        Archive for the ‘Announcements’ CategoryLetting the cat outta the bag!Monday, April 5th, 2010Ok, we’ve known about this since December, and let me tell you – keeping our mouths shut (and fingers off the keyboard!) has been incredibly difficult! Back in January, you may have seen our tweets about sending our Chai cake to New York City for a *big* magazine photo shoot. We’ve been pretty silent about which magazine, but just received word that subscribers have received their issues… So… Check it out… . . Cyber Monday Sale at Celebration Generation!Monday, November 30th, 2009So, with the mass amount of ads for Cyber Monday deal in my inbox this morning, I made the last minute decision to give Celebration Generation fans a sale as well! For today only, we have our Jacked Up Java Caffeinated Brownie Mix on sale – only $10. This is just over 28% off the retail price of $14!
Each package of mix make 18 large brownies, each containing the same caffeine level as a large cup of coffee. Super easy & foolproof to make. Mix is easily divisible into 2 separate batches, and comes in a resealable bag to aid in that. Makes a great gift for programmers, gamers, nerds/geeks of every flavor, and college students. Well, and for anyone else who likes chocolate and coffee! Happy Thanksgiving!Thursday, November 26th, 2009Bring on the turkey and…
Pumpkin Pi(e)! Har! Order your Holiday Goodies now!Thursday, November 19th, 2009Well, it’s that time of year again – we have reopened our online store for holiday ordering! This year, we have an exciting new option available: in addition to “a la carte” ordering, and our traditional mixed treat boxes.. there is now an option to order a mixed box of CAFFEINATED goodies! Treat your local guild or programmers right.. or just use the boost to help you party all night. Either way, it is a most delicious way to abuse stimulants this holiday season! As always, our most popular favorites are back this year, from chewy chip cookies, to nanaimo bars. Check out the full selection, complete with photos: http://celebrationgeneration.com/holidaygoodies.html. Orders may be shipped, delivered, or picked up, but all orders must be received by December 14th. Ticket GIVEAWAY! – A Klingon Christmas CarolTuesday, November 17th, 2009Back in July, hubby and I were attending a local event, checking out a table of information, when a shiny gold piece of paper caught my eye. Ever the human magpie, I had to check it out. It was a flyer for a production called “A Klingon Christmas Carol”. It sounded so freakishly awesome that it has been displayed on our fridge at home ever since, as we awaited the season. “What is it?”, you may ask. A theater company got together, tweaked the traditional “Christmas Carol” story to be Klingon themed, TRANSLATED it into Klingon, and perform it – in full costume – with English subtitles projected onto the stage. I’m not even a Trekkie, and that just sounds so over-the-top AWESOME, I can’t even stand it! Flash forward a few months. A strong desire to make an epic Klingon cake, a few emails.. and I’m now in possession of a sponsorship contract with Commedia Beauregard, the geniuses in charge of this brilliance! More on my contribution to their efforts in the coming week or two… in the meantime.. I have tickets to give away! I will have 2 giveaways, one through this blog, one through twitter. If you don’t follow us, you SHOULD. Details for the twitter giveaway will be announced on Monday. In the meantime, here’s how you can win a set of 2 tickets* to A Klingon Christmas Carol: It’s easy, really. Entertain me! This is a really free form ticket giveaway, mostly due to my indecision about how to run it! What that means is that your entry can be whatever you want it to be. Tell me a joke, draw me a picture, tell me why you want to – or deserve to! – go see this show. Tell me the nerdiest thing you’ve ever said or done. Anything really – most entertaining/creative entry wins 2 tickets. Entries will be accepted by Email (cakes@celebrationgeneration.com), or by mail (P.O. Box 41844, Plymouth MN 55441). Entries must be received by 12pm CST, Wednesday November 25. Winner will be announced on Friday November 27! * Tickets are not valid for either Opening Night or Closing Night. AWESOME news!!!Tuesday, October 27th, 2009We’ve had an exciting thing going on here for the past few weeks, and I’ve been dying to spill the news. Well, everything is all in place, so here goes! THINKGEEK.COM YES! Hubby and I have always been big fans of Think Geek, so this has been an extra-difficult secret to keep. We are feeling so l337, it hurts! Thinkgeek has always been my one-stop shop when it comes to gifts for my geek of a husband, and we both love perusing their print catalog *as soon as it arrives* at our house, scanning their website for cool new items, and figuring out cool uses for some of their unique offerings. In fact, ThinkGeek was exactly what I had in mind as I developed my Jacked Up Java mixes! I’d already created one cake mix – and several cookie mixes. That was well enough on it’s own I guess, but we got into some evil megalomaniac brainstorming. “What can we create… that we could potentially get sold on ThinkGeek?”. THAT was the genesis of the Jacked up Java line, and it thrills me to no end that it was ThinkGeek themselves who eventually became our first wholesale client for the Jacked up Java line! It’s been an interesting, surreal handful of weeks since I first heard back from their Caffeine Guru. (and I quote: “I need to buy mix right away. BECAUSE IT’S AWESOME. I am so wired from one of your “magic” brownies.”) Since that email, we’ve: - Made an epic grocery run, picking up more than 900 lbs in dry goods. Definitely a record for us – I usually buy my ingredients on an as-needed basis, weekly! - Individually labelled 400 pouches, by hand, front and back. My fingernails hate me – that was a lot of sticker-peeling! - Processed that 900 lbs of dry goods into 400 mixes. In ~40 lb batches. - Inhaled unhealthy amounts of cocoa and caffeine during the process. - Bagged, sealed, crated, and hauled 920lbs worth of freight. - Yes, FREIGHT! Had to take the lot of it to Blaine to ship as freight, something we’ve never had to do before. SO exciting! The 16 boxes were put onto a pallet and wrapped, while we took photos and giggled like schoolgirls as they drove it off on a forklift. See below!:
