Showing posts with label Cupcake Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cupcake Market. Show all posts

Monday, September 14, 2020

Farewells: Funny Face Bakery has outgrown its East Village space


[Photo Friday by Lola Sáenz]

A for lease sign now hangs in the front window at the former Funny Face Bakery space on Seventh Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

However, it's a more-positive closure: Funny Face, which specializes in hand-painted face cookies of actors, politicians and various celebrities, is moving to a larger location outside the neighborhood.

Per a recent Instagram post:

Funny Face Bakery is moving up and moving out. We are so fortunate to have outgrown the space that has treated us so well for the last four years. It’s a bittersweet goodbye closing the doors to our East Village store. We survived the rain, but now we need to use it to grow.

No official word on the new location, though a source on the block said it will be in Brooklyn.

Sarah Silverman opened the bakery — originally called Cupcake Market — here in April 2016.

However, in a rebrand coinciding with a new online shop, Cupcake Market evolved into Funny Face last fall.

Turns out cupcakes weren't the big seller here. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, her hand-painted face cookies of the candidates quickly became hot items.

She soon started creating custom portrait cookies for her customers to celebrate birthdays and other special events... as well as launching a line of intricately designed cookies accurately (and eerily?) depicting various celebrities and movie characters (as seen below with "It" and "Hocus Locus")... and hiring a group of artists from Pratt and SVA to help with the design.


H/T MP and Derek Berg!

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

About face: The Cupcake Market has a new name on 7th Street



The owner of the Cupcake Market on Seventh Street has renamed her shop here between First Avenue and Second Avenue ... the new signage for Funny Face Bakery arrived yesterday, as EVG contributor Derek Berg noted...





The new name coincides with the launch of the bakery's online shop.

Sarah Silverman opened the bakery in April 2016. Given the name Cupcake Market, you'd figure cupcakes would be a big seller. Turns out she was on to something with the hand-painted face cookies of presidential candidates — Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump — that she created in the run-up to Election 2016. Those quickly became big sellers.

She soon started creating custom portrait cookies for her customers to celebrate birthdays and other special events... as well as launching a line of intricately designed cookies accurately (and eerily?) depicting various celebrities and movie characters... and hiring a group of artists from Pratt and SVA to help with the design.



So given the popularity of the cookies, the shop decided to re-introduce itself as Funny Face Bakery. And they do still sell cupcakes.

Daily hours are 1:30 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Updated: Cupcake Market opens today on East 7th Street



That's according to a reader and the Cupcake Market website, which doesn't offer up any other details at the moment...

The market is located at 74 E. Seventh St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue...


[Photo from March 30 by Derek Berg]

The previous tenant, North Star Tattoo, closed at the end of 2015 after eight years in business.

Updated 12:30 4/10

An EVG reader stopped by and gave the bakery high marks... they were selling six varieties of cupcakes ($3.75 each) and they also had apple pie, banana bread and rosemary-cheddar scones. The Market sells coffee and tea as well.

And here's a photo of the candidate cookies someone mentioned in the comments...


[Image via @cupcakemarketnyc]

Updated 4/12

The Daily News has a piece today on how quickly the candidate cookies are selling. Read that here.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Former tattoo shop will now house the Cupcake Market on East 7th Street

Monday, March 14, 2016

Former tattoo shop will now house the Cupcake Market on East 7th Street


[EVG photo from January]

After eight years at 74 E. Seventh St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue, North Star Tattoo closed at the end of 2015.

And, as this photo via EVG correspondent Steven shows, workers have erected the new sign today for the incoming business...



Cupcake Market.

We don't have any other info about the proprietors right this sec.

Anyway, apparently the cupcake trend lives on... and a block away from Butter Lane Cupcakes.