Cadbury Egg Bites – Beantown Baker – Jen

My poor fellow Bostonian was missed in this months round up.  I remembered her entry, looked through all my emails and couldn’t for the life of me find it.  Luckily, Jen helped me find her   I love that Jen was yet another experimenter that needed more than one try before perfecting these delicious little bites.  Great job Jen and I am so sorry!

Easter-y Red Velvet Cake Balls – Fun Foods – Stephanie

Red velvet cake balls are so good, but when you add some mini robins eggs to the mix it can only get better. Stephanie’s take on the cake balls that are sweeping the nation err blogosphere are fabulous!

ma tante minnie’s chocolate peanut butter blossoms – Jennyfers Culinary Creations – Jennyfer

Peanut butter blossoms are one of my favorite cookies ever. They’re just so perfect chewy and peanut buttery. And as reece’s eggs on top only makes them better!

Cadbury Cupcakes – Something Sweet – Kristen

Oooey gooey cadbury goodness in the middle of cupcakes. They look like eggs just cracked and ready to eat, but they’re the kind of eggs that go best with chocolate … cake that is.

Hidden Egg Easter Egg Cookies – Cooking is Medicine – Claire

Claire easter egg cookies complete with hidden Reeces’s egg centers are just too cute. I’m a suck for all things pastel expecially in the spring and yummy Recee’s goodness in the center of these sugar cookies only adds to my giddy delight.

Coconut Creme Cakes En Miniature topped with Coconut Creme Kiss Mousse – Crafty Precious – Kristina

Despite being a little worried about the wackiness of this months ingredient Kristina rose to the challenge and rocked my socks off with her mini cakes. She also used one of the newer additions to the Hershey’s easter candy line, coconut kisses, which are delish!

Cadbury Creme Eggs – Made with Love – Robin

Robin took a different approach to the challenge and instead of using easter candy she made her own. Now all of you Cadbury Creme Egg lovers can make them for yourself all year long!

Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies with Macadamia Nuts – Dawn’s Recipes – Dawn

Cookies and Cadbury eggs! SCORE. Two of my favorite things. How could this combo not be great?

Cheesecake Topped Turtle Brownies – The Baking Beauties – Jeanine

I love brownies, I love cheesecake. Add toffee, nuts and a caramel topping to the mix and really folk what’s not to love?

Easter Candy cake – Made By Melissa – Melissa

How cute is this cake? The peep family on top and the cadbury mini eggs really make this the most adorable easter cake ever. And the fact that she used the Hershey’s Perfectly Chocolate Chocolate cake for the cake layers is even better because it is one delicious cake!

Gluten Free Chocolate (eggs) Cookies – Live to Eat – Anty

Gluten free baking is one of the areas I am severely lacking. It’s something I have never tried eekk I know I need to branch out, but that’s why I love hosting this event because you girls push me outside my boundaries and make me learn out the deliciousness I have never experienced before.

Whopper Brownies – Because You Have to Eat … – Delia

Mmmm a non nutty crunch in brownies is just my kind of thing. Of course my love of whoppers doesn’t hurt the brownies cause.

Easter Chocolate Cupcakes – Passionate about Baking – Vindee

Vindee made some yummy devil’s food chocolate cupcakes with jelly beans that look amazing, but the real treat that’s in her post are her candied flowers. They are beyond adorable you definitely need to check them out because they are adorable!

Easter Basket Cupcakes – Not Quite Nigella – Lorraine

Lorraine’s cupcakes always make me giddy because they are just too cute and her flavors are always interesting and totally drool worthy. She certainly didn’t disappoint this month with her double chocolate raspberry cupcakes and do I even need to comment on the adorableness of the cupcakes with the little chicks?

Swiss Roll – Ruth’s Kitchen Experiments – Ruth

Ruth used the ever popular Cadbury mini eggs to create this delightful little roll that is pure deliciousness in a roll.

