CupcakeCamp Montreal | Sunday November 22nd, 2009 2-5pm. Save the date!

Happy New Cuppy Year!

By evablue | Published: January 5, 2010

To start it off we’ll take a look back at 2009 but most of all,
we hope to see you at the next one in 2010!

More photos by Rosy Outlook here.

More photos by Eva Blue here and here.

More photos by Isablah here.

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Thank you Judges!

By lauracarmosino | Published: December 3, 2009

Of course we all love cupcakes but how many of us can manage to eat close to a dozen cupcakes in a row? That’s why we needed to bring in special guest judges to handle the tasting portion of the contests held at Cupcake Camp Montreal.

We’d like to give a huge thank you bear hug to the awesome judges who devoured over 40 cupcakes submitted to the contest.

Bob Le Chef, The Anarchist Chef and Author
Herman Alves, Chair of Table of Hope / Table d’espoir
Katerine Rollet, Tourism Montreal
Lesley Chesterman, Montreal Gazette
Ricardo Larrivée, Ricardo Cuisine
Rob Kemp, CHOM FM
Todd van der Heyden, CTV

Also, thank you to CBC Weatherman Frank Cavallaro for being a great MC throughout the day.

Cupcake Camp Montreal Judges photo by Isablah

Bob Le Chef, jumped right on board with Cupcake Camp to be the official judge of the FailCake contest. He polished off the savory cupcake made of a blend of wheat, smoked meat, cheese curds, bagels and cream cheese. Stay tuned for Bob Le Chef’s upcoming episode about Cupcake Camp Montreal.

Herman Alves who owns Bitoque restaurant where the event took place has been more than generous to our event, lending us his restaurant, supplies, donated cupcakes and helped us judge the best cupcakes of the day. Huge thank you to Herman.

Katerine Rollet was very enthusiastic throughout the day about all the yummy cupcakes she got to munch on. You can learn about her favorite Montreal foods at Tourism Montreal.

Lesley Chesterman has been adored over the last decade as a fine-dining food critic for the Montreal Gazette so we were thrilled to have her expert opinion on our cupcakes. Read her blog to find out where you should eat next.

Ricardo Larrivée’s infectious smile made our day even brighter. This Food Network Canada host had a great time at Cupcake Camp and is already talking about next year!

Todd van der Heyden, CTV Montreal News anchor was a champ. You could tell he doesn’t eat junk food and he ate a lot of cupcakes! We appreciate him making the sacrifice.

Rob Kemp, host of the Rob Kemp Show on CHOM 97.7FM was gracious enough to spend his birthday with us on the day of Cupcake Camp. Check his video about his experience at Cupcake Camp.

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Nonna Maria and Shmoked Meat!

By evablue | Published: December 1, 2009

We LOVE Nonna Maria! We think the judges do too. We’re not giving away any punch lines but there’s Katerine, Rob, Todd and Ricardo in this clip!

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Contest Winner Badges!

By evablue | Published: November 27, 2009

Here’s a prettier list of contest winners. If you’re a winner, these are for you to add to your site! Right click to save your winner badge.

bestinmtl copy bestmontrealtheme copy besttastekids copy bestdesignkids copy bestprotaste copy bestprodesign copy besttasteamateur copy BESTAMATEURDESIGN copy failcake copy

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Couldn’t have done it without our Sponsors

By lauracarmosino | Published: November 25, 2009

We are so grateful for having so many generous sponsors jump on board with Cupcake Camp Montreal in our first year. You helped us out tremendously and we want to give you all another thanks. We hope to see you all again next year.

Generous Donations from:

Organization Team :

EvaBlue – Eva Blue was co-organizer for Cupcake Camp Montreal, the reason why we were all in cupcake heaven on Sunday & made the web site.
Girlfriday – Anile Prakash was co-organizer, contest coordinator & designed our awesome poster and design foundation!
Clever Cupcakes – Michelle Wall was co-organizer, baker coordinator, baked over 200 cupcakes, made Rob Kemp’s Birthday Cake & won Best Montreal Themed Cupcake.
Filter Box Media – Laura Carmosino was co-organizer, sponsorship coordinator, donated cupcakes and won Best Amateur Design with her hamburger cupcake.

Creative Design Donations

Supplies and Resources Donations:

200+ Cupcake Donations:

Prize Donations:

Photography:

Web Hosting:

Paradivision

If you’re interested in getting involved by sponsoring next year, contact us at info@cupcakecampmtl.org.

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And the winners are…

By lauracarmosino | Published: November 23, 2009

After a long afternoon of stuffing their faces with delicious cupcakes, the judges finalized the best of Montreal’s bakers.

