Breakfast Cake
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After judging the professional competition at Cupcake Camp OC, along with Elise, the Cupcake Activist and Tiffini from Yummy Cupcakes. I thought I might never desire another cupcake. But I was wrong… today I indulged in an adorable owl cupcake made of delicious, dense chocolate cake with creamy, chocolate buttercream frosting that my daughter and her BFF made yesterday.
I wanted to congratulate the winners of Cupcake Camp OC in both the amateur and professional competitions. As well as, Crystal, who won the cupcake eating contest by polishing off 23 cupcakes in less than 2 minutes. And let’s not forget the reason for this event: with nearly 1000 people in attendance, 90 registered bakers, 5201 cupcakes, the organizers of this event raised $9,100 to help aid El Pozo, an organization that works to raise awareness and funds to stop human trafficking.
Judging is no cake walk 🙂 – it’s difficult having so many tastes and selecting a winner by considering taste, texture, and presentation. Fortunately, each competition had three categories: Most Unique – Exotic Flavor/Ingredient, Most Orange County Inspired, and Most Childhood Inspired. The judges for the amateur competition had 52 cupcakes to taste! We had only 37. I would have to agree with the Cupcake Activist that many of the amateur cupcakes were decorated better than some of the professional entries. We didn’t sample any of them because we had to save our taste buds and tummies for our judging.
AMATEUR COMPETITION
Most unique/exotic flavor or ingredient:
Sue Ann Molina — Ube (Purple Yam) and Macapuno (coconut) Cupcakes
Most OC
inspired:
Stacie Chan, Hannah Wollmann, and Sadia Naqvi — In-N-Out burger Cupcakes
Most Childhood inspired:
Elaine Heisinger — Peanut Butter and Jelly cupcakes
In n' Out Burger cupcake
PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION
Most unique/exotic flavor or ingredient:
Sugar|Tart Desserterie — Chicken & Waffles Cupcakes
Most OC
inspired:
Meringue Bake Shop — Orange Crush Cupcakes
Most Childhood inspired:
My Delight Cupcakery – Chocolate Sundae Smile Cupcakes
- Chicken & Waffles cupcake
Oh my god, this is making me crave cupcakes! I love the photos! Do you shoot them yourself?
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Thanks, Sukhraj! And, yes, I do – with my trusty Canon SX200 IS PowerShot – who needs a DSLR 😉
What a delicious obsession:)
.-= CC Recipe´s last blog ..Crispy Roasted Edamame =-.
This inspires thoughts of taco cupcakes, pizza cupcakes, beef stroaanoff cupcakes, spaghetti cupcakes…actually, the latter sounds like winner, with clam sauce?
How cute! Love bacon anything 🙂
Fun event here, love all the creative cup cakes!
Bon appetit!
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My Delight Cupcakery’s Breakfast Cake is AMAZING!
So glad they’re just down the street from me & it’s one of their daily flavors!
Can you explain the chicken and waffles cupcake? Was it savory and what part included chicken. This has been on my mind since I first read about it.
Oh! And..I knew you’d grow to love the sweets. See!
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Shari – Hahaha, yes my girth reflects my growing taste for sweets 🙂
The Chicken & Waffles was a taste sensation of sweet and savory – the frosting being sweet, topped with a crunchy, slightly sweet waffle. The cake contained little chunks of white meat chicken, very unusual and super delicious!
What a great event you were part of! I am a complete “in and out burger” fan, so that cupcake was the cutest thing ever!!!
How incredibly creative! I wish I could have attended this event. I think I would have preferred a peanut butter and jelly cupcake (if I had to choose!)
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They all look wonderful…Congratulations to the winners 🙂
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I have yet to venture into the cupcake joyful world. What am I waiting for?
Sometimes I’m afraid I’ll fall in love with these adorable tasty cakes and overabuse ;o)
Thanks for sharing these wonderful concoctions.
Flavourful wishes,
Claudia
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Claudia – I resisted for a long time, but have been succumbing a bit recently 😉