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As the recession stretches on and jobs stay hard to find, more people are turning to self-employment to pay the bills. The name of the game is to use your pre-existing skills in a venture with a low start-up cost. Like, say, using your many years of cupcake-baking experience to start a business selling cupcakes.
Carrie Spindler of Hudson County, New Jersey did just that when she started GoodieBox Bakeshop. After losing her job, Spindler decided to take the leap and put her fifteen years of baking experience to entrepreneurial use. Spindler started her business online and created a dedicated following (especially for her signature red velvet cupcakes) before moving into her own retail space.
Mini Empire Bakery of Seattle, Washington 
has much the same business plan. Christy Beaver and Morgan Greenseth started their cupcakes and more concern online this last December and have just started selling their goods in local cafes as well. Just as Spindler did with GoodieBox, Beaver and Greenseth plan on building a following before setting up a brick and mortar shop.
Besides the relative ease and low-cost of starting up an online catering company, these cupcake entrepreneurs have one more thing on their side: the robustness of the small luxuries market. While many of us can no longer afford big luxuries, we still have money for little luxuries like cupcakes. Thus cupcake-making is a potential source of jobs as well as sweetness, even in tough economic times like these.
LuxSugar is a full service bakery catering company out of Br0oklyn, New York ! They make muffins, cupcakes, cookies & dessert bars.
All of their cupcakes are named after Celebrities. Some of my favorite sounding ones are;
Marilyn Monroe – Red Velvet cake w/ cream cheese frosting
Audrey Hepburn – Vanilla bean cake w/ vanilla frosting
Rick James – Chocolate Cake w/ chocolate & mint frosting
Prince Harry – Carrot cake w/ cream cheese frosting
The Gaga – Blueberry Lemon Cake with lemon icing
The Diddy – Chocolate cake w/ semi-sweet chocolate frosting
These sound yum yum yummmy!
Sometimes dietary restrictions can make it hard to enjoy the finer things in life…like cupcakes. But in LA, things became just a little bit easier for the dietarily-restricted cupcake lover with the opening of Babycakes earlier this month. This New York transplant serves up the sweets with the health and allergy-conscious in mind – all of their offerings are egg, soy and dairy-free, and many are refined sugar and gluten-free as well. While their ingredients are restricted, their menu has plenty of options. Babycakes features red velvet, vanilla, carrot and chocolate cupcakes along with a plethora of cookies, crumb cakes, muffins and other delicious baked goods.
Just this last Friday, Beverly Hills’ haute-cupcake bakery Sprinkles jumped into the game with the introduction of their vegan and gluten-free red velvet cupcake. Is this the start of a health-conscious cupcake war in LA? If so, I can tell you right now: the cupcake lovers will be the winners.
Cupcake Royale's "cupcake fit for The King"
Seattle is a big cupcake town, so it’s no surprise that new styles and flavors show up all the time. Nor is it too surprising to have a flavor named after a celebrity. But Elvis’ famous favorite snack, the banana and peanut butter sandwich, transformed into a cupcake in celebration of The King’s 75th birthday? That’s original. And that’s the Velvet Elvis, Cupcake Royale‘s newest creation and present cupcake of the month.
I stopped by Cupcake Royale’s Capitol Hill location to try a bite-sized version of the banana bread cupcake with peanut butter and chocolate frosting a few days ago. It was sweet, but also rich, with a depth of flavor that is often lacking in cupcakes. If you’re a cupcake fan swinging through Emerald City, I recommend giving it a try – it’s well worth the stop.
Yummy Cupcakes is a bakery out of California. They offer unique cupcake products.
First they have Cupcake on a Stick
They also have Cupcake in a Jar
They also have a Cupcake Party Kit that contains all the fixings to frost 12 cupcakes from the comfort of your home.
You can find all of the above treats HERE
They also offer a Vegan Menu! And 198 flavors! (and growing)
Just a reminder that Sunday is the last day to enter our cupcake shirt giveaway sponsored by Sweet Bling.
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