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Thank you everyone for coming to the First Cupcake Smackdown 1.0. I never imagined that this event would grow into the #cupcakeriot that is became. When I first approached the bar owners, I told her we just wanted to get a group of 20 people on their deck with cupcakes. Little did I know that 20 turned into over 1000 people. By 5:30, we had already hit 500 spectators. Bigger Venue, next time. If there is a next time. No comment on that yet. Once more blog posts and pictures go up, I'll repost this information with more links. If you have pictures or links I've missed, feel free to comment or email me.  And for the record, Hey Cupcake! cupcakes were judged.

 

John M. P. Knox's Photostream

Michelle Cheng's Photostream and Blog

Wandering Yew's Photostream

DigiNik's Photostream

Jack Dn's Photostream
Dawn M.'s Blog Post
Austin360's A list
Fox News Segment
SummerTX's Photostream

FoodingBlog's Photos
Giovanni's Blog Post

New Media Lab's Photos and Article

Cupcake Takes the Cake Cupcake Smackdown1.0 post

ReelMedia's Video

Ryan S.'s Photos

Fun with your Food Blog

Kelly Guerra's Blog

 


And also a BIG thank you to all of our Sponsors:

Rise and Shine Bakery
Polka Dots Bakery
Hill Country Cupcakes
Grand Dog Bakery
Austin Urban Gardens
All in One Bakeshop
Sugar Mama's
Delish
NosetoTailatHome.com
Bella Cupcake Couture
Twin Liquors
Cupprimo
Luxe Sweets
Walton's
L's Cupcakes
The Cupcake Bar
Wicked Cakes
Danger Cakes
One Last Bite
Cowgirl Cupcakes
Growing Concerns on KUT
Do512
One-2-One Bar

NosetoTailatHome.com

Bella Cupcake Couture

Walton's Fancy and Staple

 

I'm truly touched that so many people came together to put on the event. I cannot thank everyone enough. I'm sure I'm forgetting some well-deserved person on this list. Special thanks to:
 

  • All-In-One Bake shop for supplying the cupcakes for the eating contest - Human division.
  • Grand Dog Bakery for supplying the cupcakes for the eating contest - Canine Division.
  • Austin Urban Gardens for supplying all the plates and utensils for the smackdown.
  • Twin Liquors for the very nice gift basket.
  • Thank you to Cecila Nasti from Growing Concerns at KUT for sponsoring the trophies.
  • Hill Country Cupcakes, Cupprimo, Sugar Mama's, Be My Cupcake, and the Cupcake Bar for providing items for the auction.
  • Traveling Bistro, Cupprimo, L's, Hill Country Cupcake, Delish, PopSoCool, NadaMoo, and Wicked for bringing their yummy treats!
  • VERY special thanks to Ryan (nosetotailathome.com), April (TheHungryEngineer), Kristi (AustinFarmtoTable.com), Brian (Keresspices.com), Aaron (AustinEpicurean.com), Kay (@atxfoodnews), Veek Newton, Monica Ortiz, Jeffery, Rebecca Otis, and the Wine and Food Foundation Volunteers. The event could not have happened without you. You were all truly amazing.
  • Also, very big thanks to our judges. Thank you to Uchi and Trio at the Four Seasons for letting us borrow your chefs on a busy Saturday night.
  • Rise and Shine Bakery for their generous donation to the event.
  • Thank you to Ariel Nicole for providing the music.
     

And onto the results:

Best Storefront Chocolate - Walton's
Best Storefront Vanilla - Sugar Mama's
Best Storefront Baker's Choice - Sugar Mama's - The Elvis - banana cake with peanut butter cream
Best Catered Chocolate - Cowgirl Cupcakes
Best Catered Vanilla - L's
Best Catered Baker's Choice - The Cupcake Bar- Tres Leches with Whipped Cream Icing and topped with Toasted Coconut
Best Amateur Chocolate - Amy Blodgett
Best Amateur Vanilla - Laura Korris
Best Amateur Freestyle - Erica Bommarito - Banana cake swirled with Nutella with a Nutella Buttercream
Best Storefront - Sugar Mama's
Best Catered - Cowgirl Cupcakes
Best Amateur - Erica Bommarito
Best Overall Chocolate - Amy Blodgett (amateur class)
Best Overall Vanilla - Blake Howard (amateur class)
Best Overall Baker's Choice - The Cupcake Bar (catered class) - Tres Leches with Whipped Cream Icing and topped with Toasted Coconut
Cutest Contest (voted by the public for $1 per vote) - One Last Bite Catering with 151 votes
Most Popular - Walton's
Eating Contest Canine division - Logan owned by Cara - 3 cupackes in 11.4 seconds.
Eating Contest Human Division - Chris Floyd 13 cupcakes in 2 minutes in round 2. Holy CRAP!

