to move up and down
Flavors: Wednesday, December 28th
Hope you all had a great Christmas! Matt surprised me with a Nintendo 3DS with my favorite game of all time- The Legend of Zelda- Ocarina of Time (in 3D!). I had no idea I needed this thing, but now I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT IT. So quick- to whatever needs to happen right now so I can get back to my game:
NEW YEAR’S EVE ORDERING! Now that Union is over I’m getting back to being somewhat on top of my work, and I actually got a NYE ordering tab up in a timely manner! I love the flavors we picked out, it’s one of the 4 yearly appearances of our much sought-after “Strawberry Champagne” cupcake, we’re doing cocktail party sized brownie platters, PLUS we’ve lowered our minimum for delivery to just one dozen for the holiday!
And if that wasn’t enough, not only will our cupcakes jazz up your New Year’s Eve party, but the carbohydrates will actually allow you to drink MORE. You’ll be able to ride that fine line between drunk enough to have a great time, and so drunk that your top comes off and you fight your buildings super! It’s an investment in your parties success, AND your clean criminal record! ORDER NOW!
FINAL DAYS AT DEKALB! We’re open today through Friday from noon til 8, Saturday from 11 til 4pm, and then we’re closed for construction projects for three months. Thanks to some delays with city permits, we had to rush to get DeKalb open last summer, and kinda had to do some things backwards just to get it going. Now that we’re entering the slow winter months, she’s getting shut down so our friends at Urban Space can make some exciting improvements, like……
………..Boardwalks!!!! (ooooooh!)
………………Canopy over the food court!!!!! (aaaahhhhh!!!)
……………Beer Garden!!!!! (My oh my!!!!!!)
…………..Drainage system!!!! (More exciting than it sounds!)
I can’t wait until late March to open up our door again. In the interim, we’ll be popping up in Nolita just like we did last winter, trying to amp up our wholesale presence around NYC, showing some skin to potential investors and doing LOTS of R&D for the coming year. But for the next four days, DEKALB MARKET IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS, while most of our usual retail outlets are closed for vacation- meaning you should DEFINITELY come and see us!
Navi the Fairy: You would think in the almost 15 years since this Zelda was originally released (yeah, it’s been that long), someone would have thought that in a re-release they would have made her SHUT THE HELL UP.
Every five seconds: “Hey! Hey Link! Hey! Hey! Listen! Hey! Hey! Listen! Heeyyy-Oh! Em…errrr….oh, I know- what would Saria say if she knew we were saving Hyrule? That’s, um, pretty great, right? Yeah, I didn’t think I was actually going to get your attention, but now that I did let’s talk! Tell me about your day….Link? Link? Hey! Hey! Hey! Listen! Hey! Hey! Hey! Listen! Hey!”
January’s Schedule: I’m doing it today, so if you have a request, get over to Facebook ASAP and let me know! Feel free to throw us any ideas you have for new flavors, too- you never know what we’ll run with!
People’s Choice Winners 2011! We had a lot of great new flavors come out this year, but a few stood out in your eyes as the best of the best. So today, YOU picked the menu- your four favorite cupcakes of the year! And they are…….
Clockwise from front: Hot Toddy, Pecan Potato Chip, S’Mores, Cinnamon Bun
Hot Toddy: Honey whiskey soaked cake, honey cinnamon buttercream, candied lemon peel
Pecan Potato Chip: Pecan potato chip cake, vanilla buttercream, crushed pecans and potato chips, salted butterscotch
S’Mores: Chocolate cake, speculoos pudding, toasted marshmallow buttercream, ganache, graham cracker crumbs
Cinnamon Bun: Cinnamon sugar spotted cake, cream cheese buttercream, cinnamon streusel, cinnamon butterscotch
Available at:
Robicelli’s at DeKalb Market: Corner of Flatbush Ave & Willoughby
Hom: 88th Street & 3rd Avenue, Bay Ridge
Cafe at Sam’s Bakery: 94th Street off 3rd Ave, Bay Ridge
Crespella: 7th Avenue off 9th Street, Park Slope
Queen City Cupcakes: Patchogue, Long Island
Flavors: Monday, December 5th
Today we introduce the Hot Toddy cupcake, which I’m sure will be controversial since I put a call out for your best Toddy recipes on Facebook & Twitter about six weeks ago, and got about 100 different recipes. Some use whiskey, some use rum, some use both, some use cider, some use lemon, some use rocks. But they all have one thing in common- each person believes their recipes is the RIGHT one, and everyone else has absolutely no idea how to make a proper Hot Toddy. Just like how everyone on the road is an idiot with a deathwish, except of course, for me.
I probably should have just dropped the flavor and quietly slinked out of harms way, but I had already done the whole schedule and I was too tired to do anything else. Besides, I’m incredibly backlogged right now. I finally got the Holiday Ordering tab up so you can start reserving cupcakes for all the fancy shmancy holiday parties you’re bound to be attending- I’m still doing some edits on it, so if you have questions you know to just give us a call or shoot us an email. I’m also working on making an online order form for those of you who want to purchase gift boxes of brownies and whoopie pies for either your friends and family, or as corporate gifts (gift sets start at $10!). AND I’m now trying to find a way to bag up our cocoa mix for purchase, since people have been asking us to sell it since it debuted at the Union Square Holiday Market this past Thursday. Plus I’m going to try and get my kids to see Santa this year and pray that we don’t have a repeat of last years “screaming in terror, running away, and causing Mommy to have a massive nervous breakdown in the middle of a JC Penny” episode.
So to gear up for this week, let’s go out and grab some Hot Toddy cupcakes. It’s just like drinking, except you can do it at your desk and your boss won’t know!
Clockwise from front: Hot Buttered Rum, Chocolate Chestnut, Hot Toddy, Eggnog
NEW! Hot Toddy: Honey whiskey soaked vanilla cake, honey cinnamon buttercream, candied lemon peel
Chocolate Chestnut: Chocolate cake, chestnut buttercream, candied chestnuts, ganache
Hot Buttered Rum: Butter rum soaked cake, rum and butterscotch buttercream, butter rum drizzle
Eggnog: Eggnog cake, eggnog buttercream, grated nutmeg
AVAILABLE AT:
Robicelli’s at the Union Square Holiday Market: Booth C34
Robicelli’s at DeKalb Market: Corner of Flatbush Ave Ext & Willoughby, Downtown Brooklyn
Cafe at Sam’s Bakery: 94th off 3rd Ave, Bay Ridge
Aloha Grinds: 77th & 3rd, Bay Ridge
Bagel Schmagel: 76th & 3rd, Bay Ridge
Crespella: 7th Ave & 9th Street, Park Slope
Tazza: Clark Street off Henry AND Henry off Atlantic, Brooklyn Heights
Cake Shop: Ludlow btwn Stanton & Rivington, LES
Joe at Columbia University: W 120th btwn Broadway & Amsterdam, Morningside Heights
Battery Place Market: 77 Battery Place, Battery Park City
Queen City Cupcakes: West Main Street, Patchogue, Long Island
Red Hook Lobster Pound (Whoopie Pies Only)
