Happy Valentine’s Day! According to Perez Hilton, Hilary Duff picked up some Crumbs cupcakes to celebrate Valentine’s Day! I hope your Valentine’s Day includes love and cupcakes!
Be on the lookout for a new Hallmark Channel movie titled Operation Cupcake, starring Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson. The movie preimeres Sunday, June 17th at 8 Eastern. The movie tells the story of an Army dad who suddenly finds himself working in a cupcakery. Apparently, he tries to take a military approach to cupcaking. Hmm…
Oddly enough, there was another movie with the same name, albeit, bearing a colon, Operation: Cupcake, from 2006. I can find no connection between the movies though, except for the well, love of cupcakes.
Do you know a cupcake fan who’s birthday is coming up? Does that cupcake lover also happen to be a fan of Taylor Swift? Then Taylor Swift’s line of cards through American Greetings has the perfect card for you! I looked through the line of cards at my local Joann Fabrics and spotted the sparkly cupcake card shown above. The card reads “a sparkly cupcake…for a sparkly girl. Happy Birthday” and is reasonably priced at $3.49.
Good Morning ATC Community! and welcome to the official start of crunch time. These are the days that we second-guess whether we did enough of everything and end up doing too much!
If you’re like me, you’ve baked a fair amount of holiday treasures.
But holiday week is a bit like a marathon and, in the home stretch, who isn’t looking for fresh ideas to keep inspired? The challenge I set to myself is whether I can come up with a week of images, recipes, and instructions to keep us all – myself included – at 350F from now through next Saturday.
These Baked Ideas images are cookies, but so fresh and original they will inspire your cupcake decorating ideas. Here’s a smorgasbord of cookie decorating ideas from “Baked Ideas” by Patti Paige, along with the Baked Ideas’ Facebook page and the video on the Baked Ideas mini gingerbread houses. 3,000 each season!
If you’re still looking for last minute gifts, Baked Ideas even sells yoga cookie cutters. How did she do that? Here’s her video on piping royal icing onto each one of the yoga posed gingerbread men and here’s the Baked Ideas gingerbread recipe.
Ah-ha! My Muse gripped that one!
Today, I’m going to springboard those Baked Ideas into spice cupcakes with yoga shapes drawn on the top, including some Sandskrit symbols, such as “Namaste.” And I know just who is on my list for these yoga cupcakes…
Now that’s what I mean about taking inspiration and giving yourself permission to be creative at the holidays! What’s your idea?
Countdown: 6 days.
Zooey Deschanel likes Cupcake Wars! In this 30 second clip from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Zooey Deschanel and Ferguson plan a cupcake war with delicious results.
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!
Love fudge? Been eating hot fudge sundaes? How about cooling down while heating up some “Lava Fudge Cupcakes” in your kitchen?
Lava Fudge Cupcake
Georgetown Cupcake’s Sophie has a 2-minute video, courtesy of The Learning Channel, claiming to “reveal the secrets behind their famous Lava Fudge cupcake.”
While she doesn’t provide the recipe, Sophie does provide several excellent tips, from using apple corers to hollow out cupcakes before pouring in the fudge, to easy-pour tops for filling and decorating.
So I dug around the Internet at bit…and found the Georgetown Cupcakes recipe for their chocolate cupcake with vanilla cream cheese frostings with variations! Add your own fudge and, “By George! I think we’ve got it!”
Mojito Cupcake
By now, you have probably all seen or read the news that two cupcake “recipes” were used in an MI6 British Secret Intelligence cyberattack of an al-Qaeda e-zine. What I read several days ago and took as a bit of humor in The Guardian, a British newspaper, has now become worldwide news.
So I thought: what recipes?
According to United Press International, the two recipes used were from Main Street Cupcakes (Hudson, OH).
Wrong. The two, specific cupakes used in the cyberattack were the “mojito cupcake” and the “rocky road cupcake.” Yes, the mojito is from Main Street Cupakes and it’s a “white rum cake with hints of mint and lime covered in vanilla buttercream with a Mojito buttercream garnish.” But, the “rocky road cupcake” is from Cupcake (Charleston, SC), and it’s “dark chocolate cake plus chocolate icing with toasted almonds.” This I found out by locating the original .pdf from the Ellen Degeneres show parodied by MI6.
