We usually think of cupcakes as a treat that’s available to everyone. Their small size seems to even make them an option for those with more restricted diets. This, sadly, isn’t entirely true, especially for those with celiac disease and gluten intolerance.  When you can’t eat wheat flour, creating cupcakes becomes a much bigger undertaking.

This is where Miglet’s Cupcake Shop of Danville, CA, comes in to save the day.  Miglet’s specializes in gluten-free baked goods – they started with cupcakes and soon expanded to everything from cinnamon buns to hamburger buns.  Katie Alin, Miglet’s founder, started the bakery after working at The Taylor Family Foundation’s Celiac Camp and at Whole Foods and seeing how hard it was for those with gluten-free diets to satisfy their sweet tooth. Read the rest of this entry »

This week we had some hot cupcake spottings by a few of our loyal fans and I just had to pass them on to you.

The Disney Store  just recently began selling this adorable line of Minnie Mouse cupcake items.   Thanks Christine for letting us know about them!

They also had lunchbags, pencil boxes, water bottles, pajamas, and nightgowns all with the same cupcake theme.

ATC Facebook fan, Heaven, also let us know about cupcakes at The Children’s Place.  Check out these must-haves:

She also saw school supplies, umbrellas, raincoats, hoodies, and baby shoes!

Thanks for letting us know about these sweet finds.  Keep them comin’ our way!

Luau cupcakes!, originally uploaded by Lairy the Cupcake Fairy’s creations.

These sultry July days just make me want to hit the beach with a cold drink and one of those fancy paper umbrellas. Then, I saw this picture on Flickr and realized I also need to bring cupcakes with me. Isn’t this a cool idea? (The decorating I mean, not necessarily my trip to the beach.)

Anyone who has checked out Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit‘s website knows there’s a standard protocol she follows.  She creates cupcake recipes then blogs about the recipe and images that correlate.  Recenly she deviated from her standard formula with a post that I thought allthingscupcake readers would find helpful. She has five steps that she suggest cupcake bakers follow when baking in bulk.  These steps include finding inspiration and coming up with a high level plan, writing out all recipes, preparing a plan and the ingredients, preparing all the recipes and storing them for final assembly, and finally assembling, packing for delivery, unpacking, and presenting.   For details on these tips be sure to visit Chockylit’s website.

photo courtesy of Clever Cupcakes

Clever Cupcakes yet again prove they are veritable demigods of fondant with this cupcake set for a two-year old’s birthday party. The tire cupcake is my personal favorite – I think it really shows the care they put into their decoration. The theme of the birthday party was the Disney movie Cars. Since Clever Cupcakes doesn’t make a practice of copying the likenesses of trademarked characters, even in fondant, they use opportunities to be more creatively true to their assigned theme.

IMG_0075, originally uploaded by verdantmedians.

This is the yummiest caterpillar I’ve ever seen! 

Gosh, gotta love Flickr!  It’s an endless supply of cupcake ideas!

I’m off to buy some extra food coloring — going to give this one a try!

Etsy just seems to love cupcakes this summer!   Tonight they will be hosting a get together at their labs in Brooklyn, NY.  Crafters will learn how to make cute needle felted pinback buttons, embroidered cards and enjoy cupcakes from 4-8pm.  If you don’t live in the New York area, you can join them at 5pm ET in their virtual lab.   I am planning on joining in online so please look for my avatar (shop icon) and say hello!

Click here for all the sweet details.

One of my favorite places to find cupcake items has done it again. Check out these cute finds at Kohl’s!

For Baby Girls                              For Young Girls

For Ladies

For All Women!

Click here to see even more Kohl’s cupcake finds.

Lingerie Cupcakes by Look Cupcake (photo courtesy of Look Cupcake)

Wow, these lingerie cupcakes are lookin’ good.  I’ll be sure to keep Look Cupcake in mind next time I hear someone needs treats for their bachelorette party! They’re stuff isn’t cheap, but it’s conveniently located next door to me in Seattle (on Queen Anne Hill) and you cannot beat their presentation. Too bad they only do events – if they had a storefront, I’d stop by to see if these taste as good as they look!

photo courtesy of Taekwonweirdo

photo courtesy of Taekwonweirdo

photo courtesy of Taekwonweirdo

I thought these little guys were just charming as all get out. They were made up by Bittersweet Bakery for a little boy’s first birthday party.  Bittersweet is an outfit out in Chicago that has a full menu and does cakes and cupcakes for events like weddings and wee little birthday parties.

(see Taekwonweirdo’s photostream here)

Cupcake Dress Display by Alice in Cakeland

This lovely dress, which is possibly the best cupcake stand ever, was created by Alice in Cakeland for the kickoff of Amsterdam International Fashion Week at Maison de Bonneterie.  Alice in Cakeland was founded by American transplant Rebecca Treherne, who decided to start up her own bespoke, American-style cupcakery because she “was disappointed to not find an American cupcake that tasted as good as it looked” in the fine city of Amsterdam.  These are some fine looking cupcakes, so I hope that Rebecca has succeeded in her mission to make them taste as good as they look.

For those of you who buy or sell on Etsy, on Monday July 12th their weekly Craft Night will be a lesson on how to make cake-inspired felt confections.  If you live in Brooklyn you can join them in person for free from 4-8pm or at 5pm in their online chat room.   Unfortunately, I will be far away from Brooklyn so look for me in the chat room that evening.  Click here to see all the details. 

Another trip to Michael’s craft store this week and more sweet cupcake finds to share with you!  Check out these beauties:

Cupcake and Ice Cream Pencils and a Cupcake Pocket Calendar

Cupcake teacher supplies- birthday badges and nametags.  They also had cupcake birthday certificates and scratch and sniff stickers.

