Treat Your Mother Right, With Treats!

Mother. It's an evocative word, right?  She's been a part of your life, well, for your entire life. Chances are, you'll want to celebrate her in some way this Mother's Day, Can I suggest an all natural, sweet?

Our cupcake sampler will soothe and inspire. Taste the pure chocolate and rich cream and let them work their magic on your mind, body and spirit. Too much to expect from a cupcake? I don't think so!

This month's cupcake sampler is specially designed to please. We are offering our very special Truffle selection. 12 double, dark chocolate cupcakes filled with 3 flavors of sweet ganache, topped with our decadent Italian butter cream and even more chocolate ganache. As always, our ingredients are of the highest quality, organic and free trade, where possible, and all natural. 

Three flavors, 12 to share or keep all to yourself!

Chocolate Chocolate Truffle: our double dark chocolate cake filled with a rich dark chocolate. topped with vanilla butter cream and more chocolate ganache.

Chocolate Raspberry Truffle: our double dark chocolate cake, filled with Chambord-raspberry ganache. Sweet and tart, it's topped with vanilla buttercream and more ganache! yay!

White Chocolate Trufle: our double dark chocolate cake, filled with genuine white chocolate ganache. You won't find "white chips" here, only all natural white chocolate with real cocoa butter to melt in your mouth. 

Click here to order your cupcake sampler

Peace

I had a surprise afternoon off this week and I was able to hit the store for my Easter basket supplies. As I walked the aisles I was a little melancholy, thinking of past holidays with my child. At 16, he's still a great kid, but not too interested in egg hunts and the Easter bunny. I love this stage of his life, but I have to admit I miss the sweet things you do with young children.

He loved to color Easter eggs, and he has a bit of an artist in him, so we never did it half way. The table would be covered with dye cups, both store bought and home made, and anything we could think of to use for decorating. Once everything was set, the kid would stand up on a chair and begin dropping eggs into the dye. His signature technique was to over dye each egg with multiple colors. Over and over he moved the eggs around until each was the color of my morning coffee, with cream. i should mention that his favorite tool was his little hand, and it too, would be dyed brown before the night was over. 

Some people like to have pastel perfection on Easter morning, but for me, those brown beauties

were their own kind of perfect, I will always remember them with affection. 

However you will be spending this weekend, I wish you peace and happiness, and a little whimsy, just for fun.

~Jen

Celebrate!

Here at The Clever Cake, we don't think there are enough opportunities to celebrate. In the immortal words of Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."  So why not take a moment and treat yourself to a little personal holiday? Hey look, you washed the car and it didn't rain for 24 hours after! Partay! After all, March 26th is Create your own holiday day!

Or celebrate one of these March holidays with an order from your favorite bakery!

• Mar. 3: I want you to be happy day. 
• Mar. 4: Hug a GI (and give him a cupcake) day.
• Mar. 5: The Clever Cake Baker's Birthday!
• Mar. 8: Be nasty day (I'll let you interpret that yourself).
• Mar. 10: Middle name pride day! Middle names need a fete!
• Mar. 16: EVERYTHING YOU DO IS RIGHT DAY! I think buttercream is required!
• Mar. 25 Pecan Day. Lucky you, CC has a number of pecan-dressed flavors!
• Mar. 29: Mom and Pop business owners day. As it happens, thee owner of CC is a mom and has a lot of pop in her step!

However you decide to mark the special occasions in your life, The Clever Cake is here to provide a special dessert to help you celebrate. 

Happy Friday!

~Jen

The Ides of March Are Upon Us

For most of us it's hard to believe that March is almost here. I know that's the case at The Clever Cake, where we are still recovering from our busy holiday season! Seriously, it's true. We like to spread the recovery out so that we can still enjoy ourselves, and to be fair, it would be hard to impose austerity measures on people who like buttercream so much. But don't feel badly for us! The imposition to our waistlines is all to the benefit of our customers! We have invented a cake, so lovely, so delicious and so perfectly matched to the vagaries of the March weather, you will just have to have it for yourself.

Introducing our exclusive Black and Tan cake!   We have paired our rich and tender Double Dark Chocolate cake (always made with free trade dark chocolate and organic cocoa), with authentic Irish Cream buttercream! One bite and you'll swear you've been transported to an old-fashioned pub for a pint with the boyos. The best part? It's adults only! So you can feel just fine looking your kids in the eye and saying, "Hands off my cake!"

Saint Patrick's Day Bunco anyone?

~Jennifer

We made a batch of mini cuppies for a school party this week. These tasty 2 x 2 bites are perfect for little hands and mouths, and won't make you regret cheating on your diet!

Welcome!

Thank you for visiting The Clever Cake!

Our journey started 6 years ago, when sisters, Jennifer and Anne, started Ella Vanilla Gourmet Bakery. We garnered may loyal customers and fans, unfortunately, our dream wasn't meant to last. Now, one half of that dynamic sister-duo has reemerged as the owner of The Clever Cake Bakery and she's ready to bake up all your delightful, sweet dreams!

Please enjoy our website and be sure to review the cupcake sampler page. New, since Ella Vanilla days, the cupcake sampler is a terrific way to try our gourmet flavors without leaving your diet in the dust!

As always, we are committed to creating delicious cakes without sacrificing quality. Our motto, "Always Natural. Always Delicious," means that every cake and cookie we create uses only the best, all natural ingredients. You'll never find trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, or artificial ingredients in our products. Instead, your senses can enjoy the lush texture of Italian buttercreams, made with 100% real butter, the tastes of real sugar, 100% natural vanilla, pure Ghirardelli chocolate and sight of whimsical colors and creations.

Give us try. You won't be disappointed.

~Jennifer