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Flavors: Wednesday, January 4th
Happy New Year everyone! You know what my resolution is?
BE MORE AWESOME.
It’s National Meat On Top of Cupcakes But They Taste Really Good I Promise Month!!!!
Is that true? Probably not. I don’t know who the hell doles out these National Food months- probably some advisory boards or something (how do you get on those anyway?). As an inventor of the Chicken n’Waffles & Buffalo Chicken cupcakes, and being one of the people who put the whole “bacon on a cupcake” thing on the map three years ago, I am grabbing destiny by the horns and using my gravitas to commandeer an entire month in the name of dessert! Why the hell not!
-Chicken n’Waffles Cupcakes!!!
-Buffalo Chicken & Blue Cheese Cupcakes!!!!
-Elvis Cupcakes with Peanut Butter, Banana & Bacon!!!!
-Yes, They’re Really Delicious! I Swear!!!!
So WHY is it National Meat on Top of Cupcakes But They Taste Really Good I Promise Month? Because it’s time for football playoffs. And when a bunch of people get in a room to drink beer and watch football, you will need food. And there’s only so many bowls of chili and nachos you can consume before your wife makes you start sleeping out on the fire escape.
As you may know, our Chicken n’Waffles cupcakes is rarely released, our Buffalo Chicken one even rarer, and when we do make them they sell out ridiculously quick. Reason being? Well, for one thing our retail locations won’t sell them. Another, if they were available all the time, they’d stop being special and you wouldn’t want to jump all over them when they finally did come out! And most of all, frying hundreds of pieces of chicken in a teensy tiny pot takes foorrreeevvverrr.
But for the last days of football season? Well by golly, we are more than happy to slave over that pot day in and day out, from dusk until dawn, because if there’s one thing that both meat cupcakes and football scream, it’s that WE LOVE AMERICA.
I will never pass up an opportunity to link to Neil Diamond.
Normally, you need to order 4 dozen of these cupcakes to have us deliver them to you. But since they’ll technically be “rotation” for the weekends, you’ll be able to order them with a one dozen minimum to Brooklyn, 2 dozen to Manhattan! (And you’ll be able to pick-up any quantities you want in Manhattan starting next weekend!). This NEVER happens!
So if you’re having people over to watch the games, want to make yourself the most popular guy/girl at the bar, or are just one of those people who’s always wanted to try them, place your order for football playoff cupcakes and brownies ASAP! And if you’re a bar owner who wants to order some for a promotion, email me at Allison at robicellis.com- we have discount rates for businesses ordering in bulk!
Now for the cupcakes heading to stores as we speak- they may not have chicken or bacon on them, or be loaded with 18 types of booze, but they are insanely delicious and will help you stop being bummed that the holidays are over and you had to go back to work this week. We’re there, too. Thank Jebus I have a bunch of Bluths to get me through the ritual of taking down the Christmas tree- it’s so sad!
Clockwise from front: Tres Leches, Chocolate Strawberry, The Bluth, Cinnamon Bun
Tres Leches: Three milk soaked brown butter cake, dulce de leche buttercream, caramel shards
Chocolate Strawberry: Chocolate cake filled with strawberry jam, mascarpone buttercream, jam drizzle
The Bluth: Chocolate banana cake, chocolate buttercream, roasted walnuts, ganache
Cinnamon Bun: Cinnamon sugar spotted cake, cream cheese buttercream, cinnamon butterscotch, cinnamon streusel
Available at:
Cafe at Sam’s Bakery: 94th Street off Third Avenue, Bay Ridge
Hom: 88th Street and Third Avenue, Bay Ridge
Crespella: 7th Ave off 9th Street, Park Slope
Tazza Cafes: Clark Street off Henry AND Henry off Atlantic
Queen City Cupcakes: Patchogue, Long Island
Red Hook Lobster Pound: Roving food truck, Brooklyn Flea and Van Brunt Street, Red Hook Whoopie Pies Only
IT’S THE LAST SATURDAY TO SHOP BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!! OMG OMG OMG!!!
And we know that you’ll probably need some sugar to help keep you going while you attack the market. Or perhaps you’ll need to stress eat. Either way, we’re there for you. Because we care.
