cookiesinheaven

Announces several of the food vendors going into their downtown digs.



Enjoy Cupcakes 
Offering sumptuous sweet treats, artfully presented and lovingly prepared. This family-owned business with its current location in Los Olivos boasts items such as Ginger Lime Chardonnay cake and Chocolate Salted Pecan pie. 

Flagstone Pantry 
Chef-owner Kristen Desmond and her team prepare “Honest to Goodness Food." Flagstone Pantry personally sources, selects and prepares fresh food on a small scale, with a focus on wholesome, natural and seasonal ingredients. 

The Pasta Shoppe 
Pride & Passion are an Italian tradition. The team at The Pasta Shoppe proudly looks forward to serving you delicious, unique and affordable fresh made pasta and accompaniments for complete meals to enjoy on site or in the comfort of your home. 

Foragers Pantry 
The Forager has some culinary gems for everyone. From artisanal dinnerware to organic produce to eco-friendly cleansers to a gallon of milk, the Foragers Pantry will have you covered.

Labels: Alma del Pueblo, cupcakes, pasta, Public Market, Santa Barbara

Cupcakes are a girl's best friend, a photo by santa barbarian on Flickr.

Labels: Camp Cupcake, cupcakes, Flickr, Santa Barbara

Labels: bakery, cupcakes, KTLA, Montecito, Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara, stores, YouTube

From their Etsy site:
"What are your cupcakes missing? An adorable cupcake wrapper to make your cupcakes pop! My mission is to make every wedding, birthday party, and holiday more special and unique with my elegant cupcake wrappers. These wrappers look fabulous in photographs, and will give your event that wow factor. Your guests will be raving!"

They even whip up some cupcakes to go with these fun wrappers.
Some of the flavors of cupcakes offered up:

• Bailey's Irish Cream Cheesecake
• Boston Creme Pie
• Carrot Cake
• Chocolate Syrah
• Coconut-Pineapple
• Cookies n' Cream
• Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter
• Double Chocolate Chip
• Ginger with Cream Cheese Frosting
• Green Tea
• Hazelnut Chocolate Chip with Chocolate Buttercream
• Key-Lime Pie
• Lemon Cream
• Lemon Cheesecake
• Mint Chocolate Chip
• Pink Champagne with Champagne Buttercream Frosting
• Pumpkin Cheesecake
• Orange Kahlua
• Red Velvet
• Salted Caramel Cheesecake
• Tiramisu Cupcakes
• Vanilla Rainbow Sprinkle
• White Chocolate Raspberry

Labels: Art, cupcakes, design, Etsy, Santa Barbara

Labels: Art, Cakespy, contests, Cooking contests, cupcakes, fundraising

Labels: bakery, cupcakes, openings, Santa Barbara

Labels: bakery, cupcakes, Desserts, frosting, lemonade

Hope it's "Egg-ceptional!"

Labels: cupcakes, Flickr, Holidays

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Rumour has it that Belle Dolce Bakery will FINALLY open the doors to a retail store soon in the Arlington Court. (Just 1/2 block away from Crushcakes Cupcakes.)

And, although Eileen does sublimely delicious cupcakes, she does so much more....

Bella Dolce is a Santa Barbara catering company specializing in beautiful cookies, petite sweets, luscious cupcakes and exquisite wedding cakes.

Bella Dolce was established in 1997 by Pastry Chef Eileen Randall Cook.

....Eileen left Santa Barbara for the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and a pastry internship at Campton Place Hotel. She graduated from the CCA Chef Program in 1989. She then moved to Los Angeles where she mastered breakfast pastry at the Hotel Bel Air, did food styling for print and film, catering for the stars, taught cooking classes and managed the cooking school at Montana Mercantile in Santa Monica.

Since returning to Santa Barbara in 1992 Eileen was the pastry chef at Brigitte’s (now Opal) and Executive Pastry Chef at the Wine Cask. There she was responsible for the design and production of desserts for the Wine Cask Restaurant and catering company, The University Club and Polo Club.

