NW Cupcake Meet-Ups with Rachel of CTTC

If you are in Portland or Seattle AND love cupcakes....here are a couple "MUST GO" events. There will even be an extra special treat! One of our favorite cupcake bloggers; Rachel of Cupcakes Take The Cake will be at both for cupcakes and chatter. Portland Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010 Time: 2pm-4pm Location: Saint Cupcake Address: 407 NW 17th Ave @ Flanders Portland, OR 97209

Seattle Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010 Time: 6pm-8pm Location: Trophy Cupcakes in Wallingford For more details or updates on either meet-up please visit Cupcakes Take the Cake blog HERE Also I'm extremely excited for a special day of cupcake touring with Rachel during the time she is here in Seattle. We have so many wonderful shops in the area and hope to make as many as possible so she can sample all the great cupcakes. Stay tuned for photos of our cupcake adventure over the next week.

Austin Cupcake Meet up

This was my first ever "official" cupcake meet. And boy, what great fun it was! We met up on Tuesday July 7th at 3pm at Mozarts Coffee on their deck overlooking Lake Austin. It was a great place to meet and we had a nice intimate turn out.

In attendance was Nicole of Wicked Cakes, Lisa L. (food blogger of http://lisaiscooking.blogspot.com , Jennie C. (foodie blogger of MisoHungryNow.com), Rebecca D (cupcake taster) and myself (Carrie of Bella Cupcake Couture). After the quick round of introductions, we dived into the selection of cupcakes from Wicked Cakes.

Nicole of Wicked Cakes brought coconut, peanut butter with chocolate and red velvet. Unfortunately Laura of L's Cupcake Cafe was unable to attend as previously planned.

After a half hour of getting to know one another; Mozarts Coffee gave us the boot. Apparently no outside food was allowed to be brought onto their deck. Wish we knew before several of us bought coffees and teas.

Oh well, we moved a couple places down to the Hula Hut, who welcomed us with open arms. Now instead of coffee and tea, we sipped Sangria and Diet Cokes. Pretty fair trade I'd say!
Side note: After viewing Hula Huts website I read they also own Shady Grove -- my other favorite Austin restaurant and would you believe Krispy Kreme?!! Never would have guessed.

What was such a coincidence is when we went to sit down at our cute Tiki table, a couple at a table next to us said "Hey are you guys from the Twitter Cupcake Meet-up?". We said "yes" and then they said "we almost came over but we didn't have any cupcakes to bring along". So we quickly responded "no worries, here have some!" They seemed to really enjoy them and came over five minutes later to get Nicole of Wicked Cakes card to order some for her dads birthday in a couple weeks.

So being bumped from Mozarts Coffee over to Hula Hut ended up being a blessing in disguise.

Thank you to Nicole of Wicked Cakes for supplying all the delicious cupcakes (P.B. was my fav) and to all that attended. It was such a pleasure to meet you all!

Going to New York

From June 28- 30 I will be attending the Fancy Food Show in New York. If you're going to the show, please stop by the Hagensborg Chocolates booth to say hi (and also taste their delicious Truffle Pig bars).

Of course, I plan to go a couple days early for LOTS of cupcake tasting!! I can't wait! I have a very long list (above are just a few examples) of all the fabulous shops I'd like to go to.

I've also scheduled a meet up with two of the fabulous ladies of Cupcakes Take the Cake blog; Rachel and Nichelle. I'm really looking forward to meeting them.

When I get back, I will definitely be blogging about the whole visit.