Time for Apples!

I am a HUGE apple lover. I seriously eat an apple every day at lunch. My favorite kind are Pink Ladies.

Apples are synonymous with the month of September. So it seems appropriate that the flavor of the month at SusieCakes is apple. Their offerings include:

Apple Spice Cupcake with cream cheese frosting
Double Crust Apple Pie
Sourcream Apple Cheesecake

September also means the start of the school year. SusieCakes is offering a School "Snack Pack": two mini chocolate chip cookies bagged & ready for the lunchbox.

Kids K-8 can get a free cookie or cupcake by bringing in an assignment with an "A." Available for the whole month of September.

Sweet Tooth Fairy Opens New Location

Although I have a race on Saturday, I secretly wish I was going to be in Utah for the grand opening celebration of the Sweet Tooth Fairy's second store. I reviewed the Sweet Tooth Fairy almost three months ago and have been in love with them ever since. Their success has led to the expansion of their second store in Draper, Utah.

Their grand opening celebration takes place on Saturday, March 27 at 10:00am. They will be giving away 100 mini cupcakes on a first come first serve basis. They will also be holding a giveaway for a year's supply of cupcakes (one dozen a month for a year). Oh how I would love that!

My Free Sprinkles Cupcake

My husband and I were in Newport Beach to pick up his lost cell phone (long story) when I got this tweet from @sprinkles:

First day of spring! The first 25 people to whisper “flowers” at each Sprinkles receive a free daisy dark chocolate!

I couldn't believe it! I was just blocks from Sprinkles! We rushed over to Sprinkles and I was happy to see there wasn't a line. Ever since Sprinkles started tweeting about passwords to get free cupcakes, I've been curious how fast the free cupcakes go. Until Saturday, I had never been in the area to find out.

I went inside and said, "flowers." She smiled at me and said, "Is that all?" I was thrilled! The only thing that tastes better than a cupcake is a free cupcake!

This was my first time trying their dark chocolate cupcake (belgium dark chocolate cake with bittersweet chocolate frosting). It was better than I expected, which made it hard to split between two other people.

P.S. Again, I couldn't wait to take a picture before I had a bite. Can you blame me?

Stop making time go by faster!

We're getting a little ahead of ourselves, aren't we Sprinkles?

Gooble gobble! The first 25 people to whisper "turkey time" at each #Sprinkles today receive a free pumpkin #cupcake!

Sprinkles Twitter Update

Hurry over to Sprinkles right now! The first 25 people to whisper "juicy" receive a free summer strawberry cupcake. Could you bring me one too? I'm stuck at work.

Meringue Bake Shop Giveaway

Blogger Angry Julie is hosting a giveaway for one dozen of Meringue Bake Shop's cupcakes or two dozen mini cupcakes. As much as I don't want to ruin my chances of winning this giveaway, check out Angry Julie's blog post for instructions.

Sprinkles Twitter Update

There are two updates today:

sprinklesaddict:

Sprinkles only uses Belgian Callebaut chocolate in its cupcakes. First 50 people to whisper "Callebaut" today receive a free dark chocolate!

sprinklesmobile:

Follow the Sprinklesmobile to MOCA's mobile restaurant row this Saturday night from 5 to 9 pm!

Free Cupcakes!!!

Nothing brings a bigger smile to my face than cupcakes....except for FREE cupcakes! Thanks for the tip from reader Jacqueline, I have learned that Sprinkles is randomly giving away free cupcakes.

When?!

You can find out by checking Sprinkles Facebook or Twitter page. Yesterday Sprinkles posted an update saying:

Need a lift? Whisper "sugar rush" at any Sprinkles store today and receive a free coconut cupcake.

Sorry about finding out a day late. I know that my friend Dave would have loved a free coconut cupcake. Keep checking back often to see when they will have.

NEXT WEEK: Did I find cupcakes in Italy?

Free Cupcakes for Crumbs Landlord

Check out this story that was picked up by NPR:

New York City landlords are known for driving a tough bargain. But landlord Jack Resnick and Sons put a little something sweet into a new lease: cupcakes. That's because the new tenant is the bakery Crumbs. The rider requires a dozen cupcakes to be delivered to the landlord's monthly sales meeting.

Sweet deal!


I still haven't been to Crumbs (California has four locations -- Beverly Hills, Glendale, Larchmont, and Calabasas -- none in Orange County yet), but I've already picked out the flavors I am going to try when I finally get there.


Baba Booey: Peanut butter and chocolate. The most perfect combination...ever.

Grasshopper: Chocolate, mint cream cheese frosting, chocolate chips, and Oreo pieces.

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