I went shopping yesterday for all the ingredients for Route 129's cupcakes. You should have seen the look on people's faces when they saw my shopping cart. I wonder what they were thinking.....
"What's that girl gonna' do with 10 dozen eggs?????"
LOL!!!
Tip: Don't count on "Party Stores" to have cake boxes on stock. Just buy bulk from your favorite online retailer. It's worth it!
Shop til' you drop
WOW!
I can't believe how the Lord has been blessing this little venture. To make a long story short, we've had a lot of orders come in (of course all of them have been from friends....thanks everyone!) mostly for birthdays. I FINALLY, found a red velvet recipe that is super yummy and moist! Yay! More info on that later.
This weekend is my biggest order yet! A close friend of mine is going to get married and he and his beautiful bride to be asked me to do their cupcake tower...300 cupcakes! Yay! I'm so excited.
Our digital camera went on the fritz so I couldn't post any pictures of the past orders but for Christmas, my beloved husband bought me a new one! Yupee! So I'll be sure to take pictures of Route 129's cupcakes for everyone to see.
Happy Baking!
Long time no...post
With my beloved starting his new job, busy with our summer ministry and life, I'm finding it hard to be able to sit and post.
Great news, though, I have an order placed for this weekend. Yay!
Bye for now Chockylit
I've been perusing the web for cupcake inspirations and found a plethora of sites and blogs. Here's one blog that is so inspiring to me. In fact, if you've ever tasted a chocolate cupcake from me, the recipe was inspired by her chocolate cupcake recipe (with a few alterations).
She closed her blog back in May...*sigh*...but thankfully she'll have her recipes available so I can still be inspired.
Bye Chockylit!
What's in a name?
When thinking of a name for this blog (and possible business), Sweet Cakes Cupcakery came when I thought about my inspiration for baking cupcakes. My inspiration was my children. I have so many nicknames for them and Sweet Cakes was one of them. But if you google the name "Sweet Cakes" you'll find a couple of businesses with that name already. Also, I thought about me being someone else, if I heard the name "Sweet Cakes" I'm expecting to see cakes. But that's not what I do, I do cupcakes. Hence the addition of Cupcakery.
When discussing my new found "identity" with my beloved husband, he replies with a gentle, "That's a bit of a tongue twister, don't you think?" My huge smile turned into a mini pout. *Hmm* I suppose it is, but it's a super cute name. So in my quest to honor my husband, I'm seeking help from all (5) of you who read my blog, to help me find a new name. Here a is a list of some names that were suggested to me. They are in no particular order:
- Sweet Cupcakes
- Sprinkle Me
- Ah Yeah Cupcakes
- Frosted Cupcakes
- Little Miss Cupcakes (I think that's what it was)
- Strawberry Cupcake
If you have other suggestions, please pass them along. I'd love to hear them.
Take care everyone!
It's been a while
Hi folks! It's been a long while since my last post. To be honest, I've been quite busy. Can you believe that I've had a couple of people place orders from me? WOW! What an answer to prayer! It's really neat and exciting to see what God is going to do with this. Will he keep the door open for this business venture? Or will the door be shut? Only God knows that. While I wait, I'm going to continue to pray and allow Him to lead me. More than anything, I desire to honor Him in all that I do, that includes opening a cupcakery.
Here are some pictures of the recent orders that were done:
Coconut Cupcake with Italian Meringue 
Vanilla cupcake with Italian Meringue
Vanilla cupcake with Italian Meringue and Vanilla cupcake with Chocolate Buttercream
Coconut cupcake filled with pineapple filling with Italian MeringueBurnt Bottoms
This post is inspired by my friend, Bern. If your bottoms (I mean your cupcake's bottoms) are burning, here are some tips that might help. Just a side note, I want to just emphasize that I'm no professional. These tips are just tips that have helped me in the cupcake making process:
-Use cupcake liners
-Make sure you pre-heat your oven to the appropriate temperature
-For conventional (or radiant) ovens*, place your pans in the middle rack, NOT the bottom. You might even be able to place them on the top rack but it all depends on your oven.
-Half way through baking, turn your pans around so that the heat isn’t concentrated in one area. For example, with my oven, cupcakes usually take about 22 min. to bake. So I set the timer to 10 min. When the timer goes off I turn the pans then set the timer for another 12 min.
*Want to know the difference between conventional (radiant) ovens and convection ovens? Click here.
HAPPY BAKING!
My Mother's Day Gift
With much anticipation...my Mother's Day gift arrived!!! Here it is...
"What is it?" Well, it's a Cupcake Courier, of course! I've been transporting my cupcakes in the foil pans with lids, that you get at the supermarket. Those worked fine until I had to bring lots, and lots of cupcakes. With the fear of having messy cupcakes, I would often frost them when I arrived to the location. With these, there's no need to fear. These are great. "The CUPCAKE COURIER is a rectangular, translucent plastic container that holds three stackable cupcake trays. Each tray has 12 deep cups to hold each cupcake secure. It has a comfortable handle, and 4 bottom latches that hold the base securely." - cupcakecourier.com. Do I sound like a commercial or what? Well, when I find something useful and efficient, you bet I'll be excited!
Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate Buttercream
As requested, by my younger brother, I made a Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate Buttercream. The same frosting I used with the Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcake. The reciped I used for the Vanilla Cupcake was similar to the Coconut Cupcake recipe except I changed it up a bit. Since the batch can yield 36 cupcakes (there's only 5 of us in our household), I packed a dozen and a half for my husband to take to his office. The others stayed here for the kids and I to devour.
notice there's two missing? How funny!
Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream
After my Red Velvet disaster, I was determined to make a yummy cupcake again. So that evening, we had a few friends over and I whipped up some Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcakes topped with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. Success!
Red Velvet Woes
This past mother's day I made a batch of Red Velvet Cupcakes with a Cream Cheese Buttercream frosting. I've made this recipe before and turned out really fabulous. Unfortunately, this batch was less than yummy :( I think I know what happened. I was really tired when making these and I didn't mix the ingredients correctly. The cupcakes ended up really, really dry. The frosting too had a mishap. As I was about to put the sugar in the cream cheese and butter mixture, all the family started coming and I grabbed the granulated sugar instead of the confectioner's sugar. So the frosting ended up being gritty. The taste was there but the texture was all wrong! So...lesson learned...when baking be alert, awake and set out the ingredients ahead of time (if you can)! I didn't even bother taking a picture of it. It was just wrong.
Coconut Cupcakes
Martha Stewart had a cupcake week recently. There she shared tons of yummy cupcakes which included her favorite, a Coconut Cupcake. I attempted her recipe and since then I've made this at least 4 times in the past 3 months. This recipe is definately a keeper!
Chocolate Cupcake with Vanilla Buttercream
You can find the chocolate cupcake recipe in More From Magnolia: Recipes from the World Famous Bakery. This recipe is so light and fluffy. It's just yummy!
I'm going to go devour one right now...mmmm!
Princess Cupcakes
This one was for my daughter's 5th birthday. She had a Disney Princess Tea Party. These are chocolate cupcakes with strawberry buttercream. The buttercream didn't turn out as great because as I was making the frosting I got distracted. I ended up using granulated sugar instead of confectioner's sugar. Oh, well, the girls didn't mind.
Cherry Blossom
Here's one of the fist attempts at making cupcakes for a party, a bridal shower to be exact. This cupcake was inspired by my sister-in-law, Kristine. Cherry Blossoms was her theme and let me tell you, it was one of my favorites!
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