Entrants visited  www.bakeoff. com or www.quericavida.com to submit their original recipes using the online Entry Form.  Fill in all information requested on the entry form completely and type your recipe, listing each recipe ingredient (including garnishes) with specific flavor, exact measurements or weights, equipment with exact dimensions or sizes and complete preparation instructions.  All entries must be received by 11:59 a.m. (central daylight time) on April 20, 2009. 

Only entries submitted via the electronic entry form provided on the websites were accepted. Entries submitted via any other method, including but not limited to U.S. Postal Service, facsimile or other express delivery services, were NOT  accepted.  Contest Sponsors and their promotion agencies were not responsible for phone, network, electronic or computer hardware or software failure, or technical failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, fraud, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by Contest Sponsors, entrants or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the promotion or by any technical or human error which may have occurred in the processing of submissions which may have damaged a user’s system or limited a participant’s ability to participate in the promotion.

General Mills could prohibit any individual from participating in the contest or winning a prize if, in its sole discretion, it determines that said individual attemped to undermine the legitimate operation of the contest by cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair practices; violate the Official Rules; or act in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner at any time during the Contest, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.  By submitting arecipe, entrants accepted all contest rules and agreed to be bound by the decisions of the judges, which will be final. Entrants also agreed that their recipe(s) become the sole property of General Mills, and General Mills reserves the right to edit, adapt, copyright, publish, transfer and use any or all of them, without compensation.  

CAUTION -- ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES) FROM ANY SUCH ENTRANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.