Coco-Peanut Trufflekins – What Smells … So Good? -Sarah

Sarah’s trufflekins not only have the most adorable name ever, and if the name doesn’t make you want to eat them, the recipe will.

Tutti-Fruitti Chocolate Nest Cookies – Big Black Dog – Michelle

The name of these cupcakes makes me want to sing that tutti-frutti song I used to bounce around to back in the day. Chocolate cookies with vanilla filling and a nest on top also make me want to bounce around with delight!

Chocolate Wontons – Fifi la Cupcakes Blog – Fiona

Fiona’s wantons are the most fun idea ever! How adorable are these little dessert treats? What I really love about them is that not only are they delish, but they’re also super easy to make. It’s always have something that’s not only cute, but nice and easy too!

Cadbury Egg Cupcakes – Vin de la Table – Kristen

Look at this filling. Kristen’s cupcakes scream “Eat Me.” Pure egg-y goodness. As always she combined her yummy cupcakes with an equally delicious wine. Have I mentioned I love wine and cupcakes? MMmmm mmm good!

Easter Rocky Road – Wee Treats by Tammy – Tammy

Marshmallow easter eggs and chocolate easter eggs combined with some nuts and Baileys <- I love baileys totally rock my road.

Reese’s Peanut Butter frosting on Chocolate Cupcakes- Do Better – Karen

Karen’s Reece’s Peanut Butter frosting is screaming at me. It’s telling me to come on over and just lick the screen until I get to the frosting. Chocolate and Peanut butter are really the greatest combo ever invented.

Malted Milk Chocolate Cake – Barbara Bakes – Barbara

I can’t believe Barbara cut this recipe out 9 years ago and never got around to making it. Makes me happy I decided to choose a crazy ingredient because after all this time this cake needed to be made. And I totally missed out on using robin’s eggs for lipstick when I was a kid. i totally missed out.

G’s Wacky Cups – My Baking Heart – Jessica

These coffee and cocoa cupcakes with the pretty green coconut “grass” on top should really be called adorable cups because they are so cute I want to pinch their little cheeks. Of course the cake part isn’t a disappointment either, recipes don’t make it three generations without being damn good!

M&M Cookies – Judy’s Gross Eats – Judy

I love M&M cookies. They’re just good, wholesome classic quality great cookies.

Jelly Bean Cupcakes – Iheartcuppycakes – CB

Kissy kissy little bunnsketeers. I bet CB wishes her real bunnies would kiss like that so she could have a houseful of bunny babies. Oh ya the cupcakes. They’re an ode to my favorite funfetti cuppys but with Jelly Beans. CB is such a suck up

Cake Filled Easter Eggs – CamCupCakes – afoneleri

Another ridiculously fun and creative entry (you girls really amaze me sometimes). Afoneleri made chocolate cake balls inside of chocolate easter eggs and covered them which chocolate. They’re cute and full on chocolaty perfection!

Easter Blondie Bites – Canela and Comino – Gretchen Noelle

Gretchen’s pictures always make me drool, then I read the recipe and I need to towel down my computer because drool goes from being a wet mouth to being a full on waterfall of “I want.” Here little blondie bites certainly didn’t disappoint because I want to gobble them all up like it’s my job. Oh, if only eaten Gretchen’s baked good could be my job I would be a happy woman.

Malted Milk Chocolate Cheesecake – Adventures in the Kitchen – Cheri

Chocolate cheesecake is just the greatest invention ever. Cheri did an amazing job on her pretty little cheesecake and the malted milk eggs on top are the perfect little topping!

Chewy Cocoa Brownies – Suppalicious – Beth

The oozing chocolate coming out of the top is what gets me with this one. The chocolates also look like (.)(.)’s which keeps me coming back wanting more

Easter Biscotti – Suppalicious – Beth

How cute are these? Beth, my constant latecomer I still love her though. I love the color the Jelly beans add to the biscotti. They make them so fun and lively!

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Now we have this months rock star of the month.

