Cupcake Camp Dallas

Cupcake Camp Dallas was featured on D Magazine this morning!  Make sure you check out the article featured on their website.

We look forward to meeting everyone next week, and we hope you’ve been saving your appetites for the 7,500 cupcakes!!

Y’all are invited to join us for the biggest gathering of cupcake lovers and cupcake bakers in North Texas!

Follow the Facebook link and let us know you’re coming!  https://www.facebook.com/events/415835691784707/

The Hospitality Sweet is a bakery founded by two sisters (Kristen and Meghan) specializing in custom desserts. At the end of June, they will be opening at the new Timothy Oulton store at Henderson and Central Expressway.
Kristen graduated from Baylor University with a degree in finance while Meghan graduated from American University with a degree in broadcast journalism.

After years of working in their areas of study, their priorities shifted as they each became mothers within a few months of each other. It was time for a career change!

Committed to being stay-at-home moms to their girls, Madison McKee, Kate, Olivia and Gable, the sisters looked for creative ways to use their talents.

Raised in the kitchen, the heartbeat of their childhood home, the girls found their passion for cooking and baking, developing their gift of hospitality. That passion has become The Hospitality Sweet and now, their girls play in the kitchen!

They will be bringing their new Push-Up Cupcakes, which are a different spin on a traditional cupcake. Their most popular flavors are Texas Sheet Cake, Melted Candy Bar, and S’Mores, but they’ll also have some traditional favorites as well!

Website: www.thehospitalitysweet.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Hospitality-Sweet/113215025396277

Tart Bakery is owned and operated by Pastry Chef Kristen Massad. In 2004, Kristen realized her dream to open both a modern and vintage bakery. Going on almost 8 years of successful business, Tart is thrilled to participate in 2012′s Dallas Cupcake Camp and share our great love of cupcakes!

What makes a great cupcake? – unique flavors, very moist, and of course a made-from-scratch superb sweet cream or fudge icing!

Cupcake Tip? – One can never have too many cupcakes – and never enough frosting! Keep calm and eat some frosting!

What type of flavors will we bring to cupcake camp? – Our most popular flavors are Devils Food, Vanilla, Strawberry, Carrot and Red Velvet. We use a variety of frostings ranging from our delicious sweet cream to French Buttercream to melt in your mouth fudge icing. Our talented Pastry Chef, Nancy De Dios, will be participating in the Cupcake Contest and plans to bring some of our more unique flavors such as our “Passion Fruit Berry” cupcake – a vanilla cupcake with a Passion Fruit filling and a raspberry buttercream on top. Yum!

Our best selling cupcakes are our traditional vanilla with our famous sweet cream icing, our Devil’s Food (chocolate) cupcake with Fudge Icing. Our chocolate peanut butter and red velvet are also best sellers.

Outside of our standout cupcakes, Tart Bakery gives a uniquely contemporary flair to a French pastry style that is steeped in tradition. Our bakery offers great gifts items including ceramic cake stands, melamine French Bull plates & platters and several lines of whimsical aprons.

Tart offers a wide assortment of desserts that are as mouth-watering as they are aesthetically divine. They have become known for their flourless chocolate truffle cake, cake balls & Parisian french macaroons. For the indecisive shopper, or someone looking to appease a few different cravings at once, Tart provides a visually arresting assortment of delicious miniature pastries, including lemon meringue tartlets, mini eclairs, and heavenly glazed petit fours. For those with an East Coast appetite, Tart offers New York-style tea cookies by the pound as well as cannolis, big & small.

Website: www.tartbakerydallas.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tart_bakery
Facebook: www.facebook.com/tartbakery

I am excited about joining Cupcake Camp Dallas again this year!  I just graduated from culinary school but I am still an amateur baker.  I sell cupcakes from my home bakery.

This year, our theme is “Frosting, the international language of love.” We’re all Texans now, but tell us a little bit about your heritage!  I am half Italian and thats the only half that counts! Haha! 

Where did you grow up? Where do you live now?  I grew up in lubbock Texas but I live in Lake Dallas now 

What type of cupcake will you be bringing to Cupcake Camp Dallas?  I am running with the theme this year. Since I am Italian, i will be doing an italian themed cupcake thid year…Limoncello!

Tell us a little bit about your experience with Cupcake Camp last year.  It was so much fun! I really enjoyed getting to try other cupcakes and getting to know other cupcake bakers!

What makes a great cupcake? A moist crumb and frosting that complements the cake. I dont think the cake should rely on the frosting, they should work together.

Website: www.wix.com/bugstina22/dolce
Facebook: Gourmet Cupcakes by Kristina

LEAP is traveling to Belize twice in the next couple of months–from May 18th- 21st and again from June 8th – 11th.  They will be performing corrective surgeries at the Northern Regional Hospital. During their May trip, LEAP will bring specialists in craniofacial and eye surgery, and the June trip will focus on craniofacial and hand surgery.

This is LEAP’s 17th year providing free medical services to the people of Belize, continuing a commitment to their long-term needs. (read more)

Cupcake Camp Dallas is very proud to support these efforts!

Get your tickets to Cupcake Camp Dallas 2012!

Guarantee your place at the biggest celebration of cupcakes in North Texas. 100% of the proceeds go towards the LEAP foundation to provide medical care for the neediest people in the world!

On sale now at EventBrite

We have finalized the list of bakers and bakeries that will be joining us this year at Cupcake Camp Dallas!  We are very proud to have 25 of the top bakeries and 19 of the best amateur bakers in North Texas!

Our top bakery sponsors:
Cake Diva
Dallas Cake Club
Dimples Cupcake Factory
Polk-A-Dot Bakery
Tiered Dreams

If you need a cupcake fix between now and June, be sure to visit one of our many bakery sponsors listed here.

I’m Tiffany Key, owner of Haute Mama Dessert Company in Allen, Texas. I am a professional baker.  I am originally from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida but attended college at The University of Texas in Austin and have lived in Texas ever since. My entire family is from the deep south, so I grew up eating wonderful, made from scratch, comfort desserts. This had a huge influence on my baking as many of my recipes reflect traditional, southern flavors with a modern twist, but I also love being innovative and trying new flavor profiles. I will be bringing many different types of cupcakes like our brownie hot fudge sundae, chocolate toffee crunch, chocolate molten,  banana caramel strawberry lemonade and many more! I was fortunate to be part of Cupcake Camp Dallas last year and it was an incredible experience. It was lovely seeing so many bakers come together who have a passion for cupcakes to help an amazing organization and I enjoyed seeing so many different types of cupcakes!
In baking cupcakes, and cooking in general,  it is  important to always use the highest quality ingredients.  We only use European chocolate, real butter and Tahitian Vanilla in all of our cupcakes and you can definitely taste the difference! My tip is to always bake from scratch and to make sure you do not overmix your batter-it is the difference between a light, fluffy cupcake and a dense, heavy cupcake.

Website: www.Hautemamadessertcompany.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HauteMamaDessertCompany
Twitter:Haute MamaDessCo.

• This year, our theme is “Frosting, the international language of love.”  We’re all Texans now, but tell us a little bit about your heritage!  Where did you grow up?  Where do you live now? I was born and raised in Texas, I’ve moved around a little in Texas, but now I’m happily settled in Fort Worth.
• What type of cupcake will you be bringing to Cupcake Camp Dallas? I will be bringing my signature flavor, Pink Champagne, along with PB&J, Chocolate Covered Cherry, and a fewother fun flavors.
• If you were a part of Cupcake Camp Dallas last year, tell us a little bit about your experience.  I was lucky enough to be a part of Cupcake Camp last year and it was so much fun. I am always on the lookout for new and exciting cupcake variations and it was so fun to see so many under one roof!
• What makes a great cupcake? Moist cake and just enough frosting.
• Got a good cupcake tip? Don’t overbake or overmix! There’s nothing worse than a dry cupcake.
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