Starting today, February 9, Luscious Organic Desserts Vegan Cupcakes are now officially available in LA. Raksa Wellness Center in Culver City started selling our cupcakes today at their cafe. Raksa is a brand new wellness center that offers a lot of different relaxing and meditative sessions and classes including Acupuncture, Yoga, Cranial Sacral, Facials, Therapeutic Massage, and a lot more. They also have a cafe inside that is very vegetarian/vegan friendly. They have only been open for one week, but already they have had an amazing turnout.

Today Raksa has started with our Pumpkin Spice cupcakes and our Chocolate cupcakes. After starting with the cupcakes, Raksa has plans to offer several other baked goods from Luscious. Once they get busier you can look forward to several new items from Luscious Organic Desserts including organic vegan muffins (blueberry and cinnamon oat bran), organic vegan scones (chocolate chip and orange cranberry), and a new organic and vegan breakfast bar we developed specifically for them, oatmeal butterscotch. Of course these new treats will come a lot sooner depending how well the cupcakes do.

So if you get a chance, stop by and pick up a cupcake and let them know you are excited about other Luscious desserts. It’s taken a while for us to get our product up to LA, but we are so excited to be up there and look forward to providing LA with purely decandent organic vegan desserts from Luscious Organic Desserts.

Their hours are Tues-Sat 7a-8p and Sun 8a-6p

Raksa Wellness Center

10846 Washington Blvd

Cluver City, CA 90232

310-559-7200

Quarrygirls Review of Our Cookie Dough

Luscious Organic Dessert has released their newest product, Vegan Cookie Dough. Currently available in two flavors, chocolate chip and white chocolate chip pecan. Although we are still waiting on final packaging, there are both available for order in the southern california area (as long as you dont mind it without the final package or labels.) We have been getting a tremendous response to our cookie dough so far. You can see reviews of our cookie dough from Quarrygirl and Veggywood.

On september 17th and 18th Luscious Organic Desserts took part in the Eco-Emmys Celebrity Green Gifting & Wellness Chateau hosted by producer Debbie Durkin. The event was a benefit for Susan G. Komen for the Cure® , i am that girl, spcaLA, Green Wish, and Free The Slaves. We were happy to be on hand to provide guests with our organic vegan cupcakes, and to be part of an event benefitting such great causes. The turnout was incredible and we had the opportunity to meet some amazing people. We were told that everyone was talking about our cupcakes and they were the hit of the party. There were a ton of celebrities at the event including Malin Akerman, emmy nominee Sharon Lawrence, Sam Levine, Rachelle Carson-Begley, actors from Melrose Place and 90210, some of the cast from Greys Anatomy and many more.  Here are some pics from the event.

Malin Akerman and Ioana

We got the chance to meet Malin Akerman (Couples Retreat, Watchmen, The Heartbreak Kid) and she gave us a big thumbs up for our cupcakes.

Malin Akerman enjoying a Luscious Organic Cupcake

It was nice to meet Emmy nominee Sharon Lawrence, and she was looking  great. Here she is hanging out with Darren Morre from Alter Eco.

Sharon Lawrence and Darren Moore

One of our favorite new comedies is Better Off Ted, and Jonathan Slavin who plays one of the nerdy scientists on the show stopped by to try some cupcakes. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that he is vegan, and I think he was just as excited to see us, as he said he hadnt had a vegan cupcake in a long time. Starring along with Portia de Rossi, how many other primetime sitcoms have 2 vegans acting in them?

Jonathan Slavin from Better Off Ted

Gloria Garayua one of the iterns on Grey’s Anatomy was there and she is one of the nicest people we have ever met.

Herself and 2 other interns from the show were there. Since this event we did another event with Gloria, we will have pics up soon from that event.

Gloria Garayua from Grey's Anatomy

Prodigal Sunn from the Wu-tang Clan was there. He grew up in Bed-stuy about 1 mile from where i went to college.

Prodigal Sunn from the Wu-tang Clan

Rachelle Carson-Begley and the crew from Living with Ed was shooting some video for their upcoming season. We still havent met Ed yet, but she took a couple cupcakes home for him.

Rachelle Carson-Begley

We got to meet Hakeem Kae-Kazim from 24 and he was super nice. It suprised me has a british accent in real life, on 24 he had a thick african accent. He played such an evil dude on that show, i dont think he could have puled it off with a british accent though.

Hakeem Kae-Kazim from 24 and Xmen Wolverine

Mark Christopher Lawrence plays Big Mike on the tv show Chuck. He was trying to watch his calories, but his agent convinced him to try one. He said they were really good.

