Our shirts

We had t-shirts made from 4 Story graphics design company. The Two sisters Logo is on the front and the saying with the cupcake is on the back. We love the shirts and the company was very helpful to us and had a fast turnaround time!! There web site is 4storygraphics.com. check them out!

Queen Anne Cupcake's

This is a chocolate cupcake with vanilla cream cheese frosting that has chocolate covered cherries mixed in and then topped with a chocolate covered cherry! Chocolate cherry goodness!!

What to make?

So the focus for the last couple of weeks has been trying to decide what to do for the Bob Phillips Festival AND how many of what we finally decide on!! We think we have made a final decision and then we think about it and second guess ourselves and make a change and then try to decide if we make the right change. It is frustrating that we have never done this before and want to be prepared.
Last weekend we had orders for six dozen different kinds of cupcakes so that made for a busy Friday night and Saturday morning. But we made it and had another sell out day. I stumbled across a really cute and easy decoration. I frosted the cupcakes and then rolled them into Halloween colored M&M's. For something that sounds so easy it really is a cute idea. My camera's battery has been needing a recharge so I haven't taken cupcake pictures lately. But it just got charged tonight so pictures will be coming soon!!!
Steve and I are going away to Broken Bow, OK this weekend to celebrate his birthday so Carol Ann will be in charge of creative decisions for Saturdays cupcakes. So, I am interested in what she will choose to make!! She will have more control with the decorations, I like to go with the idea that if some is good then more must be better!!! She does not always agree with me on that!!! She likes to edit me especially in the area of sprinkles.
Ok, until next time, keep eating cupcakes!!
Big Sister

Banana Scotch-a-roo!

Yes, I made a cupcake this past Saturday that was a banana cupcake and topped with butterscotch cream cheese flavored frosting. Carol Ann thought I was crazy and no one in their right mind would buy such a flavor. But lo and behold there were buyers of the cupcake flavor and not only did they buy them but there were even a couple who said "wow how did you think of this?" and "this is a really great flavor combination!!!" Carol Ann of course thought I had paid them to say this in her presence!! But no, these were spontaneous comments.
Oh, let me not forget there was some snickering about the name also. Just where does the "roo" come into the name, she asked? I said, have you never heard of the oatmeal cookies with butterscotch chips in them, they are called oatmeal scotch-a-roos. She had not and thought the name of the cupcake matched the flavor, both strange.
That's my story and I am sticking to it!!! LOL!!!

It worked!!

Ok, so I just tried it and it workes!! You just have to click on the title of the post and it takes you straight to out part of the downtown website!!! I was first looking for the link in the actual post and thought I had missed it somehow but after looking around for a minute I found it and was so happy. It really is the little things sometimes!!

Link to website

Just wanted everyone to know we are on the Downtown Waxahachie website. It has a few pictures, our sandwich menu and our cupcake flavor list. I am going to try to post a link, wish me luck!!!

What is September already?

O.k. so all of sudden I'm looking at the blog and realize a month has whizzed by. So if Debbie is feeling guilty about not blogging more, maybe I should? The shop is just cooking. We are getting more and more catering gigs and I am loving that. Yes, I love selling the cupcakes, and I really get excited about making the sandwiches. However, when I really get revived up is when I get the phone call or referral for a catering job. I just love talking to the people and showing them how we can fit there needs. It's so fun! Plus when people realize all the flavors that Debbie has come up they get excited about getting to pick from such a long extensive, fun flavorful, list of cupcakes to choose from. I love meeting more people in the community. If you haven't had the chance come on in . If you want a real treat, come in on a Saturday and watch Debbie work with me. She has a full time job, and comes in the evenings to make cupcakes and then on Saturday. To funny to watch her work the register, get tea and serve cupcakes at the same time. Ok so it's the little things that make me happy. Don't
get me wrong, she does a great job, she has a smaller threshold of impatience with her self and gets a little cuffed. To fun!
Bottom line, we have great cupcakes, super flavors in a relaxed atmophere. Come on in. I'd love to see you sometime soon.
Carol Ann A.K.A, lil sis

I am a horrible blogger!!!

