TODAY: Cupcakes to Benefit Central Texas Fire Relief

Sugar Mama's Bakeshop in Austin, TX will be donating all proceeds today to the Central Texas fire relief efforts. Head on over to support a great cause.

From their Facebook Page:

"On Wednesday all profits will be split between American Red Cross and Austin Pets Alive to help Central TX fire relief.

Come buy dessert, and the next day we'll cut a check to these two charities. 

We are thinking of all of our friends in the surrounding areas and hoping for their safety."

Cupcake-a-Doodle-Do!

Austin, mark your calendars for Cupcake-a-Doodle-Do: The Great Cupcake Challenge!



Saturday, October 22nd, Noon-5 pm

Central Market North

4001 North Lamar

Austin, Texas



Theatre Action Project (TAP) and Central Market present the “Cupcake-a-Doodle-Do: The Great Cupcake Challenge” on Saturday, October 22 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 4001 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX 78756. The event features family fun activities and crafts or all ages, and bragging rights for the Best Cup Cake in Austin.



Competing bakeries are eager to put their cupcakes to test while also supporting Theatre Action Project. TAP teaches young people critical life lessons through the power of theatre and the creative arts, including film, music, theatre, painting murals, and more. TAP serves 16,000 young people a year, PreK-12th grade, through a variety of in school, after school, summer camp, and evening based programs. TAP focuses on topics such as: bullying, diversity, dating violence, low self-esteem, eating healthy, literacy, and the environment.



This fundraiser will support TAP’s continued effort to reach more youth and empower them to create social change within the Austin community.



Suggested Donation of $5

Cupcake t-shirts by Hey Cupcake Threads

Hey, Cupcake! is the cupcake bakery/cupcake Airstream trailer in Austin, Texas, and they also have a cupcake clothing company called Hey Cupcake Threads, which is currently having a 25% off sale. Here are a few of the fun cupcake items they're selling by mail order! Enter promo code "school" for your discount.

Sunday in Austin: one day only special cupcake flavors at Sugadeaux Guest Bake at Sugar Mama's

From Australia's Sugadeaux Cupcakes comes this special annual limited edition cupcake event, this Sunday!

Plus your chance to win a $50 Sugar Mama's Bake Shop gift card! The 8-course cupcake tasting sold out too fast for us to get a post up, though more info and a link are below (another reminder to follow your favorite cupcake bakeries on Twitter and Facebook!) but this event is open to the public and we encourage you to check it out (and if you do and want to write about it for us, email us at cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com). In this case, follow them @sugarmamas and @Sugadeaux and find out more about Sugadeaux on their website.





Full details about the Guest Bake are on Facebook and below.

Sunday, July 31, 11 am - 4 pm
Sugar Mama's Bakeshop
1905 S 1st St
Austin, TX
512-448-3727

Come on down to Sugar Mama's Bakeshop where we'll be guest baking for the day! We're featuring two brand new Sugadeaux cupcake flavours (one classic Aussie, one Texan inspired) alongside the awesome Sugar Mama's menu, plus everyone who makes a purchase gets a bonus Aussie treat.

Jess will be working the counter all day, so come on in and say howdy!

Google Places will also be handing out free swag from 12-2.30, and giving you the chance to win a $50 Sugar Mama's gift card!

And from CultureMap Austin (typos theirs), info on "Dessert for Dinner," the 8-course cupcake tasting, which sold out in three days:

The two soon set about launching an event Pryles had dreamed up weeks before, a “cupcake residency” so to speak, where the two ladies could try out flavors new and old on fans. Now three years running, “Dessert for Dinner” is an eight-course cupcake tasting, with four flavors each prepared by Sugar Mama’s and Sugadeux. At $18 per ticket, today’s tasting sold out in three days.

“Before we went to press really, Olivia and I just got online and started Tweeting it, and it immediately went crazy,” Pryles says. It’s no wonder: Both Sugar Mama’s and Sugadeux will be debuting two brand new flavors, and Pryles has a particularly Texas twist.

“Texas Pink Grapefruit, which is made with a grapefruit curd, from local grapefruits,” explains Pryles. “I’m also making a Sweet Tea cupcake, which is so very Southern, and reminds me of my adopted Texas.”