Adventures with a Red KitchenAid Mixer & a Beagle named Hershey – Elizabeth

This is the story of one woman, and her torrid affair with a disturbing amount of Reese’s eggs. She’ll put them in just about anything (we have photographic evidence and it’s haaaawt), and my only question after looking these over is, “Will you adopt me? Like, right now?”

Reese’s Egg Banana Bars

Reese’s Egg Granola Banana Bars

You can slip into something more comfortable if you like, granola perhaps? You look so fetching in oats my darling…

Easter Rice Krispy Treats

These are cheating. There ain’t a soul alive that can resist krispy treats, and to make them with Peeps and pb eggs is asking for trouble. Tasty, sticky trouble.

Mini Reese’s Egg Cheesecake

There’s cheesecake, and then there’s zomg there’s peanut butter and chocolate eggs at the bottom of my cheesecake and I think I just tinkled myself like a tiny dog who’s been overcome with joy cheesecake. Guess which one this is!

S’more Peep Bars

How do you improve S’mores? Pink! That improves everything!

Mini Cadbury Nest Eggs

After a mere 6 (yes really, 6) entries, we have an adorable little cadbury egg in it’s nest. Do you know what’s it’s doing? It’s taking a nap after Bakezilla over here has made us drool to the point of dehydration, that’s what! You rock Elizabeth, if you put half as much energy into your cases you’ll win every one!

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Of course the fabulous Lemon Tartlet couldn’t be out done and she is our first Disaster of the Month Yes, this month there were two experiments gone wrong, but experiments only make you better and you need to cherish those learning experiences.

Easter Candy Cupcakes looking all cute and Innocent before being baked …

Kablamo! Ya that marshmallow on the right totally blew his head off. Congrats LT, your complete disaster let me with pains in my stomach because I laughed so hard I had tears in my eye

LT decided to flip that idea the bird and she moved on to a safer, but much tastier Easter Egg Cookies

Our second disaster of the month goes to Alica over at The Girl Tastes! She probably could have fooled people because her picture doesn’t look quite as disastrous as LT’s, but the diagram of problems is something I would do. Embrace your inner disaster folk embrace it!

She bounced back…

Robin’s Egg Cookies – The girl tastes! – Alicia

…figured out what went wrong and ended up with delightfully perfect cookies! Great job!

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And now … can I get a drumroll please ::drum drum drum:: (what? I don’t know how to spell drum noises) our winner and champion is the wonderful, lovely, fantastic, currently out of the kitchen and into her hockey … Pens fan. You all know here and love her.

The fabulous LAURIE of the Quirky Cupcake!!

Seriously though, Laurie’s Babka was not only delicious, but it also used half the candy in the Easter Candy Aisle. To make that hodge podge of candy taste delicious is truly amazing. Congrats Laurie.

In the mean time, who wants to know our next ingredient?

Vanilla!  You can use either extract or the full beans (which are even better).

You have until May 10th to bake your Vanilla goodies so get your baking caps on and have fun!

And the winner is ….

Drum roll please

The Cinnamon French Toast Blondies made by Alicia over at The Girl Tastes.  These were just fantastic on every level.  Like Alicia says in her directions leave them undercooked … then start eating them right out of the pan and you won’t be able to stop!  I finished baking these around 10pm and between my hubby and I we had eaten 2/3rds of them before we went to bed.  I’m never one to eat more than one serving of the baked goods I make right off the bat, so for me to have multiple pieces means it must have been good.  They were chewy, they were cinnamony, they were perfection!

Congrats Alicia you are truly a Master Baker!

EASTER CANDY

All Easter candy is free game. The rules are the same as last time. My one request this month because I know there’s going to be temptation to do it, please don’t just stick a peep on top of something random you happen to bake

For those of you outside of the US, I’m not sure if you have the easter bunny and easter candy don’t worry, there are options for you too. Jelly beans I’m told are available just about anywhere. I found a recipe for homemade peeps HERE and shaped chocolates made for kids will work too.

