Gold Canyon, Arizona

Pretty quiet here, so I thought I’d talk about Melissa’s entrepreneurial endeavors.

She and her best friend, Kassi, are baking cupcakes for friends and family. They’ve been doing it off and on for most of this year.

But now that Melissa has HUGE medical bills to pay for her appendectomy, she and Kassi have been baking up a storm and holding bake sales at Melissa’s school.

Over the last four weeks, they’ve baked and sold over four hundred cupcakes!

Visit their Web site: calico street cupcakes.

These aren’t just ordinary cupcakes. Yes, I’m biased because I’m the mom. But these cupcakes are incredible–in flavor sophistication and in texture!

Here are a few samples just of their seasonal offerings…

christmas sugar cookie

sweet sugar cookie cake, filled with very vanilla frosting, topped with more very vanilla frosting and christmas sprinkles

 

candy cane cookies & cream

an oreo cookie on the bottom, candy cane oreo cookies & cream cake, filled with peppermint cream, topped with peppermint cookies & cream frosting

 

cranberry orange

cranberry orange cake, filled and topped with white chocolate cream cheese frosting

 

pumpkin

pumpkin cake filled and topped with cinnamon cream cheese frosting

 

And some of their standard offerings…

lemon

lemon cake, filled with lemon curd and topped with lemon buttercream frosting

 

blueberry pancakes

white cake with lots of delicious blueberries, topped with maple cream cheese frosting

 

caramel and peanut

white cake topped with caramel frosting, peanuts and a caramel drizzle

 

chocolate peanut butter

rich chocolate cake, filled with peanut butter cream cheese, topped with peanut butter frosting and a chocolate drizzle

 

As you drool over these, you can see why I’m anxious to get home to my new job: Official Taste Tester!