UT's Division of Housing and Food Services put on a Cupcake Showdown to provide student organizations the opportunity to tell everyone what they're all about and potentially win $1,000 for the philanthropy of their choice.
Student organizations submitted videos of how their cupcake represents their organization and submitted it to DHFS. The organizations who submitted the top four videos were invited to a live bake-off! Texas Spirits was chosen as one of the hardworking and lucky four to advance to the next section of the competition.
At a live bake-off at J2, a dining hall in Jester, the organizations competed by baking a cupcake and creating a display that embodied their organization. Our bakers, Emily Twa, Anajli Sethi, Ashley Cubley, and Quynh Pham, created a honey, cornmeal cupcake with grapefruit curd and grapefruit buttercream.
Their display showcased a cardboard Tower with torchlights, cupcakes, and signs to represent UT's annual Torchlight Parade.
In addition to the scoring of cupcakes, the organizations also received points for donating canned goods. The organization with the most can donations had two extra points added onto their final score. Texas Spirits donated an overwhelming amount of canned goods and earned these two extra points easily!
A photo booth was set up for students to take pictures with fun cupcake props. Chef hats, aprons, bags of flour and sugar, and cupcake costumes were a huge hit!
In the end, Texas Spirits ended up placing second in the competition to Kappa Delta. It was a tough loss considering all of the hard work our girls put into this competition. However, we are now ready to take on anything that comes our way next year!
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