Meet Candace Nelson and get free cupcakes at Sprinkles Georgetown tomorrow!

Tomorrow, March 22nd, you can celebrate the anniversary of Sprinkles Cupcakes in Georgetown, Washington, DC, with a free cupcake all day, from 9 am to 9 pm (1 per customer) and from 4-5 you can meet Sprinkles' co-founder and Cupcake Wars judge Candace Nelson! Below are their Irish cream and lemon coconut cupcakes, which I got yesterday at their bakery in Manhattan. Follow @sprinkles on Twitter and Sprinkles Georgetown on Facebook and visit sprinkles.com for more information.

Free cupcakes tonight and tomorrow at all Sprinkles Cupcakes bakeries to celebrate longer hours

Congratulations - you get a free cupcake! Tonight or tomorrow night from 8 pm to 9 pm at all Sprinkles Cupcakes locations (Beverly Hills, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, La Jolla, New York [Manhattan], Newport Beach, Palo Alto, Scottsdale and Washington, DC) to celebrate their new longer hours. Visit sprinkles.com and Sprinkles on Facebook for more information - Facebook is where I got their Pi Day pi cupcake photo and the shot of two cute little kids using the new much-buzzed-about 24-hour Sprinkles automated cupcake machine, which is heading beyond Beverly Hills soon too! Via their email newsletter; sign up at sprinkles.com to get the latest news.







And unfortunately their March Cupcake Madness is over (that's why you should follow your favorite bakeries on their social media platforms!) but I though this was very cute:

Sprinkles Cupcake ATM Crashes

Image Courtesy of NBC Los Angeles

According to NBC Los Angeles fans of Sprinkles Cupcakes have actually crashed their new ACM (Cupcake ATM) while trying to fulfill their sweet tooths! But no worries, it's back up and running now!

From the NBC Los Angeles Report:

Sprinkle’s first-ever automated cupcake dispenser opened for business this week and it’s been so popular that, at one point, customers’ cravings outweighed the machine’s abilities.

"This kind of machine is built to do a couple hundred transactions a day," said Nicole Schwartz, Sprinkles’ director of marketing. "The amount of volume was unprecedented for this machine."

It wasn’t clear whether overheating or a misguided arm was the culprit, but a couple hours with an engineer and the popular machine was up and running again – and taking attention away from the flagship bakery next door.

After reading another report from LAist.com it's no wonder that the ACM finally crashed, it's been serving about 1,000 cupcakes DAILY!

From the LAist report:

Since the Sprinkles 24-hour cupcake automat opened for business on Tuesday, it has been insanely popular. At some points lines stretched halfway down the block, sometimes running 50 people deep. The lines were long, even when the bakery staffed by actual live humans was open.

"At points, there would be no line at the bakery itself while a few feet over, people queued up for their turn to 'withdraw' from the Cupcake ATM!" Nicole Schwartz, a spokeswoman for Sprinkles said.

The automat has been dispensing 1,000 cupcakes a day, which is more than Sprinkles anticipated. The popularity of the machine led to some hiccups Wednesday night, when the automat stopped working. It was dispensing one "withdrawal" a minute, which was faster than the machine could handle.

Wow! I still need to get myself down to Beverly Hills to try out the new ACM! Just in case you're in the LA area and want to take a trip yourself here's some more information on Sprinkles' Cupcake ATM:

Twitter: @CupcakeATM

Facebook: Cupcake ATM

9635 South Santa Monica Boulevard, 

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Video of how the 24-hour Sprinkles cupcake ATM works

Lucy Blodgett of the Huffington Post gives us a video tour of the new 24-hour Sprinkles Cupcakes automated cupcake machine (ATM) in Beverly Hills (coming this summer to New York City), complete with robotic arm! Via Foodbeast

Wear a baseball jersey, get a free cupcake with purchase at Sprinkles Cupcakes today only

I would never have known it's spring training, but apparently it is, and Sprinkles Cupcakes wants to reward baseball fans! If you come in to Sprinkles Cupcakes today wearing your favorite team's baseball jersey, you get one free cupcake when you buy one. Pretty cool! Visit sprinkles.com and @sprinkles on Twitter and their Facebook page (individual Sprinkles Cupcakes bakeries also have their own separate Facebook pages) to keep up with their promotions.





