Valentine's Day !

It's that time of the year again! Valentine's day is just a few days a way. Our team at Polkadots are excited to bake some yummy sweets for  your loved ones:) We are still taking delivery orders for Tuesday 02.14.12 anytime between 12PM-8PM for those who live in the Austin area. For those of you that like to schedule a pick up at our shop, please give us a call at 512.476.3687 or email us at info@polkadotscupcakefactory.com

We'll have an array of desserts selection beside our regular Tuesday cupcakes flavors. All cupcakes will come little pink/red heart sprinkles without any additional charge.


Below is the detailed pricing and desserts that we are going to have on 02.14.12:

Oreo Truffles covered with white chocolate on a stick $2 each

 Strawberry Cupcake is $2.75 each

Chocolate covered strawberries $2 each. One dz chocolate covered strawberry with Valentine bow $24. .

 Red velvet mini cake for 2 $10

 Mini cake comes with pink/red bow in a 4" x  4"x 4" box.

Assorted cookies wrap individually or unwrapped $3.50 each. We do get pretty hectic on Valentine's day. We recommend that you order ahead of time so that you get what you want :)

Valentine's Day is here finally!

Get ready this is a long......post!

I want to thank you to all of you for the support to Polkadots. I can't believe this is our 2nd Valentines Day. All I can say, we survived the rush, cakes, cupcakes, and cookies for Valentines! Last year, we had 3 employees that was definitely a crazy working week. This year we have a total of 10 employees! I am very thankful for their talent and help! I can't say enough thank you for them, especially my husband.

Yeah, he drive me nuts, made me cry, and ehhh... a little laugh! J/K Want to know him? Lets see..  here is the beginning of our love story. I graduated from UT in  Dec 2002.  I decided that I am going to move to LA with my cousin to get MBA. One night I watched Food TV, and there you go Le Gordon Blue California School of Culinary Arts on TV. I am set!! I am going to cooking school,.... yeah... late night TV change my life. I am going to the big city no more going back.

So.. before I moved out to to LA, my girl friend Angie, invited me to boat party in Lake Travis Summer 2003. We were late to the dock, the boat already took off. We kept waiving and yelled "Come back!!! come back!!!"  Don't leave us!! Of course they feel bad enough (hahaha) they came back and get us! We met lots of new friends and Ben was one of them. The rest is history!

I can't believe it's almost 7 years ago. Ben and I are totally opposite. I was born 9/17, Ben's 7/19, his mom's name is June, my mom's is June, too. My dad's name is Ben, and my husband Ben!

So Ben, I know I drive you nuts or you drive me nuts!! I just want too say, I love you! I wouldn't be here with out you. I think that's enough rambling... about us! Happy Valentines too all of you!

Photo courtesy of Life Mosaic. I am telling you if you are getting marry this year, Brian and Mimi Tsai are the best!

Here are a few custom order that we made for this week:

Valentines Week

It's six days left before Valentine’s Day what wouldn’t be better to give that special someone with our delicious cakes, cupcakes, cookie with a love message…

On Sunday 2/14/10,  our special cupcakes menu are the following:

Red Velvet
Strawberry Shortcake

Blackbottom cake

Honey and Chai

Triple Chocolate

Vanilla Chocolate Chip 

Vanilla Vanilla

Chocolate Peanut Butter

Chocolate Vanilla

Chocolate Caramel

Chocolate Strawberry
Chocolate Mint

Each cupcake is $2.75 except for red velvet $2.50 each, every 11th you get the 12th one free.

Here are some of my favorites!

Additional fondant topper is $.50 extra per cupcake, all cupcakes will have lots of hearts sprinkles!

 

Each cookie is $3.50, it will be wrapped individually in cellophane bag like the following:

We also have vintage valentine sugar cookie, each is $4. Here is a few example:

Please give us a call 512-476-3687, we have limited space for delivery slots. We'll deliver these sweets to your loved ones.

Happy Superbowl

All I can say is what a thrilling week. It's a week a way from Valentine's weekend. Let's see how we survive, with custom cakes, cookies, cupcakes, and Yes!!!! weddings... I am already excited. 

Before the feast begin this afternoon, check out our latest cake from this past weekend. The newest 3D cake from our kitchen, clutch birthday cake. Let me tell you, it's a 6 layers devils food chocolate cake with peanut butter, yummmm!

The most requested (available with 24 hr notification) - SMASH Cupcakes:

 

Spider Man birthday cake (6" a four layers Italian Cream cake):

 

Train theme birthday cake for Lola:

 

Sock Monkey baby shower:

Polkadots signature baby shower cake with the custom figurine pregnant lady:

 

 Vintage 60th birthday Party:

 

Fun cookies for a 4 years old birthday party, some pink dresses for the girls and blue antique cars for the boys.

Cupcake theme party, a giant cupcake cake and matching "cherry" cupcakes:

I can't believe Sunday went by so fast, the end of the week approaching less then 6 days! It's going to be very challenging. I will survive.. I will survive. Hope everyone have a great week! 

Goodbye January !

What a busy day! Our phone has been ringing all day. It's a good sign, right? This weekend is Superbowl. We made a few Superbowl sugar cookies. Here is a snap shot before I left the shop tonight:

We are getting ready for Valentines next week. We made a few Valentines sugar cookies today.This year we are doing "sweetheart" cookies, vintage theme hearts, and of course cupcakes sugar cookies.

