Cupcake Wars party!

Maggie had her 10th birthday party this weekend and she had decided she wanted a Cupcake Wars party a few weeks ago.  

This is one of my favorite shows and the kids would sometimes watch as well so we got to planning. 

This was quite an easy party for me....very little prep and she didn't want a cake since they would be making so  many cupcakes.  That part did make me a bit sad i must admit, and when I told her that the day of the party she said she didn't care she didn't have one, but really just didn't want me to have to go through making one when they would have lots of cake already!  

We decided on two teams....

Team purple..

And team pink..

I made cute tshirts for each team, these proved to be great aprons as well!

Since it was Maggie's birthday the theme of the cupcake wars was "Maggie"

So all of the cupcakes had to be made with food that Maggie likes.  

Here was the ingredient table..

After the girls got there Joe showed them a video that explained the show to them and how it worked...although most of them had already seen the show.  

We split them into teams and off they went baking...

Each team got a turn at the mixer making their batter..

while the other team made their cupcake plans...

Here is our team purple..

And the pink team...

There were some interesting items the girls could choose from which made me glad that I wasn't a judge!

But both teams picked pretty cupcake appropriate toppings overall...

Both teams were super serious about their baking and took the entier 2 hours to make them

Maggie didn't have enough work space to crush her candycanes so she went to the floor..

trying to be the first ones in the oven..

I made the girls take a quick smile break so i would have a few pictures of them looking at me!

Purple team was first in the oven..

pink team wasn't far behind..

Then the girls began on their icing....which proved to be quite messy!!  I think I should have given a "bagging icing" lessson before!

decorating time....

The birthday girl...

All finished and waiting to be judged!

Pink teams final product...

Purple and their cupcakes..

Both teams before the judging begins!  Such a fun group of girls.  

And the judges are ready!  

Joe and Owen dressed up for the judging

The girls had to name their cupcake and give descriptions of it to the judges 

Owen was in cupcake heaven!  Joe told him to just try a bit of each one but he ended up eating most of them.  He also played the part of Florien on the show who has a very strong French ( i think) accent and it was HYSTERICAL.  And spot on. 

Hearing the feedback..

I was afraid they would need to spit something out or get sick with a few of them but they thought all the cupcakes were really good overall!

Maggie hearing about her cupcake

Both teams awaiting the winner being annouonced..

And the purple team won....by a very short bit of sweetness.  :) 

Next Maggie opened her gifts while we got the kitchen clenaed up from the cupcake wars...

And then the girls came back in and made their own pizzas, baked those up and ate. 

After that it was pretty much free play until their parents picked them up, although they took a quick cupcake break while playing.  It turned out to be such a fun party and the girls all seemed to have fun inventing their own cupcakes!   So glad that Maggie had a wonderful 10th birthday!