Yes, Sweet Muse is offering its best holiday shopping deals on Cyber Monday.  So round up your holiday gift list and your address book and capture major savings on Cyber Monday, November 28th, 2011.

Receive 20% off all brownie gifts purchased on Cyber Monday.  Use code CYBERSALE on the Sweet Muse website or when calling to place your brownie order. 

Sweet Muse offers a variety of sizes of gift tins and boxes and over a dozen delicious flavors to choose from to create the perfect gift.  Sweet Muse brownie gifts include a Large Brownie Bites Box with 64 brownies that can be shared in an office or at a party, a 12-piece Brownie Gift Tin where each member of a family can choose their favorite flavor, and a Brownie Buddy Gift Box with 2 individually wrapped full-size brownies to let a colleague or friend know you are thinking of them.  We include a hand written note card with your greeting free of charge.

Plan to shop at Sweet Muse this Cyber Monday for the best discounts on brownie gifts.  Indicate the target date when you would like your brownie gift to arrive and it will be shipped accordingly to arrive during the designated timeframe.  All taken care of so you can relax and enjoy your holiday festivities.

Brownie Gift Tin

Brownie Buddy Gift Box with Winter Cookie Charms

Sweet Muse is very pleased to be featured in CRAVE New York City – the ultimate guide to women-owned businesses in New York City.  I had a chance to meet many of the women entrepreneurs in the book last night at the launch party and their energy and passion is incredibly inspiring.  Here’s the Sweet Muse spread from the book.

http://thecravecompany.com/nyc/

Thousands of chocolate lovers attended the Chocolate World Expo at the Meadowlands Expo Center last week despite the heavy rain that fell much of the day.  A few of the fabulous companies providing delicious treats that day included Fretzels, Gourmetibles, and Gnosis chocolate.  Sweet Muse handed out brownie sample after brownie sample to the crush of people at our booth, and I believe won many new fans.  A few photos from the event.

Sweet Muse standing ready prior to the start of the Chocolate World Expo

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crowds of chocolate lovers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coffee Break Gift Baskets with Shapna Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another shot of the Sweet Muse booth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Chocolate World Expo scheduled for the Westchester County Center, November 6th, 2011.

Sweet Muse will be at the Chocolate World Expo March 6th, 11am-6pm at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ.  With the Center filled with companies offering tastings and sales of all types of chocolate treats, it is definitely an event no chocolate lover should miss.  I certainly plan to make the most of my time there to scout out some delicious chocolate goodies.  I love being inspired by other bakers and entrepreneurs.

It’s a quick bus ride out from Port Authority in NYC.  Hope to see you there!

Tickets can be purchased at Chocolate World Expo.

Chocolate World Expo Flyer

The CRAVE nyc guide is very close to being published and Sweet Muse is one of the women-owned businesses featured in the book.  I’ve had a chance to meet many of the other entrepreneurs during the buzz parties and it is quite a dynamic group, and many great products and services are featured in the guide.

A peak inside the CRAVE nyc guide

Sweet Muse will be at the Moore Street Market in Williamsburg on Saturday, December 18th.  Stop by for brownie samples, and pick up individual brownies, Brownie Buddy Gift Boxes, and Brownie Gift Tins for any last-minute gifts you might need.

It’s been reported that Santa Claus will be hanging at the market Saturday, and Sweet Muse will also be joined by several other holiday vendors.

This is our first day at the market, one of New York City’s historic indoor markets (and nice and warm by the way).  Will let you know how it goes!

110 Moore Street in Williamsburg

http://moorestreetretailmarket.com/

New this fall, the Sweet Muse Brownie of the Month Club delivers a batch of delicious fudge brownies every month.   A great gift for that person who seems to have everything and is so hard to buy for.  (Who doesn’t like brownies?)  Or, set yourself up to be delighted each month when freshly baked Sweet Muse brownies arrive at your door.

 Opt for 3, 6, 9, or 12 months of brownies in either a Small Brownie Bites Box or 12-Piece Brownie Gift Tin, and each month Sweet Muse will ship out a batch of freshly baked brownies in our most popular standard and Special Edition flavors.  Favorite standard flavors such as Fudge, Double Fudge, Toffee Bar Crunch, and Turtle (cashew and caramel.)  And hit Special Edition flavors such as Hot Chocolate, Cappuccino, and Double Chocolate Cherry.

One transaction and you, or someone else very special, could be receiving delicious fudge brownies all year long!

Angelique Velez is a make-up artist and one of the vibrant, creative business women I am so fortunate to meet at the various gatherings for women entreprenuers that I attend in NYC.  Angelique and I met at a CRAVE NYC Buzz party a couple of months ago that Sweet Muse was sponsoring, and she asked Sweet Muse to be part of the festivities for her website launch party on May 15th.  Here  are a few of the fun photos from the event taken by photographer Julia Charity.

Enjoying Sweet Muse brownies at the website launch party for Angelique Velez

Sweet Muse Fudge Brownies

Angelique Velez

I couldn’t wait any longer to color Easter eggs and I decided to use my “eggs” to dress up a few brownies for the upcoming holiday.

Easter cookie charms and brownies

This can be a  fun project for kids or anyone looking for a little creative outlet.  No stress.  Don’t like what you painted?  Pop it in your mouth and try again!  When you are through, you will have a collection of beautiful cookies.  Use them to decorate a cake, cupcakes, or brownies.  Or, simply arrange them all on a plate to enjoy the cheerful array of colors. (For a minute or two, as they are sure to be quickly consumed.)

Use an egg-shaped cookie cutter to cut out rolled sugar cookie dough, bake, cool, frost with royal icing, and then get out the paint brushes and food safe colors and let your inner artist go to town.  You can get a vast array of colors at any store that sells cake decorating supplies.  Powder colors, which you will have to mix with water, and gel colors work  equally well.

In the above photo (upper left to lower right): Easter egg cookie charms; a brownie decorated with green tinted buttercream frosting, sprinkles, and an Easter egg cookie charm, and brownie eggs – made by attaching a cookie charm with a dab of frosting to a brownie cut with the same cookie cutter. 

These cookies above were cut using a mini cookie cutter.  A full-size cutter would be great for making cookie favors that would look beautiful in cellophane bags and wrapped with a bow.

Experiment, have fun.  It’s spring!

NO JOKE!  Sweet Muse will hold its first pop-up bake shop at Manhattan Theatre Source on Thursday, April 1st from 4:30-9:30pm.  

Individual full-size brownies and brownie buttons available in more than a dozen delicious flavors including: Toffee Bar, Turtle (cashews & caramel), Coconut Almond, and of course classic Fudge, or pick from an assortment of brownie gift tins and boxes. (Place a custom order in advance and pick it up without any delivery or shipping charges.)

Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street
New York, NY 10011

MacDougal Street between West 8th and Waverly (Washington Sq. Park North), on the West side of the street

Downstairs at Manhattan Theatre Source