My daughter is three and a half, and has reached the stage where she “needs” a band-aid for everything. Stubs her toe, needs a band-aid. Bumps her head, demands a band-aid. So I am NOT buying her these clever bandages because the entire package wouldn’t last a day.
But maybe you’ll have better luck with your daughter. These cute first aid supplies can be found at Amazon for $3.33.
Does anyone on your list need a Cupcake Dispenser? Available from Amazon for $15.93, this cute contraption allows you to use three different colored sprinkles and comes with stencils to make cool designs!
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!)
Fondant snowflakes!
Now, why haven’t I thought of that?
I discovered these gorgeous photos at Maison Cupcake, a fun and fantastic blog about baking, desserts and party food!
Are you a cupcake genius who lives in the UK? Tesco Real Food is holding a contest, “The Great Christmas Cupcake Decorating Contest,” to be exact.
To enter, all you need to do is take a picture of your own Christmas cupcake creation, and then upload it to their site here. Two lucky winners will get to cook alongside a celebrity chef for an afternoon. Tesco will also honor ten runner-ups!
Entries will be accepted until November 29th.
Sorry kids, you have to be 18 years old to enter. (Get your mom or dad to help!)
Calling all moms! Who can resist a children’s boardbook that compares a baby’s sweetness to our other favorite sweetness?
I am excited to learn that Amy Sklansky has a new children’s book coming out! You Are My Little Cupcake is illustrated by Talitha Shipman and will be published by LB Kids. The planned release date is April 19, 2011, but you can preorder your copy now from Amazon for only $6.99. I’ve already ordered mine!
Amigurumi (編みぐるみ) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals. I see Amigurumi a lot at craft shows, but I have never seen examples as cute as these!
Visit PaisleyJade to see more photos and to read the details of how these little cuties came to be.
If you stick bacon into a cornbread muffin and then add honey buttercream frosting, does it become a cupcake? Yes. It does. This particular bacon cornbread cupcake is enjoying the title of flavor of the month at Frosted Cupcakery in Los Angeles. And while this has nothing to do with bacon, Frosted Cupcakery offers a special service to all you romantics out there. They will artistically place your diamond ring in a cupcake’s frosting, and then giftwrap it for you. I, for one, cannot think of a better way to be asked.
I haven’t tried these new products out yet, but I certainly love the name!
And who can resist this “cupcake-inspired” packaging?
Inside one will find luxurious skin creams made from all natural ingredients. These products are the first from this brand new company, started up by a trained natural food chef, April Westley, and her three children.
You can learn more about, and shop for, Cupcake Organic Divine Skincare here!
Sometimes, ideas are so perfect we wonder how no one has thought of them before. For example: Plastic cupcake vases that come in six delicious colors. Brilliant! They look like cupcakes, but they’re not. Instead, the top of the “cupcake” is full of little holes, perfectly stem-sized, so you can insert the flowers into the cupcake at just the right angles. And voilà! You have yourself a perfect bouquet. The vases are unbreakable, reusable, and only cost $10.95. Learn more about them, or start your collection by visiting Fleur Daily online.
Sugar Dolls bakery recently celebrated a Day of the Cupcake at Sacred Heart Tattoo of Atlanta, Georgia. Visitors ate cupcakes, played cupcake games, competed in a cupcake eating contest, and got cupcake tattoos. I believe the old adage is true, that pictures tell a thousand words, so I will leave them to it …
Is this for the kids or me?
This “too cute to be true” cupcake maker bakes 6 cupcakes in 10 minutes! This tiny oven is available in pastel pink or blue and can be found at Target for $49.99. Is this the perfect gift for that cupcake lover who has everything?
Brought to you by jewelry artist, Kristin Hipple, these adorable pink cupcake earrings are available from Virtuous Adornment through Handmade Selling for only $10. And this charm bracelet is only $15! Kristin also does custom orders, so let your imagination run wild!
Cupcakes go with everything, including the theatre. Sylvia is a comedic play about a dog and the quarrelsome couple who adopts her. It is written by A.R. Gurney and was first performed in 1995 at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Sarah Jessica Parker played the part of Sylvia. That’s right — the dog.
The play is still popular in theatres all over the country, and Mariel, an ATC reader, just submitted this fabulous photo of her Sylvia cupcakes, which she made to celebrate a production near her!
She cut the pawprints out of colored gumpaste, then rolled white gumpaste into little balls, which she flattened and attached with royal icing. To make the “dogtags,” she tied scrapbook adornments into a bow, and then cut one side of the bow! Isn’t she clever? Thanks for sharing, Mariel!
Today is a good day to be a Texan! Starting today through October 29th, Luby’s gourmet Halloween cupcakes will be available for preorder at Luby’s locations throughout Texas and at Luby’s website. (Sorry, cupcakes will not be shipped and must be picked up!)
