New Year's Eve Flavors

Hi Everyone!

I know, I know... I've been super bad about posting our daily flavors. The last couple of days post-vacation have been a little overwhelming and I keep telling myself no one reads this little blog. No more excuses, here's what we have lined up for tomorrow, Thursday, December 31st (can you believe it's already here?):

• Red Velvet
• Dark Chocolate Bliss
• Pumpkin Spice
• PB Chocolate
• Vanilla-Vanilla
• Chocolate Whisper
• Caramel Vanilla

We are seriously looking forward to being a part of a surprise tomorrow. I really do love it when our customers include us in their special moments.

Before I sign off, I want to take a moment to thank all of our customers for giving us an opportunity to do what we love. We started out baking for family and then friends and now we're getting requests from all over the country and even far away places like London, Turkey, Singapore and some other places I can't recall right this minute. It's been a year of many ups (new kitchen agreement, amazing corporate clients, new website, fun events, charitable contributions, super supplier) and a few downs (coffee shop closing, uncollected funds- what's a small biz to do, send them to collections???). All in all, it has been an extremely rewarding experience. I am thrilled about the New Year, there's so much to do and I can't wait! Have a wonderful New Year's!

Monday & Tuesday Flavors

Happy Monday!

Here are the flavors we are baking today, December 21st:

• PB Chocolate
• Chocolate Whisper
• Caramel Vanilla
• Red Velvet
• Dark Chocolate Bliss
• Pumpkin Spice
• Coco-Nut

Tomorrow, Tuesday, December 22nd, we will be baking:

• Dark Chocolate Bliss
• Vanilla-Vanilla
• Banana Gregg
• Pumpkin Spice
• Caramel Vanilla
• Red Velvet
• Chocolate Whisper
• Strawberry Swirl

It's just days before Christmas and I haven't done ANY Christmas shopping (gasp)! Here's my prepared speech "I have decided to be fiscally disciplined this year and will not handing out any presents." I'm not sure how that will work for my little nieces and nephews. If that fails, I hear CVS is open 24 hours on Christmas Day. Just kidding!

Holiday Cupcakes

We have been busy with holiday cupcake orders for our corporate clients and fun-loving, event-hosting customers. Here are a few of the cupcakes we've done. It was especially fun creating these custom toppers. Enjoy!

We'll be closing for a few days of R &R December 23-27. Our last day for deliveries before Christmas is December 22. We'll re-open refreshed and rejuvenated, ready to take your cupcake orders December 28th!

Bootstrap, yes... Bootleg, no

I'll explain the crazy title in a minute. Someone told our kindly driver that we were bootleg for not having a storefront and I thought this might be a good time to explain our business model. You see, we don't operate a storefront for a variety of reasons with the main reason being the cost of operating a brick and mortar. Keeping our operating costs low gives us room to play with the same high-end ingredients that designer cupcake stores use (Valrhona chocolate, Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla, real chocolate sprinkles and chocolate flakes from France, European stlye butter, pure extracts and spices, organic produce, etc).

Still, I understand that our delivery-only model is not ideal for everyone so I'll continue to look for other ways to get our cupcakes out there. I must say that we have experimented with markets, neighborhood coffee shops and those haven't worked as well as we would have liked. Speaking of which, I went to make a delivery to Tilt, where we had our cupcakes and was greeted with a sign saying that they had closed :(

Wednesday's Flavors

Happy Wednesday!

Just a quick note to tell you our Baker's Choice for today:

• Dark Chocolate Bliss
• Strawberry Swirl
• Chocolate Whisper
• Sunny Lemon
• Red Velvet
• Chocolate/Vanilla

Have a great day!

Monday's Flavors

Hi Everyone!

Here's what we are preparing to bake for our customers tomorrow:

• Vanilla-Vanilla
• Dark Chocolate Bliss
• Red Velvet
• Pumpkin Spice
• White Chocolate Peppermint
  

Here are some pictures of some recent orders before I sign off. Have a great week!

Shoe Sale at Saks!

Okay, so this is totally not what this blog is about but I thought I'd be a good citizen and let any shoe lovers out there know that there is a rocking shoe sale going on at Saks Fifth Avenue today. I stopped by to check on some cupcakes we'd delivered earlier today. I wanted to make sure that they were happy with the delivery/service/cupcakes.

After taking care of that official business, I went about my business having noticed some big ol' red signs by the shoe racks. And what did they have? Totally awesome shoes! Within minutes, I started to play a justify game that I play in my head that involves the many reasons I have to have anything. Luckily enough, I unjustified myself out of the shoes in time to tell you about the sale.

And back to the reason for this blog. Here's what we baked for our customers today:

• Vanilla-Vanilla
• Caramel Vanilla
• Banana Gregg
• Dark Chocolate Bliss
• Pumpkin Spice
• Chocolate Whisper

Have a great weekend!

Wednesday's Flavors

Hi Everyone!

Here's our Baker's Choice for Wednesday, December 2nd:

• Dark Chocolate Bliss
• Caramel Vanilla
• Banana Gregg
• Pumpkin Spice
• Vanilla-Vanilla
• Honey Vanilla
• Chocolate Whisper

I took a break earlier this afternoon and strolled through a holiday market here in town. I sooooo love markets but find it a little bit of a let down that they haven't quite caught on in Atlanta. The markets here are always so disappointingly empty (even on weekends). Do y'all not like markets? Seriously, those are the best finds anywhere. I always get the most unique pieces of jewelry and the coolest tchotchkes at neighborhood markets. Maybe it's just me, but I kinda think it's cool to meet the person who designed my earrings...

Here are some photos of our orders today. Enjoy!

Tuesday's Flavors

Hi Everyone!


Today's flavors are:

• Honey Vanilla
• Dark Chocolate Bliss
• Pumpkin Spice
• Vanilla-Vanilla
• Caramel Vanilla
• Chocolate Dream

Can you believe that December's already here? This is the last month in the year 2009 so we've got to make it count! My sister regularly sends me inspirational text messages and today's message got me thinking about the goals I had written down at the beginning of the year. I am thankful that I've been able to sign off on a few of the items on that list. However, there's still so much left to do. I'm taking advantage of this new month and making the remaining of those goals a reality. Let's do this!