One thing that is almost as big as cupcakes, is a trend for really cute owls! It is no wonder then that owls, cupcakes and Valentines Day have all been combined to create a super cute gift for someone special.

These owl cupcakes were created by My Own Barn and you can find out all about them at the blog.  It is truly a haven for owl lovers with everything ‘owl’ being displayed!  But it was not the blog that got my attention, it was the cupcake, adorned with a lovely owl that was winking at me on Flickr.  You can check them out here.

What would make a little girls birthday completely magical?

What else but unicorns and rainbows!  And that is what Alicake did for her girl’s birthday party!

These use white fondant for the faces and eyes, chocolate covered sunflower seeds for the horn, a black food coloring pen for the eyes and mouth, and tinted vanilla frosting for the hair.

I’m sure Kate loved them!

For the ultimate cupcake party princess you need to have one of these fantastic cupcake wine glasses!  Say goodbye to those pesky little wine glass identifier metal rings, which get lost and in my case fly off as I get animated… no from now on I’m rocking up to my friends and family with this!

Well maybe not, I’m not that much of a princess, but it would be great fun at home.  Though I am not too sure I would be able to keep it away from my daughter.  Safe to say it would be juice and soda only for her (probably together, because she is crazy that way!)

You can get one of these glasses for the birthday girl, or treat yourself, birthday or no birthday.  They are available from Diva Entertains!

This week’s giveaway is sponsored by Etsy seller Nattie Cakes Decor. She specializes in beautifully made hair clips, beanies and headbands for little girls.   And of course, she has sweet cupcake items available in her shop:

 When my package from her shop arrived, I was beyond thrilled with these lovely well-made treasures.  My daughter squealed with delight and quickly wanted to put them in her hair.   The only problem we had was deciding which one to wear first! 

This week we have a very special type of giveaway fromNattie Cakes.  You get to choose your prize!  Actually your PRIZES!  Nattie Cakes is giving away a $25 gift certificate to her shop.  You can choose clips, headbands, beanies- any mix up to $25 and you get free shipping too. 

To enter this giveaway, first go to Nattie Cakes’ Etsy shop and pick out a favorite item.  Then come back to ATC and click on the comment area below.  Tell us the item and an item you think would be a great addition to her shop.  One winner will be chosen on Monday, January 24th. 

Make sure to “Like” Nattie Cakes Decor’s Facebook page too!  It is a great way to stay up to date on her new items and sales. 

Looking for the perfect party favor?  Well Diva Entertain’s cupcake lip gloss is a sensational idea!  For me it is the answer to both my daughter’s upcoming birthday party and my sister-in-law’s hen’s night!

Lip gloss is something we all need and you can’t get lip gloss that is cuter than these adorable, flavored, cupcakes.  That is right, flavored!!  Best of all, being the organizer I get to choose, so one vanilla will be snaffled for me, a strawberry for my older daughter and chocolate for my younger daughter!  Perfect!

Best of all these glossy cuppies are perfect for your handbag too being an inch by and inch and three quarters.

If you ever have thought of making a cupcake mural then visiting Project Core Connect could be a valuable experience!  Although Cake Crumbs (the bakery involved) had never done such a mural before they relished the opportunity to be involved with creating a distracting large mural of Megamind for Denver’s Rock N Roll Marathon.

Now this mural isn’t your ordinary 50 – 100 cupcake picture, no, it required a WHOPPING 1000 cupcakes to create, had to be done on an angle and constructed through the night outside in the cold!  It is certainly a test of endurance.

From the images you get an idea of the scale of this amazing cupcake creation!

How on earth would you celebrate an Art Gala at a Comic Book Store?

Jenny from Geek Sweets has the answer… with comic book cupcakes of course and these are fantastic.

Jenny has created so many different types of cupcake decorations from Flash lightning bolts to Spidermen, to Batman, to the Joker, to the characters from Watchmen!  Everything is here, including Superman in many different colors!

