We're Engaged!

This week we had the pleasure of making cookies for an engagement party! The cookies display the proposal and are our signature sugar cookies. These cookies are perfect for any engagement event and we would be delighted to make them for you! All you have to do is come down to Polkadots and customize your order with our team. We can help you celebrate your big news by providing a delicious and adorable treat that you and all of your friends can enjoy.

November Flavor of the Month!

It's November! Now that we are into a new month, Polkadots has a new flavor for everyone! Our latest flavor of the month is....unnamed! We are currently having a contest on our Facebook page to see who can give us the perfect name! The contest is going on until tomorrow November 9, 2012 . You can go on and click on the picture of the new cupcake and give us your suggestion! But for now, it is simply a delicious cupcake that you can come in and try every Thursday and Friday. It is a pumpkin cake with a spiced mousse, topped with an amazing coffee buttercream and salted caramel. It is the perfect treat for fall and the Thanksgiving season! So come on down and see us to taste it for yourself, and you will definitely enjoy the last few days of the week when you eat this tasty treat! This cupcake is an excellent continuation of our fall theme and the bold flavors will really make your taste buds be filled with joy....

Baby Shower!

Planning for a baby shower??? If so, we have the perfect cake for you! This week we had the privilege of creating two beautiful baby shower cakes featuring an adorable onesie and a cute blue whale. Both cakes were custom ordered and you can have one too! Order one week in advance and we can work with you to create a masterpiece that will be the cherry on top of your celebration. The cake can be simple or intricate, whatever you want to make your party perfect! We promise to make your little one an amazing cake for their shower!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday everyone! This week we have had several wonderful children celebrate their birthdays and we were thrilled to make birthday cakes for them. As always, we were happy to customize the cakes to match the theme of the party and this week we got to make an elephant cake, a train cake, a lady bug cake, and an artist cake! These are just some of the great designs you can make with us here at Polkadots that can make any birthday a truly special occasion. Come in and see us for your next birthday celebration a week in advance and we can make you a cake customized to fit your exact needs!

Election Time

Well folks, every four years we come to November and it is time again to vote for our future president! Now here at Polkadots we have the perfect election day treat for you to celebrate after you cast your ballot. Our delicious "I Voted" cookies are now available for custom order! These adorable and patriotic desserts are not only delicious, but spirited as well. These sugar cookies are sure to brighten your day after long voting lines and the American flag decoration will give you a little taste of American pride.

Happy Halloween!

It's Halloween time again and we have prepared some very spooky, but fun desserts for everyone! From cakes, to cupcakes, to cookies, our team has created many different treats for all the little monsters out there.
If your little one has just come to join the festivities or is about to make an appearance, we have our adorable Halloween Baby Shower Cake that is perfect for any baby shower occasion this season! Decorated with ghosts and polka dots, this delicious dessert is sure to be a hit at your baby shower party.

In addition to our cakes, we also have Halloween cookies that we know you will love! There are many different designs you may chose from. We have mummies, Frankenstein, and pumpkins on our sugar cookies, great for any festivities around this time of year. We also have an assortment of cookies with all kids of Halloween decorations including spiders, both on the web and off!

 Mummy Sugar Cookies

Pumpkin Sugar cookies

 Frankenstein!

Assorted Halloween!
















Finally, our cupcakes are not left out of the holiday spirit! We have several different custom cupcakes for everyone to enjoy. Our custom cupcakes can now be ordered with adorable Halloween decorations on them! From ghosts, to pumpkins, to witch hats, no party will complete without these perfect Halloween treats....

Fall Is Here!

Fall is finally here and we could not be more exited! Austin, Texas in the fall brings good weather and great events. With the kick off of the fall football season we have made a wedding and grooms cake worthy of any Texas football tradition. As tradition, when the University Texas football team travels to Dallas to play the University of Oklahoma, girls in the Greek community will be asked to decorate coolers for their date for the eventful weekend.

For this particular cake we made a grooms cake to look like a TX versus OU decorated cooler. The cake represents the essence of Texas football with various symbols and images. The dimensions of the cake are 12 x 12 x 13 inches incorporating cake, fondant, and isomalt. To decorate this cake we cut out several different fonts and colors for all the lettering as well as  fondant cutouts of cowboys, blue bonnets, and lassos. Along with the grooms cake the wedding cake stands three tiers tall covered in various sizes of sugared flowers. The flowers were arranged all over the cake, more flowers were arranged in different areas to give a unique shape to the cake.

Overall our team had a great time making all the various decorations for these two cakes and we hope that the Texas Longhorns have a great season!

Sesame street cake - updated!

Yeah August is over! We are excited to gear back our weddings, football seasons, and of course some cooler weather. We are so blessed to have a fabulous staff.. our morning baker Alex, our cake artists Natalie, Kimmi, Serena. We couldn't do it all without their fantastic help!

Sesame street cakes get requested all the time, here are a few of our new spin on the design:

 

Elmo, Cookie Monster, or Big Bird birthday theme cake is always a classic request at Polkadots!

 

Glitter Me Happy!

This week we made an elegant yet fun decorated cake! This two tiered turquoise cake was decorated with edible glitter. That's right, edible and glittery! First, we iced the tiers with colored butter cream, attached them together, and added gold edible glitter.

Bring Color to your Child's Birthday!

