Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween my gruesome cupcake fans! Can I just say that I am so excited about the Farmer's Market this Saturday! It's The Cupcake Company's last Farmer's market for this season and we have a spooky menu planned.



Come try our Spooky Snicker Doodle cupcake!



We catered a Relief Society opening social for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, it was haunting!



Check out our creepy crawly Black Tie Affair!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough


Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough is by far Moscow's favorite cupcake! So far, the beautiful city of Moscow goes through about 50 of these delicious cupcakes a week! It makes sense after I took my sons on a play-date to Ferdinand's in Pullman a few weeks ago. Ferdinand's most popular flavor of ice cream is . . . Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough! Well here she is in all of her cookie dough glory . . .

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

A vanilla brown sugar cupcake with a chocolate hazelnut filling and chocolate chip cookie dough frosting. YUMMMMY!

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Pink Tea Extravaganza!



The Cupcake Company was honored to cater two tables sponsored by Debbi Dockins at the Pink Tea. Debbi is absolutely fabulous, motivated, and wonderful! She is just a whirlwind of positive energy! Also a great BIG thanks to Jade Stellmon, one of our favorite cupcake customers, she put us in touch with Debbi. Jade and Debbi are in the picture below looking wonderful! Jade just had a baby recently and she looks great!







We were also excited to donate 1 doz cupcakes as door prizes for attendees to enjoy. This is Gritman Medical Center 8th annual Pink Tea. The Pink tea raises money for breast cancer detection. Money raised at the event goes to the Bosom Buddies Program which provides financial support to women who can't afford to pay for a mammogram or other breast cancer services. I know that there are still other ways to donate to this wonderful cause either by contacting Gritman Medical Center directly or by purchasing a pink tea T-shirt. The pink tea T-shirts are in several locations around town.



Cupcake Care



Our cupcakes are baked fresh for every event without the aid of preservatives or stabilizers. They are meant to be enjoyed right away! If you are saving them to eat at a later time please keep them in an airtight container for the best results. You can also wrap your cupcake box in saran wrap, though you will get better results with an airtight container. Store your cupcakes at room temperature. We HIGHLY recommend eating them within a 8 hr window after purchasing. I've had several people ask about freezing them we've tried that. Ultimately, we've found that eating them fresh really does showcase our cupcakes as a superior gourmet product and that is how we recommend them, fresh. And really who wants to wait around to eat cupcakes?

Friday, October 23, 2009

Computer upgrade . . .

Sorry about the lack of delicious eye-candy. My wonderful husband has been upgrading our computer this last week in between Law school, our family schedule and his BUSY schedule. So needless to say that as soon as he's done making our computer a dream machine, I've got LOADS of decadant cupcakes to blog about. For now it's just me, Heidi O'Barr flavor: times new roman (isn't that the name of this font - I probably just ruined my punch line).

Anyways, we regret to say that we will not be at the Farmers Market this Saturday October 24 due to a change in our family schedule, but . . .

Our LAST DAY AT THE FARMER'S MARKET WILL BE OCTOBER 31

Come enjoy some spooky cupcakes, start your Halloween off frightfully.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Personalized Cupcake Orders


We do offer custom cupcake orders for special events such as baby showers, weddings, charity events, just because, birthdays, etc . . . The guidelines for placing a personalized cupcake order are the same.

Step 1

Choose the genre of your personalized cupcake order; Bridal shower, baby shower, etc . . Brainstorm the look you are going for and then try to visualize that on a cupcake. Feel free to call me so I can help you with this process. Some ideas follow:

1. Does the new mom have a theme for her baby room? What colors, shape, or cute fuzzy animal is she going for? Okay, let's put it on a cupcake ;)

2. Check out twitter for some great cupcake images to get the creative juices flowing.

3. Check out my past blog images see if there is something you like.

STEP 2

Send us an email or gives us a jingle at least 5-7 days prior to the commencement of your EDCC (Expected Date of Cupcake Consumption) so we can block off space on our calender just for you.

email heidiobarr@yahoo.com
phone 208-360-2272

STEP 3

We will call you within 24 hrs to discuss your cupcake flavor selection. We will also send you an email with all the cupcake flavor particulars so you can mull it over at length. I myself have a hard time deciding between Jupiter Sunrise, Molotov Mint, Black Tie Affair, and Banana Carmel. AHHhh-mee sigh, choices, choices, choices . . .