We asked for flavor suggestions on Twitter, so in addition to some of the flavors we’ve been peddling all week (Riskrem, Chocolate Orange, Eggnog etc), we’re bringing back some old favorites. And adding a new flavor, of course, because that’s just what we do.
Tomorrow at DeKalb Market, Union Square Holiday Market, and the Brooklyn Night Bazaar:
NEW! “The Dread Pirate Roberts”: Rum and honey soaked cake, honey rum buttercream, rum glazed roasted bacon
Banana Cream Pie: Banana cake, vanilla pudding, vanilla custard buttercream, banana chip, graham cracker crumbs
Chocolate Strawberry: Chocolate cake, mascarpone buttercream, strawberry jam
Bourbon Caramel Apple: Apple cake, bourbon salted caramel buttercream, roasted apple
Flavors: Monday, April 17th
I have a really exciting piece of news to share with you guys: someone has actually asked me to speak on a panel as an authority on something!!!! The folks at Brooklyn Based, in conjunction with Brooklyn Brewery, are hosting a panel about starting an artisan food business called “Rolling in Dough, or No?” (I’ll give you a hint regarding the answer- it rhymes with NO. Ok, that wasn’t really too much of a hint - sue me.) I’m hoping this will be as big of a success at the time I spoke at the Cupcakes Take the Cake Business Class, which editor Nichelle Stephens called “The most profanity-riddled cupcake event in human history”. As possibly the only member of the Brooklyn food scene who is actually from Brooklyn, I intend to make my ancestors proud and bring as many four letter words to the table as possible!!! Make your reservations now!
Time for flavors!
Clockwise from front: Tres Leches, Chocolate Caramel Pretzel, Pecan Potato Chip, Chocolate Strawberry
Chocolate Caramel Pretzel: Chocolate cake, salted caramel buttercream, crushed pretzels, ganache, caramel drizzle
Pecan Potato Chip: Pecan potato chip cake, vanilla buttercream, roasted pecans, crushed potato chips, salted butterscotch
Tres Leches: Three milk soaked brown butter cake, dulce de leche buttercream, caramel shards
Chocolate Strawberry: Chocolate cake, strawberry syrup, chocolate mascarpone buttercream, strawberry compote, ganache
Available at:
BROOKLYN
CAFE AT SAM’S BAKERY- 94th Street off 3rd Ave, Bay Ridge
CRESPELLA CREPE & ESPRESSO BAR- 321 7th Avenue at 9th Street, Park Slope
TAZZA CAFES- Henry off Atlantic and Clark off Henry, Brooklyn Heights
QATHRA: 1112 Cortelyou Road, Ditmas Park
RADISH- Bedford Ave off N8th, Williamsburg
MANHATTAN
CAKESHOP- Ludlow btwn Stanton & Rivington, Lower East Side
JOE: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY- W. 120th btwn Broadway & Amsterdam Avenue
JOE: GRAND CENTRAL STATION- 44 Grand Central Terminal, Near the Graybar Passage
This Weeks Flavors: September 2nd, 2010
Holy crap it’s September already! How did this happen? Onto cupcakes!
NEW FLAVOR! Chocolate Strawberry: Chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream, ground chocolate and strawberry reduction
PB & Grape J: Vanilla cake with peanut butter buttercream, grape jelly and chopped roasted peanuts
The Bluth: Chocolate banana cake with chocolate buttercream, roasted walnuts and ganache
Creamsicle: Orange cake with vanilla buttercream and candied orange peel
Available Thursday at:
NEW LOCATION!!!!
Cafe at Sam’s Bakery- Bay Ridge (94th Street off 3rd Avenue)
Hom- Bay Ridge (88th st and 3rd ave)
Blue Apron Foods- Park Slope (Union st off 7th ave)
Cafe 474- Park Slope (4th ave btwn 10th & 11th st)
Farmacy- Carroll Gardens (corner of Henry & Sackett st)
Market- Ditmas Park (Cortelyou road btwn Westminster & Argyle)
Tazza Cafes- Brooklyn Heights (Clark & Henry and Henry & Atlantic)
Available Friday at:
Radish- Williamsburg (Bedford ave and N8th)
Cakeshop- Lower East Side (152 Ludlow)
Lily O’Brien’s- Midtown at Bryant Park (E40th btwn 5th & 6th aves)
