New York, New York!!

The dream of every Cupcaker or Cupcake fan (in my opinion) is to visit the City where it all started: New York. I have to say I loved it so much! I don’t know if it is because of the culture, the fashion, the movies but there is something in the air (not only pollution) that can’t be found anywhere in the world. Well, our main purpose of the trip was to have a little break but also we wanted to try some cupcakes in the big Apple.

Unfortunately, the person in charge (coughing effect… Pa… dd y cough cough) didn’t do the homework of researching the cupcakeries/bakeries locations so we really arrive to a couple by mistake (or good luck). Of course we found Magnolia Bakery and I almost cried when I went inside. It is just perfect! A very beautiful bakery with all well presented cupcakes and cakes and wow we were amazed……….the amount of people buying cupcakes (I haven’t seen that effect in Ireland yet). We tried a couple of flavours and I have to say I loved their chocolate cupcake. Frosting is a bit harder than ours and with more sugar, but we had to try it anyway!







We also discovered there were cupcakes everywhere, in Starbucks, in the stores, coffee shops, malls, etc… We did get one in Macey’s but didn’t think it was yummy. Also, the sizes of the cupcakes are huge in some places!

We found Crumbs and I have to say this was my favourite! I tried the Cookie Cupcake mmmm and I like that they had a pack of 12 minis with different flavours (We got one and had it in New Year’s Day). Here they also sell some big cupcakes and I noticed they add the calories to everything……… more that 500 calories……. enormous and made me think if it is worthy :P but I definitely will have a 500 calories Cookie Cupcake next time :D

We want to go again as there is one Cupcakery I really really want to try, Kumquat Cupcakery but this time I will love to go during Summer, as I think will be lovely to have a walk in the City.

Happy Baking,

Mel XX 

The Glass Chef :)

Be My Valentine - Red Heart Cupcake Necklace
Originally uploaded by TheGlassChef

Flickr community is like a big family, you can meet people around the world and share your life through photos. I really enjoyed browsing around and I found The Glass Chef photostream. Peggy Festerling is the brain behind this fantastic art. She has beautiful jewelery designs including cupcakes! I highly recommend to visit her Etsy store... I promise you won't go without getting one of this in your hands!! And For Valentine's Day, what a better way than getting this beautiful cupcake... and why not ordering some of your favorite cupcakes from us too !! What a perfect crime! :)

Etsy Shop www.theglasschef.etsy.com

Website www.theglasschef.com

Blog www.theglasschef.blogspot.com

Happy Baking!

Mel.

Christmas cookies!

I know it is too late to post a comment about our Christmas cookies but we were very busy on December and I have to post some photos! We start with our cookie range on November and I have to say I love doing cookies. It involves more work than a cupcake but it is worthy. It is like going back to school when I have to do drawings for homework........ missed that as I didn't had any homework like that in College. I remember I used to have a drawing teacher when I was in elementary school, he just to read us a story and then asked us to do a drawing with it. Doing cookies is pretty much the same, you have the cutters but only the outline it is up to you to fill in and add the colours. Sometimes doing cookies is challenging :D oh yes not as challenging as trying to loose 2 stones after Christmas indulgences but challenging enough. I have rediscovered my childhood and it is even amazing I can we working very late at night and still being excited to see the final result. I will do a tutorial very soon :) And now... stop the writing and see the photos below!!












My good friend Kasia came to visit us and we did some cookies together :) Had a great time!

Couture Cupcakes!

I was looking for some cocktail cupcakes recipes for an experiment I am doing for one of our customers and I found one blog that I thought it was super funny :) Couture cupcakes, I was reading some of her posts and it is really nice, with a lot of recipes, but the part that I love the most is where she mentions her husbands :D ha ha ha love it!

Recommend it!

Happy New Year!

I can't believe the year is over, it just went too fast. We are very grateful for this year and below are the highlights:

- We sold out on Valentine's day in Bloomfield Shopping Centre.
- We made cupcakes for a lot of weddings.
- We donate cupcakes for the Irish Cancer Society and the Irish Tatler Women of the YearAwards.
- I met Peggy Porschen and took some courses with her cake studio in London.
- We introduced our yummy cookies.
- We are one year doing cupcakes and that is what made last year perfect!

Thanks to all our customers and cupcakes fans to make this happen.

We wish you health, happiness and wealth in 2010. Stay tuned for this year we have new flavours, free goodies, and tutorials.


Happy Baking!

Roses

We love to make our own decorations, so you will find all of our cakes have handmade decorations made from scratch. One decoration difficult to master are roses but once that you get them they are so easy and beautiful :) but doing more than 300 could be very painful for your fingers!





And voila! the final product will always look delicious!

Irish Tatler Women of the Year Awards

Hello :D

It is being a while since we write a proper post. Well, we are happy and very busy lately and preparing for our big Christmas sales, starting to bake some ginger cookies and finalizing the designs for this year Christmas cupcakes. Also, we will celebrate our first anniversary on December 6th ! Next month is very special for a lot of reasons and we will be having special offers so stay tuned! Check our Facebook and become a Fan :)

Oh yes I totally forgot :) this post was to congratulate to the Irish Tatler Women of the year Awards and all the winners! Below the cupcakes we made for them in this special day!