In case you’re running late and need a last minute printable valentine I found this free printable cupcake valentine on The Sweetest Occasion.

My sister and I have a weird love of cute monsters.  If she was home I would definitely make her cupcakes and top them with these DIY free printable monster Valentine’s Day flags and toppers.  I like how the monsters make this download a little bit different and more boy friendly.  Ellinee of Handcraft Your Life made a whole party kit so don’t forget the candy wrappers and stickers!

Simple is better has become my motto and I know in the past I have expressed my love of simple cupcake decorations.  It’s no surprise then that I love these very simple Happy Heart Day cupcake flags by Sally J Shim.  A nicely frosted cupcake with these toppers is the perfect treat for a loved one on Valentine’s Day!

Catch My Party has tons of free printables including a whole Valentine’s Day party set that has these cute cupcake toppers.  The best part about these printables is that they are not just Valentine’s Day themed, they are also cupcake themed!

Have you jumped on the salted caramel bandwagon?  I feel like everything is suddenly marketed as having salted caramel in it and honestly I am a fan! I love the salty sweet combo!  I am very excited about this recipe for salted caramel cupcakes because the Cake website claims that it is the best cupcake ever.  I think will have to make these cupcakes and see for myself if they are worth doubling the recipe as Paige of Style suggests.  The best part is that the toppers, shown to the left, are included in the original blog post!

St. Patrick’s Day is only two days away!  Are you baking cupcakes to make someone in your life’s day extra lucky?  Anna and Blue Paperie’s website  offers the cute, free printable download for cupcake toppers shown above.  There are four topper designs on one sheet, these include a shamrock, the word “”lucky,” or the phrases “kiss me” and “Happy St. Patrick’s Day.”

For fans of something with more color, Modern Moments also has a free printable download for cupcake toppers, shown to the right.  The Modern Moments rainbow toppers read “Happy Saint Patrick’s Day,” “Lucky You,” “Kiss Me,” and “Luck of the Irish”

Up and coming author, Meg Donahue’s debut novel, How to Eat a Cupcake comes out today! In honor of her and her novel we are doing a giveaway . One of our fabulous ATC readers will get their very own autographed copy of How to Eat a Cupcake.

To enter this giveaway, click on the comment area below and tell us how you eat a cupcake. One winner will be picked at random a week from today.

Here is a bit more about the book …(description taken from Meg Donahue’s website)

You can purchase How to Eat a Cupcake from Indie Bound

You can also follow Megan on FaceBook and Twitter

If you didn’t see something you liked in earlier this week’s Halloween themed cupcake toppers maybe one of these other fun, free printable toppers will be more your style.  I Heart Naptime’s toppers feature simple patterns and the phrase “trick or treat.”  Paper Squid’s freebies also include cake pop decorations.

Hello Cupcake Universe! It is my pleasure to introduce you to the “world’s first cupcake on a pretzel.”  Make sure you turn up your volume when you visit the PopsyCakes website, because the PopsyCakes literally POP onto your screen.

PopsyCakes started as a high school project and has turned into a national cupcake business. Who wouldn’t want a handmade cupcake, dipped in chocolate, and perched on a pretzel stick? PopsyCakes ships worldwide. You can buy a half dozen or a dozen of several flavors including: strawberry milkshake, dark chocolate decadence, vanilla bean dream, and red velvet rush. Have a new flavor in mind? Share it with them via their website and be entered to win a dozen PopsyCakes! Businesses, you can also order them wholesale!

Have an Android?

Check out the Butterflies and Cupcakes app!

It’s a cute live wallpaper that helps you kill a few minutes in the airport. There’s a free version and a slightly fancier paid version. Both feature an adorable little pink butterfly carrying cupcakes away. Just tap a cupcake, and the butterfly gets to work!

Amanda and Blue Paperie

Amanda Parker and Family

The Gypsy Factory

I’m a huge fan of cupcake toppers since they are quick and easy cupcake decorations that take a simple frosted cupcake and transform it into a beautifully festive cupcake. Here are six different free printable cupcake toppers that I have found.  Click on the images to be taken to the respective websites where you can download the pdf files.

Country Living

Love2Create

Penny Candy Studio

Vol.25 created this downloadable freebie for Build Your Own Cupcakes.  There are a total of 10 pages to print which include, a cover page, the recipe, 8 different cupcakes, 8 different liners, 8 different frostings, 11 different cupcake toppers, and a sheet of name tags for your little baker(s).  Jessica, creator of this fun template, suggests printing your cupcakes on sticker paper which is a great idea!

The biggest winner of last weekend’s Cupcake Camp Seattle was the Hope Heart Institute: 5,000 cupcakes donated by 70 bakers and consumed by nearly 1,000 people raised $5,276.50 for the charity in just three hours. Carrie Middlemis, owner of Cupcakes Couture and one of the organizers of the event, says, “For our first year we estimated maybe we would have about 300 people attending. We were blown away by the response and already planning to make it bigger and better.”

