Hello darlings, it’s VD time again at Muddy’s!  To what do I refer?  A wicked pestilence?  Kind of… everyone has an opinion about Valentine’s Day and I firmly fall into the camp of “made up holiday of forced affection”.

Thus, we will be continuing the Muddy’s tradition of the two-faced Valentine’s Day: half our products will be for you lovey dovey shmoopikins celebrating your luuurv and the other half will be for those of you celebrating being single or like me, happily coupled but just icked out by the shmoopiness on VDay.

So, without further ado, here are the items that are available for pre-order Thursday Feb 11 through Saturday Feb 13.  These items will be in the bakery case available for walk-in customers on Saturday Feb 13.  Yay!

Cookies:
toffee bars
chocolate chip cookies
peanut butter cookies
sugar cookies
love: brownies with pink strawberry icing
revenge: brownies with green mint icing
love potion cookies (chocolate cookies + white chocolate chips + raspberry)
heart cookies (shortbread-y cookies + cream cheese icing with a touch of cherry + sprinkles) $1ea
voodoo dolls shortbread-y sugar cookies with icing x’s for eyes $1ea

Cupcakes:
prozac
**capote
**plain jane
classic
strawberry fields forever
frankly scarlett
true love: chocolate cupcake + raspberry icing+ red sprinkles
love potion: strawberry cupcake + chocolate icing + pink rose
muchas smuchas: chocolate cupcake + strawberry icing + Hershey kiss
woman scorned: chocolate cupcake + rosewater icing + gothic rose
bitter with baggage: chocolate cupcake + coffee icing + bittersweet chocolate chips
ashes of old flames: chocolate chip cupcake + chocolate icing + skull and crossbones

Misc:
**conversation heart cakes: small heart shaped cakes perfect for one to three people!  $10 ea
flavors: capote and plain jane
icing colors: choose pink, green, or yellow
sayings: choose “be mine”, “i love u”, “kiss me”, or “bite me”

baby cherry pies with a heart on top  $2 ea
**4” cherry pies with hearts on top  $4.50
7” cherry pies with hearts on top  $12

** items can be ordered vegan; we will do our best to have a selection of items for vegans on the 13^th!

Thanks so much to Allyson Stephens!  She bought cupcakes from us and then she and the children made these super-adorable cupcake picks to adorn them AND was nice enough to share the instructions with me!

Check out her blog HERE for the how-to.

This video epitomizes why we LOVE working in the bakery; we get to vicariously be a part of moments like these…

Original Video- More videos at TinyPic

Thanks so much to new daddy Mark for sending this to me and a very happy birthday to Allen, three days old as of today!

Howdy cake-eaters!

Well, we obviously didn’t start baking at our usual 4am today… however, a bunch of the gang has volunteered to come in to bake and man the shop this afternoon!
We’re going to start baking, ehrm, right now and then open the shop from 1-4pm leaving enough time for our posse to get home before dark.
It’s a win-win; we get to bake and hang out with y’all and each other while our husbands/mothers/children aren’t chewing their fingernails to shreds worrying that we might be driving on ice in the dark. 

The recap: we’re open today from 1-4pm.  woot.

Ok y’all, the streets are starting to get icy and our moms, husbands, and children would really like us home safe by dark so we’re not driving on the icing streets in the dark, natch.

Thus, we are closing up at 4:30 today!  We’ll keep y’all posted about tomorrow!

Ok, for all interested, here is the Muddy’s Severe Weather Plan:

If the roads are dangerous for people to drive on, we will be closed.  Keep in mind that our first baking shift starts at 4am, so it is also possible that we will simply open late or half stocked.

For example, if the roads are iced over at 4am and my first crew can’t get here, but the roads thaw enough to be safe by 9am, then we will come in and start baking at 9am. Our first priority will be to bake the pre-orders, and then we’ll just bake as much as we can for the case.

If however, the streets remain iced and dangerous, we obviously must put the safety of our staff first and we will be closed.

Whether we open late or we’re closed altogether, I’ll definitely post our decision on this blog for y’all, so check here!

Y’all, check out what awesome customer turned friend Dawn made for the bakery!  His name is Mel (because she was watching the tennis open in Melbourne while making him) and he’s a perfect guardian of awesome baked goodness.

Thanks Dawn!!!

Wow.  Ok, this is hysterical…  thanks Paul K for sending this to me!

Whatever you call them, our magazine subscriptions for the bakery are due for renewal.  I thought I’d check with y’all and see which ones you want us to keep and/or get!

Check out our little SURVEY to vote on what magazines you’d like to be able to peruse while eating your delicious baked goodies and sipping your tea and coffee!

Some say it’s all about the O… Oprah, that is.  And we got name-dropped in O Magazine!  Check out this awesome article about a local woman’s fight to lose weight and turn her life around.  Our fabulous neighbor, Bikram Yoga, is prominently featured and we got name-dropped as the biggest temptation! 

check it out!