Minimum order for
$24 Reg. (traditional size) cupcakes 1 doz
$36 Reg. party favor cupcakes 1 doz - each cupcake comes in its own party favor box as seen here
$40 Lg. cupcakes 1 doz

New Flavor: Chewy Chocolate Coconut



The Cupcake Company would like to introduce a new flavor:

Chewy Chocolate Coconut

A moist chocolate cake with a candied coconut layer, chocolate cream cheese frosting, topped with a chocolate coconut marshmallow. If you are an almond joy fan then here's a cupcake fix for you!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The Winners Are . . . .

Thank-you so much for participating everyone! The lucky people who get to taste our new flavor Chewy Chocolate Coconut are:
1. K8
2. Melissa
3. Jackie
4. Maaike
5. Kylie
All you have to do to claim your cupcake is give me a call 208-360-2272 before 9:30pm, eat it, enjoy it, and then please post a comment to give me some feedback on what you think of our new Chewy Chocolate Coconut friend.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Caramel Apple Pie . . . Again. CUPCAKE GIVE AWAY!



I know another picture of the Caramel Apple Pie cupcake in all her glory. I just couldn't resist. I just love this picture and she's so photogenic. Anyways . . .

CUPCAKE GIVE AWAY!

I'm having a cupcake giveaway to celebrate 4 wks of selling out at the Saturday Market! Thank-you Moscow! And I am testing out a new flavor:

Chewy Chocolate Coconut
A moist chocolate cupcake with a coconut spread, chocolate cream cheese frosting, garnished with a chocolate dipped marshmallow rolled in coconut. Some will have marshmallow cream some will not. A few super lucky individuals will get both so they can tell me which one they liked better. What a great way to conduct market research, huh!

I told myself no experimenting with new flavor combinations until after the Saturday Market ended because we've been so busy, but I couldn't help myself and there's enough to share ;) So here's what you have to do to get your name in the drawing:

1. Make up a sentence or jingle that incorporates 1 or more of the cupcake flavors that are listed at the right and post it. For example:

Jade said "I know I'm just a Plain Jane, but if I don't get s'Mores of the Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Spice cupcakes, I'll have to take the Rocky Road out to the river where I'll do a PB Cliff Dive into the Jupiter Sunrise-reflecting water. However, if I can get my Butter Pecan fix, I'll be so Oatmeal Chocolate Chipper that I'll Snicker Doodle all the way to the Black Tie Affair I'm attending in my Orange Dreamsicles." 09/30/09

In fact, if you can find a way to use all the flavor names I'll put your name in the drawing twice.

OR

2. Become a follower of The Cupcake Company blogspot, just scroll down, add yourself to the followers, and post a comment letting me know you did. In fact Katelyn was our first follower so she's gets a Chewy Chocolate Coconut cupcake because she was the first! Yeah Katelyn!

OR

3. Add The Cupcake Company's button to your blog. I just figured out how to create a super-cute Cupcake Company Button. If you scroll up it's at the right. All you have to do is add a Html gadget and copy and paste the script listed next to our button at the right. Then when people smell that amazing post cupcake consumption breath that you have and ask, "Where do you get such fabulous Cupcake breath from?" You can say, "The Cupcake Company, just click on the cute cupcake on my blog and check it out!" Then just post a comment and let me know your blog has a button and you want a piece of the cupcake action.

I will announce the winners tomorrow, Wed. 10/06/09 at 7pm. Good Luck Cupcateers!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Anatomy of a Cupcake



SO I've been thinking about this for awhile; it's just been so busy. SO Jade thank-you for giving me a reminder. Anyways, eventually all the cupcake flavors will have a link so when you have a cupcake craving that you need to satisfy with a custom order you'll be able to take a peek at the cupcake flavor of your choice. SO here we go . . .

Caramel Apple Pie

A vanilla cupcake with a graham cracker crust, a cinnamon and sugar caramel apple filling, topped with a layer of spiced apples, and cinnamon cream cheese frosting, drizzled with caramel. So Fabulous! This is one of my favorites, it was inspired by the neon green caramel apple pops that we all coveted when we were children!