Thanksgiving Break

Thanks to everyone who ordered Thanksgiving Packs! I was pleasantly surprised at the response to the cuppies, and I hope everyone had a great holiday!
I took a couple of days off after this baking project to recover (read: lay around eating frozen pizza bagels) but I'm back!

I did a bit of flavor development for the Christmas pack coming up, but more excitingly, my website's blog is up (sort of)- I'll be posting on there from now on, so please go there to read about what CakeLab is up to. The page is not totally public (you can't get there from the landing page), so bookmark the link if you want to read it!
This blog will remain as the 3SD blog, which was intended as a group crafting blog, but somehow I took it over with all my baking stuffs- we'll still post here, just not about edible stuff.

Here's a picture of a pack stack, and rows of Candied Yam cupcakes ready to be torched- it looks like an infinite formation of marshmallow topped soldiers!

Hope to see you at CakeLab!

The Hanukkah Pack is complete!

Here are the flavors featured in my mixed Hannukah pack:

Blue Velvet
because if I don't include a 'velvet'
you will come after me with pitchforks and torches


Black & White
yellow cake with classic black & white icing


Chocolate Gelt
chocolate cake and frosting topped with gelt!


Sufganiyot
nutmeg scented cake filled with jelly and dusted with powdered sugar

Once again, 2 dozen minimum, ready for 12/10 or 12/11. There are 8 days of Hanukkah- make it 8 days of cupcakes! Send orders or questions to GimmeCake at cakelabnyc dot com

PS- Stand by for the Christmas Pack, coming soon!

lips aflappin'

All those mouths that have wrapped around my little cupcakes are talking! I received my first referral order- this person has never tasted the cakes!
The flavor selection was Pumpkin Ginger, Candied Yam, Blackout and Red Velvet. I'm happy to say that I still get a lot of enjoyment from making these!

Oy vey, I'm late!

I realized last week that Hanukkah starts on 12/11 and being in New York City, Jewish culture is everywhere. The foods, the Yiddish that has worked itself into the vernacular, chatting with Hasidic women at sample sales, the fact that I, an Asian Christian know a little bit about keeping kosher- it's undeniable that to live in New York is to...become a little Jewish!
Even though I'm still in promotion mode for the Thanksgiving packs, I thought I'd work on a Hanukkah pack for the Jewish cupcakes lovers out there- so far I've got a couple of flavors:
Sufganiyot- it's a jelly filled doughnut eaten at Hanukkah. My interpretation is a nutmeg scented cake filled with jelly and showered with powdered sugar.
Black and White- while it doesn't have any specifically Jewish history, I know that it's a favorite dessert of many Jewish households (and I love them too).

Two more flavors to come!

I feel fine, why do you ask?

Maybe it's because my insides have been dyed blue from the blue frosting I've been making/tasting lately!
It's narsty.
How can people eat this?!
These are part of a 400 piece catering order for a company whose logo is in royal blue with silver. I offered the option of doing 'blue velvet' with cream cheese frosting and silver dragees (cute!), but the client was apparently firm on having blue frosting. Blech. The customer is always right...?
Ok, so these are yellow cake with vanilla frosting and silver dragees. They're smurftastic!

I think from now on I do my flavors in my colors only.

Um, adults like 'nanas too

What the heck, people?!
It seems that I've got myself a signature flavor- the banana puddings have been really popular lately. I wonder if it's because I don't have an official flavor list? Is this the only flavor people think I can do?
I had an order for 3 dozen full size cupcakes for this morning, and have another full size dozen for tomorrow. I got feedback from the 3 dozen, which was that they were "ridiculous" and "this is my favorite"- I'm glad they went over well!
Actually I know they're pretty good, as these are the same flavor that angered Sable upon tasting.
Frankly my tastebuds have become numb to them, so they just taste like 'whatever' to me. I'll still keep some extras for me to nom on with the hubs though.

Babies like 'nanas

In general I try to flavor my cupcakes for an adult palate, but as someone who enjoys nostalgic flavors- it didn't really occur to me that children may like the flavors too. Then I was asked to do a small order for a baby's 1st birthday- the flavor? Banana pudding! As many children go through, this little girl is in a banana eating stage.
This is the first order that I've been asked to personalize too. I always tell people "I'm NOT a decorator", but I think these came out pretty cute. The party colors were pink, lavender and silver- so here is baby's first initial in pink tinted white chocolate with a silver dragee accent.

I bet they got some cute photos of her holding the little cupcake!