Cupcake wall calendar.  They also had mini calendars.

And now here is the best part my friends:  every item was just $1 each!  Get them while you can!

I personally am a fan of themed parties and  who could resist an unbrithday party?  Found via Oh Joy!, the pictures from Adele’s 10 year old daughter’s party look like as much fun as a tea party with the real mad hatter would be.  Both adults and children dressed up like the characters and enjoyed what look like delicious cupcakes! An unbirthday party would also be the perfect time to make the Alice in Wonderland cupcakes we shared with you.

And this week’s winner is…

Wani
June 28th, 2010 at 1:27 pm

I just had my third kiddo less than two months ago. I love the whole process of putting together really fun and personal birthday parties for my children and that includes the cake (or cupcakes). I would love to get Hello Cupcake to learn some skills that would help me to make all of their special days even more special!! ;-)

Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to [email protected].  Thanks to all who entered and commented on the the baking cookbooks.  Special thanks to Snubbr for sponsoring this awesome giveaway.

Every week I meet fans our Facebook page and on this main site that have little girls and love to dress them in our precious sweets. I too am included in this wonderful group of moms who have turned their daughters into walking advertisements for cupcakes. There are so many clothes lines out there now for our little princesses that have cupcakes on them.   Just looking in my daughter’s closet today, I counted no less than 15 cupcake shirts, dresses and pants.  I also even had a cupcake birthday party for her just a few years ago.   Well, what about the little men out there? Where are their cupcake items? Are they doomed to Spiderman and Thomas the Tank Engine (my son wears both!) or can they too share in the cupcake fun? Well, I went hunting on Etsy today and found some great items for the boys in our lives!

 

                                                                                                                                                        Cupcake Birthday Frame $16           Cupcake Boy Print $9

 

 

Cupcake Crown $24

 

Share a link to a favorite cupcake item for boys in the comment area below!

photo courtesy of CakeJournal

When I was tooling around CakeJournal‘s site after getting info about Louise’s cupcake needle felt pillows, I found her collection of cake decorating tutorials. This made me happy because it reminded me that the creation of fancy cupcake decorations are indeed within even my beginner’s grasp.

In my quest to find new and interesting cupcake news for ATC, I see the incredible craft and artistry that goes into decorating cupcakes and cakes. I’m always  impressed by the creativity of these pieces.  However,  most of the time  I can’t say that I find inspiration in them because it often looks like a level of composition and sculpture that’s well out of my league. I think that CakeJournal’s collection of tutorials is just the thing to bridge that gap.

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Looking for a last minute 4th of July cupcake idea?  All you need for these semi-homemade firecracker cupcakes are 24 cupcakes, angel flake coconut, cool whip, food coloring, and red licorice.  Follow the three easy steps in the directions which include dying the coconut red and blue.  Then top each cupcake with cool whip then coconut and finish by inserting the licorice into the top of each cupcake.

The Meringue Bake Shop of Placentia, California is celebrating the 4th in creative style with cupcake kabobs!  They almost look too sweet to be true.  Click here for a complete tutorial on how to make your own kabobs!  I am thinking these would be fun for the winter holidays as well (of course, with a slightly different color scheme)!

The World Cup is now almost all but over, and is over for the majority of readers, with the USA going down to Ghana, England being defeated by Germany and Australia, well I’m not going to dwell on Australia as we didn’t even make it through our rounds :(

But before I leave this subject alone for another four years!  I just want to bring you one more fantastic giant football cupcake.  This one comes from Parklife Cakery in England, which they made to support England through the World Cup.   I think it is just fantastic, and I love the little players down the bottom! Too cute!

photo courtesy of CakeJournal

These darling pillows are by cupcake and cakecraft enthusiastic Louise of CakeJournal.  Besides the fact they look great, you know that they were made with love and care because needle-felting is not a quick process.  I wonder if someone can persuade her to make some for sale…

Photo courtesy of CakeJournal

Longtime ATC friend Green Party Goods has recently come out with a new line of mini cupcake stands.  I just love these new additions and think they would be perfect for your next cupcake gathering!  Look for another Green Party Goods giveaway coming this fall.

Futurama Cupcakes by Unicorn Magic Baking Co. (photo courtesy of Unicorn Magic Baking Co.)

I was clued into this week’s nerdcake by Cupcakes Take the Cake. While Rachel of CTTC hasn’t watched the show, I have and it makes these cupcakes all the more adorable. We have the Unicorn Magic Baking Company out of LA to thank for these hilarious creations.

Cupcakes by Cupcake Queen with Duff Goldman Animal Skin Cupcake Tattoos (photo courtesy of Cupcake Queen)

I heard about this nifty new product from one of the cupcake blogs I regularly read, Way More than 52 Cupcakes by Cupcake Queen out of DC.  As it turns out, Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes is rolling out his own line of cake accessories at Michael’s which includes edible cupcake tattoos.

According to the Michael’s website, you just lay down a nice even layer of frosting and then lay down the tattoo(s).  Cupcake Queen tried them out herself on several batches and says that they’re very easy to use.  The Michael’s website only shows striped and floral tattoos, but Cupcake Queen was showing off batches with skulls & crossbones and animal print, so my guess is that you’ll have a better selection in store than online.

Thanks for the heads up, Cupcake Queen!

Cupcake Poop! (picture courtesy of the Cupcake Project)

I was a little confused when I saw the word “poop” titling a post with a picture of delicious looking crispy cookies.  But I guess everyone has their own terminology for the little bits of batter that end up on the edges of the cupcake pan and get cooked up into tasty crispy treats.

Cupcake Project gives us the scoop on the poop, or rather, how to bake it up on purpose rather than just relying on serendipitous accident:

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