Keep it Simple! ✨ | Cookpad Apron 2026

Cookpad Apron Challenge is here! 🚀
From March 30 to December 13, cook each week, share your recipes, collect points, and work your way towards winning the exclusive emerald green apron. 🍳💚

✅ Week 8 Theme: Keep it Simple!
📅 Dates: 18 - 24 May

This week, let's go back to what home cooking is really about — simple, comforting and made with love. 😊 We all have those days when we don't want to cook anything complicated… and honestly, that's where some of the best recipes are born!

🍳 Share a simple recipe that you love making at home. It can be:

- something quick for busy days
- a comforting family favourite
- a dish made with very basic, everyday ingredients
- or just your go-to "no stress" recipe

✨ No fancy techniques
✨ No long ingredient lists
✨ Just honest, homely cooking that anyone can try and enjoy

From a simple dal-chawal, quick sabzi, tiffin ideas, chutneys, parathas, or even a sweet made in minutes — everything is welcome as long as it's simple and delicious 💛

🏆 The race is on! Check the leaderboard and see who's cooking their way to the top! 🍳🔥
👉 https://cookpad.wasmer.app/in/challenges/13021-rice-is-nice-cookpad-apron-2026/leaderboard

🍳 How It Works:
📅 Challenge Period: 30th March to 13th December (37 weeks)
Hashtag: #CA26
Reward: An exclusive and unique Cookpad apron

🧑‍🍳 How to Win Your Apron:
⭐️ Everyone is entitled to participate in this challenge without exception.
⭐️ To receive your 2026 Cookpad apron you need to collect between 32 and 37 points by publishing one recipe per week with the hashtag #CA26
⭐️ Since 32 weekly recipes is the minimum requirement, May 10th, will be the last possible date to join the Global Apron Challenge.
⭐️ Every week we will introduce a challenge theme or a list of ingredients for you to have fun cooking with.
⭐️ Check your notifications each week for new themes.
⭐️ The recipe must be posted between Monday and Sunday of each designated week in order for the point to be counted.
⭐️ You must add one recipe each week to earn the point. Maximum number of points to be earned by week is 1 ❗️even if you publish more than 1 recipe in a week.

📋 Essential Requirements for recipes to qualify for the Challenge:
1- Main photo of the completed dish
2- At least three steps
3- At least 1 step image or video
4- All ingredients listed with quantities
5- Specified time and servings
6- Publish with hashtag #CA26

🚫 Avoid these in your recipes:
Blurred or copied photos, collages, or images with large text.
Repeating step photos or reposting old recipes.