As we mentioned yesterday, enter the giveaway that Jamie from Oh! How Lovely! is holding. Enter soon!

oh. my. god.

I want this in every room of the house. This cupcake bank is absolutely wonderful!

$45.00 at Neiman Marcus (or as known by others, Needless Markup).

However, for this…. I definitely choose juicy.

I just had to share a quick funny note and explain just how small this world is when cupcakes are involved.

The other day, one of All Things Cupcake’s contributors wrote a post about an adorable car she saw with the license plate that said CUPCKES.

She randomly found it while driving around and thought it was too cute not to post. Well turns out, the owner of the car and the license plate reads All Things Cupcake and left a comment on the post! She said:

Hey! That’s my car! I check this blog daily and how surprised was I to see my car on it this morning?!? I live in Chandler and am starting my own cupcake business, I even have a blog of my own. I love checking your blog to see what new and fun cupcake ideas are out there. Thanks for the inspiration!

By Tania on 09.08.08 1:10 pm

Small world. :)

Jamie from Oh! How Lovely! is hosting a giveaway for an adorable Cupcake Apron from Sassy Apron !!!!

Jamie says "This week’s feature and giveaway is from Sassy Apron. No, these aren’t your gramma’s aprons either!"

To enter the giveaway, go here and follow the instructions :)

Yay!

All Things Cupcake would like to welcome our newest contributors ! Marilla of Cupcake Rehab & Karen of Holy Cow Cupcakes !

These fine ladies love cupcakes just as much as we do and we are glad to have them on board. To find out more about them, view our about page.

I love this!

Found on etsy.

Hi!

I was just wondering if you guys know where I could find dark purple or black muffin cups/cupcake liners/whatever they’re called! i’m from Canada and am having a hard time finding them in stores or even on the internet!

Thanks,

Christine

If anybody knows, please leave your response in a comment.

Amanda aka Smarmy Pants sent us a link to her etsy shop recently. I had a few minutes today to browse and I fell in love with these adorable cupcake pincushions. Her work has been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine, Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion Magazine, and on Martha Stewart Television.

Blue Cupcake Pincushion – $18.00

Pink Cupcake with Chocolate Strawberry – $22.00

You can find more in her shop!

Our reader Natasha sent this in.

$30.00 from Suite 106 Cupcakery

Cirque du Soleil performers leap across the buttercream frosting.
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Saltimbanco Cupcakes , originally uploaded by abakedcreation .

A Baked Creation says: Cirque du Soleil’s Saltimbanco has stopped in Toronto at the Air Canada Centre. For the occasion, we made cupcakes for a group of friends who watched the show last Saturday. With this in mind, we designed chocolate toppers in the shape of performers on green icing. Enjoy!

Bake a cupcake using your microwave and the cupcake maker in just 30 seconds.

Girl Gourmet Cupcake Maker : $29.88 at Walmart.

Refills can be found here

Includes 4 great flavors: Red Velvet, Chocolate, Cinnamon Sugar, and Vanilla
All ingredients are made in the USA

Thanks, Summer!

Stumbled upon this amazing recipe tonight from Cupcake Rehab (awesome blog), and my mouth instantly began to water. Yum!

A vanilla cupcake with buttercream frosting made with black cherry Kool-Aid. Of course, you could use any of Kool-Aid’s plethora of fake fruit flavors to make any kind of frosting you wanted. Additionally, it can be added to cupcake batter as well. You could even add it to cupcake batter along with chunks of fresh fruit, or do the same with the frosting. Also, it can be sprinkled on top of frosting in place of colored sugar. Oh- the possibilities!! – Cupcake Rehab

CHERRY KOOL-AID FROSTING

Ingredients:

To read more about this recipe and see more delicious photos, visit http://cupcakerehab.com/?p=381

Welcome to the new face of All Things Cupcake! Isn’t it light, fluffy and delicious? Thought so! Thanks to my design partner, Teresa of Delicious Design Studio for the yummy design. With the new look, comes a few new things. All Things Cupcake has parted ways with Food Buzz and is now a member of Martha Stewart’s ad network. We are excited about all the new changes and hope the new look is easier to navigate as well as less cluttered.

