Happy leap year! Are you celebrating this day that only happens once every four years with cupcakes? I think these leap frog cupcakes by Betty Crocker are the perfect way to celebrate the leap year!
The name of these cupcakes is so long but they sound so delicious and like something I would make and love! Joy the Baker made these Chocolate, Peanut Butter Cookie Dough, Toasted Marshmallow cupcakes. There’s so many different components to these cupcakes but each part seems to compliment the others. Chocolate and peanut butter are one of my favorite combinations and I love the thought of cookie dough inside a cupcake. After majoring in nutiriton in college I am well aware of the food safety issues related to eating raw cookie dough but who doesn’t love cookie dough? Top the cupcakes off with a toasted marshmallow meringue and you have one deliciously rich cupcake combination!
Just in case there isn’t enough temptation in your life, check out what I just discovered: Butterfinger Cupcakes. I am so trying these! Steph, over at Plain Chicken has figured out a way to recreate a cupcake that she first discovered at Disney World. And she has shared the recipe and instructions with us! Hooray!
I know over the past few years we have posted links to these type of color gradient cupcakes but I just can’t get enough of them. I am sure your honey would adore some of these Sweetheart Cupcakes from All Recipes for Valentine’s Day. So pretty & very easy to create!
All Recipes is my favorite place to find new recipes. The best part are the reviews left for each recipe from other cooks & bakers who have tested them out. You can find great tips to make each recipe a perfect one!
Owls seem to be all the rage lately! Why wouldn’t they be with all the cute owl things I see around – checks, wallets, earrings, etc. You want it (with owls), you got it!
If you want Owl Cupcakes, we got those too. These are so stinking adorable!
Reeses Owl Cupcakes from Inside BruCrew Life
I think we can all agree that there is no better way to spend New Years Day than eating and baking cupcakes! If you agree with me, than I have found a great recipe for you to try from the blog La Mia Vita Dolce.
These look so fabulous and they are visualually stunning!
Thinking of what to put together for your New Year’s Eve party?
Why not cook up your brew instead of drinking it? Here’s a recipe for Guinness and Bailey Irish Cupcakes that strikes me as rather top-o-the-morning.
Take it one step further, and here’s a recipe for Chocolate Guinness and Whiskey Cupcakes with Bailey’s Frosting. I’d put this into the later-in-the-day category.
And this recipe variation includes a bittersweet ganache with whiskey option within the Guinness Cupcake.
Cheers!
Here in North Carolina the past few nights have been very chilly, which means it’s in the 20’s at night. Below 30 degrees is cold to those of us in the tar heel state! After taking the dog for his evening walk my family and I come inside and are searching for something warm. Tea and hot chocolate tend to hit the spot but I’m thinking these Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcake recipe would be a perfect post dog walk treat, for us humans of course! The vegan cupcake recipe which is topped a coconut whipped cream frosting was originally posted to Food 52.
Merry Christmas Everyone! I woke up this morning to see it spitting snow outside and all I could say was, “Yay!”. I am not a huge fan of snow, but, I always like to have some on Christmas, it really make it feels like Christmas when it snows and there is snow on the ground.
In honor of the spitting snow in New Hampshire, where I grew up and am spending Christmas with my parents, brother and lovely dog, I have found these amazing snowflake cupcakes. The fact that they are pink makes it a million times better.
Pink Snowflake Cupcakes from Glorious Treats
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.
Christmas stollen is such a favorite food at the holidays, who can resist the notion of converting it into a cupcake? 
Here’s one recipe for Christmas stollen cupakes from The Cupcake Project.
Raisins, dried cranberries, dried currents, dried cherries…we’ll let that negate the bit of pleasure we’ll take from a bit of cherry liqueur and brandy. And, of course, we’ll only pour those into the recipe, won’t we?
Just in case you have some cherry liqueur left over, here’s a companion recipe for Black Forest Cupcakes. Well, if I’m on that theme, let’s be sure to have on hand a recipe for White Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes.
Now there’s a cupcake trio that deserves a Ho-Ho-Ho!
Right now I am really looking forward to the end of final exams when I can go home and spend time with my family baking and wrapping christmas presents! When I came across the Novice Chef’s blog I immediately wanted to bake everything and the delicious recipes only made me want to head home for the holidays sooner. It’s hard to choose just one cupcake recipe to share with you when there are several to choose from in the Novice Chef’s recipe archive. The first one that caught my eye was the Biscoff cupcakes with marshmallow frosting. My sister loves Biscoff! When we were in Belgium over the summer she went crazy for the speculoos ice cream so I know she would love these cupcakes.
I personally would like to try making the Samoas cupcakes. Samoas are my favorite Girl Scout cookie and I have attempted homemade bar verisons of the cookie but have yet to try making a cupcake version. The cinnamon vanilla cupcakes with candied ginger also sound perfect for the holiday season but what about something a little different? Read the rest of this entry »
So, I was recently shopping for yummy vegetables at Healthy Living in Burlington, Vermont, and of course, I was magnetically attracted to the cupcakes. The “Hummingbird Cupcake,” a heavenly combination of cream cheese frosting, chocolate, banana, and pecans, was AMAZING! You might not think of Healthy Living as a cupcake destination, but it is! While you are exploring Healthy Living, check out their recipe for Gluten-Free Chocolate Zuccini Cupcakes. Maybe a little bit healthy and a lot delicious? I’ll let you know!
