At Flying Monkey Bakery we strive to make fresh and delicious from scratch baked goods each and every day. We’re not a simple cupcakery or a cookie shop, we’re a full service bakery with a huge menu and loads of possibilities for custom work created just for you and your event. We’re unique amongst bakeries and aim to be innovative, forward thinking and are always trying to improve our products and seasonal flavor combinations. Regardless of our commitment to quality and fresh ingredients, it’s still hard for some to embrace a product that isn’t loaded with sugar, corn syrup or vegetable shortening (ick!!!).
Pineapple Buttercream Cupcake. Photo by the immensely talented Albert Yee
The best example of our commitment to quality ingredients and recipes is our delicious buttercream. Most people in the U.S. grew up eating frosting or “American Buttercream” on their cakes. It’s a simple recipe containing butter or margarine, confectioner’s sugar, vanilla and a little milk or cream to bring it to a spreading consistency. It’s VERY sweet, grainy in the mouth, but holds up at room temperature. Most bakeries in the area make American Buttercream frosting and unfortunately, some don’t even use real butter (the nerve!!).
Here’s how Flying Monkey Bakery is different: We make a Swiss Buttercream for our cakes and cupcakes using only real, natural ingredients! Swiss Buttercream is smooth, not grainy at all, and only minimally sweet, allowing the flavors of the vanilla and butter to shine through the sugar. Our buttercream is made by cooking egg whites and sugar together, whipping them into a meringue and then slowly adding only real BUTTER and vanilla until the mixture is smooth and thick. The taste is sophisticated and buttery not overwhelmed by sugar or fake butter flavor. We stand behind our buttercream and want you to know that there is more to a good cupcake or cake then just loads of sugar and a pretty topper. Our ingredients are pure and natural as well as entirely edible. No icky sticky fondant or unappetizing sugar flowers make their way on to our pastries.
All of our delicious cupcakes and cakes are frosted with various flavors of our Swiss Buttercream made with only the freshest eggs, butter, and Singing Dog Vanilla Extract and Paste.
If a super sweet American Buttercream is more suited to your palate, we suggest you try one of our whoopie pies, they’re cake sandwiches filled with an American style Cream Cheese frosting, again using only real butter, cream cheese, and vanilla.
