“Sprinkling” the community with LOVE!

As many of you following our Blog may already know, one thing we love just as much as cupcakes is our community. We love to help out where we can in giving back to help others in need. My husband has a wonderful wrestling program where he coaches wrestlers and trains them to become elite wrestlers at the high school level. He coaches kids from many different schools, including Trabuco Hills and Rancho Santa Margarita High Schools. A few of the parents who are involved with the schools contacted us about some fundraising events. We were happy to lend a hand. We were able to donate cupcakes and gift certificates to the Trabuco Hills High School Wrestling Team for fundraising events. Also, we participated in the Rancho Santa Margarita Senior Fashion Show with a donation of cupcakes and gift certificate.

While these were smaller fundraisers that were for organizations we were familiar with, we were later informed about another cause that we could help with…..The Arthritis Walk. We learned about a girl named Faith who suffered from Juvenile Arthritis. She quickly became an inspiration to us all. We attended The Arthritis Walk 1,000 cupcakes in hand and enjoyed the day with many other volunteers and Arthritis survivors. We believe in helping others when we can. We all feel truly blessed to be able to do something we LOVE and will continue to share it with as many people as we can. Zen Cupcake calls it Cupcake Karma and we couldn’t believe in anything less. 

About 6 months ago we placed an order through BRP Box Shop for a variety of cupcake boxes. BRP Box Shop has everything from business card boxes, to cake pads, and of course CUPCAKE BOXES! They have just recently added a page on their site dedicated to happy customers and their uses of the products they ordered from them. Our pictures are up! Click on this link to see some of our work in the BRP boxes! 

We were so happy with the products we received and the service was great! I have to say though, the boxes we ordered for the mini cupcakes did not meet our needs. Our cupcakes just slid around underneath the insert. In the defense of BRP Box Shop, our minis are really mini (the bottom of our liners measure 1 1/4″). Over all we were very happy with what we ordered and will continue to do business with BRP!

A big thank you to Kip of BRP for posting some of our pictures!

If you have any questions, comments, or would like to place an order from the Two Parts Sugar kitchen you can contact us here!

About a month ago we had an order for some Sesame Street cupcakes, they were made for a little boy named Carter who was turning 2. Today they were featured on Cupcakes Take The Cake! We LOVE Cupcakes Take The Cake and are constantly checking their latest post to keep us up to date in the cupcake world! We haven’t seen any of our cupcakes up on their blog in a while, so we were thrilled when we saw these little guys gleaming off the screen of our computer! 

If you have any comments, questions or would like to place an order from the Two Parts Sugar kitchen, you can contact us here!

We just finished some football cupcakes and one of the photos was posted on recipeBODEGA.com’s featured photos! RecipeBODEGA.com is site dedicated to all things FOOD! They list recipes for it all, including healthy recipes, vegetarian recipes, and the ever so intriguing secret recipes. They have a slide show type posting of different photos they post, and we were one! 

These particular football cupcakes were made for a soon to be bride and groom’s wedding shower. The favorite teams of the two were the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons. We wish the soon to be couple the best of luck in their future together and want to send a big thank you to recipeBODEGA.com for the post!

If you have any questions or comments, or would like to place an order to can reach us here!

Here at the Two Parts Sugar kitchen we get lots of requests for lots of different things. The most recent was for a lingerie party! Not quite sure what it was all about, but there was to be lingerie involved….and CUPCAKES!

So, our client requested lingerie cupcakes and we couldn’t wait to get started! First, she wanted blue and black, which I was personally happy about. I thought it would be a nice change from the pink and red you typically see. Then I get an edited e-mail that says she changed her mind and now wants pink and brown (my least favorite color combos EVER). But, you have to give the people what they want! I then get a third e-mail stating she wanted pink and brown and animal print!!!!! She did say that she trusted me and to do what I thought would “work”. Ok, now I have to admit, I was a bit thrown off at first, and not very motivated….then it hit me! To be completely honest, I was trying to find a way out of the whole pink and brown thing and make something the client would LOVE.

