"Downtown Champaign shop to serve rounds of cupcakes," The News-Gazette
Trisha Bates loves baking cupcakes.
She also loves downtown Champaign.
So she and her sister, Amanda, are combining the two, and opening up a cake bar at 114 N. Walnut St., near the Esquire Lounge, later this fall.
To be called Cream & Flutter Cake Bar, it will cater to the downtown night crowd. But the buzz there will come strictly from sugar and caffeine.
There won't be any alcohol served. Just cupcakes, along with coffees, teas, gourmet sodas and juices, Trisha Bates says.
Bates said the cupcake menu will change daily, with about five varieties a day ranging from your basic favorites like chocolate, vanilla and banana-chocolate chip to the more creative kinds she and her sister dream up, like lavender-mascarpone.
Why cupcakes? Because everybody likes them, Trisha Bates said.
They're fun for kids, and they "make adults feel like kids again."
Trisha Bates loves baking cupcakes.
She also loves downtown Champaign.
So she and her sister, Amanda, are combining the two, and opening up a cake bar at 114 N. Walnut St., near the Esquire Lounge, later this fall.
To be called Cream & Flutter Cake Bar, it will cater to the downtown night crowd. But the buzz there will come strictly from sugar and caffeine.
There won't be any alcohol served. Just cupcakes, along with coffees, teas, gourmet sodas and juices, Trisha Bates says.
Bates said the cupcake menu will change daily, with about five varieties a day ranging from your basic favorites like chocolate, vanilla and banana-chocolate chip to the more creative kinds she and her sister dream up, like lavender-mascarpone.
Why cupcakes? Because everybody likes them, Trisha Bates said.
They're fun for kids, and they "make adults feel like kids again."
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