Results of our autumn cupcake contest (with slideshow)
Penny Webster baked her first wedding cake as a senior at Floyd County High School, when her only training in cakemaking had come from a course in home economics.
Fortunately, the 53-year-old native of Copper Hill has learned much more over the years.
“I’ve probably baked 500 wedding cakes since then,” she said.
All that hard work and experience have earned Webster an exciting early Christmas gift: two tickets to see Buddy Valastro, aka the “Cake Boss,” at the Salem Civic Center this Sunday, as well as a meet-and-greet with the reality television star after the show.
Webster won the prize in our autumn cupcake contest because her design was deemed the best of the finalists by Valastro himself. The cupcake, which looks like a tiny wooden barrel stuffed with autumn leaves, was the miniature version of a wedding cake she was making in October, when she heard about the contest.
“The amount of detail shown in this cupcake is second to none,” Valastro said of Webster’s entry. “Job well done!”
To continue reading about Webster’s win, click here.
I hope you enjoy this slideshow of Webster’s cupcake and 11 honorable mention cupcakes.
December 5, 2012 - 10:07 AM
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I loved the pictures in the paper this morning…beautiful work from everyone. Congrats!
Congratulations, Penny! All of the cupcakes in the slideshow were so well done. Thank you for sharing!
Congrats, Penny! I’m impressed with all the submissions. I loved the corn on the cob cupcakes!
Any word on the Rock and Roll Diner that used to park at VA Western? Disappeared from facebook and Twiiter.
WOW-what masterful entries! Penny, your entry was quite original and very artistically designed. Not surprised you came out on top. Congrats and enjoy Sunday!
Bill, I don’t know where that food truck has gone. It’s pretty new and I haven’t had a chance to write about it yet but I do plan to. I sent the owner a message on Facebook and will report back.
The cupcakes were pretty – but there was so much fondant, you could not even know if there was a cake there somewhere. Very disappointed. This was not a cupcake making contest. It was a decorating contest.
This was absolutely billed as a decorating contest, not a baking or flavor contest. So in this case, the look was all that mattered.