It’s that time of year again! We are pulling out all of our thanksgiving recipes — pumpkin pie, stuffing, candied yams, the perfect gravy, pecan pie, and the list goes on.
But this year we should all put this cupcake recipe into rotation! This is one of the most inventive cupcake decorations I have seen. But, don’t take my word for it, judge for yourself.
Turkey Cupcakes from Un Muffin de Mer
Little Tikes Cupcake Kitchen from Amazon
Some of its amazing features are —
If I had had this amazing toy as a young child, my life may have been very different. I may just have picked up my love of baking at a younger age and maybe by now I’d have my own bakery! Alas I had a Mickey Mouse camera as I child and am now full blown in love with photography because of it.
When I have children, I will be sure that they have this great toy!
Has anyone seen the move Up? If you haven’t, stop what you are doing immediately and go rent it! No, I really mean it! It is one of the best cartoon/movies I have ever seen.
When I saw these cupcakes that were made for this movie, my heart melted. They are so cute and such a fabulous representation.
Up Cupcakes from Freakgirls’s Flickr Photostream
You can also check out her blog – FREAKGIRL.COM
I don’t own any cupcake earrings myself, yet — but these seem like a good match for me! These are so adorable.
If I were to wear these, I’d be scared that random people that would come up and nibble my ear!
Cute as a Cupcake Post Earrings from Shop Plasticland
As soon as I saw this purse I said “Oh, Oh, Me Likey!”, I also thought that all of you would like it too!
LeSportsac Color Blocked Ziptop Shopper from Zappos.com
As you all know, cupcakes are really all the rage right now (we hope they will be forever! ). And they are not showing any signs of slowing down in popularity. They are so popular that there has even been a board game for kids centered around cupcakes.
Take the Cake sold at Amazon!
Lets get playing!
You all may not know this, but I work for Jenni Bick Bookbinding, an Internet company that sells a variety of items from Italian leather photo albums, moleskine notebooks, day planners, calendars and so much more! And every once in a while we get in a fabulous cupcake item, and this one takes the (cup)cake.
We recently got in our 2012 Calendars, and lo and behold there it was, Martha Stewart Cupcakes 2012 Wall Calendar. Anything of Martha’s is visually stunning and very well done, this calendar is no exception. It was designed and put together with us cupcake bakers in mind.
They’re two elements that I absolutely love about this calendar– At the bottom of every month/page there is a baking tip or fact. One of my favorite tips is –Save Butter Wrappers for Greasing Pans, rather than discard the wrapper after you’ve used a stick of butter, stash it in the freezer inside a re-sealable plastic bag. When you need to butter a baking dish take out the wrapper, let if soften slighty, and use.
The second element that I love, is the recipe cards that are provided for the scrumptious cupcakes displayed within the calendar.
You could give Martha Stewart a run for her money with all the knowledge that this calendar provides.
Oh Boy, do I have a craving for cupcakes now!
Toppers are a great way to dress up a cupcake fast! There are so many different ones you can choose from, especially from Bake It Pretty
I am a fan of Bake It Pretty on FaceBook and I saw this great post today in my feed about these cupcake toppers —
Here are a few other toppers that I think are cupcake topping worthy as well!
Have you all heard of the new TV show on CBS called 2 Broke Girls? It is about broke girls, one working class and one a former heiress, who are working to earn enough money to open up a Cupcake Shop! It premieres on September 19 at 9:30/8:30c .
Let all watch and see what cupcake goodness they can come up with!
Look what I just found … these Sweet Cake Vessels are amazing! I found them on fab.com.
There are so many things that you could do with these! Toys, dog/cat bed, laundry… the list goes one. I was thinking that you secure a piece of glass on the top and make it a see through coffee table!
Usually I am a huge Etsy ‘window’ shopper and I usually do a weekly cupcake search and this weeks cupcake search showed me something AMAZING…I never thought I would see anything like this, EVER!
Be prepared …
Cupcake ukulele from Celentano Woodworks Etsy Shop
Amazing!
I love my little coin purse that I have, it has saved me many times when I was just a bit short at the coffee shop for cash. But if I had had this cupcake coin purse, the baristas would have thought it was so cool that they would have given me my coffee and bagel for free!
Cupcake Yummy Pocket from Perpetual Kid
Who out there is getting ready for Irene?! I know I am — got my flash light, got my candles & plenty of reading material! Well the folks at Carolina Cupcakery were getting ready a little bit differently.
They came up with the Hurricane Cupcake Kit about 3 years ago and they decided to bring it back for a Irene’s arrival.
Who else is preparing for Irene?!
Over the past 1o months I have lost just about 25 pounds with the help of Weight Watchers and the help of this amazing recipe site — Skinny Taste. If knew me in person you would know how much of a sweet tooth I have and how much I love to bake. Which, while ‘dieting’ is hard to deal with. But with the help of the aforementioned website I have been able to get through the rough times where my sweet tooth would not back off.
Gina has great ‘skinny’ recipes for just about anything under the sun. Including, yep you guessed it, CUPCAKES. Gina is a lifesaver!
