Cubcake Wars

I did the Norwin Lions Club Cupcake Wars this weekend. It was done to help the Kitty Sack program at Norwin School District. This is a program that helps out kids who may not have enough to eat weekends when they aren't in school.

This is the first time I have done any contest like this. It was a fun time. They raised over 4000.00 dollars to go to the fund.  All the contestants made cupcakes for all the attendees to sample, and then made special ones to be judged. This was my cc to be judged.  It was a lemon/blueberry cc.

This is a pic of my table of treats for all the visitors.

It's not a very good pic. It was hard to get close enough to get a good one. My kids don't look happy here, but they had a good time helping out.

And finally, I won 2nd place!!! First time I have ever gotten a trophy. Yeaaaaa!!!

The trophies were for the judges cupcakes. There were also awards for the kids choice,most donations..

New cupcake toy

I was in Sur La Table a few days ago and saw Cupcake Creations icing duets.

I thought this would be a great way to do the two color icing. Look at how beautiful the cupcakes are on the package.

This is what mine look like.

I am not a novice piper, believe me.  I piped out a few stars with the beginning of the bag.

Even worse in my opinion. I kept the icing to a minimum on both sides of the bag. 

There was no problem squeezing the bag. It's just the chocolate side wasn't coming out . I pushed the chocolate down into the bag by massaging the bag while pushing up on the marshmallow side.  The outside ring of the piped stars are the first ones to come out.  Even when I made it to the inside, the chocolate still isn't an even amount with the white.

I am not happy with this product. I thought it would be easier than using the two small bags inside the larger decorating bag.  I will go back to the two small inside the larger one. You can't use the bags with a regular coupler and tip either. I may try them without either and see what I get.