I don’t know about you, but I hate last minute Christmas shopping. I like to make a list and plan early. I have a lot of Cupcake Addicts on my list this year so I wanted to share with you my 10 Favorite Cupcake Things.

My Top Ten List of Cupcake Gift Ideas:

1. Cupcakes 2009 Calendar
2. The Cupcakes Club Books
3. Cupcake & Tattoos Jr. Hoodie
4. Cupcake Bath Bombs
5. Sweetie Kai – Cupcake Jewelry, Purse and Diaper Bag Charms, or
   Cell Phone Charms (Website is currently under construction, please check out the myspace store for the time being)
6. Fat Daddy Bake Shop 
7. Johnny Cupcakes (a shirt or a pair of boxers for the man in your life!)
8. Cupcake Cookbooks
9. Cupcake Apron
10. Learning Resources Sorting Shapes Cupcake (Toy)

My top ten list has gift ides for Men, Women, and Kids! Please be sure to share your list with us.

California Cupcake Company, located in Carlsbad, California, will work with you to make that perfect sweet confection with your own individual style and taste. Whether you are looking for simple yet elegant or elaborate and sophisticated, cupcakes are a unique and decadent way to compliment your special day.

Just bring your ideas, colors or theme and we will create the dessert of your dreams.

Cupcake Flavors

Vanilla Butter Cream
Apple Cinnamon
Cappuccino
Lemon Filled
Chocolate Mousse
Chocolate Raspberry
German Chocolate
Carrot Cake
Cheesecake
Chocolate Cheesecake
Key Lime Cheesecake
Chocolate Chip
Peanut Butter Chip

Toppings

Sugar Sparkles
Chocolate Sprinkles
Chocolate Dipped Strawberry
White Chocolate Shells

Please contact California Cupcake Company for more information.

My Cupcakes Rock – Black $24.95

My Cupcakes Rock: Let the world know your Cupcakes Rock with this sexy tee! Sleek graphics with Rhinestone detailing will surely make your cupcakes the talk of the town! Made of 100% cotton. Also available in light pink. Sizes S, M, L, XL.

Available at SAS Cupcakes.

Cupcake Picture Frame – Personalized Frame – Laser Engraved Cupcakes $17.95

Create your own Cupcake Picture Frame. Engrave any text on this picture frame. It is offered in 4×6, 5×7 and 8×10 photo size picture frames. It features engraved cupcakes. Personalize the back of this Picture Frame with a special engraved message for an additional $3.00 (gift message box during checkout). Email us a photo to include in your order for an additional $5.00.

Available at R Keepsakes.

Birthday Cupcake Gift Card (any amount from$10.00 to $2,500.00)

Wish a happy birthday will this sweet Birthday Cupcake Gift Card. It’s the perfect gift for family and friends, because it lets them choose whatever they want at Wal-Mart. Reloadable with additional amounts.
For orders of $250 and higher, or 25 cards and higher, we will send you an email about activating the cards.

Easy to Use

• For purchases at Walmart.com and in U.S. Wal-Mart stores
• For purchases by SAM’S Club members in U.S. SAM’S Club stores and at Samsclub.com
• In stores, present the card at checkout
• Online, enter card number and PIN (on back of card) during checkout. The PIN provides secure online shopping.
• As you make purchases, the card amount decreases. Add to card balance anytime in a Wal-Mart store. (You cannot add to the balance online.)
• Check card balance in stores or online

More Information

• No expiration date
• Not returnable or refundable for cash except in states where required by law
• For orders of 25 cards or more, or $250 and higher, we’ll send you an email about activating the cards
• By purchasing this card, you agree to Shopping Cards Terms and Conditions
• More about cards

Available at Walmart.

It should come as no surprise that this super cute cupcake watch is part of Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lover’s clothing line. The watch has a plastic band decorated with sprinkles, hearts, cupcakes, and the “cute as a cupcake” design featured on the face. Each watch comes with a two-year warranty and is packaged in a collectible tin (which is also super cute!). Retail value $55!!!

Want it? Need it? Have to have it? Sign up for a FREE membership and leave a comment here– and tell a friend– IF THEY LEAVE A COMMENT AND MENTION YOU–you can leave ANOTHER comment (for a total of two comments- but ONLY if someone else mentions you in THEIR post)!!! Good Luck, Cupcake! Winner will be announced 10/01/08

I would like to say a big thank you to The Cupcakes Club for having so many cool contests!

