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.


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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

2009- What a start

Well 2009 hasn't been to great to me this year. I started off with an amazing birthday celebration. 30 of my closest friends joined me at Rooster's Brewery. The one that I especially wanted to be there didn't make it. But I did at least get to talk to him. Less then a week later he passed away, along with my grandmother. It's been rough. The desire to bake is not really there.
I'm hoping that if I start baking again it will help things get better. Healing will take time. The passing of my friend is definitely God's will. He is now a whole person who can celebrate life. I'm a little jealous that he gets to be up there partying with God and Christ. But in the mean time I'll stay here and party it up with cupcakes.
I have an amazing cupcake drawing he drew me. H drew it as a tattoo but it wasn't quite what I wanted. Now when I look at it I realize it's exactly what I want. So hopefully here in the near future I'll be adding to my tattoo collection. Don't worry I'll post pics.
This weekend I'll be baking some chocolate peanut butter cupcakes w/ Reese's in the middle. These are fun to make. I'm also going to tackle some dark chocolate cupcakes. Per a co-worker's request. Not a huge dark chocolate fan so I'll have to come up with a creative frosting. Maybe marshmellow?
Here's to 2009 getting better and hopefully it'll in with a bang.

Happy Birthday.... to Corbin

Two weeks ago we had a surprise birthday for Corbin... he just turned 16. Our surprise party wasn't much of a surprise but it was still fun. All his friend came to JesusField and hung out.
I made him Oreo cupcakes with music themed chocolate molds. Starting to experiment with ways to top my cupcakes.










Right now I'm baking sugar cookies and going to try to do some decorating. I'll post pics later.

Craft Fair

Last weekend was the craft fair at Washington Heights. I've been exhausted since. I made over 300 cupcakes and only had a dozen left. The fair was two days long and on the first night I had to go home and make 4 more dozen cupcakes. All I heard was good things. I think the best part of the whole thing was the people I met. Every time someone would try a sample their eyes would get large and then they'd confirm that I made this. The best part is that I've been making cupcakes long enough I've pretty much have my own recipes. There's maybe one or two that I've borrowed off a recipe sharing sites. I had 8 different flavors:
Girls Best Friend: Chocolate Cupcake with Chocolate Buttercream
Daddy's Girl: Oreo cupcake w/oreo vanilla buttercream and a Oreo baked in the center
Autumn Glory: Pumpking cupcake w/ cinnamon buttercream
Winter Breeze: Peppermint candy cane cupcake w/ peppermint buttercream
Southern Beauty: Red Velvet cupcake w/white chocolate cream cheese
Doodle Bug: Snickerdoodle cupcake w/cinnamon buttercream
Ski Patrol: Chocolate mint cupcake w/ mint buttercream
Do the Split: Bananan chocolate chip cupcake w/ vanilla buttercream chopped with choclate sauce and a cherry on top

Craft Fair....

Today is the first day at the Washington Heights Craft Fair... updates and pics coming soon.

Cupcake Names.... what do you think

So I love giving things different names... something unique and a little unusual. I love that my name is different (well outside of Utah it is). I want my cupcakes the same joy I have in being unique. Here's what I have so far:

Girl's Best Friend: Chocolate cupcake w/Chocolate frosting
Pretty in Pink: Vanilla cupcake w/ Pink vanilla frosting
Doodlebug: Snickerdoodle cinnamon cupcake w/Cinnamon frosting
Autumn Glory: Pumpkin Cupcake w/Cinnamon fosting
We all Scream: Banana cupcake w/Vanilla frosting, chocolate sauce w/ a cherry on top
Daddy's Girl: Oreo cupcake w/Vanilla Frosting, oreo in the middle and topped w/oreos
Christmas Greetings: Gingerbread cupcake w/ _______ Frosting (still experimenting)
Southern Beauty: Red Velvet cupcake w/ White Chocolate Frosting
Happy Hour: Lime cupcake w/ Lemon Frosting
Lemon Drop: Lemon Cupcake w/ Lemon Frosting
Island Dreams: Coconut cupcake w/ Coconut Frosting
Summer Days: Strawberry Lemon cupcake w/ Lemon Frosting
Coffee Break: Mocho cupcake w/Mocho Frosting
What's Up Doc: Carrot Coconut cupcake w/Coconut Frosting
Soda Pop: Root Beer Cupcake w/ Root Beer Frosting
Pina Colada: Lemon Pinapple Cupcake w/ Coconut Frosting
I want S'more: Chocolate Graham Cracker cupcake w/ Marshmellow Frosting
Christmas Morning: Peppermint cupcake w/Peppermint Frosting

Here's some that still needs a name... please feel free to suggest.

Chocolate Peanut Butter cupcake w/ Peanut Butter Frosting
Chocolate Mint Cupcake w/ Mint Frosting