Looking for a unique way to display your cupcakes? How about a homemade cupcakes tower made out of maps. Realistically you can use any paper to make your tower personal. Lori, from Save On Crafts, who created the cupcake tower includes instructions in the blog post.
If you are after a new pair of super soft and comfortable shoes that are as unique and individual as you are then these are the shoes for you!
Not only are these Cupcake High Top Keds fun and funky, but you can make all the adjustments you want to personalize them before you buy them. Here you will see that I have selected red lace for mine!
You can also change the lining color, upper binding color, toe cap design, eyelet color, tongue binding color and stitching colors! There is also an option to choose between black and white upper and lower midsoles and the toe bumper. All of which means you can have really cool cupcake shoes that are unique and funky.
Best part though is the price, they are only $65 from Zazzle (this link takes you to their WIDE variety of cupcake shoes! There are heaps to choose from!).
Pizzazzerie recently had a Cupcake Skewer Contest, the deadline for which has since past, but designs are still relevant to the Halloween season. The winning cupcake skewers were Black Magic Cupcakes, created by Sweet Cheeks Tasty Treats.
While she did not win the contest, The Decorated Cookie still created bright, festive Halloween cupcakes that impressed me! Below are The Decorated Cookie’s instructions for creating Halloween cupcake skewers but for
additional directions, Pizzazzerie has a How to Make Cupcake Skewers post.
Be the hit of any Halloween party with these cupcake sleeves from Roundabout Sleeves! Transform your cupcakes into (possibly scary) works of art in about 2 seconds! One dozen sleeves costs $8.99. Your cupcakes will be almost too cool to eat!
Our giveaway this week comes to you from Etsy crafter SewCosmic. I love her shops’ name because of it’s fun meaning:
How cute is that? And how cute are these cupcake items from her shop?
This week you, our wonderfully loyal fans, will have the chance to win this amazing and very useful cupcake lanyard. And as a bonus, SewCosmic is letting the winner pick one add-on too! You may choose either a watch, whistle or badge holder. I personally have one of these lanyards with a watch and I love it. It is well-made and perfect for those of us who need quick access to keys or for attaching a badge for work.
To enter this giveaway, just visit SewCosmic’s Etsy shop and peruse her creations. Then come back to ATC and click on the comment area below. Tell us what was your favorite item and what item you believe she should add to her shop. One winner will be chosen on Monday, October 25th. Good luck my sweeties!
I find the images of Belle and Boo to be absolutely adorable. One of my favorites is the Happy Halloween print where Boo is inside a Jack-O-Lantern and Belle is dressed up like a cat. I was excited when I came across these Halloween Parade Cupcake Wrappers available on their Etsy site. Ten decorative wrappers, which are not meant to be baked in, come in a pack for $9.50. Belle and Boo also sells matching invitations.
Decapitated Head Cupcake by PepsiNZ
I think I need to explain myself!
Well I was cruising Flickr today when I stumbled upon this rather gross cupcake by PepsiNZ. Actually it is a very funny mix of really awful and really cute, the face is adorable! But it would make the most awesome Halloween cupcake, especially that is if you have older boys!
She is quite talented with her cupcake creations, but before you race off and check out her photostream, be warned it is not all G rated!
Want to have your iPhone and your cupakes too? Well now you can. I found this adorable cell phonecase for the iPhone on ModCloth.com. If you have a iPhone and a cupcake obesssion then this has your name written all over it.
Have Eyes for My iPhone Case in Cupcake on Mod Cloth
The thing I love about art is there is no right and wrong, anything and everything can be explored and the emotions it provokes in a viewer are as unique and individual about the art itself. Even the cupcake is becoming quite a feature in paintings and drawings, for example who doesn’t know about the very popular CakeSpy who has a huge following of fans.
It seems that Cupcake stores and Bakeries are starting to catch on, adding an ever changing kaleidoscope of color to otherwise plain walls. In addition, it gives patrons something to look at while they wait, and lets face it, if you have waited in a 15 minute queue for your cupcake you deserve a bit of eye candy along with your cupcake!
Above we feature the talented Jonathan Arras who is an artist who has created a number of colorful pieces of art which he is currently showing at Common Ground Cupcakes for the next month. Some of his art features cupcakes such as the image above titled ‘Two Animals in Search of A Cupcake” but all are bright and colorful and perfect for a cupcake store. His art is on sale in the store which is located in Renton WA or you can see his work on his website, Spirals In Love.
