Oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful!!

Yikes!!! Super cold at the Livermore Farmer's Market today! It was around 46 degrees this AM when I got there to set up. I think it only got up to about 55 degrees!!! What's a California girl to do!! Layer and more layers, that's what. I checked weather.com last night so I knew how to dress. Thankfully, it wasn't windy like last weeks market. Stuff was blowing off of my table last week. Wind Chill.....yuck, no fun. Anyway, it occured to me today as I was "freezing" in the 50 degree weather.....that just a few short years ago when I lived in Boston a 50 degree day in the middle of December would have been a heatwave! I'm not kidding. Even for me back then. That would have been t-shirt weather. Today I had on 2 layers of pants and 4 layers on top, plus gloves. It's all relative. You figure if you're in New England and it's 18 degrees outside.....if it suddenly jumps up to 55 degrees, that's a huge difference. It would be like if it went from 55 degrees for us up to say 92 degrees.

So we did good at the market today. The mini's are really popular there. People like scooping up pre-packaged assortments in that atmosphere. I have some repeat customers now who have given me good feedback. One lady today said she came by for more business cards because the cupcakes were a hit at her office. Repeat customers commonly buy the regular size cupcakes....because they've tried before and they like them.

Today I sold: Vanilla with Vanilla, Chocolate cupcakes with Vanilla buttercream, Red Velvet with Cream Cheese, Mini Snowballs (vanilla, vanilla with coconut flakes on top).

I'm a chocolate fan myself.....love it in practically every baked form available......heaven. But the public has a thing for Vanilla!! Go figure. People really like the Vanilla cupcake with Vanilla buttercream over and over. I need to bring more of those next time. And I had a request for the Pumpkin Spice again......so I think I'll bring those next week.

Bye for now.....I'm gonna go have a Chocolate Cupcake with a huge glass of milk....mmmmmmmmm :)