Cupcake wars travels to NHHS.

Cupcake wars is coming to NHHS.  The food service and hospitality students will be researching recipes on many different types of cupcakes to see who can make the best.  Foods teacher Mrs.Crawford-Smick organized a team of many students and teachers who will serve as judges at the event.

Participating students will make a group to make their own recipe, and teachers will be judging.

It’s not as easy as it sounds . Also, it’s not just basic baking.  There will be researching recipes, changing the yield, calculating food cost, marketing, preparing, baking and decorating the cupcakes. Judges are going to be judging on appearance and flavor along with some other aspects. There are many different ways  

    This idea came up because “it will be a fun way to incorporate practicing food cost to the class” said Crawford-Smick . Students have been calculating food cost percentage in other ways but this allows it to be a lot better and alot more fun.

    Students from both Hospitality management and advanced hospitality management will be participating in this activity and they will both be judged on the same thing even know one class is more advanced than the other. It will be a variety of teachers judging both of these events.

    “they all had to research cupcake recipes and find what would fit their group the best, also they just had to find one they were all interested in” said Crawford-Smick. This allows students to not only have a cupcake they want but they can also look at many different cupcakes to see what it looks like and what they are interested in.

    Judges are mostly there just for fun said Crawford-Smick but the judges will be a variety of teachers from here at NHHS. “Students will be judged on visual appeal, texture, flavor , frosting flavor and some others” said Crawford-Smick. Students will need to have the ability to find all prices on ingredients and calculate food cost on it. and finally how much the cupcake can sell for.

   “ This is just an a lot more fun way calculate food cost instead of worksheets “ said Crawford-Smick. So cupcake wars should be a fun fun project and may continue for many years.