Let us know and win!

In light of our Audrey Hepburn topper, we are presently working on our ‘Vintage Hollywood’ topper collection! So, let us know which timeless actor or actress we should add to our ‘Vintage Hollywood’ topper collection and go into the running to win a set! All you have to do is hop on to our facebook page (www.facebook.com/topthecupcake) and make a suggestion through posting a comment.

An entrant and their suggestion will be drawn out of a mixing bowl on Monday, 16 April 2012. Not only will the entrant win a ‘Vintage Hollywood’ topper set, but their suggestion will be added to the collection!

So far, we are thinking Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Chuck Norris and James Dean. So let us know, who else should we include?

 

'Like' one, 'like' all

My lack of blogging can be attributed to the fact that I have been hard at work on my new cupcake topper collection which I launched on the Top the Cupcake facebook page last Sunday. Here is a little sample of my favourite toppers:

So what better way to celebrate this momentous occasion than to host a little competition?!

So hop on to the Top the Cupcake facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Top-the-Cupcake/210765192305368) and tell me what cupcake toppers you like by liking the photo in the album titled ‘Cupcake toppers’ and go into the running to win a dozen of your favourite toppers. You can like more than one photo, but your name will only go into the running once. The competition will end Sunday, 15 January at 12PM (WST). The prize winner will be drawn at random. This is an international competition - everyone and anyone can enter! So get liking ...

Winners are grinners!

We won the Cakes Around Town Cake Pop Competition 2012 (I say ‘we’ because it really was a team effort)! We ended up with approximately 290 votes. Can I get a "whoo hoo"?!

I learnt a number of things from entering this competition. Not only am I uber competitive but Brendyn, our family and our friends are just as competitive! It was insane. People were sharing the Facebook link to everyone and anyone. Basically anyone who was on Facebook chat during the four days of voting was not safe from our spamming!

I also learnt that Brendyn and I should never enter into competitions again! We get way too invested into it. Despite saying this, we really did have a lot of fun becayse veryone got so into it! Seems that our family and friends are just as crazy competitive as Brendyn and I. People were asking for hourly updates of how many votes we had accumulated!

Despite the craziness, we got through and we won a $250 cake pop hamper. And now I have to use my winning to make cake pops for those who voted for me! Oh dear ... now I am second guessing whether this was a good promise to make.

But in all seriousness, thank you to all the people who took time to vote and those who asked their family and friends to help. I am very touched by your support and encouragement.

Help me, help you!

Great news everyone – we have made progress since my last blog post! It is with great pleasure for me to inform you that I am no longer sitting on 6 votes. Phew!  

I am now coming SECOND in the Cakes Around Town Cake Pop competition. Thank you to all who have voted! I am only 5+ votes (I know FIVE VOTES – what a nail biter) behind first place and the competition closes tomorrow at 1PM (WST). Please help me get across the line by clicking on this link and vote for me (10. Dog pops): http://apps.facebook.com/opinionpolls/index.php?pid=ABVKeaNVXKw

Please help me and in turn I will help you (not exactly sure how I will do that, but I promise to think about it…).

Thanks to all the people who have shared links on their facebook page to earn me some votes. I greatly appreciate it.

FINALIST!

Top the Cupcake is a finalist in the Cakes Around Town cake pop competition 2011. Whooo hooo! The Puppy Dog cake pops made it through. But I need your help to get me accross the line to win $250 worth of cake popping materials. At the moment I am sitting on 6 votes (I think I am coming second last). Needless to say, this is not doing good things to my self esteem. So, please vote for me!

The voting process is fairly simple. Please click on the following link and vote for '10. Dog pops': http://apps.facebook.com/opinionpolls/index.php?pid=ABVKeaNVXKw

Please don't let me end this competition with just 6 votes!

If one cannot sleep, one should bake ...

If one has already baked and still cannot sleep, then one should organise a baking related competition for one’s blog. It is currently 2AM and I am wide eye awake! When the clock struck 12 tonight, in my head I knew it was time for bed but as I laid in bed telling myself to go sleep, I realised I was wasting my time and that time was better spent baking. So got up went to the kitchen and baked 48 vanilla cupcakes. But this is a blog post in itself for another day.

Anyway, I decided that a month long competition is simply too long. So to keep me going to the end of the month, I have decided to run a shorter competition concurrently. This time entrants go into the running to win a set of cute animal cookie/fondant/sushi cutters (please see image below)! To enter, entrants must first like my ‘Top the Cupcake’ facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pa​ges/Top-the-Cupcake/210765​192305368) and then participate in my ‘Guess Who?’ game.

