Cupcake Activist Shirts

My husband agreed to go along with our team name of "Cupcake Activists" for the Muddy Buddy if he could design our shirts. The night before our race we worked for hours on our shirts. They turned out great! The front has my husband's cupcake logo--a cupcake with two lightning bolts underneath. On the back we stenciled my website so that everyone we passed during the race could see it.

Muddy Buddy Cupcakes

Yesterday was the day that the Cupcake Activists ruled the Muddy Buddy! For the third year in a row, my husband and I competed in the Muddy Buddy. This race consists of a 6-7 mile course of mountain biking and trail running. It is a team race where you leap-frog between riding the bike and running. At the end of the course is a 100-foot mud pit. You have to crawl through the mud pit, on your stomach, to the finish line. We had a great time and even improved our time from the previous year by five minutes! It must have been because we were fueled by cupcakes!
This year we chose the team name "Cupcake Activists." We designed t-shirts (pictures coming soon) and I baked cupcakes. Behold...Muddy Cupcakes!

These cupcakes consisted of a triple chocolate fudge cake, milk chocolate frosting, chocolate graham cracker crumbles, and a gummy worm on top. I was going to use Oreos for the mud, but these graham crackers had a lighter color, closer to the color of mud.

The purpose of being a cupcake activist is to spread the love of cupcakes. I baked plenty of cupcakes to hand out to our fellow racers and friends. After pushing your body for an hour or so, a cupcake was the perfect reward!

My friend's daughter couldn't resist eating the gummy worm first. Who am I kidding?.... I ate the gummy worm first too!

Being covered in mud didn't stop anyone from eating these cupcakes. The good thing was that the cupcakes were the same color as the mud so you couldn't tell when you were eating mud. They were delicious!

I'm already counting down the days until next year's race. I wonder what kind of cupcakes I will make for 2009.

New Website

I am getting serious about my blog! I have purchased the web address for my website. My new web address is www.cupcakeactivist.com. The difference is that "blogspot" is gone. You can still access my website through the old address, but you can save your fingers by typing my new address and bookmarking the page. Happy Halloween!

This weekend I will be sharing cupcakes with racers in the Muddy Buddy. Look for me handing out "muddy" cupcakes. My husband and I will also be racing in the event.