I was just sent this great looking recipe for Blueberry Cheesecake Flapjacks from Taste of Home as part of their Mother’s Day brunch recipe feature.

I can’t wait to give it a try! How could these be bad??

Make a gingerbread house and support a good cause!

GINGERBREAD HOUSE COMPETITION

Boston (September 10, 2008) – Chefs and culinary students from across the region are invited to create gingerbread houses of varying sizes to be sold, with proceeds to benefit Rosie’s Place, an organization created in 1974 to provide a safe and nurturing environment for poor and homeless women to help them maintain their dignity, seek opportunity and find security in their lives. The gingerbread creations will be entries in the 15th annual Gingerbread House Competition to be held in conjunction with THE 22th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL, a celebration of crafts and specialty foods, held at Boston’s World Trade Center on November 7-9, 2008.

A panel of celebrity judges and children will select winning gingerbread houses based on creativity, decoration and taste. Houses will be displayed at the Christmas Festival, with signs crediting donors and chefs. Individuals and corporations may purchase these spectacular gingerbread houses and, after the event, may take their confectionery domains to be enjoyed at their home, office, or to be donated to a hospital, school or other organization.

To enter the Gingerbread House Competition to benefit Rosie’s Place, call

Rina Peselman, CM Communications at 617-536-3400 or email rpeselman@cmcommunications.com.

It is said that the best laid schemes o’ pastry chefs and men gang aft agley. Fortunately, we have the blog Cake Wrecks to chronicle when they do.

Cake Wrecks is filled with a panoply of silly, sloppy, or just ridiculous attempts at cake making, and you can check it out at:

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

As you can tell from the picture above, some cake makers take instructions a hair too literally…

World of Grains, who make a good whole grain cookie (I like blueberry the best) are holding a spa getaway contest:

Take our survey and enter for a chance to win a trip to the award winning Wentworth by the Sea Marriott Hotel and Spa in New Castle, New Hampshire. Enjoy a tranquil waterfront getaway in this spectacular landmark hotel built in 1874, with postcard-perfect views of Little Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. Prize includes a 4 day, 3 night stay for two with 3 meals per day per person, plus two $250 gift certificates redeemable at the Spa at Wentworth.

You can enter by clicking here and using the code: WOGSTG302

They’re also giving out free samples at the Children’s Museum today from 11-4pm, if you want to give them a try.

My hat it has three corners.
Three corners has my hat.
And had it not three corners,
It wouldn’t be my hat

Time to make Hamentashen!