Located in the Burlington Mall Food Court in Burlington Massachusetts, Shot Cakes are ice cream for cupcakes!  The idea behind Shot Cakes is simple, you combine ice cream and cupcakes for one delicious treat.  At Shot Cakes you choose the cupcake flavor for a selection of over 30 cupcakes and the decide the soft serve ice cream flavor you would like to fill your cupcake with.  Visit the Shot Cakes website to view the unique cupcake technology used to fill the cupcakes with ice cream.  All pictures are courtesy of my sister who was lucky enough to try these cupcakes and said that they were awesome!  For more traditional dessert fans, shot cakes also offers frosted cupcakes, as shown below.  Additional menu items include ice cream cones and mini shot cakes.

Wow…it’s a mouthful trying to say that!  Good Morning America has suggested several chocolate cupcake recipes to try in your own kitchen, and I thought I’d pass this one along to all of you.  These are Guinness and Bailey Irish Cupcakes.

Also in honor of the day, they have given us some ideas for making our cupcakes taste and look more like what you find at the bakery.  They suggest not over-mixing your batter, which will result in a lighter and fluffier cupcake, using exact measurements instead of just eye-balling it, and choosing high-quality ingredients (high-quality baking chocolate or real vanilla beans, for instance, create a much more flavorful product than imitations).

Hol-Berry Cupcakes from Hatfield, PA offers this simply elegant combination of cupcakes around the classic circus theme. Each creation hearkens back to simpler times of a child when colors were bright and shapes were straightforward. Even the background to the cupcake images were chosen to accent the circus feeling with retro party patterns.

Fantastic set of circus cupcakes for any lucky young birthday boy or girl!

These cupcakes are cute and very easy to make.  Bake your favorite cupcakes, ice them, unwrap some Hershey’s Kisses and attach mini Nilla wafers to them with a dab of icing, and then use a tube of icing to add a chocolate stem to the wafer.

As soon as I saw this purse I said “Oh, Oh, Me Likey!”, I also thought that all of you would like it too!

LeSportsac Color Blocked Ziptop Shopper from Zappos.com

Today we feature an international cupcakery from Argentina.  Pin-Up Pasteleria initially opened in 2009 and has quickly gathered a following with their pin-up quality baked goods. Their offering spans cupcakes, cookies, galletas, and lollycakes. Their coloring and design are refreshingly international!  Click through to see more of their delicious creations.

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 Cupcakes in the bathroom? Why not! 

This week’s giveaway sponsor is I’m With Cupcake and I am in love with their shop.  It is devoted to party items and all things cupcake.   They describe their shop as, “A place where the word cupcake is redefined to mean more than a small cake.  Here, cupcake means anything cute, fun, kitsch, and clever.”   I am really trying hard not to be jealous about this week’s prize!  How adorable is this cupcake soap dispenser?

 I’m With Cupcake is filled with sweet items that make great gifts for a loved one, or yourself.  Here are a few of my favs:

To enter this week’s giveaway, click on the comment area below and tell us what you think a cupcake is.  You can give us a literal meaning or just what it means in your life.  One winner will be chosen on Monday, October 24.  Make sure to sign up for I’m With Cupcake emails on their homepage to receive coupon codes and sale notices.

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Thank you I’m With Cupcake!

Lisa Pongrace and her friends from Acme Muffineering brought the Cupcake and Muffin Cars to arts and crafts events such as Burning Man as well as Maker Faire. We covered some of her previous exploits in a previous cupcake car post.

We found this video entertaining as it offers a glimpse inside the inner workings of a muffin car! All electric motor. Top speed of 15 mph. Acme Muffineering promises to release more details on how to make your own with $500 to $1,500 in materials.

That’s right–for those of you who are running low on mascara, you might consider eyelash jewelry, and if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it with cupcakes!

These reusuable custom-made cupcake eyelashes are available via Etsy for only $15!

There are tons of things you can do with piped icing, and you can especially let your creativity run wild around Halloween!  Here are some ideas I found today while browsing Halloween cupcakes.  These would be super simple to make, and I think they would be especially appropriate for a boys’ Halloween party or sleepover.

A big thanks to Zombie Wagon for letting us share these eerily awesome cupcake photos with our ATC readers! Yummy and deadly!

Do you make the greatest cupcakes?  Show off your award winning cupcakes in these Greatest Cupcake silicone molds by Kikkerland Design.  The set of two costs $8.00 and would be a fun way to display cupcakes after a science fair, spelling bee, or awards banquet.

