Cupcake Wars

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Television series
Original title Cupcake Wars
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2009-2013
length 42 minutes
Episodes 114 in 9 seasons
genre Cooking show
Moderation Justin Kredible
First broadcast December 27, 2009 (USA) on Food Network
The moderator Justin Kredible

Cupcake Wars was an American cooking show where teams compete to bake cupcakes . The competition was first broadcast on December 27, 2009 by the Food Network broadcaster. The show ran until December 28, 2013 and consists of nine seasons with 114 issues. The show was hosted by comedian and magician Justin Kredible . The show was created in response to the growing popularity of this type of pastry.

Attendees

Participants in the shows were bakers from across the United States. Each episode had a theme . Bakers had to develop the right cupcakes for topics such as a Seaworld birthday party for a killer whale, a get-to-know party, a suitable accompaniment to another television show, a charity event for autistic people , Valentine's Day , a golf tournament and a film festival. The teams competing with each other consisted of two people, four teams competed against each other. The winning team was determined in three rounds. The prize money was 10,000 US dollars .

Conducting the competition

The winner was determined in three rounds. One team was eliminated in each round.

The first round lasted 45 minutes and focused on the taste of the cupcakes. The competitors regularly had to use unusual ingredients that were related to the respective episode motto.

The second round extended over a period of 75 minutes. Competitors had to produce three different types of cupcake, each of which was supposed to impress with its taste and decoration.

In the third and final round, the two remaining teams had to bake 1000 cupcakes in two hours. In doing so, they had to develop an improved version of the four types of cupcake that they had baked in the first two rounds. These had to be presented on a specially made sideboard matching the topic. Each team had four assistants for baking and a carpenter for setting up the sideboard.

jury

Florian Bellanger, the pastry chef who is one of the jurors

The jury consists of three people, two of whom are permanent members of the jury. To the permanent jurors:

The third juror was usually related to the theme of the episode.

Charisma

Season Number of episodes Season premiere Season finale
1 9 December 27, 2009 August 3, 2010
2 13 December 7, 2010 March 8, 2011
3 13 July 13, 2011 September 11, 2011
4th 13 4th December 2011 March 4, 2012
5 13 March 11, 2012 June 24, 2012
6th 14th May 13, 2012 23rd September 2012
7th 13 October 7, 2012 March 24, 2013
8th 13 April 7, 2013 July 7, 2013
9 13 September 7, 2013 December 28, 2013

classification

David Sax cites the show as an example of picking up and spreading nutrition trends. Cupcakes are actually one of the types of pastry that has been baked in North America for a long time. The term cupcake was first mentioned in 1796 in the American Cookery book by the American Amelia Simmons. Cupcakes became an in-trend towards the end of the 1990s. The range of elaborately decorated cupcakes, which was initially limited to a small area in New York and which was enthusiastically picked up by customers, was initially only briefly reported in the local press, but attracted ever greater media interest and was also taken up in TV shows playing in New York.

Through the episode obstacle course (original title: No Ifs, Ands, or Butts ) of the series Sex and the City , which first aired in 2000, people all over the USA became aware of this phenomenon. One of the possible reasons is the city tours, which took fans to locations of the series and also visited the Magnolia Bakery, in front of which this scene played. Different media picked up on this trend in different ways. Cupcake Wars is an example of a television station's response to this trend. One month after the cooking competition was first broadcast, TLC television began broadcasting " DC Cupcakes ". The reality show showed the everyday life of the well-known Washington bakery Georgetown Cupcake , which specializes in the production of cupcakes.

literature

  • David Sax: The Tastemakers - Why we're Crazy for Cupcakes But Fed Up With Fondue . PublicAffairs 2014, ISBN 978-1-61039-316-4 .

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Cupcake Wars - About the Show . In: Food Network . Retrieved April 3, 2015.
  2. ^ David Sax: The Tastemakers . P. 19.
  3. ^ David Sax: The Tastemakers . P. 3. to p. 28.
  4. ^ Lynne Olver: The Food Timeline . In: FoodTimeline.org . Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  5. ^ David Sax: The Tastemakers . P. 8.
  6. ^ David Sax: The Tastemakers . P. 19.