Another Cobb Shop Wins 'Cupcake Wars'

Patricia Katopes, the owner of Patty Cakes Cupcakes, is the second baker in Cobb County this year to take the crown on the Food Network show. Earlier this year, Mamie Doyle of Miss Mamie’s on Marietta Square won Cupcake Wars.

The owner of a West Cobb cupcake shop defeated three other masters of the sweet treats to win the episode of the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars that aired Sunday.  Being a contestant on the show “was the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Patricia Katopes, the owner of Patty Cakes Cupcakes on Due West Road, told the Marietta Daily Journal. “It was very intense. It was a surreal experience.” Katopes, who earned the title of Miss Atlanta in 1989, held a viewing party for the show Sunday featuring 700 of her cupcakes, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Earlier this year, Mamie Doyle, owner of Miss Mamie’s on the Marietta Square, won Cupcake Wars. Appearing on Food Network is the most exciting thing that has ever happened in my life, and I …

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Miss Mamie Talks Cupcakes

The part-owner of the cupcake shop on the Marietta Square sat down to talk with Marietta Patch.

Cupcakes shops seem to be popping up, and in the Marietta Square, employees at Miss Mamie's Cupcakes are keeping busy. When I stopped by to talk with part-owner Mamie Doyle one day around 3:30 p.m., the shop that won the Food Network's Cupcake Wars, was busy with customers. After graduting from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Atlanta, Doyle interned at the bakery, which then had a different name. A few months later, she bought the business. Doyle sat down with Marietta Patch to talk about her business and about cupcakes in general. Marietta Patch: Do your flavors rotate? Doyle: Yes. In the fall, we'll have Sweet Potato, Pumpkin, Caramel, Spice Apple. MP: What is your best selling flavor? Doyle: Our best selling flavor is Stout …

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Marietta Interior Designer Takes the Spotlight in 'Design Wars'

Marietta Interior Designer Lori May went to battle against two other designers on Friday's HGTV episode and came out victorious.

A Marietta interior designer came out on top of Friday's Design Wars. "I didn't expect it," Lori May said of winning. "It just felt so good to be a part of the show and to work with all these other designers who had so much more experience than me." May competed against designers Allison Harper and Jason Dunn on the April 20 HGTV episode. The three designers each had the opportunity to redo a Kennesaw family's kitchen and guest bedroom. The family chose the designer they liked best and that designer, May, got to decorate the family's living room. "I felt honored they chose me to do their space," May said. "It was a great experience, crazy but great." May said she had roughly a week to do the third room. "We knew what would happen if we won…

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Miss Mamie Battles in 'Cupcake Wars'

The Marietta Square pastry chef competes on Food Network tonight after a little more than two years in business.

Marietta Square pastry chef Mamie Doyle will appear on national television tonight, competing on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. The co-owner and namesake of 2-year-old Miss Mamie’s Cupcakes, Cakes and Such will try to win $10,000 against three other cupcake makers on an episode called “Cupcake Couture,” airing at 8 p.m. The goal is to create a 1,000-cupcake display for a VIP event for Pastry Shoes, a brand created by Vanessa and Angela Simmons, the daughters of Run DMC’s Reverend Run. Assisting Doyle in the competition kitchen is Miss Mamie’s employee Erin Sintos. “Appearing on Food Network is the most exciting thing that has ever happened in my life, and I could have never imagined competing in a baking competition on national television …

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