Grace and Shelly's Cupcakes

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Cupcake — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:09:29 +0000

Sweet! Cupcakes for breakfast
FORT MYERS, Fla – A local cupcake store is more than doubling in size. Grace and Shelly’s Cupcakes will soon be opening new locations along Fifth Avenue South in Naples and Coconut Point in Estero.

The owners showed up Monday morning with plenty of sweet treats for the crew of WINK News This Morning. The stores offer more than two dozen flavors of cupcakes. And new for the holidays…mini cupcakes to go. The stores are offereing 24 mini cupcakes in their own sealable cupcake container to send as a gift or to share with your friends or co-workers. And the best part? They’re only 90 calories each!

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Cupcake — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:16:07 +0000

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Cupcake — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:02:48 +0000

Cupcake Team

Attention, cupcake lovers: New sweets are coming to town. Grace Bolen, the fine hand behind those popular Gracie’s Cupcakes shops in Naples and Fort Myers, is teaming up with star philanthropist and socialite Shelly Stayer for a new sweet shop—Grace and Shelly’s—on Fifth Avenue South in Naples. Grace, a Wharton School grad-turned baker, and Shelly bonded over their shared love of cupcakes, Naples and their daughters. Shelly has an extensive background in food service and will plunge right into day-to-day operations when the store opens in November. I wish I could have joined Shelly for her recent research in New York—a cupcake tour to find the best frostings around. Batter up! Count on me to be following my sweet tooth to Fifth Avenue South and the results of her quest.
-Gulfshore Life Magazine, October 2011

Dream Seeker Grace Bolen Creates a Recipe for Success

Cupcake — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:04:20 +0000

From the cover of e Bella October 2010
Cupcakes may be all the rage these days, but Bolen is a businesswoman with big dreams: that Gracie’s Cupcakes are one day known around the country, and that other working women like her will have the chance to duplicate the success she has achieved.

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Love in pleated paper

Cupcake — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:09:56 +0000

Cupcakes have become pop culture, Neapolitans are sweet on craze

Cupcakes have been an American culinary treasure since the 19th century. The miniature cakes have been a staple at children’s birthday parties for ages and have been associated with children’s celebrations since they were invented.

For the past 15 years, however, a cupcake craze that targets adults has been sweeping across the U.S., and upscale cupcake bakeries have popped up from coast to coast. California has Sprinkles; New York has Magnolia, Crumbs, Buttercream and more. Not to be outdone, Naples has gotten into the cupcake game with Gracie’s. Source NaplesNews.com, July 20, 2010
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There are cupcakes, and then, oh my, there are Gracie’s Cupcakes!

Cupcake — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:00:25 +0000

What a difference compared to ones you’ve in the past. Each of Gracie’s lusciously fresh cupcakes is a perfect portion of delicious cake and icing. My friend Laura brought by a dozen mini cupcakes, and by the time I polished off the eighth, I drove straight to Gracie’s and started on a half dozen full size ones. I then returned for yet another half dozen, a few days later… you see where this is going…and Gracie keeps bringing out new recipes! The cupcakes, baked fresh every day, are super moist – each one’s icing is uniquely different in texture and taste.
Grace, formerly in computer software consulting, wanted a business that gave her time with the kids, and a business that was rewarding in many ways to her. With her creativity, pleasant manner, and amazing baking skills, this career move is superb for Grace, and for you and me. I used to bring a nice bottle of wine when I visited friends, now it’s wine and a box of cupcakes, and I may soon be asked to ditch the wine, and bring more cupcakes!
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Naples Shops Offer Sweet Tooth Niche

Cupcake — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:57:34 +0000

“You want it to be velvety, creamy, with a nice buttery taste to it,” said Grace Bolen, owner of Gracie’s Cupcakes and Ice Cream. “And, of course, sweet.”

A sweet tooth is part of what lured Bolen to creating cupcakes. After several years of a career that required travel five days a week, she wanted to work close to home and be with her husband and children. She liked baking, loved sweets and during her travels, Bolen visited cities where cupcake shops were common.

She decided she would try to do something similar. Because she’s not a formally trained baker, that meant Bolen “baked and baked and baked,” she said with a laugh, until she was confident her recipes were right.

Now, Bolen bakes seven or eight dozen cupcakes daily in her shop, which are that day’s flavors. Gracie’s Cupcakes and Ice Cream also sells Royal Scoop, the popular Bonita Springs-made ice cream.

Of those daily dozens, Bolen eats four or five. Call it quality control.

“I will sample everything I make,” Bolen said. “To me, taste is everything.”

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