Vote for Heaven is a Cupcake!

I am very proud to announce that for the 4th year running, Heaven is a Cupcake, has been nominated for a St Albans Food and Drink Award in the 'Local Gem' category. But not only that, HIAC has also been nominated for Best Local Producer. I'm thrilled to be part of these local awards again and always have a great time participating in the Festival. Stay tuned for special deals and events during the Festival, but until then, please vote for Heaven is a Cupcake!



Have a great Bank Holiday weekend!



Lucy

Heaven is a Cupcake, St Albans

Help the Hospices Cupcake

In August 2013, good friends of Heaven is a Cupcake's are cycling 100 miles around London for the Prudential Ride London and are raising money for the amazing cause, Help the Hospices. Help the Hospices support hospices all around the country who provide end of life and palliative care to those in need. Not only do they provide support for the patients themselves but they are a life line to the families affected by terminal illnesses.

With this in mind, Heaven is a Cupcake is proud to introduce the Help the Hospices High Tea Cupcake; a vanilla sponge with a Tiptree Champagne and Strawberry Jam filling and a decadent champagne buttercream. Cupcakes are £2.00 each and £1.50 per cupcake will be going to Help the Hospices. You can buy the cupcakes at all of our events or you can order a box online by emailing us on mail@heavenisacupcake.net .



If you would like to find out more about the cause or donate please visit: http://www.justgiving.com/joeeley

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!

Wedding Fairs

Hello all,

Hope you're having a good month so far. October was incredibly busy for me, I had the food festival, lots of wedding orders and lots of new customers. It was my busiest month yet which is fab but also means I didn't get a lot of time off! But not complaining, loved every minute of it!

I had my first large wedding fair on 29th October at Sopwell House, St Albans, then last week I was in the town hall for Wedding Wonderland and today I was at Knebworth Barns Wedding Fair. It's been lovely to meet so many brides and grooms to be as well as meeting lots of other wedding suppliers. It's really nice to meet other people in similar businesses.

So I thought I'd share a few photos of the wedding fairs I've done. And I look forward to doing more next year!

Until next time, happy cupcaking!

Wedding at the Oldest Pub in Britain - Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, St Albans

This was a lovely, homely wedding and the cupcake tower fit in very well on the bar as the centrepiece for the evening reception. A selection of Devil's Food, Carrot and Red Velvet cupcakes with little heart sprinkles.

Busiest week yet!

Hello cupcakers!

It has been an extremely busy week so I thought I'd share with you some of my latest orders and the biggest challenges I've faced yet as a home baker and they all happened in the same week - typical!

On Saturday 6th of August I had a wedding order to fulfil for Hanh and Alex who were having their wedding reception at the beautiful St Michael's Manor in St Albans. They had a cupcake tower of vanilla and lemon cupcakes topped with rose swirls and individual handmade roses. Their top tier cake was made by a family member and finished off their tower beautifully.

Here are a few snaps of the finished product.

I really loved the colours of these and the wrappers in particular - they are very popular wedding wrappers!

My next wedding and my biggest challenge yet was on Thursday 11th August, again at the lovely St Michael's Manor and was for Binanti and Darren. Now, originally Binanti asked if I could do her cupcake favours and of course I was very happy to, but she was having trouble finding someone to do her wedding cake. It seemed there weren't many cakers willing to make a piped rose swirl cake! So I said that I would have a go at doing her a sample cake and she could decide if it was what she wanted. I made it very clear that I've never done that sort of thing before but she was desperate! I made her the sample cake ( a vanilla pound cake with vanilla buttercream) and the happy couple were thrilled with it, I'm pleased to say. So she put her faith in me and I'm pleased to say all the hard work paid off....

Thank you to Binanti and Darren for having faith in me! And I'm very glad you weren't disappointed. Now amongst these wedding orders, I was also planning my sister's 30th Birthday Cake (a 3 tiered wonky cake, getting ready for my Saturday market in the St Albans town hall (sold out again!) AND fulfilling all my other regular orders for birthdays/anniversaries/cravings! So as you can see, I didn't get much time to rest (which is great for business, but not so great for my M.E.) luckily I have had the day off today...well sort of, I still have a sample box to make later and have been answering emails/sorting photos all day but in comparison to last week - it's a day off.

I will leave you with a collage of some of last week's orders. The rest have been uploaded onto my Facebook page . Also want to say a very quick thank you to everyone who has been so supportive to me and my business. You guys are fab so thank you :D

June Update

I can't believe how busy I have been recently. It's just got manic and I haven't had time to sit and blog. But it's great :)

In May I attended the University of Hertfordshire Careers Fair and provided the cupcakes for the networking event. It was a lot of fun and it was great to be back at University again and see what they've done with the new Forum building (the Students Union).

I made over 100 cupcakes for the event and they disappeared in less than 10 minutes!! So a definite success :)

Then last weekend was the St Albans Arts & Crafts Fair in the town Hall and I did a tea party theme where I tried out a new Earl Grey flavour and I must say it was extremely yummy!! It may be my new favourite.


I also had a busy weekend of orders and some really fun themes to tackle. And next weekend is filling up fast too!

Happy Cupcaking!