 

Second place in Storefront Baker's Choice: Walton's- Key-Lime Cake with Mango-Lime Buttercream topped with Toasted Coconut & and a White Chocolate sand-dollar

Second place in Catered Baker's Choice: Cowgirl Cupcakes- coconut cream - coconut cake with coconut butter cream and toasted coconut flakes

Second place in Amateur Freestyle: Kelly Guerra- confirming flavor

Second place in Storefront Vanilla: PolkaDots

Second place in Catered Vanilla: Cowgirl Cupcakes

Second place in Amateur Vanilla: Blake Howard

Second place in Storefront Chocolate: Sugar Mama's

Second place in Catered Chocolate: One Last Bite

Second place in Amateur Chocolate: Mindy Bayer


Judges again:

Amateur Class:
Teddy Babcock - Funwithyourfood.com
Peter Tsai – FoodingBlog.com - the Foodingblog photographer \ writer with a taste for fun
Paloma Efron– Paloma Custom Cakes - Cake decorating goddess. And damn fine baker, too.
Kristen Speyer - Betty Crocker in disguise - Are you looking at my cupcakes?
Jenna Noel – Associate Publisher of Edible Austin - I drink frosting for breakfast.

Catered Class:
Michelle Cheng – foodieisthenewforty.com - Attorney and Cupcake at Law

Chris Palomares - Chow Chow Connoisseur - Opa to cupcakes!
Ryan Snedgar - wotonmera.com- "Ryan, Chief Arb
iter of Cupcakes"
Kristin Owens- Do512 - It's not the size of the Cup it's the shake of the Cake
Marshall Wright - eatthislens.com - food writer/photographer


 

Storefront:
Jessica Maher – Spoon & Co. - Eats cupcakes in a single bite

Lisa Lawless – Lisaiscooking.com -Red head with a palate for red velvets

Chris Speyer - Chief taster of the Speyer Ranch - Will judge for booze

Brian Dorman - Keresspices.com

Darrell Joseph – BellaVerdiFarms - I grow cupcake farms.


Finals Round:
Todd Duclephan – Executive Chef at Trio/Four Seasons - I could judge cupcakes in my sleep.

Nataya Anderson – FeteandFeast.com -The REAL Everyday Foodie
Phillip Speer – Pastry Chef at Uchi -Want some Uni on your cupcake?
Jodi Bart – Tasty Touring and KGSR - Has anyone invented a cupcake top?

Devrah Otten - winner of the tasting competition portion of That Takes The Cake(2008 and 2009) - Cupcake Mistress of the Delicious.

 

Deets and info:

Are you ready? Get Set! and BAKE! It is time for Austin to have a Cupcake Smackdown1.0, pitting icing against icing, pitting cake against cake. we'll see whose cupcakes reign supreme. Cupcake Smackdown will be held on August 1, 4-7 pm at One-2-One Bar. The tentative activities for Cupcake Smackdown 1.0 are a blind tasting contest of all the store front bakeries, an amateur baking contest, a cupcake silent auction, the people's popular vote, and a cupcake eating contest for both dogs and humans! Live music will be performed by Arielle Nicole. 

For the blind tasting, a panel of local chefs and foodies will be chowing down on vanilla, chocolate, and a baker's choice cupcake from each of the eight store front shops. Each cupcake will be judged on the flavor, texture, and aroma.

Other activities include a bake off in which amateur bakers can enter either the vanilla, chocolate, or freestyle cupcake competition. There will be two categories for the cupcake eating contest: one for human participants and one for canine participants. Canines will be eating pupcakes for speed (not quantity).  Ginger carrot pupcakes provided by Grand Dog Bakery.  Spectators will also be invited to vote for the People's Choice award for any of the store front bakeries, vote for the cutest cupcake at the smackdown, and also participate in a cupcake silent auction. Proceeds to go to Wine and Food Foundation of Texas.

The event is kid and dog friendly. The last day to submit entry forms for amateur bakers' class is July 22nd. Pre-entries for the cupcake eating contest are being accepted and will be accepted until the day of the event pending space. Entry forms for the eating contests are available at All-In-One Bakeshop on 183.  Each entry for the eating contests costs $10. Entries for the amateur baking contest is free. Please bring water and a spray bottle to keep your dog cool.  It will be hot.  Admission to the event is free.  Please tip your bartender.

