After all of these years…

So here we are, a few years and dozens (hundreds?) of deliveries later! I’m still your friendly neighborhood Delivery Boy, but I don’t have the chance very often to reach out and connect. I want to try to get back into the habit…

What’s new? Well, let me count the ways. Stella and Penny, the chiefs of this particular operation, now wear…

The best laid plans of mice and men… and Delivery Boys. Last year this time I was eagerly awaiting a year of wedding cake deliveries, writing blog posts, taking pictures, and generally staying out of the way of the Cake Ladies as they worked their magic. Got a lot of that done, but I can’t say I did a lot of blogging as the year went on. That plan didn’t work out like I thought it would--there’s…

Well, here we are again. It’s time to get back into the swing of things, as they say, since we’re coming into the busy season. The Delivery Boy has been busy getting the equipment up to the task and managing the logistics, and the Cake Ladies have been even busier with the rousing success of Sugar Buzz and the Friday/Saturday sales of cupcakes and cake balls at the counter!

Lately some people…

You would never have thought… I would, of course, but I’m just the delivery boy. What do I know?

As I walked the rope line in the basement of the IX Center, I thought of how I’d ended up there. I looked down the row of cakes that had been entered into a contest—as I thought about the way Stella and Penny fought space constraints in their home kitchens to make cakes the…

I spend a lot of time in this space talking about wedding cakes. I think that might be a selfish thing, since most of my work for The Cake Boutique is delivering those cakes to the places of celebration. But of course, the ladies of the Boutique make a lot of other kinds of cakes, too. And those are all available for delivery! I find that there is a progression that follows the old children’s rhyme—the…

I can’t believe that I’ve never covered this topic. I have joked about on the blog earlier in its life, about how difficult my task is since I have to smell the sweet aroma of Cake Boutique products from the beginning to the end of my journey. But I was recently reminded that even in the wedding cake side of the business, delivery is optional; I thought I should talk a little about why you should…

Each year, the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley and the Mahoning Valley Young Professionals honor 40 people who are making an impact in their chosen professions and demonstrate a commitment to community involvement.

​As the self-appointed “marketing staff” at The Cake Boutique, your humble delivery boy is always looking for ways to promote the wonderful products the Cake Ladies produce.

​So… I spend a bit of time on the wedding boards at a couple of different Web sites, looking for new ideas that I can share with the Cake Ladies in exchange for some free samples.

It was sometime in the summer of 2010. The cakes were flying out of the kitchen, the orders were coming in fast, and the brand new Cake Boutique was already at a crossroads.