Ash from Butterfly Food made these flag cupcake toppers for Valentine’s Day. I like how simple and versatile these toppers are. All you need are bamboo skewers, cardstock, glue and of course, cupcakes. Choosing different colored cardstock allows you to customize these toppers for any occasion. I also really like that she made the skewers different sizes making it more visually appealing.
Remember those stuffed pancake cupcakes we posted in January? Well La Fuji Mama turned another breakfast classic into a cupcake, transforming cinnamon rolls into cinnamon roll cupcakes! Topped with cream cheese frosting, when I originally saw the cupcakes on Beantown Baker I immediately had to added them to my “to-bake list!” Click on “continue reading” for La Fuji Mama’s recipe!
I am so excited that one of my favorite artists, Stephanie Fizer Coleman has finally created an image with cupcakes! She has a great blog where she will post new images and projects, occasional free downloads, tutorials, and lately doodles. This owl juggling cupcakes image started out as the doodle to the right and was transformed into a greeting card and a print. The 5×7 inch print is available for purchase from her Etsy shop for $10.00.
Our last giveaway of March is from Etsy crafter, AppleLovesOrange. She makes beautiful art from recycled and vintage fabric. I am amazed by her talent!
This week, AppleLovesOrange is giving away a $30 gift certificate to her store! To enter this giveaway, please visit her shop and then come back to All Things Cupcake and click on the comment area below. Tell us what you liked about her Etsy shop and also give her one suggestion for a new item you think would be perfect for her.
Make sure to also check out her Babee Cakes blog too.
These cupcakes are a mouthful to say and I’m sure the same to eat. I know that we have all indulged ourselves in watching The Food Networks Cupcake Wars a few times, or maybe all the time. So we all have an idea of the kind of crazy cupcakes that the contestants come up with. I saw this one and thought, “Sounds like a trip to the movies squashed all into one sinful cupcake!”
This recipe is from the episode LA Auto Show from the bakers of Bake You Happy.
Follow this link for the recipe — Chocolate Cherry Cola Cupcakes with Red Licorice Filling and Marshmallow Frosting
I have yet to try vegan cupcakes but if they taste as good as these cupcake by Joylicious look, I’m sure I will love them! These cupcakes, called best vegan chocolate cupcakes with vegan banana ice cream combine three things I love, chocolate, peanut butter and bananas. The best part is that they not only look delicious but actually sound healthy. I’ve always thought vegan recipes would be hard to make but after reading the ingredients and directions these actually sound doable. Below you will find the recipe for the cupcakes but for the banana ice cream you will have to read Joylicious’s original post! While there be sure to look around, I noticed a (non-vegan) mini pumpkin spice cupcake recipe that also looks amazing.
Do you like to decorate cupcakes? Well, maybe you should enter the Jelly Belly Cupcake Challenge! All you have to do is use Jelly Belly’s in your cupcake decoration and submit a photo to their website. The winner will receive $10,000! Click here for all the details.
Here are a couple of my favorites:
Do you subscribe to Hello Cupcake, What’s Newsletter? If you don’t, you might want to consider it. The authors of two great cupcake books, Hello Cupcake! and What’s New, Cupcake? have an online newsletter where they send emails once a month; Which is nice because you are not overwhelmed with emails. Each month’s email contains a recipe and decorating instructions for cupcakes that fit that month’s major holiday or major event (January was Superbowl cupcakes). This month’s Blarney Stone Cupcakes recipe ties into St. Patrick’s Day. I love that everything on the cupcakes are edible, including the Blarney stones which are breakfast treats and shamrocks which are rolled spearmint. Below you will find the recipe for the cupcakes but for more tips on how to roll the shamrocks, you’ll have to look at the technique of the month page.
The winner of our box of goodies from Forever MK Cupcakes is…
Melanie
March 12th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
I absolutely adore the Peace. Love, & Cupcakes Ultra Cuddle Handbag! So cute! I’d love to see a wedding/bridal shower trinket box…I’m planning my wedding so I have wedding on the brain! ;)
Congratulations! Please email your mailing address to [email protected]. Thanks again to all who entered the giveaway and thank you Forever MK Cupcakes for sponsoring this wonderful giveaway.
DIY cupcake toppers seem to be everywhere! Here’s a cute free printable Saint Patrick’s Day cupcake toppers that TomKat Studio blogged last year; of course it could be used this year! To download the toppers, which include three other images, head over to TomKat Studio’s blog. Be sure to look around their site while you’re there, they have lots of other cupcake related freebies!
Once again Green Party Goods, a store that sells eco-friendly products for any occasion has hit the cupcake jack pot. They have so many great things that just came in that are All Things Cupcake worthy!
Throwing a cupcake themed party? If the answer is yes then look no further. Great cupcake items for your goody bags.
Cupcake Pin/Magnet Plater Mould Kit
Well, you all know that cupcakes are one of my greatest loves in life but coming in second has to be Disney. My family and I proudly consider ourselves “Disney Freaks” and make at least one yearly trip to Disney World. Pin collecting and trading is very popular with many Disney fans. There are clubs and websites dedicated just to this hobby. I may not be a diehard collector, but after Facebook fan Lori posted these pins on our Facebook page, I had to go collect this set.
Each cupcake is fashioned to resemble a Disney character; Marie, TInkerbell, Minnie, Mickey, Donald, Pluto and Goofy. Their official release date was yesterday March 10th but so far the only place I have been able to find them is on Ebay for around $25-$30. Thanks for spotting this great cupcake find Lori!
