Do you have a signature dessert? Because it’s so good, does everyone expect you to bring it to the holiday party every year? Well, here’s your opportunity to make all those hours hand-whisking homemade whipped cream work for you. This holiday season, Healthline.com is offering great prizes for the best original holiday dessert recipes.

Just type up your recipe and submit it here. Your original recipe can be anything served for desert: tarts, cookies, cakes, pies, fruit salads, or soufflés.

There’s only one catch: your recipe has to be healthy (or at least healthier than the standard holiday fare).

The public will vote on the recipes to determine the five finalists. Then, Healthline’s team of judges—including a nutritionist and food professionals—will test and try the five top recipes and score them in three different categories: Taste, Creativity, and Healthfulness.

The grand prize winner will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate, and one runner-up will win a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate. Enter here by November 30 for your chance to win!

Contest Name: The Busy Mom’s Holiday Recipe

Contest URL: http://www.classesandcareers.com/education/2010/11/03/the-busy-moms-holiday-recipe-contest/

Deadline: The contest ends at midnight (11:59 PM Mountain Time) on December 13.

Prizes:

• One $200 Williams-Sonoma gift card to the entry with the most votes

• One $50 Harry & David gift card to one randomly chosen contestant

How to enter:

1. Like us on Facebook .
2. Put your recipe in the comments below. It has to be a recipe that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less and it has to be your own original recipe.
3. For an extra entry, tweet about us or link to us on your blog to be entered into the drawing for the Harry & David gift card. If you tweet us, use the tag #momsinschool. Make sure you leave a note in the comments below, telling us where you tweeted about or linked to us.

How to win: Invite your friends and family to come to this page and vote for you. The recipe with the most votes wins the $200 Williams-Sonoma gift card.

Other info:

Official Rules
All entrants must be US citizens, 18 years or older. Multiple entries are allowed, but will only qualify if they follow the steps listed above. Recipes entered must be original recipes from the entrant. Plagiarized or stolen recipes will result in immediate disqualification from the contest. Entrants must provide a legitimate recipe that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less and ‘Like’ the Moms in School Facebook group page in order to qualify for the Williams-Sonoma gift card. Entrants must ‘Tweet’ the contest on Twitter.com or provide a backlink from another page to the contest page to qualify for the Harry & David gift card. For every ‘Tweet’ or backlink, the entrant will be entered again in the contest. ClassesAndCareers.com reserves the right to publish/create a book or application based on any of the recipes entered into this competition. By entering, Contestants yield intellectual rights to the recipe to ClassesAndCareers.com ClassesAndCareers.com will not produce an application or book based on a recipe provided without first notifying the entrant, however guarantees no compensation, monetary or otherwise, for use of the recipe. ClassesAndCareers.com will not sell nor use contestants’ information for anything outside of notifying entrants or otherwise communicating with entrants. The contest will be discontinued unless a minimum of 30 qualifying entries have been entered by 11:59pm MST, 12/01/2010. ClassesAndCareers.com reserves the right to cancel the contest at any point for any reason.

Enter our Home for the Holidays Sweepstakes for a chance to win $2,500! It’s the perfect prize to get your family together in time for the holidays!

The sweepstakes starts at 03:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on September 15, 2010 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. EDT on October 31, 2010.

It is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Limit one (1) entry per person per day

The Prize: One (1) $2,500 in American Express Gift Card

Enter the sweepstakes at:

http://www.KraftDeliciousDays.com/

While you’re at Delicious Days, you can check out back-to-school lunchbox ideas, holiday recipes, and fall fashion tips. Consider Delicious Days your one-stop shop for moms that are in-the-know!

Let me know what you think! We’d love if you shared information on our site and some of our videos with your readers. If you’re interested in doing a post, I’m more than happy to send over more detailed information about Krafts Delicious Days and our upcoming sweepstakes. Also, please let me know if you’d like to continue receiving updates about Delicious Days as we release new content.

(I’m sharing this on behalf of AOL/Kraft)

Contest Name: Chicken of the Sea SuperCook

Contest URL: http://www.chickenofthesea.com/SuperCook

Deadline: August 15, 2010, 11:59 p.m.

Prizes: Win $10,000, Appear on National TV and Be Featured on a Chicken of the Sea Product

How to enter:

To enter, participants must be at least 18 years old and are encouraged to visit www.TheBalancingAct.com/contest to submit:
•    An original recipe featuring a Chicken of the Sea product
•    A 400-word or less essay on why they are someone who can turn simple Chicken of the Sea dishes into super meals that are healthy, nutritious and convenient
•    A photo of themselves
How to win:

Winners are judged on: recipe creativity; use of Chicken of the Sea product in the recipe; embodiment of Chicken of the Sea’s brand assets of health, nutrition and convenience; and taste and appearance of recipe.

Other info:

Chicken of the Sea and Lifetime Television’s “The Balancing Act” are on the hunt for the Chicken of the Sea SuperCook, someone who can turn simple dishes into super meals.  Home cooks across the country are invited to share their original recipes using any Chicken of the Sea product for a chance to win the grand prize: an appearance on “The Balancing Act,” a $10,000 cash prize and a feature on a Chicken of the Sea product package.  One first-place winner will receive $3,000 and also be featured on a product package.  Second- and third-place winners will receive a $2,500 and $2,000 cash prize, respectively.

Contest Name: Our First Blog Contest!

Contest URL: http://www.survival-cooking.com/2009/03/blog-contest-starts-today.html

Deadline: March 30 through April 5, 2009 (midnight - MDT)

Prizes:

• a $40 gift card to Amazon.com - to spent on what you want - seeds, books, groceries, etc.
• a $15 coupon/gift certificate to our online bookstore at www.newviewgroupllc.com
• a copy of “The Live Food Factor, The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet” (by Susan Schenck, Lac), a $32.95 value. Includes $3 shipping. Anyone out of the USA must paypal $10 for additional shipping.

How to enter:

1. Write a 50-100 word review (in English) about a survival or homesteading book. Leave the review as a comment under the “Blog Contest Starts Today” post, and be sure to include your name in case you’re the winner! Each comment gets you 2 entries! You can comment more than once but each comment/review needs to be about a different book.
2. Leave a comment on the “Blog Contest Starts Today” post, showing where you’ve linked about this contest and our “start post“ on YOUR blog and/or website. We’ll be checking! Each link gets you 1 entry.

How to win: Random drawing from entries will be done on April 6 2009. Winners will be notified by a blog posting on April 7 2009.

Other info:

We are so excited about our first blog contest! We recently split our homesteading blog into several catagories but are holding this “all-encompassing” homesteading contest on the cooking page. We hope many people drop by to check out our site and blog(s). Good luck!

I’ve got TWO of these wonderful books to give away to two lucky readers here. To enter to win, leave a comment on this post by Monday, January 5th. I’ll choose two winners at random and announce them the next day. Good luck!

http://www.diabetesnotes.com/win-a-copy-of-30-minutes-or-less-favorite-foods-cookbook/

http://www.jlostalker.com/2008/11/04/win-a-copy-of-latin-cooking/

I got in three copies of this great book, Latin Cooking by Ricardo Olivarez. The pages are bright and colorful, and the recipes look delicious. (You can get a look at the book cover here.) I couldn’t think of a better giveaway item for my JloStalker readers!

To win, simply leave a comment on this post by Sunday, August 17th. I’ll announce the lucky guy or gal the next day.

http://www.jessandashlee.com/win-mini-mart-a-la-carte/