Are you ready for some football??

We are!! Introducing our new Super Bowl Menu!

Click on the picture above to see an enlarged version. We will be taking orders through Thursday, February 3. Orders will be available for pick-up Saturday, February 5 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Giveaway: Win 2 Tickets to the US Air Force Reserve Band Concert

Bite of Your Life would like to give you the opportunity to enjoy a relaxing Saturday afternoon with the US Air Force Band!

The 43-piece concert band is the largest unit of the Band of the United States Air Force Reserve, with a varied repertoire that ranges from classical overtures and Sousa marches to Broadway show tunes, popular music, movie themes, and patriotic favorites. The concert band has performed at various locations throughout the United States and the world. The band has toured Russia twice, making historic appearances in Moscow (1992) and St. Petersburg (1995). With the Southeastern United States as its primary touring area, the concert band frequently performs for packed houses in Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

This Saturday they will be performing in Tallahassee and here's your chance to win a ticket for you and a friend (or honey bunny).

Location
FAMU Music Dept Lee Hall Auditorium Room 316 Tallahassee, FL 32307

Website
http://www.usafreserveband.af.mil/events/index.asp


Date
Jan. 23, 2011

Time
3 p.m. 5 p.m.


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Contest ends on Thursday, January 21st (today) at 11:59pm.
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New Year = A New Sign!!

Have you taken a drive down John Knox Rd. lately? If so, you may have noticed that we have a NEW SIGN!!! It's big, it's pink, it's GREAT!!

We'd like to sincerely thank the gang at Cy-Tech Computers (also in our building) for their help with our sign from Day 1!

Local Business Saturday

Tallahassee Mayor John Marks along with the City of Tallahassee, Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, Tallahassee Economic Development Council, Capital City Chamber of Commerce and local businesses announced that every second Saturday of the month in 2011 will be designated as a Local Business Saturday. This collaborative effort will include a targeted marketing campaign encouraging consumers to shop at locally-owned and locally-operated businesses for cost-saving deals beginning this Saturday, Jan. 15 and every second Saturday in 2011.

Many businesses, including Bite of Your Life, have signed up to participate and some have already posted discounts on the 'Local Business Saturday' Facebook page.

Bite of Your Life will be open from 12:00pm - 5:00pm tomorrow in honor of the festivities. We'll be giving away NOT ONLY a FREE Hot Beverage with the purchase of 2 cupcakes, but also a FREE Cupcake Lollipop with the purchase of 4 cupcakes! Gotta love that sweet deal, right?!?

Come on out and support a local business while enjoying the Bite of Your Life!!

Wordless Wednesday: Birthday Cakes

The Return of the Cupcake Bar!

You've heard about it, now experience it for yourself! We are happy to announce the return of the Cupcake Bar.

You choose the cupcake flavor, icing, decorations, and filling and your personal Caketender will handle the rest!

Add a little sweetness to your next event and let your guests experience the Bite of Their Life!!

Special of the Week: $1.11 Cupcakes on 1.11.11

This Tuesday, 1.11.2011 - during the 1 o'clock hour ONLY - all cupcakes are just $1.11!!

*Terms and Conditions: Limit 12 per customer; may not be redeemed with any special offers such as Groupon, Big Bend Bargains or Dollar Saver Deals.*

DJ Demp's Official Birthday Cake

The moment you’ve been waiting for!! The unveiling of DJ Demp’s Official Birthday Cake:

DJ Demp’s staff told us that he is a fan of the “beats” headphones by Dr. Dre, so we gave him a little twist!

Liz, owner of Bite of Your Life, adopted a new name this week…the Tired Baker. However, you’d never know it from looking at this.

Happy Birthday DJ Demp!

We here at Bite of Your Life would like to send a very special Happy Birthday shout out to DJ Demp! We are honored to be working on quite a few projects for his weeklong celebration here in Tallahassee.

It all began with an order for 75 red velvet mini cupcakes with cream cheese icing and edible silver dust. Needless to say we were very excited about this opportunity to show #TEAMDEMP just what we’re made of, sugar and spice and everything nice, of course :-).

Things became a little hectic when we had to rush out and purchase more mini cupcake wrappers. And even more crazy when we ran out of red food coloring but we hit our deadline and I must say I’m very happy with the results!

Next up, we have DJ Demp’s official birthday cake. I can’t wait to tell you what we have planned for him, but for now it’s a secret!! :-)

Until next time, come on in and experience the Bite of Your Life!

Happy (Healthy) New Year!!

So, 2011 is firmly underway and I'm sure we're all excited about the new things to come. There's something about getting a fresh start and a clean slate at the beginning of each year. It's also the time for colder weather and of course those New Year's Resolutions.

The top resolution for 2011 is to lose weight according to AssociatedContent.com, so although we specialize in cakes and cupcakes, we want to help you reach your weight loss goals!

Introducing the debut of our New, Made-from-Scratch, Blueberry Muffins!!!





Each muffin is jam packed with antioxidants and best of all they are low in sugar - perfect for getting sweet on life the healthy way!

Stop by the shop to indulge in our newest edition and experience the Bite of Your Life!

So much for a great start! :)

Hey everyone!

This week has gotten off to a great start! We did a 1/4 sheet cake for FSU, and we got an order for our first Cupcake Bouquet! Good times!

This week, we have a cake that consists of two very specific cars - a 2010 Camaro and a '72 Chevy Chevelle. There is a lot of history behind this cake order, so we're under intense pressure to not only get it right, but to make it the greatest! This will make her birthday great, but it will be sure to help us out in Tallahassee!





We've got new signs up, and a couple of lawn signs to point you our way, so come see us!

Thanks so much for following us! You guys are wonderful! :* Keep it sweet!

So here we go...

We're trying something a bit different here...

I recently saw Julie & Julia, and she inspired me. No matter what, she found time to blog. We've been stressed. We've been busy. But you guys should know what's up.

So here's one of the new things we're going to do - GIVEAWAYS!

We're at 10 followers now. Once we get to 25, we're going to give away a free dozen of specialty cupcakes. So invite your friends. And we'll have another giveaway at 50 and so on. The more followers, the bigger the gifts.

Alright, sweets - let's make this thing successful. Keep me accountable! :) Get sweet on life :*

Busy, Busy, BUSY!

It's been a LONG time since I've updated the blog! I can't believe I've left you this long without any updates :( We've had so many cakes, cupcakes and orders that things have been wonderful. I'm clearly going to have to do this in more than one blog. This blog will be dedicated to the cakes that have gone out, I'll have another for our upcoming cupcakes, sweets and other exciting things that we can talk about...FUN!
Here's a FAMU cake that we did for a graduate. Congrats, Sam! :)
Here's a Cake for our friend Luke, and he wants to be in politics. So we brought the future to him! :)
A birthday cake for Stella, ordered by a coworker! It's a Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing and Buttercream Decorations :)
Ah, the beloved Corset Cake :) We had SO MUCH FUN with this cake! We love the Chantilly Lace pattern and all! Yum! :)
This Hair Dryer cake was requested by Athena Salon here in Tallahassee. Mo and I covered the dryer, while Mo rocked the HOUSE on those rollers! I don't rightfully know what I'd do without her, but it wouldn't have been this cake, I can assure you of that! ;)I'll be back tomorrow with updates on cupcakes and things like that! We've got a busy weekend, a few more cakes, so it will be a bit crazy. We have a LOBSTER (yes, that is correct. That is why it's in all caps.) Those pictures will be up as soon as that thing is done! :)

Have a good night, sweets! We'll talk with you soon! :*

Hold Fast To Dreams...

I can't say anything else about today, other than this dream is coming true. I can't believe the awesomeness that is God, and what He's doing. :) This morning, we had no customers. After such an amazing day yesterday, I was a little discouraged. I asked Mo if that was normal, and she nice and politely reminded me that people were at work and wouldn't be coming to get cupcakes. Ok, good.

Then someone called and asked where we were located, and wanted our hours. We wondered how she heard about us - without having driven by...she said she read it in the paper. The paper? The paper. We were confused. We thought she was too.


Then it happened. Our friend called and let us know that she had emailed someone at the Democrat over the weekend to see if she could get us in. It worked. We were in print and on the web. And then it kept happening. And then it didn't stop happening. And then we had lines of people waiting for cupcakes. And then we ran out of cupcakes. And we had to make more.

