Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Turkey 12!!!

I've had a few questions about our "Turkey 12"...here's how it works...

$27 per dozen Mix and Match these flavors for pre-order or come in and choose from case, or order 1 flavor per dozen.
 
Sweet Potato Marshmallow
Caramel Apple Crisp
Orange Cranberry
Pumpkin
Pumpkin Spiced Latte
Pecan Pie
Peanut Butter Cup
Red Velvet
Sweet Raspberry
Snickers
Sprinkle Turkey's
Triple Chocolate Turkey's
 
 
 
 
 
 

Gobble Gobble....

Hello, hello!! We are getting in full swing for the Holiday season! We still can't believe that Thanksgiving is next week already...crazy! Here is your go to guide for everything Thanksgiving :) Why not celebrate with a pink box from #underthepolkadots

If you have any questions at all just give us a call or ask any of the gals up front!

And as all of you know...we are so very thankful for all of you :)
 
Thanksgiving Menu

Cupcakes:

·        Check out our “Turkey 12” order forms which allow you to pre-order an assortment of our Thanksgiving flavors $27

·        Choose the flavor of your choice and order 1 flavor per dozen

·        Pick your own assortment from our cases – with this we cannot guarantee we will have the flavor you are looking for

Pies:

·         Manderfields- (small) Apple, Apple Streusel, Blueberry, Cherry, Cherry Streusel, Raspberry, Strawberry Rhubarb, Rhubarb Custard/Mincemeat, Berry Medley, Peaches and Cream, Pecan, Caramel Apple, Lemon Meringue/Cream, Key Lime, Strawberry Cream Cheese, Gourmet Turtle, German Chocolate, Banana Cream, Lemon Meringue (prices range from $5.25-6.95)

 

·         Cake Guru- (large pies)  $14-each  Fresh Cranberry Apple, Fresh Fruit Caramel Apple Crumble, Fresh Fruit Dutch Apple Crumble,  Fresh Fruit Grandma’s Apple, Peanut Butter Cup, Bourbon Pecan, Chocolate Banana Cream, Coconut cream, Chocolate Silk  and Boston Cream ($10)

 

Cheesecakes:

3” personal serves 1-2 $6                     8”serves 8-12 $25                             10” serves 15-25 $40

·        We offer a variety of flavors for our 8”, and 10” cheesecakes. Flavors with a * are also offered in a 3” size.

·        New York, Fruit Swirl or Topped (raspberry, strawberry, cherry, blueberry, lemon, applespice)*, White Chocolate Raspberry*, Chocolate Raspberry, Pumpkin, Key Lime, Dreamsicle, Caramel Cashew*, Turtle*, Heath Crunch, Chocolate Chip, Caramel Brownie, Chocolate Peanut Butter*, Cookies and Cream*, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Raspberry, Chocolate Mocha Swirl, Lemon, Banana Cream, Crème De Minthe

 

 

 

Bars:

·        We offer “Bar platters” which will feature an assortment of smaller versions of our bar flavors. Or you can order bars individually or by the dozen

·        Small Bar Platter- serves 8-10 $15 Large platter serves 15-25 $30

·        Flavors-Smores bar, Lick the bowl bar, Snickerdoodle caramel apple bar, Caramel apple cheesecake bar, Cheesecake Brownie bar, White Chocolate Cranberry bar, Cookie dough bar, Lemon bar, Pumpkin bar, Pumpkin Cheesecake bar, Bad to the brownie bar, Cherry Pie bar, Cake batter bar, Scotcheroo, Variety of brownie bites

 

Bread:

·        Our bun selections include flavors such as…Cloverleaf buns, Old fashioned Potato rolls, Pretzel dinner rolls,  Tomato focaccio buns, croissants, Hard crust rolls, Semmels, Italian rolls and more (Prices vary based on selection Exp. Cloverleaf -$3.10 dz, Potato buns $3.10 dz.)

