We got a shipment in the mail today that made us all really happy here. We’re happy to announce that as of right now, we’re going to be carrying all four varieties of the Go Max Go vegan candy bars. For anyone unfamiliar, these are basically really yummy vegan versions of popular candy bars. The Jokerz bar is like Snickers, while the Twilight is like Milky Way, the Buccaneer is like Three Musketeers, and the Mahalo is like Almond Joy. They’re available in our shop for $2.50 each!

The NYC Vegan Bake Sale for Haiti raised close to $5000 this past weekend! Home-bakers and crafters from around the area made baked goods and crafts for the event. We were also happy to donate to the event! Visit the Flickr page for photos.

We all know cupcakes are awesome, tasty, and pretty much the greatest thing since sliced bread, right? That’s all well and good, but every once in a while, cupcake bakers get a little bored and decide to start playing around with the deep fryer. What happens next? Glad you asked. DONUTS!

We recently started toying with some dough recipes and decided we should buckle down and figure out vegan donuts. If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter, you’d know that we churned out our first couple batches over the last few days and have been giving them away for free. Well, the testing was a success so they’re out of beta now, and with your feedback we think we’ve got them down pretty well. We’re going to start offering them as often as humanly possible from now on, alongside our cupcakes and cookies. For now it’ll be sort of a grab-bag of flavors and toppings, but we promise they’re all delicious.

So thanks to everyone who stopped by and enjoyed a free donut this week. We hope you enjoyed them, and we hope you’ll be back for more now that they’re on sale. Oh, and of course, like everything else we make, they’re mostly organic, and entirely vegan (dairy- and egg-free).

Last weekend, members of The Post Punk Kitchen (a vegan message board) had a meetup in Rutherford. This meetup was at the nearby Rutherford Pancake House, which has an awesome vegan menu that we, here at Sweet Avenue, can vouch for. Suffice it to say that we’re quite pleased they opened up a mere 4 blocks away.

After they hit up the Rutherford Pancake House, they dropped by here for dessert! We’ve met many of them before, and some of them are among our most awesome regular customers, so it was great to see them all together for a while. They even managed to bring along JoJo (the pink-haired girl) from the UK! I think she’s officially traveled the farthest for our cupcakes, so far (Asians, Australians and Pacific Islanders, get cracking!), which is awesome!

It was a lot of fun hanging out with you folks, and we hope you’ll all stop by again soon!