You know my love of cake runs deep, but did you also know my love of basketball does too? Three years ago I decided to pair the two together and create a Cake March Madness Bracket.
I’m excited to see how it goes this year!
How to Play
- Download the bracket below.
- Look through each division and pick a winner from each pairing. You’ll then move those winners to the next round and pick a winner from that pairing. Keep going until you have a champion.
- You’ll fill out the entire bracket – GUESSING which cake will win each pairing and which cake you think will win overall. (The winner of each matchup is decided by voting in my Instagram stories – so you’re guessing which cake most people will vote for).
- Once you make your guess for the winning cake, COMMENT BELOW WITH YOUR WINNER. This gives us a time stamp to make sure you entered before the competition starts on March 18th – which means we won’t count entries posted after March 18th 12 am MST.
How It Works
- Starting next week (March 18th), I’ll post the cake pairings in my Instagram stories for everyone to vote on.
- Winning cakes will be chosen from that voting process (BY YOU) and I’ll announce in IG stories and here on the blog the updates so you can make sure to check out how you’re doing on your bracket.
- Once we get to the final winner, I’ll take a look at your guesses below and from those who guessed correctly, I’ll RANDOMLY SELECT ONE WINNER.
What Does the Winner Get?
- The randomly selected winner will receive BOTH of my cookbooks, access to my 3-Month Cake Camp, a cake tee, and a set of my icing spatulas from Shop.CakebyCourtney.com.
Reminder:
- Print the bracket
- Make your selections
- Comment below with what you cake you think will be the overall winner BEFORE MARCH 18th.
- Check out stories next week to start the voting process
- Have fun!
ROUND 1 WINNERS
West: Better Than Anything Cake, Creme Brulee Cake, Confetti Cake, Classic Chocolate Cake, Biscoff Brownie Cake, Magnolia Cookie Cake, Peanut Butter Poke Cake, Cookies and Cream Cake
East: Ultimate S’mores Cake, Lemon Bar Cake, Twix Cake, Red Velvet Poke Cake, White Chocolate Raspberry Brownie Cake, Tom Cruise Coconut Bundt Cake, Seven Layer Bar Cake, Peanut Butter Oreo Cake
South: Tonight Show Cake, Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Buttercream, Pumpkin Biscoff Cake, German Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Toffee Graham Cake, Brownie Biscoff Cheesecake Cake, Lemon Blueberry Cake, Biscoff Cake
Midwest: Apple Cider Donut Bundt Cake, Westin’s Light Show Cake, Triple Chocolate Banana Cake, Peach Biscoff Cake, Samoa Cake, Red Velvet Cookie Cake, Peanut Butter Graham Cake, Lemon Oreo Cake
ROUND 2 WINNERS
West: Better Than Anything Cake, Chocolate Cake, Biscoff Brownie Cake, Cookies and Cream Cake
East: Ultimate S’mores Cake, Twix Cake, White Chocolate Raspberry Brownie Cake, Seven Layer Bar Cake
South: Chocolate Peanut Butter, German Chocolate, Biscoff Brownie Cheesecake, Lemon Blueberry
Midwest: Westin’s Light Show, Triple Chocolate Banana, Chocolate Coconut Caramel (Samoa), Lemon Oreo
Ultimate S’mores Cake!
Samoa Cake wins!
S’mores cake!
German chocolate
Tonight Show Cake
Better Than *Anything* Cake
Better Than Anything Cake
Soo many good ones in here! But I’m rooting for the brownie biscoff cheesecake. I made the bars a couple weeks ago and they were delicious!!
Soo many good ones in here! But I’m rooting for the Brownie Biscoff Cheesecake Cake. I made the bars and they were delicious!
Ultimate S’mores
Pb s’more cake
Samoa cake
It pains me to say that I think the Better Than Anything cake will win again. Even though there are, what I consider, better- tasting cakes competing.
Apple Cider Donut Bundt Cake ?
If I was honest, you are probably right. I went a different route, though. I will probably regret it.
Apple Cider Donut Bundt Cake
So. Many. Hard. Choices! I’m going to have to go with the Better Than Anything cake for the win though!
Apple Cider Donut Bundt cake
Grand Slam cake
Seven-Layer Cake
Samoa Cake
Westins light show cake!