And we wouldn't trade it for the world. Today was incredibly amazing. And it can only go up from here. :)

I want to leave you with this:

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow

...Langston Hughes

We love each and every one of you that stopped by. Check out the website for tomorrow's flavors and specials.

Get sweet on your dreams. It works :*

Good Day!

Today was a fantastically fabulous day! Mo and I FINALLY got to take some time off, as we're closed on Sunday and Monday. That was the first time we got some rest - well, some - in MONTHS! It was SO worth it! We came back refreshed! :)Yesterday, however, instead of keeping it a day off, we decided to come in and do a bit of baking and free PR. We came in to make LOTS of mini cupcakes, bag them up and walk them to the offices across the street from our shop. Through rain and sun, it was SO much fun! (Hey! I'm a poet, and didn't even KNOW it!) We thanked God because it really could have been hot and gross, as are many days of Tallahassee summers, but he gave us some cloud cover. Fun times :) That brought us some customers today! And some people that were definitely interested in what we had to offer. Great times.

Last night I spent some time with a great friend and mentor of mine, Marion Shaffer of Art Of The Catwalk. She has been INSTRUMENTAL in getting me where I am today. Letting me present as a vendor at her events when my money was SO less than funny. She's an amazing woman, mentor and Mama. And I love her :*
Today was T-shirt Tuesday, where everyone that purchases a T-shirt receives a FREE Cupcake every Tuesday they sport their shirt! Of course, you can buy a shirt ANY day of the week, but the free cupcake is only good on Tuesday.
Speaking of cupcakes - tomorrow is a very special day. Wednesday's specialty cupcake is FORBIDDEN FRUIT (note the apples...). We both know how much you want to try it. We do. It's true. So we've got a challenge. The first 5 customers that can come in and win our trivia challenge will get a FREE Forbidden Fruit cupcake. Wanna know what's in it? I can't tell you! How do we know THAT'S not the trivia challenge...? Hmmm.....

The theme for tomorrow is CHOCOLATE! We had so many people come in and ask for it today, we had to make it a staple. So get this - our Mini Cakes will be triple chocolate, our Cake Lollipops will be dipped in chocolate, we'll have Chocolate Cupcakes - it's everywhere!! Tomorrow's menu is: Vanilla, Chocolate, FORBIDDEN FRUIT, Pink Lemonade, Red Velvet, Vanilla Gluten Free, Chocolate Mini Cakes and Vanilla/Chocolate Cake Lollipops. So much chocolate I can't keep up! :)

Thanks for checking in! Get sweet on this Forbidden Fruit - go against everything you've ever heard about it ;)

Scooby-Dooby Doo and other cartoons we remember!

Soooo...I pretty much learned last night that I can't do anything else with my life other than this :) I have a wonderful time at work, I have a wonderful partner in crime, and things are just lovely. Just amazing. But on to today!
Today was much, MUCH slower than yesterday, which gave us some time to split up and run errands and work on - THE SCOOBY DOO CAKE! Which was tons of fun :)
Mo is just starting out working with Fondant and cake decorating. You'd never tell it after this week of working in the shop. She's a natural at it, and I can't wait until she's on her own cakes. :) More on that in a second.
Today's menu was Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Vanilla, Pink Lemonade with Buttercream, Black Bottoms,Vanilla Mini cakes and Vanilla Cake Lollipops. We were going to debut Bad Romance (shout out) but we decided to wait on it. That's a special one, and we want people to try them and enjoy them!

We got to work on a very, very special Scooby Doo cake for a very, very special family. :) They were invaluable in helping us with the shop. Dan Knippel helped us paint by giving us professional lessons, and allowed us to use his professional equipment to make our shop beautifully amazing. How wonderful is that?? This cake had to be amazing.
And it was.

Tomorrow, we've got a Business Plan Coaching meeting with Mr. Mark Raciappa of ActionCOACH, which is going to be AMAZING! I'm about to work on my homework, and we'll see you back here bright and early tomorrow! :)

Thanks for checking in! :)

Oh, good grief! What business owner that has a blog doesn't update said blog on the day of her Grand Opening?! I have let you down, and for this, I am sorry. :( But I'm going to make up for it by giving you DOUBLE today!