I could not resist to make this "vintage" stamp valentine cookies, these vintage pictures are just too cute to pass on. Call us soon and pre-order your cupcakes and cookies, we'll customize it just the way you like it !

Here is a sneak peak for Sam's 60th Birthday party this weekend! 

Not to forget some fun cakes from the past weekend:

My favorite was the "Double Dave" combination pizza! Look at those peperoni, you can see the marble-ing effects!

 

We also made a "Skate" birthday party:

 

A small 6" cake for ladies luncheon's:

 

A firefighter birthday cake included "SNOOPY" the birthday boy Dalmatian:

 

I am pretty exhausted! I can't believe Valentine's day is almost here. Don't forget to pre-order cookies, cupcakes, and cakes for the special day! Here is the link to our Valentines Day menu. Good night!

Welcome back Longhorns and get ready for Valentines!

Happy Monday all! We are back in Austin after much needed winter break for three weeks. My husband and I got a chance to visit our family in Indonesia for Christmas and New Year. We survived our first week of work! trying to catch up on emails and phone calls. 

So,.....here are few cakes from last week. One of my favorite is the Harry Potter Birthday Cake - just like Uncle Vernon says "There's no such things as magic."

Yes, we do magic at Polkadots!

It was a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. Yum!

Two bachelorette cakes, both were requested with hot pink and black accent. Alli's cake was a red velvet with cream cheese buttercream. "Future Mrs. Shoemaker" was a blackbottom cake with cream cheese buttercream.

A Ming Ming Birthday Cake for Tory - It's a strawberry shortcake, vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream.  Ming ming duck was of course edible! 

A Longhorn cake - a 6" round blackbottom cake:

And don't forget Valentines Day is coming up. We are taking order for the Sweet day! remember the sooner the better, our calendar is filled up fast, especially for delivery! Here is a few Valentines' ideas for your love ones.
Hope everyone have a great week ahead, and don't forget this Wednesday 01/27/10  we will be at Texas Exes Alumni Center. We have lots of giveaways! Welcome back Longhorns!!
 

Holiday Newsletter and Coupon Savings!

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Email: info@polkadotscupcakefactory.com

Now taking orders for holiday parties!
Can't believe holidays are almost here! They always sneak up so fast! Let us take care of your holiday sweet needs. Our little elves are ready to bake cupcakes, decorate your holiday cakes and cookies.  Sugar or gingerbread cookies are available to order in different shapes - candy cane, Christmas tree, toy soldier, little elves, angels, gingerbread man , Santa stockings, snowflakes, and so much more. A cupcake tower made to look like a Christmas tree with colorful ornament cupcakes. You will have a complete winter wonderland table party for your season's celebrations. We also deliver and set up for you so you can check dessert off of your to-do list completely!

Our holiday cupcake flavors are Honey and Spice, Bourbon Eggnog, Pumpkin, Gingerbread, and Chocolate Candy Cane. We will make sure that you have the sweetest holiday party.
We will be closed for our winter Holiday December 25, 2009 to January 13, 2009

Honey and Chai
Our newest flavor for this fall - Honey and Chai. We start with local Texas “Borden” buttermilk, honey, organic chai tea, organic all spice, ginger, and cinnamon cake. Topped with fluffy cream cheese buttercream and dusted with cinnamon sugar. This cupcakes has the richest, creamiest cinnamon buttercream you have ever tasted! Available every Friday and Saturday.

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Print this page and bring in your friend, buy one cupcake the second cupcake is half price. Please limit one per guest per day. Happy Holidays and we hope to see you soon!

Custom Cakes and Cookies Thanksgiving 2009

I have been wanting to update our blog, but I have to wait until this weekend. Finally, I have some room to breathe in! This week at the shop, we did lots of teddy bear cookies and cupcakes favor for Hope's Baptism. All completed with the monogram initial "HDN." Here is the before and after pictures:

All cookies were sugar cookies and I designed it to match Hope's Baptism outfit! too cute!!!

We also did a bridal shower cake with fall theme. It's a two tier cake, an 8" blackbottom cake and 6" vanilla with vanilla buttercream soaked with simple syrup. We covered both cakes with fondant and finished decorating them with rolled chocolate fondant, fall maple leaves, branches, and rice krispies "two love bird" figurines on the top. I was so nervous since this cake was going to be pick up for party in Houston,  and thankfully it arrived in one piece at our client! Thanks very much Mr. Gibbs!

We finished the cake with some acorns, "bark" drawing, and heart wood carving on the side of the cake with the bride and grooms' initials.

The next cake is a 40 years anniversary theme. I love making one of a kind cake for our client, especially when they come in with some theme that I haven't done. This cake was for our client's parents 40 year anniversary celebration this week. She wanted a cake that includes "ruby" something red, yellow, gardening theme, and this what I came up with! A four layer red velvet cake with cream cheese buttercream, decorated with sunflowers all over, "Still going strong" sign -Yeah! not very many people married for this long this days;), a dad holding a ruby ring and a mom figurine, and lots of vegetables!

The next cake is a baby shower cake for "Steger." What a perfect cake! since it's in Austin, our client wanted to corporate Texas theme. The cake completed with cowboy belt, bandana, black and white cow prints, and belt.

Congratulations for Steger's parents. They have been trying for 10 years. Oh.. joy! Hope everyone had a great weekend spending time with family! Happy Thanksgiving.