Thursday June 21st Daddy Cakes Cupcakes in Topeka Kansas was asked to create a special birthday cake  for former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler who was scheduled to perform at the Country Stampede in Manhattan Kansas. Since her new single is entitled “My Red Shoes” we created two sparkly ruby high heels on top of a two tier birthday cake. The bottom layer is red velvet and the top layer is Cookies and Cream. Unfortunately due to bad weather she was unable to perform that night, but rumor has it that a select few got to enjoy the cake which Kellie personally served to them in her trailer. A special thank you to local radio station WIBW 94.5 country for inviting us.

Sometimes we get requests for cakes that are just so much fun to do, I would probably do them for free (but don’t come in and ask- I’ll have to say no) Today I came in to find a cake order for the Speaker of the House Pro Tem. (don’t ask me exactly what that means) But needless to say:  would I say no, even if we were over booked?

Here is what he got…..

Well folks, it is with a little bit of saddness that we must say, some people just don’t get it.   Daddy Cakes is about great ingredients and great cake. Are we Walmart? Heck no. We’re better. Take one bite of our Death by Chocolate  cupcake made with bittersweet Guittard chocolate and you’ll see why. Or our I love Lemon cupcake made with homemade tart lemon curd and light and fluffy lemon buttercream. We are a small buisness that sets ourselves apart by the quality of ingredients we use, the artistry that goes into each cake, and the people that work here. What we offer at Daddy Cakes you can’t get at most supermarket bakeries. We bake from scratch. When you eat our cakes, you will taste the difference. Our buttercream doesn’t come from a bucket. It comes from real butter. We make each cake differently for each customer. We don’t have you select from a book of designs. We talk to each customer about what they want and try to get the little details that are important to them.

If you have ever seen the movie “Like Water for Chocolate” then you know the old wives tale that whatever you are feeling while baking and decorating goes into the person eating the cake. We like to remember that at Daddy Cakes and consider each and every customer when decorating their cakes. This weekend seemed to be the babies theme. We love babies! Cake makes people happy, and cake makes babies REALLY happy. We did a boy baby shower theme, a first birthday and two second birthday’s. We put so much thought and care into making a cake the kids (and moms) would love.  Maybe its the stress of their day or a miscommunication, but when a customer doesn’t like their cake, well- it just ruins our day. We really want our customers to love their cakes. To the folks who didn’t like their Tnkerbell inspired cake beacuse it had some pink on it, we are really sorry, but when you tell us Walmart is better,  that tells us a thing or too about what you wanted in the first place. To everyone else who loves our cakes and cupcakes…Thank You. We’re glad you get it. It is our pleasure to be a part of your special day.

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Everyone loves cupcakes, At least that’s what the people at Kansas Credit Union were hoping when they ordered 400 individually packaged Daddy Cakes cupcakes .They were being handed out to legislators in the rodunda of the Topeka Capital Building on Wednesday. Daddy Cakes was at the state house earlier this week as well in celebration of Kansas Day where we made two dozen Republican themed cupcakes. In the name of giving equal time to both parties, we’d love someone to come in and order some Democtatic Donkey cupcakes, or maybe Obama 2008 on a Daddy Cake.

Here are a few cakes we’ve been working on. The first four are display cakes done for the Bridal Fair at the Ramada. Also included are some photo’s from last weekend when we did three weddings in two days. Two were traditional cakes and one was a cupcake wedding. The bride requested a 6 inch cake shaped like a cupcake for the cupcake tower top. The cupcakes are red velvet and death by chocolate and they have four different finishes to incorporate the brides colors of black and red.

During the weekend of Jan. 12-13th Daddy Cakes will be displaying wedding cakes, groom’s cakes and cupcakes at the WIBW 94.5 country Bridal Fair in Topeka, KS. For the traditional brides there will be some examples of rolled fondant, buttercream and chocolate grooms cakes. For the more adventurous brides there will be fancy cupcakes on display in towers and  boxed as wedding favors. Daddy Cakes has more that 30 rotating flavors( see our daddy cakes link for more details) and brides can choose from flavors like margarita, cookies and cream, strawberry shortcake, or peanut butter cup for their wedding cake.  For those who have never been to our store we will be scheduling cake tastings and consultations during the event. We can see that brides are clamoring for something new and innovative in cakes and this wedding season promises to be a busy one. Wedding dates are booking up quickly  and our 2008 calander is almost full! Thanks Topeka for making Daddy Cakes such a huge success!

