Well, I’ve got so many things to update you on so I reckon I’ll start with the most important one – I’m taking a holiday! Just in case you’d not already heard me banging on about it, I’m off to Mexico in a couple of weeks which means that I’ll be closed for business from 20th September until 1st October.
That brings me on to the next item, which is National Cupcake Week! It runs from 13th – 19th September and to celebrate I’m offering a sweet 20% discount to anyone who places a cupcake order for collection (not delivery) between those dates. To order you can give me call on 07732 060101, drop me an email, Tweet me or even send a message on Facebook.
Speaking of Facebook, I’ll move on to yet another update. The Fantasy Cupcake competition I ran at the end of August was a roaring success and there were some really wild and totally out there creations coming forth. The eventual winner with 55 unique likes on her entry, was a lovely lady named Anna. Anna is a huge fan of local produce and in particular, honey from The Sheffield Honey Company, which was a key ingredient in her dream cupcake. She named it “The Honey Trap” and described it as being a honey flavoured sponge with pieces of crushed honeycomb baked into it. Topped with smooth vanilla buttercream, the cupcake would then be finished with a final drizzle of honey and even more crushed honeycomb.
Jez of The Sheffield Honey Company was kind enough to drop by with some of his limited edition vanilla blossom honey for me and I have to admit, he’d not even made it to the top of my driveway before I had a spoon in the jar for a taste! It really is delicious and I certainly understand why Anna was so keen to base her fantasy cupcake on it. I’ve already had a bash at making the honeycomb (or cinder toffee, as some of you will know it) with Jez’s honey and the results were amazing. Anna is away on holiday at the moment but I can’t wait to get stuck in and bake her prize when she’s back!
Now to a bit of a round-up of other blogs that Northern Soul Cupcakes has been featured on recently.
The “Make Mine a 99″ cupcakes are doing the rounds yet again, this time popping up on Epicute. I’m still awaiting a credit on that one, seeing as I’m not the person who submitted it.
Here we are again on Daily Cake Blog.
And finally, here’s an ace little feature on me and my cupcakes by the wonderful Gem of Bianchista. As well as being a top-notch photographer and editor for Getty Images, Gem is also something of a bike nut and probably has one of the most prolific cycling blogs in the UK. If you spend any amount of time on two wheels, you should definitely check her out.
