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

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