With days as short as they are, it's important to start them the right way: with a healthy dose of caffeine. Everyone has their own way to get coffee into their slurping cavern: black as night and sweet as sin, buried under a layer of whipped cream, in a vacuum-walled and commute-dented carafe, or spattered across one's busiest tie. We're also looking for non-standard methods of ingesting coffee, so meat rubs, alcohol mixers, and cupcakes are all fair game as well. If it's made with coffee, it's eligible

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The Coffee Challenge is closed.

Multiple entries are accepted, but each entrant can only win one prize. Contest is open to entries from US, Canada [excluding Quebec], UK and Australia. Contest closes for entries at 11:59pm PT, February 13, 2012.