We are so excited to share and thankful for our Thanksgiving menu! It is available in both our Winston-Salem and Clemmons stores!

Announcing Our Thanksgiving Menu!!

This year’s Thanksgiving menu features a variety of sugar cookies, cupcakes, and cakes. Read on in our latest blog below to see all these amazing treats. You are sure to be thankful for all the sweetness!

Sugar Cookies

Our sugar cookies feature a turkey, pumpkin truck, and fancy pumpkin.

Price: Turkey & Pumpkin $3.89 each & Trucks $4.29 each

Cupcakes

We have two festive cupcakes this Thanksgiving season! 🦃

Featured Thanksgiving cupcakes* include:

• Chocolate Turkey
• Vanilla Turkey

Price: $3.39 each

*Only available the week of Thanksgiving!

Cakes

We have three Thanksgiving-inspired cakes this season! 🦃

Featured Thanksgiving cakes include:

• Turkey Cake – Vanilla cake with chocolate and vanilla buttercream with chocolate feathers.
• Turkey Pumpkins Cake – Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling.
• Maple Bourbon Butter Pecan – Maple cake with layers of Maple Bourbon buttercream.

Price: Each $39 & up

**Cakes are only available in our Clemmons store! Turkey Cake only in cases the week of Thanksgiving or by special order.**

Order Your Thanksgiving Menu Items Today!

In-store large or custom orders or cakes must be ordered by Tuesday, November 22 in order to pick up before Thanksgiving!

Call (336) 283-9021 to place orders for Clemmons or call (336) 999-7178 to place orders for Winston-Salem.

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We are so excited to share our fun and haunted Halloween menu! Plus, we have some fun desserts in honor of the Hocus Pocus 2 movie release on Disney+. It is available now in both our Winston-Salem and Clemmons stores! (See notes below regarding availability)

Announcing our Spooky Halloween Menu!! 🎃👻💀🧁🍰🍪

We have three major Halloween-themed desserts. Those include:

• Cookies
• Cupcakes
• Cakes
• Macarons

Cookies

This year’s spooky sugar cookie is a cauldron!

Price: $4 each

New to this year, we have cookie stacks. In October, we have a festive Hocus Pocus themed one!

Price: $12 each

Cupcakes

We have three festive cupcakes this Halloween season!

Featured Halloween cupcakes include:

• Red Velvet Bloody Eye – Classic red velvet cake with our signature cream cheese frosting and an addition of a bloody eye. (Available starting October 28)
• Vanilla Ghost – Vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream designed as a surprised ghost. (Available starting October 28)
• Hostess Boo – Chocolate cake, vanilla buttercream filling, dipped in chocolate ganache, and a piped designed “Boo” on top.

Price: $3.39 (plus tax) each

Cakes

We have two festive cupcakes this Halloween season!

Featured Halloween cakes include:

• Candy Corn Creampunk – Yellow, orange, white vanilla cakes with white buttercream filling, ganache and candies on top!
• Hocus Pocus Cake – Chocolate cake with ‘potion green’ vanilla filling. Covered in a chocolate candy drip with vanilla bean cauldron sugar cookie and candies. Sanderson sisters make an appearance too

Price: Each $49 & up

**IMPORTANT NOTE: Cakes are only available in our Clemmons store!**

Macarons

New to this year are festive macarons!

Price: $2.75 each

Placing Your Cake or Custom Orders Today!

Large or custom orders or cakes must be ordered by Wednesday, October 26 in order to pick up before Halloween! Be sure to get in your orders today.

Call (336) 283-9021 to place orders for Clemmons or call (336) 999-7178 to place orders for Winston-Salem.

Celebrate Halloween with Ava’s Cupcakes’ Sweet Treats!

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It might seem to us like cupcakes have been around forever, but as with any food recipe it has its own unique creation story. As cupcakes is our namesake at Ava’s Cupcakes, we thought it fitting to share this sweet piece of history. Therefore, our latest blog dives into the history of cupcakes!

History of Cupcakes – When Did This Sweet Treat Begin?

What is now known as a cupcake all began with the first ever cupcake recipe called “A Light Cake to Bake in Small Cups” by Amelia Simmons. It appeared in the first American cookbook written by Simmons called American Cookery.

