In Cahoots

February is soon coming to an end, which means March is almost here. If March is almost here then that means it is almost time to celebrate St. Paddy's Day! Whether you are Irish or not, this holiday sure is a fun excuse to go out donning your best green shirt and drink all the beer!

Cake and Ice is very excited for St. Paddy's Day this year, because we are in cahoots with the Chippewa Valley's own Brown Bottle Delivery Co to create a new cupcake. This is not just any cupcake; it's a beer cupcake! What could be better than beer and cake? Ummm nothing! At least that is what we think, but you be the judge.

The new Brown Bottle Cupcake will be released on 

St. Paddy's Day (Tuesday, March 17th) at Cake and Ice.

Clearwater Edible Book Festival

Hello Everyone!

We are busy as ever over here at Cake and Ice. With Valentine's Day landing on a Saturday this year it kept us busy all week, and on top of that we have begun preparations for the Clearwater Edible Book Festival (click the link for more details)! For those of you that follow us on Twitter you might already know what I am talking about.

This year we set a goal for ourselves to push our business past just being a bakery; instead we want to be active community members that make Eau Claire a better place to live. That is why we created the Cake Decorating Party Program, which we have mentioned before in posts and on Twitter. It is also why we decided to enter this local cake decorating competition. It will be at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Library, here in Eau Claire next Saturday (February 21, 2015). I am very excited, because this is the first time we have ever entered into any type of competition.

The awesome thing about this competition is that it is based on books! I am a huge fan of reading, and think it is so important to engage and activate our imaginations through books. After much deliberation and design sketching we made our book selection and announced it last week. For those of you who didn't see the tweet, we decided to create a book based on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. The cake is going to look like a book, but with a fun surprise! Here are some of the images we used for inspiration.

We hope to see you all next weekend, to support the cake artists, the library, and our community!

Puppy Fever!

Hi everyone!

Sorry my post is a little later than normal this week, but that is because there is some pretty crazy exciting stuff going on in my life. My husband and I are in the process of purcahseing our first home. Really exciting stuff! So naturally I've already began decorating it in my head. Aside from finally being homeowners, we are super excited that we will finally be able to get a dog. We have wanted one since we started dating, but with living in apartments, we didn't want to compromise our future with the pup. So naturally I've also been scouring rescue organizations websites in search of the perfect dog for us.

Late one night as I was looking at endless pictures of adorable puppies, who just want to be loved, I thought to myself, "What can Cake and Ice do to find these pups forever homes?" The next day I contacted my friend Becky, who owns her own animal rescue, Becky's Breeds. I told her I wanted to help, and that I had a great idea. We talked it over and ironed out all the details, and voila, Puppy Cupcakes were born!

Through the month of February Cake and Ice will be making delicious peanut butter cupcakes for the dog in your life (or for you, they are just peanut butter so they are safe for humans too, and really delicious). All of the proceeds from these cupcakes will go to help support the wonderful work Becky is doing at Becky's Breeds.

So if you love your dog, and think that every animal deserves to be loved, stop in through the month of February and get your pups a scrumptious treat and help save the lives of animals! 

Check out Becky's Breeds and all the great work they are doing here: http://bbrescue.blogspot.com/

Disclaimer: Image used in poster is not owned by Cake and Ice. It is used on behalf of the fake business to promote a fake campaign. Image source: http://urbanbakes.com/peanut-butter-pupcakes/