Cupcake Bar at Swoozie's Tonight

Swoozie's is back! Yes! My favorite store for personalized invitations, paperie, and all kinds of snazzy gifts, is back and I couldn't be more excited. My friends and I mourned the loss of our favorite store's location in Brookwood and more recently sent each other "Swoozie's is back!" emails to announce the fact that they were moving to a new store in Buckhead!

Now, not only is Swoozie's back, but thanks to Sharon of Sweet Sensations for the referral, Lenox Cupcakes will be setting up a Cupcake Bar at Swoozie's grand opening at Chastain Square tonight from 6-9pm. It is hard to tell you what this means to me. First of all, I love all things Swoozie's. I would be their mascot free of charge, if they asked me. Second of all, I have been admiring Sharon's work at Sweet Sensations for a while now. To get a call from her to do this is like winning the lottery. Nothing beats this. So, my friends, I am beyond excited and with more notice, I would have gladly dyed my hair pink and orange in honor of this awesome day. Alas, I've got to be all professional about it :-)

Lenox Cupcakes at Phipps Plaza Now Open!

Finally! We are now open for business at Phipps Plaza. This past Saturday was our first official day and we've been having a blast ever since. Our new neighbors have been extremely warm and supportive. They were the first to try our cupcakes and refer their customers to us. On Saturday, we scrambled to keep our case full but by Sunday, we were fully armed with cupcakes. Right now, we are doing twelve flavors a day with two being daily specials offered that day only. That might change because the English Toffee we introduced on Saturday was a huge hit. Our ten flavors available daily are:

Caramel Vanilla
Chocolate Whisper
Chocolate/Vanilla
Coco-Nut
Dark Chocolate Bliss
PB Chocolate
Red Velvet
Vanilla/Chocolate
Vanilla-Vanilla
White Chocolate

See you soon!

We’re really, really close

I hate to keep saying this but we’re really, really close to opening. Seriously. We were going to open today but our A/C’s not working. I realized there was a problem and called a guy that I just knew would fix the problem. I went about my business and came back to find a note on a yellow sticky “P.S: Your A/C’s not working” and he left a number to another company. I called the other company and they said they would come early next week. We called a few other companies and nada. No way! We were trying to open like Sunday! Arrrrrrrrrrrgh! We told everyone that stopped by! We told our web guy to make changes to the website! We told everyone! And now, we have to write this: We’re really, really close and will open as soon as our A/C is fixed. It’s no joke standing in front of the store so imagine what it must be like working with the ovens going in the back! In the meantime, we’ll continue to crank out our online orders for delivery. We didn’t expect this but please bear with us. Apparently there are a lot of people that need A/Cs right now and we’ve just joined the queue.

P.S: I cupcake ATL but this heat's got to go!

Lenox Cupcakes Getting a Storefront?

Yes, we are!!! We are pleased to announce that Lenox Cupcakes will be opening our first storefront before the end of the summer. Our new location is at Phipps Plaza, next to Belk on the second level. This is really huge for us and we are excited to share this great news with you. More details to come!

Summertime R & R

Lenox Cupcakes will be closed July 31st - August 2nd. We will be back bright and early on Tuesday, August 3rd ready to fulfill your cupcake dreams. Thanks, everyone!

Sweet Job Opportunities at Lenox Cupcakes

We are looking for energetic, fun, and enthusiastic bakers to join our small but growing family! If you have a deep and abiding love for all things cupcake, we'd like for you to be a part of our team. Professional baking experience preferred. Duties include but not limited to preparing batter, baking, frosting, decorating and packaging cupcakes. Full-time and part-time opportunities available. Send your resume, along with photographs of past creations to order{at}lenoxcupcakes.com.

Still Standing

The title of this post is just to say I'm still here. This blog hasn't been updated in forever because it's really hard to find time to sit down and download what's been going on. I almost miss the daily flavor updates on the blog but it was getting redundant posting them here as well as on Twitter and Facebook.

We've just concluded what was probably our busiest week ever, better than Valentine's Day. It's nice to know that moms are so appreciated. Even though things could have gotten overwhelming, I'm thankful to my small crew for being super efficient. Speaking of efficiency, that's one of my goals for this year. I recently met with a business advisor and here are some lessons that might help other businesses, specifically those in the food industry.

• Map out a roadplan for your business. This usually comes in the form of a business plan. I don't have a business plan as I wasn't planning to court investors. What I do have is a document that has contains my aspirations for the business - in three phases. I'll take his advice and make it more of a formal plan. www.wsi.miniplan.com and www.bplans.com were sites he suggested.
• Maintain quality at all costs. There will be vendors trying to sell you ingredients that are cheaper and "produce the same or better results". Don't do it! Not even once. This is coming from someone that was in the business for 48 years.
• Develop a technique in production. Isn't that the ultimate goal? It would be nice if someone were to hand us all a manual on how to do this. Unfortunately and fortunately, this is something that needs to be developed within the business. It helps to develop and perfect a technique that is ultimately yours.