A year in review

What if you had a crazy idea of opening up a little cupcake shop just for the fun of it? What would life be like? Well, probably something like this…..

• wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant idea for  a cupcake flavor and think about it till the sun comes up.
• Work your first 14 hour day …..three days in a row.
• Eat more cake that you ever have in your life and still want to bake more.
• Get to know half of the town not by name, but by their cupcake of choice.
• Become very good at lifting 50 pound bags of powdered sugar.
• Use more butter in one week than a small country can eat in a year.
• Get stopped on the street and asked ”hey, aren’t you the Cupcake Lady”
• Realize how important you become when your “friends” forget to special order their kid’s birthday cakes.
• Wake up every morning and get excited about what the day may bring.
• Realize  that you have the best job in town!

Thanks to all our loyal customers who make Daddy Cakes such a fun place to be.

 Daddy Cakes for the Holidays

Daddy Cakes has festive cupcakes decorated for the holidays with fun new flavors!

Please remember to  preorder for best selection!

Billy Vanilly- decorated with holiday cupcake papers, green and red sprinkles and a cherry on top.

Red Velvet- white buttercream with holly leaves and berries

Ho-Ho-Chocolate ganache with “ho, ho, ho” in red buttercream.

Holiday Special Flavors

(available only in December)

Gingerbread- lightly spiced molasses cake with cinnamon vanilla buttercream

Spiked Eggnog- Rum flavored eggnog buttercream atop moist spice cake.

Peppermint Patty- White cake dipped in peppermint ganache with red swirled buttercream and crushed candy canes

Cinnamon Roll- White cake with cinnamon chips and cinnamon vanilla buttercream.

Naughty Santa- Red Velvet cake with Hot Damn cinnamon schnapps buttercream and red hot candies.

Spice up your tree trimming or office party this year!

buttercream shots

and

naked cupcakes

makes every party come alive!

Buttercream Flavors-Dirty Girlscout, Margarita, Cosmopolitan, Hot Damn, White Russian, Mud Slide and Spiked Eggnog, and Lemoncello!

Cupcakes Flavors- Chocolate dip, White, Lemon, Red Velvet

Available by special order only

12 buttercream shots and 12 naked cupcakes- $25.oo

Buche de Noel

The traditional French Christmas Dessert

Available through December

Flavors:

Chocolate

Strawberry

French Vanilla

Lemon

Small serves 5-6    19.95

Medium Serves 6-8 $25.95

Large serves 9-12  25.95

Each cake comes beautifully decorated and packaged in a gift box perfect for giving or creating a spectacular table centerpiece.

Thursday June 21st Daddy Cakes Cupcakes in Topeka Kansas was asked to create a special birthday cake  for former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler who was scheduled to perform at the Country Stampede in Manhattan Kansas. Since her new single is entitled “My Red Shoes” we created two sparkly ruby high heels on top of a two tier birthday cake. The bottom layer is red velvet and the top layer is Cookies and Cream. Unfortunately due to bad weather she was unable to perform that night, but rumor has it that a select few got to enjoy the cake which Kellie personally served to them in her trailer. A special thank you to local radio station WIBW 94.5 country for inviting us.

Sometimes we get requests for cakes that are just so much fun to do, I would probably do them for free (but don’t come in and ask- I’ll have to say no) Today I came in to find a cake order for the Speaker of the House Pro Tem. (don’t ask me exactly what that means) But needless to say:  would I say no, even if we were over booked?

Here is what he got…..

Well folks, it is with a little bit of saddness that we must say, some people just don’t get it.   Daddy Cakes is about great ingredients and great cake. Are we Walmart? Heck no. We’re better. Take one bite of our Death by Chocolate  cupcake made with bittersweet Guittard chocolate and you’ll see why. Or our I love Lemon cupcake made with homemade tart lemon curd and light and fluffy lemon buttercream. We are a small buisness that sets ourselves apart by the quality of ingredients we use, the artistry that goes into each cake, and the people that work here. What we offer at Daddy Cakes you can’t get at most supermarket bakeries. We bake from scratch. When you eat our cakes, you will taste the difference. Our buttercream doesn’t come from a bucket. It comes from real butter. We make each cake differently for each customer. We don’t have you select from a book of designs. We talk to each customer about what they want and try to get the little details that are important to them.

If you have ever seen the movie “Like Water for Chocolate” then you know the old wives tale that whatever you are feeling while baking and decorating goes into the person eating the cake. We like to remember that at Daddy Cakes and consider each and every customer when decorating their cakes. This weekend seemed to be the babies theme. We love babies! Cake makes people happy, and cake makes babies REALLY happy. We did a boy baby shower theme, a first birthday and two second birthday’s. We put so much thought and care into making a cake the kids (and moms) would love.  Maybe its the stress of their day or a miscommunication, but when a customer doesn’t like their cake, well- it just ruins our day. We really want our customers to love their cakes. To the folks who didn’t like their Tnkerbell inspired cake beacuse it had some pink on it, we are really sorry, but when you tell us Walmart is better,  that tells us a thing or too about what you wanted in the first place. To everyone else who loves our cakes and cupcakes…Thank You. We’re glad you get it. It is our pleasure to be a part of your special day.

baby boy shower

Everyone loves cupcakes, At least that’s what the people at Kansas Credit Union were hoping when they ordered 400 individually packaged Daddy Cakes cupcakes .They were being handed out to legislators in the rodunda of the Topeka Capital Building on Wednesday. Daddy Cakes was at the state house earlier this week as well in celebration of Kansas Day where we made two dozen Republican themed cupcakes. In the name of giving equal time to both parties, we’d love someone to come in and order some Democtatic Donkey cupcakes, or maybe Obama 2008 on a Daddy Cake.