Local Gem!

Apologies for the radio silence over the last couple of months. The problem with running your own business is that you don't have a lot of spare time and in my spare time I tend to spend it sleeping or catching up on admin so it doesn't leave a lot of time for blogging. But, I will try to be better!

Great news, I have been nominated for the Local Gem award in the St Albans Food and Drink Awards for the 3rd year and a row! But I need your help to win.

Please take a few minutes to vote for Heaven is a Cupcake for Local Gem. And if you're not sure why, then just check out my Facebook page to see some of my latest creations!

Highly Commended :)

Just a quick post to say thank you to everyone who voted for me for the Local Gem Award in the St Albans Food and Drink Awards. I didn't win, but I cam second and got 'Highly Commended' which is lovely. After all, it would be greedy to win 2 years in a row. Congratulations to Johnny from The Pudding Stop who won and to all the other worthy winners and nominees in the Festival.

We had a lovely time at the Food Festival Finale this year - another great event. Sold out of cupcakes and only had a few cake pops left which I gave to my wonderful stall helpers so worked out very well. It's always nice when you sell out as it makes all the hard work worth while and it was really nice to see so many new faces at the festival. Making people smile is the best thing about my job!

Me in front of my stall with a cupcake St Albans Flag and little St Albans Crests. Plus my new Best of British range and Halloween cupcake stand.

Thanks for coming and see you next year!

So Much More Than 'Just' Cupcakes

As I have been nominated for the Local Gem Award in the St Albans Food Festival this year (please vote here: http://www.allaboutstalbans.net/food_festival/vote.aspx ) I thought I would take the opportunity to blog a bit about why I think you should vote for me.

I covered briefly about why in my previous post but I thought I'd talk a little about why I am unique and not just another cupcake company. With cupcake companies popping up all over the place now I always try to be different. I started my company up because I have a true passion for baking and decorating. And this isn't just contained to baking cupcakes. However it is with cupcakes that I specialise because they are so versatile and they are anything but boring fairy cakes. They can be anything you like. A couple of weeks a go I trialed a new flavour based on the famous Key Lime Pie and it was extremely well received!

Anyway enough of the cupcakes! Onto the OTHER products I do. Yes, I'm not JUST a cupcake company. (Is that enough capitals for you?) Every market I always have other cakey bakey products on sale. At my previous market I had yummy chocolate brownies and  delicious mini banana bread loaves. I also make customised celebration cakes, a few of which you can see below:

As well as celebration cakes, I also do tea time cakes such as mini cakes, macarons,  layer cakes and guglhupfs.

And of course there are my cake pops and push cups.

So as you can see, I am so much more than just cupcakes! And keep watching as I'm always experimenting with new flavours and products.

Vote Heaven is a Cupcake for Local Gem! http://www.allaboutstalbans.net/food_festival/vote.aspx

Please take 2 minutes to vote for me!

Now if you can't see from the photo ;) - I have been nominated for the Local Gem Award in the St Albans Food Festival Awards. I would really appreciate it if you could take 2 minutes to vote for me. All you need to do is go here: http://www.allaboutstalbans.net/food_festival/vote.aspx  Fill out the form, get the code and finally click on 'Heaven is a Cupcake' under Local Gem.

And here's why you should vote for me...

Heaven is a Cupcake has been established in St Albans for almost 18 months and I have a very loyal customer base which is constantly growing. This is not only because I produce excellent tasting, beautifully crafted cupcakes and cakes but because I pride myself in going the extra mile for my customers. I will always do my best to accomodate orders and make sure my customers are wowed by my products.

I work very hard to achieve this and I hope that my website, facebook and blog emphasises this. I find myself working very late nights but I do it all so that I can give YOU the best cupcakes and products possible.

I am very pleased to say that I always try to be original as possible and this is reflected through my stream of new products (most recently, the Push Cups, the BFC (Big Friendly Cupcake - a Mini Giant!) and mini loaves.

I like to stay in contact with my customers and feel through my blog & social networking I am really able to get to know them and I hope, you can get to know me. So please, take the time to vote for me and if you also feel I deserve it, please feel free to nominate for the Kate D'Arcy Award for Outstanding Customer Service.

Happy cupcaking

xx

Food Festival

It's been a really manic week so I've only just got round to announcing that...I WON! I am now the proud owner of the 2010 Local Gem Award in the St Albans Food and Drink Festival. Thank you to everyone who voted for me. I really appreciate. We had a really good night at the Gala Awards and then the next couple of days I was making decorations, then over 300 cupcakes for the Food Festival finale. Here are a few photos from the Gala and the Finale...

From the festival finale...

I was decorating cupcakes all day

Autumnal Cupcakes

Floral cupcakes

Halloween Cupcakes



Happy Cupcaking :D

Vote vote vote!!

Hi all,

So the recipe a day thing didn't work out so well as I ended up suddenly getting lots of orders and it all went a bit pear shaped... Then I had lots to do last week to prepare for the Macmillan coffee morning and haven't been able to post since. I will do a few updates this week. But until then pleeeease vote everyday!

If you get the chance please can you vote for Heaven is a Cupcake on www.allaboutstalbans.net/food_festival/vote.aspx under the local gem category. It's the last week of voting! You can vote everyday this week!! Thank you xx