Drum roll please!

The winners of the first ever Capital Cupake Camp are………

Best in Show ~ “Red Velvet Purse” by Michelle Morrison!!

Best Chocolate ~ “Before 9 Minipops” by L’Oven!!

Best Decorated ~ The “Oreo Sunrise” by Kristen LaFrance!!

Most Unique ~ “Irish Car Bomb” by Anne Patenaude!!

The judges added one last item that they felt was deserving of the attention:

Honourable Mention for tastiness ~ “Lemony Lemon” by Colleen Forer!!

Thanks so much to all of our wonderful bakers!! Your cupcakes were divine and there was barely a crumb left at the end of the event!

Thanks as well to our FABULOUS judging team! Gay Cook, China Doll, Giacomo Panico, & Michael Bhardwaj!!! You made it through a large number of cupcakes and chose fantastic winners!!

Kathryn & the Jack Purcell Community Centre, thank you for absolutely everything you did to help us!

Big Thanks also go out to:

• The Woman Alive team who kept watch on the main floor and raised some extra funds for the charity by selling some lovely cupcakes!
• Starbucks Elgin for the coffee!
• The members of the community who showed up to eat cupcakes!! You were considerate and hungry for cupcakes! YOU made this event a great success!!

Cupcake Judges!

On Sunday our amazing team of judges will have the opportunity to taste all of the amazing cupcakes that have been entered into our Capital Cupcake Camp competition!

This is your chance to see who you have to impress with your cupcake creations!

China Doll

The one! The only! Sweet Lady Cupcake! China Doll ventures away from her home base of Shanghai Restaurant and comes to Capital Cupcake Camp to indulge her sweet tooth and help us decide who walks away a winner!

Michael Bhardwaj

In Town and Out host Michael Bhardwaj’s began his career with the CBC five years ago. Since then, he’s contributed to local and national shows, including Ottawa Morning, The Current and Definitely Not the Opera. Today, Michael is happy to call In Town and Out his home. Every Saturday morning from 6 to 9, he brings you a mix of local events and music to start the weekend on the right note.

Giacomo Panico

Giacomo is a reporter in the CBC Ottawa Radio newsroom. He’s also the official newsreader for Saturday morning’s In Town and Out show, where he spends just as much time keeping host Michael Bhardwaj in check. Giacomo is a native Ottawan who enjoys discovering how things and people work, cycling, long walks up to Nepean Point, and good food, which is a direct result of being the son of the world’s best cooking mother.

These are your judges! Are you ready? Set? Start Baking!!!

Are your cupcakes better??

Do you have what it takes to take top honours at Capital Cupcake Camp?

You have 4 chances to win! Thanks to your votes our official categories for the 2009 Capital Cupcake Camp competition are:

• Best in Show
• Most Unique
• Best Decorated
• Best Chocolate

We hope you’ll enter your cupcakes into the competition! Be sure to register before Friday, March 27th!

We have some great prizes for our Cupcake winners and some door prizes including:

• 2 tickets to Alex Cuba at Centrepointe Theatre!
• 2 tickets to the Grammy Award winning Blind Boys of Alabama at Dominion Chalmers United Church!
• Mayfair Theatre Membership plus two passes!
• Oresta Facial and LipKiss Lipgloss!
• and more!!!

Blind Boys of Alabama:

Alex Cuba: