Holiday Delights for you!

POSTED ON Tuesday, November 29, 2011 AT 14:04 by saint cupcake

Our bakers have been hard at work coming up with the perfect gifts for your holiday gift exchanges. We think they’ve come up with some really delicious and festive options for you and we think you’ll agree:

Our outrageous hot chocolate & marshmallows kit. Enough for 10 servings of our homebrewed outrageous hot chocolate with 3 of our galore-made marshmallows per servings. And it even comes gift wrapped! All for just $18.

Sweet & Spicy Nuts! Galore-made deliciousness - perfect for cocktail parties, hostess gifts or baking. These nuts are spicy & sweet and taste just like Christmas! These, too, come gift wrapped! Only $12/lb.

Our cookie collection comes with 6 ginger molasses cookies as well as 6 bittersweet chocolate with sea salt cookies. These come gift wrapped and require 24 hours of notice for all orders, and all 12 cookies are only $12.

Holiday Sparkle Cookies! These cookies are available by special order and contain nearly any holiday greeting that fits! To/From tags, cookies for Santa, stocking stuffers and more. These also make great corporate/business gifts! These range in price from $3-$5.

Our holiday sparkle cupcakes are available for any special order and come with your choice of 4 gumpaste designs: snowman, snowflake, gingerbread man, or bell! These are just $4.25 each and we have a few in our case at Saint Cupcake Galore every day!

Gingerbread House Party

POSTED ON Tuesday, November 22, 2011 AT 10:48 by saint cupcake

In case you hadn’t heard, a number of the staff here have begun collaborating on a spectacular gingerbread house. It’s still under construction, but I’m hoping for a fully functioning plumbing and electric systems in the house. The house is being made for the Festival of Trees, an annual fundraising holiday event at the Oregon Convention Center, December 1st-3rd. Here’s a look at the construction process so far:

A little Danny Elfman with your Big Top?

POSTED ON Monday, November 21, 2011 AT 10:12 by saint cupcake

A recent study shows that your perception of the taste of wine is influenced by the music you listen to while drinking. Specifically, “people who drink wine while listening to music perceive the wine to have the same taste characteristics of the particular artist.” So how can we bring this into the world of baked goods? EASY.

What should you listen to while eating an alder-smoked cookie, to enhance the smokey characteristics?  I’d suggest Joe Cocker, Macy Gray, or Tom Waits.

What about while eating a toasted coconut cupcake? I’d go with Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, The Ventures, or Chet Atkins (due to his fondness for the slack key guitar).

For our chocolate with cream cheese icing cupcakes (one of our most classic, popular flavors), I like to have Motown, soul music, or the Beatles playing.

If you’re going to eat our bonbonbunbuns and want the most heavenly experience possible, put on some gentle classical music, like Chopin, Claude Debussy, or Erik Satie.

We need to take advantage of this synesthesia and see what other taste sensations we can arrive at. Post your suggestions on our Facebook page, won’t you?

Friendsgiving

POSTED ON Friday, November 18, 2011 AT 12:03 by saint cupcake

Not only does Saint Cupcake make pretty wonderful pies, Jami & Karla also would make a great band. And this could be their band photo. So, of course you know you should order your holiday pies now (503-943-9053 or 503-997-3674) but you should also consider buying their Christmas album. Now they just need to record a Christmas album.

Most people have Thanksgiving with their family, but most people also have a better time with their friends. That’s why we’ve created Friendsgiving - a new holiday for just you and your friends, where you can have all the festivity of a Thanksgiving dinner, without the druncles, drama queen aunts, or grandparents who refuse to leave, even long after the party is over. You know who I’m talking about. So this year, think of Friendsgiving when you think of Saint Cupcake, and have an extra turkey dinner just for us.

Finally, we continue our tradition of putting holiday-relevant animals on our cupcakes. For Halloween we brought you bat and owl cupcakes, for Thanksgiving Friendsgiving we bring you turkey cupcakes. No, not turkey-flavored, silly goose; these turkeys are made from a sweet, edible gum paste, and each turkey is individually handmade by our talented bakers. There is no mass production or assembly line here; we care for every turkey as if it were our own pet/dinner. They’re just $1 to add to any cupcake and we’d be happy to take your order for those any time as well (503-943-9053 or 503-997-3674).

Bonbonbunbun challenge accepted!

POSTED ON Monday, November 14, 2011 AT 16:25 by saint cupcake

Theresa takes it to a new level in this exciting new video!