Yesterday, The Seattle Times published this delicious photo along with a recipe for Red Velvet Cupcakes with Eggnog Cream Cheese Frosting! Yum! Don’t put too much rum in the frosting, now!
Do you remember cinnamon toast crunch breakfast cereal? I always think of the commercials from the 1990s with Wendell and the other bakers which used the slogan “it’s the taste you can see.”
Cinnamon Toast Crunch cupcakes can now be added to the list of breakfast cupcake, along with pancakes, cinnamon rolls, Pop Tart, and Cap’n Crunch Cookie cupcakes. These cinnamon toast crunch cupcakes are the creation of Your Cup of Cake and they have me craving that cinnamunchcruncy taste!
Both my husband and my best friend are obsessed with Mountain Dew, so I figured it was time to whip up some Mountain Dew cupcakes. I used this Mountain Dew Cupcakes Recipe. I can’t say that the cupcakes tasted exactly like Mountain Dew (I couldn’t figure out a way to carbonate them), but they did taste like a citrus explosion in my mouth. And my taste testers told me that this was one “cheerful cupcake.” For the frosting, I just used a pastry brush to paint stripes of coloring gel on my decorating bag, and voila! Super easy cheerful frosting!
So I know it’s late October, and I’m supposed to be baking pumpkin cupcakes with fondant spiders on top, but I was having a lemon craving that couldn’t be beat. So I got to work on Lemon Curd-Filled Lemon Cupcakes with Zippy Lemon Frosting!
for the cupcakes:
Check out this touching blog post on Cafe Mom. Mom drops a tray of cupcakes off at her daughter’s school, and suddenly, she’s surrounded by people placing orders and giving her money! It’s the American Cupcake Dream! You can find the famous Pumpkin Cupcake Recipe at the famous baker’s blog! Congratulations, Mom!
Happy first day of Fall! This year I’m really looking forward to the cool weather, warm colors, and seasonal foods. Last week I picked up some apples at a local farmers market and I’m already craving more. I know I’ll have to buy more because I really want to bake these caramel apple pie cupcakes that I saw yesterday. As an apple and a cupcake lover each component sounds delicious, from the cinnamon cupcake and apple pie filling, to the caramel frosting. The Craving Chronicles came up with these festive cupcakes and the recipe can be found on the original post.
I just finished reading the book Modoc, it’s the true story of the greatest elephant that ever lived. The elephant works in the circus for several years and when talking about the sounds and smells of the circus the smell of popcorn is mentioned. These caramel popcorn cupcakes sound like perfect circus food, or since state fair season is approaching, I also think they would be a great state fair treat. I have yet to see cupcakes at my local state fair, the NC State Fair but if they had these I would be sure to try one! The cupcakes were created by 6 Bittersweets and the cupcakes are made with creamed corn and cornmeal then topped with caramel buttercream.
If it weren’t for Betty Crocker, my family would starve, so I was pretty excited to discover The Big Book of Cupcakes! This soon-to-be-classic cookbook offers 175 cupcakes, most of which are simple reciples using common ingredients. Many of the recipes can be done using cake mixes and store-bought frosting, and of course, they can all be made from scratch for all you ambitious bakers out there! There’s also a chapter dedicated to kids’ parties. Here’s a sample tease for you, the Chocolate Moose Cupcake:
Cupcakes plus cookies are the perfect pair in this cupcake recipe for cookie cupcakes with raspberry fluff frosting. Ez Pudewa from Creature Comforts adapted from the September issue of Everyday Food Magazine so that they were gluten free. I have yet to try baking cookies into cupcakes but since I love both cupcakes and cookies I will be adding these to my to-bake list! The gluten-free version of this recipe can be found in the Creature Comfort’s blog post while the original version is on the Martha Stewart website.
Over the past 1o months I have lost just about 25 pounds with the help of Weight Watchers and the help of this amazing recipe site — Skinny Taste. If knew me in person you would know how much of a sweet tooth I have and how much I love to bake. Which, while ‘dieting’ is hard to deal with. But with the help of the aforementioned website I have been able to get through the rough times where my sweet tooth would not back off.
Gina has great ‘skinny’ recipes for just about anything under the sun. Including, yep you guessed it, CUPCAKES. Gina is a lifesaver!
One of the many amazing recipes I made was Pineapple Bliss Cupcakes. Even though they are ‘skinny’ they hit the spot. Gina + Sweet Tooth = Sweet Weight Lost!
Since watermelon the fruit is such a fun, messy, summer treat, what opportunities doe we have to use watermelon fruit in a cupcake?
From an Indiana kitchen came a watermelon cupcake recipe with instructions for making your own wrappers on a silhouette machine. The recipe uses watermelon gelatin – very neat.
Getting warmer, I found a recipe for watermelon cupcake frosting that offers a substitution of watermelon juice for milk.
Still on my quest, I landed on What About Watermelon?, where I found a cake recipe with 1-1/3 C of watermelon, using watermelon juice in the frosting. All the fun of the fruit and no napkins required!
I know that these aren’t exactly cupcakes but I couldn’t resist not posting about them. They are so cute and look super tasty.
My best friend is throwing a Pampered Chef party. If you are not familiar with Pampered Chef parties,they are kind of like Tupperware parties, but it is all cooking stuff!
I was browsing the site to see what I want to scoop up and i saw these amazing looking S’more Cups!
I want to go find a campfire right now and have a s’more!