The 1st Annual Create Your own Cupcake Contest

And the votes have been counted.  Drum roll please....... The winner is #4 Peach and Blackberry Cobbler submitted by Tara M.  She wins a 6 pack of her flavor cupcakes and she gets to name them!!  Thanks to everyone who submitted flavors, everyone who voted and everyone who came down and tasted the samples!!  See you again next summer!

O.M.G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This morning when DJ came down to the shop to open, he noticed we had a message on the answering machine.  Not all the unusual until he listened to the message!!!!!!!!!!!  Remember a week or to ago when I jokingly posted about emailing Cupcake Wars?  Well guess what??  THEY CALLED!!!!!!  They received the following email and LOVED it.  

Hello Cupcake Wars!

I love the show Cupcake Wars and DVR it when I can't watch it. I know of a local cupcakery that would be perfect for your show!  The Crazy Cupcake in Jonesborough, TN.    

The Crazy Cupcake would be a great contender on Cupcake Wars. I have to say that I, myself, love sweets, especially cupcakes but am never really sold on cupcakes I eat from stores or bakeries. I heard about The Crazy Cupcake in Historic Jonesborough and thought it would be a cute place to visit with my mom one afternoon. We went. It was amazing. I ordered the Cinna-Monster and it was delicious! Just the right amount of cinnamon and cake combination. I took a bite and immediately melted. The cake was so good, the texture was smooth and airy, but with beautiful flavor. Since then, I have been back many times and have not yet met a cupcake I didn't love. I raved about these cupcakes so much to my cousin that she demanded I bring her some when we went to a wedding together 8 hours away! One of my favorite flavors is Choco-Latte. The frosting on that cake is smooth but with little chunks of chocolate that just melt in your mouth! I would love to see The Crazy Cupcake on your show, and honestly, I think it would be your honor to have them!

Now we have to make a 3-5 minute audition video by Monday!  I will post the video sometime tomorrow.  Tim Flannigan is  a professional videographer and he graciously offered to film us tomorrow!!
 

Better with Bacon.

At least that is what they tell me, so I added bacon {candied bacon to be exact} to our chocolate cupcake and then frosted it with a kicked up chocolate frosting and a piece of candied bacon to finish it off! I can say that this is one food that is Better with Bacon!

Create Your Own Cupcake Contest!! Final Vote

OK so who's creation should make it on our menu?  Leave a comment below with the number of your choice.  Only 1 vote per person please!!

1. Tiramisu Cupcake- with a coffee soaked vanilla cake and a sweetened mascarpone cheese frosting.

2. Cherry Coke Float- Chocolate cake with a cherry baked in the middle with whipped vanilla bean frosting topped with a cherry and chocolate drizzle on top.

3. The Oreo Cupcake- Oreo cake (dark rich chocolate cake with some Oreos crushed in batter), Oreo cream filling, white chocolate frosting and crushed oreos on top.

4. Peach Blackberry Cobbler- A peach coffee cake with blackberry puree as a filling vanilla bean frosting and blackberry and peach on top.

5. Sweet Potato- A sweet potato cupcake with marshmallow butter cream and a candied pecan on top.

6. Cherry Lime-aid- A Lime cake with cherries baked inside Cherry lime (maybe make it pink) frosting and a cherry and lime on top

7. The Crazy- Vanilla Bean cake White chocolate chips and milk chocolate chips 3 icings swirled or layered white chocolate frosting, Pinkie frosting, and chocolate frosting

8. The Memphis King Banana- Banana cake with peanut butter chips and a peanut butter frosting and a banana slice (dried or fresh?) on top.

You have until Friday 8/12 to vote.  The winner will be announced Saturday!!!!

Out N About Magazine

We were featured in the free magazine Out N About!  Here is the article in case you missed it!!  We are near the end on page 36.

Cupcake Wars

You know how when you are finished eating a Crazy Cupcake and you get all starry eyed and then you turn to me and say, "You should go on Cupcake Wars!" Well if you think that then send an email to CupcakeWars4@gmail.com with

our Name, The Crazy Cupcake and location, Jonesborough, TN

our web address,{www.the-crazy-cupcake.com}

and why you think we would be AWESOME on the show!!

I would love to read your emails so if you don't mind, please forward them to the-crazy-cupcake@hotmail.com  Thanks!!

