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Retro Bakery has been using social media to draw business to their cupcake shop for the last three years.  Owner Kari Haskell was interviewed by her local Las Vegas news station about how she uses Twitter to drive her cupcake business.  Check out that video here!

For more info about Retro Bakery, check them out on Twitter!

A new cupcake bakery has opened: Little Pearl Cupcake in Grand Rapids, Michigan. You can also find them on Facebook and @lpcupcake on Twitter. Photos via their Facebook page.







They started out doing custom cupcakes. According to yesterday's article at WZZM 13:

Little Pearl Cupcake opened for the first time this morning on Northland Drive. The owners say about 50 people came by on the first day.

Little Pearl specializes in gourmet cupcakes and was originally created online by two friends.

Co-owner Emily Martins says, "We knew that we wanted a storefront, something a little boutiquey and something people could come in and look at the product before they bought it. It's kind of taken off on the internet so we thought we'd put up a storefront and see what people thought."

Little Pearl Cupcake
5260 Northland Dr. NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
616-363-2700
littlepearlcupcake at hotmail.com

From News First 5:

Colorado Springs has its share of taco trucks, but the newest food truck in town is serving up some sweet delights, cupcakes, with a little help from Facebook.

The Springs Cupcake Truck's owners, Mike Bergman and Pat Kennelly, use the social networking site to tell people where they're going to be. They also ask their fans before they go out, where they should park.

Recently they also held a contest to name The Springs Cupcake Truck on their Facebook page; the winning name, CoCo.

The cupcakes are made by Cake Crumbs Bakery in Denver, owned by Mike and Pat's Niece. The bakery makes them special to survive delivery to the Springs, "They're dipped and decorated so they don't fall apart during the rickety ride over here," explains Mike.

Some of their flavors include:

Zippy Lemon

Lemon cake filled with fresh lemon curd and topped with cream cheese frosting and sparkling sugar

Mile-Hi Mocha

Decadent mocha cake with an espresso butter cream and toffee topping

Pikes Peak Pistachio

Nutty pistachio cake topped with amaretto butter cream, chocolate chips and crushed pistachios

Rockin’ Red Velvet

Southern red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting and sparkling sugar

Colorado Snowball

Almond flavored cake covered with rich chocolate and coconut

Carrot

Sweet carrot cake topped with cream cheese frosting and tangy dried cranberries

You can find them on their website or Facebook and reach them at 719-466-1911 for private events.

That's what Laura Kosisto at The New York Observer calls them:

The store, which also sells coffee and other baked goods, is looking for new locations on Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side; in Chelsea around 21st Street and Sixth Avenue; in the West Village; and around Lincoln Center. A Times Square store is already in the oven.

Crumbs also plans to spread more to the outer boroughs, including Park Slope and Forest Hill in Queens. The store is looking for spaces between 1,000 and 1,500 square feet that have good foot traffic. Crumbs, founded in 2003, also recently announced it will go public through a $66 million merger with an investment company. As the country's largest cupcake chain, it currently operates 16 stores in New York City alone.

Visit Crumbs.com for the latest news and info about all their nationwide locations.

From their Facebook page - this cupcake will be for sale on Monday:


Check out our new 'Ooh La La' Colossal cupcake. It's just one of the many sweet selections we have this Valentine's Day. It's chocolate cake filled & frosted with pink vanilla cream cheese frosting, complimented with heart shaped brownies on top.

And this news of 1,000 free cupcakes this Friday, January 28th, starting at 6 a.m., at their Newark, New Jersey store grand opening: