July 29, 2011

Celebrating Summer in Michigan with Megan's Cupcakes

Happy Summer! We are in full swing catering many events from weddings to birthdays to back yard barbecues. In addition to baking cupcakes, we have been busy updating our website and would love for you to check out our new and improved site! If you are interested in following us on a daily basis, watching for new flavors, and seeing photos of our latest work, please check us out on facebook. We are very excited to be near the 500 fan mark!

For July and August we will be celebrating summer in Michigan! Please join us on Saturday, July 30th from 11am-2pm in downtown Cadillac for Sidewalk Sales. Megan's Cupcakes will be setting up shop between Platinum Noir Salon and Atomic Closet. We will have Michigan Black Sweet Cherry Butter Cream Frosting Shots free to sample, and our new cupcake flavor, Cherrilicious! This is a Black Sweet Cherry Cupcake topped with Cherry Butter cream garnished with a cherry on top! We'll have cupcakes for sale by the individual or in 6 packs. While you are sampling your Cherry Buttercream, Megan's cousin, Emma, will be face painting. Have a cupcake painted on your cheek for $1.00. The proceeds from face painting will go to benefit Project Christmas!

Our August flavor of the month is another Michigan favorite, Blueberrilicious! This is our Blueberry Cupcake topped with Blueberry Butter Cream. We use Michigan blueberries that are locally grown, puree them to put inside the cupcake batter and in the butter cream. When it's all baked and frosted, we garnish the cupcake with a little blueberry on top! Not only are they a beautiful shade of blue, but they taste great too! You will love them!

On a side note, my cupcake kitchen will be closed from Monday, August 8th to Thursday, August 11th so I can enjoy some of the beauty Michigan has to offer with my family! We will be turning the ovens back on Friday, August 12th!

Happy Summer to you and yours!

July 23, 2011

The Team, The Team, The Team

Former University of Michigan Football Coach and Athletic Director Bo Schembechler has a famous recording that was taken prior to the 1984 Washington vs Michigan football game where he talks about the importance of "The Team." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOmQJhHfGf8&feature=related

This weekend was crazy busy for Megan's Cupcakes. While I am not a crazy University of Michigan fan like our friends the Meyers, without my team, I never could have pulled it off today. Thank you to everyone who was part the Megan's Cupcakes team!

July 8, 2011

Megan's Cupcakes and Google Analytics

We launch our redesigned website a few weeks ago. Last Friday, my husband the internet marketing guru, installed Google Analytics to track the visitors on Meganscupcakes.com. Google Analytics is a free website measurement application offered by Google.

We are seeing some pretty interesting results. We have had visitors from 6 different countries including Canada, UK and Brazil. We have seen visitors from 19 different states -- and that is just in the first week. Just think what we will see in the future. It truly is a World Wide Web