LaSinful Cupcake Cafe: Smells Like A Bakery In here....

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Smells Like A Bakery In here....

As promised, I purchased my list of baking items yesterday and came home to heat up the oven and get Coco (she's my Kitchen Aid) spinning so that she's be ready to whip up a lot of frosting..My kitchen and house smell like a Christmas bakery. Between the different butter creams and batters, the mesh of flavors gently pushed me into the Christmas spirit full swing. I was there, but not fully...until the smell of holiday treats started enveloping the room. First up, was the Sweet Potato Pie Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Butter cream Frosting....the house smells so good when that brown sugar mixture is boiling on the stove top...yuuuummmmm....

Just finished frosting them....


Added some Christmas Cheer....

O' Christmas Tree, Christmas Tree.. I really wanted to eat this one...lol

Next up was my new challenge.. Gingerbread Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream Frosting.. I must say, that while I was nervous making the gingerbread batter, I stumbled on what I think is probably my best lemon butter cream to date. It tastes so fresh and summery...almost as if you're tasting a cold lemon with sugar on top.. deeelish!

And I swirled a pretty big mound of lemon butter cream on .....

Added some Christmas Holly


The finished product.....

OK, so you're probably looking for the Double Chocolate Peppermint Patty cupcakes... those are coming... will post in the next few days... This baking trip was about 7 dozen , and I'm a little exhausted...and still finding butter cream in odd places...lol. I shall return soon to re post the last batch!

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About Me.....

Sooo... This is the part that always seems really tough... Writing "about" yourself is quite tricky and I've put this off for as long as I could. Ok, so, here goes....

My name is LaShonna and my love for sweets --no wait-- my OBSESSION with sweets---stems all the way back to when I was a little tot. The sweet tooth came honest from both my mother and grandmother. I was always in the kitchen with my dear Granny, cooking and baking up a storm. She was an amazing cook and she made sure that I always had my apron on, ready for learning:) As I grew older, I continued to stay in the kitchen under my Granny and my Mom, who by the way is also an amazing cook, and can bake some pretty delicious stuff!! I can taste the caramel cake and lemon glaze cake just thinking about it..... All those years of being in the kitchen with the both of them, stayed in my memory bank. When I started cooking and baking on my own, I was doing a lot of it by memory, which came as a bit of a surprise because I thought I would be burning pots and pans trying to cook like my granny and mom.

When I think back, I remember that holiday baking always was and still is a big tradition in our family. Thanksgiving has always been filled with savory, southern dishes, and Christmas, the most beloved for going all out with the sweet treats. Christmas has always been my absolute favorite time of year, hence the honing of my baking skills to this day. Throw in my family's outrageous sweet tooth (and I'm talking having a dessert with dessert) and my love of chocolate, it was easy to develop a love of baking over the years. Baking for the holidays always kept me trying to improve the taste of each treat. When you have a love for something, you have to desire to make a cookie, cake, or cupcake, taste like you want people to feel when they're enjoying a dessert. I love that feeling of a dessert tasting so divine, that you close your eyes as you take each bite, as if to savor every.last.drop.........

Fast forward to this cupcake thing....the "birth" of LaSinful Cupcake Cafe.... Sooo, my employer relocated our Chicago office all the way down here to West Palm Beach, just shy of three years now. Imagine our shock settling in to a place that is pretty much a polar opposite of our beloved Windy City. Working with my small night crew (yes, we became night shift vampires), doing birthday parties, potlucks, and "just-because" nights, I started bringing in my cupcakes for the team to enjoy. To me, my baking has always just been baking. It's something that I love, something that relaxes me, and something that I love to see others enjoy. I started receving hints from my coworkers who started looking forward to what cupcake I was bringing in next. This of course challenged me to bake different flavors each time. That soon led to "you need to sell these", to "you really need to open a shop or something", to "LaShonna, when are you going to open a cupcake shop?".. Seeing as we all have day jobs, I really didn't consider it seriously, and didn't put much more thought into it.

Slowly but surely, after three years of being lightly poked and proded, I figured with so many asking for cupcakes for personal and/or special occassions, it was time to do something about it. Hence, LaSinful Cupcake Cafe was born. I have my dear friend's mother, Mamma Charlie, to thank for the name. I wanted to find a name that was unique and kind of a play off of my own name. Mamma Charlie told me that my cupcakes are "sinful" and that they should be called LaSinful. Annndddd I'm pretty sure she took it to heart because she started calling me LaSin as if that was my name.. lol.. I went back to work, and I heard the word "sinful" used to describe my cupcakes several more times, and thats what made the name stick for me. This has been such a surprise to me, that I'm going to take this journey one dozen of cupcakes at a time:) Above is a picture of me and my Granny... how I love her so.. This just goes to show you how long I've been in the kitchen .....

LaSinful Cupcake Cafe

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Smells Like A Bakery In here....

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