Also, through March 18th, they're selling these St. Patrick's Day cupcakes: "Belgian dark chocolate cake topped with a Baileys Irish cream cheese frosting."

Sprinkles Cupcakes will debut 3 24-hour cupcake automats in New York City this summer

An update on the big cupcake story of the week, the Sprinkles Cupcakes 24-hour "cupcake ATM" automated cupcake machine. It's not just for those in Beverly Hills! 3 of them are coming to New York City, according to the New York Daily News:

Good news for emergency sugar cravings — a Manhattan bakery is rolling out three 24-hour cupcake “ATMs” this year.

Called “cupcake automats,” the outposts of Sprinkles Cupcakes are planned for midtown, downtown and the upper West Side with the first whipping up business by summer, a company rep told the Daily News.

“We’re working hard on the exact locations now,” spokeswoman Nicole Schwartz said. “They’ll be restocked constantly throughout the day, so if it’s Wednesday, you’ll only get our Wednesday flavors.”

She said bakers at the popular Sprinkles on Lexington Ave. and E. 60th St. will pack each machine with a few hundred designer cakes at a time for on-the-go addicts.

Sprinkles Cupcakes to launch 24-hour automated cupcake machine and Sprinkles Ice Cream in Beverly Hills

Sprinkles Cupcakes is getting ready to launch their 24-hour automated cupcake machine and Sprinkles Ice Cream in Beverly Hills! Are you ready? You can follow 24-Hour Sprinkles on Facebook and, though it has only been used once so far, @24HourSprinkles on Twitter. Can't wait to hear when its launching. I will be in San Francisco in April and might have to pop down to Beverly Hills to check this out! Via LAist, who report:

This automatic cupcake machine dispenses freshly baked cupcakes, cupcake mixes, apparel and even cupcakes for Fido! In the heart of Beverly Hills nestled between Sprinkles Cupcakes and the brand new Sprinkles Ice Cream, 24 Hour Sprinkles will be continuously restocked day and night with a variety of freshly baked cupcake flavors.

And while Sprinkles Ice Cream sounds like it will be an ice cream shop and not actually selling cupcakes, it's still a big move for this major cupcake bakery and I would imagine will tie back in to the bakery somehow.

Our ice cream will be hand-crafted American ice cream using only the finest ingredients, staying in line with the Sprinkles philosophy. Scooped into crisp waffle cones, pressed between fluffy cupcake tops or piled high into sundaes topped with housemade sauces and toppings, Sprinkles Ice Cream shop is a back to basics creamery with a Sprinkles twist! Sprinkles Ice Cream will also serve up freshly baked cookies and brownies!

Have a Leap Day birthday? Get a free cupcake February 29th at Sprinkles La Jolla

From North County Times comes this good news for those with Leap Day birthdays: "On Wednesday, Sprinkles Cupcakes in La Jolla will offer one dozen free cupcakes to anyone whose birthday is Feb. 29. Valid ID required." Follow Sprinkles La Jolla on Facebook for the latest news. I think this is actually for all Sprinkles, but stay tuned to them @sprinkles on Twitter and on Facebook to be sure.

Brad Pitt, Demián Bichir, Gary Oldman, George Clooney, Jean Dujardin and Oscars cupcakes from Sprinkles

Here are some fun Oscars cupcakes that Sprinkles Cupcakes is currently selling at all locations, and even though it's past, this was their President's Day George Washington cupcake. On Facebook they also are giving you Oscar winner options, spelled out in cupcakes! (You can buy custom letters from them any time of the year and decorate your own, or you could write on your cupcakes yourself.) See sprinkles.com and their Facebook page for store hours and locations and special flavors.

Missed Valentine's Day and want to make it up to that someone special? Get yourself to Sprinkles

Sprinkles Cupcakes is selling this Better Late Than Never box of cupcakes for those who need to make some amends on Valentine's Day. Via Facebook. See sprinkles.com/order for locations and ordering information.



Here's hat you can remember to send next year: red velvet cupcakes with mini red hearts on top!



And then, just because, cupcakes by Sprinkles at Rihanna's birthday party: