{"id":1673,"date":"2011-06-29T23:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2011-06-30T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:55:18","slug":"iron-cupcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"iron cupcake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

last weekend, a friend told me about an event that i had to attend.\u00c2\u00a0 apparently, this is the fifth “iron cupcake<\/a>” competition in town, but it’s the first one i’ve been to–where have i been?\u00c2\u00a0 although i must admit that the theme for this one was tailor-made for me.\u00c2\u00a0 let me back up.\u00c2\u00a0 “iron cupcake<\/a>” is a cupcake making competition where the contestants are challenged to use a specific ingredient and then the public comes in, pays a few bucks, gets to try the cupcakes and vote for their favorites.\u00c2\u00a0 this month’s “ingredient” was that the cupcakes had to relate to a children’s book theme. (swoon!)\u00c2\u00a0 i happily forked over the $7 cash and then gathered this plate of beauties:<\/p>\n

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of the books represented, there were only three chapter books (harry potter, charlie & the chocolate factory and alice in wonderland) and amazingly, only one repeat picture book (two “cloudy with a chance of meatballs” entries).\u00c2\u00a0 there were two cupcakes with bacon (based on the three little pigs and if you give a pig a pancake) and a lot of frosting.\u00c2\u00a0 in retrospect, i maybe should have eaten more than just banana bread, a banana, and a few slices of cheese for breakfast before diving into these beauties.\u00c2\u00a0 i’ve never had a sugar high quite like this one.\u00c2\u00a0 it may have been intensified by the poor sleep i’d gotten the night before, but i actually began to feel dizzy after about 9 cupcakes.\u00c2\u00a0 but check out those details!\u00c2\u00a0 i love the hole punched in the mint leaf for the very hungry caterpillar!<\/p>\n

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there were also prizes awarded for table decorations and costumes (there were some seriously competitive people participating in this!)\u00c2\u00a0 you can see more photos here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 notes for next time:\u00c2\u00a0 bring an egg carton to carry all the cupcakes in.\u00c2\u00a0 if you don’t love it, don’t eat the whole thing!\u00c2\u00a0 eat a hearty (not sugary) breakfast before you go.\u00c2\u00a0 don’t forget to mark your calendar and go.\u00c2\u00a0 this is such a very fun event!\u00c2\u00a0 i wonder if i could host something similar with the teens at my library….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

last weekend, a friend told me about an event that i had to attend.\u00c2\u00a0 apparently, this is the fifth “iron cupcake” competition in town, but it’s the first one i’ve been to–where have i been?\u00c2\u00a0 although i must admit that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-library-stuff","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}