Attn: Cupcake Lovin’ Artists!

We’re looking for a new Sweet Avenue shirt design. We would love something hand-drawn, tattoo-style! We’d love if the idea included “Sweet Avenue – Cupcake Heaven since 2007″ Limited colors; must work on a black t-shirt. If your design is selected, you win: a $50 Sweet Avenue gift certificate, 1 shirt featuring your design & a signed copy of Tal Ronnen’s cookbook – The Conscious Cook!

***Legal stuffs: By submitting an entry to this contest, you grant Sweet Avenue Bake Shop, LLC full and exclusive royalty-free rights to use your design, altered or unaltered to be printed on any and all merchandise of our choosing.

I ordered a custom-made Sweet Avenue necklace from a seller on Etsy that I just want to tell everyone about. Erin from Orangyred Ink was amazing to work with! Her shop has great necklaces such as a VEGAN one, but she also does custom work. If you’re looking for a really unique necklace, check out her Etsy shop.

Starting today (National Cupcake Day) we’re excited to begin offering our cupcakes to cupcake-lovers across the country! After quite a bit of testing and experimenting, we’ve finally perfected our cupcake shipping method. We are offering our printed cupcakes (starting with our Twilight cupcakes) in sets of 6, along with a D.I.Y. Cupcake Kit that includes your choice of three cupcakes, three frostings, and three sprinkles so you can design and decorate your own cupcakes at home! These kits make a great gift for anyone on your holiday list, or simply as an easy way to try out awesome vegan cupcakes if you can’t visit our New Jersey bake shop. Visit our online shop now.

Check out our awesome new license plate!

Sweet Avenue will be closed April 20th-April 22nd, reopening on Thursday, April 23rd. The reason for our mini vacation is that we are taking a trip to Boston to see the Red Sox (sorry Yankees fans).

Since we constantly receive emails from customers outside of the NJ area asking about delivery, we had an idea to try an experiment. If any Boston-area cupcake fans want to email us, we’re going to try to arrange to deliver cupcakes (1 dozen or more) to anyone who is interested. Of course, the orders would have to be paid for in advance, and we’d be charging a reasonable delivery fee. The orders would be delivered on Monday, April 20th. So there you go – this is your chance to get Sweet Avenue cupcakes from hundreds of miles away!

Email us if you’re interested & please pass along the word to your cupcake lovin’ Boston friends & vegans!

Hi Cupcake Fans,

We’ve been pretty busy here creating a new Spring menu, so unfortunately I’ve been neglecting the blog. Well, I’m back with some updates.

1. Brand new menu coming shortly. We have already implemented the new menu in our shop, so those who have stopped by recently have seen our new flavors: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Thai Coconut Curry. Our Cupcake of the Month is Cotton Candy! Cotton Candy will be available every Wednesday and Friday for the month of April. AND! We’ll also have two old friends joining us this Spring. Details soon!

2. NEW Website design!! What do you think? We are beyond ecstatic about the new design. Many, many thanks to Jake for his hard work. There is still more to be done with the site, so we appreciate your patience while we are fixing little bugs here and there. Jake has been known to stay up ’til 4am working on the site, so trust us, much time and effort is going into this project. We hope you love the new design as much as we do!

3. Today’s Magical Mystery Flavor is SPUMONI! Kristina and I grew up with Spumoni ice cream, so when she thought to create this cupcake, we HAD to make it! We highly recommend stopping by soon (despite the nasty rain) to try this cupcake. We only have a few left!!

Love & Cupcakes,
Danielle

Today’s Magical Mystery Flavor is… Bacon Maple Walnut! Now with Bacon baked into the cake & a side of maple syrup! Today is also the last day for Irish Cream. AND! Tomorrow is the last day for White Chocolate Chai Latte.

Hope you’ll stop by. Have a great weekend!
Love & Cupcakes,
Danielle, Jake & Kristina

BTW: Don’t forget to become a fan on our new Facebook page:
http://tr.im/sweetavefacebook

Hello everyone. Cupcake Maven Danielle here with some Sweet Ave. updates.

1. We created an AWESOME cupcake this past Friday for our Magical Mystery weekly special. If you follow us on Twitter or Facebook, then you already know that it was Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Super yummy, delicious cookie dough baked right into the cupcake with a chocolate chip cookie piece on top. Yumtastic. It will definitely be back. I promise!

2. Wondering what we’re doing for this week’s Magical Mystery cupcake? Well… here’s some insider information: there is a slight possibility of there being a cupcake on Friday that starts with Bacon and ends with Walnut!

3. We’re diligently working on a new website design (it looks awesome), and a new cupcake menu for April. Hopefully you’ll love the new web design & also be thrilled with the cupcakes we’re bringing back, as well as the new arrivals.

4. Friday 3/27 will be the last day Mr. Irish Cream graces us with his presence. Don’t miss your last chance to taste this beer/whiskey goodness.

5. New Jersey Monthly named us Best Vegan Bakery in their newest issue. Yippie!!

Vegan Bakery
With a professed dedication to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of cupcakes,” Sweet Avenue Bake Shop makes everything from scratch daily using dairy- and egg-free ingredients and no packaged mixes or frostings. Former bankers Danielle and Jake Vance opened the Rutherford “cupcakery” (which also sells cookies) in 2007, and the shop features a different cupcake menu every day. Each creation is animal-friendly and delicious, with ingredients such as Madagascar bourbon vanilla and Belgian chocolate. We recommend the Hummingbird: spice cake with bananas, pecans, pineapple, and coconut, topped and filled with cream cheese frosting and pecans (153 Park Ave, 201-935-2253).

More soon!!
Love & Cupcakes,
-Danielle

Here are some comments that have made us smile recently:

I LOVE YOU GUYS…,MY DAUGHTER WILL ONLY EAT YOUR CUPCAKES..CAN YOU BLAME HER? LOL.. ANYWAY SHE IS HAVING MULTIPLE PARTIES SO I WILL BE ORDERING MANY CUPCAKES! THANKS FOR ALL THE JOY YOU BRING!! -Dana

You guys have the best cupcakes EVER!!! ♥ I want to get a cupcake tattoo just to get a free cupcake. LOL -Colleen

My husband picked up some cupcakes on sat from your place, they are absolutely DELICIOUS!!!! they look awesome too! -Irine

These cupcakes are the best I have ever had. And I have alot of cupcakes! -Chris

And via twitter:
Sweet Avenue’s cupcakes beat the crap out of Magnolia’s. -Elion (@colonel_panic)

Thanks for all the great feedback! Please be sure to continue sending the love our way! ♥♥♥

Just an update for everyone who uses Facebook:

Be sure to become our fan on Sweet Avenue Bake Shop’s facebook page. Many of you are currently members of our group, but because of Facebook’s swanky new changes, we’re going to be moving everything over to our new Facebook page. If you become our fan, you’ll be able to see updates from Sweet Avenue right in your Facebook news feed. Be sure to say “Hi!” by writing on our wall.