The Cupcake Club!

As much as I am enjoying my cupcake challenge, it is starting to get costly.  Let’s get real I am only a graduate student working two jobs and making a whole lot of money. Thanks to suggestion from two friends, I decided to start charging for my cupcakes.  To make it even cooler, I decided to start the Cupcake Club.

I put together an email and sent it out to friends and co-workers in the area.  The email was:

Hello,

I hope you all are enjoying my 52 week cupcake challenge as much as I am.  As much as I am enjoying it, it is starting to get a little expensive and never thought I could go through so much sugar and flour so fast.  Thanks to a suggestion from a friend, I am going to have to start charging for my cupcakes. 

I am going to start calling it the Cupcake Club and am going to ask for $4 per month for four cupcakes (one each week).  I can take up to 24 members into my cupcake club, first come,first serve!  I would ask for your monthly membership in the beginning of each month to help pay for the supplies/ingredients. 

Now if I haven’t sold you just on the idea of joining a cupcake club, just think that queen city cupcakes sells their cupcakes for $3.50 each, that’s a savings of $2.50 per cupcake or $10 per month.  Also, who doesn’t like a weekly surprise!  And each member gets a free cupcake for their Birthday! :)  Plus you have gotten 5 weeks free already!

If you are interested in joining the Cupcake Club, please let me know!  February will be $3, as there are three more weeks left this month!  

Thanks,

Rachel aka Aloterlla

To date, I currently have 18 members! And still have space for 5 more.. hint hint!!

Since I was able to collect some money, I of course had to go and get some supplies and for those who don’t know me I am bargain shopper.  I got 20lbs of flour on sale for $8.00 at stop and shop and bought more sugar and other supplies at BJs.  Now the question when I came home was how does own put 20lbs of flour in a cabinet.. The answer is no one.  Due to all these supplies, I had to do a little rearranging.   This was the outcome of my shopping, rearranging and purchase of new containers to store all supplies, though I need two bigger containers for flour and sugar!

And thanks to Pinterest, instead of recycling my coffee cream bottle, I reused it for storing chocolate chips.  It’s now easier to pour and measure while baking. 

I also went out and bought short cups to be able to easily handout the cupcakes to all the members and not have to worry about using up all my containers and trying to collect them.  I will show you what they look like next week. 

Love always, aloterella :)