Ordering Information

Looking for a delicious dessert for your special event, or a sweet gift for a special someone? Fat Bottom Bakery is now taking custom orders for our cruelty-free cupcakes, mini-cupcakes and cookies from Bay Area customers!
To order, get in touch with us at fatbottombakers[at]gmail[dot]com.

Please provide the following information with at least five days' notice, so we can give you a quote and get your order rolling: name, email address & phone number, date needed, and a short description of what (and how many) you'd like.

We're happy to send you a menu of our current cupcake and cookie flavors to help you decide! All orders are available for pick-up, or delivery within Oakland.

Two awesome events this weekend!

I know we've mentioned this one before, but it cannot be overstated how much you need and want to come to the SF Vegan Bakesale this Saturday. I mean, remember how great the last one was? Also, don't you want to give your money to the bunnies. And stuff your face with delicious treats in the process?




But wait, one more thing! Fat Bottom Bakery has a special announcement to make at the Bakesale, and you have to be there to be the first to know! We promise, you'll be stoked about what we've got up our sleeves. Curious yet?

Anyway, now that you're convinced about that one, let's back up a minute (ok, a day). This Friday, December 4th, Oakland's own radical publisher AK Press is having its annual holiday sale from 4-10pm. Everything in the warehouse will be 25% off, and there will be hundreds of books and t-shirts available for $1-$5. How could you go wrong? Get all your holiday shopping done in one fell swoop. Or just pick yourself one or two or ten of the awesome vegan cookbooks AK sells.



Ok, so sounds pretty good, right? But what does it have to do with Fat Bottom? Well for one, I, Ashley, have been a collective member at AK Press for a couple years now, so I'll be there working this bad boy all night. And, perhaps more exciting, we're going to bake up a little something delicious serve as a part of the FREE refreshments provided by AK! That's right, in addition to the free beer, soda, chips and who-knows-what-else, there will be free Fat Bottom baked goods!

So, see you this weekend, yeah?

FBB has a lunch date with VegNews magazine!

Yesterday Ashley and I were lucky enough to join the lovely staff of VegNews for lunch! If you don’t know, VegNews is a rad magazine all about the veg lifestyle. It has articles about news, travel, recipes, and just about anything else you would want to read about.

For lunch we whipped up our award winning mac and cheese. And, of course, we brought some dessert! We brought an assortment of cupcakes including our coconut cupcakes, red velvet, and carrot cupcakes with “cream cheese” frosting.

This is our coconut cupcake!

Here's a red velvet decorated with pink dinosaurs for Laura of Vegansaurus!

And a carrot cupcake with crystallized ginger on top.

We took our goods across the bay to the VegNews office in San Francisco. It was a surprisingly lovely day and as we arrived at the offices we saw tables set up to dine outside in the sunshine!

We were greeted by the VegNews staffers who were (as we expected) super fun, welcoming, and generally awesome. Ashley and I got a tour of where the VN magic happens and got ready to eat some lunch.

Our mac and cheese was paired with a great salad made by the VN staff and some delicious brussels sprouts made by the delightful Laura!

After we ate our fill we managed to find some more room for cupcakes too.

Here we are!

So lets recap: We got to spend our day eating delicious vegan food out in the sun with amazing people. Yup, that sounds about right.

Looking ahead, remember to come to the SF Vegan Bakesale Saturday, December 5!

This event is ridiculously fun! If you need a reminder of how awesome the last one was, check this out. There will be an assortment of mind blowing desserts prepared by all kinds of genius bakers around the bay area and all the money is going to some great causes : the Food Empowerment Project and SaveABunny!

Also stay tuned, as Ashley and I are working on a really exciting project that we are going to unveil in the next couple of weeks. I can’t say too much now except, get ready to get stoked East Bay vegans!

What I did on my summer vacation. Wait. What?

Whoa, sorry it's been awhile! We've been super busy with all kinds of things, bakery-related and not. Allow me to present a couple of them for your appreciation:

First of all, we celebrated Halloween a couple weeks ago with some chocolate spider web cupcakes (baked on Halloween morning listening to the Mistfits!) and a Fat Bottom inspired pumpkin:




...dressed as two eras of Dolly Parton:


As you can see, Carolynn is sweet country Dolly and I'm all-made-up glam Dolly. We marched through town with the Brass Liberation Orchestra and even won (ok, third place in) a costume contest!

(Jose was a bat playing a drum!)


Shortly after recovering from Halloween and a suspiciously swine-flu-like illness, I was off to Southern California for my brother's wedding. No, we didn't bake the cake for the reception (in fact, there wasn't one!), but spending some time in Santa Barbara where the ceremony was held allowed me to check out the city's cupcakery, Crush Cakes.


Crush Cakes is by no means a vegan bakery, but lucky for me and the vegans of lovely SB, they do have one rotating vegan flavor every day.
The day I went it was Strawberry:

(Yes, it was a lot of frosting!)

I was hoping to talk to the owner, as she's a fellow baker, blogger, and lady business owner, but she didn't seem to be around that day. Oh well! I devoured that thing and was out of there for one more day with my family and a short flight back to Oakland.