This original cupcake recipe includes much of the common ingredients today, such as:

• Sugar
• Butter
• Flour

However, it also includes an assortment of less common ingredients we would find in today’s cupcakes. Those include:

• Wine
• Rose Water
• Nutmeg
• Cinnamon
• Currants
• Emptins (basically hops)

After this original cupcake recipe, it took a couple decades for the term cupcake to actually appear. The first documented use of the term cupcake was used in 1828. It appeared in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook, Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats.

Important Dates in the History of Cupcakes

Below are some quick dates to know in the history of cupcakes.

• 1871: Second ever cupcake recipe published with more ‘familiar’ cupcake ingredients.
• 1919: Hostess introduces ‘The Cupcake’, it’s first snack cake.
• 1920’s: Cupcakes are iced for the first time (in only vanilla or chocolate icing).
• 1940’s: Malted icing is available for cupcakes.
• 1947: D.R. “Doc” Rice is assigned with redesigning cupcakes and creates a look similar to today’s cupcakes.

From Then to Now: Cupcakes Today

Today cupcakes are so popular there is even a show dedicated to bakers fighting to see who makes the best. What show are we talking about? Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, of course! The delectable contest show currently boasts 1.6 million viewers. Cupcake Wars is important in the history of Ava’s Cupcakes as well since our owner, Michelle Spell, won on that very show! You can thank that show for birthing our cupcake flavors of Banana Guava, Apple Pie, and Chocolate Truffle.

Ava’s Signature Flavors History

If you’ve visited our stores or website, then you probably have noticed we have 12 signature flavors. Since this is a history of cupcakes blog, we wanted to share a little history on our signature flavors and how they came to be.

The Signature flavors became the Signature 12 after our doors were open for 12 months. While there was no connection between the 12 months and the 12 flavors, it just happened to be the 12 most sought-after flavors. Additionally, people would always ask, which flavors do you recommend? It became obvious very quickly that most people love variety. Plus, they seemed to love the idea of a sampler pack filled with our best sellers. Since 2012, those 12 flavors have made up our Signature Sampler!

History Lesson Is Done & It’s Time to Pick Up Ava’s Cupcakes Today!

Now that your mouth is watering from reading all about cupcakes, are you ready to actual enjoy some of the best? Then, stop in at our Clemmons or Winston-Salem locations and pick up your favorites today!

You can find or contact our stores at:

Clemmons:

• Address: 1483 River Ridge Dr, Clemmons, NC 27012
• Phone: (336) 283-9021

Winston-Salem:

• Address: 1539 Hanes Mall Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27103
• Phone: (336) 999-7178

For those not living or visiting the Piedmont Triad in North Carolina, we ship our one-of-a-kind cakecups anywhere in the continental U.S. Visit our e-store to view and order those as well as some other shippable sweet treats.

Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram for our latest menu updates, contests, and specials.

Who else is excited it’s Peach Month?! Don’t miss the amazing menu we have available in August! 🧁🍑

It’s Peach Month! 🍑

Both our Clemmons and Winston-Salem stores have some amazing menu options this month! Check out the menu below and a fun story on why Michelle loves this month’s featured cake!

Peaches n’ Cream Cake, $45

Classic vanilla cake with our scratch-made peach filling and whipped vanilla buttercream.

Peach Cobbler Cupcake, $3.39

Vanilla cake stuffed with our Peach Cobbler filling and cream cheese frosting dredged in a buttery graham crumb.

Peach & Rosemary Handpie, $3.65 each

Our peach filling infused with fresh rosemary stuffed inside our buttery pie crust.

Peach Cobbler Cakecup, $4.29 each

Enjoy our cakecups no matter where you go! It can be resealed and easily stored in the cooler at your summer party!

Peach Macaron, $2.75 each

Enjoy our brand new peach-inspired macaron. It’s a vanilla macaron tinted to match the sun-kissed hues of a peach. This dessert is sure to melt in your mouth!

Why does Michelle love this month’s cake so much??

