THINK PINK!

This will be a pretty short post. Today, I planned out the weekly specials for the last two weeks in October and I wanted to let the folks who read my blog know about next week's special. The special is THINK PINK! We are offering a dozen of any flavor cupcakes and 10% of the purchase will be donated to the Susan G. Komen foundation. October is breast cancer awareness month and K.B.'s wants to do as much as we can to help raise awareness. If you would like to order, let me know. What could be better than cute pink cupcakes that support a good cause?

Fall Fruit Festival

Strawberry Pucker

More pumpkin spice

Vanilla with rum frosting


Chocolate cherry

What a great weekend this has been! We ended up having a nice, relaxing weekend with family after a crazy week! K.B's did 19 dozen cupcakes this past week and amidst that we had car trouble which put the cupcake making schedule off. I ended up doing 15 dozen of the cupcakes from start to finish in one day. It was a long day! I know for most bakeries, 19 dozen is nothing but for a operation with one oven and one girl, that's a lot of baking. I am definitely not complaining! I wouldn't have it any other way. Well, I could have done without the car trouble but that's neither here nor there.

For some reason, Fall gets me really excited about fruit. I want to eat apples with every meal. Have any of you had Asian pears? If you haven't, go to your local grocery store, buy one and come back and tell me how much you loved it. They sell them at Costco and my girls and I go through at least a case per week. Yeah, they're that good. Anyway, I have never baked with them. I don't even know if they would be any good for baking but I do know they are delicious to snack on.

I do know some other fruits that are fantastic to bake with and that gave me my idea for the weekly special for the sweet shoppe. I am doing a Fall Fruit Festival!! This week I am offering a half dozen of various fruit flavors (up to 2 flavors per half dozen). The flavors are: peach cobbler, caramel apple, cinnamon crumb, cranberry spice and chocolate cherry. If you know anyone in need of fruity cupcakes this week, I am their gal. Well, I suppose I had better get going. I will leave you with this question for today...what is your favorite fruit to snack on and what is your favorite fruit to bake with?

An apple a day...

Chocolate whoopie pie with mint cream

Pumpkin Spice

Peppermint Patty

So many cookies!!

How about 20 pounds of apples a day?? No, I am not going to eat 20 pounds of apples. The special for K.B.'s Sweet Shoppe this week is a dozen cupcakes with a free jar of apple butter. With more than 15 dozen cupcakes to make and 7 orders for apple butter only...well, you can see that means a lot of apple butter! It takes 12+ hours to cook but it is delicious and the smell in the house is heavenly!! With all this talk of apple butter, I may just have to keep some for myself!

I have been toying with some new flavor ideas lately. There was a pumpkin shortage for Libby's last season and that meant no pumpkin. Most local grocery stores are still not carrying canned pumpkin. However, I have found that Trader Joe's sells their own brand at a reasonable price so the pumpkin is flowing for the sweet shoppe. I have come up with a couple of new flavors that include pumpkin. I also tried a new cookie flavor: cranberry and white chocolate chip. I am not a big cranberry person myself, but I thought the cookies were very good! Some of my Facebook followers have suggested a couple of new flavors for me to try and I am hoping to get some time in the next couple of weeks to come up with a recipe for some of the ideas. What about you? Any flavors or specials you would like to see?

I will leave you with this. The next two weeks, my oldest daughter will be out of preschool for Fall break. Today, we were talking about different activities we want to do while she is on break. We came up with many ideas but her top priority is to make a pumpkin pie. With all of my baking, I have never made a pumpkin pie. Any tips? Also, share with me. What are some Fall inspired activities you will be doing? Thanks for reading. Have a good night!