·        Bread selections include Butter Crust, Cheddar herb sourdough, round loaves of sourdough and Peasant, Honey Hearth, Ciabatta, Country French, French Baquette, Wheat, Vieanna, A variety of Ryes, Multi-grans and whole wheats and more, ask a staff member for a full flavor and price list

·        Sweet Breads include raisin, old fashioned cinnamon, cinnamon barrel, Placek, and more

 

Cookies:

·        We offer a variety of over 30 cookie flavors, from our oversized chocolate chunk, salted caramel, cheesecake chocolate chunk, our icing filled doozies, and our custom buttercream hand piped sugar cookies. Ask at the counter for our flavor list, and Watch for our holiday cookie boxes. Call or stop down to order cookies by the dozen, or as a cookie tray.

·        We also are offering our homemade cut-out cookie dough and pre-cut holiday cut-outs plus sprinkles and icings for a quick start to your Holiday cookie decorating needs

 

Small Desserts

·        We offer a variety of small desserts including eclairs, cream puffs, cannolis, chocolate covered strawberries, cheesecake and brownie bites, mousse cups, mousse parfaits, fruit pizzas, trifles, cake and cheesecake push-pops and more. Prices vary based on variety

Tortes

·        Our Tortes can be ordered in a variety of sizes and flavors. Some selections include ~ Chocolate covered Strawberry, Lick the Bowl, Turtle, Dirt Cake, Raspberry Lemon Layer Cake, Almond Poppyseed, Pumpkin Salted Caramel Latte, Peanut Butter Cup, Snickers

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Meeeeet Brooke!!

Hello, hello blogger friends!!
 
Sorry it's taken a little while to update...but you see we are quite crazy around our little shop!! But today calls for a NEW blog post!!
 

 
Today I am doing a post on one of the funniest girls in the bakery. We have done many events such as, dressing up for a Star Wars theme competition together! There is never a dull moment with her around here.
 

 
Let's start with the basics...
 
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite cupcake: Lick the bowl
Favorite music: Country and Rap. We like to call her ghetto B around here :p
Favorite shows: Breaking Bad
 
 
*Some other fun facts...
 
*Brooke has been working for Tamara since November. As many of you know that is when we opened. It must be her smiling face that keeps you all coming in :) (oh yea and maybe the cupcakes too.)
 
*She loves cheese curds!! (we are guilty of ordering them at least once a week)
 
*She is going to school for Psychology.
 
*Brooke + Izzi=BFF (Izzi is Tamara's youngest daughter and she just loooooves Brooke. Brooke is always #1!)
 
 
 
*She used to be a competitive swimmer...for 13 years! From 5-18. That's crazy! (Go Brooke!)
 
*She has never dyed her hair.
 
*She has a nephew Jack who is 2 years old. She is a proud auntie!

 
There you go! Now you know a little bit more about one of our lead cupcake girls!
 
 

Friday, August 9, 2013

Our super "sweet" 16!!

Hello blogger lovers! We have some very exciting news!! As many of you know we will be celebrating our super sweet 16 here at shop on August 14. That is coming up fast, fast, fast!! Get ready for a day of fun festivities. What an exciting journey it has been for Tamara over the last 16 years. She started out with just her and her husband Larry and has now grown to having over 20 employees. What a blessing this all has been. It's hard to imagine Oshkosh without our sweet little shop in it now. But it's hardly a little shop. You wouldn't even imagine all that goes into a day here. We have Tamara and 2-3 girls in her room, 2 bakers, 2-3 decorators and of course the 2 of us up front to help you guys pick your perfect cupcake. We have batter, fondant, frosting and boxes flying all over the place. But in the best, crazy way possible. We want to celebrate with you guys!! Come join in on our crazy creative little family!
 
Here is how it will work. It will be going on all day (10-6.)
 
10:00 am-16 sweet tiers unveil.
Free slices and cupcakes until they are gone!
Come and try our brand new super sweet 16 cupcake flavor (we will be accepting ideas until Sunday, stop in our shop to fill out a sheet)
Tamara's couples-Bring your husband/wife and have our photo taken while you cut a slice of cake together! How fun!!

