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 Chicago food truck Flirty Cupcakes shut down by local police, now back up and running

From The Wall Street Journal (via Hit & Run), which covers Flirty Cupcakes and other Chicago food trucks being shut down temporarily:

Chicago's rules are for health and sanitary reasons. The City Council is currently considering some changes in food-truck laws. Brick-and-mortar restaurants are fighting the mobile insurgency, chasing trucks from their street fronts, calling police and snapping photos of the vendors in hopes of catching them illegally parked.

Holly Sjo, owner of The Cupcake Counter, a year-old downtown shop, called the cops when she spotted Ms. Kurtz parked near her business in a spot she believed to be illegal.

"She seems to only park next to other people's cupcake shops," Ms. Sjo says.

Ms. Kurtz denies the accusation. "I would never want to do that to another cupcake business," she says.

The food truck concept is "a quaint idea," says Dan Rosenthal, owner of Sopraffina Marketcaffe, a chain of Italian restaurants in Chicago. "But when you get right down to it, it creates an unlevel playing field."

A food-truck operation can get off the ground for under $150,000, while many restaurants spend more than $1 million on real estate and equipment to open their doors.

"It's an elitist thing," says food-trucker Mr. Maroni. "Just step up your game," he says. "McDonald's doesn't ask Burger King if they can open up across the street."

From Flirty Cupcakes on Facebook, today's schedule:

AON Building - Stetson Side 11:30-12:45
Monroe/Dearborn - 1:15-2:30
State/Lake 3:00-4:00
Adams/Wacker 4:30-5:45

You can also follow @flirtycupcakes on Twitter for the latest news.

Some of their fall cupcakes, also via Facebook:


"Great Pumpkin Patch" - A brown butter pumpkin cupcake snuggled in a maple pecan frosting...good grief, there really is a "great pumpkin"


"Cinnahoneystreusel"..yep like Bradgalina, this cinnamon spice cupcake is swirled with a cinnamon, honey cream cheese frosting and topped off with a cinnamon streusel crumble...a partnership made in heaven!


"S'more Me Over" - A moist chocolate cupcake, layered with a graham cracker bottom and a melt in your mouth marshmallow frosting...you may find yourself belting out Kumbaya is if you were by the campfire!

And even though Halloween is over, I wanted to share this spider cupcake, because it made me smile:

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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 Street Legal Cupcake Car

Stay-at-home dad Don Rutledge of Oak Park, IL has built the ultimate machine: A completely street-legal cupcake car.

 

He got the idea from Burning Man Festival, where a troop of cupcake and muffin cars first took to the road a few years ago. With the help of some friendly cupcake car veterans, he bought a kid's bike for $5 at a garage sale and chopped it up, welded together a support seat, added electrical components including a few 12 volt batteries and constructed the body out of aluminum and other insulation materials. It tops out around 25 MPH. In his spare time, it took him about 2 months to build it and he is really enjoying the attention from his neighbors and friends when he rides around in the giant mobile pink cupcake. The only thing he's afraid of is other people causing accidents while trying to snap a picture of it. The other interesting thing is the police say this car is okay to take out on the roads. People in Chicago have already started asking Rutledge how much it would cost to get their own cupcake cars. I don't know how these would fare on Chicago streets with all the potholes and all, but I could definitely see these riding around town in nice weather.

Check out these pics and this sweet video of Rutledge (courtesy of WGN TV) tooling around in the super cute cupcake car:

 

valentine's day DaisyCakes mobile cupcakery rasies $20,685 on Kickstarter

Durham, North Carolina is going to get a new mobile Cupcakery named DaisyCakes, thanks to their recent Kickstarter campaign that raised $20,865. For those bakeries or budding bakeries looking to raise money using Kickstarter, check out what they've done as a positive example of garnering community support.

They write:

Thank you so much. You generously pledged from our first day, to around four o'clock today and even as you read this. This substantial effort has brought our project TO ITS GOAL!!!
Thank you for reaffirming the fact that we can never give up on something that we believe in.

DaisyCakes will become a bakery and we'll keep you posted every step of the way.
One of our first goals will be to organize the schedule for the fulfillment of the rewards for your pledges. We will be contacting you, by your reward level, in the next couple of weeks to outline everything.
We've been in the process of locating and negotiating for our kitchen equipment. We are also still vigorously vetting the potential spaces for our Bakery & Cafe.

Wow, indeed. We hope the day comes soon that we can personally thank each of you for making this project a success. This will be a solid foundation for our continued growth.

Forever gratefully indebted,

The CakeFamily

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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