Taste and Tell Thursdays – Very Strawberry Cupcakes {giveaway}

Welcome to Taste and Tell Thursdays! Come link up your posts below for a chance to win a Smucker’s Birthday Kit!

 
We didn’t have a whole lot of birthday traditions growing up. But there was one thing I always looked forward to – the Cherry Chip Cake with Fluffy Frosting. I’ve already talked about that cake – and my childhood memories behind it – so I won’t bore you with it again. But to this day, that cake always reminds me of birthdays. (In fact, just a few weeks ago my mom requested it for her birthday cake!)

I’m hoping to starts some new fun traditions with my kids. Abbi is now to the age that she knows just what she wants, and she is definitely not afraid to voice it. Her birthday is at the end of this month, and for the last – oh, probably 10 months – she has been reminding me that she wants a strawberry birthday cake. You know how most kids change their minds 20 times in the span of 20 minutes? Well, not this girl. It is a strawberry cake, and I have a feeling it’s going to be a strawberry cake for every birthday from here on out.

This week, I have teamed up with Smucker’s for Taste and Tell Thursdays. Smucker’s is inviting fans to share what they love to eat on their birthday. They have fun poll questions on their Facebook page, and based on the results, they will share a birthday recipe that would be great for anyone with a birthday coming up.

So in honor of my beautiful daughter and her upcoming birthday, I made cupcakes. Strawberry cupcakes. An early present for the birthday girl.

 

Before we get to the giveaway, the winner of last week’s bakeware set from Good Cook and Challenge Butter was Ashley.  Check your email, Ashely, to claim your prize!

And here are a few posts that were linked that caught my eye:

Peanut Butter Reeses Blond Brownies from Inside BruCrew Life

Gingerbread Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Icing from Bake, Run, Live

Loaded Baked Potato Chex Mix from Kitchen Concoctions

And now for the giveaway and link up:

Included in the gift basket are:

*A variety of Smucker’s Jams, Jellies and Preserves*

*A selection of birthday recipes to try*

*a $100 Wal-Mart gift card*

To enter to win, use the Rafflecopter widget below.  Remember – if you link up a recipe, make sure you enter on the Rafflecopter for your chance to win!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

The rules for the link up are simple:

1 – you can link up to any recipe
2 – link must be to a blog post – no etsy stores or advertisements
3 – please add a link in your post back to this post
4 – you can link up to 2 links per week, and links cannot be duplicated through the month

Don’t forget to click over on some of the other links so that we can all enjoy each other’s creations!!

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