So… Hello again! I have news! I did a SET cupcake war event and won 3^rd out of 8! When I went to the event room I didn’t think that I would be competing, I thought I’d just be watching and eating some free cupcakes, but I got a partner and we were assigned a table. The way the game works was that the first round you and your teammate grab one cupcake flavor and ice it with another flavor of icing then decorate the cupcake using the icing, sprinkles, and fondant that was provided. The catch here was that you had to decorate your cupcake to fit the theme. The first theme was animals and my partner and I gravitated toward an elephant. We put together the elephant ears and trunk out of blue fondant and then covered the rest of the icing with blue sugar. We were given ten minutes and when the time was up, we presented our work to the judges. The judges based their decisions of the winner of four categories: taste, creativity, theme, and how it overall looks. In the first round four out of the eight people were illuminated. My teammate and I got third and then came the second round. The second round’s theme was sports. My teammate got the idea of making a baseball diamond. I cut the cupcake to make it look more like a diamond and used the excess cupcake to make bases. We used chocolate icing and pound cake and we put green sugar on top of the icing to make it look more like grass. I had another idea at the last second to take some of the extra cupcake and place it on the back to look like a stadium where the people would sit. For a final touch I put a bat on one side of the cut cupcake and a baseball on the other. The funniest comment I received on this cupcake was “Oh the judges already ate it?” Anyway we won first place, probably just for creativity.  So we made it to the next round and the category was holidays. My teammate and I chose to do a Christmas present. We cut the cupcake into a square and I decided to cut a hole in the middle of the cupcake and put rainbow sprinkles to symbolize the gift that would have been inside the box. We chose red velvet cake so the judges would see both red and green. We decorated the plate with a festive Merry Christmas and hoped for the best. This was the best cupcake we had done together so far, but we lost by 2 points. It was a great time and I had a lot of fun and at the end of the night we got to eat the leftover cupcakes!!