Meet one of our Judges, Angela Geiger!

Angela Geiger has been a Toastmaster since 2008, and she is a member of several Toastmasters clubs.

Since joining Toastmasters, Angela has served in several club and district level leadership roles with her current role being District 58 Lieutenant Governor Marketing for South Carolina.

Angela is a retired First Sergeant, and is actively involved in community leadership, where she serves as the Co-Chair for the Richland County Appearance Commission in Columbia.

Angela’s motto: “Enjoy living one a day at a time with a fresh baked cupcake. Okay...maybe two cupcakes, and spoonful of frosting. And always promise to take your vitamins.”

For more information on Toastmasters, visit, www.toastmasters-d58.org for more information. Please join me in welcoming our Cupcake Camp Judge, Ms. Angela Geiger.

1. What is your earliest memory of baking? I think I was 7, and I remember seeing a commercial for an Easy Bake Oven.  I received it as a Christmas gift and I was baking little cakes all of the time until the packaged dough ran out. 

2. What do you like more, the frosting or the cupcake? I like both.  Delicious frosting and a well made cupcake make for a perfect combination.  

3. What are you baking these days? I don't get to bake too often except during the holiday season.  When I do bake, it's my Cranapple Casserole, Praline Cheescake Bars, Macadamia and White Chocolate Chunk Cookies and Sweet Potato Pies.

  
4. What do you like to drink with cupcakes? As a child I liked milk with my sweets, but as I have gotten older, and cupcakes have become a gourmet delight, I like a glass of wine with my cupcakes.  

5. When you can't bake or get to a cupcake and want something sweet,

what do you go for? When I want something sweet I go for a Krispy Kreme doughnut.  I know my answer should be a piece of fruit, but fruit just can't compare to a warm Krispy Kreme doughnut. 

Meet One of Our Bakers, Fired Urth!

My name is Missy Wallace and I am the Pastry Chef/Co-Owner of Fired Urth Espresso Bar & Bakery opening on Daniel Island October 1st. My husband and I have spent the last couple of years in North Carolina where we owned and operated "Just Baked" a gourmet cupcake & coffee house. We recently sold our business and are excited to bring our passion to the Charleston Area.

1. What are your favorite ingredients to use? I believe in using all natural ingedients, no artificial flavors or colors. I really like to incorporate unique ingredients into my cupcakes. Some of my favorites would be wine, stout, brown butter, coffee, bacon, chipotle and sea salt.

2. Celebrity chef you'd like to work with: Ina Garten.

3. Cupcake you are best known for: Chocolate Stout & Smoked Sea Salt Caramel: chocolate stout cupcake infused wtih our homemade smoked sea salt caramel sauce, topped with a stout reduction butter cream and more caramel.

4. What was the first thing you've ever baked? Blueberry muffins.

5. What do you look forward to at Cupcake Camp Charleston this year? Since we are new to the Charleston area I look forward to introducing our cupcakes and meeting new people.

Contact Fired Urth at Firedurth@gmail.com

Meet one of our Judges, Allison Gallentine!

I got my start baking when I was nineteen and I applied for an assistant pastry position to work with Lauren Mitterer. She took me in and I learned so much from her. It was also an honor working with a James Beard nominee and now a local bakery owner. After about 2 1/2 years I went on to being the Pastry Chef for the Country Club of Charleston. After realizing that as beautiful as plated desserts could be I wanted to work in more of a bakery place that I could change product day to day. That takes us to where I am now at Caviar and Bananas. 

I am currently the Executive Pastry Chef at a well established gourmet specialty market in downtown Charleston called Caviar and Bananas. I make a variety of fresh baked product everyday including but not limited to breakfast pastries, cookies, cupcakes, cakes, brownies and tarts. Including normal day to day pastries I also help with catering events. One particular big event I worked on recently were some pastries and parfait wedding favors for Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's wedding. On top of baking I also accept cake orders for friends and family out of my home. I also enter baking competitions. For example, the Cupcake Camp Charleston events, which I have been lucky enough to win a category in all three past events. I bake A LOT so good thing I enjoy what I do.

On a more personal note, I am married to my great husband of 2 years, Patrick.  When I am not baking I try to spend as much time possible with Pat, friends and family. Some of my favorite activities would have to be anything that involves being by the water whether it be swimming (beach or community pool), canoeing, or just sitting out by Shem Creek watchings the dolphins.

1. What is your favorite thing to bake for yourself? Cookies! I am a true cookie monster...whether it be peanut butter, chocolate butterscotch, apple oatmeal, chocolate chip, I love em' all! 

2. Least favorite thing to bake? Hmm... I really do not know. I bake such a variety of items I never get sick of one thing. 

3. Food Network has a lot of competitions. Which show would you like to appear on? Cupcake Wars or The Great Food Truck Race.

4. Other than baking, what other career would you like to try? Way back when I wanted to be a vet. I am a huge animal lover. 

5. Favorite baking tip that helps you in the kitchen: Be Patient! 

Meet our MC: Tessa Spencer!

A Charleston native, the beautiful Tessa Spencer graduated from Bishop England High School and received her B.A. in Mass Communications from Baptist College at Charleston (now Charleston Southern University). After college, Tessa served in the U.S. Army Reserves and is a veteran of the first Gulf War. 

Most of you know her as ABC News 4 Morning News Anchor for Good Morning Charleston weekdays 5 AM-7AM and the host of Lowcountry Live weekdays 10 AM-11 AM. Tessa joined the ABC News 4 Team as a reporter in 2011. She is also a radio personality for Star 99.7 FM as a co-host of the afternoon radio show from 2 PM -6 PM on weekdays. 

Her broadcasting career spans 22 years with stops in Greenville, SC, Nashville, TN, where she also earned a spot as a cheerleader for the NFL's Tennessee Titans, and Providence, RI.

Tessa returned home to Charleston in 1999 and worked as one-half of Z93's "Breakfuss Club." Tessa and her co-host earned numerous awards and recognitions including a proclamation from Charleston Mayor Joe Riley naming June 21st "Tessa and Baby J Day."

As a voice-over artist, Tessa can be heard locally and nationally as the television announcer for the "Gospel Stellar Awards" and "The Trumpet Awards."

A mother of two boys, Tessa enjoys photography, making jewelry, and reading.

We are so happy to have her be a part of Cupcake Camp Charleston. You can watch Tessa weekday mornings as a co-anchor of Good Morning Charleston and Lowcountry Live...and you can listen to Tessa weekday afternoons on Apex Broadcasting's Star 99.7. More information can be found on Tessa at www.abcnews4.com/story/18752886/tessa-spencer. Find Tessa on Facebook and follow her on Twitter!  

1. What is your favorite cupcake to eat? Red velvet.

2. Least favorite cupcake to eat? Pumpkin.

3. What are you baking these days? Brownies with my boys!

4. What do you like to drink with cupcakes? Hot cup of coffee.

5. When you can't bake or get to a cupcake and want something sweet, what do you go for? Hershey's Almond candy bar. 

(Photo and Biography used by permission).

Look at our Sponsors!!!

• We love these people!! If you'd like to be a part of this love, please email us at cupcakecampcharleston@gmail.com!
  
  
  (UP)Cycle Interiors LLC
  Allison Galentine with Caviar & Bananas
  Amalfi's Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria
  Andolini's Pizza
  BarCamp CHS
  Boone Hall Plantation
  Bulldog Tours
  Charleston Battery
  Charleston Museum
  Charleston's Cafe
  Children's Museum of the Lowcountry
  Cinebarre
  Coastal Coffee Roasters
  Cypress Gardens
  Cupcake
  David Devera, Home Solution Real Estate
  Everlasting Moments Video
  Fear No Easel
  hazelbasil
  Historic Charleston Foundation
  Home Team BBQ
  Jeff MacKey Media Services
  Laura Alberts
  Lily Charleston
  Magnolia Plantation & Gardens
  Monique Stinson, MSW
  More Caffeine Studio
  Music Farm
  Park Circle Films
  Ross Printing
  Spiritline Cruises and Fort Sumter Tours
  Southland Soap
  Sunflower Bagel Company
  Theatre 99
  Tina Rucker
  Wine and Design
  
  

Updates

Hello, friends! Two months to go! We are up to 20 sponsors now and we can always use some more! So far we have 13 Bakers, 20 Sponsors, 142 Eaters and 0 volunteers. Yup, we need you, people! If you would like to volunteer, please sign up soon! 

We could still need the following items. Any help would be appreciated!

Supplies
Banner
Signs (for parking, arrows, etc. to point towards Cupcake Camp Charleston)

Prizes (for our 6 winners)
Gift certificates
Gift cards
Movie passes
Cook books
Baking supplies
Concert tickets
Cooking/Baking Lessons
Car washes
Spa treatments
Restaurant gift cards
Lawn service
Aprons

18 Sponsors, yay!

We made it to 18 Sponsors, yay! Our official deadline is tomorrow, August 31, 2012 as we are getting ready to print our posters to distribute all over town! You can still be a Sponsor as we will announce all our Sponsors at the actual event.

Also, we are up to ten Bakers so far!! We know that number will continue to grow and look forward to it! We are also still seeking Volunteers.  Email us for any questions!

Please don't forget our local charity,  Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.  More information can be found at www.caringbridge.org/visit/peanut or www.facebook.com/peanutpatrol.  Monetary donations can be given online www.cff.org/Great_Strides/PeanutPatrol or at the event.  Contact Caroline Benton for more information on CFF at cawbenton@gmail.com.  Donations are tax deductible. 

More Likes, please! We would love to reach our 1000 likes on our Facebook page this year. Think we can do it?!

xoxo,
the twosies