This week’s giveaway comes to us from Etsy seller namethatthing.   Her shop specializes in personalized items.   She finds the best buys on popular items and can embroider a name, initials or clip art.  I was so excited to get this little cupcake tote in the mail from them:

The bag was well made and is probably the cutest cupcake bag I have ever seen.  She has so many bags that would be great for gift-giving this holiday season or for goodie bags for a special birthday party.   I also love these other cupcakes from her shop:

Now it is your chance to win your own cupcake bag (you pick which one!) and have it personalized!   Just go to namethatthing’s shop and take a few minutes to look around.  Then come back here to ATC and click on the comment area below.  Please tell us what non-cupcake you like best and why.  One winner will be chosen on November 9th.  Thank you namethatthing for sponsoring this giveaway!

Since I started as contributing to ATC, I have had a lot of “why didn’t I think of that” moments and this was another one.  Black Bottom Cupcakes have been a long time family favorite at our house and are possibly my favorite type of cupcake even though some would argue that they are not true cupcakes because they lack frosting.  Having said this you would think I would have come up with at least dying the cream cheese filling orange to make them festive for  Halloween.  That is exactly what Tender Crumb did, and she even took it one step further and tweaked the recipe to make pumpkin cream cheese filling.  I know I am late posting this as Halloween has passed but I just found it on tastespotting and figured  it’s always a good idea for next year.  Plus pumpkin black bottom cupcakes could would be great for Thanksgiving or Christmas or any other day of the year!

I would like to add that black bottom cupcakes are a really easy cupcake to make.  The recipe is very simple and they always come out perfect.  However I never seem to have enough of the filling so buy some extra cream cheese, just to be safe.  And remember you don’t have to dye them orange, you could pick any color or do tye dye!

Hello all my favorite cupcake goers! I had a creative spark this weekend and came up with a few things. If you guys could take a look at them and let me know what you think and if it is something that you would purchase. I am thinking about putting them on Etsy. Here are pictures … thanks for the feedback ahead of time!!

My idol, Martha Stewart, recently announced the cutest cupcakes of 2009 contest winners and I have to agree they are cute.  There’s a total of 18 cupcakes and by the looks of things, I am sure it was hard to narrow it down.  My personal favorite are the Hedgehogs, by Ladybug Luggage.  The two look like such a cute little couple, with the girl hedgehog wearing a little flower.  After checking out her blog, I found that Mr. & Mrs. Hedgehog go on “adventures” which means the couple are dressed up aka decorated differently and even have little children hedgehogs.

I also love the Where The Wild Things Are cupcakes by Kitchen Dough Dough who always has unique ideas.  I personally like that they are decorated without fondant and that they are an Old Fashioned Applesauce Spice Cupcake recipe with cinnamon buttercream frosting.