Welcome to Cupcake Tuesday! Our weekly linky party for you to share your Cupcake creations or grab some ideas!
Grab the code for the button…
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Guidelines for entering your link
- Please link your post about cupcakes or muffins. I appreciate you linking your post, but please keep it on topic.
- Please link directly to your post, not to your homepage.
- Add your name and subject to Linky like: HoosierHomemade (Party Cupcakes)
- Please include a link back to HoosierHomemade in your post. You may link to HoosierHomemade main page or the Cupcake Tuesday category page.
- It would be great if you could use the Cupcake Tuesday button, but you don’t have to.
- I reserve the Cupcake Tuesday carnival, please do not duplicate.
- I post Cupcake Tuesday in the morning every Tuesday.
- Please follow the guidelines, or I might just have to delete your link.
- Have fun!
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Holiday Cupcake Challenge:
When: November 2 – 30th, every Tuesday, during Cupcake Tuesday
What: Holiday Cupcake Challenge (Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s)
Challenges:
Week #1 – Seasonal Flavor, share your favorite cupcake flavor of the season…pumpkin, peppermint, sangria, or get creative
Week #2 – Thanksgiving, share your themed cupcake design
Week #3 – Christmas or Holiday, share your themed cupcake design
Week #4 – New Year’s, share your themed cupcake design
Week #5 – Re-cap, share a post with all your cupcakes from the Challenge
Voting: This time around the bakers, their readers and my readers will be able to vote for their favorites. Each linky will stay open for 1 week, the following week you will vote on the prior week’s entries, and so on.
The Cupcake Challenge will be a lot like the very popular Food Network show, Cupcake Wars.
Here are some details…
- Beginning August 3rd and finishing August 31st, every Tuesday during Cupcake Tuesday
- Theme – Summertime Fun
- Each week will be a new Challenge, they are listed below
- You will link up your Cupcake Challenge entry in a seperate linky
- There will be PRIZES! Of course, GREAT Prizes!
- AND, Alan the author of What’s New, Cupcake? book will be the judge
Challenges:
August 3rd ~ Flavor: What flavor screams Summertime Fun to you? Create a cupcake with that flavor, write a post with the recipe, add pictures and share them!
August 10th ~ Event/Activities: Did you visit the zoo or maybe go to the beach this Summer? Create a cupcake that shows the fun you had this Summer, write a post, add pictures and share!
August 17th ~ Cake Mix: Turn an ordinary cake mix into a special cupcake. Create a special flavor using a cake mix, post the recipe, add pictures and share!
August 24th ~ Candy: It’s all about Candy this week! Create a cupcake, using the Summertime Fun theme, using candy as decorations. Write a post, add pictures and share!
August 31st ~ It’s a Wrap: This is wrap up week! Write a post showing all 4 cupcakes that you have created.
Guidelines:
- You HAVE to include the Cupcake Challenge button or a link back to Hoosier Homemade or you will NOT be considered in the judging process
- You may add your Cupcakes to the Linky beginning Monday evenings, you may ALSO add them to the Cupcake Tuesday Linky. But they have to be on the Cupcake Challenge Linky to be eligible for prizes.
- Winners will be chosen during the week following the close of the event, September 6th.
- Winners will be notified the week of September 13th.
- Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery of prizes
Thanks for joining us! This is gonna be AWESOME!
Please email me with any questions…hoosierhomemade (at) gmail (dot) com

















