Red Velvet Frosting: Cream Cheese vs. Buttercream
Salt Lake City’s So Cupcake offers two types of frosting for their beloved Red Velvet Cupcake: cream cheese and buttercream.
Which do you prefer?
Or is there another type of frosting or topping that makes your red velvet cupcake complete? Do tell.
photo via flickr user projectdomesticationblog
Primrose Retreat Giveaway on Sweet Life in the Valley Blog
The Sweet Life in the Valley blog is having a fantastic giveaway for a $100 gift certificate to the Primrose Retreat.
And… we all know that Primrose has some yummy yummy cupcakes.
So go enter. You have until Thursday, March 12 at midnight! Details here!
Utah Loves Cupcakes on Good Things Utah
hey cupcake fanatics! i’ve got great news.
you can catch me, becky the author of this blog, on Good Things Utah tomorrow morning! i’ll be discussing food blogging in utah.
i’m joining two other utah food bloggers: holly of phe/mom/enon and lindsey of cafe johnsonia. p.s. both are favorite bloggers of mine and have made delicious looking cupcakes (yeah plural) and posted the recipes on their blogs!
Here are the details
Channel: ABC 4
Tuesday, March 10
Time: 10 am Mountain Time
You can also read more about this on my other blog, Project Domestication.
Flavor Poll – The Sweet Tooth Fairy
The Sweet Tooth Fairy and her helpers have been whipping up loads and loads of new flavors at the bake shop. In the last couple weeks I’ve seen or tried the following flavors:
* Key Lime (her bro recommended it to me and I LOVED IT)
* Raspberry (very cool and light frosting..and moist moist cake)
* Strawberry Shortcake (not sure if this was new or not)
* Orange Roll
* Cinnamon Coffee Cake
* Lemon Chiffon
And…she just stuck a poll on her blog to ask YOU what flavor you would most like to try. So go here to vote and help the Sweet Tooth Fairy decide what delectable cupcake to make. The poll is on the blog’s left-hand side column…you’ll need to scroll down a bit to see it.
YUM YUM!
photo via flickr user projectdomesticationblog
April Cupcake Class at Les Madeleines
The gourmet patisserie cafe, Les Madeleines, will offer a cupcake class in April! I’m such a fan of the cream cheese frosting and their red hot cupcake among many other things. How awesome would it be to take a class from the Romina! Interested? Check out the details:
Les Madeleines – CUPCAKE CLASS
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Time: 4:15 pm – 6:30 pm
Cost: $50 per adult student. Children 12-18 $35.
Class Description: CUPCAKES — Come learn how to make light and fluffy cupcakes and buttercream and cream cheese frosting. See how easy it is to make variations on a basic recipe for these bite-sized classics. We’ll also learn a few different decorating techniques. Sign up online!
Address: 216 E 500 S, Salt Lake City
Classes include recipes; demonstration and some hands-on instruction; samples of everything we make.
Cupcake Chic announces mini cupcake bites!
Cupcake Chic just announced the addition of mini cupcakes to her line!
As of now, they are order only and cost $4.50 for a box of six! Yum!
Monkey Business – SugarRush’s March Flavor of the Month
SugarRush, a home-based cupcake catering business, located in Sandy is featuring Monkey Business as their March Flavor of the Month. Here are the details, straight from their Web site:
Monkey Business
It’s a fresh banana cake with cream cheese frosting…Old fashioned flavor at its best. (Nut topper upon request.)
$20 for one dozen regular size or two dozen minis.
To order, call Kathy at (801) 572-7833. (48 hr. notice appreciated) To Order Call Kathy at 801.572.783
On a side note: I agree 100 percent with what my friends over at Cupcakes Take the Cake said about Cupcake business rotating flavors to mix things up. Read it here. I mean everyone has a chocolate, vanilla and red velvet…but do they have Monkey Business?
St. Patty’s Day Cupcakes {pictures wanted}
It’s that time of year again, good old Saint Patrick’s Day!
…green, green…GREEN!
Listen up: I’m going to do a roundup of all the St. Patrick-themed cupcakes in Utah. So be sure to upload them to flickr, your blog or Web site…heck, even email pix to me! I don’t care if you are a cupcakery, bakery or just making your own at home. I want to see what you’re up to and I want to see lots green, four-leaf clovers, Leprechauns, Celtic crosses, pots of gold and exciting flavors. I’ll do two seperate posts: one for professionals and one for Utah Cupcake Lovers. Have everything uploaded or emailed to me {utahlovescupcakes[at]gmail[dot]com} by Wednesday, March 11 at midnight.
Looks like Cupcake Chic is on the ball. You can find this yummy chocolate cake with mint frosting and shamrocks at all her locations or mail-order! Cupcake Chic will also decorate any of her 25 flavors with St. Patrick goodness!
So Cupcake’s So St. Patrick’s Day – Win Free Cupcakes!
Saint Patrick himself is smiling down on Salt Lake’s So Cupcake this month…because the owners of So Cupcake are running an awesome promotion during March. Here’s what they announced on their Web site:
So Cupcake So St. Patrick’s Day!
Don’t be a Fool, be So Cool!
Come into So Cupcake during the month of March
and enter to to win some Lucky Cupcakes!
More deets: All you have to do is go inside and enter in the drawing. Each week So Cupcake will draw out two names to win a dozen mini cupcakes!
…and on St. Patrick’s Day they will give away a dozen of their regular-sized cupcakes. Now don’t you feel lucky! Head on in!
So Cupcake
3939 S. Highland Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT 84124
Driving Directions
Phone: 801.274.8300
Store hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.
info@socupcake.com
Pretty Gum Paste Flower Cupcakes
Our newest flickr group member, windy_sydney just added these lovelies to our Utah Loves Cupcakes Flickr group. The cupcakes are dark chocolate with a coconut center. She blogged about it here, and apparently it was her first attempt at gum paste flowers…nice work!
originally uploaded by flickr user windy_sydney
Beverly Hills Bakery Review on Your Heart Out
My favorite Utah-based blog, Your Heart Out, just reviewed the Beverly Hills Bakery in Salt Lake City. I’m happy because a) i love everything they blog about b) i haven’t been to Beverly Hills Bakery and wasn’t aware they had cupcakes c) Beverly Hills has CUPCAKES!
Check it out here. Thanks Your Heart Out!
About
hi. my name is becky.
i love utah and i love cupcakes.
it really is just that simple.
this blog is a place where utah and cupcakes come together.
i scope out all the latest cupcake news in utah. visit utah cupcakeries. review cupcake bakeries and cupcake-related items. i post cupcake recipes and ideas from other utah cupcake enthusiasts. i also travel to eat cupcakes and tell you about my adventures.
i hope you will join me in this journey. i can’t tell you how much i love to support local, how much i love eating quality cupcakes, meeting fun and interesting bakery owners and seeing their stores succeed and um…having fun!
cupcakes are here to stay! they are a tradition and not a trend!
join our flickr group, email me the latest on your cupcake baking and cupcake seeking adventures…we are bound to have a great time.
I also blog at Project Domestication — where you can see my personal baking adventures!
-becky
***For more about my story and love of cupcakes, read my guest blog post on Cupcakes Take The Cake!***
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