We're here in the Fox 1 by Carrier Kitchen
a little earlier this morning because
we have some really fun stuff here.
I'm joined by Deanna Damon
from the cake Gypsy.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Thank you for inviting me.
And what a display.
Ohh. My goodness.
We have a lot to talk about and a lot to do.
And you've got some great
Groundhog inspired cupcakes.
Yes. Well, today's Groundhog Day.
And during the holidays we always
try to come up with a special cupcake
to help our customers celebrate,
right, and to make it more exciting.
Exactly. So we actually came up with
these last year and we sold about
1000 of them and that was just on
Groundhog Day I advertised him.
So yes, we started selling them yesterday
and we sold actually a couple hundred
of them yesterday and they're also
going to be sold today at our Avon store.
Alright, well, let's get started
because you're going to have me make
a little Groundhog cupcake myself,
right? Yeah. So I'm going to show
you, OK. And how we make these,
we're located in.
Avon, CT and we are opening in
Canton and West Hartford shortly.
So we have about 60 different
flavors of cupcakes every day.
And see people are very familiar
with the cake Gypsy already.
Yes, yeah, we've actually been voted best
cupcakes in Connecticut year after year.
And we also offer a gluten free
and vegan cupcakes as well.
So people like that.
And doggy cupcakes.
Oh yeah, those are really so.
Super popular.
Well, let's get started here as
well to make sure that we can
get to the finished product.
Sure. So cute over there.
So let me I'm going to
demonstrate actually how to make these.
So if anybody at home is
interested in making them,
we we start out with a chocolate cupcake.
And then this is a round tip with chocolate.
So what you're gonna do is you
just frost it like this. OK.
And then you are going to take chocolate
sprinkles and cover the entire thing.
Hmm. OK, just cover the entire
thing with chalk a sprinkles.
OK, then you're going to take
these are Whoppers, right?
Milk just from the box right here.
Exactly. Malted milk balls.
So you're going to put those right there.
OK, cute. And then we're going to.
These are dehydrated marshmallows.
So we use those in our hot chocolate bombs,
which are over there.
That's something very popular,
especially during Valentine's Day.
So we use those as teeth.
But if people are making them at home, they
could just buy regular small marshmallows,
maybe cut them, make them smaller.
Absolutely. Right.
And then we have the eyeballs.
These are sugar eyeballs.
You put those little guys in there.
OK.
And then these are just little
chocolate disks that we give
for years. Those are so cute.
So easy, too. Yeah. Oh, my goodness.
So anyway, so, yeah, it's,
it's not difficult to make,
but people really enjoy that. Yeah. And
of course, you're also getting
ready for Valentine's Day.
You've got some great
options here. Yes, we do.
Valentine's Day is a hot chocolate
bum that you were just talking about.
Yes, that's hot chocolate bomb
that's decorated for Valentine's Day.
And we have. Oh, look at this.
Love that. Like, Valentine's Day
is one of our biggest holidays.
It's absolutely crazy.
And so we're typically closed on Mondays.
But this February 13th,
we're gonna be open. Yeah.
So I think last year we sold about
7000 cupcakes on February 13th.
Fantastic. Not to mention February 14th.
So the hot chocolate bombs are super popular.
Also are heartbreakers.
They're chocolate.
I love
them. Open. Exactly. I left a
little chocolate box. But we we fill
them with candy. And then we seal them
shut and they go in a little gift box
with some other candy and then they take
the smasher and smash it to get into
it. We got something very similar
when my daughter was born.
My sister-in-law sent us
one of those ohh fun.
Great to get the whole
family involved in that. So
and we do chocolate covered Oreos and
some other ohh I love these. Yeah,
those are Rice Krispies rice crispy bars.
We're opening actually a chocolate shop
called the Enchanted Chocolate Factory.
We're hoping to get it in time
for Valentine's Day. Will be all.
That's a separate store.
It's in the next building in my Avon
store and also Bliss Cookie Company
where we're gonna be selling French
macarons and like large cookies and stuff.
So there's a lot of exciting
things going on right now.
So busy. So it's not
so much for making the time
to come in here with us.
We do. Sure. This is awesome.
So we're we're so fortunate.
Our customers are just the best.
Absolutely. We're doing great.
Perfect. Perfect.
Well thanks so much for sharing this.
I love it. And of course, you know,
Matt, I will save you a tree.
Deanna, thank you so much.
I think everybody's gonna
be happy about this.