Thursday, July 22, 2010

Cake Challenge Our Way

While we were visiting my family in IA, the boys got hooked on watching The Food Network Challenge Show and Cupcake Wars. Thane has wanted to be a chef since he was 5 but now he has narrowed it down to becoming a Pastry Chef. He also wants to compete on the shows for a chance to win the $10,000 prize. What better way to practice your skills than to have your won challenge at home!
Meet the contestants...

Chef Thane and Chef Magnus

Each Chef was in charge of mixing up a box of cake batter and distributing it into the proper pans. Thane made 2 9 in. round cakes and Magnus made 12 cupcakes and 2 small bundt cakes.

Each Chef was then given the same supplies...

...and access the all of this yummy goodness for decorating...

The competition was a close one...

Magnus filled his cupcakes.

Thane topped his cakes with lots of candy.

We even had some things go wrong...

Creative minds were at work...

And in the end...

...the mess was worth it!

7 comments:

Z said...

You are the best. Mom. Ever.

I love this.

Lorus! said...

This would be so fun! We like watching the cake Challenges and will have to try watching Cupcake Wars.

Unknown said...

That is some cake. What a great job. I'll bet making it was as much fun as eating it.

Jenni said...

Wow, you are so brave. Looks like it was quite a tasty adventure.

Blog crawling,

Jenni, TOS Crewbie

Anonymous said...

The Rolo/peanut butter cup/Hershey's Kiss towers are brilliant. Off to the vending machine for me.
-springs

Monica said...

oh my goodness, how fun!

Unknown said...

You are one cool mom!