As a child my mom always made me a Peaches n’ Cream Cake for my birthday. My three brothers who have Spring and Fall birthdays, always received a different cake than me (Chocolate Pudding or a Cinnamon Crumb Cake) and I never realized why until a few years ago. My mom always made me this cake because peaches are in season in August and our trees were producing the healthiest fruit right around my birthday! Ava’s now has this cake on the menu every August in honor of my mom!

We post monthly ‘Meet Michelle’ photos and quotes on a variety of topics. Each one shares a little fun tidbit about Ava’s Cupcakes’ owner, Michelle Spell.

Enjoy Ava’s Cupcakes Today!

Don’t miss out on this month’s amazing summer flavors. Stop in today at our Clemmons or Winston-Salem locations to pick up some delicious desserts.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook & Instagram for our latest menu options and specials! We also run a variety of contests for chances to win sweet treats!

Ava’s Cupcakes has so many dessert options to help make your graduation party extra special and sweet! If on the hunt for graduation desserts, then look no further than Ava’s Cupcakes! Our latest blog covers all the amazing options we offer for honoring your graduate at a memorable party. Already know what you want or inspired by this blog? Place any graduation orders by calling our Clemmons store at (336) 283-9021.

So Many Sweet Ideas to Celebrate your Graduate!

At Ava’s we offer so much more than just cupcakes, we are truly your dessert one-stop-shop. This is especially true for major celebrations and holidays, such as, graduations. We know this is an important time not only for the graduate but their loved ones as well since it’s a major accomplishment! Our staff places all the love and care into every graduation order as if it were our very own graduate we were celebrating.

Below are some popular graduation desserts. Each is customizable for colors to match your graduate’s school colors.

Cupcakes

Obviously, cupcakes are often a must in our shop for so many occasions! Therefore, we often get custom orders for cupcakes.

Some ideas on what to do for graduation cupcakes are:

• Cupcakes in graduate’s school colors
• Adding a graduate flag into cupcakes (you can purchase these online or in-store)
• Graduation cap on top of cupcake (we can do this and even put different colored tassels)

Below is a quick photo gallery of some graduation cupcake options.

Cookies

Our namesake might be all about cupcakes, but we also make and sell custom sugar cookies. These are perfect for any graduation party. The graduation cap picture below shows the perfect graduation cookie for your graduate. Like our cupcakes, we can customize these tassels with different colors too.

Cake

Next, a traditional cake is always a great option for any party or celebration. We can create any custom cake you desire for a graduation party. Pictured below is one for Ava’s Cupcake’s owner’s son Isaiah!

Dessert Bar

Can’t decide between the three amazing desserts listed above? Never fear, that is what dessert bars are for! A dessert bar incorporates numerous types of desserts and provides a wonderful, sweet mix for party guests. Everyone loves that there is something for all tastes on a dessert bar.

Order Your Graduation Desserts Today!

Are you ready to celebrate your graduate with some amazing, sweet treats? Call our Clemmons location today at (336) 283-9021 to discuss your ideas and place your orders.

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Our Easter Menu is here! From Easter egg sugar cookies to our Easter Sampler Cakecup Box, we’ve got your sweet tooth covered!

Easter Menu NOW Available at Ava’s Cupcakes!

Cupcakes

These festive cupcakes are available April 15 – 17 in honor of Easter!

Price: $3.39 (plus tax) each

Cakes

We have four amazing and delicious cakes this month for Easter!

~Easter Bunny Cake – Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, $49

Available in stores from April 1- 18

~Peeps Cake – Confetti cake with vanilla buttercream, $49

Available in stores from April 1- 18

~Chickie Cake – Lemon cake with a lemon cream filling, $49

Available all April

~Speckled Egg Cake – Chocolate cake with vanilla cream filling, $39

Available all April

Price: $3.39 (plus tax) each

*Cakes are available in Clemmons only!

Cakecups

You won’t want to miss Ava’s Easter Cakecup Sampler box!! They are nestled gently in a box filled with fun crinkled confetti.

This sampler and our cakecups are a unique Easter basket treat for all ages! They are also perfect for Easter place settings!

Did you know we ship our delicious cakecups anywhere in the continental U.S.??

