Contestants in the 3rd Annual Ithaca Cupcake Baking Contest on Saturday offered up some gorgeous and tasty entries—congratulations to these winners of Special Awards!
Most Masterful Musical Melody Award
Natalie McCaskill-Myers
Most Creatively Crafty Cupcake
Sally Brenner
Most Fabulously Floral Cupcake
Aušra Milano
Most Awesome Autumn
Robyn Schmitt
Most Magnificent Marvelous Moose Masterpiece
Claire Litwin
Most Sensationally Cinnamony Cupcake
Isabella Jones and Navia Marshall
Most Must Eat the Whole Chocolatey-Minty Thing Award
Rhonda Williamsee
The Everything Fun about Fall Cupcake
Sean Vickroy
Most Caramel Crave-Quenching Confection
Alana Craib
Chilliest Coconut Cake Confection
Matilde Portnoy
Best Cupcake to Take on the Trail
Ella Corson
Best Campfire Cupcake
Maggie Chutter
Most Likely to Make the Judges Go Coco for Coconut Award
Cierra Howard
Best Flavorful Fall Frosting
Jessara Thomas
Most Luxuriously Luscious Lavender Cupcake
Oluademi James-Daniel
Best Birthday cupCake
Ella Kain
Pretty in Pink Award
Ibtisaam Ahmed
Novel Neopolitan
Jenna Kain
Harvest Cupcake
Lianna White
Chocolate Chili
Sadie Hays
Best Carrot Top
Sul Jordan
Most Luscious Lemon
Talon Jordan
Tastiest Toastiest Pumpkin
Cristin McLaughin and Searra Lindhurst
Ultimate Chocolate Tower
Sonia and Ella Carr
Classic Superstar
Matt Jirsa for Cornell Minds Matter
Natalie McCaskill-Myers’s entry: Pumpkin apple spice cupcakes with cream cheese cardamom frosting, decorated with violins, soccer balls… and black cats representing Sophie’s cat Bagel and Natalie’s cat Curry Burger.
Sally Brenner’s entry: Chocolate cupcakes with Key lime and kiwi-flavored frosting
Aušra Milano’s entry: Amaretto chocolate cupcakes decorated with a flower arrangement
Robyn Schmitt’s entry: Cinnamon and apple cupcakes
Claire Litwin’s entry: Passion fruit curd, passion fruit mousse, and chocolate mousse in a joconde sponge cake, decorated with moose antlers in homage to the mousse layers
Isabella Jones and Navia Marshall’s entry: Pumpkin spice cupcakes with maple frosting and a cinnamon stick
Rhonda Williamsee’s entry: Mint chocolate “cocoa coma” cupcakes
Sean Vickroy’s entry: Apple butter cupcakes with red winter frosting in the holiday spirit
Alana Craib’s entry: Yellow cupcakes with maple frosting and candied walnuts
Matilde Portnoy’s entry: “Tropicupcakes” with roasted almonds and cinnamon cream cheese frosting
Ella Corson’s entry: Granola chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting
Maggie Chutter’s entry: “Banana Boat Cupcakes,” with chocolate ganache core and meringue frosting
Cierra Howard’s entry: “Macadamia Coconut Cupcakes,” frosted with Swiss meringue buttercream and topped with a coconut macaroon ball
Jessara Thomas’s entry: Pumpkin and spice cupcakes with a pumpkin decoration on top
Oluademi James-Daniel’s entry: Yellow lemon cupcake with a purple Earl Grey and lavender frosting
Ella Kain’s entry: Lemon cupcakes with buttercream frosting
Ibtisaam Ahmed: entry: “Rose Cupcakes, a Fusion of East and West.” American-style vanilla cupcakes with crème patisserie of European bakeries and delicate rose flavor common in North Africa, Middle East, Persia and the Indian subcontinent.
Jenna Kain’s entry: Neapolitan cupcakes with strawberry buttercream frosting
Lianna White’s entry: Gluten-free carrot, raisin, and walnut cupcakes with cashew buttercream frosting
Sadie Hays’s entry: “Noche Buena,” a coffee and chili-infused New Mexican chocolate cupcake topped with whipped cream and a biscochito
Sul Jordan’s entry: Pumpkin spice cupcakes with buttercream frosting
Talon Jordan’s entry: Lemon cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting
Cristin McLaughin and Searra Lindhurst’s entry: Vegan Pumpin S’more Vegan Cupcakes with marshmallow filling and chocolate frosting
Sonia and Ella Carr’s entry: “The Chocolate Tower” triple-chocolate fudge cupcakes with strawberry-flavored fudge frosting
Matt Jirsa for Cornell Minds Matter’s entry: Classic cupcakes with star-shaped sprinkles
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