Having Her Cake
Something about cupcakes makes people feel young again.
"They turn into 5-year-olds," observes Colleen Bell, owner of Sticky Fingers Cupcakes. "People just go nuts."
Maybe it's the frosting, or the guilt-free serving size of a mini-cupcake. Or maybe it's the quirkiness of having a dessert named after a song, like Colleen's Key-lime-pie flavored Margaritaville or her mint-chocolate-chip So Fresh and So Clean.
Colleen, who graduated from Johnson & Wales in baking and pastry arts, started the company in January by selling online (www.myspace.com/stickyfingerscupcakes). She got plenty of help from friends and family, who were all too willing tasters as she developed recipes. They were a bit hit, and what Colleen thought would be a weekend business has expanded into a full-time job, with a new store inside Amate tea lounge.
As much as she enjoys making the pint-size desserts, Colleen seems to have just as much fun naming them, particularly since it allows her to blend her two loves: food and music.
Always experimenting with new flavors, she recently created the Latin-inspired alfajor cupcake. The name: Don't Cry for Me Argentina.
"They turn into 5-year-olds," observes Colleen Bell, owner of Sticky Fingers Cupcakes. "People just go nuts."
Maybe it's the frosting, or the guilt-free serving size of a mini-cupcake. Or maybe it's the quirkiness of having a dessert named after a song, like Colleen's Key-lime-pie flavored Margaritaville or her mint-chocolate-chip So Fresh and So Clean.Colleen, who graduated from Johnson & Wales in baking and pastry arts, started the company in January by selling online (www.myspace.com/stickyfingerscupcakes). She got plenty of help from friends and family, who were all too willing tasters as she developed recipes. They were a bit hit, and what Colleen thought would be a weekend business has expanded into a full-time job, with a new store inside Amate tea lounge.
As much as she enjoys making the pint-size desserts, Colleen seems to have just as much fun naming them, particularly since it allows her to blend her two loves: food and music.
Always experimenting with new flavors, she recently created the Latin-inspired alfajor cupcake. The name: Don't Cry for Me Argentina.
-NATALIA MALDONADO
PHOTO BY: LULU AND PETUNIA
PHOTO BY: LULU AND PETUNIA
We Were Voted Best Cupcakes
by Miami
Sticky Fingers Cupcakes
It's a fledgling operation run by a 27-year-old Johnson & Wales grad without a storefront, but Coliene Belle's cupcakes taste delicious — and are brilliantly marketed. Each is named for a song; Belle seems to favor pop music from the Eighties: "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a vanilla cupcake with sprinkles; "Raspberry Beret" is chocolate with raspberry; and "La Isla Bonita" is coconut. There's also "Margaritaville" (key lime), "Bittersweet Symphony" (chocolate with orange icing), and "So Fresh and So Clean" (chocolate with mint) among the seventeen flavors available. Ordering is done online, via MySpace message or e-mail. For $30, customers get 24 mini cupcakes, twelve regular cupcakes, or six jumbo cupcakes. The prices may seem high, but these cupcakes differ from Publix's in that their ingredients include nothing artificial — just real butter, fresh fruit, and high-quality chocolate. The chef charges a $10 delivery fee or will arrange to meet somewhere for a cupcake handoff. And not only are they tasty, but they're pretty as well.Rhymes and Cupcakes
NEW TIMES
Enjoy a sweet evening of self-expression
BY WENDY DOSCHER-SMITH
On a different self-expression note, the Amate Tea Lounge (811 NE 79th St., Miami) is offering up a poetry night for free at 8:00 p.m. New and experienced talent alike are welcome to bring it on and bring it up to the mic. And as an added bonus there will be cupcakes made by the mackalicious Sticky Fingers Cupcakes. Tea and cupcakes! Now those are two words one should live by.
Wednesday May 30
Sweat Records and sticky fingers cupcakes party
Sweat Records is turning 2... Oh yes, there will be cupcakes.
On May 11th, Sticky Fingers Cupcakes presented their first ever, record player cupcake. Made up of more than 70 cupcakes. It formed the shape of a classic vinyl record. It looked great, but we have no pictures to show you. IF anyone out there got pictures of this event, please send it in. We'd love to post them.
Thanks
LOLO for the images below!!!
On May 11th, Sticky Fingers Cupcakes presented their first ever, record player cupcake. Made up of more than 70 cupcakes. It formed the shape of a classic vinyl record. It looked great, but we have no pictures to show you. IF anyone out there got pictures of this event, please send it in. We'd love to post them.
Thanks
LOLO for the images below!!!
What's not to love about teas and cupcakes?
