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The Father’s Day Daisy Cake Winner is…

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LAUREN!!!!  I am so sorry for the late post about out winner but better late than never!  I didn’t have my trusty sidekick Walker with me to help pick the winner, so Corby had to suffice.  As you might imagine, he did not recreate the Hunger Games “reaping” ceremony the way Walker did last time, but even so, a winner was chosen, and Lauren is the lucky lady.  I am super excited to have her as the winner, and I hope she and her family love the cake!  Thank you all so much for participating, and we still have one more cake to give away- yay!!  This next give away is to celebrate Kim cooking on the Today show on June 29th, so we will have another drawing that day.  Hope everyone has a fun and delicious Father’s Day!!

2 More Days until the Father’s Day Cake Give-Away

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Only two more days until we do our drawing for the Father’s Day Daisy Cake Give-Away!!  Here is the wonderful note we got from Caroline, our Mother’s Day winner.  All you have to do to enter is comment on this post or the original post.  Who doesn’t want a yummy hummingbird cake from www.Ilovedaisycakes.com!!!  Good luck!

Thank you, thank you to the South Will Rise for making me the happiest mama in Charleston! My Red Velvet-y Daisy Cake was a dream  – a deep jewel color with seams of cream, moist (I don’t like that word but it is the only one I can use to describe its sumptuousness, EVEN after several days in the fridge (we rationed our…selves to very thin slices)) and frankly the best cake I can remember eating. Unfortunately I had to share it with my sister, four nephews and nieces and their parents visiting from Bavaria AND my very hungry husband, so it disappeared QUICKLY. I am definitely going to order one the next time I need a special gift for someone, and most of all, the next time I am in need of Cake Therapy myself!

 Lots of love, Cxx

Father’s Day Daisy Cake Give Away

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Our Mother’s Day Daisy Cake Give Away was so successful and fun that we are doing another one for Father’s Day!  All you have to do to enter is comment on this post- so easy!  The cake this month is a Hummingbird Cake which sounds amazing, and I know with Kim Nelson, the owner of I Love Daisy Cakes, behind it, this cake will be something special.  For a little recap of Kim and all her greatness, she appeared on the show Shark Tank and received a $50,000 investment from Barbara Corcoran to help take I Love Daisy Cakes to the next level.  And it did!  Kim has gone from making around 2000 cakes a year to over 25,000.  She has most recently appeared on the Nate Berkus Show and will be cooking on the Today Show at the end of this month.  This lady makes the best cakes around.  So, just comment on this post with a smilley face, a thought about cake, or even a thought about Father’s Day, and you will be entered to win.  We will announce the winner next Friday, June 15th.  Keep your thougths on cake and good luck!

Mother’s Day Daisy Cake Give-Away

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This past Friday, I finally tracked down Kim Nelson of Daisy Cakes- she was in Nashville, TN looking at a new distribution company for her cakes and very generously took the time to talk to me.  A little background if you haven’t yet heard of Kim Nelson and Daisy Cakes because the way she is taking the cake world by storm, you will soon (www.ilovedaisycakes.com).  Kim is from Spartanburg, SC and has been baking with her mother and grandmother since she can remember.  After catering and giving cooking lessons, Kim decided to start selling her old family recipe cakes on line and nation wide.  After a year and a lot of time, money and effort, a friend suggested that Kim try out for the show Shark Tank on ABC where a group of investors are presented ideas and decide to invest in the business or not.  Out of the 22,000 people that uploaded their information to be on season 2 of Shark Tank, 80 people were chosen to pitch their ideas initially and then 32 people made it on air.  Kim was one of the lucky.  Not only did she make it on the air, but she got a $50,000 investment from Barbara Corcoran which has turned her small cake company around.  Here is the link to the episode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVM-RuLh2KI.  The episode aired just over a year ago, and since then, Kim has been on the Nate Berkus show and QVC, and she was invited to be a guest at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival where her cakes were a huge hit.  She will also be appearing on the Today Show at the end of June, and her “cakes of the month club” will be featured as a prize on the Wheel on Wheel of Fortune as well as being “the next item up for bid” on the Price is Right.  She is in the process of moving the Daisy Cake distribution center from New York to Nashville, TN so that she can be closer and keep an eye on things.  She started out making about 2,000 cakes a year, and from April of last year to December, she sold over 25,000 cakes.  Quite a jump in just a year!  What I was most impressed with was the reaction people had when tasting her cake for the first time.  Watching the Shark Tank episode, she serves up her cakes to some pretty heavy hitters who are no strangers to the best chefs and restaurants in the county.  All of the reactions were surprise- because its cake, and how much different can one chocolate cake or lemon zest cake taste from the rest.  All of these people were surprised at how delicious these cakes were.  It was unbelievable!  Now, I have yet to taste one of these cakes, but I am dying to, and I bet you are too!  Not only is Kim an incredible baker, but she is also extremely generous because she has donated three of her cakes for us to give away to lucky readers!!!  The first cake that we will be giving away is the May Cake of the Month- Pink Velvet Cake- four layers of pink velvet cake with cream cheese icing- how good does that sound!!!  All you have to do to enter is comment on this post- write a smiley face or just say hi, and we will randomly pick a reader to win the cake and announce it on Friday, May 11th.  The cake will be shipped to the winner who will then hopefully invite us all over for cake!!  So pass this along to all of your friends and neighbors and start commenting so you can win, and if you don’t win this time, we still have to more cakes to give away!