Mother’s Day 2013 Specials!
Mom deserves something special every day of the year, but especially on Mother’s Day. Be prepared with a beautiful Mother Hen cake, adorable vintage postcard cookies or a rustic and delicious strawberry rhubarb pie.
Mother Hen Cake: $65, 6″ Cake
Yellow cake filled with vanilla bean buttercream, raspberry jam and a touch of dark chocolate ganache. Iced in rolled fondant and topped with edible decorations.
7″ Lemon Bundt: $25
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie: $34
Floral Petit Fours: $1.75 each
Vintage Postcard Cookies: $3.50 each
Sable Flowers: $4.95 each
Heart Shaped Assorted Small Cookies: $20 per pound
Mother Kangaroo & Joey Marzipan Figurine: $7.50 each
Special Heart-Shaped Lollipops: $4.50 each
Mother’s Day is May 12th, less than two weeks away! Place your orders soon to ensure our availability.
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Our Passover & Easter 2013 Specials
Before you know it, Spring has Sprung! Place your orders early.
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Be Still My Heart! | Valentines Specials 2013
Whatever your heart desires, say it with Betty this Valentines. Highlighted below are the special cakes, and our full Valentines menu is at the bottom of the post
Giddy Heart Cake
Heart shaped yellow butter cake filled with fudgy chocolate ganache, iced in red rolled fondant, complete with a happy face and edible arms & legs delivering a small bouquet of flowers.
Romantic Quilled Heart Cake
Valrhona chocolate cake filled with raspberry buttercream, iced in a deep pink rolled fondant, finished with a quilled sugar heart on top and a scalloped ombre band at bottom.
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Special Hours, Special Menu, Special Times – Winter Holidays 2012!
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas around the bakery! We have a wonderful holiday menu that is going to be readily available in the bakery in the next few days.
In addition, we have adjusted hours for a few days in the coming weeks.
Sunday 12-23: Open 9am-7pm
Monday 12-24: Open 9am-7pm
Tuesday 12-25: Closed – Happy Holidays!
Wednesday 12-26: Closed
Thursday 12-27: Open 7:30am-7pm
Friday 12-28: Open 7:30am-7pm
Saturday 12-29 Open 9am-7pm
Sunday 12-30 Open 9am-7pm
Monday 12-31: Open 11am-5pm
Tuesday 1-1: Closed – Happy New Year!
Wednesday 1-2: Open 7:30am-7pm
Thanksgiving 2012 Menu
Pumpkin shaped cakes, Bourbon Sweet Potato Pie, Cookie Tins and more. Prepare yourself for Thanksgiving by reserving your Thanksgiving sweets now!
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Halloween 2012 Menu!
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Bon Appetit Loves Our Lemon Bundt Cake!
Betty Bakery’s Lemon Bundt Cake was picked as one of the “Ten Cakes Worth Buying” by Bon Appetit! Wow! We’re representing Brooklyn and could not be prouder. Check out the write-up:
6. Betty Bakery’s Lemon Cake
It’s the super-moist 7-inch cake, not the bundt, you want at this little Brooklyn shop. They’re both good, but the littler cake really soaks in the double lemon glaze that chef Cheryl Kleinman applies to its top. It’s prettier, too, thanks to a doily and a shaking of powdered confectioner’s sugar.
484 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY; 718-246-2402; bettybakery.com
Read more about all ten cakes on this yummy list!
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Kate + Daniel
We put a lot of love into making cakes for our customers and we like to admire the finished cakes here in our shop before they fly out the door to be ooh-ed and aah-ed and eaten. We rarely get to see them in action, so when couples send us photos of their wedding celebrations it’s always an extra treat.
Kate and Daniel opted for a small display cutting cake decorated in sweet pink roses and petals. But they wanted their guests to have lots of options and so provided an assortment of our buttercream layer cakes — banana cake with banana chip garnishes, white cake filled with vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam, and a coconut/lemon buttercream cake decorated with delicate coconut flakes. Says Kate, “I’m not kidding when I say there was a STAMPEDE for them! They were gone in a matter of minutes! People are still talking about how delicious they were.”
We absolutely love the way the soft candlelight from votives illuminate the warm pink tones in the cake. And of course the cake cutting! Congratulations, Kate + Daniel, and thanks for sharing your photos!
Photography by Julien Capmeil
A night of celebration
Last week comedian Mike Birbiglia premiered his film, Sleepwalk With Me at the BAMcinemaFest‘s opening night. That alone is cause for celebration, but the night was made extra sweet by the fact that it was his birthday, too! Betty Bakery made a pizza cake to mark the occasions, and it was presented to Mike by his collaborator, This American Life host Ira Glass.
Mike Birbiglia, Ira Glass, and the Pizza Cake (photo by Elena Olivo)
Happy Birthday, Mike, and congratulations on the film’s success!
Don’t hesitate to support all the talent represented here: the film, This American Life, and the rest of the extraordinary work being done at BAM. (And our cakes, too!)
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Citrus for your sweet tooth
After a gloriously sunny weekend we were certain that the pleasant, brief time of year that comes between spring and summer had finally arrived in New York City. When the sundresses and shorts reappear, warm and breezy days followed by cool nights of al fresco dining and beer garden lounging. The time of year that makes you crave lemonade and fresh fruit after the long hibernation of heavy winter foods.
But this week has been all downpour and thunder… so it looks like we’ll have to create our own version of summer in the kitchen. Take a peek:
For a while now our Strawberry Lemonade has replaced the hot chocolate and cider as the seasonal drink of choice. If you haven’t tried it, you must, because we use strawberry puree and fresh squeezed lemons, and it’s tart and sweet and quenching. ($3.50 for 16oz)
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