valentine's day Colorado Springs gets a cupcake truck

From News First 5:

Colorado Springs has its share of taco trucks, but the newest food truck in town is serving up some sweet delights, cupcakes, with a little help from Facebook.

The Springs Cupcake Truck's owners, Mike Bergman and Pat Kennelly, use the social networking site to tell people where they're going to be. They also ask their fans before they go out, where they should park.

Recently they also held a contest to name The Springs Cupcake Truck on their Facebook page; the winning name, CoCo.

The cupcakes are made by Cake Crumbs Bakery in Denver, owned by Mike and Pat's Niece. The bakery makes them special to survive delivery to the Springs, "They're dipped and decorated so they don't fall apart during the rickety ride over here," explains Mike.

Some of their flavors include:

Zippy Lemon

Lemon cake filled with fresh lemon curd and topped with cream cheese frosting and sparkling sugar

Mile-Hi Mocha

Decadent mocha cake with an espresso butter cream and toffee topping

Pikes Peak Pistachio

Nutty pistachio cake topped with amaretto butter cream, chocolate chips and crushed pistachios

Rockin’ Red Velvet

Southern red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting and sparkling sugar

Colorado Snowball

Almond flavored cake covered with rich chocolate and coconut

Carrot

Sweet carrot cake topped with cream cheese frosting and tangy dried cranberries

You can find them on their website or Facebook and reach them at 719-466-1911 for private events.

valentine's day Rachel in Bay Area and Los Angeles next week

I'll be in the Bay Area (for all of two days, January 27-28), and then in Los Angeles January 29-February 1st. Looking forward to meeting as many cupcake bakeries and eating as many cupcakes as I can. To arrange a meeting, email me at cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com - so far I have plans to visit Cupkates cupcake truck in Oakland on Thursday, and am also going to be tasting and reviewing the frozen yogurt cupcakes (frocakes) by Los Angeles' Half Baked Co. I'll probably be back in both places at some point, but if you have any tips, let me know. I'm hoping to meet up with Kimmie again, who drove down from the Bay Area to go to CupcakeCamp LA, again, so we can compare cupcake notes.

valentine's day See you at our CupcakeStop meetup today!

Reminder: our January cupcake meetup is at the newly-opened CupcakeStop, already a well-established and popular cupcake truck, storefront at 70 Greenwich Avenue in the West Village in Manhattan today at 2! See you there! You can join our 1,700-member strong cupcake meetup by clicking there. Funnily enough, I just saw an ad for Meetup on the subway. We prefer you to RSVP but if you're reading this now, feel free to show up!

January 9, 2 pm
CupcakeStop
70 Greenwich Avenue
New York, NY

Have you stopped at the Cupcake Stop truck or gone by the location at The Limelight Marketplace?! Now there is a Cupcake Stop shop in the Village (70 Greenwich Avenue) which just opened in December. We're going there this Sunday afternoon to eat cupcakes. The first dozen for the group will be paid by Cupcakes Take The Cake; please bring cash/credit/debit card to pay for additional cupcakes and or beverages.

See owner Lev Ekster's recent guest blog at Zagat:

While the new store carries new challenges, I’ve already started enjoying the many benefits. In a brick-and-mortar location, only one employee on duty needs to have the food handling certification, and since I’ve been practically living in the store since we’ve opened, I’ve had that requirement covered. Many of my new employees here already have this certification, but I’ve also been able to hire and train those who don’t, and they’re able to begin work for me while getting certified concurrently. I think this distinction between the mobile food truck and brick-and-mortar licensing requirement has allowed me to bring on an exceptional staff.

Having a brick-and-mortar location also makes business a lot less contingent on weather. During the blizzard we experienced at the end of December 2010, we were unable to bring out our cupcake truck but had a steady day of business at 70 Greenwich. I also assume that in the summer when the temperatures outside get into the 90s, the cupcakes will be a lot easier to maintain in the brick-and-mortar location as compared to on the cupcake truck.

valentine's day Denver Cupcake Truck faces off with city

From Mobile Food News:

It’s a cupcake conundrum that has clearly confused a pair of Denver small business owners, and the 8,000 plus Facebook fans of the Denver Cupcake Trucks aren’t happy about it.

“They’re locked away right now,” Denon Moore explained.

The two trucks, one nicknamed Clyde and the other named Clementine, are apparently personas non grata in the City of Denver says Moore and her husband Sean.

“We were hassled weekly by a city inspector and told us we weren’t allowed to be parked downtown,” Denon Moore said.

And some photos from the Facebook page of the Denver Cupcake Truck, where you can also keep up with where they are each day. Yesterday they were at Bike Cafe.




carrot cake cupcake


Mile-Hi Mocha cupcake with heath bar bits on top


pretty red velvet cupcake

valentine's day Cupcake truck The Cupcake Brake to open storefront bakery January 5th in Vernon, Connecticut

Tomorrow cupcake truck The Cupcake Brake opens in Westford, Connecticut at 101 West Street, 11-7, where they'll have cupcakes, pies, cookies and cinnamon buns. You can follow them on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news.

Their menu is interesting - brown sugar frosting, white chocolate cream cheese frosting, fillings like marshmallow, peanut butter and Boston creme and:

* Plain Twain (Served Mondays & Fridays)
Our classic vanilla cake
* Coconut Calhoun (Fri)
* Mohegan Mocha (Thurs)
Our coffee cupcake
* Charter Oak Chocolate (Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri)
* The Capitol (Wed)
Vanilla cake with pecans, pineapple, & banana
* Vernon Velvet (Tues)
Our red velvet cake
* Hale Hostess (Fri)
Chocolate cake w/ marshmallow filling & chocolate ganache frosting
* Mystic Marble (Tues)
* Colony Carrot (Thurs)
* Yankee Lemon (Wed)

valentine's day "This way to cupcakes" says the cupcake bus

The back of the Bettie's Cupcakes cupcake bus - follow them on Facebook for specials!



And these were bridal shower cupcakes on colors to match the bridesmaids' dresses!

valentine's day More Cupcakes on the Road

In case you haven't heard, More Cupcakes in Chicago recently put its first cupcake truck on the road in late October. In the first few days, they were giving away free cupcakes galore. They are normally on the road a few days during the week and they hit all the city's hot spots. Part of the joy of the cupcake truck is in not knowing exactly where and when it might show up. Sort of like a quiet Ice Cream Man of cupcakes with the silent song of Twitter.

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I was able to try the luscious Cookies & Cream Cupcake along with the Coconut Cupcake straight from the truck. One of the features of this van is that there is a lighted display case right on the side of it. How do they get the cupcakes to stay in place while in motion?! It's a mystery.

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Follow @themoremobile to find out where they will be next!

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