Enter to Win the Duncan Hines Cupcake Challenge Grand Prize Package!

Last Chance urban moms……

Enter to Win the Duncan Hines Cupcake Challenge Grand Prize Package!

How did you spend your Easter weekend? Baking lots of yummy holiday treats with the kids I’m sure. So send in your pics, we’re looking for fun pictures of you and your creative little bakers, and send us those great baking tips and stories of quality time baking with the kids as well.

Now is your last chance to enter to WIN the Duncan Hines Cupcake Challenge Grand Prize Package!

We asked urban moms like you to tell us whether you make your cupcakes from scratch or from a cake mix and 40% said they always make cupcakes from cake mix. urbanmoms.ca members also voted on what they thought was the best time to make cupcakes and the two most popular occasions to bake cupcakes were birthdays (23%) and Valentines Day (13%).

         

And now what you’ve been waiting for…..

The winner of this week’s Duncan Hines prize package, consisting of a wonderful glass Duncan Hines cake plate with lid and a great Duncan Hines canvas tote bag filled with a variety of delicious mixes and frosting is the following urban mom family!

Natalie, Rob and their daughter Kendra

Natalie’s family bakes and “experiments” together!

The family tips for baking with kids? They’ve got many.

• Have fun
• Get messy
• Don’t make a big deal about spills and accidents, plan for them and have tea towel, wipes handy
• Let the kids get the ingredients and get everything out first
• Let the kids measure everything out in advance so that it just has to be dumped in as you follow along and explain measuring
• If they are old enough let them read the recipe
• Use kid friendly tools, i.e. plastic measuring cup, not your fine china
• Sometimes we just sit on the floor and do stuff or she is allowed to stand on a chair beside us
• Let the kids do it, Kendra stirs so hard and then mama/daddy gets a turn
• Let them lick a spoon/bowl, it is inevitable, just a tiny taste, builds on the excitement better than licked fingers in and out
• Parents always do the oven part, explain why for safety and explain the smoke detector too
• Enjoy as a family, share with friends
• And always, praise the job that they do

"Thanks to urbanmoms.ca and Duncan Hines for having such a fun contest!" –Natalie

All of the Cupcake Challenge entries to date will be eligible for the grand prize draw which will be happening at the contest close on April 16th, when our Grand Prize Cupcake Challenge Winner will be chosen.

Happy Baking!

Pictures should include you baking with your children, and can be accompanied by a short (50-100 words) story describing the picture and/or your tips and ideas for baking with kids. Send your submissions to Allison at: allison@urbanmoms.ca. The Cupcake Challenge contest dates are March 28 – April 16, 2007.