Baltimore's Charm City Cupcakes is having a BIG mini Cupcake Sale! A Mini Variety Pack is $12 (normally $15) and includes Vanilla-Vanilla, Vanilla-Chocolate, Triple Chocolate, Caramel Praline, Black-Eyed Susan, Pimlico w/ Ghiradelli Drizzle, Dark Chocolate w/ Almonds, Mini Chocolate, Gourmet Turtle, Key Lime, Black Bottom & Red Velvet.
To get these cupcakes for New Years Eve (TOMORROW!) you'll need to pre-order before 5:00pm TODAY, December 30th. 410-244-8790!
It's Chocolate Peppermint, and it's currently available at Lola Cookies & Treats in Leesburg! 
SisterCakes is their name, and they offer delivery to the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. They're based out of Springfield, VA and have a very extensive menu of at least 16 different flavors. Some flavors include German Chocolate, Red Velvet, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Boston Creme, and a couple fall flavors, Apple Spice and Pumpkin Spice. Take a peek at some of their goodies (pictures from their website) below:
Click here to check out their website, menu, and a little about the girls who run the company!
Above are two pictures from the Hello Cupcake website of their Hot Buttered Rum and Gingerbread Flavors. The Gingerbread flavor is a spicy ginger cake with lemon cream cheese frosting, and the Hot Buttered Rum flavor is made up of rum raisin cake with rum frosting and rum-soaked raisins on top. I didn’t see a picture of the Candy Cane flavor posted on the site, so you’ll have to drop into HC and check it out for yourself!Take a peek at the two holiday flavors being featured at Cupcakes Actually!
The Grinch Stole Christmas is definitely the most unique holiday flavor I've seen at any cupcakery in the area. It's a Pistachio Cinnamon cupcake topped with Pistachio butter cream, and of course the Gingerbread Cupcake is self explanatory - topped with a cream cheese icing and a fondant gingerbread man!
The shop will be offering new weekly flavors during the month of December, so be sure to check their website on Sunday nights to see their updated menu for the week. Also something to note is the store's hours during the holiday season:
Monday-Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Thursday: 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Friday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Sunday: 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
*Their hours will be shortened on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve, and they will be closed Christmas Day and New Years Day*
They've got a wide variety of holiay flavored cupcakes that can have some cute Christmas Decorations on top. Flavors include but are not limited to Candy Cane, Eggnogg, Perfectly Pumpkin, Cranberry Orange, Peppermint Patty and more! And while you're there picking up your cupcakes, they have plenty of other festive treats - take a look at these sugar cookies and cakeballs! 
Make sure you remember that Occasionally Cake will be closed for normal business from December 24th until January 5th 2010. They'll be doing custom cakes during that time, just not the normal cupcakes!
Many Washingtonian's might have noticed a cute little cupcake mobile making its way around the district lately - it's Curbside Cupcakes! The Cupcake Mobile trend has been making its way around many major US cities, and finally has come to the DC/Metro Area. Curbside Cupcakes says you can find their pink cupcake truck Downtown and around Capitol Hill. How can you find out where they are, you ask? Easy! Check them out at their website, on Facebook, or on Twitter! They also list what flavors are available each day on the calendar located on their site. Looks like today they will have Chocolate with a Peppermint Top, Classic Chocolate, Classic Vanilla, Red Velvet, and Vanilla Mocha. 
This map, taken from Curbside Cupcakes' website, shows the area in which they serve up their goodies. Check their site for more details! Cupcakes are $3.00/each, $15.00 for a Half Dozen, and $27.00/Dozen!
In honor of Leesburg's First Friday celebration, Lola Cookies & Treats will be staying open until 9pm this evening! They'll be selling hot cocoa and fresh-baked goodies including Christmas sugar cookies, full-sized lebkuchen gingerbread men, an of course, Gingerbread cupcakes. The Gingerbread Cupcakes are topped with a mild lemon cream-cheese frosting and have a tiny gingerbread cookie man on top.
So if you're in the Leesburg area, grab your cocoa and cupcake and watch the tree-lighting ceremony and carolers performing around town throughout the evening!
Check it out cupcake lovers - looks like Crumbs will be landing in the DC Metro area early 2010! Check out their press release with all the D's below!
NEW YORK, NY (November 16, 2009) – Due to a tremendous demand, CRUMBS Bake Shop, the first bake shop to introduce the gourmet cupcake, will debut their signature sized cupcakes and delectable sweet treats in the Washington, D.C. market in March 2010. The stores will be found in several neighborhoods including the downtown central business district, Georgetown, Cleveland Park, Foggy Bottom, Rockville (Maryland), Clarendon (Virginia) and Reston (Virginia), offering a variety of their delicious cupcakes, muffins, cookies, brownies, coffee and other baked goods.
“The D.C. market was the next logical choice for our expansion,” said Jason Bauer, CRUMBS CEO and co-founder. “The CRUMBS brand has strong name recognition in the market and we decided to listen to our fans who have been asking us for many months to come to D.C.”
I was shocked to read they were opening so many locations - I was thinking it was just going to be one shop in DC, especially since there is so much cupcake competition in the area. I'm definitely interested to see how Crumbs competes with the rest of the area's major cupcake players!
Drop by Georgetown Cupcake's Bethesda location this Sunday between 12pm - 6pm to celebrate their Grand Opening and to snag a free cupcake! They'll be handing out the free cupcakes - one per person - all day.
4834 Bethesda Avenue - be there!