Harry Potter Cupcakes

Happy Potter Day!! Since today is the day the last movie hits theaters, we had to make some special cupcakes!  I am a little late getting on the Harry potter bus.  I have read the first 3 books {I just started them last Sunday} and I haven't seen any of the movies. I love the books and wish I had seen the movies because I really want to see Deathly Hallows Pt 2 in theaters. Oh well though. 

Our menu today is:

 Hufflepuff, Clouds with yellow frosting and a chocolate H

 Gryffindor, PB Dream decorated as a lion

 Snitch, Cherry von Chocolate with a yellow covered cherry on top

 Ravenclaw,  Purple Velvet

 Lightning Bolt,  Double Chocolate with a chocolate lightning bolt

 Slytherin, Chocolate cake and frosting with a green snake-y S on top

 Hedwig, Cookies N Cream decorated as an owl face

 Firebolt, The Firecracker with a fruity broom on top

 Butter Beer, Cream Soda and Butterscotch cake and frosting with a butterscotch drizzle

 Botts Everything Beans.  Cosmo with jelly beans on top

Lime Green and Black Cupcakes

Daytime Tri-Cities!! 6/28

True Blood Cupcakes

Here are some cupcakes we made for the Season 4 premier of True Blood.

Sweet and Salty: Sweaty Alcide!  Peanut butter and white chocolate cake with white chocolate chips and pretzel piece then frosted with white chocolate frosting and peanut butter "fur."  Then topped with a chocolate WERE topper.

True Blood cupcakes: Vanilla Bean cake with a bloody berry filling.   Then frosted with vanilla bean frosting and a chocolate TRUE BLOOD topper.

No frosting shots today!  How about some Tru Blood instead? A fresh strawberry and raspberry sauce shooter.

Here are some True Blood cupcakes we made for a special order.

Face Painting

We have decided that we should a face painter come down on certain weekends to paint faces for the Crazy Cupcakers!!  Her name is Mandy and is amazing!  She also does make up professionally in addition to face painting.

Let the voting begin!!!

Here are all of our flavor submissions that we received in our Create Your Own Cupcake Contest.  You have the rest of June to vote, and to get your family and friends to vote.  After the voting is over we will start recipe testing with the top 8 or so that YOU voted for.  You can vote once per flavor per person.  {So you can't do 100 votes for your submission}.  To vote all you need to do is leave a comment with which number you like. {If you have a problem leaving a comment email me your votes}

I suggest picking your top 5 and leaving 5 separate comments for them. Then tell everyone you know to come and vote. Here they are in no particular order: (If you submitted a flavor and I missed it email me or leave me a message on Facebook)

1) The Oreo Cupcake

Oreo cake (dark rich chocolate cake with some Oreos crushed in batter)
Cream cheese filling
White chocolate icing
With crushed Oreos for decoration

2)  The Vols Cupcake
Orange cake
Cream cheese icing then orange flavored icing with a T on top for the UT volunteers

3)  The Crazy

Vanilla Bean cake
White chocolate chips and milk chocolate chips
3 icings swirled or layered white chocolate frosting, Pinkie frosting, and chocolate frosting
Chocolate shavings as toppings (milk and white)

4)  Minty Paradise

Milk Chocolate Cake
Cream cheese and mint icing
With an Ande’s mint to decorate

5) A buttered popcorn flavored cupcake with vanilla frosting and for a

topping white chocolate shavings and a buttered popcorn jelly bean.

6)Bananas Foster cupcake, with banana butter cream frosting.

7) Cherry Lime-aid cupcake-  A Lime cake with cherries baked inside Cherry lime (maybe make it pink) frosting and a cherry and lime on top

8) Sweet Potato-  A sweet potato cupcake with marshmallow butter cream and a candied pecan on top.

9) Peach Blackberry cobbler- A peach coffee cake with blackberry puree as a filling vanilla bean frosting and blackberry and peach on top.

10) Tiramisu Cupcake with a coffee soaked vanilla cake and a sweetened mascarpone cheese frosting.

11) Tangerine Stout- delicious batter with a splash of some really good vanilla stout ale.  

Topped with an awesome citrus Tangerine frosting!  

12) Easter Monkey

a banana flavored cake base with a solid Cadbury creme egg baked inside the cupcake and vanilla
icing with brown sprinkles on top

13) No Bake Cookie Cupcakes

Make no bake cookies into cupcakes and top with a sour cream chocolate frosting or even your peanut butter icing

14) Pomegranate and Champagne

Pomegranate cake with Champagne frosting

15) Captains Booty 

Captain Morgan cake and a delicious caramel/pecan frosting

16) Sunflower Cupcakes
Vanilla cake with a chocolate or raisin center and lemony yellow petals coming down from the center to the edge of the cupcake so there is a beautiful sunflower on the top of the cupcake.

  

17) Curry cupcakes with coconut icing then rolled in dry coconut flakes and a dried twist of mango on the top

18) Nana Pudding 

 Banana cake with pieces of vanilla wafers topped with a banana pudding frosting

19) Memphis King Banana cake with peanut butter chips and a peanut butter frosting and a banana slice (dried or fresh?) on top 

20) Banana Splits-  Banana cupcake with a strawberry baked in the middle. Vanilla bean frosting and a cherry and chocolate drizzle on top.

21) Pineapple- Pineapple cake with pineapple buttercream and toasted coconut on top.

22) Cherry Coke Float - Chocolate cake with a cherry baked in the middle with whipped vanilla bean frosting topped with a cherry and chocolate drizzle on top.

23) Blackberry Thyme Margaritas

Blackberry Margarita cake with a thyme and lime frosting.  Topped with a fresh blackberry

24) White Gummy Bear

Raspberry and  Lime cake with a peach frosting.  Topped with a White Gummy Bear.

Nautical Party

We had a special order today and she wanted something nautical.  Here's what I came up with: Chocolate Anchors on Strawberry White Chip cakes.

Purple Ribbons

We had a special order today for the Washington County 911 Cancer Survivor Fund Raiser.  So we made clouds with purple ribbons on top.

Life's a Beach

We had a special order for some cupcakes and she wanted them to be "beachy" Maybe some seashells and blue frosting.  So this is what I came up with!

Minions are taking over!

Tonight's Movie on Main is Despicable Me, so we decided to make minion cakes.  I think they turned out better then I had hoped!!

World Turtle Day

Today is World Turtle Day!  So we decided to make Turtle Cupcakes!!  We made Turtle Turtle which are Chocolate Cake with pecans, a caramel filling, chocolate frosting and a caramel drizzle.  Then we made Vanilla Turtles which are the same but they have a vanilla cake.

Dum Dum Dum.. {Wedding March}

Today we had another wedding.  We made 14+ dozen cupcakes.  We made Blueberry and Cream, Clouds, and Plain Janes.  Congrats to the Bride and Groom!!!

Create Your Own Cupcake Contest!!

What better way to kick off summer than with a contest.  So we are having a Create Your Own Cupcake Contest!!  Starting tomorrow {May 1st} and running through the end of May, we are accepting submissions of your Crazy Cupcake flavor.   The winner of the Create Your Own Cupcake contest will get to name their cupcake creation and have it added to the menu here at The Crazy Cupcake. {and maybe I'll give you a 6 pack of YOUR flavor for free!!}

So email me your flavor ideas at Crazy.Contest@hotmail.com.  At the end of May I will go through all the submissions and list them on the website.  Then you will have 2 weeks to get your friends and family to vote for your {or your favorite} flavor.  At the end of 2 weeks, I will take the top 6 and turn them into recipes.  For the following 3 weeks, each Saturday, I will bake 2 of the top 6 flavors and you can come in and sample them.  After the 3 weeks: You vote again for your absolute favorite!  And that flavor will get added to the menu.

Now remember when submitting your flavor to be as specific as possible.  For example: what flavor cake, is there a filling?, what type of frosting, what type of decoration or topping {fresh fruit, sprinkle, whatever}  You don't have to give me a recipe just a flavor {Here is an example: I want a chocolate cake with chocolate chip cookie dough pieces in it, vanilla frosting, and a baked mini chocolate chip cookie on top}.  Make sure your flavor combinations actually work well together and aren't gross {I might make you eat them!  LOL}  Also be sure to include your name and phone number or email address so I can contact you if I have any questions or to let you know you made the top 6 or won the contest.

