Suzy Sweethearts & Valentines Goodies

February 14th is the perfect day for baked goodies.  Why?  Because if you're in a relationship, both guys and gals love a yummy treat from their significant other.  And if you're not currently in a relationship, well, you deserve some sugar regardless.

All jokes aside, we have a fun new Valentines cupcake to offer you for next week, the Suzy Sweetheart.  Old Suzy Sweet Tooth fans will remember that one of our most popular cupcakes, the CocoNilla, is named after our co-founder Corinne.  So this new one is named after and created by Susan.  It's fitting, as Susan's birthday is also Valentine's Day, and we both love heart-laden goodies.

The Suzy Sweetheart has chocaholics in mind with a base of our classic chocolate cake and a layer of creamy semisweet chocolate ganache.  We frost it with our vanilla cream cheese frosting marbled in pink and white for the holiday, and top it with two hand-piped pink candy hearts (one heart for minis).  What could be sweeter than that?

 

Suzy Sweetheart Cupcakes

Also for Valentine's Day keep in mind our personalized goodies.  We do chocolate covered pretzels rods year round, in white or milk chocolate and your choice of sprinkles or a candy drizzle.  

Valentine's Day Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods

We also have plenty of festive Valentines sprinkles to choose from.  Any of our cupcakes can be decorated for your special someone in style!  Just let us know what you'd like when you order.

Please contact us at HowSweetItIsUT@gmail.com through Tuesday, February 12 for any Valentine's Day orders (and any other time for birthdays, showers, or any other festive treats you'd like)!  And thanks, as always, to TZRollins Photography for the beautiful photos.

Giveaway Winners

What a fun weekend we've had here at How Sweet It Is!  Along with a couple of orders, we were able to give away some cupcakes to people around town.  The winner of our drawing was Caitlin, who won a dozen assorted cupcakes.  Jamie also won a last-minute supplemental drawing and got 4 cupcakes for her family.

Our winners with their spoils

We also delivered some sampler trays to local businesses around Provo/Orem, including our two favorite salons: Shep Studio in Provo and Suggestions Salon in Orem.  

Suggestions Salon

We will be doing future drawings for cupcakes and other yummy treats, so keep your eyes peeled here on the blog as well as our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts.  And if you work at a local business that would be interested in samples, please email us at HowSweetItIsUt@gmail.com, and we'll be sure to keep you in mind for our next freebie offer.

Butterscotch Bars

Pop quiz time!  What is butterscotch? 

A) A combination of brown sugar and butter
B) One of Susan's favorite things on this earth
C) Heaven
D) All of the above

If you answered D, you are correct.  And if you, like Susan and Corinne, are a butterscotch fan, you will surely love our Butterscotch Bars.  

With a tender center and a crisp crust, our Butterscotch Bars are a rich bar cookie made with lots of butter and brown sugar.  And they are loaded to the brim with a combination of butterscotch and white chocolate chips.  A tiny bit salty and buttery sweet, we dare you to have only one.

We love not only the bars themselves, but their sweet (pun intended) presentation.  Each custom-ordered set contains one dozen individually wrapped 3x3" bars in a bag with our logo and signature pink bow.

Butterscotch Bars

If you haven't already, be sure to check out the site of our extremely talented photographer, TZRollins Photography.  And please contact us at HowSweetItIsUT@gmail.com with any orders or questions!

Giveaway Extended

We have been hearing that some people have had trouble commenting on our blog (sorry!) to officially enter our Cupcake Giveaway.  So we have good news:  we will be extending the entry deadline one week to give some more locals a chance to win some free How Sweet It Is cupcakes!

To clarify, here's what you need to do to enter:

• Like How Sweet It Is on Facebook
• Follow us on either Twitter or Instagram if you have those services (@HowSweetItIsUT on either program)
• Leave a comment telling us you've done those things.  It can be on this post, the original Giveaway post, or on our Facebook page or status.

You do not have to be new to How Sweet It Is, previous customers are, of course, welcome to enter the drawing.  You also do not have to be a new follower.  If you follow us already, feel free to enter by leaving us a comment letting us know you'll be in Provo/Orem and hungry for cupcakes the first weekend in February.

Entries are due now by the end of the day Tuesday, January 29th.  The winner will be announced shortly after and will receive one dozen assorted cupcakes that weekend.

Good luck!

Snickerdoodle Cupcakes

Corinne and I think it's about time to post our Snickerdoodle Cupcakes on the blog.  They have been one of our top sellers since their inception, and, well, we think they are just too darn cute (and delicious!) to keep them to ourselves any longer.

A longtime favorite with some of our customers/tasters, our Snickerdoodle Cupcake starts off with our fluffy cinnamon sugar cake.  It's buttery, sweet, and a bit spicy-- just like its namesake cookie.  Then we top it with our cookie dough frosting, an icing we made to have the same taste and texture as cookie dough.  (A cookie dough junkie myself, this is one of my favorite frostings we make.)  We sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar, and top it with a freshly baked mini Snickerdoodle cookie.

Some people eat the cookie first, others eat it as is, but all will agree... this is the best of both the cupcake and cookie worlds!

Snickerdoodle Cupcakes

Thanks to TZRollins Photography for the beautiful photos.  Please don't forget to enter our cupcake giveaway here.  Only a few days left to enter!