Sampler features two each of the following cakecups:

• Lemon Drops
• Ava’s Carrot
• Chocolate Truffle
• Strawberries & Cream
• Blueberry Cobbler
• Vanilla Salted Caramel

Price: $69 (plus shipping)

Last day to order for nationwide shipping to receive for Easter is Tues., April 12th!

All of these flavors are also available for sale individually in-store at both our Clemmons and Winston-Salem stores!

Individual Cakecups $3.89 Each

Order Online Today!

Cookies

Our Easter egg sugar cookies are perfect for either an Easter basket sweet treat or a fun family dessert!

Price: $3.25 each

Available all April!

Order from our Easter Menu Today!

Call (336) 283-9021 to place orders for Clemmons or call (336) 999-7178 to place orders for Winston-Salem. Click here to place online orders for cakecups.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook & Instagram for our latest menu options, specials, & contests!

Ava’s Cupcakes‘ St. Patrick’s Day Menu is here. From Shamrock sugar cookies to our St. Patty’s Cakecup Sampler, there is something for every taste! You won’t want to miss our St. Patrick’s Day Menu this year!

Announcing our St Patricks Day Menu

Cookies

Our Shamrock sugar cookies are full of luck and deliciousness!

Price: $3.25 each

Cupcakes

We have four St. Patrick’s Day inspired cupcakes in March!

~Irish Crème

~Key Lime Pie

~Caramel Stout

~Mint Oreo

Price: $3.39 (plus tax) each

Cakecups

Ava’s Exclusive St. Patty’s Cakecup Sampler is here!!

Did you know we ship our delicious cakecups anywhere in the continental U.S.??

Sampler features three each of the following cakecups:

• Irish Crème – Bailey’s cake surrounded by our handwhipped Irish Cream buttercream
• Guinness Stout – Guinness stout cake, decadent caramel and our signature cream cheese frosting
• Mint Cookies & Cream – A seasonal twist on an old classic
• Key Lime Pie – Vanilla cake with a buttery graham crumb, nestled with our fresh lime filling surrounded by our bourbon vanilla buttercream

Price: $59 (plus shipping)

Last day to order for nationwide shipping to receive for St. Patrick’s Day is Mon., March 14th! Click here to order.

All of these flavors are also available for sale individually in-store at both our Clemmons and Winston-Salem stores! Saturday, March 19 is the last day to get these individual cakecups in-store!

Individual Cakecups $3.89 Each

Order From our St. Patrick’s Day Menu Today!!

For St. Patrick’s Day Menu orders, Call (336) 283-9021 to place orders for Clemmons or call (336) 999-7178 to place orders for Winston-Salem. Click here to place online orders for cakecups.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook & Instagram for our latest menu options, specials, & contests! Be on the lookout on our social media for our upcoming Spring collection. After all, Easter is just around the corner!

Be sure to pick up these delicious desserts from Ava’s Cupcakes to celebrate before National Margarita Day on February 22!

Margarita Day Desserts are Here

Creampunk Cake! 🍰

This vanilla cake has layers of our fresh lime filling, is enrobed in our hand whipped tequila buttercream, and topped with white chocolate ganache drip, and garnished with assorted lime and vanilla candies! Order yours today from our Clemmons store by calling us at (336) 283-9021!

Price: $49

Cupcake! 🧁

Say hello to our Margarita cupcake!! This vanilla cupcake is stuffed with a fresh lime filling, and topped with tequila buttercream and garnished with a sugar rim and candy lime wedge.

Price: $3.39 (plus tax) Each

Nothing says ‘I Love You’ (whether to your sweetie or yourself) like one of our amazing desserts on our Valentine’s Menu!!

Valentine’s Menu

Our Valentine’s Menu is available ALL MONTH long. So share and enjoy the love this February!!

Cookies

We have three delicious and perfectly-baked cookies in February! Our  are a soft red velvet cookie with a milk chocolate drizzle!

We have two renditions of Valentine’s Day sugar cookies this February. Our Love Stinks sugar cookie is for all our fabulous single fans! Or our Heart Sugar Cookie is for those fans currently head-over-heels in love!

Cookies Price: $3.39 each

Cupcakes

We have four lovely featured cupcakes in February that are the perfect romantic treat!