As for the competitive prizes, see below or Bella Cupcakes’ post on the winners. There were three competitive categories, Most Unique Ingredients, Best Seattle, and Healthiest, with a Professional and Amateur division within each category. Last but not least is the youth division’s best cupcake prize. And of course no competitive cupcake event is complete without a cupcake eating contest (you can see the video here).

(most pictures courtesy of Barbie Hull Photography)

PROFESSIONAL DIVISION:
Most Unique Ingredients
1st: NY Cupcakes / Limoncello with Raspberry drizzle.
2nd: Rocket Queens /”War Pig” Chocolate cake, smoky chipotle, bacon; topped with white chocolate buttercream and candied bacon.
Honorable mention: Kimm of Spitfire- Kimm-chi (Korean pickled cabbage) with grated carrot, zucchini and ginger frosting. Sweetened with agave nectar.

I guess first and second prize must’ve tasted really good, because I don’t think that those are particularly unique ingredients, though I admit I may be jaded by the flavor proliferation of the Seattle cupcakery scene .  I still say that if you’re giving prizes for the weirdest stuff you can put in a cupcake and still be edible, kim-chi definitely takes first prize.

Best Seattle:
1st: : Bella Cupcakes / Pacific NW Sustainable Granola NY (left)
2nd: NY Cupcakes /Orca Whales and salmon (middle)
Honorable Mention: Rocket Queen Cupcakes / Unhappy Hipster – my favorite! (right)

Healthiest:
1st: Immortal Bakery / Banana with Honey and Cinnamon
2nd: Kimm of Spitfire / Vegan delight Banana-Orama (not pictured)

AMATEUR DIVISION
Most Unique Ingredient
1st: Tina Campbell / Strawberry Pop Rock (right)
2nd: Ronnie Porter and Nicole Lucas / The TCB Velvet Elvis (not pictured)
A banana, chocolate chip cupcake with peanut butter frosting and a slice of bacon on top. A treat the King would have surely loved.
Honorable Mention: Anisha Hathiramani, Rootbeer Float (right)

Best Seattle:
1st: Ani and Amber Butler / Uptight Seattleite (left)
2nd: Melynda O’Brien Captivating Creations/ Ferry, Orca, Seattle scene (middle)
Honorable Mention: Vicki Bushnell / Destination Seattle (right)

Healthiest:

1st: Teigan Walker / Red Goat- Chocolate beet cake with goats cheese frosting and candied beet. (left)

2nd: Jana Bailey-Bailey-Hessler (The Cake Diva) / Vegan Chocolate Mocha (right)

Personally, I think that the Red Goat should’ve gotten an special prize for unique ingredient too – I can’t say that I’ve ever seen goat cheese and beets in a cupcake before.

YOUTH
Best Tasting/Design Kids
1st Choice: ? Unknown, Space Needle with Whale; (left)
2nd Choice Tie between Jazzmyn (middle) & Tycie Engberg (right)

I was particularly impressed by the youth category…kids in grade school did better cupcake decorating than I ever could. I salute the next generation of cupcake makers!

I love tax day!  I know it sounds crazy but having a CPA  in my family,  I look forward to the relief that this day brings.  Now Cinnabon is making this day more special by giving away free cupcakes! Go to participating a Cinnabon location on April 15th from 6pm-8pm and you will get 2 free Cupcake Bites.  Sweet!

Cupcake Camp Seattle is a benefit for The Hope Heart Institute, a heart disease research non-profit, that is centered around the baking and eating of cupcakes.   It is also free(!) and conveniently located (for me) in Downtown Seattle, which means that the lucky readers of All Things Cupcake will get pictures, reviews, and hopefully recipes straight from the first ever Cupcake Camp in Seattle.

The event is sponsored by just about every group that is remotely related to cupcakes, including my favorite cute cupcake artist, CakeSpy (guess who made the poster :).  However, it’s Bella Cupcake Couture that gets the credit for importing the Cupcake Camp concept to the Emerald City from our foggy fellow Northwest mecca, San Fransisco.

The event runs from 11am to 2pm with cupcake tastings scheduled every 15 minutes.  Braving throwing themselves into the sugar breach are the event’s judges: Jessie Oleson aka CakeSpy, Jackie Shaffer (founder and CEO) of CakeCentral.com, Melody Biringer of CRAVE Company, Kelley Moore of Kelley Moore Creative Media, Keren Brown of FranticFoodie.com and Laura Cassidy of  Seattle Metropolitan magazine.  Luckily for all of us, there is a ‘healthiest’ prize category on top of  ‘most representative of Seattle’ and ‘unique ingredients’.

Besides being (possibly) National Cupcake Day, March 3rd was also the first day that the District of Columbia allowed and licensed gay marriages. The usually quiet D.C. marriage bureau was swamped with couples that have waited for years to be able to legally tie the knot as well as crowds of well-wishers.

