, made these cupcakes for the campers. They loved them.
http://myheartbelongs2books.blogspot.com/2010/07/whats-new-cupcake-by-karen-tack-and.html
I’d love to be included in this cookbook giveaway. thanks
ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com
Am I missing the new challenge?
Well I finally got the photo’s up. I hope you enjoy! I really had fun doing this!
Thanks for the challege!
LOVE A GOOD CHALLENGE-THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN – WRITING AND READING OTHERS
Some darling competition I see. Just wanted to let you know ‘part one’ of my post is up. Hopefully I’ll get the rest up before those judges come around.
Enjoy the day,
Sherry
Oh man – those are cute already. I just might jump in on this challenge today with my kids.
I have nominated your blog for the Versatile Blogger Award – you can see the link on my blog.
Blessings Amy!
Oh my oh my amy! I am sooo excited for this
cant wait..now i need to get creative..hmmmmm…off to the thinking board!
Thanks so much for hosting this Amy!
I don’t think that cupcakes are part of the HCG diet! Hmmm, the kids will love them, though. Can I bake with my nose plugged so I won’t smell them, LOL!!!!
I have a question, do you have to do all of the challenges? I’m not saying I’m not going to do this, but I’m just wondering if there are set ground rules?
Hi Amy, Ok, so you have the power! I have sworn in the past that I wouldn’t ever get a blog but your homemaker’s challenge has lured me in. However, I have no idea what I am doing! How do I “link up”? Pease help a very backward, very new blogger! Ruth
Oh I can’t wait!!!!
Oh you crack me up. What a challenge. I cannot wait to see everyone’s creativity. I am afraid mine will be borrowing but I have been wanting to bake a cake so I think I will just do cupcakes instead. Thanks for the suggestion. And well I might just get really, really creative! I have some interesting ingredients I think I’ll try. I have been watching chopped on the food channel. Can you guess what I am gonna use?
Oh, Woman! Seriously, you know how to do a challenge. This is not at all what I was expecting. I better get the creative juices flowing!!!
Oh my nelly…we better buckle up, this is going to be so much fun! Yay!
This is DEFINITELY outside the box/cupcake wrapper! Thinking thinking thinking! (oh – and there’s a little something you might wanna see in my “Finds for Fridays” post at my blog
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Oh how fun! I’m already thinking!!!! My kids will enjoy eating them, that’s for sure!!
Fun challenge – I LOVE cupcakes – I can’t wait to see everyone’s!!!
Courtney