Pin-Up Serving Attractive Pastries at Tucson Meet Yourself

Wednesday, 12 October 2011 22:51

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Looking for something sweet and a little bit out of the ordinary at the Tucson Meet Yourself festival this weekend?

Pin-up Pastries, a pastry delivery company, will set up shop near the Lowrider show starting this Friday. Pin-up will be serving whoopie pies, salted caramel whoopie pies, cake pops (similar to a lollipop, but with cake), Mexican chocolate cupcakes and tres leches.

Pin-up Pastries is not just unique because of the tasty treats they sell, but because they have no store front. Instead of the customers coming to them, Pin-up goes to the customers in a bright pink car painted with the Pin-up logo.

A lifelong love of baking (and a more recent love of the Food Network) inspired Tucson native Tracy Santa Cruz to start Pin-up last January. With the help of family and an old high school friend, her idea for a mobile cupcake business became a reality.

"I try not to think about it a lot," she said of her new business. "Because if you think about it you won't do it."

Pin-up is based in Tucson, but also delivers to Phoenix and surrounding cities.

They cater for birthdays, corporate events, parties and anything else their customers request.

"We're open to most things," she said.

Santa Cruz's favorite thing about running her own business is simply baking.

"That's the funnest part, is finding a different recipe, a new one, and saying, 'let's try it,' and it works and people like it."

Santa Cruz bakes in a commerical kitchen downtown. She said she has no plans to start a permanent shop, but might have a cart set up on Tucson's Fourth Avenue or downtown sometime in the future.

"I like the mobile, where you go to the people," she said.

Come back next week for continued of Pin-up Pastries and Tucson Meet Yourself.

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