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“Downtown Champaign shop to serve rounds of cupcakes,” The News-Gazette
Trisha Bates loves baking cupcakes.
She also loves downtown Champaign.
So she and her sister, Amanda, are combining the two, and opening up a cake bar at 114 N. Walnut St., near the Esquire Lounge, later this fall.
To be called Cream & Flutter Cake Bar, it will cater […]

Crumbs Bakeshop Beverly HillsOriginally uploaded by candiedyams.
Look out Sprinkles fans, there’s a new cupcake bakery in town! New York’s Crumbs Bakeshop has just opened a location today in Beverly Hills.A little bird told me that Crumbs will give away to the first 1000 customers at its new location in Beverly Hills this Thursday. Yum!
CRUMBS Bakeshop9465 […]

Congratulations to Erin McKenna of NYC bakery Babycakes on the news of her book deal, below, from Publishers Marketplace. I’m sure many of you will be scrambling to check this one out. Here’s our interview with Erin. Not sure what happened to the photos accompanying the interview, but there’s more info on Babycakes’s press page. […]

USA Today:
The everyday marshmallow is toast.
Replacing it: gourmet, fancy-dancy marshmallows made with everything from caramel swirls to chocolate chips to passion fruit.
Even giant Kraft is jumping on board. Earlier this year, it rolled out Jet-Puffed StrawberryMallows — its first flavored entry — and the strawberry version already is outselling plain ones 2-to-1. No wonder Jet-Puffed […]

downloadsquad:
Face it, many of us are overloaded. We’ve got a million things to do, and no time to do them.
Taking an hour and shattering it into 5 periods of 10 minutes, with 2 minute breaks between, hence “(10+2)*5″ (yes, we’re math geeks too and we know the “*” is redundant.. but it looks pretty). The […]

FortuneWatch:
Robin Bal over at the FortuneWatch blog has an interesting story to tell:
A man walked into a bank in New York City one day and asked for the loan officer.
He told the loan officer that he was going to Philippines on business for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000. The bank officer told him […]

East Valley Tribune:
Most people who reach the age of 50 start thinking about how to prepare for retirement. Jim Whiteside was ready to start a whole new career.
Whiteside sold his interest in a medical supply company after 30 years in that business and started a chauffeured hybrid-vehicle transportation service in May.
Tempe-based EnviroCar is a cross […]

Entrepreneur:
Starting a new business is never simple. From the technological issues to funding, entrepreneurs face hundreds of potential headaches as they try to get their startups off the ground.
Amazon is hoping to alleviate those headaches for one lucky entrepreneur with its “Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge.”
The contest is aimed at startups and software developers who […]

The next LA Cupcakes Meetup will be held at Leda’s Bake Shop. Details below but make sure you RSVP because it’s limited to 20 people.
When:Saturday, October 6, 2007, 1:00 PM
Where:Leda’s Bake Shop13722 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks , CA 91423
Description:CitySearch says: “Futuristic and retro, with just two large, white, space-age chairs and a table, this cheerful […]

All from Flickr user nasbabycakes15
Original post by Rachel and software by Elliott Back