Starbucks Offers Pre-orders of Valentine’s Day Cupcakes
This Valentine’s Day, Think Inside the Box of Delicious Cupcakes
Starbucks Offers Pre-orders of Cupcakes, Feb. 6 – 12, 2007
Every Valentine’s Day, an average of 65 percent of Americans give greeting cards, 38 percent give candy and 32 percent give flowers to that special someone. This Valentine’s Day, Starbucks is offering a way to think “inside the box”… of delicious cupcakes to offer all those special someones something new, special and delicious.
Beginning Feb. 6, Starbucks customers can pre-order packages of two cupcakes to give to their sweethearts, co-workers, children, babysitters, friends, mail carriers and anyone else with a special place in their hearts. Simply place an order while grabbing a morning coffee anytime between Tuesday, Feb. 6 and Monday, Feb. 12, and a beautifully packaged Valentine’s gift will be ready for pickup on Wednesday, Feb. 14. Starbucks® cupcake gift packages include two cupcakes available in chocolate, vanilla, or one of each, neatly decorated and wrapped with love in a pink Valentine’s Day package.
The cupcake craze is in full bloom with cupcake cafes opening across the country devoted to offering this American favorite. Express affection and appreciation with a gift box to show the important people in your life that they are truly the “icing on the cupcake.”
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Leave it to a mom to come up with a gizmo for toting cupcakes. The Cupcake Courier, designed by Jennifer Gunn of Altadena, Calif., is a five-piece molded plastic carrier. It has three stackable trays with 36 compartments, a detachable base and a roomy cover with handle; fully assembled, it is about the size of a portable sewing machine cas e. The unit can be used as a cake carrier. $32.99; to order online, go to cupcakecourier.com.
Wilton’s Silly-Feet! silicone baking cups are reusable and come in a four-piece multicolored set, $9.99, available at Michaels craft stores or online at michaels.com.
Wilton’s striped paper baking cups have designer style; standard (75-pack, $1.99) and mini (100-pack, $1.99) sizes, also available at Michaels.
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Tray cool laser cut cupcake baking cups at traylorspapers.com.
**Apparently these are no longer available. HOWEVER Cupcake General has a source that might be carrying them in the future. We will let you know!
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