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Hi all,

We have a drop in feature today at the RSPCA Leicester, http://www.rspcaleicester.org.uk/. So it's not about our cakes, but more about the organisation. As a neutral, I was taken back by the new store layout.
This is an exciting feature to what was an administrative block. Looks like a mini PETS R US.

Please feel free to drop by and have a look and pick up a cake.

hi guys,

we are selling today at the locals;
https://www.facebook.com/CraftFairOrganiserForLeicestershire#!/events/425093257511314/

bring the kiddies and have some fun.

hi all,

We now have a sugar fee and fat free topping for our cupcakes. We have moved away from standard butter icing and sugar icing methods to be more healthy. The flavours are now more richer. For a tasting session then drop me a line for a booking.

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't updated this blog but now I am back.

Recently I have been selling at Beaumont leys on Saturdays so if you would like any tasty cupcakes, then please come and see me there. Also, I have been very busy making cakes for weddings. I am now venturing out and making homemade chocolates. It's been a lot of fun.
Next week I am back selling my cakes in Oadby and Leicester after having two wonderful weeks off with my young children.

Beaumont leys Leicester

Hello everyone,

I have been so busy selling my lovely cupcakes in Loughborough, Glenfield and in Leicester town that I have not had chance to update my blog for a few months.
However, tomorrow I am at Beaumont Leys so if you would like to buy some homemade cakes please come and see me.
Next Friday I am selling my cupcakes inside the Leicester market so if you are in town please pop by.

Anita.

We are at the Belgrave food fair at Belgrave hall. If you missed this,,shame on you.

The Belgrave Hall Good Food Fair
Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th September 2011
11.00am – 4.00pmBelgrave Hall Museum and Gardens
http://www.leicester.gov.uk/foodfair




http://manillaclub.co.uk/rockafellas/?page_id=75 is the link to the cupcake club night.

What to do over the weekend...how about a music festival in Syston...awesome.

We are in attendance with some really heavy rock cakes...

http://www.silverbulletleicester.co.uk/

The Central Stage (Saturday)

1 p.m. Chezzy Rocker Rose

1.45 December Giant

2.30 Punching Robots

3.15 No More Heroes

4 p.m. Daniel Angelus

4.45 Free or Nearest Offer

5.30 The Procession

6.15 James Lewis Band

7 p.m. These Roads Arn't safe

7.45 Loaded

8.30 Living Mystery

9.15 Metal Militia (Metallica Tribute)

10 p.m. Stonewashed

10.45 Oxide

The Riverside Stage (Saturday)

2 p.m. Aspects of Infinity

2.45 Sam Hutchinson

3.30 We were beautiful (Liverpool)

4.15 Ricky C & friends

5 p.m. Even more than you

5.45 The Chasers

6.30 Aphtershock

7.15 Kanada

8 p.m. Bury the Ladybird

8.45 Black Sheep Family

9.30 Muze (Muse tribute)

10.15 Ashes to Angels

11 p.m. Elvis Presley tribute

Riverside Stage on Sunday

1 p.m. Michael Day

2 p.m. Morgan Perkins is Frank Sinatra

3 p.m. Scarlett Soviets

3.45 p.m. Chris Armson

5 p.m. Tony Alles

6 p.m. Roy Orbison tribute

6.45 Imperial Circus

7.30 p.m. Spyritus

more acts to follow

(Details may be subject to change)

New Sunday line up

2 p.m. Morgan Perkins (frank Sinatra Tribute)

3 p.m. Imperial Circus

Now including Armson, Kanada (acoustic set), Tony Alles, more to be advised.

Acoustic Marquee (Saturday and Sunday)

Arran McDonagh & friends

Lacky C (rapper)

Scott Williams

Sam Hutchinson

Faye Brotherhood

More to come, more artists booking now

A full programme for all stages will be available on the day

Quick link to the dress agency lady..lady G.

http://www.georgiesda.co.uk/georgies%20dress%20agency/georgies.html

Give her your size, and she will let you know what she has in.

Some images of the bar...4th August

Ladies, honestly, would you want to be sitting at home on Thursday listening to his excuse for not cleaning the garden or sitting filling our faces by yours truly.