~NEW!! Strawberry Red Velvet: Ava’s Classic Red Velvet Cake topped with ribbons our exclusive whipped strawberry cream cheese frosting!
~Pink Champagne & Strawberries
~Chocolate Covered Strawberry
~Chocolate Truffle

If our four featured cupcakes weren’t enough, we also have our Love Ava’s Hostette cupcake!

Cupcakes Price: $3.39 (plus tax) each

Cakes

We have three beautiful and love-filled cakes this month.

1. Heartbreaker Cake – Chocolate cake with a chocolate cream filling. Adorned with candy filled chocolate hearts complete with a tiny mallet to break them open!

Price $49

2. Red Velvet Sugar Cookie Cake – Red velvet cake with our signature cream cheese filling. Garnished with 2 delicious oversized sugar cookie hearts!

Price $39

3. Ava’s Exclusive Strawberry CreamPunk Cake – Strawberry cake, truffle filling, strawberry buttercream, ganache drip and garnished with fresh chocolate dipped strawberries.

Price: Each $49

**Cakes are only available in our Clemmons store!**

Cakecups

Ava’s Premium Valentine Cakecup Sampler is here!!

Did you know we ship our delicious cakecups anywhere in the continental U.S.?? PLUS, for THIS Valentine Cakecup Sampler shipping is FREE!! It is the perfect way to tell your loved ones how much you care about them no matter where they live! It’s also the best way to enjoy our delicious treats if you don’t live in NC near our stores!

Sampler features three each of the following cakecups:

~Ava’s Chocolate Truffle – Food Network Winner!
~Pink Champagne & Strawberries
~Chocolate Covered Strawberry
~Exclusive Strawberry Red Velvet

Click here to place orders!!

Price: $69

Charcuterie Boards

Don’t miss Ava’s Valentine’s Charcuterie Boards! It offers an assortment of the following sweet treats: Cupcakes, Cookies, Cannolis, Chocolate Covered Strawberries, French Macarons, Candies and More!

Orders require 48 hours advance notice and pre-orders for Valentine’s are encouraged!

This amazing dessert is available all month long. It offers 16 plus servings.

Pick up for all orders is available Monday – Saturday only.

Price: $99

Valentine’s Extras!!

We aren’t done yet! We have two more delicious, love-inspired desserts on our Valentine’s menu. Our heart-shaped apple handpies and heart-shaped macarons are available this February! They are the perfect add-on to your Vday order!

Call (336) 283-9021 to place orders for Clemmons or call (336) 999-7178 to place orders for Winston-Salem. Click here to place online orders for cakecups.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook & Instagram for our latest menu options, specials, & contests!

Meet Michelle – the owner of Ava’s Cupcakes and past winner of Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. In our latest blog she discusses all things Ava’s and even talks about being on Cupcake Wars. Read on to learn a little more.

Meet Michelle – Q&A with Owner of Ava’s Cupcakes

Why did you decide to open Ava’s Cupcakes?

There were many varying factors in making the decision to open Ava’s Cupcakes; however, the ultimate decision was made from the overwhelming response from the community. Orders just could not be fulfilled from home any longer because a strong and viable business had clearly been born.

What is your favorite part about owning Ava’s?

I am not sure I can say that there is one favorite part but currently, my favorite part is watching my children take an active role.

Which is your favorite cupcake at Ava’s?

I love the Salted Caramel Mocha, Banana Guava, and the Lime & Basil. How can I choose just one?!

What is your most memorable baking moment?

I’ll never forget baking for days when our episode on Cupcakes Wars aired. We pumped out 1000’s of cupcakes and cookies to the hundreds of guests lined up for hours outside our tiny kitchen in NJ.

What was it like to be on, and win, Cupcake Wars?

Cupcake Wars was a dream for us. We worked very hard to compete and winning made all the difference. It changed the trajectory of Ava’s forever and we will never forget where we started.

Learn More About This Amazing Business Owner

Want to learn more about Michelle and what it’s like to own Ava’s Cupcakes? Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram and tune in for our monthly Meet Michelle posts! In our January one, Michelle shared about family traditions to start the new year, such as making bread.