Destination Desserts: 3 Girls Cupcakes Kansas City

Destination Desserts prides itself on showcasing the most creative and coolest dessert food trucks around the country.  This week, I am so glad that I am finally featuring Kansas City for the first time.  Three Girls Cupcakes is KC's first mobile cupcakery, and with unconventional flavors like Hippie Crunch, Candy Bar and The Spotted Reindeer, they have KC's residents flocking to the strangest places, even on a tow truck, to get their treats.  They are not only starting new trends, but also giving back by giving 10% of their proceeds to children's charities.  To learn more about Three Girls Cupcakes, check out my interview with Cupcake Engineer Simonie below.

 Photo by 3 Girls Cupcakes

1.  What sets your food truck apart?

Our food truck is different from most others in the KC area because we are out most weekdays 10am-5pm, not just at lunch or in the evenings and on weekends.   We publish our route every Monday so people can always refer to it, and not just have to wait to hear if and when we’ll be out every morning.  Also, we do about a dozen stops per day, stopping around 15-30 minutes per stop, which makes our mobile business even more mobile than others who have to cook on-site, setting up generators and parking for several hours at a time in one spot.

 Photo courtesy of 3 Girls Cupcakes

2.  What is the worst truck disaster you have encountered so far?

The transmission went out on the cruiser as I went up a hill in downtown KC in the middle of the workday in May 2011.  While I waited for the tow truck to arrive, I tweeted that if anyone at our afternoon stops wanted cupcakes, they’d have to come to me.   As they pulled us up onto the tow truck, I was still selling to people!  I got some great pics!

 

Photo by 3 Girls Cupcakes

  
3.  What are the new trends in desserts?  Have you started any of them?

We added cupcake push pops a few months ago, and although it wasn’t a totally original idea at the time, it was certainly new to KC, and now we see them everywhere!  Cake pops came before that, but next might be cake truffles – stay tuned!

4.  Where is the oddest place or event you have ever had to sell at? 

We’ve parked right next to Arrowhead Stadium and on stage at the Starlight Theatre.  We have been to the Liberty Memorial grounds, Gail’s Harley-Davidson, the Kauffman Center's grand opening and local movie premieres.

 Photo courtesy of 3 Girls Cupcakes

5.  What's the sweet scene in your city?  How do you separate yourself from the stand alone bakeries and sweet stops in your city?

I started this business almost three years ago because I was a cupcake lover myself, and when visiting other towns, I saw that cupcakes were on just about every corner in many cases.  I thought until cupcakes are on every corner in KC, people need cupcakes that come to them, and set out to do just that myself J.  That service model and our continuing emphasis on customer service really set us apart.  We can show up wherever there is a gathering of people, which is harder for brick and mortars.  We often do “cupcake drivebys”, either because someone has requested a quick stop in the middle of our scheduled stops or if we have time and supply at the end of our daily route, and we put a call out for it.  We will often double-back if we get a tweet saying someone just missed us J.

To learn more about Three Girls Cupcakes, visit them here