The Winner of my big 3-0 Cookbook Giveaway!!

Yep, it's time for me to choose a winner for my giveaway!! I asked people for ideas for the high tea/afternoon tea that I'll be hosting for my 30th birthday on the 5th of July. It's still a couple of months away, but I like to plan ahead for special occasions like this one!


I received some great ideas:

• Steph of Obsessed with Baking suggested some lovely Cream Scones with Cranberry and Orange
• Marie of A Year from Oak Cottage entered a scrumptious Golden Jubilee Cake
• Liz of Cake of Death came up with the idea of making huge, gorgeous chocolate-covered strawberries.htm
• Kathleen of Cuisine Kathleen presented me with yummy Rugelach
• Shelby of The Life and Loves of Grumpy's Honeybunch gave me a wonderful recipe for the perfect cucumber sandwich
• Gabe's Girl brought in the cute idea of mini versions of a tomato pie

As you can imagine it was very difficult for me to choose only one of these tasty suggestions: they all sound so wonderful! I had difficulties deciding on a winner because all of the entries are sooo different. Normally I prefer sweet over savoury, but in this case I loved each and every suggestion. But since I only had one cookbook to give away I did have to pick just one.....

I finally decided on a winning recipe and before I tell you who has won I'll tell you why this is the winner.... :

1. This recipe is supereasy to make.
2. This is a crowd-pleaser: out of all the entered recipes this is the only one that would actually be eaten by everyone that I will invite to my tea party because it doesn't contain any ingredients that someone won't eat.

So.... The winner of this cookbook is: Shelby of The Life and Loves of Grumpy's Honeybunch! Congratulations!!