On Saturday I attended the first annual
CupcakeCamp DC event. I heard about this event from my friend Cara of
Cara Lee Cakes and Cupcakes a few months ago and signed right up - An event all about cupcakes - who could resist that? At the time of signing up my two favorite cupcakes were my newly created Orange Dreamsicle (a vanilla orange cupcake filled with orange cream and topped with orange vanilla Swiss Meringue frosting) and the always popular, kitchen aid winner Chocolate Covered Strawberry (chocolate cupcake with rich ganche filling topped with strawberry Swiss Meringue frosting and a huge chocolate covered strawberry.)
There were so many people at this event - the cupcake fad is certainly not going anywhere that's for sure. My best guess is that they served at least 50 different cupcakes during the 2 and half hours. They were sent down to the crowd in 8 different rounds. After the first few I was done...way too many cupcakes and I felt bad only taking a bit and leaving the rest. I'm really not sure how the four judges did it.
The most exciting news is that I won first place by the judges vote for the Chocolate Covered Strawberry! I'm thinking I would have had a good shot at crowd favorite, but when they brought my box down to share with the crowd there were only 4 left!
Here are some pics from the event that I took - Hopefully there was someone at the event who will publish their pics and I can put a link in this entry. You can check out more pics from the event
here!
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| Chocolate Covered Strawberry |
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| Orange Dreamsicle |
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| Cara and I with our winnings! |
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| The crowd! |
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| Many half eaten cupcakes =( |
I was at the event, and your cupcakes were beautiful! I saw them when I was up on the 2nd level of Funxion but unfortunately they never made it to where I was sitting. I hope to be as good at decorating as you are some day!
ReplyDeleteThanks Maggie! I was told that the strawberry ones were eaten upstairs - only four made their way to the downstairs crowd at the end of the event =)
ReplyDeleteThanks Rene, and yeah mine were the cupcakes underneath someone else's carrier. But that's okay, my husband didn't complain when I brought home some left over ones ;)! Had such an awesome time, can't wait for next year. Your cupcakes looked Awesome, I couldn't really get one because they were gone sooo FAST! congrats on your win!
ReplyDeletethanks so much for coming to cupcakecampdc! i was able to try one of yours after the event (someone saved one for me!) and they were absolutely delicious. i don't really like fruit & chocolate, but this was seriously one of the best cupcakes I have ever eaten. and that's saying a lot considering my mom was 2nd place and my boyfriend's mom tied with you for 1st! (I swear, I had nothing to do with that ^_^)
ReplyDeleteRene, I was one of the judges, and while I don't really like chocolate, I loved your cupcakes! Kudos to you! Your cupcakes were simple beautiful and tasty and your win was very well deserved. Congratulations!
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