Soooo...OMG! We opened yesterday! All the months, weeks and days of hard (hard) work and sleepless nights has led us to this! I will say, that if I THOUGHT I wasn't getting any sleep then...I had another thing coming! :)

It was an exciting day. We reported for duty at 5:30! We made 4 dozen of each cupcake. We started our first day with Chocolate Gluten Free (provided by Mandy of Bacon & Bakin'!), Red Velvet with Cream Cheese icing, Pink Lemonade with Buttercream icing, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Black Bottom Cupcakes, Vanilla Mini Cakes and Vanilla Cake Lollipops. WHEW! :)

The Chamber of Commerce did their Ribbon Cutting ceremony at 3:00, and there were LOTS of people! I'll have pictures from that as soon as they're up on the Chamber Website. Sure, I got some, but I want these to be great! I have one of me and my daddy, here it is :) I love him :)


Take a look at some of the pics from the shop. We left EXHAUSTED but it was a good feeling (as is the norm lately lol) I got treated to some Olive Garden take out after by my wonderfully supportive boyfriend, and got some MUCH NEEDED sleep. Only to wake up at 5:30 to do it all again :) But more on THAT in the next post!

Thanks for checking in! Even when there's nothing here :) Keep it sweet! ;)



Our sign!

Here's some of the Vintage pieces we got from Bling & Things! :)

Ever popular in the south, The Red Velvets! Can't you hear them singing??

Congratulations. You are still in the running to become America's Next Top...BAKERY!

So yesterday was the America's Next Top Model audition. There weren't as many girls that I thought would be, but it was a good turnout. It was HOT. Then it rained. And it decided to rain while I was getting my make up done. But when you're working with a professional *ahem* Danielle Ardister *ahem* she can make you look like this in ANY weather! You'll be able to find Danielle in the Beauty Salon in my building! Ow!

Been a LONG weekend, full of business conversations, but we open in 4 DAYS!

Thanks for checking in! See you soon! :)

How Could I Forget??

Our counter glass? Who bent it? You guessed it! Thanks, Sly for holding it for me - you thought you came down for Band Camp, but this was your purpose. Where's Monique, you ask? She was afraid of the flame. So she was our photographer. Sigh...everyone has a purpose. :)

Going to get ready for the America's Next Top Model spot! Thanks for checking in!

Get sweet on life! ;) I am.

Sigh...

We've got a new member of the Sugar Hill Gang! My sweetheart Kenneth has come on as our Studio Manager!! So anytime you hear or see Bite Of Your Life in the community at some swanky event, he's gonna be there 9 times outta ten! We love you Kenneth! (Even though he kicks my bootay and makes me work super hard. I love him!)

We went to a fancy meeting yesterday about working with VisitTallahassee.com, and partnering with them to give people that visit Tallahassee all kinds of ressons to come to Tallahassee's PREMIER Couture Bakery and Sweet Studio. Why can't we share with them what we already know? :) I thought so...

And let's talk about how amazing Dee and Tracy at Bling & Things Consignment Shop and Decor are. How amazing are they? They're partnering with us to make our uber cute, vintage shop a satellite location to buy Vintage goodies! How much fun is that? Come in, get a goodie, have a glass of juice - buy an antique tchotchke. Love it! :)

Today - I got a fancy shmancy call! The Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce is hosting our Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Thursday (Opening Day) at 3:00 p.m.! Come out while we have an amazing time. And yes, I will probably cry. I can almost guarantee it, actually.

Tomorrow, I'm going to do a bit of pubbing for us. America's Next Top Model is coming to town, and I'm going to be at the audition! No, not as a model, sadly. I'm much too short for that. I will be looking just as fantastic as one, though! My friend and make-up artist Danielle Ardister will be telling people about her uber successful business, and she asked ME to be a model for her! Take THAT, Tyra! I was hand-picked! :)


Let me tell you about THIS little fella! I went to visit my friend Nikki at Pizza Hut tonight after a super long day preparing the shop. We walked out with my food, and someone left this cupcake wrapper by my back tire! Could it be a sign...? Either way, I couldn't pass up this gem of a picture. :) We moved it to get a better picture, and TONS of ants scurried. Could they have been getting the Bite of THEIR lives? Curious...

Thanks for checking in! T-6 days! Thanks for believing in us. You rock at all things sweet! :* Til next time!