Labels: bakery, cakes, cupcakes, Santa Barbara

Sweet Buttercup is a web-based cupcakery that specializes in custom gourmet cupcakes and cookies. We use premium ingredients such as cocoa from France, Belgium chocolate, and Madagascar-bourbon vanilla. We take great care to provide a product that tastes as delicious as it looks. All of our product is scratch-baked and decorated to match any event or theme.

Labels: cupcakes, Food Events, Santa Barbara

picked up a cupcake and their new bumper sticker...

"MAKE CUPCAKES NOT WAR!"

Gotta love it!

Labels: bakery, bumper sticker, cupcakes, peace, Santa Barbara

The Milford bakery that riffed on a fruitless search for Jimmy Hoffa is now tackling the text message scandal involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty, his former chief of staff.

Cookies shaped like cell phones and decorated with text messages saying "Busted" and "I'm sorry" went on sale for $1.75 Thursday at the Milford Baking Co., said owner Laura Hedwig.

"We wanted to have some fun with it," she said.

...In Milford, Hedwig sold thousands of cupcakes with green hands poking out of chocolate frosting in 2006 when the FBI was searching for Hoffa's remains on a horse farm in the community. - FreePress

Labels: bakery, cupcakes, marketing, politics

Labels: cupcakes, Santa Barbara

Bella Dolce is a Santa Barbara catering company specializing in beautiful cookies, petite sweets, luscious cupcakes and exquisite wedding cakes.

....Pastry Chef Eileen Randall Cook was raised in Santa Barbara and realized at an early age that if someone would pay you money to make cookies when you grew up, that was the thing to do.

Eileen left Santa Barbara for the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and a pastry internship at Campton Place Hotel. She graduated from the CCA Chef Program in 1989. She then moved to Los Angeles where she mastered breakfast pastry at the Hotel Bel Air, did food styling for print and film, catering for the stars, taught cooking classes and managed the cooking school at Montana Mercantile in Santa Monica.

Since returning to Santa Barbara in 1992 Eileen was the pastry chef at Brigitte’s (now Opal) and Executive Pastry Chef at the Wine Cask. There she was responsible for the design and production of desserts for the Wine Cask Restaurant and catering company, The University Club and Polo Club. - Bella Dolce's website

Labels: cupcakes, Santa Barbara

Crushcakes Cupcakery was a dream realized by Shannon Feld. Shannon previously originated and operated Bitterman’s Deli. One of her favorite memories from that experience was all the happiness she brought to her loyal customers through her passion for food and award winning customer service.

Since leaving Bitterman's, Shannon has greatly missed the energy and excitement of sharing her love for food with Santa Barbara. For as long as she can remember, Shannon has been in search of the perfect dessert. While others enter into a restaurant looking for the ideal wine pairing for their meal, Shannon instead asks first for the dessert list. To Shannon, the ultimate satisfaction can only be found in that decadent final course. To satisfy her own cravings, Shannon has created an amazing dessert in her scratch made cupcakes and she is excited to share them with Santa Barbara at Crushcakes Cupcakery.

• peace cake - make cupcakes not war with this cool vanilla bean cake topped with wild tie-dye frosting and a chocolate peace sign
• crushcake - our signature red velvet cake topped with a chocolate heart dipped into sour cream frosting
• bananas foster- crushed banana cake topped with vanilla frosting and rum caramel swirls
• raspberry kir royale - juicy raspberry cake topped with bubbly champagne frosting

Labels: cupcakes, Santa Barbara

Fancy Flours is a unique baking supply store specializing in high quality, difficult to find ingredients and delightful, edible sugar decorations. We offer over 800 collector's copper and easy-to-use tin cookie cutters, 100 different types of hard-to-find oils, extracts and flavorings, premium vanillas, muffin cups in every color you could ever dream of, more then 500 sugar whimsies, professional grade baking pans in every size and shape and much, much more!

Labels: baking supplies, catalogs, cupcakes