What do we all toast with at Midnight on New Years eve? CHAMPAGNE! Well this year we should all toast with Champagne in cupcake form instead in liquid form. Maybe we could start a new trend.
Here is a great recipe for Champagne Cupcakes with Sweet Champagne Butter-cream Frosting from Gimme Some Oven!
Happy New Year everyone!
I’m not really sure I want my car to smell like cupcakes. I think I have enough problems. But to each his or her own, I guess. There are probably worse things for a car to smell like — soccer cleats comes to mind.
I found this cute rearview mirror jewelry at Accoutrements.
A massive happy new year to you all! Have a fantastic time, and catch you in 2011 for more cupcakes!
These wonderful new years cupcakes are some of the best that I have seen, I love all the bright colors that Anita Jamal has used!
After all my Christmas baking I’m giving cupcakes a miss over New Years, instead I am happy to let someone else do the cooking and just kick my heels up!
If you have an old laptop, you can probably really appreciate this laptop cushion created by Rosangela Ferreira. On many occasion I had to grab a pillow or towel to stick between my knees and the laptop so I wasn’t scolded. Now I have a new computer which doesn’t heat up, it poses a different problem. It is so small and dainty that when sitting on my knees it is just too far away. This cushion would be perfect!
Unfortunately for us, Rosangela is located in Brazil, where she sells her wares online. You can check them out here.
For Christmas I received Bath and Body Work’s Cupcake Pocketbac in two different scents. The antibacterial hand sanitizer comes in five cupcake related flavors including red velvet, coconut, lemon glaze, blue chiffon, and strawberry. While these are not available on the Bath and Body Work’s website, they can be purchased from amazon for as little as $0.55.
According to the Lush website, Chocolate can be good for your skin… here’s what they say!
When is chocolate good for your skin? When it’s in a cleansing Cupcake! Our chocolate-scented, chocolate-coloured cocoa powder and cocoa butter mask is ever so good for preventing (and soothing) breakouts and removing excess oils. With anti-microbial, deep cleansing Rhassoul mud and stimulating peppermint and spearmint oils, Cupcake works even better than it smells. You may be tempted to taste it, but that would be a waste of a superb, fresh face treatment. Instead, focus on its ability to transform sluggish, oily skin into a clean, bright new face. Sandalwood oil and linseed infusion are also beautifully softening so men can use this to soften their stubble before shaving too. We all agree that Mr Lush does make exceedingly good masks.
I wish I knew about this before Christmas!!
My New Years Resolution is to start being on time for things. The first step might be having at least one clock in my house that works. So, I began the search for a cupcake clock and I cannot believe how many choices there are out there! Here are some of my favorites.
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Is there something wrong with me that I really want this shirt? And is the unicorn supposed to be, ahem, “expelling” the cupcakes, or is that just one unfortunate interpretation? Either way, I think it is hilarious. If you have the same (possibly weird) sense of humor, you too can find one of these t-shirts at Cafe Press for $12.
Even though I never wear an apron, I’m still in love with this one from Flirty Aprons. Maybe it’s time I got a little bit more domestic. This Frosted Cupcake Apron costs $34.95 and appears to be worth every penny.
So you dazzled them with your cupcakes on Christmas day and now you need to come up with something new, something not so cupcakey, so how about a mini cupcake triffle?
These cupcake triffles are from Courtney’s Sweets blog and I found them when surfing the web to find a way to turn my unfrosted excess cupcakes into something ‘unique’ for a dinner party we are having tonight. So this is the perfect recipe, but I have one recipe addition, alcohol (for the adults), it is a dinner party after all and the kiddies want more cupcakes! So I will add Baileys to some, Kahlua to some and this orange liquor we have to some others. To identify each, I’ll add a chocolate chip, a coffee bean or a Jaffa! Totally sorted!
Happy Boxing Day!
How would you like to sink your fork into potato focaccia cupcakes with cream cheese and goat cheese icing? That’s what was served at Little Cupcake Bakeshop recently in an effort to raise funds and awarness for the Endangered Species Coalition. Eat a cupcake — save a polar bear? What can beat that?
Already feeling like you need to hit the gym to work off some of that holiday food? When you go why not take this little towel along with you. It’s perfect to wipe off sweat and to remind you that you’re burning off those cupcake calories! From Words to Sweat By, this 16X24 towel is $9.95
Disney’s lastest animated children’s film, Tangled is a twist on the classic story, Rapunzel. I noticed that in one of the previews for the film a “pub thug” offers Rapunzel a tray of cupcakes.
According to Disney’s character description, ATTILA CUPCAKE is the most intimidating of all the thugs; but once you get to know him you realize that he’s actually a quiet softy who is more comfortable in an apron than body armor. Attila is most at home in front of his oven, cooking and baking away. His specialty? Cupcakes. He dreams of the day that he can put down his sword and pick up his spatula… and maybe, just maybe open his own bakery.
The video clip titled Wanted: Pub Thug, can be watched on youtube, or you could always go see the movie!
Move over cakepops, mince pies want a piece of the stick!
Ha! I love these, actually when trying to come up with a heading for the post I originally typed Mince Poppies, but thought it gave the wrong message and transposed it!
