Holiday Bazaar and Gluten Free

There's nothing more exciting than the holidays, right? Well maybe a new venture is just as exciting. I'm happy to announce that the Rome Catholic School Christmas Bazaar is coming back this year, and yours truly has reserved a vendor booth for cupcakes and treats!! I am very excited for the new business opportunity this has given me, and can't wait to impress the locals so I can expand!

And speaking of expansion...I've been doing my research, and since Gluten-Free diets have become so common, Kate's Cakes plans to offer new gluten free cupcakes and treats within the next few months!

Don't forget - celebrate today with a cupcake!

Special Orders

Have a special request to make? Give us a call or send us an e-mail. You never know what we might come up with next.

Most recent special order...Spiderman Cupcakes!

The First Cupcakes of Fall & Learning from Failure

Who's been looking forward to seeing the Fall-Inspired cupcakes of the 2012 Fall Cupcake Challenge? Don't lie - I know you want a sneak peek of some of my kitchen's most recent creations!

The Apple Cider Cupcakes...

A delicious cinnamon-apple flavored cake, with the moisture and flavor of apple cider that bursts in your mouth, and a wonderful caramel glaze to top this perfect fall treat! (Ok, I will admit that the caramel glaze was supposed to be a frosting, but it didn't form into anything "frosting-like" and I had to settle for the glaze, which, I was told "is a keeper," but I still believe needs a little work. Maybe we'll have a glaze versus frosting taste off to decide what the best topping would be for this cake)

The cake most of you only dreamt about...

You've got that right! That is a delicious red candy atop some apple filled mini-cupcakes. Your favorite fall treat from childhood just became a cupcake - ON A STICK! 

Now, the cake featured in this picture wasn't the best choice for the beautiful candy topping, but with new recipes comes new experiences and definitely learning opportunities. The good news - candy topping on a cupcake may be the new wave of the future - as long as you pick the right cake flavor.

This fall has been a bounty of learning opportunities for Kate's Cakes. From the formation of frosting, to the sinking of a candy topping if you regret to put your cupcakes in the refrigerator overnight, I have learned many things to continue bringing high quality product to my friends and customers. Admitting defeat is the first opportunity to learn and grow from it - and I admit, my first two cupcakes of the challenge were not my best, but there's 18 more flavors to come! 

Two Full-Time Jobs

Keeping up with cupcaking and having a full-time job is like trying to work two full-time jobs - let the exhaustion commence! In stressing over the 2012 Fall Cupcake Challenge, I have managed to bake only 2 of 20 flavors, and then got a wonderful head cold the Friday before a three-day weekend opportunity to bake. In the hopes that the cupcake challenge will not become a cupcake fail, I have been baking cupcakes in my sleep. I guess that doesn't count, since no one will get to try them though.

It is now that I vow to stop being lazy about my cupcake challenge, and about trying new flavors and new recipes for cupcakes. Well, "now" being the moment that this cold stops getting worse and starts getting better, because no one wants to taste cupcakes when a girl is offering them while snot is pouring out of her nose. Truth? Truth.

To defeating discouragement!