Because I’m going away the first weekend in April and won’t be able to get started baking anyway, you have until April 6th to get your entries in.  Have fun and good luck, I have a feeling this month could be very interesting!

I just want to thank all of you for joining in on the fun, I’m giddy as a school girl that I got this many entries. I also want to thank you guys for putting up with the minor blips this month next month should go flawlessly. Special thanks to CB and Lemon Tartlet for their moral support (finding 30 entries at the last min requires moral support to remind you that you can get everything entered in a reasonable time frame) and their help getting the round up together. You girls rock!

Stay tuned, the March ingredient will be announced tomorrow (you’re going to love it) and the February winner will be posted early next week!

In an effort to not make this post a million miles long the entries are after the break (let me know if you think I should do it the other way … I’m indecisive and can’t decide)

Chocolate Zucchini Bread – CIA – Cooking in an Apron – Steph

My very first entry. Taking her tried and true recipe for zucchini bread, Steph added some cocoa and turned it into a pure delicious delight!

Chocolate Chip Cookies - Wine Lover’s Cooking Diary – April

I’ve heard word through the grapevine that April sent these cookies to everyone except me and pretty much everyone loved the cinnamony chocolatey chippity goodness

Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Glaze – It’s Melissa’s Kitchen – Melissa

Don’t just serve me one, I want the whole plan. Melissa’s take on Bon Appetit’s cinnamon rolls looks great and the cream cheese glaze … yum!

Carrot Cake Cuppys – Love Sweet Love – Nina

For some reason I’m not surprised that Nina’s entry was covered in hearts. I swear she can find a place for hearts anywhere and the cuppys look fantastic. Carrot cake rocks.

Cinnamon Cocoa Meringues with Vanilla Ice Cream and Cinnamon Chocolate Sauce – Jennyfers Culinary Creations – Jennyfer

Just looking at these makes me drool. Meringues, cinnamon Chocolate sauce and ice cream. Sinfully delicious!

Cinnamon Rasin Bread – Foodie Fashionista – Dorian

Yeast is always a tricky beast and boy am I glad Dorian gave yeast another shot because she ended up with one successful loaf of bread!

Cinnamon Popcorn – Meli Can Cook – Melissa

Not only is Melissa’s recipe easy, but it’s the perfect way to change up your movie night treats.

Apple Cinnamon Granola – Artists In the Kitchen – Alanna

Granola is one of those perfect snacks, it’s good to munch on it’s own, it’s good to put on things like yogurt. It’s just a wonderfully versatile snack. Alanna made one of my favorite kinds of granola, a yummy apple cinnamon combo.

Cinnamon Dolce Brownies – quirky cupcake – Laurie

Laurie stole my heart when she used chocolate jimmies, actually, she has her son Liam to thank for that fabulous suck up attempt. Who am I kidding, this chocolate brownie delight stole my heart from the get go.

Cinnamon Orange Hot Chocolate with Cinnamon Tinted Mexican Wedding Cookies – JoyTheBaker – Joy

Joy knows how to make me hungry and her entry didn’t disappoint. Her cinnamon and blood orange hot chocolate is the perfect drink for those cold winter nights. Paired with yummy cinnamon wedding cookies, what more could you ask for?

Cinnamon Babka - Do Better – Karen

This bread just oozes delicious, literally. Look at the filling oozing out of the bread. If this doesn’t make you want to try this fab recipe nothing will!

Snickerdoodle Cuppys – Iheartcuppycakes – CB

The winner of the suck up award (not the real winner, just the biggest kiss ass), Clara not only listened to suggestions I had made for her to adjust her original snickerdoodle cupcakes but she also sent me some. Helping the judge get to taste more recipes without having to go crazy baking obviously earns bonus points!

Cinnamon Zeppole – The Progression of a Caking Hobbyist – Doreen

These fried cinnamon covered dough balls are perfect for breakfast … or lunch, dinner or a snack. Not only are they a delicious treat, Doreen chose a recipe that didn’t involve rise times so it’s quick and easy.