To check out all the individual cupcakes and get the inspiration you need for your next superhero cupcake party, check out her blog here.

One of readers Traci recently sent in photos of her daughter’s first birthday party and she took their chosen theme ‘cupcakes’ to the extreme!  Traci indicated that All Things Cupcake provided much of her inspiration, but I have to say she has provided me with all the inspiration I need to organize my daughter’s 6th birthday party next year.  Megan has been longing for a cupcake party, and there is no way you can get more cupcakey than this!

The first photo is of their create a cupcake stand!  This would be great fun for all children allowing them to frost and then decorate their cupcakes.  The awesome little cupcake containers were from the Posh Box on Etsy allowing the guests to take their creations home!  And with a bit of ribbon and some buttons, Traci made them so much fun!

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In the past I have posted about Amy Atlas Events and expressed how much I love everything that Amy Atlas creates.  Over the summer we shared with you a DIY tutorial for cupcake liner garland.  Now, this past week Atlas shared her own tutorial for cupcake wrapper garland.  The very easy directions for this fun decoration are included on her website.

Ahhhhhaarrggh mee hearties!  Der’ is treasure to be found in Debbie Does Cakes Flickr photo stream, that is to be sure!  She creates some of the most amazing cakes and cupcakes that I have ever seen and these gold laden pirate cupcakes are no different!  I love the mix of skulls, flags, maps, rum and best of all the treasure chests!

Oh and I love her vomiting pumpkin cake!  Tis sensational!

Do you ever wonder how people make those sensational fondant creations to sit on top of their cakes and cupcakes?  Well wonder no longer you too can make a cheeky cute fondant monkey just like this one here!  How?  Well Cake Fixation last month posted a detailed step-by-step how to, with loads of photos to show you exactly how to make your own!

It looks so super easy thanks to Stephanie’s instructions!  Let us know if you have a go at trying to make this little monkey girl!

Always looking for a new, and different way to package cupcakes? This cupcake cottage favor boxes kit is just that.  Available from Mahar Drygoods, for $4.00, you are emailed a link to a downloadable PDF.  From there you print the 11 page PDF and assemble your cupcake cottages!

I feel like I would have really loved these as a kid at a birthday party.  I think they not only make great cupcake packaging but also party favor boxes!

Got a no shoes policy at your home? or just want to provide a great take home gift for your girlfriends?  There is something so fun about these socks!

Okay if you don’t know what I am talking about, it is Grippy Socks, you know those great winter socks that you can safely wear around the house (that is you’ll stay upright).  But these are even better because they contain cupcakes on them and they can be personalised.

Instead of bird seed or a plastic take home gift from your wedding, you could provide something really useful and super fun in these socks!  Or generate your support for your cupcake cause or organisation by creating your own branded cupcake home footwear.  I am not sure though that they can replace shoes just yet in your bakery, but hey!

You can get these socks from ATC Sponsor Diva Entertains and best of all you can write text in both the top part of the sole and the bottom part as shown above.  Don’t forget that you can also choose the colors of both the socks and the text!

Everyone loves piñatas and what’s better then a cupcake piñata?  MommyDo offers a variety of made to order piñatas including cupcakes! Most of the piñatas range in price from $30.00 to $50.00.  Since the piñatas are made to order you get to decide if you want a traditional piñatas or pull string.  If you decide order a piñata, remember to allow enough time for it to be made!

Who would have thought to turn a game of chess into cupcakes!  These cupcakes come from the fantastic Sweetopia blog where they used a chess chocolate mould to make a series of white and brown chocolate chess pieces.  They then made up two batches of cupcakes one set in vanilla with white frosting and the other in chocolate with chocolate frosting.  The chess pieces were then added to the top.

The board is a vinyl one, which was the perfect size for the standard cupcakes, and I totally adore the cupcake wrappers used.

You can find the recipes and instructions for these cupcakes on the Sweetopia blog.

