New Name... Who knows???

So my friends like to come up with names for my cupcake shop... sometimes it involves Cherries, sometimes out space themes. Whatever it is, it always gets me thinking. My mom made a suggestion that I really liked, "Sweet Charity's Cupcakery." If you don't know who Sweet Charity is then you weren't raised in the 70's. There was a musical called Sweet Charity starring Gwen Verdon. It's about a prostitute who has a heart tattoo on her arm. I've never actually seen the musical... it's on my to do list. But I also have a tattoo on my arm but I'm not a prostitute though people pay me for my cupcakes so I could be considered a cupcake whore?? I like the name and it's simple plus it has cupcakery in it... which is such a fun word and has to be in the name somewhere. I'll keep you up to date on the name game.

This weekend is a long weekend... hopefully I can get some fun baking in. :)

How I love Experimenting

Yesterday I did some experimental baking. With working two jobs and volunteering at a youth center I don't have a lot of time for this. So I was pretty excited. Saturday I went to Sur La Table and bought some Rose Water Extract and Lavender Extract that I couldn't wait to use. I also modified my vanilla recipe. I think I may have found my perfect vanilla. I'm pretty excited about that. I made some rose cupcakes and lavender cupcakes. To be honest I didn't know what either tasted like I so didn't add any other extracts- I wanted to be able to taste the flavors on their own. They were both surprisingly good, though need to be in combination of other flavors. Some that we came up was:
Vanilla Rose
Chocolate Lavender
Orange Rose
Lemon Rose
Chocolate Zucchini Lavender

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I can't wait to do more expirementing. I'm also getting ready to do some logo stuff and figure out the whole name thing.

Till next time...

The Name Game

So far no one likes the name "The Cupcake Shop" and I feel "Cherry's Cupcakery" is too much of a mouth full... What do I do... I need a name. Somehow I'd like to have Cupcakery in it... Others are suggesting Rocky Mtn Cupcakery... help... if anyone is reading this and has suggestions... please suggest...I'm sure soon I'll put it to a vote... AGAIN!!!!

Thanks to all my friends for your love and support through all this...I'm sure I'll need it much more here soon.

Business is getting ready to Bloom

I got my mini fridge... now I just need someone to carry it up three flights of stair for me... Standing a four feet eleven inches makes it very difficult to carry large objects- especially up stairs. I'm lucky I can carry grocery bags without dragging them on the ground... no really.
I also received the letter I need from Ogden city saying that I am zoned for a home business. Now all I got to do is submit my recipes and get a health inspector out to my place... should be that easy... hopefully I can get my but in gear.
I'll keep you posted as making my business a reality is soon approaching.