BEST KIDS TASTE – Julianna Alibrando – Pumpkin Surprise

BEST KIDS DESIGN – Autumn, Ava & Harry Dwyer – Clowning Around

BEST AMATEUR TASTE – Melanie Bronsard & Suzanne Eissa - Extreme Rhum

BEST AMATEUR DESIGN – Laura Carmosino & Pamela Anzovino – Cheeseburger

BEST PRO TASTE – Bake Sale Girl - Chocolate Mojito

BEST PRO DESIGN – Crazy about Cupcakes – Self-Portrait

BEST MONTREAL THEME – Clever Cupcakes - Youppi Popping out of a Poutine

FAILCAKE – Anthony Imperioli – Smoked meat, bagel, cheese curd creation

BEST MONTREAL CUPCAKE – Melanie Bronsard & Suzanne Eissa - Extreme Rhum

Congrats to all the much deserving cupcake winners and thanks to everyone who participated. You helped make our event a success and added to all the excitement of the day. Thank you to all our sponsors who donated prizes to our winners. We hope you all compete again next year. Any suggestions to new categories for next year are welcome in the comments below.

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It takes awesome people to make a successful event

By evablue | Published: November 23, 2009

An event like this couldn’t happen without good people. This was a completely volunteer run event and all proceeds went directly to Kids Help Phone.

There are so many people to thank but we have to start somewhere so…

These people did more than their share. They exceeded in generously offering their time and giving all that they had to make this event happen. It couldn’t have happened without them.

BAKERS! BAKERS! BAKERS! CUPPYCAKES!
It’s all about the cupcakes! We had 3500! Every cupcake counted and every cupcake devoured! THANK YOU BAKERS for making this event happen! We’re going through that list and we’re shouting out your names very soon!
CUPCAKE EATERS!
You came out en masse! WE <3 YOU! We raised $8000 because of everyone’s participation! Thank you for coming out, waiting in line and enduring the box shortage!
Volunteers <3
Major volunteers: Anile, Michelle, Laura. These people are the awesomest of the awesome. Their dedication, generosity, BIG HEARTS and hard working ethics make them the most amazing team members anyone could ask for!
WE <3 the VOLUNTEERS! So many to thank! We’re making a list!
Kids Help Phone <3
First, we think KHP is just an awesome charity. Period.
THEN they have Gaelle who is more than just an employee for KHP. She’s just amazing. Above and beyond her duties, she gave us her heart and seemlessly joined our team as if she were a volunteer.
Bitoque <3
Herman Alves for generously donating his restaurant, for suggesting Kids Help Phone and for being Herman. Always doing everything above and beyond. Not to mention, Bitoque even sponsored the event with cupcakes! Chef Christine made “Elvis” and “Shortstack”!
Judges and our MC <3
Judges: Rob Kemp, Lesley Chesterman, Todd van der Heyden, Ricardo Larrivée, Katerine Rollet, Bob le Chef, Herman Alves.
They’re champs! They consumed so many cupcakes, I feel sick for them. We love them for taking this so seriously while having a great time. We were fortunate to have them! We’ll have a post just for them with pics of them judging the cupcakes!
MC: Frank Cavallaro is simply awesome! <3!
Sponsors <3
Major sponsors we need to thank are MrsMacchi, Pazazz Printing and Cakemail for their generosity!
A full list of sponsors are coming and we have so many to thank!

This is just the beginning of thank yous! We have to thank MORE volunteers, bakers, contestants, sponsors, donaters and the list goes on!

Keep staying tuned, the posts are coming!

THANK YOU to EVERYONE. I don’t think there’s enough thank yous to go around!

Major cuppylove!

Eva Blue

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Wow! $8000, 3500 cupcakes, 700 cuppy lovers!!

By evablue | Published: November 23, 2009

We’re kinda speechless. We’re ecstatic. We’re exhausted. We’re grateful.

I know y’all want numbers so here it goes!

Approximately: $8000 raised, 3500 cupcakes, 700 cupcake lovers passed through our doors.

THANK YOU to sponsors, volunteers, judges, bakers, cupcake lovers, EVERYONE. We’re making the proper thank you list shortly.

We’re also collecting as much info as possible to give you all the cupcake news! So add your news to the comments on this post!

We’d also LOVE if you could help us out by adding your awesome pictures to flickr and hashtagging them with #ccmtl to
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cupcakecampmtl

There will be updates with all the awesomness of yesterday but we’re a little fried so a little patience and please stay tuned, we’re getting there!

LOTS-O-CUPPYLOVE!

Y’all are the frosting to my cupcake.

P.S. If you still want to increase the CuppyLove, please consider donating online to http://www.kidshelpphone.ca/cupcakecamp

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We’re live streaming!

By evablue | Published: November 22, 2009

Thanks to Brent Barrett Mile End Media (@Mile_End_Media), we’re live streaming cupcake camp!

Take a peek and see our judges in action!

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Update: We had an awesome event. We hope to post snippets of video soon. Stay tuned!

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Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Can’t Get Enough

By lauracarmosino | Published: November 21, 2009

Now this is awesome! The creator of the hilarious Nonna Maria skits and super talented, Anthony Imperioli whipped up this sweet animation to help spread the word about Cupcake Camp Montreal. Nista singer and avid cupcake fan, Stina Agustsdottir lent her voice and wrote this happy tune using some of her kitchen supplies; whisks, bowls, scissors, cheese grater and paper towel rolls. Talk about resourceful! Check out the video and spread it around like butter!