Cakes, Bakes and Things You can Take!

   In my last post, I talked about how important it is to me and my bakery partner/husband that our bakery offer real food made with real ingredients by us in our shop. Today I thought I would tell you a little bit about what we plan to actually offer in our shop.

One of our Custom Cakes

   Since the Frosted Fox Cake Shop is a cake shop, our main focus is, of course, cake! We aim to provide delicious and beautiful custom cakes for weddings, birthdays, showers, graduations, retirements and any other festivity where a cake would be appreciated (hint: all of them). We have decided to offer a wide range of cake flavors, filling options and icing varieties which are sure to please everybody. We'll have classics like chocolate cake, red velvet, white cake, yellow cake and carrot. We will also have more unusual options like apple, banana, pumpkin and peanut butter. For our current list of flavors options you can check out our website www.frostedfoxcakeshop.com. I promise I will write a post soon about what designing and making a custom cake is like, but for now, I'm going to try to stay focused on tell you about the rest of our shop's offerings.
If you want to see some photos of cakes I've made, check out this link for our custom cakes.

Pumpkin cupcake with cinnamon cream
cheese icing

   I wish I could have birthday cake everyday, but sadly, that's not how life usually pans out. So, for the other 364 days a year, we wanted to offer a wider variety of smaller treats. Little sweets that don't require a special occasion. Staying with the cake theme for a moment, we'll have cupcakes as well as some delicious smaller cakes that will be ready to pick up without having to place an order ahead of time. We'll offer delicious classic combinations like chocolate mousse cake, yellow cake with chocolate icing, red velvet with cream cheese and lemon cake with cream cheese icing. We'll also cycle in different combinations as specials. How will we come up with some of our options? We'll poll our friends, family and customers! I'm envisioning some kind of bracket system, or perhaps a prize for best suggestion.

A test batch of Sean's favorite
cookies, mmm&mmm's

   Even though cakes are my passion, it was really important to us that our shop have options for our neighbors to come in every day just to get a nibble to satisfy their sweet tooth. We wanted to offer more than just cakes and cupcakes, so we decided we would offer a line of delicious, family friendly cookies, brownies and bars. Of course, we had to offer chocolate chip cookies which are my personal favorite. There's also a super chocolatey double chocolate chip cookie which always seems to disappear from our kitchen whenever we make them. We have a killer raspberry bar that's topped with our own granola which has already proven to be a fan favorite. There are a lot too many choices to go into here, but you can check out our full list of cookies and bars here.  Thirsty? We will be offering simple coffee options, teas and a range of other beverages perfect with a cookie, brownie or cupcake.
   So that's what we are starting with. I'm hopeful we can expand our menu as our business grows. There are a lot of baked goods that we will be offering as rotating specials that will hopefully become staples over time. We will be focusing primarily on sweet items, at least to start. For my next post, I'll be talking about the aesthetic choices one is faced with when opening a bakery. From the look of our cakes to the style of the shop!