We know all you Crumbots just finished voting for us in the The Independent’s Best of the Triangle 2010 but it’s time to vote again, this time for the 2010 Metro Bravo Awards. Carrie has won this award in the past, when she was working at that other place, and we’d like to win again.Voting ends May 15 and you need to vote in at least 20 categories for your ballot to count.

Vote for Crumb in the BEST DESSERTS category (there is no category for best strip club in this one). You’ll feel better about yourself if you do. Vote here.

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Your favorite bakers were the centerfold in the March 10,2010 edition of the Independent Weekly.

an excerpt from the article by Emily Matchar:

Carrie Nickerson and David Menestres, the minds behind the bakery delivery service Crumb, met online and started dating after bonding over their mutual love for the obscure Japanese band Butter 08.

That wasn’t their only shared interest. The pair rarely met a cake they didn’t hate.

So Menestres, 29, a professionally trained jazz musician, and Nickerson, 38, the former pastry chef at Raleigh’s Hayes Barton Cafe and Dessertery, decided to make their own. Crumb (413-8134, www.justcrumb.com) entered the Triangle’s growing specialty cupcake market last October boasting the tagline, “So Good It Makes Fat People Cry.”

That may sound like pretty aggressive marketing for cupcakes, but the field is crowded. A solid white cake recipe and better-than-average buttercream won’t turn many heads these days. Triangle dessert lovers have come to expect top-notch baking and innovative incarnations from the many purveyors vying for a slice of the cupcake pie.

Menestres and Nickerson say they owe the success of Crumb to the evolving nature of Triangle food culture, which increasingly values local, handmade, high-quality products.

“A few years ago there’s no way we could have pulled off what we want to do,” Menestres said. “A lot of people don’t care about what food tastes like. I think this is indicative of American food culture. But it’s changing here.”

Crumb’s cheeky irreverence stretches beyond its slogan….

read the rest of the article here and follow the Independent Weekly on Twitter @IndyWeek.

Don’t forget to vote for Crumb in the Independent’s Best of the Triangle 2010.

(For the record Butter ‘08 is an American band  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_08)

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Attention Crumbots!

That time of year is upon us again, that time when you can vote for the Independent’s Best of the Triangle. You can vote for Crumb in the best bakery, best desserts, and best pie categories (and any other category you want to, although we don’t fit into any of the rest too well, aside from maybe best strip club). Don’t forget to vote for our friends at Escazu in the chocolate confection category.

Show your love for Crumb and vote and get your friends to vote and your family including that aunt no one talks to to vote.

Voting takes place here. Apparently you have to vote for at least 25 of the 219 categories for your vote to count. The system will not tell you if you have voted for less than 25 so keep an eye out (there is a counter in the bottom right hand corner to help you keep track).

(and if you still have a minute, leave us a review on Yelp.)

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Crumb got a great shout out from one of our most vocal supporters today on WRAL’s Go Ask Mom Blog.

An excerpt:

Crumb’s concoctions will make you swoon. I’m not talking your run of the mill devil’s food cake here. I mean really, here’s just an example of the delectable cakes Crumb is cranking out: the Little Lebowski Urban Achiever (gotta love the name!) – chocolate cake filled with a vodka/ coffee ganache and topped with buttercream (made with…vodka and coffee liqueur!). While Crumb has mastered the basics (after all a simple yellow cake with chocolate frosting is one of my favorites), the duo of Carrie and David create some ingenious pairings that will trick your mind and tempt your tongue.

Read the rest of awesomeness here.

We owe Ilina something tasty for that one. Read her blog, Dirt and Noise, and follow her on Twitter because she is bad ass and because we told you to.

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This week Crumb and ShotBox got a great mention in the Independent Weekly. The article is quoted below:

Life imitates art, right? Inspired by performance art, a trifecta of Raleigh foodies has unveiled an art exhibit turned cupcake and coffee bar that entices frigid palates with take-away sweet treats and coffee. Shotbox (323 W. Martin St., www.shotboxraleigh.com) is nestled in the front of the Designbox gallery, giving the Warehouse District a sweet smidgen of what is to come. Shotbox is only slated to be around for the month of December, but it may manifest into Crumb and Coffee, a combination of bakers Carrie Gephart (formerly of Hayes Barton Cafe and Dessertery) and David Menestres, who represent Crumb (www.justcrumb.com), with the help of coffee gurus Ty Beddingfield (original owner of Third Place Coffeehouse) and Rich Futrell (of Durham’s Counter Culture).

Right now, downtown revelers can enjoy “cups of cake” (”The stuff we’re producing is way beyond cupcakes,” says Beddingfield) in extraordinary flavors spiked with ingenuity. A recent post on justcrumb.com/blog unveiled the Little Lebowski Urban Achiever (chocolate cake filled with a vodka/ coffee ganache, topped with a buttercream made with vodka and coffee liquor, $6) and the Ubersuperduper (candied orange, white chocolate ganache, orange cake, chocolate ganache filling, $8), which the blog says is “large enough for two people who like each other enough to share.” Set in just 100 square feet of space, Shotbox squeezes in a few other items, such as brownies and cookies, and the coffee bar features artfully prepared single-origin coffee drinks. There’s also a hot drinking chocolate on the menu; Paul Mosca of Raleigh’s Chocolate Seed (www.nahuallitrading.com) grinds cocoa beans for at least four hours in a granite grinder to achieve the perfect flavor and consistency.

Menestres touts Shotbox as “certainly a work of art.” And it’s been interpreted, like art, all sorts of ways. Beddingfield describes it as an experiment that people should come in and see for themselves. “Some might see it as fun, some as pretentious. Some see it as ridiculous, and some love it.” Shotbox is open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. now through Dec. 23, pending a possible new schedule.

The article is located here (accessed on December 16,2009).

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