by Abigail on August 3, 2010
Saturday, July 30th was a good day for cupcake lovers. In Cold Spring, Minnesota their annual Cold Spring Hometown Pride Festival featured a new fun event: a cupcake-eating contest. According to SCTimes.com, the event was sponsored by Cold Spring Bakery.
What could be more fun than eating as many cupcakes as you can. The “prize” for every participant? They were given the extra cupcakes as a special treat to enjoy. Cold Spring Bakery baked 30 dozen cupcakes for the event. Winners were awarded a $100 gift certificate to Cold Spring Bakery and a t-shirt. The cupcake-eating contest expected to have about 15 contestants in each competition.
Luis Walles was the winner in the senior division, eating 12 cupcakes in just 2 minutes and 14 seconds. That’s a lot of cupcakes – eaten very quickly!
What a great event for a town festival and we think they are off to a great start with a successful first year event. Congratulations to the Cold Stone Bakery!
Entering a cupcake-eating contest? Try our helpful tips to cross that finish line…perhaps even win a prize!
Runners run. Students study. Cupcake eaters…eat! Before your cupcake-eating contest, try a bit of practice. Oh we knew this was going to be difficult to convince you to do! Anything gets a little easier if you have some advance practice. Start a few weeks ahead so you can tweak your performance.
Eat a light meal the morning of. Something healthy and well balanced to get your day started off right. Some contestants might think that by not eating – they are preparing better for the event. But not eating anything could make you light headed, jittery and nervous. Far better to eat something healthy and keep yourself in a serene state.
Finally: enjoy the whole contest experience. Part of the great fun of entering a cupcake eating contest is being around others who love cupcakes as much as you do. Sometimes winning takes a bit of luck and a faster hand (or a bigger stomach). It’s important you enjoy the experience of entering this type of contest, as eating delicious cupcakes should be pleasurable and something you want to do. Spend time getting to know your fellow contestants – we bet you’ll get to know other cupcake lovers and can talk about cupcakes with them!
(c) Benjamin Earwicker
by Abigail on July 27, 2010
Sprinkles Cupcakes plans to open 3 more locations according to their website. Passionate Sprinkles fans will now be able to find them in:
New York – February 2011
San Diego – La Jolla – Fall 2010
Washington DC – Georgetown – Fall 2010
Recently Sprinkles opened 2 new locations, a store in Chicago and another in Houston. While they’ve started with a single Beverly Hills location, by this winter Sprinkles will now have 10 great and yummy locations across the U.S.A.. Now isn’t it wonderful to know you can reach out and find a cupcake just about anywhere as you go about your day? We think this is terrific news!
Currently Sprinkles has locations in:
Beverly Hills
Chicago
Dallas
Newport Beach
Phoenix – Scottsdale
San Francisco – Palo Alto
This sophisticated and scrumptious cupcakery is known for using the best ingredients and making yummy cupcakes. Popular at parties, galas and special events – Sprinkles has many celebrity friends that enjoy their cupcakes.
With 10 stores soon to be open, we wonder what the coming year will bring for Sprinkles? Will they open more stores in other great locations? Or create bigger stores in the locations they have now? One thing is for certain – with Sprinkles you can always count on yummy cupcakes ideal for that party or treat to brighten your day.
(c) photo by Michael Lorenzo
by Abigail on July 22, 2010
This week CNN reported on cupcakes and cupcake bakeries especially for guys. What a great idea!
There’s Butch Bakery in New York that has been open now for 9 months. You won’t find a single “cute” or pink, frothy cupcake around. Lots of yummy cupcakes available made with guy type of ingredients like beer, bacon and pretzels. We can see a lot of guys going for cupcakes like those!
At their website you’ll see the sloagan “Butch it up, These ain’t your Grandma’s cupcakes Buttercup.” Everything about the Butch Bakery is fun, unique and totally guy!
The Butch Bakery cupcakes look masculine, with a thick layer of frosting under a chocolate disc. The chocolate disc has a pattern that is manly – perhaps a camo, plaid or houndstooth pattern.
This New York bakery has 6 of their 12 cupcakes that have alcohol is an ingredient. Customers definetley get a sense there is alcohol in them – its not just a hint or a whisper of it in the cupcake.
Here are the Butch Bakery flavors. We got them from their website and just had to share!
Rum & Coke. A rum soaked Madagascar vanilla cake with cola Bavarian cream filling. Sounds rich and delicious.
Mojito. Rum soaked lime cake with mint white chocolate ganache. What could be better than a mojito you can bite into?
Home Run. Peanut butter cake with banana Bavarian cream & crumbled bacon. We know you don’t have to be a baseball fan to enjoy this unique treat.
Beer Run. Chocolate beer cake with beer-infused buttercream topped with crushed pretzels. Perfect with a cold glass of….beer!
Sidecar. Brandy soaked lemon cake with an orange & white chocolate ganache filling. Mmmm, we have to say these all sound delicious!
B-52. A kaluha soaked Madagascar vanilla cake with Bailey’s Bavarian filling. Rich and sweet without being “girly” sweet.
Campout. Graham cracker cake with marshmallow filling and milk chocolate ganache. Reminds us of camp, camping or sleepaway camp.
Big Papi. Cinnamon spice cake with dulce de leche filling. Sounds spicy and rich, the perfect finish to any meal or day.
Old Fashioned. Orange soaked whisky cake with lemon curd filling. Great flavors and a delicious cupcake.
Driller. Maple cake with crumbled bacon and milk chocolate ganache. Somehow this reminds us of a breakfast with all the fixin’s. What could be better?
Jackhammer. Chocolate cake with chocolate hazelnut filling and hazelnut buttercream. Rich, sweet and perfect flavors to go together smoothly.
Tailgate. Caramel cake with salted caramel swirl with vanilla buttercream.
Owner David Arrick is a former attorney who was laid off in 2007. At 40 he decided it was time for a career change. He wanted to do something with cupcakes – but also wanted to do something that wasn’t typical. We think his guy themed cupcakes are rather unique! His cupcakes offer delicious flavors and lots of fun – perfect for that Super Bowl party, birthday or other guy themed celebration.
The Butch Bakery today ships cupcakes across the world. They sell their cupcakes online and bake from a commercial kitchen.
