Today the kid and I participated in a cupcake challenge. Every year there are a variety of community functions to attend to help raise money for all of the "extras" at his school. I have to say, it was one impressive party! To start with, each team received the following supplies:
- 3 vanilla cupcakes
- 3 chocolate cupcakes
- Blue, Green and Pink frosting
- 6 toppings (sprinkles, chips, colored marshmellows, red hots, jelly beans and jelly bellies)
- pencils to sketch out ideas
- knife
- 2 colored straws
After a little training from an expert on the art of frosting - we were off and running:
The first phase was the speed competition. Next up was the secret ingredient - which turned out to be Oreos.
The final phase was picking 2 "extras" from the creative board to use in the final cupcake.
Here are the kids masterpieces for the judges review. He ended up winning "Best Alien" - which actually upset him because isn't it clear that one of his cupcakes is the Death Star which is Star Wars - not alien! I thought it was great that everyone "won"!
This was one of my favorites - a hamburger! They cut the vanilla cupcake in half and used the chocolate cupcake as the hamburger. They used red and yellow fondant for a tomato and a slice of cheese. To finish it off they put green frosting on it for lettuce. Very creative!