Basically, you are required to guess who I am making out of fondant. Each night for the remainder of this working week (so basically, Wednesday and Thursday night) I will be adding more fondant to the above topper until it is completely decorated. Each day you have the opportunity to guess who the topper is. To register your guess, simply add a comment (underneath the photo) as to who you think the fondant topper is. All correct answers registered by Friday, 12 August 2011 (Western Australian time) will go into the draw to win the cookie/fondant/sushi cutter set. One winner will be announced on this page on Saturday, 13 August. The winner will be determined by a random mixing bowl draw.

Ah, how I love competitions. There is only one thing I love more than competitions, and that is WINNING competitions. I did tell you that I am little tiny bit competitive right?!

How would you renovate your life with $150K?

My favourite radio station, Nova 937, is currently running a competition. Basically if you get on air or enter the competition online, you go into the running to win $150K - HELLO! 

Like many people, I could use an extra $150K. No surprise as to what I would do with it, but if I were to win, I would open my very own cupcakery (for those uninitiated few, cupcakery is the cupcake fanatic’s answer to a bakery). I have a vision of how it would look exactly in my head and to see it come to life would be amazing. Think French chic meets modern house wife. Ah, an Asian's Australian dream. 

I thought it would be a great idea to make a set of Nova cupcakes. My reasoning behind this was that by doing so might (fingers crossed) increase my chances of winning and secondly, increase the publicity of ‘Top the Cupcake’. So before I went to bed Wednesday night, I made Nova fondant toppers. I decided to spell out 'I heart Nova' and make the iconic Nova mascot. I woke up early the next day on Thursday morning and made a fresh batch of cupcakes. I had planned to wake up at 5AM and had set my alarm and everything! But I was like a little kid, I was so excited about this baking adventure that I woke up at 4AM and couldn't get back to sleep! 

I am pretty happy with the final product. But more importantly, did I win $150K? Sadly, I don't think so. I am pretty sure the competition has come to a close. Oh well, I guess this little Asian baker will just have to continue to hold on to her Australian dream.

Happy birthday month to me!

My birthday is in late August and I have decided that a one day celebration is simply just not enough! So I am going to make it a month long celebration and what is the best way to celebrate? With cupcakes and toppers of course! Not just with any type of cupcakes and toppers, but my favourite kind, FREE cupcakes and toppers. That’s right FREE!! I will be running blog competitions throughout the month of August in celebration of my birthday.

Today after having an inspiring lunch date with my long-time friend and all-rounder beautiful person, Jade, I have decided to create a Facebook fan page. Throughout the month of August, anyone who likes the ‘top the cupcake’ Facebook page will go into the running to win twelve fondant toppers of their choice. That is, if you like the look of one of my cupcake topper designs (must be fondant based), I will personally make you a batch and post them to you. That’s right ladies and gents, this is an INTERNATIONAL competition! I have checked with Australia Post and transporting fondant toppers is A-OK. So hop on to Facebook (because let’s face it, just about everyone has Facebook these days) and like the top the cupcake page and you can go into the running and win personalised cupcake toppers of your choice!

As I am a law graduate, I felt the need to draft up some terms and conditions just to make it official. For all you lawyers out there, who feel the need to read the fine print, feel free to read away. FYI – lawyer or not, by entering the competition, applicants agree to abide by the terms and conditions set out below.

The competition is being run by Tina @ top the cupcake and will commence at 7PM on Monday, 1^st August 2011 (Western Australian Standard time). To enter the competition, the applicant must like the top the cupcake Facebook page and remain liking the page for the duration of the competition. The competition will close 5PM on Wednesday, 31^st August 2011 (Western Australian Standard time). Entry to this competition is free. The draw will be a random draw from a mixing bowl from all eligible applicants registered prior to the competition closing. The first name drawn will be announced the prize winner. There will be one prize of twelve fondant toppers of the winner’s choice (fondant topper design must be chosen from one of the existing top the cupcake topper designs). The prize winner will be announced on the top the cupcake Facebook page. The winner is required to contact Tina @ top the cupcake to accept the prize. Tina @ top the cupcake is responsible for the cost associated with delivering the prize but does not accept liability if the prize is damaged. The prize is not transferrable. Family members of Tina @ top the cupcake (through blood or marriage) are encouraged to be fans of the top the cupcake Facebook page, but unfortunately are not eligible to enter the competition.

Lawyer friends, let me know if my legal drafting is up to scratch!