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
Little Pearl Cupcake opens in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Reminder: 1,000 free cupcakes today from Crumbs opening at Newark airport
As we told you about earlier this week, 1,000 free cupcakes today at Crumbs in Newark Airport! I don't know off the top of my head about other cupcake bakeries in airports but have been saying for years that they should be in airports (I've seen a few random cupcakes at airports but not a cupcake bakery per se). Visit Crumbs' Facebook page for the latest. We Tweeted to Newark mayor Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) about this giveaway and he wrote: "Congrats! But oh the temptation!"
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:
Is Crumbs "The Starbucks of Cupcakes?" And 1,000 free cupcakes in Newark on Friday, plus brownie heart cupcake
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:
