Iron Cupcake

I was sitting at work the other day, minding my own business, when a cube neighbor randomly came over and asked if I had ever heard of "Iron Cupcake." This was exciting for two reasons, 1) I'm getting a reputation for being a baker and not just a banker, 2) people seem to want to enable me, YEAH! I told him I had never heard of it, but I was intrigued because I know about Iron Chef and could imagine a colorful and chaotic time crunched baking competition with flying sprinkles and spilled cake flour creating a dramatic mist... like a drag show you can eat! As I continued to dance around in my iron cupcake candyland imagination, he went on to explain that Iron Cupcake is a meetup group that meets once a month in San Francisco, in which contestants are given a theme or ingredient to use and bring a bunch of homemade mini cupcakes made with that theme or ingredient. The cupcakes are then rated by cupcake lovers to determine the winners. Not exactly what I imagined, but still fantastical!

I decided I am going to attend this month's Iron Cupcake as a guest. However, the theme is bacon. I don't actually like bacon, but I want to participate as a baker soon (like, next month) and I might as well attend as a guest first to get a feel for the competition ;) Actually I have a killer idea in my head for a bacon themed cupcake but will not share for fear it will be stolen! Did I mention I'm competitive?? I'll pay $5 to sample a bunch of mini cupcakes made with bacon, hopefully meet some fellow amateur/amazing bakers, and prepare myself for April's show down. Here is a link to the site:

http://www.meetup.com/Iron-Cupcake-San-Francisco-Challenge/

Fun!