Posted on Thu, May. 03, 2007
By LINDA BLADHOLM
Tibetan flags fly on bamboo poles outside Amate, a new tea shop that provides a serene oasis on the gritty stretch of 79th Street between Biscayne Boulevard and the causeway.
The name means ''love in action,'' and owners Hope Aranguren and Emilia Peña have created a
place where tea lovers can relax in a courtyard that resembles a Japanese rock garden with a Buddha statue in one corner.
Hope, who grew up in Miami, and Emilia, who is from L.A., became life partners after meeting at a spirituality workshop 10 years ago. It took them four years to plan, build and landscape the complex, which is still a work in progress. Both have day jobs and the shop doesn't open until 4 p.m. weekdays, but they hope to extend the hours as word gets around.
Order in the small front shop where glass canisters are filled with teas custom blended in Maine. Black teas include infused azucar, a rich blend with bits of maple candy; coconut truffle; Cal Mex spiced with cardamom; ginger spice with peach; and plain Ceylon, a robust, high-grade silver-tip tea with honey notes.
Greens to go for include exotic mango, cozy walnut, delightful citrus with a hint of grapefruit, jasmine pearls (tea rolled into small pellets), and Lung Chin, a mild, pan-fried green good for iced tea. Fruit teas range from strawberry kiwi tisane to om (chamomile with citrus).
There are pastries, scones, biscotti and a few sandwiches, but
The top floor of that building, painted Tiffany blue with polka dots and decorated with gauze net curtains, is Colleen Bell's Sticky Fingers headquarters. Pastel cake stands display her quarter-size creations. Bell, who went to Johnson & Wales, takes appointments during the week and is in-house weekends.
She keeps fresh cupcakes in a fridge, so you can buy several dozen. (Larger orders require advance notice.) Flavors to try include guava and cream cheese, tiramisu, peanut butter and jelly, raspberry-chocolate, Tennessee Waltz (with banana pudding) and Girls Just Want to Have Fun (vanilla with sprinkles). Sounds like what the women here are doing seriously.
Linda Bladholm's latest book is Latin and Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified.
Place: Amate Tea and Sticky Fingers Cupcakes.
Address: 811 NE 79th St., Miami.
Contact: 305-759-8777.
Hours: 4-11 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Prices: Teas from $2.95 a cup to $9.85 a pot, sandwiches $6.95, cupcakes $2.50 for regular and $1.25 for minis.
FYI: Back patio space can be rented for private parties. All teas will soon be available packed in tins.
By LINDA BLADHOLM
Tibetan flags fly on bamboo poles outside Amate, a new tea shop that provides a serene oasis on the gritty stretch of 79th Street between Biscayne Boulevard and the causeway.
The name means ''love in action,'' and owners Hope Aranguren and Emilia Peña have created a
place where tea lovers can relax in a courtyard that resembles a Japanese rock garden with a Buddha statue in one corner.Hope, who grew up in Miami, and Emilia, who is from L.A., became life partners after meeting at a spirituality workshop 10 years ago. It took them four years to plan, build and landscape the complex, which is still a work in progress. Both have day jobs and the shop doesn't open until 4 p.m. weekdays, but they hope to extend the hours as word gets around.
Order in the small front shop where glass canisters are filled with teas custom blended in Maine. Black teas include infused azucar, a rich blend with bits of maple candy; coconut truffle; Cal Mex spiced with cardamom; ginger spice with peach; and plain Ceylon, a robust, high-grade silver-tip tea with honey notes.
Greens to go for include exotic mango, cozy walnut, delightful citrus with a hint of grapefruit, jasmine pearls (tea rolled into small pellets), and Lung Chin, a mild, pan-fried green good for iced tea. Fruit teas range from strawberry kiwi tisane to om (chamomile with citrus).
There are pastries, scones, biscotti and a few sandwiches, but
the best accompaniments are the whimsically named mini treats from Sticky Fingers Cupcakes.Pay at the counter, then take a seat in the canopy-covered courtyard. By fall, the partners hope to turn a building at the back into a spiritual bookshop with meditation and yoga classes.
The top floor of that building, painted Tiffany blue with polka dots and decorated with gauze net curtains, is Colleen Bell's Sticky Fingers headquarters. Pastel cake stands display her quarter-size creations. Bell, who went to Johnson & Wales, takes appointments during the week and is in-house weekends.
She keeps fresh cupcakes in a fridge, so you can buy several dozen. (Larger orders require advance notice.) Flavors to try include guava and cream cheese, tiramisu, peanut butter and jelly, raspberry-chocolate, Tennessee Waltz (with banana pudding) and Girls Just Want to Have Fun (vanilla with sprinkles). Sounds like what the women here are doing seriously.