Now, how to celebrate this momentous occasion…what about cupcakes?  David Catania, the D.C. Councilmember who authored the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 had just that idea. It appears that he was was so delighted by the results of his legislation that in celebration of its enactment he passed out boxes of cupcakes to the first 200 couple (of any orientation) to get their marriage license at the the Carl Moultrie Courthouse (500 Indiana Ave. N.W., D.C.).  Catania distributed vanilla and chocolate Hello Cupcakes as part of a joint celebratory gesture on the part of the Councilmember and the cupcakery.

Ok, I have to say it: that is just the sweetest thing I’ve heard all week :)

One million cupcakes you say … Little Debbie is giving away lots of cupcakes and other prizes. If you go to the Little Debbie website you can print out a coupon for free cupcakes! Yep I said it, FREE CUPCAKES!

You can also join the Little Debbie Facebook Page and become a fan and get all the updates about Little Debbie Cupcakes!

Little debbie is also giving away other prizes. One of the other prizes they are giving away is this lovely ….. CAR!

There are only 4 of these cars made.  It looks Yummy! I wonder if they have a cupcake scented car air freshener to go with it?

One of the other items they are giving away is a free Years Supply of Cupcakes! What more could one ask for?

I think I may have to for test drive some little debbie cupcakes today! :-)

Over the next few weeks, ATC will be hosting several cupcake giveaways. Now I’m not going to tell you what were are giving away but I will tell you who the givers are! 

* Etsy sewer  omydarlinkids

* Etsy cupcake crafter ThreeRabbits 

* csnbaby.com, selling nursery furniture and more

 So please come back and check out the upcoming giveaways.  Remember to enter our drawing for a free cupcake blush bag by CupcaxDesigns.   Have a sweet day!

One of our readers pointed out to us that there are free games about cupcakes that you can play on the internet.  I started playing them, and a couple hours passed in a blink of an eye.  After scouring the Internet, here are some of the best ones I found.

Did I miss any others worthy of mention?

Emo Cupcake Dressup

Press “skip the ad” to quickly advance to the game.  Design your own emo cupcake.  Think moody thoughts and make your cupcake RAWR!

Tutti Cuti Cupcake

You own a cupcake shop and need to make ends meet each day.  Decorate the cupcakes that your customers crave as quickly as you can.

Valentine’s Cupcakes

Chase the cupcakes through the 3D environment.  Click on the cupcakes to turn them into hearts.  Click on the hearts to collect them.  Beware the chocolate cupcake imposters.

cupcake goodie bags

cupcake envelopes

cupcake note cards

Pop-Art Cupcake Cards Giveaway from Tricia-Rennea Art.

This is a Giveaway for everyone! Free Printables for all!

You may also like the recipe cards from Bitsy of Bitsy the Bakery.

Thank you Tricia & Bitsy for donating your awesome stuff to this giveaway!

Enjoy a free night of music, comedy, and cupcakes Friday, May 15th at Cupcakes Nouveau 244 MIracle Mile.  Sign up to perform your special talent or sit back and enjoy the show!

Registration starts at 7pm; show starts at 8pm.

Contact Daleena at [email protected] to sign up.

If you’re a regular reader you just might recognize the Tiger Lady on this new shirt from Model Citizen. If you’re not a regular reader, I’ll fill you in- it’s me!

I’m so excited to be the muse for these awesome t-shirts, available on Etsy for $26. Each shirt comes with my super-special Nacho Cupcake recipe! That’s right, Nacho Cupcakes!

You can win your own at Good Girls & Geeks!

We have a winner and could not wait to let you in on who the winner is!
• Melanie
February 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
She sang the original version of “You’re My Honey Bunch” in 1994.
Please make sure to send an email to [email protected] with your mailing address. Congrats Melanie and thanks for being an ATC reader!!

You’re my Honeybunch, Sugarplum Pumpy-umpy-umpkin, You’re my Sweetie Pie You’re my Cuppycake, Gumdrop Snoogums-Boogums, You’re the Apple of my Eye And I love you so and I want you to know That I’ll always be right here And I love to sing sweet songs to you Because you are so dear

The ANSWER: Amy Castle
Our contest now closes. Many thanks to all who participated. ATC readers really know their cupcakin trivia. A winner will be announced by Jess after she uses a random selection process. The winner of course will be announced here! Please be sure to notify Sweet Cuppin Cakes Bakery and Cupcakery Supply your mailing address to receive your prize!
Thanks again to everyone! Good Luck!
More information on Amy Castle can be found at The Cuppycake website.

Do we have a fabulous giveaway in store for our readers! Not only is Cupcake Provocateur donating the SEXY Leopard Lounge Apron for our giveaway. They are going to give the runner up a $25.00 gift certificate for their shop!

This apron would definitely be an apron I could see myself wearing. It’s absolutely adorable and sexy too.

CONTEST IS CLOSED! A WINNER WILL BE PICKED BY MARCH 24TH! THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS.