I know we have had a few posts recently celebrating the 90th anniversary of Hostess cupcakes but I wanted to share a few amazing Etsy finds that honor this special treat.
Hostess Cupcake Dress $60
Cupcake Soap $4
Giant Cupcake Floorcloth $40
Visit stayhomecupcake’sshop in Etsy.
Halloween always comes up quickly once it becomes October and since it is September, that means it is time to get thinking about what you or your little one is going to dress up as. Cupcakes make there perfect costume for the young or the young at heart. The Food Network Magazine has directions for making you own cupcake costume.
My only issue with the design was that the cupcake liner portion is made out of cardboard. No problem if you are walking around but you would have some trouble if you needed to sit, say when it’s “wear your costume to school day.” But if you get creative I’m sure there is a solution, maybe a corduroy skirt instead of the cardboard?
I often have a difficult time figuring out a great gift for baby showers. After all, not only the baby receiving this gift, but the mom as well. Typical gifts such as infant toys, baby consumables, gift certificates are all good choices, but they seem to be a little lacking in imagination.
Diaper cupcakes present a convenient solution. It is both imminently practical, has visual impact as a gift, and entirely customizable to any theme relevant for the baby and family you have in mind.
If you like craftsy or hands-on projects, these step-by-step instructions will help you get started. Here are some diaper cupcake visuals to inspire your creativity:
Of course professionally made cupcakes gifts are also available. One vendor, Baby Sweet Treat, makes not only cupcakes, but sundaes and lollipops as well.
Bella cupcake wrappers are meant to kick up decorative cupcakes another notch. If you are tired of the waxy cupcake liners that become semi-transparent after baking, Bella offers stylish wrappers with an assortment of colors and patterns to match your special occasion.
Mei runs Tiny Hands Online, a handmade jewelry store. She specializes in custom miniature food jewelry! They are tiny things, all less than an inch in size and non-edible despite looking tantalizingly real.
There is a special 15% discount coupon when a customer enters “I Love Cupcakes” when they check out. There is no minimum amount required for purchase and will expire September 22, 2009.
Cupcake Pin Cushion & Needlebook
Available at Ditsy Daisies.
Not just a knitted cupcake! This is home to a cupcake fairy. Lift the frosting lid and tucked inside is a tiny fairy complete with hand embroidered tunic, petal skirt, and acorn hat. The cupcake is fully lined for the fairy’s comfort but her favorite place when not sleeping is perched on top of the cupcake. ‘coconut breeze’ is of milk chocolate yarn with a fluffy white coconut frosting. The blue button enclosure opens to a cotton flowered lining.
This item has tiny parts and is not suitable for young children but is ideal for gentle hands of ages 6 through 100.
Available flavors (cupcake bottom) include: chocolate cake, caramel cake, pistachio(bright green), lemon poundcake, strawberry, angel food, vanilla cream cake, blueberry. Frostings include: pink marshmallow, chocolate fudge, white coconut, vanilla with sprinkles, caramel, lemon chiffon.
Please specify: boy/girl, blonde/brunette. Acorn cap style and frosting yarn will vary according to availability.
These are sold and used as examples only.
Please visit Sweet Nothings By Nisa, for more information.
Some cupcake themed products that our readers have graciously pointed out:
Stephanie from from freshvintage pointed out these adorable cupcake hotpants and cupcake panties.
Georgina from dollymixx is selling these adorable cupcake charms and cupcake necklace.
April, whose daughter’s nickname is “cake” found this gem of a cupcake necklace on Amazon. Of cours they had a cupcake-themed birthday party for her first birthday! Happy Birthday!
One day you found a cupcake liner for a race of giants. What would you do with the liner?
In actuality, Sweet Cake is the XXL version. Sweet Cake is an amusing eye-catcher, no matter how you choose to use it. It´s an absolute all-rounder, whether it´s used as a pet bed, planter, mini sandbox, a kid´s wading pool or even as a tiny garden pond.
The liners are sold at a german site at design-3000.de.
Kacie is a talented artist who sent us some photos of her cupcake-inspired works. She owns a shop in south Texas named Rowdy Maui. Although her website is still under construction, it sure is bold and beautiful. On her website is a quote, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” ATC whole-heartedly agrees.
I just found your website and I am in love! My friend and I made these “cuppy-cake and stud-muffin” costumes for our schools after-prom party. At my school everyone goes all out for costumes and ours was the most original! I thought yall might enjoy the costumes and please pass the idea along to anyone! We made them out of laundry baskets covered in folded poster board, and used polyfil fibers (like pillow stuffing) for the icing! the decorative ribbon straps were stapled around the basket and we crafted the sprinkles out of colored packing peanuts and puff balls. to get the polyfill to stay in place we used clear polyurethane spray, and brown spray paint for the muffins. We had a hard time figuring out how to make the costume, but baked real cupcakes at the same time to make it more enjoyable. Although they were really cute, they are kind of a hassle to wear for a long period of time. Let me know if there are any more questions. The website is WONDERFUL and in a few weeks I will hopefully be sending a picture of my cupcake tattoo (once i get it….). Oh, and same day that we made the costumes I got a new kitten named Cupcake! <3
-Linda Marie, Arlington, TX
Thank you Linda Marie for sharing with us. What an imaginative idea for costumes!
Martha Stewart Crafts Cupcake Punch
Whip up an adorable card with the cupcake punch from Martha Stewart Crafts. Decorate the top with glitter “frosting” for a sweet finishing touch.
Stayhomecupcake is giving away a Cupcake Play Food or Pin Cushion with Cupcake Pins to one lucky winner! It’s her birthday today (it really is!) and she is celebrating by giving a present to one of you.
What the winner will receive…
1- Cupcake Play Food or Pin Cushion with Cupcake Pins
This yummy little pink and brown crocheted cupcake will hold all your pins but may make you hungry at the same time! It is made with acrylic yarn and measures 3″ high and 3 1/2″ wide. It comes with 6 (size 24-1/2) nickel-plated steel long pearlized pins (the sprinkles) and 2 polymer clay cupcake pins. It is filled with fiberfill. The pink icing is actually a little lighter than the photos show.
This can also be used as a toy cupcake. If you would like this as a play cupcake for your little one, I’d be happy to send it without the pins.
To enter this giveaway please visit Stayhomecupcake and then come back to ATC and leave a comment to this post telling us about what your favorite item that you saw on her site was.
This giveaway is open to residents of USA and Canada. A winner will be chosen via random.org on Tuesday June 9th.
I would like to thank Stayhomecupcake for creating and donating the gorgeous prize for this giveaway…and Happy Birthday!!! :)
We received these images and this email from ATC Reader Ms Bubblefish…
Hi, Just looooooove getting daily updates on your cupcake site.
Thought I’d share pics I took of my knitted cupcakes plus other cupcake paraphernalia. For some deeply obscure reason, I find that knitting and decorating cupcakes is divinely relaxing and non-fattening.
Thank you for sharing your Knitted Cupcakes Mosiacs with us! They are awesome!
Cupcakes! 30+ Yummy Projects to Sew, Quilt, Knit & Bake By
Frosted Fun for Creative Crafters
• Make adorable cupcakes with fabric, yarn, felt, and paper, plus many mouth-watering cupcake recipes to taste while you create
• Fun for the whole family – enjoy these quick and easy projects with your children
• Sprinkle your creations with buttons, beads, sequins, embroidery threads, and paper embellishments
Help yourself to hours of creative play with these charming cupcakes to craft and bake. This book’s tasty treats include small quilts, t-shirts, wall hangings, pillows, pincushions, recipe box, party invitations, baby bibs, hair accessories, and much more. The icing on the cake? Delicious cupcake recipes! (Warning: you’ll want to try them all.)
Coming out soon!
Photos from Cupcake Tea Party and Cupcake Par-tea!
Kara from Kara’s Party Ideas and Lyndsey from kitchendoughdough had a Cupcake Par-tea! They were also kind enough to share it with all of us! :)
Please check out the links to see all of the great cupcake party ideas and the rest of the photos!
