Do you pinterest? I am obsessed with it! I love seeing what everyone else is pinning and coming across great finds like this Paris vs New York print titled L’Obsession. It’s so true that in Paris macarons are available everywhere while New York is filled with cupcake shops! The print is available on society6 starting at $35.00.
Do you remember when caboodles were popular? I had a bunch growing up, I think I even had one for my Polly Pockets. I saw this cupcake caboodle at my local TJMaxx/Homegoods. Even though it was only $12.99 I resisted the urge to buy it!
Cupcakes Gourmet in Pennsylvania is offering you all a fabulously delicious way to propose to that one very special person in your life this Valentine’s Day.
Picture a delicious red velvet cupcake, topped with cream cheese frosting – but look again – is that a eight-carat diamond engagement ring perched in the frosting? Why, yes it is!
Cupcakes Gourmet is offering this perfect diamond encrusted cupcake for Valentine’s for $55,000!
Any girl who gets this cupcake this Valentine’s Day is one lucky gal!
(read more here)
These simple (and gluten-free) cupcakes from the Betty Crocker website would be perfect to make with your kids for an after-school treat this Valentine’s Day (as if they didn’t already get enough sweets at school, right?).
You will need a few special materials in addition to the cake mix and frosting: a pair or two of decorative scissors, a heart-shaped paper punch, and a box of ‘Fruit by the Foot’ strawberry fruit snacks. Let your kids use the scissors and the paper punch to make fun shapes out of the fruit snack to decorate their cupcakes.
Happy Saturday everyone! I found this fabulous cupcake item today during one of my internet cupcake searches!
Have you ever wanted to go straight from the oven with your cupcakes to storing said cupcakes? If you said yes, then you have to see this.
Bake & Store Silicone Cupcake Holder from The Kitchen Outlet
$24.50 from Tiedwitharibbon
Happy Saturday cupcake fans! If you are anything like me, organizing your little ones hair clips can be a daunting process. But why not have cupcakes lend a hand? Take a look at this sweet and useful hair clip hanger I found on Etsy this morning. And how cute would this cupcake hairbow look on your new hanger?
$6 from Rainbowbow
This zig zag bowl from Lekker Home is so fun! I love the fact that it looks like a cupcake base! Since it costs $18.00 I think it would make a great gift for a friend or for myself!
I know over the past few years we have posted links to these type of color gradient cupcakes but I just can’t get enough of them. I am sure your honey would adore some of these Sweetheart Cupcakes from All Recipes for Valentine’s Day. So pretty & very easy to create!
All Recipes is my favorite place to find new recipes. The best part are the reviews left for each recipe from other cooks & bakers who have tested them out. You can find great tips to make each recipe a perfect one!
I know that Easter is a few months away but, I can’t help but share this great cupcake tutorial/recipe with you.
Crazy, creative bakers our there are always coming up with new amazing techniques for baking cupcakes and this one takes the (cup)cake!
Simply, Amazing!
Easter Cupcakes Baked in Real Egg Shells from Cupcake Project
I just paid my first (apparently overdue) visit to the Sugar Shack of Lansing, Michigan. Think cupcakes are a fad? This bakery has been a family business for forty years!
Sugar Shack offers a wide and impressive variety of creative cupcakes with a rotating menu. And should someone grow tired of the menu, which would be completely impossible, the menu is completely wiped out and recreated every June 1st. So, though I’ve only paid one visit to the Sugar Shack (so far), I’m confident that no two visits could be the same.
Offerings included the “White Trash Cupcake,” a cupcake packed full of pecans, pretzels, and marshmallows, and iced with fudge frosting, then topped with more pecans, pretzels, and marshmallows, then topped with chocolate and caramel sauce. The cupcake of the day was the Menage a Trois, a cupcake with layers of strawberry and chocolate cake, topped with vanilla frosting and fresh coconut. My co-cupcaker enjoyed the Confetti Cupcake–a bubblegum flavored confetti cake. I was sorry to miss the Root Beer Float Cupcake and the Chocolate Turtle, but am grateful for a reason to go back to Lansing.
Of course, the traditional flavors were there, and I enjoyed a Mint Cookies and Cream cupcake straight from heaven: rich dark chocolate cake topped with perfect mint frosting.
While I was there, I heard another customer ask the baker what his favorite cupcake was, to which he responded, “That’s like me asking you which of your kids is your favorite.”
Seriously, I usually leave a new cupcakery happy and ready to discover the next one. But leaving this cupcakery, I just couldn’t wait until my next visit! These are cupcakes at their best!
Still looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift? Check out this ceramic cupcake night light from Angel Heart Designs. This night light measures a little larger than an actual cupcake at 3″ by 2 1/4″ by 4 1/4″. These ceramic cupcakes are handmade and show a soft yellow light. It could be yours for $19!
One of our readers recently spotted this gigantic cupcake in Honolulu. If you live in Hawaii or are planning to visit anytime soon, go take a look at this deceptively real-looking cupcake at Ala Moana, a large shopping complex on the island of Oahu. It is part of a Louis Vitton display. I have to say that the frosting really makes me hungry for a cupcake!
I remember the Legos I grew up with were the basic primary colors and we mostly built towers and cars. The Legos I had definitely were not as exciting as this creative cakes set that is available for $24.99. I love that this set gets girls more involved in playing with Legos, allowing them to make cakes or cupcakes and the lid doubles as a serving tray!
One of our loyal readers has come up with a variety of creative cupcake art recently. Maybe these will give you ideas as you decide how to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year. I am especially impressed by the flower made from gumpaste–what an intricate design!
Strawberry Cupcake
Pink Flower Cupcake Topper Made from Gumpaste
3D Valentine's Cupcake Greeting on Etsy
Here on the east coast of the US we have yet to have a large snowfall this year. Most people seem pretty happy about this but I have to admit, I would love a good snowday. And forget the snowman, igloo and snowball fight- I want snow cupcakes! Check out this wonderful submission from All Things Cupcake fan, Barb. We are guessing that she used water and food coloring to make the colors. Very impressive!
So have you had much of the white stuff yet this winter? Make sure to post your snowy dessert creations on Facebook or email them to us here.
Will you vote for the PC3 from Serendipities Cupcakes? Dark chocolate, caramel soaked cupcake topped with crushed potato chips, a layer of chocolate ganache, and deep dark chocolate frosting?
Or the Peanut Butter Cup Oreo Cupcake from the home kitchen of a teacher from Boston?
And it’s not this simple. There are dozens of other tantalizing choices! The winning baker and decorator will win the 2012 Cupcake Crown and a $2,500 travel voucher! The Creative Cupcake Contest is hosted by Celebrations.com. Let us know whom you vote for!
Looking for a Superbowl cupcake idea? Look no further! Check out these ingenious cupcakes from Miss Make! It doesn’t get much better than candy goal posts! Visit Miss Make’s blog for complete instructions!
I just made my first visit to Northern Michigan’s first and only cupcakery: Simply Cupcakes of Traverse City. What a lovely little spot in downtown Traverse!
An impressively wide selection of offerings included Banana Cream, Peanut Butter Cup, Hint of Mint, and Lemon Love, and while we sampled many, the winner was clearly the (pictured) Bumpy Cupcake: A rich dark chocolate cake stuffed with buttercream (which tasted more like mousse), and topped with homemade chocolate ganache and more buttercream, then dipped in chocolate ganache and finished with a few sprinkles. Holy wow! That cupcake was a meal.
I was impressed with how substantial the cupcakes were. They weren’t dense, but there was certainly something to them! And the frostings were non-traditional and left me wondering about their secret recipe.
The cupcakery itself is also a tantalizing hangout, with a “cupcake room” one can book for special events. Cupcake art hung on the wall, including the beauty below, which could be yours for $3000!
If you’re in the area, Simply Cupcakes is a must-stop for the cupcake-lover!
