Market Days!

Hi Everyone! Seems like everyday we get people asking when we are going to open up for retail at our current location. While we are not quite ready for a full-blown retail operation, we are very pleased to offer Market Days on Saturdays! Market whuh? Let's explain. Our Market Day is our own little in-house farmers market-like situation. It's a time to chat, try samples, and grab goodies to go!  In the very beginning, our goal was to sell our cupcakes at farmers markets across the metro area. In fact, our very first blog post was dedicated to this. The whole market thing didn't really work out because, well, frosting and hot, humid weather don't really get along.

What we did love about our farmers market days was meeting new people, introducing our products to first timers and of course providing happy little take-home packages full of our sweet treats. This past Saturday, we quietly (as quiet as three balloons tied to a bistro chair outside our door) tested the waters and were thrilled at the response. That said, we'll be open Saturdays 10AM to 1PM and can't wait to see ya!

Location: 5392 Peachtree Rd, Chamblee GA, 30341.  Down the street from Maison Robert, Zen Tea, Steam Koffee,  Frosty Caboose and next door to Carrie's Bridal Collection.

Spring Cupcakes!

Our favorite time of the year is here and we have new cupcakes to boot! Without much ado, we are thrilled to present you with the addition of six cupcakes to our everyday flavors:

Big Dip: Chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting coated in chocolate and
topped with crunchy, caramelized hazelnuts

Chunky Monkey: Banana cupcake studded with chocolate chips with chocolate buttercream topped with Valrhona chocolate pearls and a banana chip

Coco-Nut: Coconut fans rejoice, coco-nut is ba-ack! Coconut cupcake with cream cheese frosting rolled in shredded coconut

Pink Lemonade: Lemon cupcake topped with cherry buttercream and candied lemon peel

Raspberry Swirl: Vanilla cupcake with raspberry swirl with cream cheese frosting topped with a pink rosette and raspberry puree

S'mores: Chocolate cupcake on graham cracker base with marshmallow frosting topped with a toasted marshmallow

Our Springtime Cupcakes are available through June 20. Enjoy!

Sweet Elise

My sweet Elise is gone. For those who may have met her at the Phipps Plaza store, she was the sweet Lady quietly helping out around the store, organizing and labeling every.single.thing. in our storage area and cleaning up in the kitchen so it sparkled like her kitchen at home. She gave me the idea of putting those half-circles on the sides of our custom boxes so they could slide open easily. She helped us settle into our new studio and didn't stop telling me how much she loved the space. All that labeling sure came to good use during our move.

To me and my three sisters, she was our precious gift. We are so proud to have had her as a mother. I can’t wait to pull up pictures of birthday cakes she baked for us when we were kids. Our birthdays were such a big deal to her. I remember she had to go out of town for work on my tenth birthday. Before she left, she made sure everything was set, my outfits (I had options, y'all), the food, the party favors, the activities, the cake, everything. At the time, I was sad that she wouldn't be there, but at the same time, I was excited because she'd planned this big 'ole party for me. She ended up making it back into town on my birthday (only God knows how she pulled it off) and my joy knew no bounds. It was an amazing party! She’s the reason I wanted to grow up and do the same for my children. We were the ‘big cake house’ growing up. The one where you always got a big piece of cake at birthday parties.

To be honest, I have thought about closing up shop to deal with everything. It seems so hard when you’re going through something like this. However, this past week, between shifts at the hospital, I found it healing to be able to frost and decorate cupcakes at the studio before rushing back to take over from my sisters. I loooooooooooooove my mommy. Ugh! It hurts! At the same time, my mom loved to say “be positive”, so I will. Je t’adore Maman et je t’aime.

It's a wonderful world of cupcakes

So, 2012 has rolled on by with nary a post thus far. We've been busy catching up from the holidays and putting together plans for the new year. For the first time, we have all our flavors planned out for the entire year. We styled them and are happy with the final 42 flavors. It was a painstaking process shortlisting the finalists and we hope you'll be happy with them too. A new change this year is that we are now offering 12 everyday flavors plus six seasonal flavors. This means that on any given day, we'll have 18 flavors to offer our customers. No more

having to guess what special is available on what day. Or, hearing "heeeeeeeey, is it possible to get Wednesday's special on a Saturday?" Hopefully, this would be a positive change as well.