With that, I want to offer an opportunity for anyone to be a part of All Things Cupcake. We are finally ready to expand our team. If you are interested in being a part of our blog, please fill out the form . Serious inquiries only.

Thank you for the continued support of ATC and for reading! We love writing about cupcakes just as much as you love reading about them. :)

By Jennifer 8. Lee

New York City may well be the cupcake capital of America. Magnolia Bakery of Greenwich Village has produced a list of progeny very Old Testament in length: Magnolia begat Billy’s and Buttercup, and Buttercup in turn begat Sugar Sweet Sunshine.

And then there are Crumbs, Cupcake Cafe (which dates to 1988) and Burgers and Cupcakes. Los Angeles appears to be hopping on the cupcake bandwagon , but New York remains the genesis of cupcake awareness. (Los Angeles, however, gave us the yogurt craze with Pinkberry .)

Many of the cupcake shops have started to clone themselves. Magnolia opened a second spot on the Upper West Side in addition to its Village location. It plans a third store in Rockefeller Center this month. Buttercup Bake Shop now has two places on the East and West Sides of Manhattan. Within the last several years, Cupcake Cafe also now has two locations. Even with expansions, these places have retained their boutique appeal.

But Crumbs , which started in 2003 with a single store on the Upper West Side, is expanding more aggressively, with 40 planned stores over the next year and 150 within the next five years. (All self-financed.)

This kind of growth brings to mind the tale of Krispy Kreme , another sweet phenomenon that went national very fast. It, too, offered a nostalgic dessert at premium prices, with lines around the block and fawning press coverage. Krispy Kreme went public in 2000 and was a high-flying stock that confounded analysts with its market appeal , rising even as the dot-com bubble burst.

Krispy Kreme quickly came down to earth, through dilution of the brand and mismanagement . And finally, another indignity — the glazed donuts were transformed into Krispy Kreme bacon cheeseburgers .

Mia and Josh Bauer, the couple who opened up Crumbs, see Krispy Kreme as a cautionary tale. “We look at them all the time,” Ms. Bauer said. “We don’t want to make the same mistakes by overexpanding.”

“I was a fanatic when they opened up,” she said. “They pirated themselves by overexpanding and the quality dropped immediately. Their choices were not the greatest. You could get them in the gas stations.”

There are now several Crumbs shops in New York and two in Los Angeles.

“We will expand to places where there is a demand,” Ms. Bauer said. “We want to be very careful and strategic and not to expand too quickly.”

One sign of demand is the large volume of requests that Crumbs gets for shipping. (Last year, it stopped shipping until it could come up with a better process.)

Is there enough demand for premium-priced cupcakes to warrant this much expansion? Or is the cupcake just another food fad? (The Atkins Diet, for example, broadsided Krispy Kreme , though now the Atkins Diet has receded from view.)

Even now, the cupcake appears to be at a tipping point . There are signs of a cupcake backlash — both from schools concerned about childhood obesity and from foodies who can only maintain nostalgia for so long.

Article from New York Times Blog.

Thanks Angela. :)

Toast, assorted cupcakes, originally uploaded by jleighb.

Toast, assorted cupcakes

after the food-food.

me: Could we please get one of every cupcake –
server: To-go, sure.
me: No, all on one plate. For here :)

*sigh* they all looked so good, but turned out extremely bad! i was very disappointed. especially since the food-food was so great.

sampled them all with my friend, who agreed they were the utter opposite of tasty.

Uploaded by jleighb on 7 May 06, 7.17PM EDT.

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Vanilla Cupcakes from Cupcakes by Sonja , originally uploaded by Upward Facing Dude .

Vanilla Cupcakes from Cupcakes by Sonja

Probably the most photogenic cupcakes in Manila

Uploaded by Upward Facing Dude on 25 Mar 07, 8.05PM EDT.

cupcake party!, originally uploaded by magicbeanbuyer.

cupcake party!

a fresh batch of cupcakes…

Made by myself out of polymer clay and handpainted.

Uploaded by magicbeanbuyer on 11 May 08, 9.58PM EDT.

If you’re a blogger and are looking for a fun day out in New York City, than the Martha Stewart Show has something for YOU! This September, one of MARTHA’s audiences is going to be FILLED with bloggers. Check out the link below and request your tickets NOW before they’re gone!!

http://www.marthastewart.com/get-tickets

Come join me and an audience full of bloggers! I will be there representing All Things Cupcake! :)

Complete, originally uploaded by SweetBabyG.

a little blurry but still cute.

By Nicole Papageorge

Story Created: Sep 2, 2008 at 5:45 PM EDT

PUNTA GORDA – One local business owner is raising money for Louisiana hurricane victims in a very unconventional way. But, her contributions are made in a very conventional oven.

Owner Cindee Murphy of Pies and Plates hopes to give away thousands of cupcakes this week in return for hurricane relief donations.

"We just have so much empathy for the folks there," says Murphy

Murphy’s business was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Charley in 2004.

"It looked like a tornado had come through, but it was a hurricane," says Murphy.

Later this month, she’ll testify before Congress about creating tax-free disaster funds for owners like herself.

"Having immediate funds available is just critical for us to take care of our staff and business," she says.

Her customers remember her struggle and are supporting her efforts.

"We know too well what the damage occurs when a hurricane comes through ur community," says Claudia Sanchez.

Knowing that someone will be there with sweet relief, makes all the difference.

"The help of everybody in the community that’s what gets you through really, that’s what gets you through," says Sanchez.

You can donate all week at Pies and Plates or through your local American Red Cross chapter.

Article Here.

Aggghhh! Zack Attack! Mark-Paul Gosselaar dropped by this morning to tell us all about his new series Raising the Bar (premiering Monday night), in which he’ll play a public defender with plenty of heart, hair. Mandi’s dutifully compiling a sure-to-be-amusing Mark-Paul Through the Years gallery that’ll post on Monday. Meanwhile, let’s talk about how his awesome TNT publicist (and PopWatch reader — hello again!) Susan brought a dozen obscenely oversized cupcakes for all of us aging Saved by the Bell superfans to graze on. This worked out perfectly, because I’m not allowed to eat obscenely oversized cupcakes unless a dreamy ’90s high school TV icon feeds them to me. What are the odds? Mandi would like to point out how EW’s various awards for “excellence” appropriately serve as a backdrop for a photo of two loons eating cupcakes.

Yesterday, Zack’s impending Attack had a bunch of us attempting to out-Saved by the Bell trivia each other in the hallway. Tim Stack absolutely won, nonchalantly name-dropping the duck killed by the oil spill near Bayside’s football field in an emotionally charged impression of Zack Morris cradling said duck: “Don’t worry, Becky. You’re where the oil can’t hurt you now.”

Dear lord. What’s the weirdest thing you remember from SBTB?

Article from pop watch.

Thanks Kira!!
Here are the items she bought.

Get your booty to TARGET. asap.

An e-mail from one of our readers, Diane!

“You may have covered it before I found your blog, but at our local (Jonesboro, Arkansas) Target in the $1 bins, they have a line of products—lotion, body butter, body wash, lip gloss, note pads, eye mask, brush, etc., that feature cupcake artwork and have flavors called strawberry swirl, coconut crème, vanilla sprinkles and raspberry something (can’t remember).

They are just a dollar each, and I’ve given work friends the strawberry and vanilla, which they love. I love the coconut”

oh yes yes yes. I <3 Target. Always giving us the cupcake goodies!!! If anyone goes to target, and purchases these items.. PLEASE send us some pictures!