Cupcakes, the new ice cream truck
Deanna Husting
Issue date: 3/5/10 Section: Viva
First, specialty cupcake shops popped up all over San Antonio, and now Saweet Cupcakes has introduced the city to mobile cupcake vending: a.k.a. the cupcake truck. Imagine the musical ice cream truck of your youth but with a new and fashionable twist. Sisters-in-law Tien Friedberg and Kehmay Arriola started this mobile cupcake business back in the fall of 2009 and have been doing pretty well ever since.
According to Arriola, they bake the cupcakes at her husband's restaurant, SoGo Market Cafe and Takeout, and then travel between three specific locations. The spot closest to campus that you can partake in the goodness is at the Pearl Brewery in front of the Full Goods building, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
"At the Pearl Brewery location we usually sell out half way through the day" Arriola claims.
Saweet Cupcakes regularly sells vanilla, chocolate, chocolate peanut butter and, their most popular, dark red velvet cupcakes. After sampling the dark red velvet and chocolate cupcakes, I have to say that they taste homemade and their icing is gourmet; however, they plop their icing in a glob on top of the cake without spreading it around. I like to be able to bite into the cupcake and taste frosting and cake without getting the icing all over my face - I guess that makes me old fashioned. You cannot do this with Saweet Cupcakes because the icing is as tall as the cake part, and there is no graceful way to consume it. But for $2.75 per cupcake, they are worth the mess. It is just kind of fun to be able to say you ate a cupcake from a mobile cupcake truck.
Next Saturday, if you are looking for something to do or eat, stroll on down to the Pearl Brewery farmer's market and keep an eye out for a scandalously pink truck selling cupcakes to the people of San Antonio.
For more information about hours of operation and addresses visit Saweet Cupcakes' web site at www.saweetcupcakes.com.
According to Arriola, they bake the cupcakes at her husband's restaurant, SoGo Market Cafe and Takeout, and then travel between three specific locations. The spot closest to campus that you can partake in the goodness is at the Pearl Brewery in front of the Full Goods building, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
"At the Pearl Brewery location we usually sell out half way through the day" Arriola claims.
Saweet Cupcakes regularly sells vanilla, chocolate, chocolate peanut butter and, their most popular, dark red velvet cupcakes. After sampling the dark red velvet and chocolate cupcakes, I have to say that they taste homemade and their icing is gourmet; however, they plop their icing in a glob on top of the cake without spreading it around. I like to be able to bite into the cupcake and taste frosting and cake without getting the icing all over my face - I guess that makes me old fashioned. You cannot do this with Saweet Cupcakes because the icing is as tall as the cake part, and there is no graceful way to consume it. But for $2.75 per cupcake, they are worth the mess. It is just kind of fun to be able to say you ate a cupcake from a mobile cupcake truck.
Next Saturday, if you are looking for something to do or eat, stroll on down to the Pearl Brewery farmer's market and keep an eye out for a scandalously pink truck selling cupcakes to the people of San Antonio.
For more information about hours of operation and addresses visit Saweet Cupcakes' web site at www.saweetcupcakes.com.
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