In other news, we are really loving our new digs. We get sad though when people call us from our old location and ask where we are. We feel so bad that they've made a special trip only to hear that we're ten minutes away. Also, we're getting a lot of pressure to open a storefront but that's a conversation for another day. We're really happy where we are and can't wait to bring to fruition what we've got planned for our new location. Thanks for all your support and thank you for allowing us to keep doing what we love.

Still accepting holiday orders

There's still time to place your holiday orders. We've got a whole team ready to assist you whether you decide to pick your cupcakes up at our new bakery or have them delivered. In addition to our 12 everyday flavors, we've added six holiday flavors into the mix. Our holiday flavors are:

Chocolate Covered Cherry - Chocolate cupcake with cherry buttercream dipped in chocolate coating and a cherry on top
Chocolate Peppermint - Chocolate cupcake with peppermint buttercream topped with crushed peppermint candy
Gingerbread Spice - Gingerbread cupcake with cream cheese frosting dusted with cinnamon sugar and topped with a fondant gingerbread man
Pumpkin Spice - Spiced pumpkin cupcaketopped with cream cheese frosting
Snickerdoodle - Cinnamon cupcake topped withEuropean-style buttercream sprinkled with a dusting of cinnamon-sugar
Snowball - Vanilla cupcake with cream cheese frosting topped with a blizzard of shredded coconut flakes

Give us a call at 404-949-0409 to place your order.
Our holiday hours are as follows:
12/24: 10AM - 2PM
12/25: Closed
12/26: Closed
12/31: 10AM - 2PM
1/1: Closed
1/2: Closed

See you soon!

Coming Soon: Lenox Cupcakes at 5392 Peachtree Rd

It’s hard to believe that we finally have a place to call our baking home. After our temporary lease at Phipps Plaza ended, we were pretty sure where we would be going next. In fact, we’d planned on that location long before our final days at Phipps. We had our design in place and were ready to move forward when we found out that the restaurant next door didn’t want a cupcake shop in the same plaza. Womp womp. We found a couple more spots we thought would be ideal but the deals somehow fell through right before we signed the lease. Finally, it dawned on us that these seemingly perfect spaces, may not be ideal for us. We thought about our needs as a family and what we needed in terms of work/life balance and a space we initially didn’t think was a fit suddenly started to make sense.

Our new space at 5392 Peachtree Rd would be our main baking facility where we would bake cupcakes for delivery and pick up. It’s just perfect for that. When we were at Phipps, we found ourselves baking more for pick up and delivery than we did for walk-ins. We often thought it would be great if Saturdays were reserved just for walk-ins. That scenario might just be possible at our new location. We’re really excited about the opportunity to serve our customers and still spend quality time together as a family. It’s exciting, scary and exciting all over again.

In our earlier days as a delivery-only company, I remember being frustrated about not having a place for people to come and pick up their cupcakes. And then when we had the temporary store, I remember longing for the days when I could volunteer at my son’s school or go on our annual vacay. I’m hoping this time around, I’ll actually be able to volunteer more often without cancelling at the last minute and even though we probably won’t be able to take the last two weeks of the year off as we did in times past, I know for sure we won’t be open on New Year’s Day :-)

So long Phipps Plaza...

It is amazing to think that it was a little over a year ago that we began working on plans for our pop-up store at Phipps Plaza. It has now been a year and we are thankful to have been able to test our concept in a retail environment. We met some wonderful people and it was gratifying to witness customers enjoying our cupcakes firsthand. We will no doubt miss all our customers, especially those who drove a great distance to see us.

We are truly excited, energized, and ready for the next phase of our business venture. For now, our cupcakes are available by delivery, throughout the metro-Atlanta area, while we are working on a more permanent space. Stay tuned to this blog as well as our facebook and twitter pages for new updates!

Our vintage Coca-Cola cooler

Our custom pink and brown boxes

Our cute tees designed by Melanie of Lucky & Lovely