It’s not too late to celebrate April Fool’s Day with some Spaghetti and Meatballs cupcakes. Here’s one way to do it, from The Farm Girl: Pipe on noodles using small round icing tip. For meatballs, dunk some Ferrerro Rocher chocolates in raspberry jelly–yum!
Easter is my favorite cupcake holiday. You can do anything you want with pastels and you’re good to go–so many options! Plus, I’m kind of obsessed with bunnies. Anyway, here is my first attempt this year. (For the grass, I used Wilton tip 233.) If you try this, I HIGHLY recommend Starburst jelly beans. I don’t even like candy, and these are delicious!
Have a statement? Want to be heard? How about cupcakes? Fans of the new video game Mass Effect 3 are upset with the ending and want it changed. And they’re asking nicely, by sending 400 cupcakes to Bioware, the game’s creators. The cupcakes will be frosted three different colors, but will all taste the same, to symbolize the similar endings of the three video games in the series. This effort will cost $1005 and everyone who contributes to the cause will also get to send along a note with the cupcakes. It’s like a sugary sweet petition. Click here for the campaign website. The cupcakes will be delivered by Fuss Cupcakes of Edmonton, Alberta.
There’s a new cupcake magazine in town! Cake Decorating magazine has just launched in Great Britain and Ireland. Don’t live there? Don’t panic–you can subscribe!
This weekly publication will help beginners learn to decorate like the pros. And each issue comes with decorating tools! Issue #1 comes with a set of butterfly cutters, pink decorating glitter, and a gingham cupcake stand. And subscribers receive additional free gifts including a portable cake caddy, a set of silicone bakeware, and a biscuit and sugar craft gun.
Learn more at the Cake Decorating website. You can also follow the new pub on Twitter and Facebook!
Be on the lookout for a new Hallmark Channel movie titled Operation Cupcake, starring Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson. The movie preimeres Sunday, June 17th at 8 Eastern. The movie tells the story of an Army dad who suddenly finds himself working in a cupcakery. Apparently, he tries to take a military approach to cupcaking. Hmm…
Oddly enough, there was another movie with the same name, albeit, bearing a colon, Operation: Cupcake, from 2006. I can find no connection between the movies though, except for the well, love of cupcakes.
Check out these gorgeous cupcake candles from Star Candles of Leicester, UK! Star Candles produces Mendhi Candles for all occasions, but this one is just too beautiful to light!
Oh Mylanta are these impressive! I just found these Lego Cupcakes on Cupcakes by Madelaine’s Flickr photostream. Unbelievable! I hope she’s charging an arm and a leg for these! You can also find more great cupcakes at Madelaine’s website.
Ahem, cupcakes anyone? In case you’re in the market for some cupcake lingerie, here are some offerings from Purrfect Pineapples, whose slogan is “fabulously naughty.” The cupcake corsets are custom made to fit you purrfectly! Have fun! (wink)
My stand mixer gets quite a workout, and doesn’t have much time to collect dust, but I’m still tempted to pick up one of these cute cupcake stand mixer covers from Etsy seller PlayingWithDolls. The covers sell for $18 each and 10% of each sale goes to support Volunteers in Medical Missions, an organization that provides free medical care to people in developing countries.
When I go to an event, people expect me to bring cupcakes. Well, for last night’s event, I was pressed for time, and just didn’t think I had any fondant leprechauns in me. So, I tried to make things simple. I picked up some St. Patrick’s Day cupcake liners at the local craft store. I used a white cake mix (didn’t tell anyone) and some green food coloring for the cupcakes. Then I simply piped on some shamrocks, added some green sparkles for good measure, and called the job done. And guess what? People raved about them! Who would have thought? Happy St. Patty’s Day to me!
If you have children, then you have crayon scraps. You know, teeny tiny crayon stubs that no one colors with anymore. In our house, sometimes these get eaten by the dog, but if we prevent that from happening, these little crayon scraps pile up in the bottom of the crayon box.
So, what do you do with old crayons? Why, you make cupcakes of course! My kids will happily color with their new “crayon cupcakes,” giving new life to old stubs.
Here’s how:
Planning a wedding? Check out these amazing beauties! These pictures were taken at a wedding in Australia by Flickr’s mutedsinger. This is the bouquet I would like to catch!
Just in case there isn’t enough temptation in your life, check out what I just discovered: Butterfinger Cupcakes. I am so trying these! Steph, over at Plain Chicken has figured out a way to recreate a cupcake that she first discovered at Disney World. And she has shared the recipe and instructions with us! Hooray!
When it comes to cupcakes, I’m pretty open-minded. But I was truly horrified when I saw the title “Sushi Cupcakes.” Then I saw the picture. So, because this picture made me laugh aloud, I thought I should share it with you. I dare you to tell your friends you’re bringing sushi cupcakes to the party, and then show up with these:
Click here for a more involved way to make “sushi cupcakes.”
It’s easy to forget, here in the northern U.S., in the doldrums of almost-March, that there is green grass in other parts of the world. Here is some evidence for you–some yummy flowers and butterflies from dapur Difa. Let’s think spring! Visit dapur Difa for more great cupcake decorating ideas, photos, and even cupcake bouquets!
We’ve seen this idea before, but somehow, it just bears repeating. Here is another Periodic Table of Cupcakes, this time from engineering student Rachel Howden.
This is my new favorite cupcake photo. Ever. Today is Janey the orangutan’s 50th birthday. And of course, she’s celebrating it with a cupcake. She is celebrating at the San Diego Zoo, where she has lived since 1984. She is looking mighty good for 50! Happy Birthday fellow cupcake lover!
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!
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!
I just found these cute plastic cupcake bibs at Meijer. Cut down on the cupcake eating mess (well, maybe a little) and get some cute photo opps! Or, for $5.99, it would make a great baby shower gift for the cupcake-loving mom-to-be!
Check out this new book, Cupcake Cakes, by Lisa Turner Anderson. It’s awesome! It’s full of ideas of how to combine several cupcakes into a greater design–cupcake synergy! And each idea comes with photographs and instructions. It’s inspiring! Want to make a giant pink princess crown out of nine cupcakes? Or how about a cute blue whale out of 13 cupcakes? Or an almost cuddly teddy bear out of 19 cupcakes? Or a soccer ball? Flip-flops? Polka-dotted dinosaur? All of this could be yours!