We crave cupcakes. For our fix, we turn to some of the best cupcake queens in Calgary: Carolyne McIntyre Jackson and Jodi Willoughby, of Crave Cupcakes, who will be presenting at the Calgary Home + Design Show Friday, September 19th at 2PM. We sat down with these two lovely ladies for an inside scoop on their favourite hot spots, flowers, shades and more. Read through, and don’t forget to enter to win a Calgary Home + design Show giveaway bundle valued at $265! It features goodies like cooking classes from Ruby’s Kitchen, artisanal marshmallows, IKEA giftcards, tickets to the show and more! Scroll down to enter.
Q&A WITH THE CRAVE CUPCAKES GIRLS
Favourite coffee shop: Bumpy’s—we love the muffins!
Favourite bakery: Crave Cupcakes of course!
First place you take visitors: We like a tour starting with Crave, Una Pizza, Sidewalk Citizen main bakery location, and a hike in Banff
Favourite neighbourhood: Carolyne lives in Bridgeland and Jodi lives in Lake Bonavista—we love our neighbourhoods!
Best place to be at 2 a.m.: Home in bed!
Favourite thing about living in Calgary: So many opportunities for our families, we can take the kids mountain biking then throw in a run for us through our many great paths and parks and then a road bike out of the city—amazing! Not to mention the great food and arts scene.
Favourite cocktail: Love a good glass of red wine
Favourite shampoo: Bumble & Bumble
Favourite houseplant: No green thumbs or houseplants here …
Favourite colour: Baby blue—it’s in our logo!
Favourite snack: Chips and homemade salsa
Favourite piece of furniture: Kitchen table
Favourite flower: Daisy
First realized you wanted to be in the baking biz when: Carolyne had a vision, she’s always loved baking and sharing with friends and family
Food (or foodie) icons: Martha Stewart
Proudest moment so far: Celebrating 10 years of business—Crave celebrates our 10 year birthday this September
Always in your bag: Lip chap, and way too much stuff
Always in your cupboard: Sugar and flour
Always in your grocery cart: Milk and eggs
Most inspirational vacation spot: Paris, France
Favourite flavour: Carolyne’s is Just Chocolate and mine is A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
Favourite sweet: Licorice
Your style in three words: Classic, fun, stylish
Best cooking/baking advice ever received: Bake what you know!
Baking faux-pas you actually like making: Adding too much butter and sugar—how is that a faux-pas??
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