What I did not find were “recipes.”
We may have to file this report of recipes from “The Best Cupcakes in America” entering the public domain under “false intelligence.”
Magnolia Bakery (c Sam Dow)
Let the cupcake wars begin!
Magnolia Bakery – of Sarah Jessica Parker fame – is about to face some serious competition from Georgetown Cupcake – of DC Cupcake fame. The official announcement, made June 7, forecasts the opening of the NYC store in winter 2011.
Can anyone weigh in on who will win this war?
Will it be Magnolia with their “delicately textured lemon cupcake filled with a tart lemon cream and topped with lemon meringue buttercream,” now on its second owner, having already been sold once since its 1996 opening in Greenich Village? Or will it be sisters Katherine Kallinis and Sophie LaMontagne with their “Valrhona chocolate cupcake with a whipped Callebaut chocolate frosting topped with a fondant flower” at the shop in SoHo?
If the yumminess of website photographs is factor to handicap this competition, my money is on Katherine & Sophie.
The Priscilla Cupcake
New York City’s Magnolia Bakery will once again release the “Priscilla Cupcake” on Monday, June 6. This green pistachio cupcake, iced with pistachio meringue butter-cream icing and topped with a meringue kiss and colorful confetti, was inspired by the dancing cupcakes from the Broadway musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Read the rest of this entry »
It seems that we are always hearing about ways we can give of our time and resources to help others, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise to cupcake enthusiasts that cupcakes can also play a role.
This past Tuesday, singer Sheryl Crow used cupcakes to bring some cheer to sick kids at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN. The popular singer visited the hospital as a part of the Music Gives to St. Jude Kids initiative, which aims to fight childhood cancer and disease through raising funds and awareness. Crow participated by making cupcakes with children at the hospital.
I came across these amazing cake inspired ice cream flavors the other day online from Blue Bunny and my mouth is still watering just thinking about them. Famous cake baker Duff Goldman from Charm City Cakes and the famous TV show, Ace of Cakes came up with these amazing flavors.
Premium Ice Cream
I Do! I Do! Wedding Cake™
Premium Ice Cream
Red Carpet Red Velvet Cake™
Have any of you cupcake lovers out there tired these yet?
Found these AWESOME cupcakes today by the super talented Solange Queiroz! Aren’t they fantastic! I love this idea and it would be brilliant for a sixties party or a musical themed party… I can just imagine these four cupcakes atop a cupcake tower with all the other cupcakes decorated with screaming girl faces!
Are you watching FOX’s new cop drama, The Chicago Code? You should be. The show is a knockout. Well-written, well-executed, and a star-studded cast. Australian dreamboat Jason Clarke and the gorgeous and uber-talented Chicago-born Jennifer Beals lead the way with stellar backing from critically acclaimed Delroy Lindo and up-and-coming Friday Night Lights standout Matt Lauria.
But what you really want to hear about is the cupcakes, right? Adam Arkin (The West Wing, Life, Chicago Hope) joined the series last night as a big and bad FBI hot shot, bent on pushing our lovely Jennifer Beals around. At first, things didn’t look good for the Chicago Superintendant of Police, but then she brought in a platter of red velvet cupcakes. And as the FBI agent and the Super munched on some cupcakes, they came to a compromise that moved watchers to tears. Then they licked their fingers. The whole thing was easily believable.
According to one of the show’s writers, the actors had to eat those cupcakes through six takes of the scene. Oh! Acting is such a rough gig! I’m hoping the show sets a precident. Crime can be fought, problems can be solved, corruption can be conquered, if we would just sit down together and have some cupcakes.
Reality TV fan or not, you have to agree that Lauren Conrad has great style! Personally I like her LC line carried by Kohl’s. For one of the dresses in her spring collection, Lauren poses with cupcakes! I love the dress and the spring feeling from the picture, it even has a little Alice In Wonderland vibe. Even though the dress doesn’t have cupcake on it, if you want to look as cute as Lauren you can purchase the dress from Kohl’s for $44.99.
In case you missed it, here it is again! Yesterday, Jerry Seinfeld surprised Regis and Kelly with what Kelly coined a “megacupcake.” It did look delicious, and the three of them were not shy about digging in! The cupcake was created by Crumbs Bake Shop.
The Cupcake Ward Cookbook is a fundraising project created by a 12 year old girl, Georgie. The money raised by sales of the book will go towards Great Ormond Street Hospital where a new ward, which will be called the Cupcake Ward, is being built. The book features recipes by famous cookbook author’s such as Nigella Lawson and Ina Garten aka Barefoot Contessa. The book costs £17.00, including worldwide shipping (£13.00 with UK shipping) and can be purchased through bunnyandboo.net.
Keanu Reeves has always been a bit mysterious, and apparently, he celebrated his 46th birthday this past Friday enjoying a single cupcake, bearing a single candle, by himself outside a film prop warehouse.
There is nothing wrong with a little solitude, especially when it is accompanied by a little sweet. Happy Birthday Keanu!
There are few things in life that I love more than Glee, Fox’s hit musical comedy. While Glee did win a few Emmys last night, I was disappointed that Lea Michele, who stunningly plays the character of Rachel, did not win. She was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and I think she should have won, but she is young, and I can root for her for years to come. Yesterday was her 24th birthday. I remember where I spent my 24th birthday, and it certainly wasn’t at the Emmys. But all is well that ends well because guess what she got for her birthday?
Pre-show host Billy Bush presented her with a vegan cupcake in a jar. And though I would be pretty darn excited about such a gift, this red carpet gal pronounced the gift both “ghetto” and “cool.”
Christina Applegate on the red carpet for Cats and Dogs last month. Image from Growing Your Baby.
I was reading today in Celebrity Baby Scoop that Christina Applegate has admitted to having a different kind of died during her pregnancy. Apparently her healthy diet has fled in the wake of some serious food cravings, and what did she indulge on?
What else but a Sprinkles Cupcake and fried cheese!
So I thought I would assist Christina in her challenge to more closely combine these two taste sensations, and thanks so much to Clever Cupcakes found this – the cheese cupcake!
For the new movie The Romantics, J. Crew held a photo shoot featuring the movie’s cast in J. Crew’s latest looks. Celebrities staring in the movie include Adam Brody, Katie Holmes, and Josh Duhamel. In the shoot the cast goofs around and in the photo shown above the stars are seen enjoying cupcakes!
Katie Holmes last week made cupcake headlines when she contacted Isabelle’s Curly Cakes in New York and ordered a batch to be delivered to her in Toronto.
Katie is currently acting in a documentary about the Kennedys for the History Channel and it appears she just couldn’t do with out them.
It appears also that cupcake adoration runs in the family, Suri shown here also being a big fan (photo by James Devaney sourced from The Star).
So what cupcakes would you order from New York? Katie ordered Red Velvet and Grasshopper flavor.
According to ShowbizSpy, Jennifer Aniston is one of us! According to their sources (who I am certain are quite reliable), Jennifer is addicted to the Good Guy Cupcake from Crumbs Bake Shop in West Hollywood. 
The “Good Guy” is a vanilla cake with rainbow sprinkles baked in, filled with vanilla cream cheese frosting, and topped with vanilla cream cheese frosting, covered with rainbow sprinkles and white chocolate drizzle. A portion of proceeds from the Good Guy is donated to the SFK organization.
But Ms. Aniston knows about moderation — apparently, she limits herself to one Good Guy Cupcake per week.
The new issue of People Magazine will hit the stands this Friday and it will feature 5 pages of photos from Carrie Underwood‘s July 10th wedding, where she tied the knot with professional hockey player Mike Fisher.
The wedding cake was a cupcake tower made by bridesmaid Ivey Childers, who runs the IveyCake Bakery in Franklin, Tennesse.
Underwood describes her cupcakes as “as the most amazing cupcakes in the universe.”
IveyCake features cupcakes with names like: Two-Faced, The Apology, Big Dreams, Crazy Ex, Gold Digger, Goody Two Shoes, and my favorite: Lucky in Love. 
