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.
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!!
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!
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!
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!
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”.
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!
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!
You may recall earlier in the week we showed you examples of a fantastic set up for a Cupcake Birthday Party, but since then we have received a number of requests asking how that adorable little cupcake beanie was made!
Well now we can share the answer, which is Teresa’s ‘The Art of Crochet‘ website.
There is a load of information on this site about all things crochet, but the instructions for this beanie (in adult size) are all available on one page along with video instructions teaching you how to make each and every crochet stitch!
Unfortunately there is no pattern for a child, but you can just make the cupcake wrapper smaller to fit a smaller head and not put as many rounds on your cupcake topping!
All the instructions and video can be found here ‘How to crochet a Cupcake Hat’. Also they would make a great cupcake gift for Xmas!
How on earth would you celebrate an Art Gala at a Comic Book Store?
Jenny from Geek Sweets has the answer… with comic book cupcakes of course and these are fantastic.
Jenny has created so many different types of cupcake decorations from Flash lightning bolts to Spidermen, to Batman, to the Joker, to the characters from Watchmen! Everything is here, including Superman in many different colors!
To check out all the individual cupcakes and get the inspiration you need for your next superhero cupcake party, check out her blog here.
They are pretty hard to miss! Maybe it is the lovely smell that wafts from their open windows, or the people who have formed a queue at some random corner of town, or maybe it is their bright bubblegum pink color? Whatever the case, the cupcake truck has become a part of our day to day lives and you may even find yourself wondering how you managed without them!
One such company is Simply Cupcakes of Naples, bringing New York style cupcakes to the streets of Florida. And why not? There is such a large market in people who just don’t have the time to get to their local cupcake store! Having had a foot inside the cupcake kitchen since 2006, it is no wonder Simply Cupcakes of Naples are proving successful with everything they touch, including delivered cupcakes!
Have you tried a Simply Cupcakes cupcake? If not, simply keep an eye out for this snazzy cupcake van, their white and pink van or alternatively call them to book a delivery.
You can follow Simply Cupcakes of Naples on both Facebook and Twitter.
Are you tired of flicking through hundreds of different Christmas cupcakes after doing your Google Image search, finding images you love, but no instructions?
Well rest your weary mouse and check out this one site. It is of course the Wilton Cupcake site, and by clicking on this link here you will find loads of Christmas Cupcake ideas along with full instructions and lists of the equipment you need to make them.
As a baker I am constantly checking out this site as a way to learn new techniques and find new and interesting ideas. This year I am loving the angels! I have just got to buy myself that pan.. early christmas present perhaps?
Click on the images to go directly to the instructions for that cupcake.
One of readers Traci recently sent in photos of her daughter’s first birthday party and she took their chosen theme ‘cupcakes’ to the extreme! Traci indicated that All Things Cupcake provided much of her inspiration, but I have to say she has provided me with all the inspiration I need to organize my daughter’s 6th birthday party next year. Megan has been longing for a cupcake party, and there is no way you can get more cupcakey than this!
The first photo is of their create a cupcake stand! This would be great fun for all children allowing them to frost and then decorate their cupcakes. The awesome little cupcake containers were from the Posh Box on Etsy allowing the guests to take their creations home! And with a bit of ribbon and some buttons, Traci made them so much fun!
For more inspiring photos, click here to see more…
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:
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!
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!
Its that time of year again! Less than a month until Christmas day and you have to buy presents for all those people in your life and more often than not, you have no idea what to get!
Well here are a few cupcake ideas for a cupcake inspired Christmas!
First is a cupcake clutch, this one was spotted by Rebecca A. Cooper in Periwinkle boutique at Shirlington and is USD $52 plus tax. The patent bag is super cute with its embossed cupcake! See more here.
For kids, you cannot really go past this year’s best seller, the Squinkies and their Cupcake Surprise Bake Shop from Blip Toys! You can pick this one up for just USD $39.99 from Amazon and it is currently in stock (though only just).
Or how about something a little more strange? Like Angel Heart Design’s Cupcake Chandelier? This white iron chandelier comes with three cupcake lights and is USD $145.00. You can also have a say in the color of your cupcakes!