 
 
11:00-3:00-Decorate your own mini cupcake.
Children can let their creativity flow from 1-3. We will have all sorts of fun yum yums for them to decorate and eat!
 
4:00 pm-Oshkosh Celebrity eating contest!
Cake, Cake....CAKE!!!
The list is constantly growing...we can't give everything away :p
As of right now we have some awesome people lined up!
-Bob Burnell (Radio personality from 1490 WOSH)
-Jeff Bollier (From the Oshkosh Northwestern)
-Michelle or Aaron from the beautiful Paine Art Centre.
-Tim Franz (Fire chief)
-Dr. Laufer (Everyone's favorite pediatrician)
-Molly or Amy of the YMCA
-Marty in the morning (Radio Personality of B104.7)

*I am still convincing Tamara she needs to!!! (convince her with me)


 
5:00 pm-Throwback price drawing
Engaged couples: Come in anytime before 5:00 to put your name in a drawing for 1997 wedding cake pricing...
$1 a slice!!!!!!
There will be drawings for other deals ALL day!!
 
All day long...
Cakewalks, Facebook competitions, prizes, the NEW Sweets Boutique playlist, photobooths...and more!!
 
We are so excited we can barely contain it...can't wait to see all of your smiling faces!!!

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Meet Tavi...lover of gelato and anything yellow!

Hello, hello!!
 
This week I am introducing our lead baker Tavi! She has been baking forever...being best friends we have conjured up tons of fun things in the kitchen. For a while we had a blog called "Sweet treats from my best friends kitchen." Note to Tav we need to keep up with that!)


 
Let's start with the basics:
 
Favorite color: Yellow
Favorite cupcake: Lick the bowl
Favorite music: Rap (ask her to rap for you sometime it's a hoot!), she is recently addicted to the blurred lines song and as every 90's kid Nsync. We heard Nsync playing in the car last night and needless to say I'm sure you wouldn't have wanted to be a fly on the window of that car. Nothing like reliving elementary memories. Haha.
Favorite shows: Full House, Boy Meets world, Greys Anatomy, The Office.
 
 
Some other random facts....
 
*Tavi has been working for Tamara since the end of September. She started in baking and is now the reining queen of the bakers.
 
*She is in love with Ryan Gosling and Jake Gyllenhaal...watch out James (James is her long time boyfriend.)
 
 
 
 
*She is addicted to gelato. I mean addicted...when we last went to Milwaukee we spent the entire trip trying to find gelato...addict :p
 
*She loves tea-cup pigs. Someday she will own one!!
 
 
 
*She just became an auntie! Needless to say she is going to spoil him rotten!
 
*Her number one place to visit someday is Italy.
 
*Aside from work she bakes at home as well. She is always baking up something delicious in her kitchen. But just like anyone we all have "fails" haha.
SpongeBob at his best...

 
We made soufflés!
 
Well there ya go!! Now you know a little bit more about our lovely baker! We are so blessed to have her here. She keeps us laughing and the cupcakes and cookies coming!
 
 
 
 


Wednesday, July 10, 2013

My name is Megan..and I'm addicted to to polka dots.

Hey guys!!
 
We thought it would be fun to write a post featuring someone in the bakery every week. Get to know the crew a little better. I plan on introducing the girls up front that you always see, bakers, decorators and everyone in between. It's always fun to learn more about people you see a few times a week :)

 
 This week I decided to start with myself as the "tester."
 
Okay...where to begin. Hmm...well we can start out with I'm Megan and I like to talk...a lot. Haha. That's why I am usually the one always up front. I love my customers :)
 
Let's start with the basics:
Favorite color: Pink (good thing I work in this bakery)
Favorite cupcake: Peanut butter cup (pumpkin rocks too!!)
Favorite music: Taylor Swift, The Beatles, She & Him, Mumford and sons, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert and anything country!!
Favorite shows: FRIENDS, The Cosby show, Full House, Gilmore Girls
 
 
 
 Some other random things are...
*I've been working for Tamara since September. I got trained in baking and now work mainly up front and do a lot of wedding shows and anything done with the public. I also work on planning certain events. My next project is, I keep telling Tamara we need our own TV show. Oh it will happen

 

 
*I'm best friends with the lead baker Tavi. We have been best friends since the 3rd grade. That makes us old haha.
*I have been a vegetarian since the seventh grade, Tavi and I did it as a New Years resolution and it just kind of stuck.