I have never seen a paper disposable single cupcake stand! The is really cool. You could dress it up with some sparkles or ribbon. This would be perfect for a younger child’s birthday party.

I found these Paper Cupcake Stands at Paper Source.

Here is another few great items from Paper Source.

Cupcake Circle Custom Stamp

2011 Cupcake Calendar

This week I received a lovely gift in the mail that I had to share with all of you.  These adorable vanilla scented cupcake candle are made byLimor Yaron and are available in these popular colors:

How perfect would this be for a cupcake birthday party for your little one?!  Although it was difficult for me, I did decide to burn it to see if the smell lasted.  I am very happy to say that it did!  And even when the top part burned down, the cupcake was just as cute and sweet smelling and continued to burn for several hours.  Limor Yaron’s  items can be purchased at  Etsy shop or visit New York’s MoMA stores for all her other candles and wares.  

My great friend Anne just shared this awesome cake she ordered from her Target bakery for her son’s seventh birthday.  The party had a mad science theme and the beaker pull-apart cupcake cake was a perfect fit.  This would be a great cake to make for a Halloween party too.   I wish my local Target had a bakery!

Happy Birthday Avery!

There is one word that describes these fun cupcakes and that is BRIGHT and there is nothing that kids love more than colorful cupcakes.  These ones are from Spearmint Baby’s blog and will not only bring a smile to your kid’s faces but probably yours as well!

The best news is that Shari takes you step by step through how she made these including her hints to avoid color mix!  I love the ones she did in the plain white wrappers, which were their own gorgeous rainbow color by the time they were done.

Try them yourself and if you have any great tips for rainbow cupcakes, let us know!

Super Mario Cupcake by hello naomi

There’s nothing more classic geek than Super Mario Brothers.  I love how sharply detailed the iconic little characters turn out in fondant!

Amazing cupcakes and picture by ATC favorite and baker extraordinaire, hello naomi. Thanks to GeekSugar for the cupcake tip!

Hello cupcake fans!!  Tonight I’d like to introduce you to our newest ATC advertiser, FunFavors.   This Etsy crafter’s creative shop is dedicated to personalizing all types of events.  They create invitations, party decor and super cute cookie favors!  Check out a few of my favorites:

 Be sure to become FunFavors fan on Facebook and Twitter!

Next week, ATC will be hosting a sweet giveaway for FunFavors but I’m not going to tell you what they are giving away!  Check out theirEtsy shop to see if you can guess what it will be!

I found these amazing cupcakes on Flickr the other day and had to share them with you.  These princesses including Snow White, Ariel and Sleeping Beauty were made by Solange a Brazilian Cupcake Designer.

They are so perfect, but as you know, what is a princess without her accessories, so Solange made accessory cupcakes too!  I like this princess cupcake style – I just need my designer bag and sun glasses!

photo courtesy of Look Cupcake

These were created for a first birthday party that was ever-so-appropriately hosted at Woodland Park Zoo.   I like the mural-like frosting art on the cake, but am particularly tickled by the detailing on the cupcakes:

Photo courtesy of Look Cupcake

Rawr! Beware the wild cupcake!  They may be sweet, but they are fierce!

photo courtesy of Clever Cupcakes

Clever Cupcakes yet again prove they are veritable demigods of fondant with this cupcake set for a two-year old’s birthday party. The tire cupcake is my personal favorite – I think it really shows the care they put into their decoration. The theme of the birthday party was the Disney movie Cars. Since Clever Cupcakes doesn’t make a practice of copying the likenesses of trademarked characters, even in fondant, they use opportunities to be more creatively true to their assigned theme.

photo courtesy of Taekwonweirdo

photo courtesy of Taekwonweirdo

photo courtesy of Taekwonweirdo

I thought these little guys were just charming as all get out. They were made up by Bittersweet Bakery for a little boy’s first birthday party.  Bittersweet is an outfit out in Chicago that has a full menu and does cakes and cupcakes for events like weddings and wee little birthday parties.

(see Taekwonweirdo’s photostream here)