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Cupcake News, the Holiday Edition |
12.18.2008 04:40 AM |
| The days are just flying by, Christmas will be here before we know it! It always seems like the more exciting the holiday, the fast it comes and goes, filled with all the things that need to be done to prepare for it all. Its funny because as a kid, it takes FOREVER to come. As you get older, it seems to press on you like a steam engine with no breaks. Its a very exciting time of year for Lily Lane Cakes. We have grown by leaps and bounds in the last few months and it doesn't seem like there is any stopping us! God willing, we will be bricks and mortar in the new year. In the mean time, take a look at what we have done this year: May- Joined Stacy's Coffee Parlor to offer cupcakes through Falls Church and beyond June- Launched the Lily Lane Cakes Website July- Held first Lily Lane Cupcake Parties October- Began offering cupcakes via Bernie's Delicatessan in Fairfax Va November- The Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show in Washington DC, showcasing Franklin the 3 foot tall Turkey sculpted cake December- Added The Concious Bean in Great Falls Va to cupcake shops, offering cupcakes thoughout Northern Va Interviewed by The Fairfax Connection New- http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=323641&paper=63&cat=104 Interviewed by The Falls Church News-Press: http://fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2562&Itemid=67 (check out page 25 of the e-issue) We have been busy! We are scoping out a few new locations for cupcakes this year, so keeps your eyes peeled.. in, oh lets say the Alexandria area. Of course if you need a quick tastey sugar rush, you can stop in at Stacy's in Falls Church, Bernies in Fairfax or The Concious Bean in Great Falls. We do take cupcake orders from our locations as well as custom orders directly by phone or via the website, so feel free to talk to us about your next event for cupcakes or an amazing cake. What's next you ask??? Well here are a few things slotted for this year so far: February 2009- The Fairfax Chocolate Lover's Festival Chocolate Challenge March 2009- The National Cake Show at Lake Braddock High School, Lily Lane will be entering one standard closed tiered cake and a sculpted cake ...and much more to come! I wanted to lastly, thank everyone for the amazing support through this year. Its been a bumpy road getting out there, but we are really making it after all (as Mary Tyler Moore would say) Its only with the help and support of our friends and family that we can get our cakes out there. I also wanted to thank my awsome and amazing assitant Carrie for all her help. Its not a glory filled job with benefits, but it definately keeps you on your toes. Carrie has helped me keep from falling off mine. With luck and prayers, this coming year will see us all moving on into a better economy. We wish you and your families a Happy Holiday and prosperous and healthy New Year!!! -- Kathy Mingledorff Lily Lane Cakes www.LilyLaneCakes.com Kathy@LilyLaneCakes.com 703-507-0609 Leave a reply? |
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Breaking News!!!! Cupcakes come to Great Falls, Virgina |
12.11.2008 01:36 AM |
| HELLO GREAT FALLS!!!! I am very happy to announce that Lily Lane Cakes' cupcakes are now available for all the wonderful people of Great Falls and the surrounding areas. The Conscious Bean (10123 Colvin Run Rd Great Falls, VA 22066(703) 757-2326) is the latest and greatest of coffee shops in Northern Virginia. They offer a great variety of healthy, natural, organic and free-trade products. Owner, Kathy Huff, gives her customers products that are tastey and great for thier heath and environment. If you haven't visited The Bean yet, please come by- Kathy has put together a wonderful, cozy and BEAUTIFUL shop. Of course, grab a cupcake while you are there! This week at: Stacy's Coffee Parlor(Falls Church)- Red Velvet, Peppermint Chocolate and ChocoChippety Cup Bernie's Delicatessan(Fairfax)- Cranberry Ginger, Pumpkin Pie, Peary Good and Peppermint Chocolate The Concious Bean(Great Falls)- Peary Good, Peppermint Chocolate and ChocoChippety Cup Leave a reply? |
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Burrrrrr....(psssst, cupcakes make you all warm inside) |
11.19.2008 07:13 AM |