I know, I know, I am a horrible blogger. I read other blogs and find myself upset when they miss days. Well, I have missed a whole month. We have been keeping busy but there is still room to be busier.
We have been so blessed to have a group of regulars that happen to be local downtown business owners that come in themselves but they also recommend us to their patrons.
Today Carol Ann said there was two men that came into the shop and said, "The word on the street is I need your cupcakes." They ended up leaving with over one dozen nutter buddies to take for a meeting later in the day.
One of the most fun things still is to come up with different flavor combinations and then to name the cupcake. Sometimes they just have a regular name like chocolate orange,(chocolate cupcake with orange cream cheese frosting). But then someone will say you always have such fun names why such a plain name? The reason that comes to mind is sometimes it is just too hard to come up with something fun and different that suits the flavor. The chocolate orange cupcake, we were talking about calling it something like "whack an orange", in reference to the chocolate oranges you see at Christmas that you have to whack on the table to break it apart. But, we always have to think of how many times Carol Ann can explain the name before she will crawl over the counter! LOL!!!
OK, come by and buy cupcakes!!! Remember if we don't have the flavor you want, all you have to do is order one dozen and they can be ready for you the next day!!!
Big Sister

Chocolate Strawberry

Chocolate cupcake with strawberry frosting and chocolate shavings!!

Raspberry Beret

This is a Raspberry Beret. Vanilla cupcake with raspberry cream cheese frosting. Yummy!!

Where has July gone?

I cannot believe that the month of July is almost over! This month has been very different in the cupcake world. For me anyway! Debbie and Steve went on Vacation so that left me for the first time to run the shop and make the cupcakes on my own. OMG! I did it but lets just say I'm glad Martha Stewart didn't come for a visit that weekend. Since she has been back we are on a roll trying some new flavors and tweeking some old favorites. Debbie tryed the fresh Peach and that got sold out right away. We had special orders for strawberry and they to were a big hit. It's a fun time of the year to try all the fresh fruits but really is a science to know how much to put in so the actual cupcake is not mushy. Yuck.
I'd like to say a special thank you to any of you who have read our blog spot and then actually came to the shop to buy a cupcake. I really appreciate your support and love it when people say they found us on the Internet. A special thanks to Wanda Jones for her recent cupcake gifts she gave to us. A really cute cupcake decanter, tea towel, bag and notepad. That was so special. If you didn't get it, we collect cute things with cupcakes on it. Thanks again Wanda.
Well I'll close for now and hopefully it won't be another month before I check in.
Have a great summer and see you soon.
The Lil sis.

Paper, get your very own article in the paper!!

Here's my two cents worth,
Last Friday night we had a interview with our local paper. He was a nice guy and brought a sweet girl as his photographer. Really didn't think much about it. We enjoyed traveling down memory lane with him and sharing a little of our family history and how we even got the idea of working together. However, I really didn't think much would come of it. Low and behold on Monday, Debbie's husband, Steve calls and tells her we are on the front page and have 3 pictures and 3 different pages of information.Wow and wow were we ever surprised. So... you have to go onto the Waxahachie Daily light web site and look on Monday June 23rd and you can see a great article about Debbie and me and our sweet little shop.Until next time, keep eating those cupcakes.
Bless you,
CA

We got on!!!

You don't know how excited I was when I got an e-mail back from Rachel from the Blog site Cupcakes take the Cake. She acknowledged my email and said she would try to add our information in the next few days. Well to my surprise and delight, the very next day I went to take my daily browse and....we were there!!! Two Sisters Cupcakes in Waxahachie, Texas on THE Cupcake blog site!!! I told everyone it was like having the Martha Stewart of cupcakes read and respond to my email!!! LOL!!! She did make a point of letting us know we should add all the important information about our hours and location to the site. I had just done that the day after I sent her the email knowing it might be something she would notice I had missed. She must have gone to the site before I had a chance to post. It's OK, I am not taking it personal. I know she was just trying to help our business!!
We have just been praying that we would get a little busier and have more people know about us. Well, I can only imagine between this and I didn't mention yet but we were interviewed by a reporter from our local paper, how busy we could get. He asked us how we got started and all kinds of information. He even brought a photographer! He is doing a story about our shop and the cupcakes. Carol told him she is even thinking about having a local cupcake challenge sometime in the fall. It's all good and all GOD! I promise pictures will be added soon!!

