Blame It on the Ah-Ah-Ah-Alcohol

My Dear, Dear Ruthie. What an amazing hostess she was for IronCupcake:Milwaukee's BOOZE challenge. To say it was a big night would be a massive understatement. Just over a year ago, Chef Jeff and I decided it would be fun to have a little bake-off. Me, him, a couple friends and some pretty nasty wasabi cupcakes.



Fast-forward to last night. Even last month we handed out about 100+ tickets. Knowing that we have gotten some incredible press in the last month I printed THREE HUNDRED TICKETS, assuming that it would be MORE than enough. WRONG! We probably had 350 to even, possibly 400 people in attendance last night.



With all of those voters and tasters and more than 30 different cupcakes to try, it was Alicia's 1st Date Cupcake that took home the popular vote. And she didn't just kind of win, she knocked it out of the park with about 1/3 of the vote.



There were so many new friends and so many different cupcakes, it would be impossible to properly identify who everyone was or to even show all of the cupcakes. So I am going to share a few here and invite you to visit my FLICKR pool or scroll to the end of this post for a slide show.



Irma Dinka, our IronCupcake:Chicago hostess brought her adorable hubs and her gorgeous girls. Look how cute he is. Thanks for making the trip Dinka Family!



The Blue-Chello cupcake was by new Iron Cupcaker Vance. He definitely got the concept of presentation and competition. Nice Job, Vance!



Blame it on the vodka, blame it on the henny
Blame it on the blue tap got you feeling dizzy
Blame it on the ah-ah-ah-alcohol, blame it on the ah-ah ah-ah Ash-ley!



OMG! How do you not LOVE this diarama that Liz set up with Ken and the Scuba cuppie!?



Beware the deceptive Poison Apple cupcake, an apple cupcake spiked with Jack Daniels! So, Cathy N., do we eat this or run?? :-)



Do you think someone should tell Jeff that Ruthie is a dude?

Stay tuned in the coming weeks as Chef Jeff, the Tally Ho and a few others IC'ers have a meeting of the cupcake minds to see what we can do to make this event even more fun and run more smoothly now that it isn't just a dozen folks gathered in a restaurant lounge. Thanks Milwaukee for making Iron Cupcake such an overwhelming success!




Next Challenge: VEGAN a/o GLUTEN-FREE with Beans & Barley
Monday, July 20