Linda Bladholm's latest book is Latin and Caribbean Grocery Stores Demystified.
Place: Amate Tea and Sticky Fingers Cupcakes.Address: 811 NE 79th St., Miami.
Contact: 305-759-8777.
Hours: 4-11 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Prices: Teas from $2.95 a cup to $9.85 a pot, sandwiches $6.95, cupcakes $2.50 for regular and $1.25 for minis.
FYI: Back patio space can be rented for private parties. All teas will soon be available packed in tins.
we can custom a special cupcake for your event
These cupcakes were made for a bridal shower. 
While these were custom made for Tweezerman Tweezers during the Gen Art's Fresh Faces event.
While these were custom made for Tweezerman Tweezers during the Gen Art's Fresh Faces event.
don't you just want to bite into this?
top left: a key lime pie flavoron the right: enjoy a mouthful of mint chocolate chip
and front and center: the amazing peanut butter and jelly cupcake with a banana pudding hovering in the background. Yep, a banana pudding.
and front and center: the amazing peanut butter and jelly cupcake with a banana pudding hovering in the background. Yep, a banana pudding.
Make it a dozen, it's well worth it
sticky fingers cupcakes introduces new flavors.
SET LISTla isla bonita ................................coconut
ebony and ivory..........................chocolate and vanilla icing
bittersweet symphony...............chocolate and orange icing
mellow yellow ............................lemon
white wedding ............................vanilla
paint it black ..............................chocolate
so fresh and so clean .................mint and chocolate
that’s amore................................tiramisu
dark side of the moon................vanilla and chocolate
raspberry beret.........................chocolate with raspberry
margaritaville ............................key lime
listen to your heart ...................almond
girls just want to have fun..........vanilla with sprinkles
peanut butter jelly time............ pb&j
so happy together.......................peanut butter and chocolate
sweet emotions........................... chocolate and caramel
oye como va..................................guava and cheese
don't cry for me argentina..........dulce de leche
copa cabana....................almonds and melted chocolate
CUSTOM ORDER
cupcake party, great success
At the cupcake shop in Miami, chatting, having fun.
Guava and cheese on top, we call it Oye Como Va.
These tiers are for rent, they're great for special events, parties, weddings, et cetera...
now serving cupcakes at Amate tea lounge
sticky fingers cupcakes is now serving cupcakes exclusively at
Amate tea lounge, 811 NE 79th Street, Miami Fl.
Tasty 'Cakes mention on Miami New Times Feb. 23 when we first started the business
Approximately two decades after it hit New York City, the great cupcake baking trend appears to have finally made its way to Miami, the bottom of America’s funnel. While the editorial staff at New Times are partial to the vegan creations of staff writer Tamara Lush (who modestly deflects credit to this site whenever we name her a culinary genius, crumbs spraying from our mouths) there are a couple of other local bakers you should know about.The first is Sticky Fingers Cupcakes, recently started by chef Colleen Bell. She runs a home-based operation that produces seventeen different flavors of cupcakes with music-inspired names (my particular favorite is So Fresh and So Clean, a mint chocolate chip-flavored cupcake). You can order from her by
sending her a MySpace message. The logistics of cupcake trafficking are not unlike other, um, deals: You contact Colleen, place your order, and agree to meet somewhere for pick-up. She will deliver to you for a $10 fee. A dozen regular cupcakes are $30, but we promise you, each is an exquisitely designed, deliciously flavored little gift.–Emily Witt
all about the cupcakes
Sticky fingers cupcakes is all about cupcakes. we only use top quality ingredients and everything is homemade, no artificial anything.
we use fresh fruit, good butter, high quality chocolate and a bit of love in every batch.
each cupcake has a song name reflecting the flavors and individual personality.next time you are having a party, going to a party, or bummed out that you're not invited to a party, sticky fingers can help you out,
friends.
cupcake menu
strawberry fields.......................vanilla with strawberriesla isla bonita ................................coconut
ebony and ivory..........................chocolate and vanilla icing
bittersweet symphony...............chocolate and orange icing
mellow yellow ............................lemon
white wedding ............................vanilla
paint it black ..............................chocolate
so fresh and so clean .................mint and chocolate
that’s amore................................tiramisu
dark side of the moon................vanilla and chocolate
raspberry beret.........................chocolate with raspberry
margaritaville ............................key lime
listen to your heart ...................almond
girls just want to have fun..........vanilla with sprinkles
peanut butter jelly time............ pb&j
so happy together.......................peanut butter and chocolate
sweet emotions........................... chocolate and caramel
oye como va..................................guava and cheese
don't cry for me argentina..........dulce de leche
copa cabana...........................almonds and melted chocolate
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