I E-mailed My Favorite Cupcake Blog site!!

Oh My Goodness!! I am so excited. I just sent an email to my favorite cupcake blog. Cupcakes Take the Cake is just a great place to see what is going on in the "cupcake world". I wanted them to know what an inspiration the site had been for us. Now who knows how long it will be before they even have a chance to look at my email to them, but just knowing it is out there and they may come look at our little blog site!! Exciting!! But after sending it I thought I don't know what information I have not included on this site that is really needed for the general public to find us. So our shop is located in Historic Downtown Waxahachie, Texas. We are inside My Fathers House Antique Store at 308 S. Rogers St. Our phone number for orders is 972-923-4463. We are open Tuesday- Saturday 10:00 - 3:00. Right now we have summer hours Tuesday - Friday 10:00 - 2:00 and Saturday 10:00 - 4:00. Carol Ann has four girls and they need to have some summer "fun time" so that is the reason for the summer hours. I will post more pictures very soon!! I promise!!

What a weekend! (little sisters view)

What a weekend. This past weekend was the Gingerbread trail here in Waxahachie Texas. That means a group of people who live in our community volunteer to open there house for thousands of people to walk through and look at there home. What this meant to us, was more people in the store buying our sandwiches and eating and adoring our cupcakes.
Saturday was a great day. Debbie went cupcake crazy. On a day to day basis we have one flavor of the day. On Saturday we sometimes will have 2 maybe 3. But this last Saturday there was, I think 5 flavors. People couldn't get enough. It's always about the taste, but there is a small element of the look of the cupcake, and the cute factor. We took some great pictures and soon I'll get Debbie to post those so you can look at how pretty and scrumptious our cupcakes are. Until next time, EAT More cupcakes!
Bless you,
CA
PS T-shirts and bumper stickers are coming soon!

Words from the little sister

Hey everybody, I have my own blog site, were I talk about my family and the newest events, however since we opened the cafe it's been put on the back burner. Then two or three weeks ago Debbie (0lder sister & and shorter) tells me she has started a blog spot. Anyway, I have enjoyed reading her take on things. Ever once in awhile I will pop in and give you my two cents worth.

Here it is, my two cents worth. Debbie is a cupcake crazy chick. She has a vision and has the highest standards for our cupcakes. She has real integrity to the look and the taste of the cupcakes. Just know if you are ever blessed to try one, you will never forget it. Some have even suggested they are sprinkled with Krack! LOL

Until the next two cents,
Eat cupcakes.
CA

Chocolate with a cigar

This is a chocolate cupcake with vanilla cream cheese frosting topped with one of those cookies that has the chocolate in the middle. I don't remember what the cookies are called, but cookie and chocolate can't be bad!! They look like cigars so that how we came up with the name.

I don't know if I have said this before but I had a really hard time finding the perfect chocolate cupcake recipe!! They would come out flat or overflowing and make a big mess or a big mushroom cap that would deflate while it cooled. I just hated making chocolate cupcakes. But I kept trying new recipes that I would come across and I finally found it!!!! The PERFECT Chocolate cupcake recipe. Every single time it comes out perfectly with a nice little round dome. never sinks, it has a great chocolate flavor, it's moist and best of all it is so easy to put together!! I will try to remember to make a copy and post it and give credit to whoever came up with it!! It is amazing the things that can make you happy and everytime i bring these out of the oven I just can't help but tell Carol, "I love this recipe, it makes me so happy!" and she just smiles and says I am happy it makes you happy!!