What do you think? Do you want to see more art in cupcake stores, or is the cupcake counter your only focus?
Momiji dolls are adorable little message dolls that are categorized into little collections. Each doll has a cut out hole in the bottom and a card inside the hole for writing a little personalized note. While looking around on the Momiji site I noticed that they have a few fun cupcake related items. There are two Momiji dolls that have cupcakes on them. Each of the dolls are pixies, one is from the vintage collection and the other from the random collection. Once is blond haired and wearing a pink dress while holding a yellow cupcake while the other has a cherry theme. Read the rest of this entry »
The Swell Life is becoming one of my favorite blogs! In one post, she makes a wreath out of cupcake liners! How clever is that? Click here for instructions to make your own.
And then she creates a candy corn cupcake stand! What fun! Click here for instructions for this masterpiece.
Thanks Alexa, for letting us share your pictures.
Cupcakes are fast becoming more than just a tasty little dessert or afternoon treat but a key trend in design and decor. More and more we are seeing more people adorn themselves with a super cute cupcake tattoo, wear a cupcake apron, have funky cupcake shoes, and dress their bed in cupcake covered sheets and blankets, but where will it end? Personally I have no idea, I think we are still just on the edge of the cupcake mountain, and it appears that Angel Heart Designs agrees with me with her latest creation – cupcake drawer pulls.
But there is an interesting story behind these pulls, as they actually were originally created as a magnet that Angel Heart Designs, ATC Sponsor used to send to customers as a little thank you gift. One customer however decided that her fridge was not the perfect place for it and glued it instead to a cabinet door handle.
It looked so good, that she requested more and the range of cupcake door pulls in a range of colors, flavors and custom designs was born!
So today cupcake door pulls tomorrow…
Organize.com offers a selection of cupcake baking items for Halloween they have sprinkles, stencils, liners and more. One item that I like is the set of 12 silicone cupcake molds with halloween designs. With cute spiderwebs, bats, witches, ghosts, cats, and caldrons, the $20.99 set is a nice alternative to paper liners.
*Tip: if you buy these, bake in them once or twice before Halloween. This will ensure the cupcakes come out of the molds easily. When I bought my molds I didn’t realize how important this was!
Every now and then we come across adult cupcakes, most of which include alcohol. This time, Cosmopolitan has and article with several recipes for alcohol cupcakes by Lucy Baker, author of The Boozy Baker: 75 Recipes for Spirited Sweets. Start with a basic recipe included on the Cosmo website then follow with one of the 9 alcohol variations of your choice shared below.
Do you love creating you own cupcake recipes? Well, get out your mixers and muffin cups and enter the Scharffen Berger Cupcake Adventure Contest! Cupcake recipes must include their chocolate and one or more of these selected “Adventure Ingredients”:
Yes, some of these ingredients are a bit more unusual but who doesn’t love a good challenge? I say go for the ricotta and fresh beet! Contest prizes include money (woo, hoo!), books, chocolate, a trip to New York and the chance to have your recipe published on Food Networks magazine! How amazing would it be to have one of our wonderful fans win this contest? Click here for all the contest rules and details. Good luck! 
You should also check out the new interactive cupcake builder on the Scharffen Berger website. You can select a base cupcake batter and virtually build a cupcake using adventure ingredients, get tips on how to use the ingredients and more.
Our Halloween cupfake set winner is Erin! Check out her sweet comments:
Erin
Cakery Fakery is my favorite Etsy shop! I’m surprised my laptop still works after all the drool I get on it when looking at the cupfakes. lol!
It’s a tough choice but I think my favorite has to be the Christmas Candyland cupfake. I’d love to see a cupfake with cute little bunnies on it. Oh~ or maybe for Halloween one with evil bunnies. :D Or peeps candy! lol, sorry I’m getting too many ideas.
Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to [email protected]. Special thanks to The Cakery Fakery for sponsoring this week’s giveaway.
