We are naughty bloggers

It has been such a long time since we last blogged. It's not like we have nothing exciting to blog about we just have too much to do!! :)

We have had fun doing lots of custom orders. We ended up doing 3 SATC2 themed orders. We are still yet to see the movie ourselves darn it!! One of them we chose to do a mocha and white themed tower, Colleen outdid herself with the beautiful fondant creations, they are my all time favourite.

We also got asked to do cupcakes for the wonderful Mr Colin Mathura-Jeffree. Someone sent a pic on twitter of some awesome muppet themed cupcakes, he had said how much he liked them. That was it for us and we decided to go for the Muppet theme. They looked so adorable.

Today we are off to the Fine Food Show, it will be great to catch up with suppliers and hopefully find some new contacts. I'm also hoping for some yummy treats to sample!!

The other week we attended the gluten free show. Amazing how far gluten free products have come. There were some yummy creations that's for sure. I'm so re-inspired to try more gluten free baking. I've mastered chocolate but I'm going to trial vanilla. To complicate matters I'm also going to make it dairy free/vegan so vanilla with vegan lemon curd and vegan meringue....I didn't even know that you could get dairy free meringue mix! I had a chat to the Angel Food lady at the show and sampled them, just like the real thing!

The next couple of months is going to be really busy for us. We are moving to a new location and also we have the Food Show coming up. I can't believe it has been almost one year since the last one. That is by far our favourite show of the year. We get to meet some many people and it is just so full on. Last year they had 41,548 people through the doors!! I think most of them passed by our stand for a sample, every stand was just swamped with people.

Have a look at some of our pictures on our flickr galleries and don't forget to visit us on facebook or tweet us...we are getting a bit better with twitter LOL.

Catch you soon

Kathryn and Colleen

x

Variety Club Bash

We are very excited to be sponsoring a team as part of the Variety Club Bash.
Variety provides support to New Zealand children who are sick, disabled or disadvantaged through a range of programmes and individual grants.

An australian team called 'The Cupcake Girls' are currently driving a Mini with a Giant Cupcake on the roof from Christchurch all the way up the country selling cupcakes to raise funds for the Variety Club. They have been participating in the bash for years and have traveled all over Australia raising funds with cupcakes, and we're chuffed they asked us to help.

Our lovely friends at the Cupcake Parlour in Christchurch www.cupcakeparlour.co.nz donated Cupcakes for their southern end of the journey, and the wonderful peeps at Bill Chill Distribution www.bigchill.co.nz have helped us out with being able to get our cupcakes distributed at other centres throughout NZ so the girls can sell them to raise funds for the bash.

Look out for the green mini with cupcake on the roof and our logo as part of the Variety Club drive. The convoy will finish at MOTAT in Auckland at Western Springs on Sunday 15th March at approx 4.30pm, where there will be more of our cupcakes around to be sold for charity.

We will be sure to get pictures up on our blog incase you dont manage to spot the adorable mini for yourself.

For details: http://www.variety.org.nz/2010-variety-bash-xidc56003.html or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Variety-Bash-2010/276227316840?ref=ts

Feb - the month of love - and the month of Madness -

Well, we cant believe its nearly the END of February - we barely have a moment to sleep. The quiet breather of New Years is a distant memory now! - We have been very busy girls this month and were so chuffed with all the thoughtful guys and girls out there who treated their valentine with a cupcake...we didnt even have time to go shopping for our partners...so 3 guesses as to what they got for Valentines??....yep...a cupcake!

We hope that you went to grab a funky T-Shirt from our friends at Mr Vintage over Valentines Week - we did a special range of Valentines cupcakes just for them, and hear that they were well received.

If you happened to miss out, never mind...head along and check out their awesome store and t-shirts...they're good sorts.

We were very excited about our Valentines range, and LOVED our Lemon/Raspberry cupcake, we may just have to add it to the menu all the time...then hope that people order it so we can enjoy any left overs! hehe.

Wedding season is in full force, and we're having fun finalising designs for brides and cant wait for their big days - I think sometimes we look forward to their weddings as much as them! - we feel lucky to liaise with people during such a special time in their lives, and we are still touched that they want our cupcakes to feature. The feedback that we get from our clients and their guests after the big day certainly gives us the warm fuzzies.

Below is the gallery of our valentines bake - it was quite a mammoth effort, having other orders, the awesome Mr Vintage promotion and also a wedding thrown in the mix. It was a White & Gold Creation - we LOVED the personalised initials, they really added a touch of Elegance.

Finally - stay tuned for some new flavours - eeeeeee....exciting...there are many happy tummies from our taste testing trials...hehe.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year fellow Cupcake lovers - we hope that you've been enjoying the lovely summer weather and have been eating too much like us!

Weddings
We were such busy girls in the lead up to xmas, we nearly collapsed over the new year period! We're already back into the full swing of things this new year with Wedding season upon us.
Its been fun working with couples to help them achieve their favourite look for their cupcakes and getting such lovely feedback from them and their guests.
Check out our wedding gallery on our facebook fanpage to see some of our recent work.

Design a Delish Pack
Loads of fun was had the other day by some wee girls who turned into budding cupcake decorators at a birthday party. Their clever mum bought one of our 'Design a Delish' packs, and the girls unleashed their decorating powers on the cupcakes.
Here is a pic of the wee girls chuffed with their creations.
Keep your eye on our website as details of the pack will be on there soon. But in the meantime discuss your requirements with us.

Valentines Day
Excitement is building with Valentines Day approaching, and lots of people are keen to send a cupcake this V-Day instead of a traditional rose - we're constantly blown away by the many thoughtful kiwi blokes who approach us to help us surprise their loved ones...arrr....warm fuzzies.
Get your Valentines orders in now via our website.
Attach Pic of the Valentines set .
We're equally excited by a new cupcake we developed for Valentines - its a delicious fluffy lemon cupcake and is filled with Lemon/Raspberry curd and topped with an adorable Pink Meringue. we think its going to be a firm favourite, and may add it to our range soon.

Will look forward to our next update...we are already dreaming up our Easter range - jeepers this year is already flying!!!

Name that cupcake??

We are launching our new pineapple lump flavoured cupcake on our website. What we want you to do is think of a name!! Email us your name, address and contact ph number along with what you think it should be called. The prize is a Giant Pineapple lump flavoured cupcake valued at $80 this will be delivered to you this Sunday afternoon.

'tis the season

Our Christmas cupcakes are now available on our website. Please get in touch with us if you would like to make an order for your family, friends or workplace!!

More on Halloween

Well, you already saw the halloween pics - but here are the pics of them all lined up ready for orders and for the market.Air NZ had a special market for their staff, and we did the Halloween themed ones for the day. People loved them, including the popular kiwi band, Midnight Youth who were playing in the courtyard.

We had a great view of them from our stall and loved rocking along between selling the cupcakes!Getting into the market day spirit, we had fun making some halloween coloured toffee apples for something different - people exclaimed they hadnt had a toffee apple for years and they were snapped up quickly....hopefully there werent any emergency trips to the dentist - I'd forgotten how hard they were to eat!