Ok, so I am up to date in the cupcake blogging. My son comes to visit for the long weekend and he is requesting a few different flavors to take back home to CA. so I am sure I will have more to post in the next couple of days. While he is here he is going to give me computer lessons so I may actually understand what is possible to do on this blog!! It's hard when you didn't grow up in the age of computers. You know the saying about old dogs and new tricks!!LOL!!

Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake

We are calling this one "Triple Threat". It is a chocolate cupcake filled with cheese cake filling, frosted with vanilla cream cheese, sprinkled with graham cracker crumbs and then cherry pie filling in the middle. Let me tell you, it is yummy!! ( As long as you like all the parts to it)

More pictures

Yes, I am making up for lost time. I have been neglecting my baby blog and now I am trying to fill it up with the last weeks cupcakes. Good part is I have pictures for most of them!! I always love to look at the pictures and see what others are

doing. Mine pale in comparison because I am not a decorator!!

Above we have cotton candy, which really didn't turn out as good as I thought it would. But you have to have a few stinkers!! The next one is a coconut/coconut decorated for the Mini Grand Prix race held last weekend.

Chocolate Malt

This is a chocolate malt cupcake. A chocolate cupcake with malt mixed into the cake and the frosting and then topped with a malt ball and a straw. Remember it always tastes better if it has a straw it it!!!LOL!!

A long long time ago...

Yes, this is us. I am the taller, ok, older one and Carol Ann is the shorter one and she would remind you, the younger one!!!

We look really about the same today!!

Black Forrest

So last night we get to the shop and there is a message on the answering machine. Is it too late to make an order for 2 dozen cupcakes for tomorrow? Yes, it is late but why did we go into this business if we don't want to sell cupcakes? So Carol calls back and talks to the woman about flavors. It is for a child's birthday party. Carol mentions a few flavors and the woman picks PB & J with grape jelly please for one dozen and unknown for the second. So we tell her what the flavor of the day is going to be, Black Forrest and she decides that sounds like a winner.
My Black Forrest is my yummy chocolate cupcake filled with pureed (mashed) cherry pie filling and then the debate came over the frosting flavor. Carol thought it should be chocolate but I thought it should be vanilla more like a whip cream appearance. I won out because I make the cupcakes. So it had vanilla cream cheese frosting with chocolate shavings on top. Very pretty!!
I had just made PB& J yesterday so I just made the one dozen for the order and decided to make the rest of them Blonde Drama Queens. Which is just a fun name for a buttermilk cupcake with hot pink vanilla cream cheese frosting topped with sprinkles. It is the name and the appearance that will draw them in and the taste that makes them come back for more!

Marshmallow cream is messy...

So the other day at the store I was given a coupon for Nutella, so I had to buy two. It is always good to have something different on hand. I knew I wanted to make a chocolate cupcake I just wasn't sure what I wanted to frost or fill it with. Looking in the cabinet I saw the Nutella and marshmallow cream. I thought it might be interesting to mix the two to fill the cupcakes with and then mix some Nutella in the frosting to pull it all together. Made the cupcakes and since I found this recipe it is chocolate cupcake perfection!! I mixed the marshmallow cream and Nutella then filled the pastry bag. I had already put a little x in the top like I do when I fill with jam. So I inserted the tip and pushed in the filling mixture and nothing seemed to happen so I did it again and I thought it had filled and when I removed the tip a big chuck of cupcake came with it. So I cleaned it off and tried another, same results. Ok I am smarter than a cupcake so I thought I would just remove a small cone from the middle of the cake and I did. Now I start to fill the hole in middle and it fills but there is just no real control over marshmallow cream. It starts when it wants and it stops when it wants!! So I have globs of marshmallow Nutella mixture all over everything. But some did get inside the cupcakes. I only filled half of the batch. I filled the other half with just straight Nutella. Much easier and much easier to control!! Then they were both topped with Nutella flavored cream cheese frosting. I left coming up with the name to Carol Ann ( the other sister)

Pictures! Maybe?

The Pretty pink cupcakes with a straw and a lemon slice sitting on top are "Pink Lemonade Cupcakes" Lemon cupcake with strawberry lemon flavored cream cheese frosting. Everything tastes better with a straw!!











