Craft Fair Updates

The craft fair at Washington Heights went pretty good considering it was good weather and not many shoppers. I sold 118 cupcakes and a few sugar cookies. There were a handful of my good friends and others that came just to buy cupcakes. I had samples of my vanilla and orangcicle out. It's always fun to watch people's reaction once they take a bite. There always that first hesitation to try anything and then once it reaches they're tastebuds they eyes get wide with exciment and a smile creeps up. Once they hear they're homemade and my own recipes they're impressed. There was also a number of people that had them at Christmas and right away bought more. I also met a lady that blogs for Ogden City and many people asked me where my shop was. Hopefully at Christmas I'll be able to tell them what coffee shops I'm in and send them that way. We'll see.
Monday I got my newest tat... it's a cupcake (surprise, surprise). My best friend Chet drew this for me almost a year ago. I'm not big into peace signs so I got a different cupcake on my back. After Chet passed away I realized how the drawing respresented out friendship. He was the peace sign with the flowering growing because he was working on being a better person (though God allowed me to see Chet they way God saw him) and I was the cupcake and he always saw me as a shining star. I truly miss Chet but know that he's much better now and is causing chaos up there in heaven.

I got it on my foot and it took an hour... yes it was painful and you can tell in the pic my foot is red a puffy.... but here you go

Upcoming Events

This Friday and Saturday I'll be at the Washington Height Baptist Church Spring Craft Fair. I'll have a booth in the 300 wing. Here are the flavors I'm offering

Strawberry Lemon w/Lemon Buttercream
Vanilla w/Vanilla Bean Buttercream
Lime w/Lemon Buttercream
Chocolate w/Chocolate Buttercream
Oreo w/Vanilla Buttercream
Coconut w/Coconut Buttercream
Orange w/Orange Buttercream

The event is Friday 9am- 8pm and Saturday 9am- 5pm

Hope to see you there.

Old Pic...

Here's some cupcakes I did for my friends at Dragon's Roost for Halloween. I made their logo out of chocolate.

New Photos

Ok I really should be working on my labels... I'll do that tomorrow night :)
Here's some photos from recent events... enjoy!!!

These were chocolate cupcakes for the Jesusfield auction. The toppers is a logo they use (yes it's the element logo)



These were for a birthday... the material in the background was the inspiration. They're orange cream, though next time I think I'll do just orange.





And the final one's are Oreo with Vanilla Buttercream for an 80's party

Get Up and Go

I just found out this morning after submitting all my recipes that hopefully I should be up and running as an officail business within the next month. I first need to get my cottage license and then a business license from Ogden City. A website is in the works. But I'll still continue to post my mouth watering pics on here... I have a few to post from and 80's birthday party, an upcoming auction with custom logos along with a flower power birthday.

Names and Flavors

Here it is the names and flavors coming to Sweet Charity's Cupcakery. I have two potential coffee shops that I can sell my cupcakes in... now to get the paperwork sent out and get the ball rolling.


FYI- If you click on the pic it will bring it up larger.

The only one I need a name for is my chocolate peanut butter cupcake w/peanut butter buttercream.

Oh so close....

I finally got all my recipes typed up... I'm very excited. I have some very fun names and flavors that I'll be offering... which I'll have to post later because the list is at home. Now all I need to do is get all the paperwork in and send it off to start the process of getting my cottage license. This means that I have to have someone review and approve all my recipes. Also I have to label everything as homemade and put the ingredients on the label along with all my info. I then have to have the health inspector come in and approve my home for baking. I already got a mini fridge to put everything in and I keep all my baking supplies seperate. After all of this is done I can then go to the city and get my business license- hopefully. Most cities have not heard of a cottage license. Then once I have my license I plan on going to local coffee shops and seeing if I can get them to sell my product and maybe even do some farmer's markets this summer. I'm very excited. Layton is getting a home base cupcakery so this has really gotten my but into gear. I'll keep you posted.

Frustration

The last 4 batches of new recipes I've tried have all turned out horrible. I think it's the amount of baking soda I'm using... but I'm determined to get it right... even it I have to bake every day. The sad part is the cupcakes don't even turn out enough to each they just sink in the middle. But in the meantime here's some recent and not so recent photos.

Oh so excited...

I found my perfect frosting for my red velvet cupcakes... now I just need to perfect making them. It's a roux frosting with requires you to cook flour and milk together until thick. I learned last week this doesn't mean sort of thick but very thick. But man is it good. Apprarently it's the original frosting put on red velvet cake before cream cheese. I'm excited. The plan is to make some for Valentines next week so hopefully I can perfect my technique by then.

Cupcakes.... coming soon

Hey everyone-
Finally got the baking bug again. I started my paperwork to get my Food Cottage license and hopefully within the week will be mailing in my application. Keep your fingers crossed.

I also found my new favorite store... Kitchen Kneads. Unfortunately it's right down the street from me. You would think this is a good thing... well the bad thing is now I can run over there and spend more of my money. But they had a lot of the extract flavorings I've been looking for. Hopefully they give discounts to business owners... I'll be asking soon.

New flavors coming soon:
Pina Coloda
Lime Rickey
S'more