Competition update

Hi Guys

With all that's going on with our bake sale we have decided to postpone our competition for another week. That means if you haven't got your entry in yet you have until Friday 4th to enter. We will announce the top five over the weekend and then you can start voting on which one would be your favourite. We will have the top 5 in store to sample Saturday 12th March.

Can't wait to get baking!!!

Celebratory Cupcakes Close to home

Well, we received some SUPER exciting news - over the weekend, Kathryn's sister (and sometimes cupcake helper) got engaged to her partner Al.

Now when Al was in the shop just before Valentines flexing his muscles cutting up 12kgs of chocolate for our ganache, and Fee was in here furiously making up cake boxes, WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT that the next week, they'd be announcing their engagement.

Its just so neat...and now the first question that springs to mind is 'Engagement Party Catering'

Oh...engagement party cupcakes!...heck...what theme??

Fee is fun and stylish, loves girly things & purple and Al is dedicated to martial arts, Rock Music and all things blokey and with some sci-fi thrown in - so what will it be??

Purple Ninjas, Nun-chucks with flowers, ACDC & Dirty Dancing inspired cupcakes?, Stargate/Handbags & Necklaces?

We're in quite the tizzy....

What if they dont even want cupcakes?? How will we cope.....and now the next thing to think about....fitting into hot outfits for the wedding...'Operation: Stop Taste Testing the Cupcakes and commence dieting to avoid double chins in professional photos' must commence!

Dream up a Delish

Well - we LOVE dreaming up new flavours, and are always inspired by recipe books (real ones and online ones) and we know that so many of you have amazing talents in the kitchen - or just amazing taste buds, so we want to run a wee competition where you win, as do your tastebuds - we love your interaction - after all, you are as passionate about cupcakes as us, and we love your input.

So here goes....

Dream up a new Delish Flavour

If there is a favourite flavour of yours that we havent got on our menu, or had in the past, that you think would be super yum, then tell us about it.

Break it down by being as descriptive as possible - include name of the cupcake (something fun, quirky or a play on words), what flavours should be in the cupcake base, the frosting flavour & type, any decoration - should it have stuffing? etc

Here's an example:

Name: 'Ink Pink' (Pinky Bar inspired)

Base: Choc

Stuffing (if applicable) : Marshmellow & Caramel

Frosting Flavour: Rasberry & Chocolate

Frosting Type: Buttercream

Decoration/Style: Frosting swirl is verigated half and half

Here's the downlow:

• Entries will be open until Friday 4th of March. Then we'll pick a Top 5.
• We'll make those flavours HAPPEN - We'll post pics, and have them instore for tasting on Saturday 5th March.
• The 5 Finalists will get to collect a 6 pack from our store of their flavoured cupcakes to gobble up all themselves.
• We'll take votes in store and online for peoples favourite from the Top 5
• The winner will be announced Friday 11th of March!!
• Winner gets naming (and bragging) rights to their creation, and their creation will be added to our menu available for ordering online, and instore weekly for a month (or even longer if its a big hit!)
• Most importantly, the winner will receive 1 dozen of THEIR flavour!!!

How to enter - please email your entry including all the details to: enquiries@delishcupcakes.co.nz

Please include your name & address.

Dont forget to spread to news to your friends on Facebook - the more ideas the better!

CANT WAIT to see the entries flow in - and for us to start tweeking them in the kitchen

Nomnom!

Long Time No Hear....

Right - FIRST off - we are making a commitment to you to blog more often - we get so busy in the shop, and time flies - BUT - we are blog junkies ourselves, and love reading what others are up to, so need to stop being so nosey ourselves, and let you guys in more! We hope you dont bore you too much with cupcakes - but we are kinda obsessed - so we will burble on about other stuff you may or may not find interesting too!

Win a Giant Christmas Cupcake

We decided that we wanted to make our Christmas competition just a little bit different this year. We are going to give away a giant Christmas tree cupcake which will be delivered on Christmas eve anywhere in Auckland! This will serve up to 12 people....or 4 if you are really hungry :)

To enter what we would like you to do is take a photo of your Christmas tree once it is up and send it to us. Don't worry if you don't have one, just take a photo of a friends or even one at the mall!!! Email us the photo plus your name and a contact phone number, we will announce the winner 5pm Thursday 23rd December.

Don't forget that our full Christmas range is now available on our website so check them out!

Milkmans Mission

Our very own milkman from Northern Milk Distributors, Haydn, is a new cupcake fan - and we are always feeding him up with new cupcake flavours we are trialing, or roping him into helping if we are insanely busy and he pops by after his shift - the poor thing was made to put his muscles to use for something other than hauling milk the other day, and had to chop 4kgs of chocolate for a batch of chocolate ganache - what a legend!

Haydn has quite the sweet tooth, and is quietly confident, that he could chomp his way through one of our Giant Cupcakes on his own - hmmm....we have pointed out that there is the equivelent of 2 dozen cupcakes in each of those Giant Cupcakes, but he is confident he can do it!

This man means business - he can fit a WHOLE cupcake (with frosting) in his mouth at once...as per the evidence below....

So - we are putting him to the challenge - he informs us that this will be the first in a series of challenges that he undertakes - so watch this space!

To add to the fun - we'd like to involve you guys - and get your input for a bit of a competition - so please pop by the store, and place your 'Guess' in our glass 'Milk Bottle'

We are wanting you to guess if he can actually do it - and if so - what time frame will he do it in.

Each 'Guess' will cost you a Gold Coin donation - and all funds collected will go to the charity of Haydn's choosing which is Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust. The person who has the closest time will win a 6 pack of mixed cupcakes!

We are quietly concerned that this could end up quite messy - but Haydn likes to remind us that he can pack it away - this is a man that can demolish 3 Burger Fuel Burgers and 2 serves of chips in one sitting...so anything is possible!

Join us in store this Friday 3rd September at 3.30pm!! Ladies and Gentlemen - place your bets!

Well, how exciting! It all came together in the end - after a lot of stress, last minute hold ups and

exhibiting at the Food Show amongst it all - we pulled it off - our store is open for business!

And business it has been - we thought we'd ease ourselves into it, by having a 'soft opening' so opened the doors to

supportive neighbours and locals who kindly let us practice our coffee making skills out on them - and we have been busy girls since!

The Grand Opening was loads of fun with awesome face painting for the littlies by Fab Faces - I wish we had taken pics of all the kids faces that she did, as they were amazing, but here are a couple of cuties that we managed to snap

We have really settled into our new kitchen and space. It feels like we've been there forever.

Attached are pics of the shop in case you havent had a chance to pop in yourself yet.

Oh - how can we forget - we should give you an update on The Food Show -

what a fantastic response we had, lots of keen cupcake taste-testers and many people interested in our towers for events such as birthdays and weddings.

We even sold out of cupcakes a couple of the days which really surprised us as we had been baking dozens and dozens!