Remember the wilder the better!!  We want Crazy Cupcakes not your average, run of the mill cupcakes.  During May, I might post some of the more crazy/interesting ones on Facebook to give you an idea or in case you need inspiration.  Good Luck and have fun!!!!!!!!!!!

Here comes the Bride

Here are photos from a wedding we did today.  They got married at Halo in Johnson City.  We did 8 dozen regulars and 8 dozen minis.  We did a combination Green Velvet with pink pearls, Double Chocolate with chocolate hearts, and Strawberry White Chip.  Congrats!!

Happy Sweet 16!!

Diane {who runs the Jonesborough Merchants Association: JAMSA} had us make cupcakes for her daughter's Sweet 16 party.  The party was held at The Old Quarters.  She got 100 regular and 100 mini Double chocolate cupcakes.  She was also the first person to use our new cupcake stand. The stand is made out of white MDF wood and is laminate coated so we can easily clean  it.  The cool part about the stand is that we can put ribbon around each tier so that it will be color coordinated for any party or event.

Happy Sweet 16!!!  Hope your party was a blast!!!!

Daytime Tri-Cities!!

Here is our 10 minute segment from when we were on the show today!!

Her Magazine in JC Press

In case you missed the article here is a scanned copy.  Enjoy!!

I'll Have What She's Having ~ The Crazy Cupcake

Winner Winner!!!

Here are the lucky winners of our Grand Opening Giveaway!   If you didn't win, don't be sad, we will do more giveaways soon.  A HUGE thanks to everyone who entered and to everyone who came down and checked out our shop during our Grand Opening!!! 

Our Grand Prize winner of cupcakes for a year is Marina K.!!!!

And the 10 winners of assorted cupcake packs are:

1     Debra L.

2     Shelby H.

3     Lauren F.

4     Melanie B.

5     Breelyn B.

6    Carol B.

7    Brooke B.

8    Jaclyn W.

9     Lisa J.

10   Breana N.

Congrats to all the winners and I will be in touch with you later today and you can come in starting Friday to pick up your prizes!!!!  Thanks Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Giveaway Form!!!!

Good luck to everyone who entered!! The winner will be announced 2/16

Grand Opening!!!!

We are Grand Opening Friday 2/11/11!!!  And to celebrate we are giving away cupcakes and cupcake prizes all weekend long!!!!!!!!!

Our grand prize winner will win....Cupcakes for a YEAR!!!!  The lucky winner will  win a dozen cupcakes a month for an entire year.  That's 12 dozen cupcakes.

We are also giving away 10 other cupcake prize packages.

So now that you want to win, how do you enter you ask??  Wednesday a form will be posted and all you have to do is fill it out.  Or if you came down to the shop you can fill it out in person.  You have from Wednesday until Sunday at 11:59 pm to enter either in person or on the form.  Good luck!!!

But I bet you will come down and see us in person right?? We'll have free samples and much more going on Saturday so you don't want to miss it!!!

Want an extra entry into the giveaway??  Follow us on Twitter {@thecrazycupcake} and like us on Facebook {The.Crazy.Cupcake.TN}.  Besides the giveaway, it's a good idea to follow us because I will post specials just for Twitter and Facebook fans.  So if you're not one, you'll miss out. :(

Pictures of the Shop

Here are some pictures of the shop.  It's a sneak peek for those of you who haven't been inside yet.

A Special Order..

Allison wanted to try a variety of our cupcakes so the logical choice was minis.

 The Grim Reaper Cupcakes.

 Smores Cupcakes w/ a mini chocolate covered marshmallow.

Vanilla Cake with a strawberry whipped cream.

Happy Birthday to me!!

Here is a picture of my birthday cupcakes!!

Happy Birthday O!!

 birthaA special order for O who turns 10 today!!  She loves the color purple so we added some sprinkles and instead of Red Velvet we made her Purple Velvet.  Hope she had an awesome party!!!!

 

Are you ready for some football??

Cupcakes that is.  As the playoffs wind down, we are getting closer to the Super Bowl.  Since I was born on Super Bowl Sunday, I love to watch the game and throw a big party!! These football cupcakes wold look great at your Super Bowl Party!!  We are taking pre-orders for them. And as soon as the teams are official, I will make some team cupcakes too.