it's a tie...

The 2 most popular flavors this week (with the exception of our big mac of cupcakes, the chocolate blackberry syrah) were the chocolate salted caramel

(decadent chocolate cake, filled with house-made lightly salted vanilla bean caramel, dark chocolate glaze, more gooey caramel and a sprinkling of sea salt)

AND the strawberry peach chardonnay

(chardonnay cake, soaked with fresh strawberry puree, with a peaches & cream filling, topped with peach frosting and agave nectar soaked strawberries)

Both flavors will be back!  

turn the radio on ...

Keith Saarloos & Cupcake man, Kevin Vander Vliet, were interviewed on "Grape Encounters (of the wine kind). It's a fun listen!

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coming soon to a cupcakery near you....

Strawberry, Peach Chardonnay Cupcake

Today my daughter and I traveled a whole 2 miles to get these amazing peaches (Buttonwood Farms) and berries (Ruby Farms) for this weeks' cupcakes!  Last week the raspberry, nectarine chardonnay was a huge hit - I think because it was a refreshing choice in this sweltering hot weather!  So this week come by and try the strawberry, peach chardonnay (the luscious blackberries are for the signature chocolate blackberry syrah!)

my new favorite...

Most of our customers ask, "what's your favorite?" and the question always stumps me because each week we strive to have such a variety of flavors, so it's a challenge to decide which one I like best.  However, this week it took me half a bite to claim the rocky road as my "fav"! The Rocky Road has a chocolate cake, filled with gooey fudge, topped with dark chocolate marshmallow frosting, big chunks of walnuts, oozing marshmallow and chocolate sauce.

But every person has such a different palate that you never know what will be your favorite.  The other new flavors of the week are ~

Coconut Key Lime ~ vanilla cake, filled with a tart key lime pudding, topped with coconut milk frosting, shaved coconut and sugared lime zest

Chocolate Cream ~ Chocolate cake, filled with a fluffy sweet cream concoction, topped with chocolate glaze and vanilla frosting (our version of a gourmet Hostess)

"Alan's Pick", Orange Blossom Honey Cheesecake ~  We participated in the Gainey Farmer's Market again on Friday and in addition to using locally grown organic produce for the fruit flavored cupcakes, I also wanted to incorporate a local honey purveyor, San Marcos Farms.  This cupcake has a vanilla bean cake, baked with orange blossom honey chessecake in the middle, topped with cream cheese frosting and a honey, caramel glaze (inspired from a gourmet doughnut recipe)...the best part is that Alan approves.

Our 5th new flavor is a Nectarine, Raspberry, Chardonnay (sorry no pic).   A Chardonnay cake, drenched with fresh raspberry puree, filled with pastry cream and chopped nectarines, topped with a sweet nectarine frosting and a raspberry.

"we live in a beautiful world"

This morning, my sweet husband roused me out of bed to start an adventure (he gets antsy on our days off, while I just want to savor my time sleeping)!  We started our day with coffee from a local coffee shop, where I heard the Coldplay song blasting, "We Live in a Beautiful World"...I couldn't help but hum along as I savored my morning addiction (triple latte).  Then, as we drove onward we had to stop the car to record this...

and I couldn't help but think, "we live in a beautiful world".  

 Then I got to lounge and play in the water at the aquatic center with my little girl...I don't think it gets any better!

strawberry lemonade & more

We recently took a very short trip to Maui to visit my family and while browsing in one of my favorite boutiques, Nuage Bleu, in Paia, I enhaled the most heavenly, pure scents ever! 100% Pure  shower gels & lotions smell so delicous, you'll want to eat them!  The beautiful color and intoxicating scent of the stawberry lemonade shower gel instantly made me want to make a stawberry lemonade cupcake - so we did! 

A vanilla bean cake, filled with fresh, tart lemon curd, topped with strawberry frosting and strawberry puree. 

We also featured 2 other new flavors!

Best of Both Worlds *Chocolate & Vanilla*.  This has been on our menu for a while, but we've never had it in the shop before.  I love the frosting application - it takes me back to my "fro-yo" obsession as a teenager in the 90's (I am so excited the craze is back and trendy)!  It's a chocolate cake, filled with vanilla bean pastry cream, topped with vanilla bean and dark chocolate frosting.

Maple Cinnamon French Toast!  Funny story - this cupcake evolved and made it's apperance in the shop on Friday becuase we rejected the Blueberry Maple Pancake (the frosting color looked like death - those who know me well, know my obsession with color - and it overall was too sweet.  Thanks to our C.E.T. Kevin for saving the day with the idea for the flavor revision)!  Vanilla cake, filled with maple pastry cream, topped with cinnamon sweet cream frosting & cinnamon sugar dusting.

summer peach & white chocolate cheesecake!

As we were trying to think up a new vanilla cake based flavor this week, Kevin was adamant about incorporating white chocolate...I am a HUGE chocolate lover, but I don't get too excited about white chocolate - however, I caved!  So come on by this weekend and try the Vanilla White Chocolate Cheesecake cupcake!  It's a vanilla bean cake, baked with vanilla mascarpone cheesecake inside, topped with a white chocolate frosting and white chocolate shavings.

We also have a fresh summer peach cobbler cupcake - so yummy!   It's a vanilla cake, baked with a buttery cobbler topping, filled with fresh chopped peaches & pastry cream, topped with vanilla bean frosting, more cobbler topping and a fresh peach glaze.

And back by popular request is the Boston Cream Pie cupcake!

still standing...

This week we had the privilege of making cupcakes for a wedding dress rehearsal, high school graduation party, baby's first b-day, birthday party and another birthday spa party.   We (well mostly me, because cupcake man had another gig for his team building business) made 1678 cupcakes in less than 24 hours.  It's such an honor to participate in these special occasions through our desserts!

Here are some pics of our cupcake trailer at the spa party birthday celebration on Saturday.  The funky gig, with trailers serving as spa treatment rooms (how creative!), was hosted by Jennifer Jaqua.  

I adore Jaqua Beauty products and have been using the scrumptious body butters for years.  It was awesome to make cupcakes that taste like Jaqua products smell!

In the midst of all the special events, we also featured 2 new flavors at the Enjoy Cupcakes storefront!  The sugar daddy was the hit of the week & of course was, "Alan's pick". 

 A vanilla bean cake, filled with house made vanilla bean caramel and a carmel cream cheese swirled frosting.

The second new addition was the black forest

Chocolate buttermilk cake, filled with a fluffy vanilla mousse, topped with a dollop of cream cheese frosting and an agave nectar soaked cherry!

Now it's time for me to take a day off and try to be as care-free as my daughter!