RSPCA Cupcake Day recap
The Cupcake Bakeoff for the RSPCA Cupcake Day went well at work today. We had a good assortment of cupcakes – along with mine there was also carrot, lemon, banana, and vanilla with different toppings. There was some tough competition from bumblebee cupcakes (see below) but the fondant toppers and the booze in mine got me over the line and I won the bakeoff. Sweet!
Jennie organised a great event. There was a good variety of cupcakes, and a really good turnout with many people coming from other floors/branches. Most of the cupcakes sold at morning tea time, with the leftovers gradually disappearing by the end of the day.
And money wise, we raised over $240 for the RSPCA – a good result!
August 18, 2009 @ 8:21 am
congrats agnes! your cupcakes look awesome – those animals are gorgeous!!
August 18, 2009 @ 9:59 am
Congratulations! Woo!
August 18, 2009 @ 6:19 pm
Yay! Awesome, your hard work payed off! I do like the bumblebee ones too, and the paw prints 🙂
August 18, 2009 @ 6:24 pm
Way to go Agnes. Your cupcakes sound and look amazing. I love the toppers.
Question, did you make the fondant? If so, do you have a recipe? Does regular food dye work to colour the fondant?
August 18, 2009 @ 10:52 pm
jfox: thanks! It was a bit strange watching people eat the animals – all that effort and they were gone in two bites (sob!). A couple of people kept theirs though, which was really sweet.
Conor: thanks again for posting that recipe! 😀 I had so much fun making the cupcakes and the toppers.
Lisa: The bumblebee ones were made by a colleague's daughter – so I don't think they should have been in the competition at all. Fortunately I just managed to squeeze them out! 😉
Thanh: I bought the fondant from Cake Deco – I think it was about $9 for a big bag (I still have about 2/3 of it). I used gel paste food colouring – from what I've read online normal food colouring is too liquid and will mess with the consistency of the fondant.
August 19, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
Fantastic effort. Along side all the other cupcakes yours really do take the cake…pardon the pun! those bumble bees are pretty cute too. But I'm curious, how was the winner judged?
The most oooohs and ahhhs?…'cause that would be you hands down!!
August 19, 2009 @ 1:24 pm
Wow, look at all the cupcakes! I love yours the best with those adorable fondant figurines! 🙂
August 19, 2009 @ 2:53 pm
It was a great event! You've really outdone yourself 😀
August 21, 2009 @ 9:33 pm
Those are so adorable! It would have been almost too hard to eat them, they're that cute! 😛