#thecupcakecollection

[tonyaboydcannon]

Baby, when I tell you @thecupcakecollectionnola gives life!!!!!! 🧁 ⚜️ • Try the #SweetPotatoCupcake 🧡 • #tonyaboydcannon #thecupcakecollection #shotoniphone #holidays #warmness #nola #decor (at New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CH_Yww0DAlZ/?igshid=1knqhdfzo261i

[larkmcc]

When in Nashville!!! #TheCupcakeCollection #Cupcakes @thecupcakecollection @Mingnnon (at The Cupcake Collection) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw2eqvLh8Hc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oyhdrwp2wtlq

[domthedealmaker]

Really excited about the launch of the Navigate Podcast! Free tacos & cupcakes from #TheCupcakeCollection don’t hurt either. #MignonFrancois is as FANTASTIC a person as she is a business owner. #business #education #smallbusiness #womanownedbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/BtPTaYbFtMV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hmrkjvbya6n8

[cupcakecollectionnashville-blog]

The Sweetest Sweet Potato Pie

Today's celebration of National Pie Day meant a lot to us here at The Cupcake Collection. As an African-American family, it was important for us to recognize the creation of the American staple, Sweet Potato pie, and it's delicious legacy that's trickled down to our very own bakery. Created in early Colonial days by slaves as an alternative to the popular European favorite, Pumpkin pie; Sweet Potato pie actually found it's first major audience in Northern states before becoming a Southern standard in traditional baking. The rich, airy sweet potatoes and the buttered crust soon found it's way all over America, where after many years it's still one of the most popular pastries. Without this delicious creation, The Cupcake Collection wouldn't have it's best-selling cupcake, Sweet Potato. So, as we enjoy the delights of today's sweet holiday, we'd just like to give many thanks to all of our nameless, faceless ancestors who've paved a way for our sweet success. Thank you.

[epictetus-andrewbrown]

Nashville has some really great food trucks with some really tasty foods! #nashvillefoodtrucks #wrappersdelight #thecupcakecollection #yayosomg

[cupcakecollectionnashville-blog]

Taking Time to Pick the Clovers

Adjusting to living outside of the hustle and bustle of the bakery has been challenging. As an admitted workaholic, and proud of it, I knew I would hate leaving the home I've raised my children in over the past several years. There are so many memories there. Whether good or bad, they are the fabric of our lives. What I knew I would hate most would be the commute. I'm a professional procrastinator. So traffic for me always poses a big problem in the scheme of my day. Of all the things I knew I would hate, there is so much I never anticipated loving.

  To start, it has been refreshing to have a start and end time to my day. As many of your know we are  closing at 4pm and because I now leave the bakery when we are closed I get an opportunity to spend time that I never knew existed. I've enjoyed getting to know my new neighbors who have been just as welcoming as the ones who've been like family in Germantown. They are proud to welcome us to their neck of the woods and that makes it alittle easier to be transitioning here. Secondly, along the commute I've had the opportunity to see the change that in the recent past I had been so disconnected from. Living and working in the same place for the kind of hours I work often means you miss the fact that an entire building was torn down and erected on west end ave or even on the next block. But my third joy takes the cupcake, and spawned my writing to you today. Meeting new people with a genuine joy that oozes from them makes me just want to be better, do more.

  That said, this is the story of when I met Allison. When we walked into the neighborhood Pizza Hut she was so excited to see "her happy little cupcake bakers," as she announced us with a wide mouthed grin. Her eyes were practically sparkling.Mind you, I've never met this lady a day into life, but my husband and son had. Because they were donning cupcake shirts on their first visit, she'd decided she needed to know more about this place, these folks. She googled and became inspired by what she learned of this Cupcake Collection.

  Allison's energy uplifted my sleepy Sunday afternoon slump. As we were leaving, she handed me my receipt. On the back, she had taped two fourleaf clovers. " Here's a couple clovers for you." she said smiling. Wow, I thought. One of our team members was just fumbling through the field last week looking to stumble, perhaps, on just one. And here I am gifted with two. "Two for me?" I was pleasantly surprised. "Yea," she said. "I’m not sure what jt is about me, but I find them all the time. I found 14 of them on my way to work this morning," she said dumping an envelope full of them on the counter. Each one had been carefully taped to a small sheet of paper about the size of a coin. There were big ones and small ones. All prepared to send off with unsuspecting customers like me and in hopes of sprinkling their day with a little hope and joy.

  Surely her name was on the employee of the month plaque to my right. Of course!! She was Ms February and Ms October. More than that, she etched her name into my heart. I don't think I'll likely be forgetting Ms Allison anytime soon. How could I? I'm feeling too blessed and my heart is grinning from the inside. And that as we know is the definition of true joy.

[cupcakecollectionnashville-blog]

A trip into the home of The Cupcake Collection is an invitation into the lives of the Francois family.  At the heart of The Cupcake Collection is Mompreneur Mignon Francois, a loving wife, mother and successful entrepreneur. Find out how Mignon balances Marriage, Children and Entrepreneurship.

[itslikebuttababy]

Can't wait to the these cupcakes from The Cupcake Collection. Heard nothing but tasty reviews. #TheCupcakeCollection #cupcakes #Nashvile #SupportingBlackOwnedBusinesses (at The Cupcake Collection)