Spicy Apple Raspberry Crisps – Canela and Comino – Gretchen

This says breakfast to me. It also says dinner and supper, and right before bed which is why I’m not going to end up on America’s Next Top Model in a size 1 any time soon

Cinnamon Biscotti – Made by Mel – Melissa

It’s not easy to know what to say about biscotti. This one would be even harder to talk about, mostly because it would be shoved in my mouth after taking a little swim in a big cup of coffee but anything I was muttering around the mouth full would be words of love.

Rose and Cinnamon Scented Scones – Kettle and a Cup – Marye

There are few things that make me want to get out my tea set and big hats like a scone, and a rose scented scone isn’t playing fair! The little pink sprinkles on the top are the perfect touch.

Cinnamon Butterscotch Bread Pudding topped with Fresh Cinilla Whipped Cream and a Rich Cinnamon Sauce – Crafty Precious – Kristina

Somewhere, a government agency is trying to legislate a ban against this, for being entirely too sinful for the general populous to handle.

Belgium Slice – Wee Treats by Tammy – Tammy

This little treat makes me squeak, raspberry jelly sprinkles on top of a delicious treat! Just beautiful! Not quite sure if my biggest want is to eat it or wear it!

Low Fat Almond Cinnamon Biscotti – Cara’s Cravings – Cara

Is low fat and tasty a myth? Not if you’re nibbling these! The problem of course is that I’d end up eating half a dozen and the whole diet thing would be a moot point

Cranberry Apple Bread Pudding with Butter Rum Sauce – Good-Eats-n-Sweet-Treats – Jamie

Ya know how sometimes you see a picture of a food, and you can smell it and taste it right then? How you literally want to lick the screen and pretend the two of you are alone and uninhibited? Yeah, that’s what this one does to me.

Oatmeal Breakfast Bread – eggs on sunday – Amy

You know that when you sit down to a piece of oatmeal bread, you’re not gonna be disappointed or be required to be adventurous or exotic. It’s your best friend, you’re favorite blankie, the perfect comforting treat.

Dessert French Toast with Berries and Cinnamon Vanilla Sauce – At Home with Helena – Helena

Now this is my kind of breakfast a sweetened up version of french toast. The best part is that I can pretend it’s really good for me because there’s fruit. Isn’t there some rule that when you eat fruit or veggies with a meal you can subtract calories from everything else haha don’t we all wish

Ontbijtkoek (Brown Spice Cake) – Live to Eat – Anty

I was so excited to have a spice cake entry. G (my hubs) and I had spice cake for half of the layers of our wedding cake and we just love it! Anty didn’t disappoint and came through with a great recipe.

Triple Chocolate Brownies with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting – Adventures in the Kitchen – Cheri

Cinnamon cream cheese frosting is one of my favorite things in the world. It’s one of the few frostings I can’t eat enough of. Pair that with brownies and my weak spot has been hit.

Triple Play Cinnamon Rolls – Kimberly’s Cooking Aventure – Kimberly

These remind me of how Pillsbury Cinnamon roll look. Lots of cinnamon, a beautiful drizzle of frosting. Who wouldn’t want to eat them?

Cinnamon Cookies – Beantown Baker – Jen

Jen made some simple, but tasty looking cinnamon cookies, with a bit of molasses. Truly a fantastic combination for the perfect little cookie!

Cinnamon Chili and Chocolate Mud Cake - Not Quite Nigella – Lorraine

These Cinnamon chili chocolate cupcakes not only look beautiful they sound amazing too. Adding a fresh and different flavor to your traditional cupcake and the frosting make these top notch cuppy!

Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies – Step’s Kitchen – Stephanie

The title of these cookies is well deserved, I don’t think they could hang around long in anyones house

Sweet Petals Coffee Cake – Barbara’s Sweet Bakes – Barbara

A beautiful coffee cake with a crispy outer layer created by putting the cinnamon and sugar on the outside is the perfect sweet treat!