Here is the birthday cake we did for our local NBC affiliate. It will be shown on the morning show at 6am and 7am. Watch their live feed at www.ksnt.com

If you are a blog subscriber, then you know its been a while since we last posted. What have we been up to? Well, there was our Grand Opening with the Mayor.

That same day we attempted to bake the world’s largest cupcake! The media was out in force and we got loads of great coverage! We were on the 6 and 10 o’clock local news. We sold out of everything! Next day we woke up to find ourselves on the FRONT PAGE of the Topeka Capitol Journal! Things just haven’t been the same since. It seems like everyone in Topeka wants a Daddy Cake, and me being the nice person that I am stay late and get up early just so that (almost) every customer gets exactly what they want! Some of the cupcake  highlights of the last week were:

The law firm from Jackson City, Ks. who decided (rather last minute) to use us for all their corporate gifts. 270 Daddy Cakes went out on Thursday all dressed  up for their very first Christmas!

Despite a snow storm and near blizzard conditions the cupcake show must go on! On the Saturday before Christmas we got 9 inches of snow but our customers showed up in force and all but two of our special orders made it in to pick up their Christmas cupcakes.

Give the gift of cupcakes! Individually wrapped Daddy Cakes and gift certificates were on lots of people’s lists this year. We found that for many cupcakes were the perfect gift. Whether its a $5 office gift exchange or a hard to shop for neighbor, Daddy Cakes fit the bill!

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Daddy Cakes is attempting to build the worlds largest cupcake! That’s right! There appears to be no official record set yet for the largest cupcake so what better way to celebrate our new cupcake boutique and ring in the holiday season than a 4 foot tall cupcake?This cupcake spectacular will take place as part of our grand opening celebration on Tuesday December 4th 2007 at 1:30pm. The Mayor of Topeka as well as well as the city of Topeka Chamber of Comerce will be out for our ribbon cutting event. Our goal is to build a 4 foot tall cupcake from the base to the top. This never before attempted creation will be complete with a silver paper liner,  jumbo sprinkles and a 6 inch sugar paste marischino cherry. The public is invited to come by and taste a slice of history at 1:30pm on Tuesday Dec. 4th at Daddy Cakes 4102 Gage Center dr. at the corner of Huntoon and Gage. Don’t miss this fun and free event. We will also be raffling off gift certificates and the brand new Daddy Cakes t-shirts. Listen to WIBW radio station 94.5fm on Tuesday Morning from 7:30am-8:00am as Allyson is a guest on the morning show sampling her cupcakes with the radio personalities and promoting the grand opening event.

We can’t decide what’s more fun: watching people get REALLY excited about eating a cupcake, or the funny and sometimes bizzare stories behind some of the special orders we’ve been getting. This week has brought us some much welcome exposure and some unusual cake requests along with it. First off, pink and brown is ALL THE RAGE in cupcakes as we did not one, not two but FOUR different special orders for pink and brown cupcakes this week. Next came an authors book signing with a sheet cake shaped like an open book with a fall motif. We heard a very touching story of a girls tribute to her grandma who wanted a key lime pie flavored sheet cake with lime green angels and edible glitter decorations.

Saturday was renamed red Saturday because we were over booked on cake orders. After I finished telling everyone NO MORE special orders the phone rang and a woman told us she had a “cake emergency”! She had planned to bake a cake herself but was sick in bed with the flu. Could we do a sheet cake in blue and gold for the dance team? How could I say no?

Living in small town has its drawbacks. It seems like everyone knows everyone and when a little old lady came in asking me to personalize a cupcake to take to a friend, how could I tell her that it was my husbands ex wife and I’d rather not? I called upon my sense of professionalism and just did it anyway.

The grand finale came this morning when a man called and requested a 1/4 sheet cake to pick up in a few hours. Same day orders always slow down production, but this one presented a special challange. Not only did I have to draw an unrehersed mermaid onto the cake, we were busy and there was no time for mistakes. but this one was  for a man’s birthday.!”no pink please” he said when he placed the order.  My first mer-man cake! The good thing was that this customer found us on google. Typed in Cupcakes-Topeka and there we were.