Build-A-Bear Workshop® Happy Bearthday™ Bear $46.99

This bear is sure to brighten any birthday. Child safe 16″ bear comes dressed and ready to play with party hat, bow tie, noise-maker blower and sash that says “Happy Birthday”. This bear also is carrying a special cupcake that plays the birthday song. Includes birth certificate for the bear and arrives in a Cub Condo®. Stuffed with Hugs and Good Wishes® by Build-A-Bear Workshop®.

Your purchase includes a complimentary personalized gift message.

Also available…

Happy Birthday Message Bear by Build-A-Bear Workshop® $18.99

Birthday Wishes Adorable Elephant $42.50

Available at FTD and Build-A-Bear.

Best Sellers Cupcake Collection $44.95 for 1 dozen

With over thirty different cupcakes to choose from our Best Sellers cupcake assortment includes 12 of our most popular cupcakes!

Perfect for any occasion this scrumptious gourmet cupcake assortment includes a combination of our Buttery vanilla cake topped with Sweet vanilla buttercream, vanilla cake topped with Rich chocolate buttercream, a Deep Dark chocolate cake topped with chocolate buttercream, Rich chocolate cake topped with Sweet vanilla buttercream, vanilla and chocolate cake filled and topped with Pink strawberry buttercream, vanilla and chocolate cake topped with Fresh raspberry buttercream, S’mores chocolate cake filled with marshmallow topped with a vanilla graham cracker buttercream, Rich chocolate cake topped with Oreo buttecream, red velvet cake topped with a Tangy cream cheese frosting and our Decadent triple chocolate cake with a Dark chocolate truffle center.

Topped with cupcake flavor pennants and packaged in our signature gift box this gourmet cupcake gift is sure to make you the most popular person in town!

Available at SAS Cupcakes.

Monogrammed Boys Light Blue Gingham Cupcake Birthday Shortall $54.00

Just for boys…. we offer these adorable “john-john” gingham birthday shortalls adorned with an appliqued cupcake. Personalize with your child’s name and special birthday age (optional). Our cupcake consists of a fabric finders tri plaid (green/blue/white) bottom and a soft flannel white top- yummy! Shortall is fully lined and can include a snap crotch option for easier diaper changes.

Available at Avannabel Baby.

Birthday Spa Delights $39.99

Indulge & Celebrate – a birthday treat for the gal who loves to pamper herself! This festive keepsake hat box includes lavender body lotion, lavender bath gel, lavender bath salts, lavender anti-bacterial hand-gel, a purple bath sponge, cooling eye gel mask and a sweet cupcake shaped cookie.

Your purchase includes a complimentary personalized gift message.

Available at FTD.

Famous Teacher Cupcake Bouquet $69.50

Way To Go! The Famous Teacher Cupcake Bouquet is the perfect way to say thanks to your favorite teachers. Includes 6-cupcakes of any flavor in the keepsake bouquet, with personalized card, and gift box. Choose from the following flavors…Va-Va-Va-Nilla, Hot Chocolate, Chocolicious, Black Tie, 24-Karat, Red Velvet, Peanut Butter Chip, and Good Morning Cupcake.

Available at Famous Cupcakes.

Birthday Celebration Cupcake $39.99

A memorable birthday, indeed! This adorable plush-topped cupcake box comes filled with a variety of everyone’s favorite bright and nostalgic Birthday candy. Includes jumbo jelly rings, large jelly beans, assorted penny candy, gummy bears, assorted flavored hard candy and a happy birthday cake candle. A perfect gift to send if you cannot be at the Birthday Celebration.

Your purchase includes a complimentary personalized gift message.

Available at FTD.

Who remembers this classic Hostess Cupcakes Commercial from the 1990’s? I sure do!

Hostess Cupcakes 90\’s commercial

BIG GIRL clip – Cute as a Cupcake $7.00

All Maya Papaya clips are handstitched (there is no glue involved in the process).

A 1.5 inch snap clip is sewn securely into each piece, the perfect size for your toddler, little girl or even yourself!

Your cupcake clip will made using premium, 100% wool felt. The look, feel, and durability of 100% wool felt is incredibly superior to the acrylic and wool/synthetic blends found in craft and fabric stores.

You will instantly fall in love with this material, just as I have.

These clips are designed to stay put, even in fine baby hair.

I am happy to work with you on custom color combinations. I have many felt and stitching colors to choose from. The possibilities are quite endless!

Maya Papaya clips are sewn securely and designed with safety in mind, but as with all small objects, keep from young childrens’ mouths.

Each clip will come to you attractively packaged, perfect for gift giving.

Available at Maya Papaya.

Cupcake – Party Dress (Toddler) £12.95

Soft layers of vibrant net hang from a ruche bodice. The front panel of white satin displays a complimentary cupcake design. Sweet cupcake bag sold separately. Headband included (differs from image). Size: 1-2 years

Available at A2Z KIDS.