I tell no lies...
The image is the interior of Rockafellas for those who have yet to take a step up town since Gone with the Wind was at the Odeon.
Remember no email, no likey...rules are rules.

A student is not just for Christmas...

Noel.

rock on girls we have lift off.

Ladies we have the venue, the infamous Rockafellas at the top of the High street opposite the carpark.
See map link..

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/myplaces?hl=en&ll=52.635125,-1.1395&spn=0.000203,0.001321&sll=52.635252,-1.137346&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&ctz=-60&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=52.635059,-1.139577&panoid=q79qyo6yNHES6viaQwp6tA&cbp=11,32.86,,0,0

The venue will be 4th August which is around 3 weeks away give or take. The added spice will be the attendance of dress agency goddess that is Georgina Dexter.

She is an expert in getting the couture brand labels for the pocket budget to match. I can vouch for that personally. I went to Butlins and dressed like Victoria Beckham,aka Kate Perry just for going to the fair.
All class.

Her link is www.georgiesda.co.uk

Second on the night is the class act of ladies from City Spa, and I mean class. These girls have a who's who of Leicester in attendance in the private areas below the ground floor soaking up the best of the best cosmetic beauty therapy that money can buy.

They will be giving some advice and tips on the night.

So more updates tomorrow. Remember, you need to email me to get invited on the night, a head count will monitored.

So we have cakes, fine wines, clothes and advice. What more can we do.

cupcake.anita@gmail.com

All the ladies in the house..

To my friends, customers and clients.

We have now found a variety of new techniques sourced from different professionals in the catering business to make the cupcake a pure standalone bestseller.

Having tested the competition lately, I thought it was time to have a second tasting session before the new additions to my range.

The last event was at a bar which we took over for the night. Music and all that jazz, but more of a let your hair down for 3 hrs, filling our faces.

This time I'm going to invite a few friends who sell other items of interest, nothing big.

One is a dress agency and the second is a surprise girls.

The conditions last time was that everyone emails me, I then instruct my hubby to collect a £5 deposit from each, this is returned on the night. For the ones who did not turn up last time, this would cover the waste.

The night will be a spoon tasting session, you pick the cake and we feed you. Some girls practically took the experience a bit too far, eating the whole cake and range in one hit.

I need some suggestions for a venue and a possible date in August.

cupcake.anita@gmail.com

Ok, we are going on holiday from 8th to the 15th.

Love to all guys, thank you for the support over the last year, especially from my hubby as well.

To update everyone, we are doing a little trick to make the day go quicker while the weather is nice.

On our market stall in the Leicster city fruit market, we have Spiderman from 1 until 3.

So, if you want a quick snap or have your little rascals stand with Spiderman, no problem, just ask.

Spiderman, also has his own cupcake on sale. So go ahead and pick your Spiderman design.

My hubby is loving all the attention from the kids shouting Spiderman, even the cool teens have a banter.

If you want Spiderman to deliver your cupcake party pack then just drop me an email, and we will respond with a personal Spiderman email for the lucky person who is getting the special treat.

Uploading pics over the week, so stay tuned Spider fans....

Update

Big thank you to the insurance company for assisting me in the selling of my cupcakes, very refreshing to see helpful staff, while I understand that the team are cooperative, some companies don't have the same policy of just leaving the cakes in the office, because they always cite some restrictions relating to contamination or some other form of risk.

Has anyone died from butter or a tablespoon of chocolate, please let me know. People have allergies, and they know best what they can eat, not management. Our products are all natural based flavours using blast frozen fruit or very expensive concentrates. If I use a bottle of the shelf, I will give up and pack the cake business in. Simply because I value the old method of giving the customer something that no one else can produce. I'm not claiming to be the best in Leiecester or the UK, simply that I have a style and a method which only works with top ingredients.

If there existed a replacement to sugar icing besides, a sweetner,  then possibly I would move to using this. Bar this, then I have to work with sugar icing. A lady commented on that it was sweet, well sampling the caramel and  raspberry flavour will be sweet, but no way near as a mars bar or anything else of the shelf that is loaded with sugar.