So that's where things stand now. I mean other than the fact that we're preparing for a couple of mind-blowingly awesome appearances in the next month, but I'll save that for another post. Stay tuned!

Be There or Be Square!

Hey there!

All right! So are you not sure what to do this weekend? No worries, we've got you covered with two more awesome events.

Saturday at noon head to the SF Walk for Farm Animals! There’s gonna be a silent auction, free vegan food samples, guest speakers Joyce Tischler and Christopher D. Cook, and of course some walking! The best part is the event benefits the Farm Sanctuary!! Check out the link for more details.

The walk's Silent Auction is going to be totally crazy! There is a huge list of wonderful people donating prizes, including Fat Bottom Bakery. We are donating a gift certificate for 2-dozen cupcakes or 4-dozen minis! It’s a great cause and will be fun!

And on Sunday you should come see us at Pandora's Trunk 1001 Fabulous Nights. It’s 
a multimedia fashion performance, live music, 
& lobby bazaar with indie clothing, art, and micro foods! How crazy does that sound? 
Sunday from 7-11pm at the Brava Theater, 2781 24th St near Bryant.

We'll be there with our famous cigarette cupcake girl trays, walking around inside and outside the event, so you can catch us whenever your sweet tooth strikes.

See you then!

Cupcake Battle 2K9

On Saturday we left the amazing Bakesale with smiles on our faces, a sugar buzz, and a huge box of treats. But there was no time to dilly-dally. It was time to get serious.

Ashley and I had to put on our game faces and get ready to compete in the SF Food Wars Cupcake Clash!

For the first time ever Ashley and I were competing against each other, and let me tell you it was brutal! The kitchen was filled with the typical sounds of electric mixers and oven timers, but also the unfamiliar sounds of trash talk and tense silence….

Just kidding. We did a pretty terrible job of being competitive in the kitchen and overall baking went really well.

Ashley prepared her Creamsicle Cupcake, an orange cupcake with a cream filling, marmalade, and vanilla “butter cream” frosting.

I whipped up my Spiced Mocha, a mocha cupcake filled with mocha cream and topped with a cinnamon and clove spiced chocolate frosting.

The day of the event Jose came to represent Ashley (who was working at APE ) and Debbie came for moral support. We carted all our cupcakes across the bay.

Jose representing Ashley! Look at that display!

Debs is the best!

And here I am!

sup!

At the event Jose was seated next to the lovely folks from Cinnaholic, who we had met at the bake sale.

Here's Cinnaholic's spread

As competitors arrived I saw all the wide varieties of cupcakes and displays. Some were novel (including chives, siracha, bacon) and some more traditional...

Look at 'em! Unfortunately most of the cupcakes were not vegan...

Tasters piled there plates high with cupcakes and took on the task of trying all 22 flavors!

It was hectic but fun day. Ashley was even able to join us for a bit of the event, see the fruit of her labor, and catch the awards!

So on that note… I’ve got some good news and bad news. Neither Ashley nor I won this time BUT our fellow vegans Cinnaholic received 1^st place and photographer’s choice! Go vegans!

The SF Vegan Bakesale was pretty much the greatest

So, as expected, this past weekend was a huge one in the world of Bay Area vegan baking (that's its own little world, sort of, right?). We'll post something regarding Sunday's SF Food Wars mini cupcake clash sometime this week, but for now, let me tell you about the bakesale.

Oh the bakesale. What can I even say? I'm going to let the pictures do most of the talking, but here's a pretty good summary:


Over 40 vegan bakers made an absolutely epic variety of goods (caramel apples, two different types of cinnamon rolls, all sorts of cookies, cupcakes, bars, a cake-- it was nuts).




We made a bunch of raspberry bars and a big tray of baklava.


Not quite enough, as it turned out, because the whole sale was sold out an hour and a half ahead of schedule, at 2:30!

In all, we made over $2600 for Give Me Shelter cat rescue! Those cats are so stoked, and so are we! There were also a few of the cats from the shelter there up for adoption, and we heard two of them found homes that day! If you ever doubted the power of a cruelty-free baked good to create change, uh... get over it.



clearly stoked!

The sale itself was spread out on a bunch of tables in front of Ike's Place. Let me tell you about Ike's Place. Actually, let this line tell you about it:


We ate some effing delicious sandwiches from their massive menu of vegan options. Everyone there was the friendliest, most helpful person alive. It was seriously crazy.

We got to meet and hang out with so many rad folks, including our friend Laura from Vegansaurus (also one of the organizers of the bakesale) and her mom(!), Rachael from Idle Hands, the folks from Cinnaholic (who we also get to hang with the next day) and tons more totally amazing people. Two of our friends even made the trek up from San Jose!

Basically, everyone had the greatest time ever. Money was raised, cats were adopted, connections were made, and most of all, about 80% of all the delicious things in the world were together in the same place at the same time.

But wait, there's more! Since this one was so successful and all the participants were so enthusiastic, it's likely going to become a bimonthly thing! So stay tuned for the details of the next SF Vegan Bakesale, and come see us in December!