| Its true really! I am not lying. Cupcakes make you feel all warm and cozy. Its a little peice of sweet happiness in a handheld wrapper. What could be any better? Did I mention that cupcakes are small cakes, therefore they have no calories??? Ok... that is stretching it, but I will keep telling myself that. So the cold weather is charging forth as we have our coldest day of the year so far. This morning its in the 20's, yikes! Grab the mittens and scarves. So to help you warm up, we have our lovely holiday offerings. In Falls Church at Stacy's there is Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes, Peary Good (really guys, this is a great cupcake) and Red Velvet. Pair em with a hot latte and your set. At Bernie's in Fairfax, there are Red Velvet, Pumpkin Pie and Chocochippety Cup Cupcakes. While Bernie's has great coffee, their claim to fame is thier corned beef. I can attest to these sandwhiches, they are AMAZING! A hot sandwich on a cold day really hits the spot. So stop into one of the locations and of course, get your holiday orders in as soon as possible, cut off for holiday flavors of cake or cupcakes for Thanksgiving is November 24th. If you order a 8" cake or 2 dozen cupcakes or more, enjoy a 10% discount on us, Happy Holidays! Leave a reply? |
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Pumpkin, Pear, Red Velvet...oh my! |
11.13.2008 07:15 AM |
| Ok, it doesn't rhyme at all. But this past weekend at the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show, Pumpkin cupcake samples were a huge hit. So to satisfy your fall palettes, Stacy's is now loaded with fresh, tasty Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes. Get em while they last, cause they don't last long. In addition to those, close second in the show was Red Velvet and last, but definitely not least- Pear. Pear will be hitting the shops next week, but Red Velvet is a go! So be sure to take a trip to Stacy's (http://www.stacyscoffee.com/) and Bernie's Delicatessen (http://berniesonline.com/) and grab your cupcakes. Latest at Stacy's- Red Velvet, Chocochippety Cup, Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes and fall sugar cookies Latest at Bernie's- Red Velvet, Chocochippety Cup and fall sugar cookies Leave a reply? |
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Wow, what a weekend.. MCES 2008 |
11.10.2008 03:28 PM |
| Ok, so its over! We went crazy prepping for the event, and the weekend was pretty amazing. For an itty bitty company Lily Lane Cakes jumped in kicking and screaming EVEN THOUGH Washington Post's Cupcake Wars winners- Georgetown Cupcake decided to grace the scene. Whatever, that's fine, more cupcakes for everyone. But Georgetown Cupcake didn't have a 200 pound Turkey cake that was executed on Sunday and served to the masses. Franklin the turkey was made of 200 pounds of chocolate and vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream icing and marshmallow fondant as well as gumpaste extras. We served abot 2/3'ds of Franklin and the rest was munchies for the staff breaking down the show. It was ALOT of cake. On Sunday I got to meet Paula Deen (without my camera, IDIOT!) and told her about my 3 foot tall turkey cake and she said "Oh my Gaaaawd!" She was soo nice even though she was in a rush to get to her show, it was a pleasure to meet her. It was far from an easy weekend to prep for but it was a great time and I wanted to thank everyone who helped us get out there and worked on the day of the show. Thanks SO much to Carrie, my assistant, my great friends- Yvonne, Chris, Jennifer, Vanessa and Claudia. It was Lily Lane's real public debut, but there is so much more to come! Check out the Gallery for new pictures coming from the show including the execution of Franklin! This week at Stacey's: Red Velvet, Citrus Sunshine and Chocolate w/ vanilla buttercream, This week at Bernie's Deli in Fairfax City: Red Velvet and Citrus Sunshine Leave a reply? |
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Tick Tock, Tick, Tock..... |
11.3.2008 11:06 PM |
| Time is ticking away... only FOUR more days until the Metropolian Cooking and Entertaining Show in Washington DC. Its going to be a great event with tons of vendors celebrities Paula Deen, Giada and Bobby Flay... of of course, yours truely. Yes... Lily Lane has not weltched and decided to not go cause its so scarey... no we are going to be going. SO, please show your cakey support and come see us on Saturday or Sunday. We will be showing on some nice pink Lily Lane Cakes Shirts...just look for Table-34. And if just seeing us there isn't enough- well if you have ever wondered what a 3 foot tall cake might look like, you can come and see at the show. If your looking for a little something exciting... the giant cake will be cut up on sunday afternoon to sample out to guests at the show too. What is this mystery cake??? Not so fast slick, you have to come to the show to find out. So, as we bake bake bake all these cupcakes and ginormous cake, pray for us... and come see us at the show!!! OH-- and I am almost forgetting... Friday at 5pm, come to Stacy's Coffee Parlor for a Lily Lane Cupcake party! Bring the kids, for $5 you get 2 cupcakes with unlimited icing and toppings. Stay afterwards for a art opening at the parlor. Flavors of the week at Stacy's: Chocolate w/Vanilla Buttercream and Red Velvet(arriving on tuesday afternoon) Leave a reply? |
