Messages and Deliveries

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We may not be a cake decorating company, but now and again, if we are able and time allows, we will take your idea and make it a reality!

Photo 1: A customer took last year's Fort Worth Magazine Best of 2008 and created a wedding anniverary destination date. She and her husband visited a Best of lunch spot, Best of walking spot and Best of Cupcake spot! The cupcake message was her sweet idea.

Photo 2: The initials S and N were for a couple's engagement party.

Photo 3: An Enchanted Florist fan wanted to wish them well in their new location on Camp Bowie Blvd.

Photo 4 & 5: A young man called from LA, California wanting to send something special to his mom as she became a United States of America citizen. We delivered this festive box of a dozen babycakes to Arlington. What a thoughtful son!

Photo 6: A call from the Bay Area, California asking us to do something special for a friend's birthday. Another delivery of cuppies!!

Photo 7: Our own son wanted to make that Prom invitation a little extra special and 'sweet'. She said yes! =)

We have made deliveries of cupcakes for customers that call from as far away as Canada, NYC, Pennsylvania, Washington, and California. Delivery rates begin at $20.00 and increase according to the Fort Worth - Dallas destination.

Special frosting costs begin at: $5.00 per standard & $ 2.00 per babycake.

The Taste is in the Cake

It's not unusual for customers to come back to our shop and tell us that they loved our flavored frosting. Actually, we do not flavor our buttercream with any additional extracts other than the vanilla that is a must with tradtional buttercream. When you bite into one of our cupcakes the flavor you taste is in the cake!

A good example of this is with our strawberry cupcake (as seen above). When we mix our strawberry cake we take fresh strawberries (never,ever-EVER frozen), and puree them before they go into the batter. Lemon is another great example of this process. The lemon you taste is from freshly zested lemons, freshly squeezed juice from the same, slightly naked-from-zesting, lemons and a hint of pure lemon oil.

The time, energy and focus that goes into this slow bake process is what sets a 'baked from scratch' product apart from a more common mass produced good.

We simply refuse to cut corners when it comes to taste!

Decorating Our Cupcakes

If your schedule allows you to be at our shop when we open at 10:00 a.m. then you will most likely experience our case full of cupcakes. This early in the day we often hear customers say, "ohhh, they're so pretty" or "awwww, look how cute"! I've baked tens of thousands of these little guys in the two years we've been open and I still have that same reaction! =)

When it comes to decorating our cupcakes we keep it pretty and simple by piping our feshly mixed buttercream icing on each cuppie. Once you master this frosting technique, you can pipe quite a few cupcakes pretty quickly using a variety of frosting tips. The result is instant lovliness!

Though we are not a cake decorating company, we are certainly happy to consider ideas that customers may have for decorating their cupcakes. If we can achieve that idea then we will let the customer know what the additional cost will be for the special decoration. Pricing for custom design begins at $5.00 per standard size cupcake and $1.50 per babycake.