Vermont Shortbread Company

Thank You, Cupcakers!

Thanks to all who commented or emailed me about my cupcake thread.  The response blew me away.  I will get back to you.  It may take awhile, as I have a full time job that I'm passionate about, but I always do get back. 

The cupcake thread got me thinking.  How can I build on Vermont Shortbread Company's platform, use my bakery for cupcaking, yet be involved in operations, distribution and management at a very high level?  There's got to be a way to use Vermont Shortbread Company as a springboard for a cupcake project that benefits me and other bakers.  I am grateful to all for launching these cupcake thoughts which now find their way into my dreams at night. 

An amorphous idea is beginning to take shape.  I'll be back with cupcakes and bells.   

Your friend,

The Shortbread Cupcaker

I Just Bought VermontCupcake.com

Hey, for $9, it's a worth parking the domain.   

I usually use godaddy.com to register domains unless someone else offers me a better deal.  Anyone know anything about how to figure out how much a domain name is worth?  Just curious as I own quite a few. 

I also want to be able to figure out what www.vermontshortbread.com is worth.  No clue how to do this...

Cupcakes are Suhhhh...weeet!

Attention Vermont food entrepreneurs: cupcakes are all the rage in the baking world.  I first read about the cupcake craze a couple years ago in a specialty food magazine.  Cupcake bakeries (where you can even buy a "shot" of frosting) are springing up in big cities everywhere.  Yum. 

On a personal note, cupcakes remind us midlifers of childhood.  What child doesn't to lick the frosting off a cupcake while peeling the paper off the moist cake inside?

Cupcakes do not seem to have made it to Vermont yet.  Since I've been reading a cupcake blog regularly (http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/), I've been thinking it might be cool to turn Vermont Shortbread Company into Vermont Cupcake Company.  Okay, I admit, I mostly just look at the photos on the cupcake blog and dream in cupcake possibilities.  I'm even considering taking a cake decorating class since I've become so obsessed with cupcakes. 

Who wants to partner with me on Vermont Cupcake Company?  I can't do it alone.  I have a commercial bakery.  I have the vision and the infrastructure already in place.  I also have a full time job that I adore and I'm no longer willing to compromise my family and my health for my entrepreneurial dreams.  But there's gotta be a way...I am seeing cupcake kiosks in malls across the country in my dreams. 

Any cupcakers out there?  Hello?