Meet the Bakers/Rencontrer les Patissiers: Laila

I'm a Norwegian-American global citizen....born in Africa, resident of multiple continents through my youth & finally settled in the States for just enough time to enjoy the much appreciated education system, meet the love of my life, work my first job & then jet off to Paris in search of our French destiny....which has become for LIFE :) After ten years in Paris, working and living la vie Parisienne, the addition to our family of a character filled Parson-Russell Terrier led us to buy a house and property west of Paris not far from the medieval town of Le Mans (better known for it's 24-hour car race!).

Now we split our time between a studio in Paris--where we feed our foodie and cosmopolitan tendencies, and our principal residence, a 200+ year old house and grange renovation project with six acres of bucolic, zen inducing property--where we also feed our foodie tendencies, but with the new found knowledge of raw, wholesome, home-grown ingredients! Nothing surpasses the flavour where all the fresh ingredients are picked off your own land (or that of generous neighbours with eggs, cheese, milk & more!), and we are enjoying being ruined forever by the exquisite tastes we encounter. A puppy-cat (rescued kitty raised by our pup) named Josie and a terrorier (misspelling intended!) named Freya keep us running to burn off all those calories...and exploring a whole new France.



Cooking and baking since the age of, as long as I can remember, influences from my Norwegian grandmother, genetic gourmet inheritance from my Dad & a general love of anything from anywhere that tastes delicious is all it took for me to happily partake in Cupcake Camp Paris! What better way to tastily discover new inspiration for cupcake tastes to impress, flabbergast and amuse our local country neighbours and friends, who have courageously spread their wings in the world of culinary education since we arrived, dining chez la Maison M-J :)



Looking forward to finally meeting you in-person, Laila!

Meet the Bakers/Rencontrer les Patissiers: Severine

Severine nous a ecrit: Je m’appelle Séverine, j’ai 30 ans, je suis gourmande et j’adore cuisiner ! La pâtisserie est mon péché mignon : j’aime marier les parfums, jouer avec les couleurs et les textures et créer des déco surprenantes. Je réalise mes premiers cupcakes pour le concours ! Je me sens particulièrement concernée par la reconstruction d’Haïti, que j’ai visité il y a plusieurs années.



On attend avec plaisir les cupcakes de Severine dont deux sont rhum-coco-cafe et cannelle-cacahuete! Miam miam!

Meet the Bakers/Rencontrer les Patissiers: Sabrina & Agathe

Les amies, Sabrina & Agathe, participeront au Cupcake Camp ensemble. Ce qu'elles nous a ecrit. D'abord Sabrina: future ingénieur en informatique, j'aime beaucoup cuisiner en général, aussi bien le sucré que le salé. Côté cupcakes, avec une amie (la deuxième inscrite dans ce mail), nous avons passé une journée à en préparer, ceux qui sont sur les photos jointes.



Et puis un mot d'Agathe: Agathe est la première fille de sa famille après deux garçons, elle a donc été forcé de porter du rose pendant des années mais a aussi été introduite aux joies de la pâtisserie. Si aujourd'hui elle apprécie d'autres couleurs, elle a gardé le goût du sucre et surtout du chocolat bien noir.
C'est avec ces amies de son école très sérieuse d'ingénieur qu'elle s'adonne aux journées cupcakes pleines de couleurs et de saveurs.


On hate de deguster les beaux et bons cupcakes faits par ces deux amies!

Meet the Bakers/Rencontrer les Patissiers: Fabienne

Fabienne nous a ecrit: Originaire des antilles (de la Guadeloupe), je suis technicienne en informatique et mes filles adorent mes gâteaux surtout ceux aux chocolat. Participer à cupcakecampparis est une première et faire des cupcakes aussi d'ailleurs (pas de souci, j'ai l'habitude de faire des pâtisserie).

Binevenue Fabienne et merci de votre participcation!

Meet the Bakers/Rencontrer les Patissiers: La Petite Tartine

Veruska de La Petite Tartine nous a ecrit: Je suis Veruska, designer et graphiste de formation et créatrice de gâteaux et cupcakes personnalisés. Je suis née au Venezuela mais avant de revenir en France j'ai habité à Madrid 6 ans. Passionée de pâtisserie, j'ai commencé ma formation de preparation à l'examen de CAP, MC et BTM de Patisserie dès mon arrivée en France.




Je voudrais partager ma passion avec tous le amateurs de déco sucrée!! N'hésitez pas à venir découvrir mon blog.



J'avais l'eau a la bouche quand j'ai lu la description des cupcakes Veruska nous apportera le 4: Cupcakes Fruits de la passion/ choco et Cupcakes pina colada (ananas, noix de coco, rhum/sans rhum)! Et vous?

Baker Registration Now Closed/Enregistrement pour Patissiers Clos

OUR BAKER REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED!

We are happy to announce that we have 48 bakers registered and over 1200 cupcakes (that includes minis) coming to Cupcake Camp! A huge thanks to everyone who has committed to bake for us on the 4th.

In the next few days, we will be organizing a schedule to let you know when the contests will happen and what time each baker will be presenting their cupcakes (as well as what flavors you can expect!).

We have over 200 people now RSVPed on Facebook for this event. We had originally thought we would maybe have 60 people maximum attend! We thank everyone who has signed up and agreed to help at Paris' 1st ever Cupcake Camp. We are very excited -- it's only 1 week away -- and we look forward to seeing you all there!

ENREGISTREMENT POUR PATISSIERS CLOS!

Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer qu'il y aura 48 patissiers presents au Cupcake Camp, et plus de 1200 cupcakes (dont les minis aussi) enregistres! Un grand merci a nos patissiers pour leur participation.

En quelques jours, nous publions un emploi de temps pour l'apres-midi avec tous les infos sur les concours, et les cupcakes (les parfums et l'heure de leur distribution).

Nous avons plus de 200 invites confirmes sur Facebook -- nous le croyons pas! On hate de vous retrouver tous au premier Cupcake Camp Paris (J-7).

Photo courtesy of Bake Me More

Meet the Bakers/Rencontrer les Patissiers: Wheels and Lollipops

Sharlene of Wheels and Lollipops wrote to us: I started food blogging in March of this year as a way to share my passion for food and baking with others. One of my favorite places to be is in the kitchen, something that I inherited from my mom who shares her love for her family and friends by her cooking.I've had the opportunity to live in Trinidad and Tobago (where I'm originally from) the US (North Carolina and Atlanta, GA) and now France, with these trips I've learned about the richness of each of their baking and cooking traditions which have contributed to the foods that I make. Cupcakes and cakes have always fasincated me, I remember looking through my mom's recipes for Cupcakes and making them as surprises for my friends and family.



Now that I'm a mom of two little ones 4 and 1, I also want to pass down the knowledge and create with my own kids those special moments that I had as as child. When I heard about the Cupcake Camp I was thrilled to see that this little cake was making its mark in the French baking arena. Definitely not a professional baker, but one that loves to see that smile on someone that's presented with cupcakes.



For the celebrations, I'll be bringing variations of that special yellow cupcake as well as margarita cupcakes and maybe a chocolate one thrown in to the mix . I will be entering the All American Cupcake as well as the Summer Inspired Cupcake contests.



Thanks, Sharlene and we look forward to finally meeting you at Cupcake Camp!