This weekend we attended Geekfest in Killeen. Its a con sort of event where people dress up, they have Magic tournaments, a cake/cookie/cupcake contest, vendors, robot builders, and the best part is the location is part of a planetarium. They have cool videos, star talks, and laser shows.
This is only the 2nd year of the event, and I like that about it. Its fun to go and participate, but its not to big and annoying with lots of people. I keep finding the older I get, the more my dislike of people outweighs my like of attending events. This year we decided to enter "The Cake is a Lie" contest. There are 3 categories, cookies, cakes, and cupcakes. Our entry was 1/2 cake and 1/2 cupcake, but we were put in the cake category. There was only 1 entry for cookies, so we decided if we do it next year, we are doing cookies. We didn't win anything, but we had fun making our entry, and the "celebrity judge" was Peter Mayhew. He is the man who wore the Chewbacca costume in the original Star Wars movies. This made me happy in a nerdy way, he ate one of my cupcakes!
We were judged on taste as well as appearance. We decided on doing matcha green tea cupcakes, with butter cream frosting. Our design? Nyan cat, of course. First we had to make the base for Nyan Cat, and the cupcakes, which were to be the rainbow that follows behind him.
We made these the weekend before, and froze them so that way all we had to do was frost everything. The frosting part took about 4 or maybe even 5 hours, because we had so many different colors (11 colors, if you count white as a color!)
I made a HUGE batch of butter cream frosting (4 sticks of butter, 7 cups of powdered sugar!) and then colored smaller batches as needed to do the rainbow and Nyan Cat.
I don't think this is going to make me jump feet first into the competitive world of cake decorating. But we would like to do it again next year. We have already been brainstorming on what we could do next year. I like that ours was so colorful and creative.
Nik <3
This is only the 2nd year of the event, and I like that about it. Its fun to go and participate, but its not to big and annoying with lots of people. I keep finding the older I get, the more my dislike of people outweighs my like of attending events. This year we decided to enter "The Cake is a Lie" contest. There are 3 categories, cookies, cakes, and cupcakes. Our entry was 1/2 cake and 1/2 cupcake, but we were put in the cake category. There was only 1 entry for cookies, so we decided if we do it next year, we are doing cookies. We didn't win anything, but we had fun making our entry, and the "celebrity judge" was Peter Mayhew. He is the man who wore the Chewbacca costume in the original Star Wars movies. This made me happy in a nerdy way, he ate one of my cupcakes!
We were judged on taste as well as appearance. We decided on doing matcha green tea cupcakes, with butter cream frosting. Our design? Nyan cat, of course. First we had to make the base for Nyan Cat, and the cupcakes, which were to be the rainbow that follows behind him.
We made these the weekend before, and froze them so that way all we had to do was frost everything. The frosting part took about 4 or maybe even 5 hours, because we had so many different colors (11 colors, if you count white as a color!)
I made a HUGE batch of butter cream frosting (4 sticks of butter, 7 cups of powdered sugar!) and then colored smaller batches as needed to do the rainbow and Nyan Cat.
Finally, after maybe 6 or 7 hours of total work, our creation is complete!
Clearly we are not professionals, but I still LOVE what we accomplished, and so did a lot of other people! We had some pretty stiff competition though, it was a small contest, but there were a few participants who seem like they are professional cake decorators.
Above are the winners, and below are the other participants, that like us, did not go home a winner.
I don't think this is going to make me jump feet first into the competitive world of cake decorating. But we would like to do it again next year. We have already been brainstorming on what we could do next year. I like that ours was so colorful and creative.
Nik <3
I think you did an amazing job! So cool. :)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh - the Nyan Cat cake came out even better than I imagined. Looks like the best cake anyone could ever get! I really don't know why you guys didn't win something, since yours is so attention-grabbing and full of magic :) Plus the flavor is unique. Meh... I guess it's not for everyone, but if it were me, I would definitely pick your cake. [not biased towards friends and rainbows, I promise!]
ReplyDeleteAlso, thanks for sharing the video of the laser show! Sad I missed the event
Thanks guys! And thanks for leaving comments! I thought we should have gotten SOME kind of recognition b/c we had so many colors of icing! The funny part was that I think 3 people made red velvet cake and the judges commented to us that it was nice to try something that WASN'T red velvet.
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