National Chocolate Cupcake Day 2024 is on Friday, October 18, 2024: Does Publix allow you to buy individual cupcakes?
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Misha Kuryla-Gomez experienced in 2005 what a host of new mothers may encounter: the dichotomy of wanting to work while also desiring to be at home with their baby, experiencing all the joys of motherhood. That year, at the nexus of two experiences -- hearing a National Public Radio segment about the cupcake trend heating up in U.S. cities and the well-received donation of her cupcakes to a cancer charity (baked from her mother’s beloved recipe) -- Kuryla-Gomez laid her fingers on a solution: She would put her mother’s recipe to use, baking and selling her fun creations to local businesses. Her success exceeds even her loftiest expectations. After seven years, Kuryla-Gomez now owns and operates four Misha’s Cupcakes retail stores in Miami and wholesales to 35 area buyers, including supermarkets, cafes, restaurants and convenience stores. In a jovial conversation, stuffed with the gaiety befitting her product, Kuryla-Gomez shared with eHow the lessons of launching an American dream.
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Starting a Cupcake Business
eHow: Why cupcakes?
M.K-G.: I guess on a global scale they’re enticing because they’re small and they allow you to have a sampling of a lot of different flavors that you might want to try, and you couldn’t with a big slice of cake. Ours are a little bigger than bite-size. They’re just fun. They remind you of being a kid.
eHow: What is the first step to starting a cupcake business?
M.K-G.: I did not create a business plan. I went to business school and all of that stuff, and I know you’re supposed to, but for me it didn’t really make any sense.
When I started, the whole point was to generate some income, and I had this recipe of my mom’s and it was delicious. So it was easy from that aspect: to start with what I knew. And then I figured, “Well, you have to have some variety. Some people don’t like chocolate.” So I did pretty much the same as my mom’s chocolate recipe but in vanilla.
But I think for someone just starting out, yeah, you have to have something that is good because people will try it, as your friends … but if it’s not good they're not going to come back and buy it. You have to have something that is good, something that sets it apart from somebody else’s cupcake or cake or whatever else it’ll be.
What are the Holidays in September, October, and November?
September 17 Constitution/Citizenship Day Commemorates the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
September or October (depends on Hebrew calendar) Rosh Hashanah Traditional beginning of the Jewish High Holidays. It also celebrates the beginning of a new year on the Hebrew calendar.
September or October (depends on Hebrew calendar) Yom Kippur Traditional end of and highest of the Jewish High Holidays.
October 9 Leif Erikson Day Commemorates the arrival of Leif Ericson, the first European to set foot on American soil. Festivities typically consist of imitating Vikings and may include swimming.
October 31 Halloween Celebrates All Hallow's Eve, decorations include jack o'lanterns. Costume parties and candy such as candy corn are also part of the holiday. Kids go "trick-or-treating" to neighbors who give away candy. Not generally observed by businesses.
First Tuesday after the first Monday in November Election Day Observed by the federal and state governments in applicable years; legal holiday in some states.
Fourth Friday in November Black Friday The day after Thanksgiving, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Black Friday is not actually a holiday, but many non-retail employers give their employees the day off, increasing the number of potential shoppers.
Veterans day- November 11
September 3 National Welsh Rarebit Day
September 5 National Cheese Pizza Day
September 8 National Date-Nut Bread Day
September 11 National Hot Cross Bun Day
September 12 National Chocolate Milkshake Day
September 14 National Cream-Filled Donut Day
September 15 National Creme de Menthe Day
September 16 National Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Day
September 17 National Apple Dumpling Day
September 18 National Play-Dough Day
September 19 National Butterscotch Pudding Day
September 20 National Punch Day
September 21 National Pecan Cookie Day
September 22 National White Chocolate Day
September 26 National Pancake Day
September 28 National Strawberry Cream Pie Day
September 30 National Mulled Cider Day
October 4 National Taco Day
October 5 National Apple Betty Day
October 6 National Noodle Day
October 9 National Dessert Day
October 10 National Angel Food Cake Day
October 11 National Sausage Pizza Day
October 13 National Peanut Festival
October 13 National Pumpkin Festival
October 15 National Mushroom Day
October 17 National Pasta Day
October 18 National Chocolate Cupcake Day
October 20 National Brandied Fruit Day
October 22 National Nut Day
October 23 National Boston Cream Pie Day
October 24 National Bologna Day
October 26 National Mincemeat Day
October 28 National Chocolate Day
October 29 National Oatmeal Day
October 30 National Candy Corn Day
November 1-7 - National Fig Week
November 2 National Deviled Egg Day
November 4 National Candy Day
November 5 National Doughnut Day
November 6 National Nachos Day
November 7 National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
November 8 National Split Pea Soup Week (November 8-13)
November 10 National Vanilla Cupcake Day
November 12 National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day
November 13 National Indian Pudding Day
November 14 National Guacamole Day
November 15 National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day
November 20 National Peanut Butter Fudge Day
November 23 National Cashew Day
November 25 National Parfait Day
November 26 National Cake Day
November 27 National Bavarian Cream Pie Day
November 28 National French Toast Day
November 29 National Chocolates Day
November 30 National Mousse Day
full calendar of december?
December 2006
1-World AIDS Day
Day Without Art
2-Eat a Red Apple Day
National Pie Day
3-Advent starts
National Roof over your Head Day
National Fritters Day
4-Santa's List Day
Wear Brown Shoes Day
5-Bathtub Party Day!
6-St. Nicholas Day
Mitten Tree Day
Put on your own Shoes Day
7-Pearl Harbor Day
International Civil Aviation Day
Letter Writing Day
National Cotton Candy Day
8-Bodhi Day (Buddhist)
and Immaculate Conception
National Brownie Day
Take it in the Ear Day
9-National Pastry Day
10-Human Rights Day
International Children's Day
11-National Noodle Ring Day
12-Feast of our Lady of Guadalupe
Poinsettia Day
National Ding-a-Ling Day
13-Santa Lucia Day (Swedish)
Ice Cream day
Violins day
14-National Bouillabaisse Day
15-Bill of Rights Day
National Lemon Cupcake Day
16-Hanukkuh starts
Las Posadas starts
National Chocolate covered Anything day
17-Wright Brothers Day
National Maple syrup Day
18-Bake Cookies Day
National Roast Suckling Pig Day
19-Look for an Evergreen day
Go carolling Day
oatmeal Muffin Day
20-Games day
21- Hamburger Day
Humbug day
National Flashlight Day
Look on the Bright Side Day
Winter Solstice
Yule
22-Look on the Bright Side Day
Forefather's Day
National Date Nut bread day
23-Roots Day
Hanukkuh ends
24-Christmas Eve
Las Posadas ends (Mexican)
National Egg Nog Day
25-Christmas Day
National Pumpkin Pie Day
26-Boxing Day
26-Kwanzaa starts
27-National Fruitcake Day
make cut out snowflakes day
28-card playing day
national chocolate day
29-pepper pot day
30-Waqfatul-Arafat (Islamic)
Bicarbonated soda Day
31-Eidul-Adha (Islamic)
make up your mind day
New Years Eve
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