The Great Valentine’s Day Cupcake Challenge: the results
UPDATE: Okay, so the results are in. And yes, I know, I know, this is just a bit of fun, not a competition, but Toria has chosen her faves:
1st Heather’s from Eggs, Cream and Honey. They look mouthwateringly gorgeous and I want to stuff my face with them! Yum
2nd Mummy Limited’s heart cupcakes. Loving the sparkliness with the glitter and hearts that look fab on the cream frosting. Too pretty to eat so that’s why 2nd
3rd Rosie Scribble’s cupcakes for their drizzley randomness and nowt to do with the subliminal cakes. Promise
Happy Valentine’s Day! Romance is alive and well at English Towers this morning and after swearing blind that we weren’t going to do anything for V-day, I was woken from my slumber with a kiss and an armful of beautiful rosebuds.
On to the challenge then. Luckily, my beautiful mate V from Scrummy Cupcake has volunteered to judge. I’ll keep adding them on as fast as I can so you can see every single entry. Apologies for the differing sizes, but if you try and enlarge the smaller ones, they just get all distorted. Let’s roll ‘em out then…
First up, we have Amy Lane’s beautiful Valentine’s cupcakes:
Jelly Monster’s gorgeous red velvet cupcakes with marshmallow cream cheese frosting:
Drina’s cute pink little cupcakes:
2nd (too good to eat)!!!:
Mummy Limited’s fabulous heart cupcakes:
Working Mum on the Verge’s frankly stunning cupcakes made for Bloggers for Haiti (she raised £100!):
Special prize for being the youngest competitor!:
Little Miss Working Mum on the Verge’s beauties too:
Knackered Mother is next with her beautifully decorated little babies (I’ve got my eye on the marshmallow ones at the back):
Snaffles Mummy added Lovehearts – perfect!:
Tara at Sticky Fingers made these stunning cupcakes with her daughter:
And so did Rosie Scribble:
and here’s Madame Scribble’s less than subtle attempt at subliminal messaging for the judge:
Winner!:
And here are Heather’s from Eggs Cream and Honey – I love the texture on these :
There are from Hannah at HomeBaked online (whose red velvet cupcakes were much redder than mine!):
and here are Not such a yummy mummy’s beautiful bunch of cupcakes:
And here are Jo’s stunning pink cupcakes (no boob jokes, Jo, I promise):
and these gorgeously coloured cupcakes are from Lucy over at Teen Baker:
and these heart-shaped beauties are from Erica at Little Mummy:
These are from Me, The Man and The Baby (I love that your hubby thought you’d cut yourself!):
And these are from fellow Disney blogger and all-round good egg, Exmoor Jane (I want some of that food colouring stash you’re hiding!):
These are from Helen (@ChepstowCupcake) via Twitter:
These lovelies are from Audrey, c/o SWSurreyHomeEd.co.uk
And these gorgeous sparkly heart-adorned babies are from Little Dude’s Mummy:
And this enormous great beauty is from the incredibly talented daughter of Toyjeanius:
72 Responses to “The Great Valentine’s Day Cupcake Challenge: the results”
http://www.homebakedonline.com/2010/02/great-cupcake-challenge-valentines.html
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happy Valentine’s Day!
Kristin
Thanks xx
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Am totally bookmarking this post as future inspiration & something to aspire to!!
can I do a 1st 2nd and 3rd?
PS I want Audrey’s cake stand!
Brilliant competition. I enjoyed looking at them all and have lots of ideas for the future. Well done everyone!
(This is my Rustie Lee impression, it’s just a shame you can’t see it.)
I loved Heather’s too. They just make you want to sink you teeth into them.
Happy Days Cous !!!
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