I have excellent news, one of my fave bloggers is back doing that which she does best, baking and blogging! The Lone Baker is back and whipping up a Christmas flurry of flour and fruit! There is so many good things on her website and interesting techniques, that it is often hard to choose what to feature, but today I had no doubt, it had to be these!
So not really a cake, but who doesn’t love a mini mince pie at Christmas? And when cooked on a stick in the shape of a star?
Want to find out how to make them? Full recipe and photo instructions are available on her website!
Now it is no secret that your ATC contributors are totally and completely obsessed with cupcakes but I have to admit another obsession in my life: crafts. And cupcake crafts? Well, they are what I dream about at night! I love making polymer clay cupcakes, crocheted cupcakes, soap cupcakes, fabric cupcakes, felt cupcakes and so many more than I need not admit too. So this week I thought I might share what some of my next cupcake craft projects might be. Click on the links to find the tutorial for each craft.
How adorable would these be for a baby shower? And if you haven’t seen the diaper cupcakes yet, you must click here! So stinkin’ cute!
Perfect week to craft these cuppies. I can picture my whole Christmas tree decorated with them! What a sight that would be…
Pin the Candle on the Cupcake Game
Why didn’t I see this before I had my daughter’s cupcake birthday party? Argh! You could also make a pink or blue one and it would be a perfect baby shower game too. Or maybe make a red and green one for a holiday party? The possibilities are endless!
How adorable is this funky Merry Christmas cupcake from Bake Happy? I love it! You have to read her post to find out why there is a little elf stuck in a Santa sack full of presents, but when she explains it, ya kinda do find yourself nodding along!
On this chilly December night these hot chocolate cupcakes sound perfect! This cupcake recipe is courtesy of Babble, a website for parents. Naturally I love that the cupcakes are baked in mugs and actually look like a cup of hot chocolate!
If you ever have thought of making a cupcake mural then visiting Project Core Connect could be a valuable experience! Although Cake Crumbs (the bakery involved) had never done such a mural before they relished the opportunity to be involved with creating a distracting large mural of Megamind for Denver’s Rock N Roll Marathon.
Now this mural isn’t your ordinary 50 – 100 cupcake picture, no, it required a WHOPPING 1000 cupcakes to create, had to be done on an angle and constructed through the night outside in the cold! It is certainly a test of endurance.
From the images you get an idea of the scale of this amazing cupcake creation!
Sometimes it is just down right unfair that I live in Australia and most of you live in America! Otherwise I would have this little baby hanging on my Christmas tree for sure!
Apparently Hallmark started off creating miniatures in 1974 and many of those are now highly sort after collectors items.
This mixing bowl is the latest release for 2010 and will no doubt also become a collectors item some day. You can pick these up from many stores (in America) and online by doing a search for Hallmark Merry Miniatures Mixer.
The bowl moves and says “Mixing up some holiday fun”.
So by now we should have all handed in our Christmas list to the ‘Santa’ in our life, but as I was parousing Etsy the other day for cupcake items I saw so many more things I wanted to add to my list. So here it is, My Esty Cupcake Christmas List — (CLICK ON PICTURE TO SEE ITEM)
Cupcakes Print (give cupcakes or I eat your face)
Baking Is Sexy Necklace
Coffee Cup Sleeve for Cupcake Lovers
Sweet Cupcake Necklace
pink cupcake tea towel hand printed
Pink Frosting Perfume
Have you always wanted to make ‘WOW’ cupcakes but are not sure where to start? Well Cupcake Envy now have the answer in their latest DVD which takes you through the entire process on how to make your own bauble cupcakes. Actually it teaches you how to make sphere shaped cakelet designs, which really means you will be able to make baubles, hand grenades, tennis balls, basket balls, planets and anything else that is round!
I just love these, though they are so good I would love to hang them on my Christmas tree… it seems a bit wrong to just, well… eat them!
I just found the coolest blog! The blog ingeniously brings together two of my favorite things: books and cupcakes! Now, why didn’t I think of that! Blogger Becky rates books, giving them 1-5 cupcakes. How cute is that? Now, why didn’t I think of that? Happiness is a good book and a freshly frosted cupcake! Brilliant!
Since it has been freezing outside here in North Carolina and Christmas is right around the corner, it seems like the perfect time to bake Gingerbread Cupcakes! I came across this recipe which has been adapted from Land O Lakes by Baked By Rachel. My favorite part of these cupcakes might be that Rachel topped them with little gingerbread men cookies. Rachel kept her cupcakes simple by not decorating the gingerbread men but you could easily add some flare to your cupcake and decorate the cookies as well.
This clear graphic cupcake cuff bracelet costs only $25.00 from BuyMyCrap’s etsy page. The banner surrounding the cupcake reads “Sweet Stuff.” I feel like with the stars and skulls it looks kind of punk but is still girly and sweet at the same time!
If you are looking for the coolest winter cupcakes this year, look no further than Shereen’s Cakes and Bakes in the UK. As you can tell with my liberal gushing I am blown away by these. She has created cupcakes which are seriously ice cold ‘cool’ with snowboarders and skiers in this first set. These vanilla cupcakes are completely edible as are her funky fondant snow dudes!
And very cute fun loving penguins in this second set. These cupcakes incidentally won her the Tesco Cupcake Competition. Seriously if I saw these cupcakes up against mine, I would just slide them back into my bag and walk away. These penguins are amazing!
