Cupcake Kids! Cooks Up Name Change To Taste Buds

Cupcake Kids!, New York's premier provider of kids cookingclasses and parties, announced today that it is changing it's name to Taste Buds.

"Taste Budsreflects the development of Cupcake Kids! into the kids culinary business that we are today"explains Jessi Walter, Founder. "It's about the experience kids and families have in our kitchen aswe taste our way through culinary adventures."

Taste Buds events combine a well-balanced mix of recipes, both savory and sweet, as we foster a love for cooking, ingredients and an excitementfor life. While our name has changed, our mission, passion and unique events have not.Cupcake Kids! was founded in 2007 by Jessi Walter.

Teaching children to bake on weekends wasa refreshing, inspiring, and perfect antidote to Walter's former job on Wall Street at Bear Stearns. In 2008, Jessi decided to take her passion for kids, food and business to the next level and to pursue Cupcake Kids! full time. What began as a few holiday baking classes and cupcake makingbirthday parties quickly evolved into a diverse line of cooking events focused on many foods and cuisines - not just cupcakes!

Taste Buds offers an ever-growing variety of hands-on and engaging cooking classes for kids, moms and families including classes, camps, birthday parties, schoolfield trips and more. Kids enjoy cooking in a fully-equipped pint-sized kitchen studio designed and built exclusively for young chefs in the historic "Flour" District on 27th Street.

For more information on Taste Buds visit www.tastebudscook.com or 212-242-2248.

ABOUT: Taste Buds, formerly known at Cupcake Kids!, specializes in hands-on cooking classes, birthday parties and special events for children ages 2 to teen. Taste Buds has been proclaimed the"Best Kids Cooking Class" by New York Magazine and has been featured as the "must try"activity by CBS, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Hamptons