Life As A Luttrull: Cupcake Wars

Everyone who knows Carlie, knows that she LOVES to bake. She will spend hours creating in the kitchen and decorating them to look like fancy dishes that you might find in first class restaurants. So, when I suggested we have our very own episode of Cupcake Wars for her birthday party, she was excited!

First we had to make sure everyone had lots of snacks for energy

We created our very own Cupcake Wars pantry

Each team had a 3-tiered cupcake stand to decorate as their display. We also had lots of cupcake liners, vanilla and chocolate cake mixes, strawberries, bananas, raspberry jam, honey, vanilla frosting with flavor packets, butterscotch pieces, chocolate chunks, oreos, sprinkles, glitter icing, and tons of candy!

We had plain canvas aprons and fabric markers so everyone could make their own customized Cupcake Wars apron.

When the girls arrived, they got started making their aprons

Then they came in for pizza and watched an episode of Cupcake Wars for inspiration. Unfortunately, it was the all vegan episode, so I'm not sure how much help it was. It definitely got their minds turning and left them excited to begin baking.

We drew names from a hat and split into two teams. Each team had 2 big girl helpers. The rule was that the big girls could only help. All the ideas were from the party girls! the teams were going to be scored based on Taste, Decoration, & Overall Display. Each team came up with a team name:

Sweet Tooth

Batter Warriors

Then the baking began! I had adult helpers but they weren't needed. These girls were pros and they had amazing ideas.

The results were wonderful!

Sweet Tooth's Cupcakes

(What the team wrote about their own cupcakes) This is the ChocoNature cupcake.The base is a moist chocolate fudge cake filled with delicious raspberry jam. Iced with mocha buttercream icing and vanilla buttercream. For decoration there is an oreo cookie crumble and a juicy, fat gummy worm.

This is the Strawberry Wonder cupcake. A delicate vanilla cake with strawberry and banana pieces inside. Iced with strawberry buttercream icing. To decorate there is a crisp strawberry wafer straw, strawberries, bananas, and sprinkles with a sweet, fine touch of shimmering gloss.

Sweet Tooth's full display:

Batter Warriors Cupcakes

This is our Butterscotch Chocolate cupcake. It is chocolate cake with butterscotch chips and hand whipped vanilla icing. Pink chocolate balls and a M&M top it off.