GREENDALE, Wis., April 9 /PRNewswire/ — Millions of cupcakes will be baking in ovens coast to coast when Taste of Home’s 3.5 million readers open their April/May 2007 issue. Winners of the magazine’s national Cupcake Challenge recipe contest lead a sweet parade of handheld treats including a special online “Cupcake of the Week” newsletter.
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The Grand Prize, selected from more than 1400 entries, went to Mary Bilyeu of Ann Arbor, Michigan for her Special Mocha Cupcakes. Mary will demonstrate how to bake her luscious confections — made with cocoa, coffee and a fluffy mocha frosting — alongside Taste of Home’s editor-in-chief Catherine Cassidy on CBS’s “The Early Show” on April 17, 2007.
“Our contests bring out the best in our readers and the passion they feel for their food,” says Cassidy. “We get tens of thousands of contest entries every year and the home cooks who win are like our ‘celebrities.’ Their recipes get to be seen by millions of people like them in the magazine, online, and on TV on CBS.”
To choose the cupcake prizewinners, the Taste of Home Test Kitchen staff made more than 700 cupcakes and 71 cups of frosting. They ranged from fruity and filled to iced and spiced, showcasing flavors including banana, maple, chocolate, lemon, pumpkin, peanut butter and gingerbread.
Bonus On-Line Treats!
Competition was so keen that Taste of Home’s sweet-toothed judges could not stop at the dozen winners and runners-up chosen for the contest; eight additional runner-up recipes and fun and easy decorating ideas can be found in the “Cupcake Cupboard” at http://www.tasteofhome.com/plus.
And if like the Taste of Home readers you still can’t get enough cupcakes, there’s the all-new free “Cupcake of the Week” newsletter filled with hints, tips and gorgeous full-color photos. By the time you finish baking, another one is on the way. Sign up at http://www.tasteofhome.com/cupcake.
To enter the current contests, simply go to http://www.tasteofhome.com/ or pick up the April/May issue.
While the award-winning cupcakes are the cover story, there’s much more in the recipe-packed April/May issue of Taste of Home. “Seven Tasty Twists on Ground Beef” features readers’ top-notch main dishes, and “Nothin’ Beats Mom’s Cookin'” shares home-style entrees and side dishes treasured by readers. And a spread of Kentucky Derby party foods will make for a delicious race day.
Every one of the outstanding 79 recipes in the Taste of Home April/May issue, like all Taste of Home recipes, are accompanied by a mouth-watering photo and has been tested by the Taste of Home Test Kitchen’s professional home economists, guaranteeing success every time.
Taste of Home is the world’s most popular cooking publication. Since 1993, it has offered a friendly exchange of family-favorite recipes, cooking tips and personal stories from real home cooks in its flagship magazine and other publications, in cookbooks and on its web site, http://www.tasteofhome.com/. Today, Taste of Home is part of the Reader’s Digest family and the combined circulation of all Taste of Home magazines, including Simple & Delicious, Light & Tasty and Cooking for 2, totals 6.7 million.