When I saw this recipe on NY1 yesterday, my mouth started watering and I just knew I had to share it with you! If you visit NY1’s website, you can even watch an instructional video. (Warning: Don’t watch this if you’re hungry!)
Ingredients for 2 dozen cupcakes:
Ingredients for the yummy frosting:
Mix frosting ingredients until smooth, and then put in fridge. Preheat oven to 350. Combine flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, carrots and apples, and mix well. Add vegetable oil, applesauce, eggs, and vanilla and mix well. Divide your batter into paper-lined cupcake pans. Bake for 25 minutes. Let cupcakes cool, and then top with chilled frosting. Then enjoy!
Last summer I followed Once Wed’s directions to create flower fabric garland. Had I been in cupcake fan mode I would have thought to turn the fabric flowers into cupcake toppers! This is exactly what Paiges of Style decided to do, using the same Once Wed idea she created fabric flower cupcake toppers. These toppers are great because you can customize them to match any color scheme or use up scraps of fabric you have lying around. On her website Paige has great instructions with pictures to help you along the way.
Hello cupcake fans! Are you ready for another sweet giveaway? This week’s giveaway comes to you from ATC sponsor Forever MK Cupcakes. They make unique cupcake trinket boxes and other cupcake treasures. So unique and so beautiful! Check out a few of my personal favorites from their shop:
This week one lucky winner will get a box of cupcake goodies from Forever MK Cupcakes. We aren’t going to tell you what is in there but believe me, any cupcake fan would be very happy to win this! To enter this giveaway, go to Forever MK Cupcakes’ website and pick out your favorite item. Then come back to ATC and click on the comment area below. Tell us what your favorite item was AND let us know what kind of trinket box you think they should add to their site. One winner will be chosen on Monday, March 14th.
Be creative! Have fun!
I love, love, love this idea! Cupcake Fondue! Amanda Krueger from Bake it Pretty, a cupcake shop in Asheville, North Carolina that is on my list of places to go to, blogged about this on Pint Size Social. It takes the idea of a cupcake topping bar that we shared with you a few months back to a whole new level! Fondue is great since both kids and adults can enjoy it.
I have heard of “one-bowl” recipes that make clean up a cinch because you combine all ingredients in one bowl. But until now I had not heard of food processor cupcakes. Sophistimom made these Vanilla Bean Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting in the food processor. Yes, even the frosting is made in the food processor and she claims that if you make the cupcakes as mini’s you can have cupcakes baked from scratch and decorated in under 30 minutes.
My mom sent me a picture text of these cupcake molds that she saw at Ross. The Blooming cupcake kit, which is available from amazon for $18.95, is by Brand Castle. Each kit includes 6 silicone molds in the shape of flower pots and one chocolate cupcake mix with vanilla icing. There are also daisy shaped and green sprinkles and a pink icing pen for decorating.
Need a stylish way to keep your coffee warm? If so, I have found just the thing for you.
Shana Logic offers 2 different flavored Cupcake Coffee Cozy — Mint or Strawberry!
I love these Mickey Mouse Cupcakes that Sweet Tooth replicated from a flickr photo. I actually like Sweet Tooth’s version, which has no fondant better because while I like the look of fondant I think Oreo’s taste better! These cupcakes are actually really easy since Mickey’s bottom shorts consist of the red cupcake liner with two white circles glued on. Click on “continue reading” for the rest of the instructions.
The Bankery is a full service bakery located in an old bank — 0ld as in 1864 old! — in historic downtown Skowhegan, Maine. I’ve often dropped in for a tasty treat, and they’ve often offered cupcakes. But today’s cupcake offerings were just so cute, I had to share them with you. These cupcakes were decorated to look like full-size cakes. Such a simple idea, I can’t believe I’ve never thought of it. You can imagine what this did to the frosting-to-cake ratio! Since the cupcakes were also cream-filled, they were almost too sweet. (But notice I only say almost, as I managed to eat mine up just the same.)
One of my favorite things to do on any day of the week is pursuing the local thrift stores. One of the thrift stores has an amazing amount of books, including cookbooks. And I hit the cupcake jackpot yesterday, I found Martha Stewart’s Cupcake Book for only $5.00! I am still unsure why I don’t own this yet. But I do now.
Here is one of the recipes that caught my eye while looking for my next cupcake to conquer.
Let’s Eat-Everything Food is a division of Buckets Full of Everything Food. Buckets Full of Everything Food is the creative company of Ilyse Rothman, a food stylist, chef and much more. With years of culinary experience behind her she has spent decades perfecting the her skills in the kitchen. Now she brings us cupcake sized cheesecake minis.
Included in the review package was two mini cheesecakes and a sample of cinnamon caramel crack corn, taste bud crack corn that is. The savory popcorn mixed with the sweet caramel and spice from the cinnamon was addictive and could have easily been finished in one sitting. After sampling the popcorn I had a feeling I would not be disappointed with the cheesecakes. As a huge cheesecake fan, I even had cheesecake instead of birthday cake one year, I can honestly say this is good cheesecake. The mini cheesecakes had wonderful flavor, in addition to good mouthfeel and texture. They were smooth and creamy but not too soft. Similarly the graham cracker base nicely complimented the cheesecake but was not overpowering. I also liked that it held it’s shape and was not too crumbly. Read the rest of this entry »
