Introducing Sugar Beat Sweets!
Please head over to my new blog at TheUrbanHousewife.com, where you'll find this post & more!
There's a reason I've been lagging in the posting department lately & I've been waiting until things were in full swing until I let you all in on my little secret. I own a vegan bakery! Yes, Sugar Beat Sweets is a wholesale & special order bakery in San Francisco specializing in vegan, organic, artisan cupcakes, cakes, & other confections!
I've been baking away in my commercial kitchen for quite some time & things have been great so far. My clients have run the gamut from local vegans with birthdays, to VegNews, PETA, the ACLU & Sephora corporate! I've also been donating cupcakes to local animal rights groups, such as Yes on Prop 2 & Rocket Dog Rescue. I supply cupcakes to grocery stores, co-ops, & cafes around San Francisco, with plans to expand within the city & to local areas!Sugar Beat Sweets cupcakes are available in the following locations:
Rainbow Grocery1745 Folsom @ 14th Street
Other Avenues
3930 Judah Street @ 44th Avenue
Real Food Co.
2140 Polk @ Broadway
Ike's Place
3506 16th St @ Sanchez
Mojo Bicycle Cafe
639-A Divisadero Street @ Hayes
Harvest Urban Market
191 8th St @ Howard
Deliveries are Tuesday & Friday afternoons, so get 'em while they're fresh!
Additionally, on October 4th & 5th, I will be selling sweet treats at the 9th Annual World Veg Festival Weekend & on November 30th I will be at Bazaar Bizaare. If you're around, please come say Hello & grab a cupcake!
I truly hope my blossoming business won't keep me away from the blog world. I'll keep posting, of course, but you may see more sweet treats than ever on these pages while my life revolves around baking. Try not to get a toothache, ok?Find out more information about Sugar Beat Sweets
on our webpage & be sure to add SBS on Myspace & Flickr! We're also on Yelp!By the way, check out the "Batter Chatter" interview I did with the awesome Jessie Oleson at Cakespy.com, it's all about the progress of vegan baking, as well as Sugar Beat Sweets!
57 comments:
woohoo!
This is so exciting! Best wishes with your new bakery!
that looks like a dream come true!
That is awesome!! Your menu looks terrific, I'll take one of each please :)
That chocolate snowball on the contact page is calling my name!
Great! Can I move to SF and work with you??? :)
Milvialovesyou
Congrats on your venture. Will you offer mail-order? It's nearly impossible to get vegan baked goods where I live.
Congratulations! How fabulous for you--hope it's a huge success! :)
MELISSER!!! THIS IS SO EXCITING!!! :0)
Oh my god, I'm so excited/ jealous! Can I work for you? If only you were closer to me! I applied to work at BabyCakes (NYC) and they rejected me, and there are no other vegan bakeries nearby... I guess I'll just have to wait until you expand and start putting bakeries all over the map. That shouldn't take too long, right? I just know you'll do some incredible business!
That's so awesome, I've been lamenting the lack of a vegan bakery in the bay area! Any plans to get a storefront in the future?
You are so inspiring!! I think you have accomplished a great deal already, with much more to come, you should be proud of yourself!! Can't wait for another taste of SBS in a few weeks....
this is the most awesome thing ever! hells yeah! that's so cool that you donate cuppies to local animal groups, too! damn, Melisser - you rock so hard on so many levels! :D
Wow Melisser that is so cool and crazy! I had no idea :D Congratulations and best of luck!!
That's amazing - congratulations! If I lived on the opposite coast, I definitely know where I'd be getting my birthday cake!
woooo hoooo!
an official announcement.
very cool.
I am already salivating. Can't wait to try them. It's probably just as well that I don't live in SF - I'd have a hard time stopping myself!
wow good luck...if you need a good chef let me know ;)
ps.im taking care of your birthday dinner!
SWEET! Omg! I can't wait to try some of your goods! Been dying for some yummy baked vegan treats in SF for a long time!
This is awesome - would you be willing to donate something for our bakesale? At work we have a 3 week long United Way Community Support campaign going -- we are having a bakesale on Tuesday 9/30 -- let me know offline if you need any details. I'm at Market/Fremont.
I'm planning to make lemon bars (vegan), a Cafe Gratitude coconut creme pie recipe (but in a baking dish or muffin tin so I can make it easier to dish out), and waffles (to be warmed in the toaster).
Congrats! That is awesome news!
Oh congrats! That is so cool...now if only you had an outlet here in France! Everything looks so delicious, maybe it's better you're far away, I'd have to buy new pants...
Congratulations! It's all beautiful.
YEAH! I am so excited about Sugar Beat Sweets. I can't wait til I'm in SF the next time...sugarfest!! Congratulations on the new venture. I'd say good luck but you don't need luck...you got mad SKILLZ!
omg congratulations Melisser!!! So proud of you!!!
You're so awesome! Go Melisser!
