After the TODAY Show on Wednesday we turned ourselves around and drove down to the beautiful New Jersey shore to talk cupcakes at the Ocean County Library in Tom's River. So many people signed up for the event we were moved to the local Lacey Elementary School where 134 people crowded the gymnasium to see us make cupcakes. When we arrived we were greeted by Chef Jill and her students from the culinary program who had made hundreds of beautiful cupcakes from the book for the crowd to sample. We demonstrated how to make Sunflowers, Slumber Party, Spaghetti and Meatballs, and Shark Attack. After the demo we took questions from the crowd and I think our favorite had to be the little girl who asked if we could make a unicorn cupcake. We told her we would probably start with the horse design from the book, and asked her if she had any ideas how to turn ithem into unicorns. She then proceeded to name five or six candies that could make the horn and added that we would need lots of sparkly sugars to make the unicorn glitter. Now that's what we call Cupcaking!

It was an awesome evening all around thanks to the chefs and Scott Rodas and the talented staff of the library. Thanks for having us and all we can say is...

Keep on cupcaking!
Alan and Karen



Karen demonstrating the proper way to handle candy, away from your mouth so some of it actually makes it to the cupcake!



Our new favorite chefs, Chef Jill (pink hat in the center) and her students who turned our cupcake designs into beautiful treats for the crowd. Those are Spaghetti and Meatballs, Corn on the Cob, and Popcorn in front of them.



Arielle asked us to sign her cupcake design backpack. What a thrill it was to be asked!
We hope she fills it with cupcakes for recess!