One of the many amazing recipes I made was Pineapple Bliss Cupcakes. Even though they are ‘skinny’ they hit the spot. Gina + Sweet Tooth = Sweet Weight Lost!
If you are a cupcake baker, or just starting out in the cupcake baking world and are looking for a hand mixer, then I have found just the mixer for you.
Cupcake Creations Hand Mixer w/Decorating Kit and Case from Amazon.
This kit is great! It comes with a neat little case. And not to mention, everything below…
Just fabulous!
I know that these aren’t exactly cupcakes but I couldn’t resist not posting about them. They are so cute and look super tasty.
My best friend is throwing a Pampered Chef party. If you are not familiar with Pampered Chef parties,they are kind of like Tupperware parties, but it is all cooking stuff!
I was browsing the site to see what I want to scoop up and i saw these amazing looking S’more Cups!
I want to go find a campfire right now and have a s’more!
Drink your booze and eat it too — in your cupcakes! Think of all the different liquors and beers there are out there. Now think of all of the cupcake flavors out there. Put them together and the recipes are endless.
Pastry Artist Kate Legere’s passion for baking lead her to experiment with cupcakes and liquor – which lead her to constructing this cook book!
Intoxicated Cupcakes: 41 Tipsy Treats from Amazon.
Another thing that I love about summer is the Summer BBQ’s! I went to a big BBQ this weekend with friends and family and it was lovely!
I love the smell of BBQ cooking — whether its hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, turkey burgers — I could go on.
Here are some cupcakes that are an ode to BBQ’s!
BBQ Cupcakes from Disney Family Fun
I was reading over my last couple of posts and see that I have been writing about things that I enjoy during the summer (and their cupcake equivalent ) and I thought to myself, “Why not make it a summer series?” — and that is exactly what I am going to do!
Another favorite thing of mine in the Summer is an ice cold beer! Perfect way to end a great summer day. But wait, beer cupcakes you say? Yes, yes and yes! Oh and did I mention these cupcakes have bacon in them? Beer and Bacon!
Golden Beer Cupcakes from 1 Fine Cookie
Another summer favorite of mine is lemonade, raspberry lemonade to be exact! I saw this recipe and the first thought/word that came to my head was “Yummo!” I can just taste the cupcake right now…light sweet and fluffy.
Pink Lemonade Cupcakes from That’s so Michelle…
Are you ever walking down the street and all of the sudden get a massive craving for a cupcake? Well, I do and did today! I shall be giving into my craving tonight after work. Ah yes, I am just dreaming of it right now! Sometimes the cupcakes from my local bakery are a bit to heavy and rich for such hot summer days as we have been having, not to say that I wont be getting one tonight. But it got me thinking about a nice, light, summery, fruity cupcake that I could cake make that wont weigh me down on a brutally hot summer day. Low and behold, I found just the right cupcake recipe thanks to The Food Network (UK)
Strawberry-Lime Stuffed Cupcakes
After going to see Katy Perry in concert a few weeks ago and reading a bit further into her interests and fashion sense, I read that she loves doing her nails! This has inspired me to be a bit more creative with my nails, which I usually never paint!
As I was doing my nails tonight (still in the middle of them) I said to myself – “CUPCAKE NAILS!!” I thought to myself there has to be tutorials out there somewhere. Low and behold, I found some Cupcake Nail Art!
I found these great nails and a Cupcake Nail Art Tutorial from the blog, Cupcake Clothes! Check out the rest of Georgia’s blog, she has some AMAZING nail work.
Hallelujah! I finally made it to the beach today. I live on an Island and you think that getting to the beach would be easy, but with a busy summer so far and a handful of rainy weekends it has been a lot harder than expected. While I was at the beach, I was wondering if there was any cupcake bathing suits out there. And there are!
Pink Cupcake Halter Top Bathing Suit from AMI Clubwear
I also found this great Pink Cupcake Swimsuit Cover Up
I am all about the do-it-yourself crafts lately! I like to keep myself busy and these DIY are just the thing for that.
Within the next few weeks, I will be documenting and sharing a new DIY venture! I am unable to have real flowers in my apartment, my fur child will eat them, so I will be making flowers out of cupcake liners! Such a great idea! I just need to find the perfect liners and all the supplies to go with it. I live on an island and sometimes certain things are hard to find, or just really expensive.
So while we are all eagerly waiting my tutorial, here is another one to keep you busy!
Cupcake Purse Tutorial from Everyday Chaos
Finally, after a 39 year ‘drought’ the Boston Bruins finally won the Stanley Cup this past Wednesday! After a fierce 7 game series with the Vancouver Canucks the Bruins shut them out 4-0! Being from New England, I was very excited, as were most of my family members and friends, when they finally won.
What would be a better way to celebrate the Bruins victory but with cupcakes! Megan from Delicious Dishings did just that (well she celebrated early) but she celebrated none-the-less.
Boston Bruins Black And Gold Cupcakes
Way to go Bruins!