Cupcake Biz

Things have been rocking in terms of cupcake baking. In the last month, I've had several customers...the kind who pay me! I decided yesterday, though, that I should do a little more research on ingredients and the money I'm spending to see if I can actually turn a profit. I'm still working on that. My life revolves around words/letters, not numbers, so these types of real-world math problems take me days to solve. Not necessarily because I can't figure it out but because it brings back bad middle-school-math memories, and I feel like I'm getting a case of the hives.

I looked into a couple of other cupcake places, and it seems that $30/dozen is a trend. That seems high to me, but maybe that's just because I would never pay that much for cupcakes. I carried on about this yesterday, and Will reminded me that it's because I actually know how to/enjoy making cupcakes. If I didn't, I might drop $30/dozen. Hmmm. What do you think?


Here are a couple of the latest cakes:

Banana Split Cupcakes using this recipe.




Here's a rainbow cake.




These have been all over the blogosphere lately it seems. All you do is divide up some light-colored batter into separate bowls and add food coloring. Then, layer the colors in each cupcake cup. On the interweb, the colors look perfectly layered. I used a gel color rather than liquid. This could be why mine did not turn out in the layered fashion but instead with more of a tie-dyed effect. My colors were pink, yellow, green, blue, and purple. That's all I had and as close to ROYGBIV as I gould get. I used the same banana cupcake recipe from above, minus the fillings. They tasted great, and if you are around the age of six, you'd probably be impressed.