I know tons of good things will come your way.
congratulations!! sounds amazing! x
YEAH!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
I can't wait to try them.
My husband and will be in SF Oct.10 for our 10 year anniversary, so we'll make sure to try your sweets.
that is SOO exciting! i would love to do something like that, so congrats!! :)
That's so cool! Good luck on all your baking business ventures!
Holy cow! Awesome. I'm heading over to Urban Bread later!
Best of luck to you. The world needs more vegan bakeries!
Wow! Let me know if you're ever available for franchising in other cities! I'm outside of Chicago right now but in two years, I'll be in Columbus, OH. Hooray and congratulations!!
You own. Besides literally. I knew you'd make it happen!
Go on, girl.
Congratulations! I wish I were close enough to stop by and order one of everything. Your flickr photos are lovely.
What an amazing surprise! I just moved back to SF from Japan and those cupcakes are totally calling me. Might just stop by Rainbow today for a little sugar beat lovin'....
CONGRATS! Nothing better than lady-owned businesses!! And vegan to boot! I love it. If I could I would be all about ordering myself up some of your cuppies. Enjoy it and rock that show!
Melisser, I am having a SBS cupcake for breakfast! You know me so you know this is not a joke. Delicious!
That is so rad! Major congrats on your venture.
Congratulations, Melisser! This is so exciting! I miss your cupcakes... I know you hear this all the time, but they're seriously fucking mind-blowingly amazing. You should have your commercial kitchen here so I can be your official taste tester & recipe approver... No? That doesn't seem cost-effective? Ugh.
Congrats! That'd be my dream job...I wish you all the luck in the world. And if I ever send up in SF again (it's been years....far too long), I will eat some! Probably lots!
Congratulations and good luck with everything. I would be one of your best custumers if I was a little bit closer.
So exciting! Go Melissa!
I'll gladly get a toothache (distracting myself at work looking at yr creations)~
Rock on melliser!
I wish I lived in SF so I could get cupcakes from you! Those bay area folks don't know how good they have it.
And if you ever want a cute little Sugar Beat Sweets girly mascot, you know I can totally hook you up.
omg you own a vegan bakery! and everything looks amazing! Congrats congrats congrats! I wish you and your new business the best :-)
Oh, yum, those look fantastic. I wish I was in the neighborhood so I could buy some. Good luck!
I just have to say your header made me giggle in a good way. Very clever!
Your food looks absolutely delicious!
You really put out there that being vegan doesn't mean eating the same boring things all the time, you've really spiced things up and shown some variety here. You might even get me to join in on the vegan fun!
Congratulations, Melisser!! I had a strong feeling like a bakery was in your future earlier this year. I hope you add your pumpkin donuts to the menu this fall.
I wish you nothing but the best!
Congrats Melisser! Good luck on your blossoming business!
Congrats, Melisser - you're a bona fide baking legend in this cupcake lover's eyes!
The vegan baker in me is green with envy. Your goodies are absolutely beautiful!
congrats! I'm not at all surprised. When I first looked at your post around a year ago, I was surprised that you didn't own a bakery. Your baking is amazing. I'm going to be making your candy corn recipe this halloween. I'm thinking pink.
I can testify from first-hand experience that Sugar Beat Sweets' cupcakes are AWESOME! Congrats, Melisser!
Melisser,
Early last month, before your big announcement, I came to San Francisco to look at sublets in hopes of relocating. I spent my spare time exploring the City and some of the vegan eats it has to offer. My travels led me to Rainbow Grocery, where to my delight, I discovered vegan cupcakes. Unfortunately, these vegan cupcakes were not good. Not at all. And I left San Francisco fearing that, should I move out here, I would have to live without tasty vegan cupcakes. Which was more important: moving to a place where I'd wanted to live for a long time or staying in DC, a place where I didn't fit but where delicious vegan baked goods were always guaranteed at Sticky Fingers Bakery? Satisfying my sweet tooth is of utmost importance.
I landed in San Francisco last week, and adjusting to a new city where I know no one (really, no one) has been so hard. So unbelievably hard. But you know what makes me feel better? Your cupcakes. It's amazing what a tasty vegan cupcake can do to a lonely, homesick vegan girl.
When I went to Rainbow last week, I noticed that there were new vegan cupcakes for sale. What was even better is that one of them was snickerdoodle-flavored, and I *love* snickerdoodle cookies. So I bought it, and it was everything I could ask for in a vegan cupcake. And when I went to Rainbow again, I bought the peanut butter and jelly one, and it was just as good as the snickerdoodle one.
So I want to thank you for helping me through this difficult time just by baking those cupcakes. Because for the 3 minutes it takes me to eat one, I forget just how hard this is and how much I miss home.
P.S.-And like a couple other commenters, I'd love to work at your storefront if you open one!
I just discovered your blog. I can't wait to be back in San Francisco to try all the baked goods on your menu!
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