It’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in NYC, and one of the hot hits is the cupcake dress by young designer Giovanna Randall, head designer and CEO of Honor. Here comes 2012!
Have an extra $20,000? This titillating piece will be part of the Made in Polaroid benefit auction tonight at Phillips de Pury and Company in NYC. The piece is done by Will Cotton, the artist who, famous for his candy-infused landscapes, created the art used on the cover of Katy Perry’s album Teenage Dream. This new piece is called Silver Cupcake Paper Dress.
You can also see his cupcake tiaras here.
My daughter has discovered, much to my dismay, a new interest in Spiderman. So, on a quest to make this as painless as possible for me, I decided to turn her new hobby into a cupcake. While trying to figure out how to do this, I found this uber-neat idea from Crave Bakery.
Love cats? Love cupcakes? Live in Denver? Boy, have I got an opportunity for you! Cupcakes for Cats!
On Friday, September 16th, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., there will be a cupcake sale in downtown Denver, at the 16th Street Mall, 16th and California. But this is no ordinary cupcake sale. Funds raised will go to the Cat Care Society in Lakewood.
Six bakeries are helping: Butterfly Confetti Cakes, Cake Crumbs, Daveeda’s Delights, Happy Cakes, Lovely Confections, and Maggie & Molly’s Bakery.
Cat Care Society is a nonprofit organization that operates a cage free shelter for homeless, injured, and abused cats in the Denver area.
You can also visit Cat Care Society on Facebook.
Here’s another clever Etsy goody for you cupcake obsessives out there!
The Arrested for Frostitution necklace for only $10.99. It’s hard to beat that!
The metal cupcake measures just under 1″ and hangs on a 27″ pink ballchain. The back has a smooth crome finish!
I’m blushing a little bit to bring you … the Cupcake Whore Tote.
It could be yours for only $49.
Gotta love Etsy.
I am so excited to introduce you to Sara Varon, the immensely creative, cupcake lovin’ author and illustrator of this new graphic novel, Bake Sale. Its intended audience is ages 8 and up, but Sara was sure to include some cupcake recipes for mom and dad.
The book was released on August 30th and is already making its mark with an evocative story about a cupcake who works in a bakery, while dreaming about traveling abroad to meet the pastry of his dreams, whom he saw in a cookbook, of course!
This is the perfect gift for the cupcake lover in your life! (And if you are shopping for a child, you might like to know that educators find graphic novels to be incredibly helpful to reluctant readers!)
If it weren’t for Betty Crocker, my family would starve, so I was pretty excited to discover The Big Book of Cupcakes! This soon-to-be-classic cookbook offers 175 cupcakes, most of which are simple reciples using common ingredients. Many of the recipes can be done using cake mixes and store-bought frosting, and of course, they can all be made from scratch for all you ambitious bakers out there! There’s also a chapter dedicated to kids’ parties. Here’s a sample tease for you, the Chocolate Moose Cupcake:
I just spotted these adorable cupcake pj’s in the little girl’s section of our local Walmart!
I went to a gorgeous wedding the other day and was treated to gorgeous homemade cupcakes. Check them out!
Just in case any of you awesome teachers (thank you) out there are looking for a few cupcakes to relieve some of that classroom stress, here are some cupcake bulletin board borders for you! I found them at Dollar Tree!
If you’re planning a party anytime soon, be sure to swing by Dollar Tree for some inexpensive cupcake party possibilities! Everything’s a dollar!
This is such a cute idea, and Wilton.com gives you the instructions you need to make it doable. So gear up for one more round of summertime cupcakes!
It’s hard to believe that fall, and Labor Day, are almost here again, but you can soften the blow with a cupcake. Georgetown Cupcake will be offering the Labor Day cupcake in several flavors, including red velvet. (Need I say more?) It might be the best investment you’ll make this year!
Gigi’s Cupcakes of Savannah Georgia is using cupcake power to help a local foodbank, America’s Second Harvest. Customers who bring in food to donate are treated to a discount on in-store orders. Gigi’s has already filled a barrel of food in just three days and they hope to do even better this weekend. In fact, on Saturday, if you bring in five or more canned goods between 1 and 6, you get a free cupcake!
I don’t think my giant, slobbering bloodhound would appreciate this adornment, but if you’ve got one of those clean, cute, little, foo foo pups, you might want to check it out. What discerning foo foo creature wouldn’t want a rhinestone around her neck? And at Swing Design, a cupcake pup charm is only $5.25!
A little something for the Pulp Fiction fans out there …
I just found this lovely cupcake tattoo on Flickr. Mez Love is a tattoo artist from Tattoo Boogaloo in San Francisco! Check out her portfolio for more amazing designs (including more cupcakes)!
Registration for Canada’s first Iron Cupcake competition, Iron Cupcake of Toronto, is now open. The competition will take place on Sunday, September 18th from 1-3 in the 2nd floor lounge of the For the Love of Cake Bakery at 171 East Liberty Street, unit 117, in Toronto. Visitors get to sample and judge the cupcakes!
Iron Cupcake is open to everyone. The “secret ingredient” has been announced and this ingredient is … Apples! Competitors must somehow incorporate apples into their cupcakes. Points will be awarded for presentation, taste, and creativity. There is an entry fee of $15. Hurry, registration is limited!
Sorry, this might be inappropriate, but somehow I just had to share it with ATC readers. Don’t blame me — blame For the Love of Cake of Toronto for this clever and hilarious decorating idea.
My daughter just spotted this little girl’s tee at our local WalMart!
Okay, I know that technically, this is supposed to be a muffin, but it was just too cute not to share with you. Besides, the muffin is the cupcake’s cousin, right? I found this in WalMart’s school supply section, and it made me wish I had a 14-year-old boy to shop for. Then my husband said he wanted it, and I had move on to the next aisle.
I just saw these cute little cupcake pajamas at WalMart.com! Only $12 for the little cupcake princess in your life!
We just found an interesting interview with Mia Bauer, the cofounder of Crumbs Bake Shop at a cool new blog called No Joe Schmo. Crumbs Bake Shop churns out 1 million cupcakes per month at 36 different locations across the country! That’s a whole lotta cupcakes! They always roll out a new “Cupcake of the Week” and always feature a “Cupcake of the Month.” Our photo is of July’s S’mores Cupcake: chocolate cake filled with vanilla cream cheese frosting, topped with chocolate cream cheese frosting and covered with chocolate chips, marshmallows, and graham cracker pieces. Yum! Who needs a campfire?
And, Crumbs is the only publicly traded stock for a cupcake company, so if you’re looking to invest…
What a great idea! Gender revealing cupcake filling! And what pregnant woman isn’t in the mood for a cupcake? Amanda Johnson of Fargo went to her ultrasound like any other expecting woman, but instead of listening to the news directly, she asked the technician to write the baby’s sex on a piece of paper, which she then delivered to her … baker! Amanda then invited her friends and family over for a cupcake party. Everyone simultaneously took bites of their cupcakes, not knowing what color the filling would be, and then people started squealing, mouths full of pink frosting. It’s a girl!