Cinnamon Raisin Bagels – Di’s Kitchen Notebook – Di

Diane has been on a bagel kick and these bagels didn’t disappoint. They’re a homemade version of one of my favorite kinds of bagels, the always delicious cinnamon raisin!

Easy Cinnamon Bread – Judy’s Gross Eats

I am a bread-aholic and if there’s “easy” in the title I am all for it! Don’t her bread innards look delightful? I know I can’t wait to try this cinnamon-y bready goodness!

Cinnamon Shells – The Frosted Bake Shop

Could these be any cuter? They’re like little cinnamon stars from the kingdom of Yum (where all bow to me and give me baked goods and rub my feet and… that’s getting off the subject)

Cinnamon and Cocoa Bread - Home Gourmets – Suzana

I love bread. I love chocolate. Those who combine the two should get Nobel Peace prizes. With the tiaras.

Cinnamon Rolls – The Floured Apron – Karina

Something about these cinnamon rolls just screams perfection. It’s the perfect little swirled square to take home to mom.

Fryske sûkerbôle (Frisian sugar bread) – Make Life Sweeter! – Linda

This is why the word lucious was invented. Right here. Somebody took a bit of those creamy bread goodness and moaned the word from sheer need to express themselves

Irish Apple Cake – Ruth’s Kitchen Experiments – Ruth

What makes this cake Irish? Who cares! Look at those gorgeous cinnamon apple slice innards. I’ll be Irish for the day to eat this cake!

Cinnamon Rolls – Colettes Bakery – Brigid

The frosting on this one alone is enough to make a girl fall in love. Unlike many relationships, what’s under the top layer is even better!

Cinnamon Rolls – Annina’s Food – Annina

There’s something so perfectly homey about this cinnamon roll, it makes me want a cup of coffee and a friend to chat with over it. Every baked good should be this adorable!

Apple Crumble Cupcakes – Airy Fairy Cupcakes – Sinead

Not only do these look downright delectable, but the one up front in the middle I swear looks like there’s a little sumo wrestler flexing his muscles on top. Please say it isn’t just me

Pear Almond Turnovers with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Icing – Made with Love – Robin

It’s like all of my dream of Pop Tart goodness just came true and proposed to me! Oh turnover, yes I will be yours!

Cinnamon French Toast Blondies – The Girl Tastes – Alicia

OK seriously, blondies and french toast in one delectable dessert. Can you possibly ask for anything more? They made me want to lick the screen.

Cinnamon GRANDola Muffins – What Smells So good? – Sarah

I believe these fabulous muffins with a crunchy granola top are our only vegan entry (at least intentionally vegan). These would make the perfect gift to give to anyones tummy!

Cinnamon Chip Spice Muffins – Food, Family, and Fun – Amy

Our other spiced cakey bready recipe is an updated version of Amy’s Grandmother’s old school recipe. Old recipes are always great and when you add chocolate chips to greatness you have one great treat!

Cinnamon Rum Soaked Rasin Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting – The Cupcakery – Wendy

Cupcakes, rum and cream cheese frosting are an amazing mix of perfection. Add to that Wendy’s fantastic presentation and you have cupcakes calling your name to be made. I so want to hang out with that crazy pirate.

Cinnamon-Raisin Swirl Bread with Crumb Topping – Dawn’s Recipes – Dawn

Pop it in the toaster, slather it with butter and give me some!

Braided Cinnamon Heaven – My Life in a Nuthou… I mean nutshell – Dawn

This bread is the picture of cinnamon beauty. This beautiful braided goodness

Cinnamon Rolls – Amber’s Delectable Delights – Amber

When nesties come a knocking, sweet treats need to be made! These beautiful cinnamon rolls are just begging to be gobbled up

Cinnamon Orange Zest Gelato with Farmhouse Pistachio Pillow Cookies – Vin de la Table – Kristen

If you thought the combination the perfection that is these adult “ice cream” sandwiches was enough, Kristen went and hit my weak spot by pairing it with wine. Her blog is a wino foodies dream come true.