Mark Christopher Lawrence from Chuck

Sofia Milos from CSI: Miami.

Sofia Milos from CSI: Miami

Jai Rodriguez from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Rex Lee from Entourage

Paulo Costanzo from Royal Pains and Joey

danica mckellar from the Wonder Years

alison becker from Parks and Rec

On Saturday the 29th we were at the Malibu Wine Classic with a whole bunch of chocolate mini cupcakes. Everyone was sampling wine from a ton of local wineries, and what goes better with all the red wine than chocolate cupcakes. The cupcakes were a big hit and we had a great time there. At the booth across from us Mariel Hemingway was selling some of her snacks, and Tori Spelling came through with her husband Dean.

Our booth at the Malibu Wine Classic

Chocolate Mini Cupcakes

A new store just opened up at The Camp in costa mesa called Seed Peoples Market.

They have a great selection of local artists, craftspeople, jewelry, tshirts, etc, it looks like a lot of them if not most of them had an Eco edge to them. The store also has a small cafe that serves vegetarian and vegan meals, including raw dishes from 118, and desserts from Luscious Organic Desserts.

We are starting off with cupcakes and brownies there, but look forward to  bringing in some other desserts as well.

I also saw the new raw “cook”book from Jenny Ross the executive chef at 118.

The new store is in the spot where adventure 16 used to be. Its located inside The Camp, which is turing into a vegan lovers shopping center dream. The Camp also has 118 raw restaurant, Native Foods, Humanitaire, and now Seed Peoples Market serving vegan desserts.

Vegan Organic cupcakes

Seed People's Market

Entrance to Seed

Under the Stairs Cafe

On July 28th Luscious Organic Desserts had a great time celebrating EcoStiletto’s One Year Anniversary at Environment Furniture in Los Angeles. Rachel Sarnoff the owner of EcoStiletto hosted a great eco centered party with a bunch of great eco companies on hand and we were happy to provide our cupcakes to the crowd. There were a bunch of eco-minded celebrities that showed up including Josie Maran, KaDee Strickland (Private Practice), Sarah Jane Morris (Brothers and Sisters), Rachelle Carson-Begley (Living with Ed), Darren Moore (Alter Eco) and many others.

Here are a few pictures from the event.

Rachelle Carson-Begley and Ioana

Rachelle Carson-Begley from Living with Ed showed up to the event in a prius along with the crew of Living with Ed. The crew was filming and hopefully it was for a new season of Living with Ed. She walked around with Darren Moore from Alter Eco, and they ended up hanging out with us for a while and fed each other cupcakes.

Rachelle Carson-Begley and Darren Moore eating Luscious Organic Desserts cupcakes

Sarah Jane Morris from Brothers and Sisters showed up to the event in her veggie-diesel vintage mercedes.

Sarah Jane Morris eating a luscious cupcake

It was great to see Josie Maran again after seeing her at the vert event we did.

Josie Maran and Ioana

KaDee Strickland from Private Practice was there, although we didnt get a good picture, here she is in a crowd.

KaDee Strickland from Private Practice

Dominic Purcell from Prison Break was at the event. Kind of a strange pic, not sure what hes doing with that beam.

Dominic Purcell from Prison Break

We also saw quite a few other people from the interweb, here is Ioana hanging out with Whitney from EcoVeganGal and Carolyn Scott from The Healthy Voyager.

Carolyn, Ioana, and Whitney

Overall it was a great event with a ton of great eco minded people hanging out.

Rachel Sarnoff from Eco Stiletto threw a great party.

Rachel Sarnoff with Ioana

OCmenus.com has just named Lavender Lounge Tea Co as the 5th best vegan eatery in Orange County. We sell our cupcakes at Lavender Lounge, and happen to be the only vegan dessert there. So I believe it could be surmised that Luscious cupcakes could be one of the main reasons that Lavender was named.   

So stop by, grab a cupcake and a yummy cup of tea.

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The Road Less Traveled hosted a wedding event at their store on the 16th of May. We were on hand providing samples of our vegan cupcakes and to discuss our wedding services. We specialize in making super moist delicious vegan wedding cakes and wedding cupcakes. Whether you are looking for an Organic Wedding Cake, or an Organic Vegan Wedding Cake, Luscious Organic Desserts can help you on your special day. If you are looking for something a bit different, cupcakes for weddings are becoming a very popular alternative to cakes.

Mini Cupcake Display

Meghan repping the minis

closeup of some super moist strawberry minis