Children love to have fun and crazy parties! At Polkadots, we can make bright and tasty cookies for children of all ages. Here are some sugar cookie lollipops iced with colorful swirls and circle cookie cutouts decorated with a five. Whatever age your child's turning our cookies are sure to make a great addition to their party!

July 4th Weekend!

Here at Polkadots Cupcake Factory we like to experiment with many type of cupcakes and with July 4th right around the corner why not make a cupcake for the occasion? Here it is, our Patriotic Cupcake! It is a vanilla cake dyed red and blue with a blueberry pie filling topped off with a vanilla buttercream!

Bachelorette Cookies

Here are a few types of Bachelorette cookies we have been making here at Polkadots Cupcake Factory! These fun party favors are cut out sugar cookies with colored royal icing for the decorations!

Pink Corset Design with White Piping

Men's Torso Design

Panty Designs

There's a Snake in my Boot!

Here at polkadots we love making children's theme cakes and last week we made one from the movie Toy Story! Standing about 15 inches tall each of the three tiers is inspired from the movie. The bottom tier also has the popular etch-a-sketch which was sculpted out of colored fondant.

Tropical Twist!

It's June! And you know what that means...A new flavor of the month! Our June flavor of the month is called Tropical Twist and it consists of a coconut cake, passion fruit bavarian, and fluffy cream cheese frosting! YUM! We will be having this flavor all month so come on in and try a little bit of  Tropical Twist!

Every Little Thing We Do Is Magic

It's that perfect time of year for every little girl and boy to enjoy the magic and mystery that shines like mystic fairy lights on a warm summer's night. One, much loved little girl received an extra dash of magic in her Fairy Princess Birthday Cake.

The cake was colored to serve as a whimsical stage for an enchanted castle home to fairies. Cheery flowers and butterflies surround the castle in curly vines all under a veil of sparkling silver stars. The ruler is a purple haired princess with a glittery flower petal dress, a silver crown adorning her head and silver fairy wand to match.

The fairy princess was built with a wire frame that was then covered in various layers of fondant to form her body and dress. The curly "4" on top was hand carved to match the whimsical theme throughout the three tiers of the cake. Generous amounts of edible glitter and pixie dust were added to enhance little Kayla's big day.

This three cake tiered serves 60 adults with our 6", 8", and 10" cakes. All the cakes were iced in butter cream rather than fondant in green, blue, and purple that were blended by hand to achieve the graduated coloring. Once again the Polkadots Team achieved confectionery magic!

Let's Go Fishing!

Summer is finally here and boy is it going to be a hot one! Since it's the perfect time to do a little fishing this week, our team made a life size speckled trout fish for a groomsman cake. Why not enjoy a little fish on the side of a cake? Sounds a little fishy to me...

One of our sugar artists, started off with a square piece of styrofoam.  She started carving the styrofoam and added rice krispie treats to make an easier fish shape. Then, it is covered with fondant  and airbrushed detail to make the fish look as if it had just hoped out of the water! But no fresh fish can go without a little ice; therefore, we made ice cube shapes out of isomalt which is a melted form of sugar that solidifies into any shape you mold it into.

The Trout sits on top of a life size wooden tackle box made out of our popular Black Bottom cake. Black Bottom is a Chocolate cake with cream cheese and chocolate chip filling topped with cream cheese buttercream! YUM!

Green, green for St. Patty's day!

Spring forward is finally here! We have two new special flavors for this week,  green velvet cupcakes and our "Tipsy shamrock" cupcakes. Both of these flavors are available from Monday, 03.12.12 through Saturday, 03.17.12.

Green velvet might look a little funky but it's delicious:) It's the same cake batter as our red velvet cupcakes, a vanilla cake with a hint of chocolate, topped with our fluffy  Bailey's cream cheese. 

 

"Tipsy Shamrock" flavor is chocolate Guinness cake, filled with chocolate ganache, and topped with whisky infused buttercream. Can't we say more buzzz! :)

We will also have a variety of St. Patty cookies for purchase at the shop.

Don't forget to wear green next Saturday 03.17.12 to our shop, to get some giveaway from us!

Have a good spring break everyone!

Polkadots Spotlight: Variety!

We here at Polkadots take pride in the many different options we offer to our fans. Sometimes our customers are not aware of all of our options, so we thought we would fill you all in! From our fantastic cupcakes to our custom birthday and wedding cakes, we have it all! Custom cookies, cobbler pies, sugar-free and gluten-free options, mini-cupcakes, smash cakes and cake balls, you name it! Cakes, cupcakes and cookies, Oh My! We even do special custom order requests. We take pleasure in providing you with exactly what you need for your parties, weddings, and special events.

Here are some of our recent work:

This six tier  an example of a wedding cake we did recently. It serves 250 guests. The flavors are combination of  a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and triple chocolate (chocolate cake filled with ganache and chocolate buttercream)

This is an example of a custom carving cake we just finished. This is a dulche de leche cake with a toffee icing. Yum!

This is an example of a custom cookie we did for a Bat Mitzvah. Mazel Tov! We have several cutters that we can use, and we can also do custom ones!

 

Lastly is an example of a set of custom cupcakes we did recently. The top ones are our blackbottom cake and the bottom ones are our classic vanilla vanilla. We can do custom cupcakes in any of our flavors, just like our cakes.

So whether you have a birthday party, wedding, shower, other special event, or even just a small get together, consider one of our many options here at Polkadots, and remember that we do special custom orders, so don't be afraid to ask! 

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 :)