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.
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 Arbiter 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 SpicesChief 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
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