Top 10 Most Influential Food Bloggers of 2012

2012 has been an amazing year for food and food bloggers! We've seen the rise of Pinterest and the demise of Hostess. Food blogging continues to grow in popularity with more new blogs started every month and more relative newcomers rising in popularity quicker than ever. We've put together a list of the ten food blogs that were most influential via social media this past year. We looked at our index of over one thousand blogs (the largest of it's kind) to find the ten blogs whose recipes were consistently the most liked, tweeted, and especially, pinned during 2012. We've also included each blog's most popular recipe from 2012. Congrats to each of the following ten blogs!

10. My Baking Addiction www.mybakingaddiction.com Recipe: No Bake Nutella Cheesecakes
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9. Brown Eyed Baker www.browneyedbaker.com Recipe: Grasshopper Mint Chocolate Bark
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8. Spoon Fork Bacon  spoonforkbacon.com Recipe: Baked Egg Boats
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7. Joy the Baker  www.joythebaker.com Recipe: Dark Chocolate Pistachio Smoked Sea Salt Cookies
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6. Eat, Live, Run www.eatliverun.com  Recipe: hummus and avocado toasts with roasted tomatoes
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5. Two Peas & Their Pod www.twopeasandtheirpod.com Recipe: Parmesan Crusted Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich
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4. Iowa Girl Eats iowagirleats.com Recipe: My Top Secret Diet Weapon
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3. Chocolate Covered Katie chocolatecoveredkatie.com Recipe: Chocolate Frosting Shots!
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2. Skinnytaste www.skinnytaste.com Recipe: Cajun Chicken Pasta on the Lighter Side
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1. How Sweet It Is  www.howsweeteats.com Recipe: Bacon Wrapped Caramelized Sesame Asparagus
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