This Sunday is the second LA Cupcake Challenge, and the Los Angeles Times has the scoop:
Precious McCall would be the first person to admit that her award-winning Paradise Cupcake doesn't sound very appealing. It's a bubble of bright orange, mandarin-flavored cake filled with whipped pineapple cream then frosted with vivid green pistachio pudding and garnished with coconut.
"People are afraid of it because the flavors are so unusual," McCall says. "I have to force it on them, and then they're like, 'Oh, my God, what is this?' It really doesn't matter if you don't like coconut or pistachio. Once I get people to try it, they love it."
McCall's not bluffing. The signature dessert from her baking business, Sugar Jones, beat dozens of entries to win best original cupcake at last year's inaugural Los Angeles Cupcake Challenge, the local food competition that's most likely to induce a diabetic coma.
This year's Cupcake Challenge, which is organized by a local company called Drink, Eat, Play, promises even tougher competition with 19 bakeries and caterers (up from 15 last year) serving 34 entries in three categories: traditional (chocolate, vanilla or red velvet), original (anything goes) and overall.
Drink:Eat:Play describes itself as: "Year-round events centered around the drinking, eating, and converting LA into a personal playground. Past events have included the LA BBQ Festival, Cupcake Challenge, 80s Prom, and in the future, the LA Beer Festival. "
May 31st they're having a "Gourmet Five Year Old Birthday" - wonder what that's all about?
Read on for more on what the bakeries plan to offer.
Here's who's entered (visit the official LA Cupcake Challenge site for all their links). Sorry for weird screenshot, not time to fix:
Also check out the Los Angeles Times LA cupcake map.
We wish we could be there but look forward to reading and salivating over all the reports!
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