Who will you vote for?

Candidate Cake “Let them eat cake!”

From a hard-working, blue-collar Philadelphia family, the young, fresh-faced, idealistic, cream cheese-iced Candidate Cake is looking to go the distance. Due to his carrot cake nature, he has positioned himself as a “visionary” and runs on a progressive platform: “Cupcakes for only 100 calories.” This has been a popular battle cry for anyone with a sweet tooth. And with a constituency like that, Cake is aiming to make winning Taste Debate ’08 look like a piece of himself.

OR

Candidate Muffin “I’m tops!”

Candidate Muffin is proud of his humble, made from scratch, beginnings. Now, a long way from the farm, Muffin and his “Breakfast Any Time of Day” Platform have built a constituency that reaches far beyond the Blueberry Belt. And with trademark southern charm, folksy wisdom and 100 calorie a pack this “Muffin of the People” is poised to be America’s choice in Taste Debate ’08.

Cast your vote now in the Hostess 100 Calorie Taste Debate ’08! Voting ends October 7th!

I first learned about Heaven from the most unlikely place, a Visa commercial.

Let me explain, I saw a Visa Small Business commerical with a larger than life cupcake and of course it grabbed my attention. Slap a cupcake on anything and I’m all yours.

Of course I had to know more about the business that involved a giant cupcake as big as a building. I found out that the business is called Heaven, and the owner is a fashion model turned baker.

Heaven is a bakery in Bovina, NY where everything is made by hand using local and organic ingredients as much as possible and of course never any kind of preservatives.

The decor is simple, and beautiful. If Martha Stewart opened a bakery, in my mind it would look like this bakery.

For delicious and nutritious treats & cupcakes, please visit Heaven.

The Cupcakery has locations in St. Louis and Knoxville. Their made-from-scratch buttercream and super-moist original recipe cupcakes are a big hit with the local cupcake connoisseurs. The menu features cupcakes such as Red Velvet, Double Chocolate, and Peanut Butter Cup.

Please visit The Cupcakery for more information.

Fun Taco Cups

Duncan Hines is sponsoring Cupcakes for a Cause and encouraging families to get in the kitchen and mix up some quality time together baking treats and making a difference. This Duncan Hine’s National Bake Sale Contest is open to people who host their own bake sales, donate the proceeds to CancerCare for Kids, and submit their creative cupcakes and bake sale stories to Duncan Hines by November 1, 2008. Winners will receive US Savings Bonds and cooking equipment.

Please visit Duncan Hines to enter.

(Top View)

Keepsake Box

Other cool items are available with the same image.

Available at the Addicakes & Kinleybugs Cafe.

Cupcakes is just like the classic game, Hangman. Fill in the puzzle blanks correctly, before Cupcakes eats all the cupcakes!

Instructions

• Fill in the puzzle blanks by entering letters on your keyboard.
• Every time you enter a wrong letter, Cupcakes grabs another cupcake off the kitchen counter!
• When you’ve filled in the blanks correctly, a new puzzle will appear.

Just one of the many fun things you will find at Poetry4kids.com

Cupcake Queen flash game from Games For Work.

A simple game of taking care of your customers coming to your cupcake shop. Fix what they order.

Have fun!

Don’t Even Think of Touching That  Cupcake                                                      

By SARAH KERSHAW, The New York Times  Published: September 23, 2007

THE cupcake is at something of a crossroads. Edible icon of Americana, frosted symbol of comfort and innocence, it may not have faced such an identity crisis since first appearing in cookbooks sometime in the 18th century.

As we know, cupcakes have had a whopping resurgence: they are retro-food chic, the thing to eat for people in the know.

But cupcakes have also recently been marched to the front lines of the fat wars, banned from a growing number of classroom birthday parties because of their sugar, fat and “empty calories,” a poster food of the child obesity crisis. This was clear when children returned to school this month to a tightening of regulations, federal and state, on what can be served up between the bells.

You can read the whole article here.

If You Give a Cat a Cupcake Book $11.55

If you give a cat a cupcake, he’ll ask for some sprinkles to go with it. When you give him the sprinkles, he might spill some on the floor. Cleaning up will make him hot, so you’ll give him a bathing suit . . . and that’s just the beginning! The lovable cat who first appeared in If You Give a Pig a Party now has his very own book! Written in the tradition of the bestselling If You Give a Mouse a Cookie , Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond’s newest story will show everyone that Cat is where it’s at!

Available at Target, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other fine retailers.