I cannot tell you what a huge relief it was to be done all that mixing, bagging, packing, and hauling.. and to see it be taken away! We shipped it as we were on our way to our a couple weeks ago, so the time off was doubly welcome. Especially the jacuzzi – hauling that much mix really does a number on the back! On that note, I really should give a big affectionate shout out to my husband, who has been AMAZING throughout this whole process. From hauling the goods to the kitchen to spending LATE hours there with me, doing all of the weighing and bagging.. to hauling boxes, providing shoulder rubs when I need it, and more.. he’s just been wonderful. I married well! So, that’s about it. They’re starting off with the brownie mix, but may end up picking up the cookie mix later. FYI ThinkGeek: our Jacked up Java cookies have a famous handful of fans : the Aces of Cakes themselves, the freaks over at Charm City Cakes in Baltimore. You know, just to name drop a little “Oh my GOD. Everyone LOVED them. They made us go coocoo – in a good way. Those things are LOADED! We loved them thank you thank you thank you! You’re the sweetest! – Mary Alice Y.” Just sayin, that’s all. Anyway, I think I’ll cut this short before I go into full out ThinkGeek fangirling… Check out our Jacked up Java Brownie Mix on the ThinkGeek site here: ThinkGeek.com – Jacked Up Java Brownie Mixes @ ThinkGeek Check out the rest of our mixes (including the Jacked up Java cookie & Brownie mixes!) Here. No matter which site you buy them from, enjoy responsibly! They make awesome gifts, too! Major Announcement – Twin Cities Pride Festival!Wednesday, September 30th, 2009I’ve been chomping at the bit to get this little tidbit out, and I can’t handle the wait anymore! Recently, I increased my involvement with Twin Cities Pride Festival.. and I’m so thrilled to announce that I’m the new Commitment Ceremony Coordinator for the event! The Twin Cities Pride Festival has been a yearly highlight for both my husband and I, and we’ve been involved in various sponsor/volunteer/vendor ways the past 3 years. It’s such a great event – and there are SO many wonderful people involved – I’m ridiculously excited about the whole thing! This past weekend was an event planning retreat up north, and it also marked my official start in my new position. A lot of fun was had, and a LOT was accomplished as far as the planning goes… now it’s time to roll up my sleeves and get this party started! I will be making announcements (and calls for minions.. er.. volunteers..) here periodically between now and the event, but want to get some basic info out there now. First and foremost, this will be a much, much bigger event this year. There will be a lot more events involved, both at the festival itself, and in the time leading up to the event. It will feature much more of a wedding *experience*. Bachelor/Bachelorette parties, a marriage retreat/session(s), and a RECEPTION! If you’re part of a GLBT couple who’s looking to take the plunge next summer, get ahold of me, and ask to be added to our event contact list. This will be the best way to ensure that you’ll be notified of upcoming events as they are planned. If you’re a fellow GLBT-friendly wedding vendor, are a lot of fun to work with, and would like to get involved, shoot me an email! We are looking to partner with businesses in all aspects of the wedding industry, from photographers to stationery design, decor, and more. If you think you’ve got something great to bring to the table, I’d love to hear from you. I can tell you that we have got an amazing team started, and the possibilities are endless. This is going to be an insane amount of fun, very meaningful for all involved, and is a great opportunity for the right vendors. For now, please contact me via the contact page on this site. As soon as the next round of web updates happens, I’ll have a pride-specific email on the contact page at Twin City Pride’s website. With such a great canvas to work with, and so many awesome people involved with Twin Cities Pride.. I just can’t wait for next summer. This will be epic! Going Bananas!Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Catching up on some blogging today.. and I’m pleased to announce some new yummies on our lineup! (more…)
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W00tstock Awesomeness.
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010I had fully intended to write this blog yesterday, but I was a complete zombie. I’m *mostly* recovered now, so let’s see if I can do this thing justice!
Back in the beginning of March, I received an email from one of my tweeps. She excitedly told me that w00tstock was coming to Minneapolis, and “I don’t know about you, but I think w00tstock would be better with cake!”
Well, I had to agree, so I got a hold of Paul and Storm, the geeked out musical comedians in charge. Offered up some cake, they were interested, mentioned I’d have my husband – a photographer along with me to take pics… they asked if he’d be willing to be the official backstage photographer (Willing? Hell YES he was!)…
and we were on track for an adventure in epic geekery!
The plan was to make a surprise “Tardis” cake for Adam Savage & Wil Wheaton. Hubby would photograph the goings on, while I doled out samples of our caffeinated brownies and blondies (from our line of baking mixes. Cake would be served, geeking out would occur, and it would be an awesome night.
Monday was the day, finally! It had been difficult to not blab the details of the cake design itself, while I had been free to tweet that I would be DOING a cake. Everyone wants to know what it’ll look like, especially when it’s a.) Geeky, and b.) Intended for geek royalty! This blog entry is gonna get long and image-heavy, so click through to read & gawk! (more…)
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