So… for quite awhile I was regularly hosting monthly Who Takes the Cake? Contests. And then I missed a month. Then one month turned into two and before I knew what happened… it’s now been 5 months since I had a contest. 🙁 So instead of promising again that this will be a regular monthly contes, I think I’ll just take it one month at a time and for now… here’s the August Who Takes the Cake Contest! Enter Your Cakes Now!!
Way, way back… okay, it was only January, my assistant and I decided to choose a color theme for each month of the 2017 contests. And although I’ve missed a whole truckload of contests, I dug up our notes to see what we chose for August. To my surprise, and we had decided that black would be the color theme for the August contest!!
I have no idea how we decided on that, but for better or worse – enter your BLACK cakes (or cakes with black on them) and you’ll be in the running to win the Rose Bakes “Who Takes the Cake?” Contest!
Here are a few of my cakes with black as a primary theme…
A baby shower cake 🙂
A wedding cake! This was actually the first cake I posted here on Rose Bakes!!
and and birthday cakes 🙂
You get the idea! And you aren’t limited to cakes… you can enter cakes, cupcakes, cookies, cake pops and any other decorated sweet I might have forgotten!
So there you go… are you ready to enter your BLACK creation?
I will keep the widget open for 7 full days so that you can call get your pictures submitted! And then once the submission period is closed, at least 12 cakes (or other sweets) will be chosen for voting (possibly up to 24) and readers will have ONE WEEK to vote and choose their favorite!
PLEASE NOTE: YOUR CAKES WILL NOT APPEAR WHEN SUBMITTED – ONLY THOSE CHOSEN TO BE VOTED ON WILL BE PUBLISHED NEXT WEEK!
You can also submit cookies, cupcakes, cake pops… all the sweets qualify!
And the prize?? Well this month I’m going to be giving away an Amazon Gift Card!! Amazon is not affiliated with this giveaway/contest in any way. This prize is completely sponsored by yours truly!
Okay? Okay! Let’s go!!
Keep reading below to see how to enter…
WHO TAKES THE CAKE AUGUST 2017 CONTEST
I will keep the widget open for 7 full days so that you can all get your pictures submitted! That means submissions will close at 11:59pm CST on 8/7/17. And then once the submission period is closed, at least 12 cakes (or other sweets) will be chosen for voting (possibly up to 24) and readers will have ONE WEEK to vote and choose their favorite!
You can click here to the “Who Takes the Cake?” FAQ page for all the details but here are the highlights:
- One submission per person per month and it must be your photo that you took of your cake. No professional photographer photos unless you are a professional photographer. A link is required to a place where the cake is already published. This could be your Facebook page, Flickr, CakeCentral, your blog or website, etc.
- After submissions close, at least 12 of the best cakes/photos will be chosen and posted in a separate post where my readers (and your friends and family and…anybody else) will vote for their favorite.
- I will open up submissions for 5 days ONLY, then the voting will be open for 7 days and the winner will be the photo with the most votes at the end!
- OH – and sign up for my email newsletter here to get all of my posts and cake contest announcements in your inbox! (that’s not a requirement… just a happy suggestion!)
PLEASE NOTE: YOUR CAKES WILL NOT APPEAR WHEN SUBMITTED – ONLY THOSE CHOSEN TO BE VOTED ON WILL BE PUBLISHED NEXT WEEK! ALSO, ALL PHOTOS WILL BE PUBLISHED ON FACEBOOK AND “LIKES” WILL COUNT AS ADDITIONAL VOTES , SO BY SUBMITTING YOUR PHOTO, YOU’RE GIVING PERMISSION TO PUBLISH ON FACEBOOK.
You can also submit cookies, cupcakes, cake pops… all the sweets qualify!
Black and Gold make up cake
Hi Rose, when I click “upload” I get a message that I have already uploaded a picture, but it’s my first one for this contest. Did you receive my submission? Thanks! 🙂
I’m sorry about this. I’ve uipdated a couple of settings and you should be able to enter now! Please let me know if you have any more problems!
Thanks Rose! Excited to participate! 😀
Hi
Can I apply from the UK?
Sam
Yes!
Hi Rose,
This is my first time entering your contest. On my first attempt to upload the cake photo a popup said I already uploaded a picture and it is waiting modification. I know that I have never uploaded a photo to this site before. Do you have any idea on what I may be doing wrong? Thanks for your help
I’m sorry about this. I’ve uipdated a couple of settings and you should be able to enter now! Please let me know if you have any more problems!
After I completed the info for the contest I hit upload and for some reason it said I already uploaded and I haven’t been on here in quite a while. Can you check into this? I sent a Boston Bruins Cake. Thanks!
I’m sorry about this. I’ve uipdated a couple of settings and you should be able to enter now! Please let me know if you have any more problems!
How many entries can we upload? Tried a second one and said I already uploaded one.
Thanks!
Only one – thank you!
The anticipation is killing me! Can’t wait to see the finalists!
Oh goodness – a new post went up days ago with the finalists here: https://rosebakes.com/august-2017-takes-cake-contest-vote-now/.