Indira The Sweet

Cupcake Cookoff May 18, 2008

Unfortunately, early Saturday while getting my ingredients ready for all the cupcake baking ahead of me, I started to feel ill. All week I had been battling the worst bout of allergies I have ever had. So at first I thought it was just more allergy trouble, but as the day wore on, I just began to feel worse. But I had no choice but to bake on. I just washed my hands even more than I would anyway working in the kitchen.

So after Bahareh and Jelsen left on Sunday, I crashed on my couch and napped the rest of the day. Monday came around and I felt even sicker, but I had committed myself to judging the 2nd annual Cupcake Cook off sponsored by The Brooklyn Kitchen.

Here are just is a VERY small sampling of the 29!!! entries for this competition. The “cook off” was being held at a bar in Williamsburg called Union Pool. The entrants came one by one and set aside 6 off their best for judging and then put out the rest for general consumption for the “popular” vote. I could not believe how many people entered. I had never seen so many varieties of cupcakes. I thought I was over the whole cupcake craze, but after this week, I fell a bit back in love with them. I was on one four judges and thankfully we decided to just taste 7 cupcakes each then re-taste each of our faves. It worked out much better than all four of us trying to taste 29! To be completely honest, there were several ones I REALLY did not want to taste. The other judges were, Nichelle, from the infamous cupcake blog, Cupcakes Take the Cake, comedienne Anne Carr, and Pastor Ann Kansfeld from the Greenpoint Church Food Bank. It was nice to be involved in such a fun event. You can see an expanded view of all the entries on the cupcakes take the cake blog.