Have you ever thought that your favorite treats would be better if they could only be turned into ice cream? Good news, if you’re a fan of Twinkies and Sno-Balls from Hostess. the brand will be selling a limited edition ice cream flavored with its treats this year. [More]
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Pumpkin Spice Twinkies Are Real: So Are Cupcakes, Bread, And Dish Soap
By 9.8.15
A few weeks ago, I asked why Hostess doesn’t make pumpkin spice cupcakes. It turns out that I should have known better than to ask such a ridiculous question: Hostess just hadn’t announced their pumpkin spice cupcakes yet. Of course there are pumpkin spice cupcakes with plain creme filling, and plain Twinkies with pumpkin-flavored filling in a strange shade of brownorange. [More]
Hostess Makes Candy Corn-Themed Cupcakes For Some Reason
By 8.26.15
It’s not clear whether there’s any flavoring or indeed anything else at all that makes these Hostess Cupcakes more candy corn-ish than any other random yellow cupcake with frosting and sprinkles. What we do know is that they exist, they are orange, yellow, and white, and they are a “limited edition.” Which means that you should stock up or something. [More]
Here We Go Again: Bakery Owner Selling Business For $75, An Essay & A Cupcake Recipe
By 5.11.15
There’s a new bandwagon rolling through the country and it’s only gaining more riders: After the owner of a Maine inn became the darling of the viral news cycle by offering up her establishment to the winner of an essay contest, a goat cheese farm and now a bakery have chosen to use her method of finding the ideal person to take over their business. [More]
Crumbs To Rise From The Ashes… And Become Just Another Treats Shop
By 7.14.14
Three years ago, cupcake chain Crumbs went public, based on the notion that its monstrously large treats were so unique that consumers would want a Crumbs store in every city, town, and hamlet from Portland to Portland. But since just about anyone can bake a decent cupcake and throw a bunch of sweet stuff on top of it, people started their own cupcakeries instead of buying into the Crumbs model, and the company’s stock price nosedived from an initial high of around $13 to just a few pennies, all before Crumbs shuttered its stores last week. But the chain might have a savior — who sees Crumbs’ future… as just another store to sell sweet junk food. [More]
Maybe The Froyo Bubble Will Be Next To Burst
By 7.11.14
We learned earlier this week that famed cupcakery chain Crumbs would shutting down, an indication that the cupcake bubble that began in the middle of last decade has finally burst. What other dessert food trends are ready to melt or crumble right before our eyes? Maybe it’s frozen yogurt places. [More]
Crumbs Shuts Down All Of Its Cupcake Stores
By 7.8.14
And so the great cupcake bubble of the 21st century has burst, taking with it the industry’s most prominent chain. New York-based Crumbs has closed all of its locations a week after NASDAQ suspended trading of the company’s stock. [More]
Bear Crashes Through Skylight, Eats Cupcakes For Boy’s Birthday Party
By 6.26.14
Uninvited guests who crash parties and eat all the treats are the absolute worst, am I right? Darn treat scarfers! But a black bear took it to a literal extreme in Alaska, falling through a home’s skylight only to land in the middle of preparations for a kid’s birthday party. And he was rude enough to gobble up as many cupcakes as he could get his paws on, to boot. [More]
Sprinkles Finally Expands 24-Hour Cupcake ATM To New York City
By 3.26.14
Back in 2012, we covered the opening of the very first cupcake-filled ATM (Automated Tastiness Machine) at Sprinkles in Los Angeles. It took two years, but the cakeomat has finally made its way across the country, and Sprinkles has installed a cupcake ATM at their Manhattan bakery. [More]
Is The Gilded Age Of Cupcakes Finally Ending?
By 4.17.13
From shops selling oversize cupcakes tricked out with all manner of candies, nuts, drizzles, icings and whatnot, to multiple reality shows based solely around the art of baking cupcakes, the treat that had once been relegated to classroom parties grew into a huge business during the last decade. But have we finally had our fill of the sweet treats? [More]
Automated Cupcake Machine Now Available 24 Hours For Sugar Emergencies
By 3.1.12
Have you ever said to yourself at one in the morning, “I could really use some cupcakes,” but didn’t want to bake them yourself? Well, if you have the ability to get to Beverly Hills, cupcakery Sprinkles now has a pink cupcake kiosk installed outside of their store where you can buy fresh cupcakes, mixes, and even cupcakes for your dog. Of course there are cupcakes for your dog. [More]
TSA Proclaims That Once A Cupcake Is Inside A Jar, It's Not Okay To Carry On
By 1.11.12
The Transportation Security Administration wants you to know that it takes “cupcakegate” very seriously, which is why they’re reiterating why it was deemed not okay for a woman to take a cupcake through security in a jar, when carrying a regular, non-jarred up dessert with icing is fine. It’s the level of frosting, you see, and the 3-1-1 rule. [More]
Duncan Hines Pulls "Hip Hop Cupcakes" Video Over Blackface Allegations
By 12.10.10
Duncan Hines has managed to stick its foot deep into the hornet’s nest with a YouTube video for its Amazing Glazes product that features “hip hop” cupcakes that some say resemble minstrels in blackface. [More]
Teens Busted For Selling Cupcakes Without A License
By 11.15.10
In news that’s reminiscent of the Oregon Lemonade Stand Scandal of 2010, two 13-year-olds in New York state had their baked goods business shut down by police for operating without a license. [More]
Babycakes Makes Baking Cupcakes More Convenient, More Stupid
By 11.12.10
This isn’t really a “new” product–it’s been around since at least this past spring, but it just recently came to our attention. Yes, if you are too impatient to wait the fifteen minutes or so that it takes to bake cupcakes and other small baked goods in a regular old oven, this monotasking, space-hogging glorified George Foreman grill is here to help you expand your waistline. [More]
Prepare Yourself: The Cupcake Bubble Is About To Burst
By 9.9.09
One industry that has grown in the recession is set for a fall. No, not vehicle repossessions or shoe repair. I’m talking about the mid-decade cupcake boom. According to Slate, the industry is due for a bust.
Cupcake Truck Hits New York
By 5.20.09
Two words. The first word is cupcake. The second is truck. Started by a recently graduated New York Law School student who realized he wasn’t getting a job this year, Cupcakestop will be scooting around Manhattan, serving up treats like red velvet, oreo crumb, and black and white cookie. $1 for minis, $2.25 for regular size. I think they’re going to be Twittering their location at each stop, too. Innovation in the recession. Tasty.
More Business-Owners Accuse Yelp Of Review Extortion
By 3.9.09
The review website Yelp is being accused again of extorting small business owners — but this time the business owners say that Yelp used the guarantee of positive reviews to get free products for their events. The Chicago Tribune has a quote from the owner of a cupcake shop who says that Yelp “guaranteed us good reviews on the site if we catered one of their parties for free.”