Layer Cake Shop has two fun cupcake kits for halloween. The zombie cupcake kit includes 24 black and green cupcake liners, white bone sprinkles, royal icing eyes, and assorted zombie cupcake toppers. Similarly the Halloween cupcake kit has cupcake liners, assorted cupcake toppers, orange sprinkles, royal icing pumpkins, and pumpkin bakery labels.
Be sure to look around the site, they have lots of other cupcake decorating products for Halloween and other occasions!
Omega-3 Cupcake by The Meatloaf Bakery
Meatloaf cupcakes aren’t just for April Fool’s Day anymore. Chicago’s Meatloaf Bakery serves them up every day of the week, along with bite-sized loafies (so cute!) and full-sized meatloaves. Cynthia, aka The Chief Mealoaf Maker, had been experimenting in meatloaf for years when she asked herself the question, “Who said meatloaf always had to be baked as a‚ well, as a loaf?” At that point, she found herself free to make her meatloaves are pretty as she wanted them to be. And really, what’s better looking than a cupcake?
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If you answered yes, then I have to inform you, that David Letterman disagrees with you, but don’t worry, “he is just nuts”.
Well that is what David Letterman said on air this Friday after he blasted Rachael Ray with a barrage of complaints about the number and type of cupcake shows on the air at the moment. What Rachael had to do with these cupcake shows is not clear but I am guessing the link may be that there are a lot of cupcake shows at the moment, and Rachael also has a lot of her own shows. Forgive me I might be wrong, but it was the only thing I could see that could possibly give reason for David to direct his annoyance at Rachael.
Before Rachael even got out to stage David said “You realize there’s a billion people in the world starving every day, and there’s a group of assholes having fights over cupcakes. They’re fighting over cupcakes! … Does that seem right to you?”
I guess we can take from this that David Letterman doesn’t like cupcake shows, but surely censorship is not the answer to the worldwide hunger problem?
All I can say is I fully respect how Rachael handled herself and as Letterman himself says she “had every reason to be alarmed”, he continues “I’m so sorry”.
Sometimes I think to myself, ‘Where did my cupcake obsession start?’ I think it came from a vintage cupcake cookie jar that my friend got for another friend, and I said to myself, ‘I want one!” One day soon after my friend and I went to a few antique stores in search for some goods. And I found the best one ever! I found my very own vintage cupcake cookie jar. I couldn’t wait until I got my own place to display this amazing cookie jar. This was a few years ago and I am now knee deep in cupcakes (and branded with a cupcake tattoo) and have an amazing piece in my kitchen, which EVERYONE who walks in my kitchen loves.
I found a similar cupcake cookie jar on etsy to share with all of you.
Pair of Cupcake Cookie Jars on vintagevixen’s etsy shop
The Amazing Twinkie Chan!
I came across Twinkie Chan’s delicious wares when I wrote the post about the cupcake goodies to be found at the Japan LA Pop Culture Shop. Twinkie Chan is the creative genius behind the Yummy You! line of knitted/wearable foodstuffs; the knitted cupcake scarf featured in the Japan LA post is one of her creations.
Baked: New Frontiers in Baking is one of my favorite cookbooks and I loved visiting the Charleston location last summer. I was really excited when I read on design*sponge that a second book had hit bookshelves. Baked Explorations is said to have over 80 amazing recipes (including sections on Breakfast, Cakes and Cupcakes, Pies and Tarts, Brownies and Bars, Cookies, Confections and Chocolates, and Drinks), 40 color photos, various tips, tricks and more!
The Kitchn not only reviewed the new book but also blogged about the Maple Cupcake recipe found in the book. Now that the cooler fall weather has finally arrived here in North Carolina it’s the perfect time to try the recipe, found below! Read the rest of this entry »
Montrose Cakes by Grace are known to come up with some pretty fantastic cupcake design ideas, and when I saw their Halloween collection I was delighted! These cupcakes all work so well individually or together. Death looks stunning as always! By clicking on either image you can see all the cupcakes close up on Flickr.
I am sooooo looking forward to Halloween this year, so many cool ideas and cupcakes to experiment with!
Sasha from The Gilded Bee was recently a guest blogger on Oh, Hello Friend while Danni is away on her honeymoon. Sasha’s post was a tutorial on how to make paper carnations out of cupcake wrappers.
I have included the instructions but for the step-by-step pictures that go along with the written directions or variations on the project you will have to check out the original blog post.
