We had an event recently where a beautiful cupcake display was the star of the show. The cupcakes were our Pink Lady recipe with Champagne Icing! The cake stand is one I found on a random shopping trip, and was perfect for this event.
P.S. I felt this was an appropriate post for this week as it is South by Southwest Interactive, and there was a cupcake blogger social/ mixer with a variety of cupcakes from Austin bakeries. Yummy Yummy!
The Wedding Tweetup planned for this evening at The Daily Grill at the Domain has been canceled due to the weather and road conditions. It will be rescheduled soon!
If you are a wedding vendor, want to meet different wedding vendors, or are interested in marketing to the wedding industry, then you should attend Austin’s first wedding tweetup.
A tweetup is an event where you meet people that you regularly interact with on Twitter, however it is not exclusive t Twitter. Anyone can attend.
So, if you want to mix and mingle for a couple of hours then please attend!
Date: Tuesday, February 23
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: The Daily Grill at the Domain – Austin, 11506 Century Oaks # 100
Austin, TX 78758-7759
Restaurant Phone: (512) 836-4200
The past few weeks I have been testing out a new strawberry cake recipe to add to the menu of flavors. It’s been hard trying to find a strawberry cake that I love, but I think this new recipe might be the winner! It’s made with a fresh strawberry puree, as well as the other ingredients that make my cakes awesome, but I can’t tell you what those are. =)
Here’s the photo from my “test kitchen”.
Visit the cool baking blog Bakerella for a tutorial on how to make this yummy jumbo cookie!
Image copyright – Bakerella
The Saints and the Colts are about to play in the Superbowl in just a little while; it should be exciting considering that this is the first Superbowl for the Saints.
Anyway, Superbowl is synonymous for snacks…and LOTS of them at that. Chips and dip, buffalo wings, queso, soda, and you can’t forget the popcorn!!
Oh yes. That’s a cake with real popcorn. The best snack ever!
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, so here is a photo of something I love; Cupcakes!! I made these last week for one of my group meetings. They were a special chocolate with cream cheese buttercream. I say “special” because it’s not my usual recipe. I added in extra chocolate and cocoa because I was trying to use up the last little bit left in the containers. I added some sour cream because I read in book that sour cream makes it even yummier.
So my point is that I didn’t write the recipe down this time, so who knows if I’ll be able to duplicate it again. Oh well…another excuse to make some practice cupcakes. Maybe YOU will be the lucky taste tester.
Happy Valentines Day!
Photo courtesy of Bill Bastas Photography
The wait is over and the photos are finally ready! I posted a couple of weeks back about how I was asked to created a custom wedding cake for a photo shoot. I was leaving town for a business trip and wasn’t sure if I could participate, but I buckled down, got to work, and made this cake in a few hours.
Here is my my retro blue wedding cake!
Visit Austin wedding photographer, Jessica Monnich’s blog to see the rest of the images. Word on the street is that the photos have already been selected for a national magazine. (I’ll let you know whenever things are confirmed!) This shoot was also featured on the cool Wedding Chicks blog!
Note: This is a repost as I lost the original when I was setting up the new blog.
Here is a comment from Jessica! I you need a photographer, tell her I sent you.
E-mail : info@jessicamonnichphotography.com
URL : http://www.jessicamonnichphotography.com
Comment:
YAY!! 
Blue Note’s cake is going to be in Rachel Ray’s March issue. The whole shoot was linked in Rock and Roll Bride as well! Going places! Hopefully the whole shoot can make it into The Knot’s national mag.
Last week I was approached by Austin wedding photographer, Jessica Monnich, to make a retro wedding cake for a photo shoot at The Highball bowling alley.
If you haven’t been there yet, you need to check out. It’s a throwback to the good old days in the Fifties and Sixties; Not that I REALLY know since I wasn’t born yet, but I believe it.
Photos of that shoot are coming soon, but look at this behind-the-scenes video footage from Wild Orchid Studios.
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As a small business, we are committed to helping the environment, as well as making great cakes! Hopefully in 2010 you can find some ways to help the environment as well!
