The Cupcakerie

Body Workz Wellness is all about balance, enjoying life and living to your fullest. We are enjoying a series that features how to eat out and make healthy choices around town. An excellent choice for a cup of coffee and a sweet treat is The Cupcakerie. The store is centrally located and has a beautiful space for sipping coffee and relaxing for a few minutes.

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Coming together

Anna McCarty Carrier and Janet Nelson Williams grew up here in Morgantown. They met when Anna was interning at the law office that Janet was working and became friends as they discussed their love for food and wine, cooking, and baking. Janet wanted to start a cupcake store and asked Anna if she would join her in the business venture. In January 2011 they begin six months of experimenting and perfecting the recipes and ingredients and started selling from their current location in September of that year. Since opening, they have earned Morgantown Magazine’s Best of Morgantown Best Sweet Indulgence for six years in a row and WV Living Magazine’s Best Cake/Dessert for two years in a row.

Local Sources

With something different to do every day, the store is never dull. Anna loves that they make beautiful and delicious products from fresh ingredients. They also lessen the carbon footprint of the shop by using as local ingredients as possible. The Cupcakerie bakes from scratch every single day with eggs from the Morgantown area, as well as produce, honey and other ingredients they purchase at the local farmer’s market.

Specialty options

It is easy for you to follow the Body Workz Wellness 90/10 rule with the store’s line of mini cupcakes. They offer a full range of mini cupcakes in the same flavors as the regular cupcakes, which allow you to get a sweet little treat, without hurting your eating plan.

Additionally, they offer several options for those with other special dietary needs:

• Dairy free
• Egg free
• Soy free
• Sugar free
• Vegan
• Protein

For an added punch order the unique high protein cupcake in the flavors birthday cake, chocolate peanut butter or chocolate chocolate flavors. They offer a fantastic protein edge on the go or after a workout.

Special occasions

At weddings, the couple can choose to do a variety of flavors to cater to all of their guests with a tower of cupcakes and small cutting tower on top.
Jumbo cupcakes are a great gender reveal option that feeds 6-8 people. The Cupcakerie also offers delivery to the college with care packages and even balloons when kids are away at school on their birthday any particular occasion. You can customize orders with company logos, a Mountaineer logo, special occasion colors and seasonal decorations.

Flavors

They just began putting fresh raspberry and strawberry cupcakes in the store for the start of spring. You can request a particular flavor for your order, or you can choose from some favorites: Red Carpet Red Velvet, P’Nutty for Chocolate, Very Vanilla, Loco Cocoa, A Hard Day’s Night, and A Hard Night’s Day.

#EatHealthyMorgantown

Food and health are extremely important to the owners of the Cupcakerie and the reason for their mini cupcakes. They believe that #EatHealthyMorgantown empowers the community to make healthier choices at the best restaurants Morgantown has to offer, without sacrificing taste or quality.
Anna and Janet have joy and passion for cupcakes. Their favorite part of the job is making customers happy and seeing them return to the store over and over again. “It’s not just a cupcake it’s a Cupcakerie cupcake.”