Grant County Commmission got their regular meeting August 5, off to a sweet start when Grant County 4-H member Reagan Gray showed up with a treat.
Gray, 11, was the winner of the 4-H Cupcake Contest at Grant County Fair this year, and took home a brand new KitchenAid mixer for her prize. The contest was sponsored by Golden Plains Credit Union.
Gray brought salted carmel, chocolate espresso and butter cream cupcakes for the commissioners to try.
"I was trying to win a kitchen mixer and I won it," Gray said in response to Commissioner Mark McGaugher's question about why she made them.
Gray earned a grand champion ribbon for her luscious cupcakes. This is not the first year she has entered the baking portion of the fair. Last year, she said she made vanilla cupcakes with chocolate and vanilla frosting.
"I didn't win last year," Gray said.
The recipe for this year's entry came not from a secret family recipe, but from Pinterest, according to Gray.
"When I saw the recipe I said this looks really good," Gray said. "I'm going to try it.
As of Friday, August 9, Gray had not yet tried out her new mixer, but she is looking forward to using it.
Cupcakes is not the only thing Gray entered in the fair.
"I made oatmeal creme pie, pop tarts and flan cake," she said, adding the flan cake was her favorite item to make. "It magically goes up to the top and the other part goes to the bottom and mixing in the cake."
Gray says she enjoys baking.
"I have baked since I was really little," she said. "I baked with my grandma and I've baked with a lot of other people.
Gray said she wants to make a career out of baking and hopes to have a bakery some day - Reagan's Sweets.
As for next year's fair, Gray is already thinking ahead.
"I will probably do cake and try to do cupcakes again and some cookies, too," she said.
Other areas Gray entered in the fair included ceramics, paintings in the arts and crafts and the shooting sports. She says she enjoys being in 4-H.
Along with her grand champion win for cupcakes, Gray said she got so many ribbons at the fair, she "barely can remember how many - it was a lot."
"You get to make cool stuff and get to be yourself," she said.
Gray encourages others to become a part of 4-H.
"It is really fun," she said. "You get to make all of these cool projects. You get to do a lot of fun stuff."
Gray, a member of the Sunflower 4-H Club, will be in the sixth grade this year. She is the daughter of Trent Gray and Kayla Smith, and has a little sister who is not in 4-H yet, because, according to Gray, "she is way little."
Gray said her parents were not involved in 4-H when they were young, but her grandmother, Teresa Gray, was.
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