From cake to frosting: A year in review

2010 has by far been the best year for Cuppitycakes! I personally got to go places I would have never gone, and created things I never imagined I could do. I have so many people to thank for spreading the word. THANK YOU!!!

I thought it might be nice show some of my favourite things about this year. I'm told I'm not very good at blogging.......I have no idea what their talking about ;0) I'll try to do better! As I said before, this past year was filled with so many great opportunitues for me to really challenge myself. I had a chance to make up cupcakes for several music lovers. Making a 2inch guitar out of fondant isn't an easy task, trust me. Practice makes perfect!

Starting in April my evenings and weekends were full Pixar, Disney, Fairytales, Superheros, ....it was never ending! It was liking watching Saturday morning cartoons every waking moment, I was a kid again! These are just a few, WAY too many to put them all up. I have to thank momstown.ca for sending moms our way. Love you gal's!

In 2010 we had alot of charities and associations ask for donations. For the most part we were able to help anyone who asked, which gives me the warm and fuzzies! Love puting a smile of peoples faces! We donated cupcakes to some of our regular causes and some new ones too. We had some events too: the annual tennis tournament for the Red Deer Tennis Club, SPCA Grand Opening, Jungle Farm Fall Feastival and Pirates & Princess Party put on by momstown.ca.

Wedding season starts every January fielding phone calls for upcoming neptuals in the summer. Last summer was our biggest year so far (this year is looking good), it's always fun being part of the couples big day. I also headed off to Anchorage Alaska do an old friends wedding. I even made my first wedding cake! 18 hours of pure fondant, flour and delish cupcakes. Alaska is beautiful I highly recommend taking a trip there, its just amazing!

Well that's about all I can handle sitting in front of this computer. Thanks to our Facebook fans for spreading the word, the lovely market goers, family&freinds and lastly the Jungle Farm!

xxoo ST

A tribute to the arts.

Hello Ladies and gents, its been a loooooong time. But I needed to share some exciting news with you all. Drum roll please.....................Cuppitycakes Cupcakery now has T-SHIRTS!!! Okay, so maybe not that exciting for you guys as much as me but in any case you can show your love. Yeah!

Men's T's - indigo, white, black and green. Various sizes

Ladies T's - peach, sky blue, black, white and green. Various sizes

Thank you so much to Braden from make marks design for creating some really radical designs! I loved them all! It was very difficult to pick only a few to share with all you fans. Right now we are sporting the "spray" design on euro fitted T's and snazzy black aprons. Stay tuned for more designs.

And another big thanks to Mike at A Rare Brand for creating our logo.

Love you boys, your amazing and your work shows it!

Market Inspirations!

Living in Red Deer, there isn't always much to do on a weekday. Unless you're involved in other activities like soccer, baseball, dance...etc. So I tend to shop, mostly for food mind you at the local markets. Practically every town in Central Alberta has some sort of weekly market. The most recent market to start up in Red Deer is Down Town Market on Wednesdays running from 4pm-7pm right in the heart of down town! Its all local, fresh and deeeeelicious! All the fresh fruit, veggies, herbs, preserves, and baked goods can prove to be too tempting for some! Especially me. Stocking my fridge to the gills with local fresh goodies is all good but sometimes I find myself, scrambling to eat everything I bought for fear of it going bad! So I thought I should use some of those fruits and veg in some of my cupcakes this week I tried blueberry cupcakes with blueberry frosting! The cake was great the frosting needs a little work.

mmmmm blueberries.....I need to name this cupcake. Old blue? Booberry? I'll have to work on that.

I also tried out a peach cupcake, with a brown sugar frosting. Clearly the peaches weren't from the Red Deer area. I actually bought them at the Saturday Public Market. I only got through 4 of the six when they were getting a little too soft for my liking. I'm still trying to pull through a more intense peach flavour in the cupcake . Hopefully I'll have it figured out by next week and you all can try it!

The brown sugar frosting was sweet but surprisingly good.

I think I will name this one, "Peachy Keen"!

Toodles Pal's&Gal's!

Farmers Market round 2!

