The Bakers Dozen Cupcake Meeting

I flew back from Florida in time for a Bakers Dozen meeting yesterday dedicated to the cute but serious Cupcake.

If you live in Northern California, love to bake, bake professionally or at home, are a pastry chef, have a business from making sweet things, write about food, style food, blog about baked goods, make bread or chocolate things for a living, want to learn more about the wide world of baking,

        you should join up with us, the Bakers Dozen. {This cookbook represents much of its constituents.} It costs very little to belong, we have 4 meetings a year, and each person and meeting is a treasure of inspiration and education beyond compare. Email me directly if you want a membership form.

[We're not quite caught up to the modern age of websites and blogs but by 2009, if I can push and poke and prod lovingly, I am hoping to help change that.]

Also, we in the Bay Area are Bakers Dozen West. There's also one in NYC / The Greater Metropolitan Area, and Utah. Do you want one in your area? Contact Bakers Dozen to see how it happens.

The highlights of the day were listening to 3 panelists who have started their own cupcake bakeries, and seeing how each place chose to decorate and frost their little cakettes. And of course it's always an exquisite lunch at Foreign Cinema!

To see a number of cupcake examples from today's meeting, check out the set at Flickr. There are dozens of cupcakes I was not able to capture, so I am truly sorry to those members who made delicious cupcakes themselves.

Comments

[Aran]

It would be so wonderful to have something similar to that around here. Maybe I could start a South Florida chapter? That would be so much fun!

[jack hattaway]

Bakers Dozen -- Utah chapter? I am so there! Thanks, Shuna.

[Bryan]

one of the very first baking cookbooks i bought was The Baker's Dozen. i still refer to it often.

originally, i thought of the Dozen as a seemingly secret, super-cool cabal of bakers generating recipes in an undisclosed HQ somewhere in Northern California.

still super-cool, but thankfully just not as secret.

[kudzu]

Okay, the cupcake mystique escapes me. I sort of resent the faddishness (and the often not-well-made examples out there) -- but I have come back to the site three times to lust over those coconut beauties. They are bitty samples of one of the South's baking wonders, homemade fresh coconut layer cake. Whose are they?

Kudzu! Check out the flickr page where this photo resides and you'll see who takes credit for these beautiful little cakes... ~ Shuna

[Tartelette]

If Aran starts a chapter, I am right there helping out!

[Aran]

Hi Shuna! I sent an email to baker's dozen sf and ny. It was a general mail box so I hope someone reads it. I would love to start a chapter for Florida or even the Southeast. Now that I read Helen's comment, she might want to be my accomplice!!!

[Flo Braker]

Shuna, you're so dear, and I always look forward to reading your blog. We are lucky that you have a soft spot in your heart for Bakers Dozen. We miss you. xoFlo Braker (a Bakers Dozen member in California)

[Debbie]

Hi all,
While Bakers Dozen is still keeping their original website,

There's a new addition - it's got lots and lots of current info.

Happy Baking!

Hi Debbie-- thank you for keeping us all in the loop! ~ Shuna