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