milestones!

Clever Cupcakes Birthday Box
Originally uploaded by clevercupcakes (on vacation!)

in honour of the one year anniversary of the launch of http://www.clevercupcakes.com i thought it only appropriate to post one of this week's many birthday boxes!

i was impressed when last week an order came in all the way from london, england until a few days later a woman in kenya ordered these chocolate orange cupcakes with chocolate buttercream for her daughter's 21st birthday.

these cupcakes were also the last dozen to be baked before the start of my well earned one week vacation. clever cupcakes will officially be closed from june 1-9, 2008.

daycare appreciation cupcakes

Daycare Appreciation Cupcakes
Originally uploaded by clevercupcakes

after receiving orders for teacher appreciation cupcakes for high schools and elementary schools, this time the challenge was to come up with designs for cupcakes to thank workers at a local daycare for all their hard work. what did we come up with you ask? how about apples, ABC blocks, little hand prints, and the cutest handmade fondant crayons you have ever seen! the crayons turned out so well i had to assure everyone at the daycare that they were in fact edible. the cupcakes were each individually packaged in plastic containers topped with bundles of primary coloured ribbons. the cuteness factor was through the roof on this order! now the only teachers we have yet been asked to thank are university professors...

beijing 2008 olympic cupcakes

Beijing 2008 Olympic Cupcake
Originally uploaded by clevercupcakes

more info to come this june...

first birthday cupcakes

First Birthday Cupcake
Originally uploaded by clevercupcakes

life is full of firsts many of which occur during the first year of life. what better way to celebrate a first birthday than with cupcakes? for khai's first birthday his mom ordered chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with coconut and blueberry buttercream frostings, yum! one special cupcake was decorated just for the birthday boy. i think khai's mom's words sum it up best:

Thank you very much..
The cupcakes were great.
The concept of cupcakes is wise.
The kids had fun.

spiderman cupcakes

Spiderman Cupcake Box
Originally uploaded by clevercupcakes

of course the boys got their say as well! for the "head start" program's graduation party the boys chose spiderman cupcakes.

dora the explorer cupcakes

Dora the Explorer Cupcake Box
Originally uploaded by clevercupcakes

a big achievement of some local pre-kindergarten kids was celebrated last week with clever cupcakes. when the call to make cupcakes for the "head start" program's graduation party was received many cupcake designs were suggested including crayons, graduation caps, and finger painted hand prints. however, it seems even at 4 years old kids know what they want! the girls in the class almost unanimously asked for dora the explorer cupcakes, and that is what they got.

let's not forgot the classic cupcakes!

i received a very nice thank you recently from a client who ordered some classic cupackes for a wedding shower:

I just wanted to write you a note to let you know how delicious your cupcakes were, they were a big hit at the wedding shower. We really wanted to do cupcakes for the event, but were on a budget and were really impressed by your price. They were honestly fresher and better tasting then any of your competitors that we tried and the service was awesome! Thank you!

this e-mail made me realize that in focusing on our creative cupcakes i feel like i have been neglecting our delicious classic cupcakes. fact is, it has been so busy lately there just isn't enough time to take pictures of all our orders before they go out the door! below are some photos from recent weeks of some of our classic cupcakes that were lucky enough to get their portraits taken.