I came across this tonight in our flickr group Sweet Cuppin Cakes Bakery and I am smitten! There are so many cute and adorable cupcake inspired items not to mention an awesome DIY section. This website shines as far as being professionally delivered! If you have not come across Heather Knitz then you really should visit now! You will be glad you did <3
Lyns
We received these photos and this email from ATC Reader Lindsey…
Hi! Love your site! I just wanted to share my cupcake apron and laptop bag! I made them both myself. I am a beginner to sewing and these were my first two projects. :o)
Thank you for sharing your creations with us! They are adorable!
The Glass Chef, Peggy Festerling and I have come up with Cupcake charms of the month exclusive to Sweet Cuppin Cakes, talented cupcakkies retail end online. Peggy is handcrafting the most gorgeous cupcake beads and creating them into cell phone charms of the month to coincide with our new cupcake liner designs. These are fashioned from our upside down daisy cakes liner design. If you love All Things cupcake then you are going to be digging these charms!
With May in full swing and Mother’s day behind us Summer is coming and with that is a bounty of fun! So here at Sweet Cuppin Cakes we wanted in on all that fun.
Starting we have hooked up with another clever crafting cupcakkie for Our Talented Cupcakkie Crafters end of our store, where we feature several cupcakkies you already know like Cakespy, Bake and Destroy, The Glass Chef, Gigi Minor, Chic Baby Rose and Sugar & Meringue. We will continue to feature these special artists in our shoppe so you can easily access special treats. Emily at Sugar & Meringue is one special lass to get to know through her blog and awesome creations. 
How fun are these for a baby shower or a baby party or just to be real retro and cute in a scrapbook project. Emily takes great care handcrafting these and the finished project is awesome! We will give you a package of 50 liners with your purchase from Sweet Cuppin Cakes. Now for some more fun, if you have a design that you would like to see as a topper, send it on to me at [email protected] Subject ATC SCC Summer Contest #1 We will send out a notice when we have enough designs that will be enough to choose from. I look forward to hearing from you. The winner will receive a bounty of cupcake toppers and liners.
<3
Lyns
This shiny piece of yummy news came across my desk and I wanted to post it yesterday. This is one very talented artist and you MUST check her out! I love the colours and designs.
Thanks Laura! As quoted on Laura’s site:
“Welcome to my little piece of cyberspace and the glassy world of Beads By Laura.
I create designer lampwork glass beads for you to use in your jewellery designs. My beads are of the highest quality and are made with patience, precision, skill and a genuine love of working with hot glass.
Please take a look around my site and join me in my shiny, spangly world of beads . . . . .”
Bead Forecast
There will be new beads for sale on the Freshly Baked Beads page at 8.30pm on Monday May 4th.
With Mother’s day around the corner, here is an excellent DIY suggestion from Theresa Wong at thestar.com.my. As delectable as these cupcake boxes may seem, they are in fact not edible. They are merely paper mache containers for little treasures hidden inside of them!
All of the materials (ingredients) needed can be found at your local crafts store. Click here for step by step DIY instructions.
As with any other english speaking country, the english language may be the same, but the terminology may be different. Below are some terms that I had to scratch my head a little to figure out:
Foam fruit net = foam net that protects fruit
Paper cake cases = paper cupcake liners
Patty tin = muffin tin
We received this photo and email from ATC Reader Elena…
I made this Piñata for my daughter’s 1st birthday party.
Thank you for sharing your cupcake pinata with us. It’s awesome!
We received these photos and this email from ATC Reader Natalia…
“My name is Natalia,I’m 17-year-old girl and I live in a huge city called Sao Paulo, here in Brazil.
Yeah, Brazil… (sorry about the terrible English)
A third world country full of different cultures, and different people, but poor in cupcake stuff, where most of the people don’t know what a cupcake is, so they’ll never understand me *laughs*
First I want to congratulate you for the site, I’m in love with it (it was love at the first visit for sure), and when I saw the cupcake tattoo photos , I immediately thought ”OMG I need to show mine”, mostly because It’s very rare to see a cupcake freak here in Brazil, but they do EXIST! I’m here to prove it.
I would be very happy to see my tattoo on ATC…And if you want to see, I do some handmade stuff with polymer clay or felt, and of course, there are cupcakes there! here’s my flickr
Thank you for the attention, and again, congratulations for the great job.
Thanks for sharing your cupcake tattoo and flickr with us! Your tattoo is gorgeous! I love your polymer clay and felt creations.