Cinnamon Brownies – Something Sweet – Kristen

After an initial flop, Kristen came back with a vengeance with this ooey gooey cinnamony brownies!

Cinnamon Rolls – Born to Entertain – Andrea

Andrea lucked out after her master disaster (I’m still waiting to see a BU of that bread) because she had already whipped up some fierce cinnamon rolls earlier in the month.

Schnecken -Phe.Mom.enon – Holly

I know a lot of you are wondering why schnecken looks so much like a cinnamon bun, because it is like a cinnamon bun. Check out Hollys post about these yummy nutty buns to find out where it got its name.

Sweet Potato Cinnamon Crumb Muffins – Mevrouw Cupcake – Mari

Sweet potato buttermilk muffins are certainly something I never would have thought up, but Mari did an amazing joy and the crumb on top … mmmm

Beef Bastilla – Make No Little Meals – Danielle

I think this recipe could work as dinner and dessert in one. Chocolate, phylo dough and meat. I adore 2 fors.

Pear Cinnamon Crumble with Dark Chocolate – Lemon Tartlet and the Dust Bunnies – Leigh

I can’t judge this entry without bias because we’re eloping next week since she’s so darned hawt and rocks my boy shorts but you should bake whatever she says (and she’s armed)

Our final entry was from Beth at Supplicious. She made a tasty Cinnamon banana muffin, she earned bonus points for sending me two of her delicious muffins, then lost half a point for slacking and not putting it up on her blog

I’m thrilled with the number and quality of entries.  Seriously, you guys are going to need a drool towel when you look at the round up.   I’m planning on putting up the round up before I announce the winner so everyone can be tortured by the delicious treats while I finish my baking so make sure to come back early next week.  I should be announcing the winner a week from Sunday or probably Monday because I’ll be in a cinnamon coma by next Sunday night!

If you haven’t got your entry in … get to it, you have 4 days left, more than enough time to bake up a wonderful cinnamon treat!

Now, I just need to figure out what next months ingredient should be.  Any suggestions?

 I went with something nice and easy that everyone can enjoy.  I’m sure you will have no problems finding something amazing to make with cinnamon so get baking.

All entries are due March 2nd.

Lately I’ve become a bit of a foodie blog event junkie … Daring Bakers, Tuesdays with Dorie, Cupcake Hero and the list goes on. I love blog events, I think they’re fun and I like excuses to bake since baking because my hubby has an insatiable thirst for baked goods isn’t always a good enough excuse.

There are only so many events you can join up with and at this point the logical next step is to create my own event. After discussion with my VP of Events I have come up with the perfect event.

Master Baker … I pick the ingredient, you pick whatever baked goods you want to make. It’s easy, it’s basic, it’s fun. What could possibly be better? Nothing that’s what.

The rules are simple:

-I pick an ingredient each month and you bake whatever your little heart desires as long as it has that ingredient.

-Write up your blog post with a link back here.

-Send me a link to your blog post, along with your name and email address on or before the last day of the challenge. Emails should be sent to masterbakerchallenge at gmail dot com

-If you don’t have a blog, get one. In the meantime just email me (masterbakerchallenge at gmail dot com) a picture, the recipe and any thoughts or feelings you have towards your recipe.

- At the end of the month (the last day of the event) I will begin baking and choose my favorite baked good as our winner. I can’t promise I’ll make them all, but I promise to bake a bunch.

- For now the winner will pretty much get that wonderful warm fuzzy feeling in their heart and a swollen ego, but if a lot of people join in the fun I may be convinced to do something cool like having t-shirts or buttons or something fun made up for the winners. How cute would that banner (thanks Jess from Cuppycake Designs) look on just about anything?

- Nikki

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