What’s not to love about these cupcakes in a jar?  Here’s what I love about them:

1. Easy to transport to a Halloween party, whether it’s at school, work or someone’s home.

2.  Much less mess, not only during transport, but also when eating (I don’t know about you, but I really don’t like it when I get icing all over my face after taking a bite of cupcake).

3.  It’s unique.  We’re all accustomed to seeing cupcakes in cupcake liners, but not everyone has seen them in glass jars.

4.  These would be fun party favors.  See cute idea with ribbon below.

George Bernard Shaw wrote, “If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, then you’d best teach it to dance.”

These beauties are from Love From the Oven. BONE Appétit!

Over the past few years we here at ATC have shared several candy corn cupcake ideas.  We started with the idea of dying the cupcake batter yellow and orange and layering them to look like a candy corn.  The next year we showed you that you could take any cupcake and frost it to look like a candy corn by piping white, yellow, and orange frosting on top. This year we take it one step further, dark chocolate cupcakes with a candy corn inside!  The Sugar Turntable came up with the fun and festive idea, as she says in her description, the dark chocolate cupcake combined with the candy corn colors just screams fall and Halloween!

The directions for how to make these awesome cupcakes are included in her original post but while at the website check out her other Halloween tutorials.  The tutorials include  instructions for the fun boneyard cupcakes shown to the right, would you believe marshmallows and pretzels are used to make them?

Are cupcakes a fad? Duncan Bloor recently posted some illuminating visuals on his Search Insights blog that show the cupcake trend sweeping the globe.  The deep blue represents strong cupcake interest, see how the deep blue is spreading across nations.

As Mark Twain has declared when confronted with news of his own death in newspapers, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”   By the looks of it, the cupcake trend continues to strengthen.

More visuals and data on the cupcake trend at the David’s Search Insights blog.

Check out these skull and crossbones cupcake wrappers from My Little Love, Sweet Party Supplies.  I like the skulls inside the paisley’s which makes for a pretty yet spooky wrapper that will look great on any Halloween dessert table.  Twelve wrappers come in a package for $10.00.  My Little Love has lots of other wrappers and fun Halloween party supplies like the 36” jack-o-lantern balloon!

I just couldn’t resist posting these cute cupcakes.  They look so fun to make–they’d be great for a Halloween party or some other type of fall-themed gathering.  Ingredients include pretzels, graham cracker sticks, chow mein noodles, and your favorite candies.

I have been meaning to blog about this exciting adventure for a little over a month now.  Fellow cupcake bloggers Cupcakes Take The Cake have announced that they are going on a cupcake lovers cruise!  The best part is you’re invited! The week long cruise is taking place August 19-26th 2012.  The cruise departs from New Jersey and docks in Bermuda for three days.  One of the best parts of the cruise, aside from that it is cupcake themed is the amazing guest speakers and workshop hosts.  The authors of Hello Cupcake, and What’s New Cupcake as well as the authors and owners of Baked will be on the cruise.  These are just the announce guests, there will also be some surprises!  If you would like to book a ticket or for more information you can email [email protected] or call 800-828-4813. This sounds like a fun vacation that I would love to go on, if only I had $999.00 which is the starting price!

Thank you to all who entered this great giveaway!  Here is our winner:
Whitney McMillin
I will decorate my cupcakes with fat strips of white frosting, cris crossing over the cake with eyes peeking out from under! Mummy cupcakes are the best!

Hopefully you will send us a photo of your completed mummy-cakes! Please email your mailing address to [email protected]. Thanks also to Peter Pauper Press for sponsoring this giveaway!

Three weeks until Halloween! Are you ready? If you haven’t started making your child’s costume I would say it is time to start!  Wonder Time offers instructions on how to make the cute children’s cupcake costume, shown above.  While the list of necessary products seems lengthy and the instructions are a bit involved, the end result will make it worth it if you little one is dying to be a cupcake!

Are you throwing a Halloween party this year?  If you are, I think now’s the time to hurry and get your inviations out.  I really like these Halloween cupcakes and cocktails invites from Etsy seller Flair Designery.  I like that the invitations incorporate cupcakes but still have a grown up feel to them and they are affordable; the set of 24 invitations costs $24.00.

These creepy cupcake delights are from Ninas Kleiner Food Blog. The blog is in German, but the pictures tell the story!

Make a batch of cupcakes and icing, round up some pretzel sticks, POLO sweets, mini M&Ms, and some orange jellies, and make yourself a jack-o-lantern cupcake.  I have to say that this looks much easier (not to mention way more yummy) than carving a pumpkin.