A half-dozen homemade cupcakes costs $3.99. The cupcakes are available in double chocolate and yellow cake with vanilla cream frosting. Luby’s promises “spooky accents.” Orders need to be placed 48 hours in advance.
“Luby’s gourmet cupcakes are the best in Texas,” said Chris Pappas, CEO of Luby’s, Inc.
You can also visit Luby’s on Facebook.
Be the hit of any Halloween party with these cupcake sleeves from Roundabout Sleeves! Transform your cupcakes into (possibly scary) works of art in about 2 seconds! One dozen sleeves costs $8.99. Your cupcakes will be almost too cool to eat!
The Swell Life is becoming one of my favorite blogs! In one post, she makes a wreath out of cupcake liners! How clever is that? Click here for instructions to make your own.
And then she creates a candy corn cupcake stand! What fun! Click here for instructions for this masterpiece.
Thanks Alexa, for letting us share your pictures.
Looking for a delicious Shirley Temple Cupcake Recipe or the perfect Strawberry Lemonade Angel Cupcake Recipe?
Visit Katie at the Kitchen Door and feast your eyes! 
Katie made the cherry-topped delights for her friend Becky’s birthday. The Stawberry Lemonade Cupcakes were in honor of her friend Phoebe’s birthday. Hey Katie, Read the rest of this entry »
A lovely young lady by the name of Cyanne has made quite a statement by starting a cupcake club in her neighborhood in Arizona. She, along with some help from her mom, made cupcakes and sold them to family, friends, and neighbors to raise money for the St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance. She sold her cupcakes for only $1 each, and she raised $125 for the food bank, which enabled the alliance to distribute 875 meals. If a 7-year-old can do this, it makes me wonder what I could do, what any of us could do. A lot can be accomplished with a little bit of heart, a little bit of time, and some cupcakes.
Looking for a fun idea for Halloween cupcakes, but don’t want to sacrifice flavor? Then hop on over to The Swell Life to see how it’s done! Alexa Westerfield, the creator of The Swell Life is a graphic designer by day and a craft addict by night, and obviously, an expert cupcaker.
You will need:
– 1/2 cup butter, softened
– 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
– 2 eggs
– About 1 teaspoon orange powdered food coloring
– 1 cup buttermilk
– 2 1/2 cups White Lily all-purpose flour (sifted 3 times)
– 1 teaspoon salt
– 1 teaspoon vanilla
– 1 teaspoon orange extract
– 1 tablespoon vinegar
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From today through September 26th, more than 700 bakeries and stores all over the country are joining cupcake forces to sell cupcakes for a cause. They are raising funds and awareness for CancerCare for Kids, an organization that provides support services to kids and families dealing with cancer. You can find a participating bakery near you here. If you can’t find a location near you, you can order online from CupcakeStop. Visit Cupcakes for a Cause for more information.
Oh my gosh, these are just too adorable! Amy at Naptime Crafters made this awesome cupcake matching game for her daughter! How clever is this? Visit her blog for complete instructions as well as a (free) downloadable pattern! I am so impressed! Thank you Amy!
A big thanks to The Twisted Kitchen for allowing us to share this ultracool recipe with you! Everyone loves S’mores, right? And how often do you get to use a blowtorch in the kitchen?
S’more Cupcakes
Makes 12 cupcakes and 12 mini cupcakes (approx.)
General notes (before cooking):
For the Graham Cracker layer:
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The raw vegan diet seems to be all the rage lately. Eating raw foods is uber-healthy and good for the planet too. And “raw foodists” often claim that one doesn’t have to go 100% raw to reap the benefits of consuming raw foods. Do I want to be healthy? Of course! Am I willing to give up cupcakes in order to go raw vegan? Uh …
Well, thanks to Shannonmarie, who is known to the blogosphere as Rawdorable, I don’t have to. She has created an amazingly innovative, entertaining, and useful “uncookbook” full of tantalizing raw cupcake recipes.
Her ebook details how to make the “cake,” gives us several different options for yummy frostings, and even describes how to make raw fondant. Who ever heard of healthy fondant?
Her recipes range from basic to exquisite, from Pumpkin Spice to Citrus Confetti, from Basic Chocolate to Ruby Red Chai. I’m telling you, Shannonmarie is a genius of the cupcake world. And she’s one of those rare healthy cupcake geniuses. (If you don’t believe me, try the Zippi Zucchini Cupcake!)
The book is jam-packed with gorgeous, inspiring photographs. I’m tempted to blow some of them up and frame them.
The Little Rawdorable Cupcake Book That Could is available at Rawdorable for $12.95. It will be the best thirteen bucks you’ve invested in a while!
Keanu Reeves has always been a bit mysterious, and apparently, he celebrated his 46th birthday this past Friday enjoying a single cupcake, bearing a single candle, by himself outside a film prop warehouse.
There is nothing wrong with a little solitude, especially when it is accompanied by a little sweet. Happy Birthday Keanu!
