In honor of the release of Wishing on Willows, Becky Wade threw down a celebratory cake challenge for the second battle of our Pinterest War. The results are in! In fact, the results are above.
Becky and I give this one a B- for the amount of effort required since it took some time and concentration.
A D for kid fun, since we both ended up doing this one solo.
An A- for beauty and resemblance to the original. (Okay, so I give Becky’s an A- for beauty and resemblance. I’m still not quite sure what to think about that puddle of frosting coagulating around the bottom layer of mine. I may or may not have decided to melt the frosting in the microwave and pour it on the cake instead of using an old-fashioned spatula. Hence, the blob cake.)
I also give myself an A+ for resourcefulness. Notice, my buttons are not really buttons. And I used floss. Also, chopsticks.
We are going to announce the winners of this week’s prizes tomorrow morning on our Facebook pages!
Which means you have one more day to jump in and make a cake of your own (for 5 entries) or share this contest on social media (for one entry) to enter to win one of FIVE prizes!
- $25 gift card to your choice of Amazon or Barnes and Noble
- 3 copies of Wishing on Willows by Katie Ganshert
- An advanced copy of Undeniably Yours by Becky Wade
Battle three is next week! It’s my turn to throw something down. It just might have something to do with Easter.
Let’s Talk: What say you? Pinterest fail or nail?
Join the Wishing on Willows Scavenger Hunt for a chance to win a bundle of FREE books from my publisher. All you have to do is find Wishing on Willows on a shelf in a store (if you’re in Walmart, you might just find it there), snap a picture, and post on your blog (email me the link), Facebook (tag me in the picture), or Twitter (tag me in the tweet), and you’re entered to win!
Are you on Twitter? Join the #WillowTalk Twitter Event. The last week of April, tweet a review or tweet your favorite lines from Wishing on Willows, make sure to use the #WillowTalk hashtag, and you could win three books from my publisher, plus a $5 gift card to Starbucks. There will be 25 winners! Please RSVP here!
Becky It looks like you nailed it, great looking cake there in the middle, I am not a baker so shared your post on fb…
thanks for sharing with us.
Paula O(kyflo130@yahoo.com)
Thanks, Paula! I’m not much of a baker, either. Which is perhaps sad to admit, as baking IS my favorite sub-genre of cooking. 🙂
This one was a higher-degree-of-difficulty challenge, but I am glad I did it. In this hurried world, we’re tempted to but convenience first. It was good for this mom to slow down, bake a two layer cake for the first time in years, frost the thing, and spend time on the details of the flags… just because they were pretty and charming.
Bonus: the whole family dug in and enjoyed in for dessert after dinner. Let me say that they are NOT accustomed to coming in from school and work to find a homemade cake with a banner of flags waiting on the kitchen counter.
Like I said, I’m craft-challenged (and for this Pinterest battle, I’m also gluten-free), but I’m loving this whole series! Go, ladies, go!