Sugar Rush: Cupcake Competition Winners

I love eating cupcakes. And I love judging cupcake competitions because I love eating cupcakes. I usually feel a little sick to my stomach around cupcake #15, but I always get a second wind.

Saturday's Sugar Rush had 17 cupcakes in the competition. And I tried every single one. I have to, it's my job. I need to find the best cupcake.





After careful consideration and multiple tastes and re-tastes, here are the winners:

Best Taste

1st Place - Little Miss Cupcake by Tiffany

2nd Place - Sweet Bite by Samantha Buchanan
(also my favorite cupcake)

3rd Place - [Desi]gn Cakes & Cupcakes by Desiree Massei

Best Design

1st Place - Yummie's Cupcakes by Janice Meiners

2nd Place - Meli's Cupcakes

3rd Place - Cupcakes by Veronica

People's Choice

Meli's Cupcakes

Thank you to everyone who came out to support Orangewood Children's Foundation and eat cupcakes. I love it when cupcakes can help raise money for a good cause.

Let me close with a photo of my niece who enjoyed looking at the cupcakes, but not eating them (it's tough being a baby). Isn't she a doll?

Sugar Rush: a cupcake extravaganza! is almost here

Sugar Rush: a cupcake extravaganza! is just around the corner. Join fellow cupcake lovers for a free afternoon full of cupcakes, a cupcake competition, food trucks (Kogi BBQ, The Burnt Truck, and Just Chillin' Ice Cream Truck), activities for kids and adults, music, shopping, and lots and lots of sugar! The event benefits Orangewood Children's Foundation in Orange.

When : Saturday, January 29, 2011 11am-3pm

Where : Piecemaker's Parking Lot (1720 Adams Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92627)

If you're interested in being a vendor or would like to be entered in the cupcake competition, contact the event organizer, Shastin (714-641-3112 or shastinf@hotmail.com).

Guests will receive 4 tickets for each $5 donated to Orangewood Children's Foundation. One ticket = one mini cupcake. Each cupcake vendor will have 200-300 mini cupcakes, so make sure you arrive early to get your choice of cupcakes.

I'll be there eating lots of cupcakes in the cupcake competition along with fellow judges Kim and Jason from Saturday Night Foodies and cake artist, John Jennison. Hope to see you there!