Yesterday and Monday I made batter and frosting. As I made each recipe (chocolate batter, vegan chocolate batter, cream cheese frosting, hot fudge, vegan german chocolate frosting, vegan vanilla frosting, and cinnamon rolls) I tried to memorize the amounts so I could go home and make, say, the vegan chocolate cupcakes so I could eat them without feeling guilty of depleting the limited number they make each day! Of course I may be able to memorize a 20 line poem over the course of 2 weeks, but a 8 ingredient recipe in 30 minutes? Turns out I can't do it... 

Anyway, I spent 6 hours testing out new moisturizers as I scraped the sides of a 1.5 feet deep mixer full of batter and frosting. I think the chocolate batter worked best. If you need a wetsuit, but don't have one, and happen to have a lot of vegan vanilla frosting, it should work. The stuff is really hard to get off because of all the oil! 

Here's an interesting fact that I'm not sure where to include in this blog, but this seems as good a place as any. Cane sugar, powdered sugar, brown sugar, all the sugars normally used in baking? Not vegan. Some part of the refining process includes beef bones. Thus, all the sugar used in vegan goods that are truly vegan use beet sugar! It may taste delicious, but believe me when I say that beet sugar does NOT smell good... 

Yesterday I tried the coconut cupcake. As somebody who doesn't like coconut, I was surprised when I found myself liking it. I guess I should stop being surprised that I like a Saint Cupcake cupcake... If you like coconut, then you'll love this cupcake. In the background of this picture, you'll see the vegan german chocolate frosting I made.

After spending yesterday mixing, today I finally got to eat something I made! Whenever I made something, I have this hankering suspicion that it's not right, and is going to taste awful... Proving my suspicions wrong felt awesome. 

I spent today at the Belmont location, giving Southeast (why isn't east capitalized in Southeast?) a taste of Saint Cupcake. All of the licensing problems have been solved so they can now officially sell cupcakes there! Along with learning how to do everything at Belmont, I was also tasked to make banner kits and a new "Make Your Own Banner" banner. They're adorable (if I do say so myself). Besides just cupcakes, they sell all of these really cute products at Belmont like cards (hilarious cards), banners, books, really cute cupcake picks (they had cupcake kits that were themed (robots, pirates, safari, mermaid) with picks, cups, etcetera but they were dismantled into individual products because the kits weren't selling...) and a bunch of other really cute things. I need a new adjective for cute. Adorable, lovable, sweet, lovely, delightful (thanks Apple thesaurus!). 

That's Danielle on the left, she taught me everything I know about Belmont. And that banner? That's the one I made. I know, I know. The K is out of line. By the time we noticed the ladder was already back upstairs... Too far. Too many customers.

Okay, that last is a lie. Customers are apparently like lions or wolves (at least today they were, apparently it was odd). They come in packs, 2 to 4 coming in very close to each other buying either a lot (the lioness that catches an impala and brings it back to the pride) or a single one (the wolf that catches a mouse to stave off hunger). Then nothing for a while before the next wave! So many people ordered dozens of cupcakes that Danielle had to do something that'd never happened before today during her shift: she had to call the bakery for more cupcakes! Here's a picture of the cupcakes left about 20 minutes before Jami brought us more: (If you'll notice, about half the flavors are completely out of dots)

But our calls were answered and by the time I left, there were plenty more for those whose answer to the question "How's your day been?" could go from "okay..." to "great!" with a delicious and delightful trip.

I got to taste my german chocolate, and as I'd previously been told, it is mouthwatering. My favorite flavors keep changing... Mmmm. Cupcakes...

It looks like it's floating!