by Abigail on August 3, 2010
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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 29, 2010
Hey cupcakers! There’s a fun, new cupcake challenge out there you’ve just got to try. And it’s getting ready to start up for August – so get those baking pans a ready!
The Sweetest Kitchen has a new Mystery Box Cupcake Challenge. On the 1st of the month (every month) their challenge opens. They list a mystery ingredient and cupcakers need to compete by creating yummy cupcakes from this ingredient. Oh the possibilities we can see! This sounds so exciting and fun! We know many of you cupcakers are getting ready as we speak.
Cupcakers have 20 days to create their cupcakes. After that, all entries are posted on the blog and there is a poll for visitors to vote on their favorite cupcakes. The voting is open for five days, lots of time for fellow cupcakers and cupcake fans to pick and select their favorites from the month’s mystery batch.
When the voting has ended, 5 top cupcakes will be selected (that have received the most votes). These yummy cupcakes will go into a random drawing. And a lucky winner will be chosen from these great and scrumptious 5.
Our Top Tips for Cupcakers:
Know your ingredients. If you haven’t baked with something (a new ingredient), be patient with yourself and let yourself try a few batches to get it right. The better you know your ingredients – the stronger chance you’ll have of success.
Cupcakes don’t always have to be cute and sweet. We’ve seen lots of original and sometimes quite unusual cupcakes out there in contests and competitions. Every cupcaker has their own unique take on what a cupcake should taste like. Pair ingredients with complimentary ones and you could have a winner on your hands. Pair them with ingredients that clash – or simply don’t melt in your mouth – and you’ve got a cupcake mess instead.
Presentation matters. It’s a fact that cupcakes are often “cute.” Remember this when creating your cupcakes. Cupcakes don’t always have to be cutesy but they should be presentable. People may want to make them for a party or a special occasion. Your recipe is more likely to be chosen when it has a bit of eye-appeal.
Read the rules. Every competition or challenge has rules. One competition we saw recently put “ease of preparation” at 50% of the judge’s possible vote. Keep the rules of a competition or challenge in mind as you create your recipe. Your cupcake could be delicious and yummy but if it doesn’t follow the rules – it just doesn’t fit their qualifications and sadly – it probably won’t get picked.
So August 1st is just a few days away – get excited and put your thinking caps on! That mystery ingredient will be posted shortly and you can get to creating those great cupcakes. Good luck to all of the cupcakers and let us know if you enter – and let us know if you win the Mystery Box challenge!
by Abigail on July 15, 2010
(c) photo Fernando Mengoni
Chicagoans are in for a sweet treat that just doesn’t come along all the time: a cupcake eating contest. According to ChicagoNow.com, Bleeding Heart is an organic bakery that is opening their third and largest location at Lincoln and Southport Avenues. At this very location, they’ll have a community café. So to celebrate the Grand Opening, they’re holding this fun and unique cupcake eating contest you just won’t want to miss!
The cupcake eating contest is open for both children and adults. It starts at 2 p.m. on Saturday. It is timed, so enjoy those sweet treats – quickly! Prizes for “most creative eater” from the delicious gourmet burger place Kuma’s Corner and also the tattoo shops, The Alley and Taylor Street Tattoo.
The Bleeding Heart Bakery is home to lots of yummy cupcakes, including “Plain Jane chocolate raspberry” vegan cupcakes, “Fancy Schmancy ginger mint mojito” cupcakes and other sweet and unique treats. The bakery offers gluten-free, soy-free and other types of treats that are sure to please distinctive palates or those with allergies or other needs.
What a great contest! Good luck to all of those Chicago cupcake lovers!
Source: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/redeye-wrigleyville/2010/07/wrigleyville-biz-spot-bleeding-heart-bakery-coming-soon-to-lakeview.html