At the end of the day, I can promise and deliver on my product to be the best for value.

Thank you to everyone on Friday, big help as always.

Noel

We now have 2 little mermaids that dance in our kitchen.

Just shrunk the smalls and my dancing shoes with my new laser gun..

Day 1

Come and get them..

Thank you everyone.

The morning was fantastic at the food section in the new food market on Friday, we sold out by 4pm. Thank you to all the traders who purchased a cupcake, thank you to the local hair salons, pub managers, mobile phone shops, toy shop, nail salons dotted across the city. The emails I got Friday night was great to read.

For the ones who have pre ordered, then thank you as well for the return custom.

Making the leap to take on a stall and trying to make things work as a future business is hard, but worth the effort. My hat goes off to the local market traders, they are all work horses. People should visit the market more, why pay £2 for strawberries, when the market sells just as good for under £1. I did my shop on Friday in the market and saved well over £15 in normal fruit and veg for the week.

Bless all...

OH YES, one word...LOROS...

We have our first stall at the Food section in the fruit market in Leicester City market.

Oh, yes, bring it on...

We will have around 15 flavours and will bake around 150 cakes for this to start, we have some other sites to go first, hence the low show, but the first come first serve will be order of the day.

I tasted the poor effort in the shires today, not my think to comment on other cakes, but that issue of quality for £1:50 is raising the blood to boil.

We have a chocolate sponge that at least is best part 100% cocoa. This is traced back to our wholesaler. The eggs are from Gorse hill farm or the nice laddies at the A47 carboot. Butter is top secret and the fluffy magic ingredient that makes them taste like angel delight. We have fresh fruit and a plastic case.

Image A-Cupcake from the shires shopping centre stand on the upper level

Viva la cupcake chocolate  caramel with strawberry...£1:50

What did I get for £1:50...see image A

Has everyone forgotten about manners,

Not naming some big companies that reside in Grove park in Leicester, but today the attitude and rudeness from staff was very fresh to say the least. Now, is it because I'm a student who sells cupcakes, is it hard to swallow or, the fact that I'm actually raising my own funds for my degree.

Pressing the call button and hearing, '' that it is something we are not interested in'', is normal. What is hard to understand is that one person can speak for an entire company.

This is off putting, especially when a senior staff member who work's in this blue chip company, says at the local fete,' to drop by and speak to the reception. Can't see how a student selling cupcakes is not a worthy cause.'

So please take into consideration when you say your not interested, please seek permission to speak for the company as a whole. Many directors have been gracious and aplogised for there staff's response.

When this blog is copied into my forums for netmums and similar forum links, the feedback is they all can't believe they work there or their partner works there. Hence why I came to  your business in the first place.

Noel...

OMG....REDBULL, COLA and BUBBLEGUM FLAVOURS..

Yes, we now have within the bakery lab some new interesting mixes.

The cupcake has moved up a gear, REDBULL, COLA and now BUBBLEGUM flavours.

The trial run will start next week, once there is no reactions to our special butter icing. But today's tests are going down really well.

Well, all that selling has now paid for our local graphic designer to create our flyer..

If you want him to create something in a short time and very quick, then drop him a line. He can work on all budgets from £150 to the bigger graphics.

Hi all, attending the Abbey pump festival this Sunday, straight after the A47 carboot.

Peppermint chocolate ganache and caramel with cherry

the party order for NWA

Vanilla with caramel and chocolate ganache

Double chocolate and caramel

So my lovely customers, I have now completed my HNC, my focus is now on my BSc Hons PT degree in Quantity Surveying, so  if you know anyone who is looking for a Jnr QS, drop me a line..hickey.noel@googlemail.com.

8th April-We love Viva hearts, plus expensive cocoa Hawain chocolate.

Two hearts-strawberry

Orange and peel with orange ganache

oh yes, chocolate and cherry

Why, how and what with.

here is the wifes effort, flowers are nice, interflora darling

what more can I say, 

To show you all the techniques on flavouring would be very time consuming, so for now a few pics to wet the appetite.

thinking, one day, I will be a QS.

Oh, I 'm the real little chef