Last weekend, I presented a challenge to you – Name my Business.  Naming the business has to be one of the hardest things about getting started. It has to be simple enough to spell and pronounce, yet catchy and creative enough to remember and set you off from the crowd. And most importantly, it just has to “feel” right. I’ve been racking my brain trying to come up with the perfect name. All your suggestions have been very helpful. You are all very creative.  (I think I can eliminate my husband’s suggestion of “hors d’oeuvres-osaurus rex”.)

Here were the entries:

Scenic Selections
River of Cakes
Choose Your Plate
Customized Plate
Cake Walk River Bakery
Plated Palette (or Plated Palate)
Your Way Gourmet (or K. Wilson’s Your Way Gourmet)
Wilson’s Eats
Karen’s Carefree Kitchen
Nourriture sans pain (French for Food without bread)
Karen Cares- Gluten Free Creations
. . . Everyone can have your cake and love it, too!
K.Wilson: Bespoke Cuisine
Scenic City Culinary Solutions
. . . where everything is delicious and nothing is off limits
Gluten under the Bridge
Forks and Rivers
Scenic Plate

My Top Three Favorites Are:

Your Way Gourmet (or K. Wilson’s Your Way Gourmet)
Karen’s Carefree Kitchen
Scenic City Culinary Solutions

AND THE WINNER IS. . . .

 SCENIC CITY CULINARY SOLUTIONS!

Congratulations to Jennifer- She is the winner of a Prize Pack from Betty Crocker, consisting of all four dessert mixes and a tote bag.

And yes, I had a cupcake for breakfast.

This was the Betty Crocker yellow cake mix made just as directed on the box.  Obviously made into cupcakes, not a whole cake.  I frosted with Chocolate Butter Cream Icing (which started to melt because the cupcake was still warm – I was inpatient.)  I’ll post the icing recipe shortly.  The cake was really quite good.  It was moist without being sticky.  It held together well.  The flavor was also very good and “normal” – no weird aftertaste or anything!

That’s right, I’m GIVING AWAY a prize pack of the new
BETTY CROCKER GLUTEN FREE DESSERT MIXES.

This is what was waiting for me when I got home for work today.  I was SO excited that I literally danced around the house.  I don’t have anything baking yet, but will before the night is through.

The best part is that I have a second, identical prize pack to give away to one lucky reader.  To make it fun, I decided to have a little contest.

I want you to Name My Business.

Here are the rules, regulations, and so forth:  (by the way, I’m doing this because my husband had suggested for a catering business – hors d’oeuvres-osaurus rex.)

Contest is underway so get your entries in!  You can’t win if you don’t enter!

• This business does not yet exist, but will be a personal chef service specializing in gluten-free and other special dietary needs. Also offered will be gluten-free birthday cakes, and possibly some limited catering of small events (less than say, 30 people).
• The business will be located in Chattanooga, TN, aka “The Scenic City”, aka “River City”.
• My name is Karen Wilson, which may or may not be used in the business name.
• Anything else is fair game.  Be creative.  Include a tag-line or further description if you want.
•  Post your submission as a comment to this post or email me at kieferwilson_at_comcast_dot_net.  Each person is allowed to suggest up to three names.
• Submissions are due no later than 12:00 noon, EDT, on Sunday, July 12, 2009.
• I will post the winning entry Sunday evening, the 12th (or Monday at the latest). I will then need the winner’s mailing information to give to Betty Crocker’s PR company, who will send the prize pack directly.

I am the sole judge of the winning entry.  I do not guarantee that it will actually be used as my business name.  If I do use your suggested name, you have no royalty or naming rights in it.  You just get lots of prestige and bragging rights.

Let me know if you have any questions.  Otherwise, GOOD LUCK!