The Baking Machine.........

I am done baking and all orders are filled. My Over the rainbow cupcakes are quickly becoming my favorite cupcake. The cake is delicate and light with a hint of almond. The vanilla butter cream really balances out the almond notes. I will have to cut one open tomorrow so you can see how pretty they look on the inside. I posted some naked ones above so you could see the rainbow specs.

I am headed to beddie bye. We have an extremely early morning tomorrow and an action packed weekend. I will post more pics tomorrow.

Nite nite.

Cheers it's Friday!

Hmmmmmmmmm, that title gets me thinking about cocktail cupcakes. I am not much of a drinker but there are many drinks that would make fabulous cupcakes. I have a huge list of "happy hour" cupcakes that are just waiting to be created. Off of the top of my head I can think of the follow cupcakes that I would like to develop at some point:

Kahlua

Margarita

Mojito

Sour Apple

Hurricane

Pina Colada

What would you like to see?????

Onto Harmony business. Pretty much I am baking and filing orders for the weekend. I already made chocolate chip cookie minis(see pics above) but I still have Over the Rainbow, Harmony Chocolate, and Cookies n' cream to bake. I will post pics of everything as they are made.

Happy Friday.

C is for Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes

The Chocolate Chip Cookie minis came out fabulous. I just had to post a picture of them while they were cooling. I will post the finished product sometime tomorrow morning before I drop them off. I also made a few Over the Rainbow with the left over batter that I had. There is more baking tomorrow and then hopefully I will have time to catch up on some laundry and sleep.

Until tomorrow, this is Claire the Baking Scientist signing off.

More contractors........

Met with another contractor today and have another meeting set up for Saturday morning. We are hoping to meet with at least 5 companies to make sure we have plenty of options. Things are progressing. We should have 2 bids by next week so the wait is on. I hope they are reasonable bids. I have many orders to fill for this weekend and one for tomorrow so I am cutting this short. Enjoy the pictures of the cookies that my goddaughter and I baked on Monday. I will post more pics when my next batch of cupcakes come out of the oven.

Contractor week is here!

Contractor week is here. We met with one set of contractors today and they were cool. We have a meeting tomorrow morning and another one set for Saturday sometime. I have Mo working on getting another name too. Hopefully, someone will come in at a price that we can afford. We enphasizes that we are looking to get this shop off of the ground with the least amount of $$$$. We can get fancy with location # 2 (again, I am Thinking Big- thanks Ben Carson). I so wish money grew on trees or that I played the lottery. I am so close to Harmony that I can taste it.

I also met with a wonderful lady at the Cincy Urban League. She gave me a lot of valuable pointers about getting Harmony up and running. I love that there are so many FREE resources out there for entrepreneurs.

Onto Harmony business. The buzz is continuing to grow. I have 2 more orders for this weekend from people that I do not know. I love the Internet. People are actually finding us through Google. My friends are also doing a fabulous job of spreading the work, Thanks Eb!

Well, I am out for now. I will better about posting, it has just been really crazy and last night I got home too late to even think about writing.

Peace, love and SOUL.......

Kids Kreations

I could not help but share the cupcakes that my kids decorated on Saturday. I only wish that my location was going to be big enough to host decorating parties. Perhaps location # 2! (yes I am dreaming and THINKING BIG)

The ones up top are Amari's (age 7) and the ones on the bottom are Nalah-B's (age 6)

New product development

Here are pics of the Chocolate covered pretzel and the nameless M&M. The chocolate covered pretzel was pretty but really a bust b/c the pretzel lost its crunch, like I expected. I love chocolate covered pretzels so I am going to have to do more work on this one. The whole sweet and salty concept is a big winner. I have a few others up my sleeves too, so check back often. I will also be unveiling my holiday limited edition varieties in the next week or so............

It's just another Manic Monday!

Good-day Fans of Harmony!

I am back and feeling better. I had to take a day and a half of rest. I think between the baking and catching Z-man's cold, I was pretty much out for the count after 2pm of Saturday. I am kinda mad b/c I missed our neighbor's annual harvest costume party. I had planned on surprising her with some Apple Cobbler cupcakes but instead I was dead to the word. Chaka and the boyz went and had a good time. I hope my neighbors don't think that I am too anti-social (even though I kinda am). I just really cherish our weekends and family time.

Nalah-B and I had a girls afternoon out yesterday. We went to see the Children's Theater production of High School Musical at the Taft Theater with her gymnastics buddy and her family. The girls had a blast. They knew every word to every song and danced and sang in the aisles throughout the entire play. They were TOO cute. Afterwards they waited outside the stage entrance and got several of the casts autographs. It was really a night to remember.

Today, I am pretty much chillin' and hanging out with my goddaughter who is on fall break. Who ever heard of a fall break that lasted a week and a day. I could understand in we still had to harvest our crops in the fall but a full week off wreaks havoc on a mom's schedule. We have done a few arts and crafts, played with play-dough and next we are going to bake some cookies for her to take home.

As for Harmony business, Chaka is helping me out today by taking care of all of our phone calls. I should have more new to share by the end of the week.

Life is good b/c I am still following my bliss.

Today, bring some Harmony into your life!

Peace.