These are called "Nana Pudding Cupcakes" It is a buttermilk cupcake with a Vanilla Wafer baked in the bottom with banana cream cheese frosting. Topped with a Vanilla Wafer.











These are "Cinnamon Toast" This is a cinnamon flavored cupcake with cinnamon cream cheese frosting topped with cinnamon sugar.

Today's flavors

Flavors of the day are: Orange Dreamcicle, an orange flavored cupcake with orange and vanilla cream cheese frosting swirled on top. Birthday cake, buttermilk cupcake with sprinkle baked inside and vanilla cream cheese frosting with more sprinkles on top. When I figure all of this out I will try to post pictures of the different flavors.
I went to a gift shop to look for Mother's Day gifts and found the cutest cupcake soaps. They smell really good too!!

Flavor of the Day

Everyday we have a different flavor of the day cupcake. There is no calendar of flavors or a weekly schedule. It is all up to me and what I feel like baking that night. Or is some instances what orders we have and that is surprisingly what I feel like making!!LOL!!
Today we had orders. So I made 3 dozen Chocolate Raspberry, which is a chocolate cupcake with raspberry filling topped with chocolate ganache and a candy raspberry. 3 dozen Hummingbird, which is a moist banana cupcake with crushed pineapple and pecans topped with a vanilla cream cheese frosting. The other 3 dozen is a Southern Favorite, red velvet with vanilla cream cheese frosting. Boy that was a lot of cupcakes in one night with a regular oven and two 24 hole cupcake pans!! But we got it done and they look great and taste even better!!

Let's start the blogging

OK so this is my first official blog entry....Hummm, what to say....Let's start at the beginning. My sister and I had been making cupcakes for a while just selling them to our friends and giving them away just because our family couldn't or shouldn't eat them all. We started getting busier and had the wild idea of starting our own cupcake shop. But we had never started our own business and really didn't know all the "details" (aka money) that would be needed. But as they say ignorance is bliss and we started looking at spaces.
We live in a small town with an a historic downtown area that is visited by many out of towners. We thought this would be the perfect spot to open our shop. They is always something going on and even when it's a slow weekend there are people coming to the square to take pictures of the courthouse. So there is usually a lot of walk by traffic. Problem was there just weren't that many spaces available and the ones that were available were very pricey or wanted a long term lease that we were just not ready to sign quite yet. Then we found what we thought was the perfect space. It was just off the square, but close enough and it seemed the right size. It was going to take some time and money to make the space a place to bake and sell cupcakes. We got contractors and plumbers to come and give us quotes but the owner of the building was never available to talk about the terms of the lease. So we prayed and asked God to make sure this is the place we are suppose to be. We had prayed earlier for patience in waiting to find the right spot. Sure enough this was not our place, the owner had another deal in the works and we were his just in case plan "B" people. We were disappointed but had to believe it wasn't the right place or time just yet. We put it on the back burner but always had our eyes and ears open for possibilities.
One day after work I didn't want to go straight home so I decided to go by one of our favorite antique stores on the square. About half way through the store I came around a corner and there was a small cafe space that had a for rent sign on it. Oh My Gosh!! is this our space? I found the person in charge and talked to him about the space and then called my sister. It was fully furnished with EVERYTHING except the ingredients. It was a very reasonable price and a short term lease. All good things in our mind. One small thing was the owner really wanted the place to serve something other that just cupcakes. So we put our heads together and came up with soups and sandwiches in addition to our cupcakes.
Within a matter of just a couple of weeks we had developed a menu, bought groceries, made a sign, signed the lease and opened for business!! Isn't God wonderful!
Carol had stepped out in faith and gave her notice at her school job. She would be the person at the shop on a day to day basis, making the sandwiches, dealing with the daily business. I would be the cupcake maker. I work my full time day job (as an x-ray tech) and then every evening go to the shop and make cupcakes for the following day.
So that is how we came to be, Two Sisters Lunchbox Cafe. My Dad says we should have stopped at Lunchbox because a cafe sells more than sandwiches and cupcakes.LOL!!!