I love me a good tote, and this cute little number would be perfect for school, crafts, sleep-overs, the possibilities are endless!

Available from Journeys for $20.00.

Ha!  Cupcake bike jerseys! 

Now, when you are racing down the road on your bike, you’ll look super sweet in your cupcake bike jersey.

Found this cute little number from Sugoi over at R.E.I. for $70.00

Mmm… Cupcake.

The cap says it all!

Perfect with a cool mug of coffee. Show your love of the finer things in life with this original cupcake design.  Available in White & Khaki, from L.A. Tees.  $19.99

Adjusts from 20″ to 24″

Crown measures 3 ¼”

Unstructured 100% brushed cotton canvas

Hand wash with warm water and mild detergent

Hang Dry

Who does not need a cupcake handbag? 

It’s a perfectly sized handbag to spice up your trip to the bakery! It’s made of cotton, 5″ x 11″, with a sweet blue striped button attached to the front. Lined with green, brown, and cream deco fabric. Polkadot handles!

Large enough to hold a summer paperback, your celly, wallet, and as many lip glosses as you would like to carry.

Offered by pollyannacowgirlbags, check out her other great bags, too! $24.00

Oh, so soft & cuddly… it’s Cupcake Bear!

With sparkly wings!

Offered by TwoHiddenHeads. $30.00

These are the cutest necklaces!

Perfect for your Valentine.

They are made with real candy sprinkles, a cupcake photo & resin, with a silver toned ball chain necklace.

$7.00 each over at Lunaricsales. 

They aren’t always sweet. No sir, cupcakes pack an attitude as well. Don’t let their innocent, compartmentalized outward persona persuade you to think these little ‘fairy cakes’ are harmless fun. They also have something to say! Say it well they do. With a spoon-full of sugar helping the medicine go down, today we’ll see four instances of quirky cupcakes with attitude.
Our first two contenders both come from Cupcake Royale and feature the snarky quips Deathcake Royale and Legalize Frostitution. Then comes my personal favorite, created by Johnny Cupcakes, the brown Make Cupcakes Not War tee, offers a sound word of advice the whole world could use! Finally, Natalie Dee helps us see– Cupcakes ARE a breakfast food, in fact, when they are paired with a multivitamin you have a “Super Breakfast!”
With these four unique finds you are sure to not only make the statement that you wholeheartedly appreciate cupcakes but you do with with style and a no-nonsense attitude! Ain’t nobody gonna squash this cupcake.

Head on over to Martha’s Circle at marthastewart.com and tell me what you see on the far left side.

How freaking cool, right? We love Martha.

One of our fabulous readings, Sarah, e-mailed me about my post yesterday and I just had to share her shop with you! Sarah runs a cute little shop on Etsy called Just Add Charm where she puts fabric on buttons and adds them to hair pins, necklace’s, tacs (as you see to your left) and more.

“Just Add Charm… is a family-owned and operated business located in Southern California. We are proud of the fine products we offer. Our jewelry is designed to give years of pleasure and beauty, complementing your personal style. We hope that you will enjoy wearing our jewelry as much as we enjoy creating it.”

You can get these 6 little push pins right here for just $9.00!

“Liven up your cork board or cubicle with these whimsical pushpins. What a fun and thoughtful gift for teachers and co-workers! 3/4 fabric covered buttons are permanently attached to thumbtacks. Note that fabric placement may vary slightly due to the handmade nature of the item.

Cupcake toppings may vary from batch to batch – see additional photos for some variations. I do promise that yours will be just as delicious. If you have a special request, please let me know.”

Don’t forget to check out the rest of her cupcake items.

This ring is gorgeous. I almost fell out of my seat when I saw it. If I only had $75 to spend on this beauty!

“Sterling Silver Through and Through

This cupcake ring will make you want to eat it! This was the ring that gave me the idea for my company name and for my logo! It is truly metal sugar and is super cute with any outfit!

Also, it would leave a pretty cool mark in someone’s skin if they happened to run into your hand!

Size: 3/4 inch X 3/4 inch

Just a little background detail on this ring: It has two layers…the bottom blackened area and each of the parts of the cupcake including the circle around it are hand pierced with a tiny saw and soldered onto the bottom sheet. I just want you to know that this is 3-D and each part is made of sterling silver and carefully hand-crafted using very fine detail. The band of this ring is 10 guage sterling and goes perfectly with the toughness of this cupcake.”

Available here in metalsugar’s shop for $75.00. This cupcake obsession is expensive!

This is about the most worthwhile thing I’ve done this week – make 28 mini chocolate cupcakes for my colleagues at work! They went down very well (especially as there were so many that pretty much everyone could have 2!)

The picture isn’t great I know but if you want to try these delicious little treats out, the recipe is over here at my blog! Happy baking!

This weekend I was out with my daughter, fulfilling a flat-kid project for my niece who lives in California.  We took her/it up to the Capitol building for a tour and many, many pictures.  But it wasn’t until we were on the way home did we drive past a Cupcakery ~ Grand Opening!  Holy what in the world?!?  This was news to me!  My daughter pointed it out, as I was minding my own business, diligently paying attention to the road and all of the crazy drivers yesterday.  Ironically, I turned into one of those crazy drivers and made a bee-line for the first parking spot and well, you know the rest.

If you’re in the South and up for a yummy treat:

Cupcake Shoppe Bakery
104 Glenwood Avenue
Raleigh, NC 
(919) 821-4223

If you’re a scrapper, which I am in my mommy time, you will love Leah Fung.  She has a scrapbooking blog, Leah’s Desktop Dictionary, which I adore.  It is packed full of videos and pictures and event information to satisfy every scrapbook enthusiast. 

By the way, she is a contributing editor for Better Homes and Gardens and Scrapboooks Etc.  Okay, she’s a rockstar and totally sweet.  Take a few minutes to check out her video for making a cupcake make-and-take at a charity event ~ the Unforgettable Crop for Kids. 

It’s been a while since I have posted, been a little under the weather but I think I am ready to get back into the swing of things, again! First and foremost, I run and operate an online consignment/collaboration shop called Hey Pretty Cupcake and I am on the search for amazing cupcake items to feature in our shop. I am hoping to launch a whole cupcake section and if you’re interested, please drop me an email at [email protected]. If you’re not sure what consignment is, send me an email and I will be more than happy to give you a little explenation :D

Finding cupcake item’s that my fellow bloggers haven’t blogged about already is pretty tricky. I have a folder in my bookmarks marked cupcake just for this blog and I have to delete them often! The fellow ATC woman have style!

I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite collaborators (at my site), her name is Monica. She is an artist and she has the yummiest cupcake print! This print can be found in her shop memory on Etsy. It is called “oh no” and you can pick up a 4 x 6 for $6.00 or an 8 x 10 for $15.

“Signed, unmatted and unframed. Professionally Printed on archival paper.

The colors are soft and warm pastel tones. The cupcakes are sheer, with the polka dot background peeking through them. This piece is humorous and cute. The story behind it:

I painted this in ink, and then digitally colored it. I even made the polka dot background myself from scratch. I adore cupcakes, but unfortunately do not get the opportunity to eat them very often.”

I also sell these cupcakes on 1″ buttons, 1″ magnets, 1″ rings, 1″ hair pins, 1″ necklace’s, 2 1/4″ magnets, 2 1/4″ mirrors and more. If you’re interested in any of the above, just let me know! (They aren’t available in her shop!)

With the switch, All Things Cupcake got a new feed address. /?feed=rss

Update!!

April with Abby Sweets has posted the most amazing cupcake recipe EVER. 

 Double Chocolate Espresso Cupcakes.

Chocolate Espresso Ganache:
(a.k.a. Gale’s Famous Truffles from Butter, Sugar, Flour and Eggs)
1 1/2 Cups creme fraiche or sour cream (I use sour cream)
2 Tbsp finely ground espresso
12 oz semi-sweet chocolate, chopped

Combine the sour cream and espresso in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. As soon as it boils, turn off the heat.

Meanwhile, put the chopped chocolate in a medium bowl. Strain the hot sour cream mixture into the bowl. Whisk until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Cover and let rest in a cool place overnight. Do not refrigerate. The mixture will become firm but not hard.
(If you want to roll into balls, I put the mixture in the refrigerator overnight.)

White Chocolate Cupcakes:
6 oz. white chocolate, chopped
2 sticks butter
1 1/2 Cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
6 eggs
1 Cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt

Place white chocolate and butter in mixing bowl over saucepan with simmering water. Stir until melted and combined. Remove from heat and add the sugar, mix well. The butter will separate and come to the top. This is ok. Let cool for 10 minutes. Add the vanilla and beat with electric mixer for 3 minutes. Add eggs one at a time. The mixture will thicken and will combine together. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into the mixture, mix on medium speed until blended.

Bake at 375 degrees for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for 10 more minutes. Rotate pan and bake for 7 minutes longer.

Chocolate Buttercream:
2 Sticks butter, at room temp
1 tsp vanilla
8 Tbsp. cocoa
2 lb. bag of powdered sugar
milk

Mix the butter and cocoa together with a mixer, add vanilla. While mixing, gradually add the powdered sugar and add milk to get the consistency that you want.

To assemble the cupcake:
Cut out a cone in the top/middle of the cupcake. Fill the hole with ganache and top with the piece of cupcake that you cut out. Pipe or spread on the buttercream.

Hop on over to her blog for other amazing recipes!

 

This was sent to me by one of my fav bloggin babes. Thanks! Lililputians NYC Boutique is offering this Faux Suede Mod Mini Dress dubbed ‘Lil’ Cupcake’. This darling dress comes in sizes 6 months to 8 years. Priced at $69.95, I think this would make an adorable holiday dress. Again, one of the many times I wish I had a girl!

 

 

You’re not the only one! So is industrial designer and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena professor Krystina Castella. It all started with a tiki-themed potluck according to Krystina, on crazyaboutcupcakes.com, she was assigned the job of “baking something” and she chose cupcakes. Why? Because, “Cupcakes are friendly! Cupcakes are stylish! Cupcakes are nostalgic! Finally, cupcakes are portable!” And quite right she is! Cupcakes are a perfect little, little dessert. Especially Krystina’s tiki cupcakes, which ended up being a big hit at the party. After such success Krystina decided to accompany many other celebrations with cupcakes. A block party? An art opening? A ninth-birthday? A Halloween party? How about an Academy Award party? The answer, cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes! Now thats my kind of girl!

According to Krystina, “I see cupcakes as art. I consider all three parts -the cake, the icing and the decorations- all work together to make a good cupcake experience.” Over the next five years she developed thousands of recipe and decorating techniques. Lucky for us 300 have made it into her book titled, of course, Crazy About Cupcakes.

Crazy About Cupcakes is available to order through Amazon and Barnes & Nobel (visit this link for the sweet treat of peaking inside the book). This book has it all, “whether they’re chocolaty, spicy, crunchy, fruity, or creamy, these exquisitely decorated treats look as astounding as they taste—perfect little temptations designed to make adults nostalgic and children happy.” Also, if you order from Amazon you can get not only Crazy About Cupcakes but also, Super-Duper Cupcakes: Kids’ Creations from the Cupcake Caboose for only $22.16!

What some more? Well, you are in luck! Krystina’s website is a plethora of cupcake how-to goodness. It “offers inspirational recipes and decorating techniques for cupcake lovers who enjoy the process of baking and decorating as much as sharing and eating their artistic creations. It features tips, techniques and skills needed to design cupcakes that are uniquely your own. ” Currently showcased on the website are such yummies as tiered cupcakes, candy cupcakes, tiki cupcakes, and a sweet selection. Krystina also outlines decorating techniques basket weave and chocolate leaves. Furthermore, you can deepen you knowledge of cupcakes by looking into the link labeled Cupcake Basics and add some amazing new recipes to your collection perusing the Recipes link (both links under tab Learning & Recipes).

With its intricate weaving of art and cupcakery the whimsical Crazy About Cupcakes website is sure to enchant you for hours, make you mouth water, and leave you with heaps of sweet inspiration!

(All images are from www.crazyaboutcupcakes.com)

A fun little squeaky toy for the dog who enjoys the finer things in life.

$9.95 at Glamour Dog

A big, rich Chardonnay from California’s desirable Central Coast, where the sun drenched grapes create full and elegantly-textured wines. Decadent layers of butter, cream, bright citrus and vanilla melt into a balance of oak and subtle spice. In other words: Sinful.

Available In Store Only

Region: Central Coast
Goes With: Crab cakes, seared Ahi tuna on waffle crackers or fresh-baked French bread and cheese.

Can be purchased at World Market.

There is such a place that exists where you can purchase cupcakes online and they ship them out to you. The cupcakes are delicious and come in adorable packaging. I always thought this was too good to be true, so I just HAD to place an order. Here is my experience with Fat Daddy Bake Shop.

All in all, I rate my experience with them a 10! The cupcakes were delicious. I put mine in the microwave for a FEW seconds, no more than 10 and it was very moist, delicious and oohy goohy. Yum! I wish I would have ordered 5 more.Check out Fat Daddy Bake Shop!

Oh so cute!

 I found this cute little set on Etsy.com.  Vintage inspired apron set for an adult & child. 

Even the seller Boojiboo thinks the fabric is “ridiculously cute.”  And we totally agree!

Apron Set is $39.50

Don’t you just love the new design? It looks amazing! I am super excited to be blogging again, while we were away, I got to scout out some awesome new items! Check out this Cupcake Cuff! In Hope is an amazing seamstress and this cuff is only $10.00.

“I just felt like making some cuffs this week because my arm have felt naked. This one is made out of bright red vinyl with a stitched on vinyl cupcake. I also sewed industrial style pink Velcro to keep this bracelet closed. It is about 8 inches long and about 2 inches in the middle most wide part. The inside of this cuff is a light pink felt so you wont get a sweaty wrist. This cuff would fit most girls.”

Her banner even has cupcakes, how cool is that!

All Things Cupcake is All New! I am working on some changes right now, but what do you think?? More things will be added momentarily.

As most of you know, I run my own web design business called Cuppycake Designs however, for this site I wanted something a little different.. so I asked Gis to help me create something “cupcakey” and well.. she did just that! Thanks :)

This round of Cupcake Hero was dedicated to one of my favorite things in the world, coffee. Actually, 2 things I love in this world, as my hubs, Jaos, picked the theme in honor of his birthday.

Ladies came from far and wide to bake in honor of Jaos’ birthday. Well, I don’t know about far and wide, but they sent the entries to me via email alright.

When all was said and done, a new Cupcake Hero was chocsen. And her cupcake is one of the best cupcakes I have ever eaten.

Congrats to Molly of Batter-Splattered and her Mocha Cupcakes with Walnuts. This recipe is a MUST try. It really is a fantastic chocolate cupcake. Its even better if you let them take a rest over night. Yum. You can check out the rest of the delish coffee cupcake entries here.