STRANGE FACTS ABOUT CUPCAKES

Ø Cupcakes (and other baked goodies) are banned in New York City’s schools as a way of curtailing rising obesity rates.

Ø Cupcake liners do more than make it easy to remove them from the pan. Traditionally, sides of tins are greased for easy removal, but also floured because the batter needs to have something to cling to. A cupcake liner takes care of both.

Ø Suzanne Rutland claims to have eaten over 50,000 Hostess cupcakes and even founded a Hostess Cup Cake Club. This iconic cupcake has been around since 1919, but became hugely popular with the addition of a creamy filling in 1950.

Ø Several attempts have been made to create the World’s Largest Cupcake. However, by definition, these would indeed just be large cakes iced together mimicking the classic fluted shape of the true small stature of a cupcake. The current holder of the record: GourmetGiftBaskets.com for their 1224-lb., 2 million calorie creation baked on August 15, 2009.

Ø If giant cupcakes are imposters, then the World’s Smallest Cupcake is a sure winner. Baked in Great Britain in celebration of National Cupcake Week, this mini-mini measured 1.5 centimeters high and 3 centimeters wide.

Ø While not edible, the $25,000 cupcake car featured by Neiman-Marcus in 2009 is perhaps the oddest cupcake. Cupcakes will be custom made to match your favourite flavours and toppings.

Ø 29 cupcakes in 30 seconds is the record for eating the little treats. 

                                                CREAM CUPCAKE

                                             BUTTERSCOTCH CUPCAKE

                                           FLAVOUR CUPCAKE

                                                        FLAVOUR CUPCAKE

   

                                                ORANGE CUPCAKE

                                                    BATCH CUPCAKE

BUNNY CUPCAKE

                                                CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE

STRAWBERRY CUPCAKE

                                                      PRIMROSE CUPCAKE

                                           CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE

                                              VANILLA CUPCAKE

                                                RASPBERYY CUPCAKE

CUPCAKE BUSINESS

How to start a cupcake business from home?

Cupcakes are the new cake. Everywhere you turn, pastry chefs are turning cupcakes into works of art, even creating much larger cakes out of tiny ones. If this is something you know how to do, or are willing to dedicate some time to learning, then starting a cupcake business of your own could prove to be lucrative and fun.

Step 1:

Develop your recipes and your decorating skills. Take classes in decorating if you haven't already, and look online and in books to inspire yourself with new and interesting designs. Your cupcakes must look amazing to get people to order them, but they also must taste great, so be sure that your recipes are interesting and unique. Don't rule out classic varieties, as sometimes a chocolate cupcake with white buttercream frosting is a perfect treat.

Step 2:

Check with your local department of health as well as your state department of health or agriculture and find out if your state allows you to sell things baked in a home kitchen. You might have to rent a commercial kitchen to bake cupcakes for sale. Churches and schools often rent out kitchens inexpensively if you can't find a restaurant willing to rent you some time in their kitchen.

Step 3:

Create a variety of cupcakes, take pictures and then create your promotional materials. Come up with a name for your cupcake business and design a logo around it. Place the logo on your business cards, in a brochure and on your website. Engage an experienced web designer who can translate your culinary vision into a website. Use your pictures to tell the story of your cupcakes, but also describe them well.

Step 4:

Find sufficient packaging materials. You will need to make sure your cupcakes get where they are going safely. If you are selling locally, make sure you offer boxes and bags people can carry themselves easily. If you are selling online, find a source of boxes that you can use to ship your cupcakes safely. Be sure to place a label with your logo and contact information including website address on all of your packaging. Be clear, also, as to what ingredients are in the cupcakes and whether your equipment comes into contact with nuts as this can be a potentially deadly allergen to some.

Step 5:

Launch your business. Whether you are opening a simple online business, or are taking your cupcakes to fairs, festivals and farmers' markets, launch your business with a party and lots of free samples. No one will be willing to spend up to $4--as some bakeries get--each on your cupcakes if they haven't seen and tried one yet. Get folks to give you a testimonial about how wonderful your cupcakes are. You can use these quotes on your website to help persuade those who haven't been able to try one yet to buy.

Step 6:

Promote your business. Use social media outlets, such as Facebook, Twitter and Linked In, to update friends and customers on new recipes, new ideas, promotions and more. Offer gift certificates or gift baskets as prizes for local organizations' charity events and raffles. Word-of-mouth is key to building a business with a good reputation. Don't be stingy when it comes to helping out good causes.

POPULARITY OF CUPCAKES

HOW CUPCAKES BECAME AMERICA’S FAVOURITE SWEET TREAT   ?

Sprinkles Cupcakes in Beverly Hills, CA. was the very first cupcake bakery in the world. Candace Nelson, the owner and founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes, says she is following in the tradition of her great-grandmother who made distinctive desserts in San Francisco in the 1930's.

How many times have you heard the words "Red Velvet Cupcake" in the last few years? If you live in New York City, you probably have heard of (and ate) them more than desired. 

Slowly, these moist little goodies have taken over dessert menus and cupcake stores are popping up at every street corner. In Manhattan alone, there are over 200 cupcake factories.

The cupcake industry impact over the past 15 years is remarkable. Magnolia, one of the most popular cupcake brands in Manhattan, opened in the summer of 1996 in Greenwich Village, New York.  Fourteen years later, Magnolia has changed ownership and added five more locations in New York City.

And the madness of cupcakes has expanded to reality television too. There are so many t.v shows which is based on cupcakes and TWO BROKE GIRLS is a new t.v series which is based on this.