Open Source Cupcakes - About

About Open Source Cupcakes

What does open source have to do with cupcakes? I'm sure it's a question many of you might be pondering. Being involved in the Philadelphia tech community, I heard the open source concept tossed around daily. Sharing with others, communication, making things better. That certainly can be applied to cupcakes.

Katie and I started baking cupcakes because they're cute, portable, and fun to decorate. But after the first few batches of vanilla with chocolate frosting and chocolate with vanilla frosting I was stuck. Having art backgrounds instead of a baking one, we felt a little unprepared to be making cupcakes willy-nilly from scratch. We started looking through big overwhelming baking books for new recipes without much success, so we turned to the ever useful, universal tool: Google. However, although some people were generously sharing their recipes and wonderful photos, the information scattered and there wasn't a whole lot of conversation going on. Katie and I thought there should be more, a place where we could easily find cupcake recipes that others have tried and maybe some tips and variations. Let's face it, staring at eggs, flour and milk is just as scary as a blank canvas and paintbrush.

It's time to open source the cupcake. Baking support, new ideas and place where cupcake lovers and bakers alike can communicate.

Open Source Cupcakes is run by Katie Regenye, Dana Vachon and Jessica Victor out of Philadelphia, PA.