My team (and husband) always tell me that I need to give the customers what they want….that is my goal every time, but I always want to include a little bit of me and my creativity, go the extra mile and give them what they want, but include that WOW factor they weren’t expecting. So, I knew right away when the color pink and the animal print came into play that I wanted to do the zebra print with pink accent…then, I figured the leopard print (and chocolate) could be the brown and my little lingerie cupcakes were born! Heres what they looked like:

I had so much fun making these and the client simply adored them. I was SO happy she liked them so much and that I was able to put a little bit of me into them. 

To top off the satisfaction of a successful delivery, these cupcakes (and some of our previous lingerie cupcakes) were featured on Zen Cupcake! They did a whole spread on all the lingerie cupcakes we have done in the past! Here’s what Zen Cupcake says about our “Adorable cupcakes”:

Award winning cupcake maker Two Parts Sugar has created the most darling cupcakes for Bachelorette Parties.

Thanks Zen Cupcake for the post and support! If you haven’t checked out Zen Cupcake yet, what are you waiting for?! If you need to know about anything cupcake…this is the place to find it!

Zen Cupcake…You ROCK!

I have to say, this is one of our favorite posts yet! If you haven’t seen it you need to check it out! Zen Cupcake has just posted the results for the 2009 LA Cupcake Challenge. And, while we did not sweep the competition, or even take first were honored with the cutest edit to one of our photos (which even included a crown).

We are quite happy with our 2nd place victory and appreciate anyone who is as thrilled about it as we are! Zen Cupcake, your blog is awesome and your support is greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the post and especially the crown…LOVE IT!l

The Cupcake Activist has just posted the results from the 2009 LA Cupcake Challenge. We sent The Cupcake Activist some of our cupcakes back in December and she said

On Christmas morning I received a special gift–two dozen mini cupcakes! I can honestly say this was my yummiest present!

Well, she sums up the event (that she unfortunately missed out on) by saying

I have tried Two Parts Sugar’s Raspberry Red Velvet and it was very good. I’m so happy to hear that they received second place in the Best Traditional category.

Thanks Cupcake Activist for the thumbs up! As always, we appreciate the support! We’ll have to send you some of our new flavors soon!

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Yes, votes have been tallied and the results are in! We were awarded 2nd place in the best traditional category….Woooooohoooooo!

Again, we want to give a big congrats to the others who came out on top, as well as all the entrants. Baking 1,000 mini cupcakes, and making them taste and look good is no easy feat! You can check out another post about the competition here at the LAist. Thanks LAist for the picture post!

Today’s the big day, and quite honestly, we can hardly handle the suspense! Be ready for more blog posts, as the winner’s of the 2009 LA Cupcake Challenge are announced today! 

Getting a head start on things is Cupcake Blog Zen Cupcake. They have  posted a few pictures and an article summing up the event, and we were in it! They chose one of our favorite articles, where LA Times Reporter Elina Shatkin states:

Ultimately, it was all about riotous flavor pairings and unexpected finds, though many a cupcake was undone by frosting that was too sweet and overpowered the cake. But the white chocolate macadamia cupcake from Two Parts Sugar managed to melt the arteries of this die-hard white chocolate hater….

Again, thanks Zen Cupcake for the continued support and to Elina for the awesome review! And now, we must wait…and wait. You get the idea. We’ll let you know the results, good or not so much, as soon as we here back from Dan over at Drink, Eat, Play. Oh, and I have to say, Dan did an amazing job organizing the event. It could not have gone smoother in my opinion! I guess there’s a reason why he does what he does! A big thanks goes out to Dan and everyone at Drink, Eat, Play for doing such a great job organizing this event (and getting us in on such short notice)!

So, here’s another review on the LA Cupcake Challenge!

We just came across a super cute blog called Taylored Expressions. Taylor, the head blogger, posts are composed of just about anything sweet, cute and crafty! While we weren’t listed in the top three of Taylor’s rankings, she did mention us as a favorite.

It was soooo tough to vote for just three top favorites so I wanted to give a shout out to some of my other favs: White Chocolate Macadamia from Two Parts Sugar…

Hey, you can win em all! Thanks Taylor for the “shout out”, we’re glad you enjoyed our cupcakes! Keep checking back with us as we continue to receive feedback from some of the judges and attendees!