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Exciting Times and Great News! |
10.26.2008 09:34 PM |
| Apologies! I haven't updated in about a month! What cupcakes are available, where can you get them?!!! Ok-- here is the news: We just hired two wonderful ladies- Carrie and Christi to work with us to meet all your cake and cupcake needs! So keep em coming folks, we are ready to satisfy your imagination and pallette! Now with the elections looming there is alot going on. But don't forget about the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show in DC! Please remember to mark your calendars for November 8th and 9th at the DC Washingtion Convention center where Lily Lane will be making thier real public debut! We will be sampling out many of our great cupcake flavors and have individual and 4-packs of cucpakes to purchase at the show. But wait... there's more! At the show, we will be showing a crazy sculpted cake.... again, we are talking a whopper of a cake folks- 3ft tall. Still wondering what its going to be... well to keep your brain working on it... (hint) it will be carved on Sunday afternoon for everyone's consumption. Hmmm... We are also approaching the Fall Church First Friday time where Lily Lane Cakes will be hosting a cupcake party. Come on over at 4pm with the kiddos if you can. $5 gets you 2 cupcakes and unlimited toppings. Last but not least-- VOTE FOR LILY LANE CAKES ON STARTUP NATION! Click here and vote for us for the Home Based 100! http://www.startupnation.com/homebased100/contestant/2485/index.php Flavors of the week at Stacey's (arriving on tuesday): Red Velvet and Pumpkin Pie Leave a reply? |
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Cakes, cakes, cakes and cupcakes |
9.28.2008 04:10 AM |
| Its been a busy week on Lily Lane. This week, we had the honor of creating some interesting cakes and lovely occasion cupcakes. Keep em' coming, we love a good challenge! Some exciting news for Lily Lane Cakes- We will be showing at the Metropolitan Cooking and Entertaining Show on Nov. 8th and 9th at the Washington Convention Center in DC. Its going to be very interesting. I hear that the show in Norfolk had a total of about 18,000 attendees. So folks, that means LOTS of mini cupcake baking. I will be showing a (yet to be announced) large sculpted cake and sampling all varieties of mini cupcakes as well as selling boxed cupcakes and cookies. Please spread the word, I hope to see you all there! http://www.metrocooking.com/2008DC/home.html Stacey's is brimming with Lily Lane Cakes. Be sure to get in to grab some Pumpkin Pie and Adam's Apple Cupcakes, they are seasonal offerings only, and apparently aren't sitting in the bakery case for long. So if your really craving one, call Stacey's before heading over to be sure they are available- or you can always order a dozen or 4 :) directly by going to the order form. Flavors of the week at Stacey's: Pumpkin Pie, Adam's Apple, Red Velvet and Fall Sugar Cookies Leave a reply? |
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Fall? Welcoming it with open arms.... |
9.18.2008 04:28 AM |
| Hi there all: It looks like fall is fast approaching which you can of course deduce by the fact that the stores are all selling Christmas stuff. Man... can we just get through one season at a time?! Well to honor my very favorite time of the year, we have a season retiree as well as two stars. Retiring for the season is Pretty N' Pink. As you know, we use fresh ingredients, locally as possible. Of well... strawberries just do not grow from Sept- whenever. So to replace that marvelous cupcake are a tag team of fallness- The Pumpkin Pie and Adam's Apple Cupcakes. They are making thier spicey debut this week at Stacey's so stop by for a Pumpkin Latte and tastey treat, preferably a cupcake! This Weeks Flavors at Stacey's: Adam's Apple and Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes Leave a reply? |
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Hump Day... |
9.10.2008 06:18 AM |