 

*It's rare you will see me in pants. I prefer dresses or skirts. Anything vintage or polka dotted is a major perk as well! 
 
  
*My favorite place in the world is Nashville, Tennessee. I try to go at least once a year. Good food, people and music!
*My "addictions" include-Reese Witherspoon movies, pineapple, Target, red lipstick and polka dots.

 
*On the side I do some modeling. I am so blessed to be able to do fashion shows and photo shoots.
 


*My celebrity crush is Rupert Grint (yess Ron from Harry Potter)
*I have a fat cat named Bootsie!


Well there ya go now you know a little bit more.

Be sure to tune in for our next segment :)

-Megan

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Hello blog world!!

Hey guys! My name is Megan and I am so excited to be starting up this blog!! I've done blogging in the past and am so excited to be starting one up for Tamara's!! You might recognize me as "the cupcake girl." I can tell you any cupcake inside and out. It's what we do as cupcake girls :p

Here I'm holding our chocolate covered strawberry cupcake. A triple chocolate cupcake filled with strawberry and iced in fudgy chocolate frosting, whip and garnished with a fresh chocolate dipped strawberry!

 
With this blog I plan to keep you guys up to date with everything that goes on in our fabulous little sweets boutique. I will post about new cupcake flavors we've created, fun events we attend and host and some of the wildly fun cakes Tamara creates. There is never a dull moment in this shop...believe me!!
 
 
Here are some fun facts:
  • The best selling fabu-lux cupcake is peanut butter cup. What is it? A chocolate chocolate chip cupcake filled with BOTH chocolate silk and peanut butter and then iced in a peanut butter cream cheese. (This is my personal fav too!)
  • Tamara is going on 16 years of business. Be sure to save the date, August 14th. We will be having a "sweet 16 celebration" to celebrate 16 years of business!! We're still planning out the details buuuut you won't want to miss it believe me!!
  • See the octopus?? All cake! And THAT is why she's the cake guru!!
     
  • When Tamara opened up the new shop we had under 10 people working there. Now 8 months later we have grown to having over 20. Business is booming and we could not be more excited to expand even more! We're all like one big crazy family and we wouldn't have it any other way!
    Cupcake warrior Champions 2013 for Wisconsin Baker's Association!
     
     
  • We have fun days of the week: Wacky Wednesday, Special Request Thursday.

Wacky Wednesday: Hawaiian luau and totally 80's day


 
  • The rumors are true...we do make bacon cupcakes and cookies! It's the salty and sweet, I'm telling ya! Anything bacon is always a hit in the shop!
  • Fun fact to go along with the bacon. 4 of the girls at the bakery are vegetarians. Tamara and I included haha.
  • Our "everyday" flavors are-Snickers, Peanut butter cup, Red velvet, Birthday cake and Triple Chocolate. Along with those we try to keep 10-20 different flavors in the case at a time!
  • We are constantly adding new flavors! We try to do a new one almost every day! The cupcake flavor list is growing..to say the least!
  • Have any cupcake ideas that you would like to see? Share them with us! We love to hear them!! You can leave comments on here or comment our Facebook page. We love hearing your ideas That's how some favorites were created!
Funnel cake, Bahama mama, Watermelon sour patch
Superman, Blue moon, Rainbow Brite
Cotton Candy, Chocolate covered strawberry, Blue raspberry lemonade duck tail
Puppy chow, Chocolate caramel bacon, lick the bowl

Be sure to like us on Facebook so you can see what flavors we have daily.
For those who want to know we are located in Oshkosh, WI at 1529 Oregon st.
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-Megan