The markets for the past couple of years have been sooooo much fun that I decided, it is a must for this year! Our first Market in 2010 will be at the Red Deer Public Market located down by the Red Deer Arena/skatepark Saturday May 22nd. Its starts at 8am and goes till noon. Please stop by and try some free samples and some feature flavours for purchase. Julia, Charlee and myself would love to see ya! There will be postings on our Facebook page when and where we are attending a market, keep an eye out for that.

I almost forgot! We will be bringing some of our specialty goodies to the markets as well over the summer. Like the ever-so-popular Chocolate Dipped New York Cheesecake... on a stick! Thats right I said it!!!!

Hope to see you this summer. Cheers!

Milk and cupcakes??

Milk and cookies was something of an after-school delight for me growing up. Almost like comfort food! This week I'm going to show you two wonderful cupcakes that have made their mark on the Cuppitycakes Menu! First off, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough!

Mmm cooookies! Almost as good as a cupcakes, but not quite. I created this cupcake the very first year I started selling at the summer markets. I went through a faze of making cupcakes that were stuffed with this or filled with that. At this particular time in the summer I was making chocolate bar cupcakes like Caramilk, After Eight, Crunchie.....you get the idea! Then I immediately thought of ice-cream, which led me to blizzards and then......back to cupcakes! Anyways, I put globs of cookie dough into my Classic Chocolate cupcake batter. Topped it off with a rich chocolate butter cream and of course, a cookie.

Boy oh boy, was that a good idea!

I had also created one of Red Deer's favourites, Cookies&Cream. I positively love Oreos, they take be back to the good old days! I still indulge from time to time ;0)

I used my Classic Vanilla batter as the base. Most people use chocolate cake but I really wanted to see the cookie chunks. I put some Oreos into a little baggy and smash those little suckers up with my trusty rolling pin. The trick to making this cupcake is all in the frosting. I did my very, very, very best to make the frosting taste just like the delicious creamy filling you get with Oreos. Oh, and we added a little flare by topping the cupcake off with a mini Oreo.

Too cute! I might just have to go bake some... until next time!

Oooey Goooey Chocolate Zucchini!

So for the next few posts I am going to highlight some of our top selling cupcakes. This will help all of our new and old Fans become better acquainted with these little morsels of edible joy! As well as introduce our Main Menu to you!

Better known as our Chocolate Zucchini cupcake, this little number has evolved from many recipes. We took a little from here, a little from there and created my version of Chocolate Zucchini cake. The oh-so-yummy double chocolate chip cake with freshly grated zucchini. That's right, we grate the zucchini by hand... we put love into our cupcakes ;0). We then frost with one of my personal favourites, Classic Cream Cheese frosting. I enjoy cream cheese anything, but when you put it on a cupcake....(as Mickey Mouse would say) Oooooooh booooooy! Lastly, we topped it off with a blackberry and chocolate sprinkles.

Just another one of the local favourites!

Bon Appetite!

Happy Ester the bunny!

This Easter there were quite a few orders, but on top of that I had family time! YEAH! On Saturday I headed over the the parents house to decorate eggs and sugar cookies! Now before you see the pictures please don't judge us, we did the best we could with the resources we had. You can laugh though....

Anyways my cousin, my Aunt and myself started off decorating the eggs, in the end it was just me and Auntie. We had 3 different colour kits, my personal favourite was the 24k GOLD kit. My eggs looked nothing like they did on the package, so we improvised.

I think the adults had way more fun!

We also used one of those tie-dye kits, it worked better then the others. And we used the crayon or "wax stick" to draw faces, designs and all that fun stuff. I tried to write Happy Easter on one of my eggs. Apparently I can't spell Easter, so now I call it Happy Ester the Bunny Day!

Our cookies are really terrible but we only had 4 wilton dyes for colours and they weren't so springy! Plus we only had a few pipping bags and tips. I guess when I moved out I took all my mom's decorating stuff. Who da thunk it! ;0)

My Grammy made some lemon cupcakes sprinkled with butterflies, she's so cute!

And I'll leave you with some of our popular Easter cupcakes this year!

Cheers!