Additional details: 

Panel of Judges:

Amateur Class:
Paloma Efron
Teddy Babcock
Jenna Noel
Peter Tsai
Kristen Speyer

Catered Class:
Marshall Wright
Michelle Cheng
Kristin Owens
Ryan Snedgar
Chris Palomares

Storefront:
Jessica Maher
Darrell Josephs
Chris Speyer
Brian Dorman
Lisa Lawless

Final round:
Phillip Speer
Todd Duclephan
Natanya Anderson
Devrah Otten
Jodi Bart

We have two new judges on board with us:
Teddy Babcock - Funwithyourfood.com
Brian Dorman - Chef and Founder of Keres Spices

Chief Data Manager: Kristi Willis from Austin Farm to Table
Master of Ceremonies: Ryan Adams from Nosetotailathome.com
Eating Contest Organizer: April from the Hungry Engineer

Also, we have a new and very AWESOME prize for the winners of the best chocolate, best vanilla, and best freestyle/baker's choice from the Wine and Food Foundation of Texas.
The overall winner for Best Chocolate, Best Vanilla and Best Freestyle will be featured in our statewide, interactive online cookbook, (www.winefoodcooking.com) Plate & Vine Interactive Cookbook which can be sold over all the country (online). This cookbook features celebrity chefs throughout Texas and offers amazing interactive features (emails shopping lists to your phone, etc).

That being said, those three Chefs must be willing to share their recipes so we can post them on the cookbook, and provide us with short bio, digital headshot, etc. They will also need to sign some legal paperwork. Proceeds from cookbook sales benefit the Foundation. The remainder of the winners (in all three categories) we will post on the Foundation website (without recipes) but photos, links to their businesses etc.

  • Human category: Eating contest entries will be limited to the first 25. You must bring your form & fee to April, the Hungry Engineer, by 5:45 pm Aug 1st.
  • Dog category: eating contest entries limited to the first 15.  You must bring your form and fee to April, the Hungry Engineer, by 5:45pm August 1st.
  • Eating contests will be for SPEED.
  • No more entries for the amateur classes. Sorry, gotta wait until next year.
  • Human and dog friendly dogs (and humans for that matter) at the event only please.
  • Cameras and video camera encouraged.
  • There will be food vendors at the event. 
  • There may be gluten free cupcakes available. Still pending. 


Email Jennie@misohungrynow.com to participate, enter yourself or your dog, enter your cupcakes, or to sponsor the event.

Schedule:

4:00 - 6:30 - Live Music, People's Popular Vote, Cutest Cupcake Vote, Silent Auction

4:00 - 5:00 - 1st round blind tasting of cupcake entries

5:30 - 6:00 - Final round of blind cupcake tasting

6:00 - 6:30 - Canine eating cupcake contest - pupcakes provided by Grand Dog Bakery

6:30 - 7:00 - Human eating cupcake contest - cupcakes provided by All-In-One Bakeshop

Here's the list of judges for Cupcake Smackdown1.0. I will be tasting, but not judging.
 

Jennie Chen - MisoHungryNow.com & MakeitwithMoonshine.com - Will shake my cupcakes for frosting.
Nataya Anderson – FeteandFeast.com -The REAL Everyday Foodie
Michelle Cheng – foodieisthenewforty.com - Attorney and Cupcake at Law

Jessica Maher – Spoon & Co. - Eats cupcakes in a single bite

Peter Tsai – FoodingBlog.com - the Foodingblog photographer \ writer with a taste for fun

Lisa Lawless – Lisaiscooking.com -Red head with a palate for red velvets
Todd Duclephan – Executive Chef at Trio/Four Seasons - I could judge cupcakes in my sleep.
Chris Palomares - Chow Chow Connoisseur - Opa to cupcakes!
Paloma Efron– Paloma Custom Cakes - Cake decorating goddess. And damn fine baker, too.
Ryan Snedgar - wotonmera.com- "Ryan, Chief Arbiter of Cupcakes"

Phillip Speer – Pastry Chef at Uchi -Want some Uni on your cupcake?
Jodi Bart – Tasty Touring and KGSR - Has anyone invented a cupcake top?

Devrah Otten - winner of the tasting competition portion of That Takes The Cake(2008 and 2009) - Cupcake Mistress of the Delicious.
Kristin - Do512 - It's not the size of the Cup it's the shake of the Cake

Jenna Noel – Associate Publisher of Edible Austin - I drink frosting for breakfast.
Chris Speyer - Chief taster of the Speyer Ranch - Will judge for booze

Kristen Speyer - Betty Crocker in disguise - Are you looking at my cupcakes?
Marshall Wright - eatthislens.com - food writer/photographer

Darrell Joseph – BellaVerdiFarms - I grow cupcake farms.
Cecilia Nasti - KUT Growing Concerns - She eats from the garden and savors life (and would grow cupcakes if she could find some seeds).

Penny De Los Santos - Senior contributing photographer 4 Saveur Magazine - Travel & Food Photographer pennydelossantos.wordpress.com

 

Sponsors include:
Rise and Shine Bakery
Sugar Mama's
Polka Dots Bakery
Mad Cakes
Luxe Sweets
L's Cupcakes
The Cupcake Bar
Hill Country Bakery

Wicked Cakes
Cupprimo
Grand Dog Bakery

Danger Cakes
Austin Urban Gardens
All in One Bakeshop

Growing Concerns on KUT

Do512

NosetoTailatHome.com

Bella Cupcake Couture

Walton's Fancy and Staple