I admit, I started laughing when I saw these. Actually, I’m still laughing. This might be cupcake-love gone too far. Effervescent Cupcake Drink Tablets. Just drop one of these babies into your glass of water and voila, you have bubbly cupcake-flavored water. I just don’t know why anyone would want his or her water to taste like a cupcake. Wouldn’t it be easier to just eat a cupcake? The manufacturers urge us not to limit ourselves to water though, claiming that the tablets also work well in milk, juice, and soda. Gross! Although, I can remember a few times in college when these little buggers would have come in handy, but we won’t go there. The manufacturers also recommend slipping them into your friend’s beverage when he or she isn’t looking. All Things Cupcake does NOT recommend nor endorse this! You can buy a tin of these at Amazon for only $6.99. Good luck! (Oh, and if you are not grossed out yet, they also come in bacon flavor!)

There are many ways to create a cupcake christmas tree, including using cupcakes on a christmas tree cupcake stand, or what I am talking about today, and that is decorating your regular every Christmas fake or real Christmas tree with cupcake decorations!

Start with heaps of tinsel, and then put up your cupcake Christmas lights if you can get them, if not go with candy cane lights, or failing that normal lights.  Then decorate all the rest of your tree with cupcake based ornaments!  Here are some cupcake decoration ideas:

• Glass Cupcake Ornaments
• Faux Cupcakes (any design, just add a little ribbon)
• Cupcake pictures adhered to pegs
• Cupcake pictures hung by ribbons
• Felt Cupcake Pouches
• Cupcake wrapper streamers (and don’t limit yourself to the Christmas tree!!!)

Happy decorating!

Oh, and one word of caution, ensure your cupcake lights are safe to use with paper if you are making paper streamers as you don’t want a cupcake bonfire!

This AUD$8.95 notebook has so many elements that I love.  It is pink with a bunting banner across the top, and a cupcake that’s almost as big as the bird that’s looking at it on a pocket on the front cover.

Additionally, I like that there are other items that match this notebook. I personally like the pencil case that costs AUD$16.95 and is in the same color pink.  There are additional items on the Kikki.K website that correlate with these two items.

There are so many amazingly creative people out there who have grabbed hold of the cupcake craze, but instead of whipping up a tornado of flour and sugar in their kitchens have taken their ideas to the craft room.

One such person is Vanda, who is author of the blog Thingies.  Here she experiments with many things crafty including these fantastic FabriCupcakes.  My immediate thought is to stick pins in their plush tops, as they would make an awesome pin cushion, but as Vanda explained to me, lots of kids love these because they can decorate them with eyes and smiles and you can even hang them as the perfect soft mobile for babies!

For me, I think they are super cute!

Bird Craft: Party Supplies and Printable Fun! offers a tutorial on how to make these easy paper cupcake stands. All you need to do is download the template from her website and follow these three easy steps:

1. Print your template onto patterned cardstock or print onto standard A4 paper and transfer it to a material of your choice later – You can use MDF, cardboard, polystyrene sheets, coloured cardstock etc…

2. Then cut the parts and slot the feet together, fixing with a dot of hot glue if necessary. Its quite self-explanatory when you look at the pictures…

3. Add some more hot glue onto the feet and place the stand top on, pressing firmly.

Not only do I love how easy these are to make but I like that you can customize them to suite your needs.  If you have a simple stand you can make your cupcake decorations more involved.  If your stand has a busy pattern then you can add a cupcake with minimal decorations.  Since the holiday party season has begun you could easily make the stands to match the holiday you are celebrating!