Or play it safe with body products like these adorable little cupcake soaps from Ditsy Daisies. They are just GBP 8.50 and come in three flavors, or should that be smells!?
Then don’t forget, if they bake there are heaps of ideas around, such as cupcake liners, wrappers and toppers, not to mention cupcake books and baking trays!
Or both?
Oh, Brother by Bob Weber Jr. and Jay Stephens explore the difficulty of life with cupcakes! You can see more of their delightful comics on their website!
Today I have two new cupcake tattoos to share with you and these are both fantastic!
The first one here is from Kiana. She had her cupcake tattoo with stars done by Rob at Electric Body Art in Marietta, GA.
It is a large tattoo on the right hand side of her tummy.
The next one is from Ida in Austria and it is also just above her hip.
The colors of this are fantastic, a thick swirl of strawberry frosting on a vanilla cupcake in a bright blue wrapper.
Thanks to both Kiana and Ida for sending in their cupcake tattoos.
It is so hard keeping up with which movie is being released where and when! In Australia last weekend marked the opening of the Harry Potter movie “The Deathly Harrows (Part 1)”. So in order to celebrate its release I went looking for some cool and funky Harry Potter cupcakes!
Not surprisingly I found some! I totally adore these cupcakes from Sara Schneider on Flickr! How cool and fun are they?
Given you now have only three full days left to prepare it is time to turn those ovens on! You know that you are going to be CRAZY on Thursday so in order to ease the pressure why not bake a range of fun cupcakes for dessert instead of stressing over the pumpkin pie on the day?
In addition given you can make your cupcakes out of all those traditional thanksgiving 
foods such as pumpkin, sweet potato and apple, there is no reason why you shouldn’t create a Thanksgiving Cupcake bar! Plus your kids will think it is fantastic and will probably even offer to help you with the decorating and the cleaning (well, at least the cleaning of the beaters and cleaning of the bowl parts!).
Therefore today I thought I would bring 
you a little Thanksgiving ‘Turkey’ inspiration! Here are some of my favorite recent Thanksgiving turkey cupcake ideas.
Firstly I have cupcake pops. Bakerella’s new book has put cupcake pops on top, and what child could refuse these frosting covered cute turkeys? They have been created by Sue and Darlene of the Cupcake Project.
Next is a fantastic cupcake turkey cake. I love this, how much fun would it be and this one from Cupcakes A Go Go is brilliant. I am guessing that there are about 22-24 large cupcakes included in this creation!
Finally I just adore this little guy, isn’t he cute?? Mary MacAskill made this turkey using a marshmallow for the head and shredded coconut as feathers. A beak and tail out of gummies and what could be more sweet!
Ahhhhhaarrggh mee hearties! Der’ is treasure to be found in Debbie Does Cakes Flickr photo stream, that is to be sure! She creates some of the most amazing cakes and cupcakes that I have ever seen and these gold laden pirate cupcakes are no different! I love the mix of skulls, flags, maps, rum and best of all the treasure chests!
Oh and I love her vomiting pumpkin cake! Tis sensational!
Do you ever wonder how people make those sensational fondant creations to sit on top of their cakes and cupcakes? Well wonder no longer you too can make a cheeky cute fondant monkey just like this one here! How? Well Cake Fixation last month posted a detailed step-by-step how to, with loads of photos to show you exactly how to make your own!
It looks so super easy thanks to Stephanie’s instructions! Let us know if you have a go at trying to make this little monkey girl!
Today we are featuring a stunning cupcake tattoo sent in to us from Sherri.
This cupcake tattoo is super bright and colorful. It features a vanilla cupcake in a pink wrapper and blue frosting. The dagger through the centre is candy cane with a green ring pop hilt. Laced with flowers, cherries, a lollypop and shoelace licorice ribbons this cupcake tattoo is exceptionally designed and takes up most of the inside of Sherri’s forearm.
Sherri’s tattoo was drawn and inked by Teresa Sharpe at Studio 13 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
