Saturday I woke up about 11, went biking (17 miles), then drove downtown to the Cupcake Smackdown 1.0. A while back, Jennie asked me to help judge. Awesome, I thought. Who wouldn’t want to judge a bunch of cupcakes? Deliciousness in a cute wrapper. It’s the Fay Wray of the food world, cute little bites of sexy deliciousness waiting to be devoured. Naturally, I agreed.
Today, a full two days later, let me give you a word of warning when she approaches you next year to do this:
SAY NO.
21 samples of cupcakes later, though, I was overstuffed.
My co-judges were overstuffed.
These dogs were overstuffed, and they just sat and watched:
We did our best and it was barely enough.
(more on tasting these later when I manage to type that thought process out)
After I struggled through, I got to enjoy some of the rest of the sights and stuff going on. Several vendors brought some beautiful displays of deliciousness:
And there was a cutest cupcake contest I didn’t get a chance to vote on, but had a wall of cute just waiting to be seen:
After the dog eating contest, there was a human cupcake eating contest as well–pretty fun and sort of silly, but still kind of gross after having eaten my five.
I don’t know how the winner (Chris ?) got 20+ down. Good job, though.
Kudos to Misohungrynow, one2one bar, and all the people who submitted cupcakes to my highly refined palette!
Your post is hysterical… I really enjoyed reading it! Thanks for including a pic of the cupcakes from Wicked Cakes! It’s a beautiful shot!
All the best,
Nicole, Wicked Cakes