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 Meringue

Burnt 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.

Hope this helps :)

*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!