Fuck You, Cupcakes.

It started with yet another business idea.

I get business ideas all the time. I guess that's a good sign of an entrepreneur - always coming up with different ideas of things to start. Most of my ideas tend to be hair-brained insane ideas that don't seem to work before they even come out of my mouth. My former coworkers got used to this. I can't count how many times I would look to my left at my "cube mate" Nick and say some bizarre idea for an office product or service. He would look at me with a confused and slightly concerned look on his face, then tell me to get back to work. Eventually he just started ignoring me. To which I proceeded to bug the hell out of everyone else who would listen to me (yes MB, Amy, Gina and Carol). Most of the time the ideas were complete crap. But a few times I hit it. One particular product idea was taken up by not named major office supply retailer. Take that! Who can say they came up with a million dollar product idea? BOOM the extreme man, came out of this brain!
Of course I can't take public credit for the idea since I no longer work at the manufacturer and I'm not legally allowed to same the name of the retailer. But if I'm ever shopping with you dear reader and we see said product, believe me you will know who came up with it.

I am happy I'm no longer in the office products industry. 10 years by the time your 26 is a little absurd. And I'm no longer dreaming up office product ideas - I've moved on! So what is a 26 year old single living girl who is newly working from home going to do? Why bake of course! I am the 2010's version of the 50's housewife: no kids, no husband, one bedroom apartment on the north side of Chicago, and I'm baking up a storm while switching from the Food Network, This American Life, and Big Band Jazz music. Naturally, this was going to dream up some pretty interesting business ideas on the way. You're probably thinking, well this girl likes to cook so why doesn't she open a restaurant? No way. For starters, my fear of putting down roots at this stage makes any brick and mortar type place a big no. Also there about a 1% success rate and I don't have the money to lose. I did think of a couple things though...

The rest of this post will detail an idea that I will not be going forward with. Take it. It's yours if you want it.

I've been waking up at 4am about every morning for the last month and then fighting to go back to sleep. It's probably normal - I'm stressed with the new job and move in a month so whatever. One morning I woke up with a BRILLIANT idea. What about a mail-order cupcake business that would incorporate wine into cupcakes? I'm talking Malbec cupcakes with dark chocolate and chili pepper, Champagne cupcakes with strawberries, Merlot cupcakes with blackberry frosting. Take the flavors of the wine and bring them out with the flavors of the cupcakes.

Name of the business: Why wine? Have a cupcake.
Cute, huh?
Coming from a marketing background, I had the logo and business plan whipped up by 6am. I brushed it passed some people (thanks for liking my stick figures Pat) and by 3pm I was ready to open.
Oh wait, duh. Recipes.

So this began the long list of cupcake recipes that I have already tried and will begin posting at various times when I think of them. They turned out really freaking good. I've had some trouble getting the alcohol flavor out but if you drink a glass of the wine with the cupcake it's killer. So good.

So why am I no longer pursuing this? Well the waking up at 4am got worse because of all the sugar. I live alone. I have to try the recipes. And unfortunately I do not have the body of Gisele Buchen and can ingest trial recipes without blinking an eye (Posh Spice knows what I'm talking about - that girl won't look at cake). Oh well. Until I have a team of cake connoisseurs that can eat this stuff and give me objective opinions I'm putting this little idea on hold. But in the mean time, enjoy the recipes! I won't post anything on here unless it's good.