| Hi All: Happy Hump Day. Only a few more days and we are back to a weekend. Hopefully it will be a little calmer than it was last weekend. We had the impact from what was Hurricane Hannah in our neck of the woods in Springfield. I was a busy bee decorating the second coming of Indiana Jones and hardly noticed how bad it was until... power went out. I had to finish the cake by candle light, literally. But all was good, the birthday boy was happy and that is what really matter! After the storm we headed out to eat since we were without power to find that the park surrounding our neighborhood looked much more like water water rapids than calm creeks it had once been. Major road ways were flooded and two baseball feilds under 5 feet of water! It was pretty crazy. I hope everyone was safe through the storm and is doing well on this lovely week. With a wedding cake for this weekend- pray for clear weather! Lily Lane Cakes is offering a few new things at Stacey's in addition to cupcakes. So stop by and check out the AMAZING German Chocolate cake sold by the slice (call for orders of whole cakes) and decorated sugar cookies, for the kids or kid in you :) This Weeks Flavors at Stacey's: (By popular demand) Chocochippety Cup and Citrus Sunshine Leave a reply? |
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This Week in Cupcakes.... |
9.2.2008 11:14 AM |
| Thankfully, Gustav did not make as big an impact as it was feared. Hopefully all the residents of Louisiana that evacuated can make their way back home soon, including the wonderful David, webmaster extraordinaire. Well... its official- the kids are back to school. For us here- that means that Lily and her big brother Alex are back at school. For Lily its her first day in Kindergarten which she is very proud of. For everyone else, good luck back at school, and parents...on one... two.... three... collective sigh of relief. Alright.. with that said, Cupcakes. Be sure to drop in to Stacey's to pick up a fresh cupcake, if you need more than one, or one for the road, be sure to ask them for a Lily Lane box to transport your precious cargo. If you need for than a few, feel free to give me a call or e-mail. Flavors of the Day at Stacey's Coffee Parlor: Red Velvet, ChocoChippety Cup, Vanilla w/chocolate buttercream and Chocolate w/vanilla butter cream Leave a reply? |
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| Claudia Lopez-Viñas | |
| 9.2.2008 10:02 PM | |
| Summer is over- boo, hoo! As all teachers, this one is not happy to have to return to the working world. However, a cupcake and a cup of coffee do make the day go by faster! Wanting to try the apple ala mode and hoping that you will create one for Halloween/Thanksgiving with pumpkin. Had a slice (okay, two slices) of a pumpkin bread topped off with something sweet and crumbly, very yummy, but I thought you could do better! Can't wait to hear of any new additions! Claudia |
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Hurricane Gustav- Thoughts and Prayers! |
9.1.2008 04:41 AM |
| I just wanted to send a little message out about Hurricane Gustav approaching the Louisiana Coast. My wonderful webmaster- David's family lives in New Orleans. We first "met" when he did the web page for the non-profit I founded- Preemies Today (www.preemiestoday.com). We were working on the design of the website after Hurricane Katrina had struck New Orleans. David's company and all the reidents in NO, were in such great need, after looking at his work the board of Preemies Today knew he was the right choice. So three years later, I knew exactly who I wanted working on my website for Lily Lane Cakes. David has evacuated his family out of New Orleans and are hopefully safe for the time being. But I wanted to send my thoughts and prayers to all those who may be effected by Gustav. We hope that the speed will decrease and the hurricane downgrade. Leave a reply? |
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| Sheryl | |
| 9.1.2008 06:27 AM | |
| My family is praying for everyone in the States that are going to be hit by Gustav. Many prayers are being sent out to all of you. | |
Welcome To Lily Lane's Cupcake News! |
8.29.2008 11:47 AM |
| Thanks for visiting Lily Lane, where something is always baking! I decided to add a blog to our webpage to be able to give all our customers the latest and greatest happenings at Lily Lane. Here we will post info about seasonal offerings, new cupcake flavors, events and the flavor of the day will be at Stacey's Coffee Parlor in Falls Church. So stop by often and feel free to leave comments or questions if you have em'! Flavors of the Day at Stacey's: ChocoChippety Cup, Vanilla with Cream Cheese Icing and Chocolate with Vanilla Butter Cream Leave a reply? |
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| David Martin | |
| 8.29.2008 11:55 AM | |
| Every time I look at your pictures of the cakes I get a little crazy! In a good way! | |