A few days ago Candid Cupcake shared with you how mason jars are very in right now.  She is so right- they seem to be all over Etsy!  Mason jar covers, Mason jar candles, and of course, Mason jar cupcakes.  And I know these aren’t technically Mason jars but how amazing are these faux icing topped glass jars?    For $28 you get a set of 6 colorful creations made by 12 Legs Curiosities. Perfect for cupcake in a jar or as a favor at a wedding or party.  Love, love, love!

I have been a big Hostess fan ever since I was a little kid.  There is something special about opening up one of their plastic packages and enjoying that overly sugary sweetness.  Yum!  While surfing the Hostess website today I found the coolest wedding cake ever!  It took the groom only one hour to make this cake from Twinkies, Cupcakes, Ding Dongs, Ho Hos, Suzy Q’s, Sno Balls and Mini Muffins. 

They also had several recipes that use the desserts to make new and different creations.  I so want to try this Black Forest Dessert that is made with a whole package of Hostess cupcakes!

Wedding season is already in full swing and I am happy to report that wedding cupakes are just as popular as last year. Whether it is possibly cheaper price or the ease of sharing the cupcakes with your guests, wedding cupcakes seem to be winning out over wedding cakes.  If you are also considering cupcakes for your nuptials, I found a few sites that might help you in your planning.  Wedding Cupcakes is a site filled with beautiful cupcake arrangements and also has an interesting section about wedding cupcake etiquette. 

And if is supplies you need, then The Smart Baker can has everything from cupcake towers to parchment paper to to car magnets to help the cuppies get to the reception safely.

FYI- did you know that our own talented All Things Cupcake contributor, Heather Lynn, is also wedding photographer?  Check out her amazingly sweet wedding photos and portrait shots on her Vintage Grace Facebook page.  How awesome would it be to have a cupcake expert photograph your own wedding cupcakes?!

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Planning a wedding? Check out these amazing beauties! These pictures were taken at a wedding in Australia by Flickr’s mutedsinger. This is the bouquet I would like to catch!

Cupcakes Gourmet in Pennsylvania is offering you all a fabulously delicious way to propose to that one very special person in your life this Valentine’s Day.

Picture a delicious red velvet cupcake, topped with cream cheese frosting – but look again – is that a eight-carat diamond engagement ring perched in the frosting? Why, yes it is!

Cupcakes Gourmet is offering this perfect diamond encrusted cupcake for Valentine’s for $55,000!

Any girl who gets this cupcake this Valentine’s Day is one lucky gal!

(read more here)

With cupcakes growing in popularity over the past few years, many people have been substituting cupcakes for cakes at large functions.  Weddings, birthdays, anniversaries- all with cupcakes as the main dessert and centerpiece.  And that is where cupcake towers have blossomed in popularity as well.   They display your cuppies without taking up a lot of space. 

Our giveaway this week is from Penguin Cupcake Towers.  One winner will get to choose either the Humboldt or the Emperor Cupcake stand.  The true beauty of these stands is that they are made to be decorated to match your event theme.  Spray paint it, cover it with ribbon, flowers, fabric, glitter- whatever you want! 

To enter this giveaway, click on the comment area below and tell us how you would decorate your cupcake tower if you won.  One winner will be chosen on Monday, September 19th.  Thank you Penguin Cupcake Towers!

I went to a gorgeous wedding the other day and was treated to gorgeous homemade cupcakes. Check them out!

One of our loyal readers just tied the knot and sent us some of her fabulous engagement and wedding photos, taken by J Patrick Dean.  I thought these were lovely, and a great way to incorporate cupcakes into engagement and wedding photography.  The bride even made all of the cupcakes for the engagement shoot and wedding herself.  Talk about dedication!  Congratulations to the newlyweds!  Thank you for sharing these creative pictures with us!

The rings

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How will you be celebrating  April 29th for the royal marriage of Will and Kate? If you are not sure yet then I may have just the thing for you.

Royal Wedding Cupcakes  from Disney Family.com

Fun, easy and kid friendly!

Is it too early to start thinking about summer cupcakes?  I mean Spring is only just starting to bloom, but if you are planning a wedding then you probably will be well on the way to deciding!

So today I thought I would bring a bit of a summer wedding collective!  But if you are not getting married, don’t despair, each of these also make great general summer cupcakes, so book mark them for when the weather warms up!

Love this cool summer color palette, bright blues and vivid sea green, with lots of wedding white. Simply perfect cupcakes from Bella Cupcakes. Also I love the use of the sea urchin!

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After throwing our first ever cupcake themed party a month ago for my daughter’s 7th Birthday I am a massive fan.  The girls all had a fantastic time decorating the cupcakes, in the tea party like setting I had created.  I only wish I had known about these first!

This is a cupcake centerpiece , which (don’t be fooled by the picture) is quite big standing at about 20 inches tall, each cupcake being 5 inches tall.  But the best thing about these is that they offer you unlimited ideas for future cupcake parties, or tea parties.

Bought new each of these cupcakes is actually a jar, and inside is a packet of cupcake flavored cookies! So you can, if you want give them as gifts after the party… OR you can keep them and re use again and again.  Even play games with them, such as hiding something in one cupcake jar!  Actually I am thinking these would be perfect party favors at our wedding later this year…

Of course, you don’t need to get the full stand with all 24 cupcakes, you can also buy the cupcake jars filled with cupcake cookies individually.  Best of all, is I hear the cookies are amazing! I could really go the triple chocolate cookie jar right now!

If you are looking for these, you’ll find them at Diva Entertains!

This is a way to have your cupcakes and your cake too at your wedding. I found this very cute and comical Cupcake Wedding Cake Topper at Bitter Sweetz’ Etsy Shop. If you do not like the colors that you see here you can request just about any color combination and the artist will be willing to change anything else that you would like them to.

The vintage wedding is quite popular at the moment, and why wouldn’t it be, with shows like Mad Men displaying how wonderful the female figure can look in those classic 50s style dresses, but if you choose to go this way, you may wonder how you can merge your vintage theme with your love for the modern cupcake.  Well Pretty Witty Cakes shows us just how this can be achieved!

Suzi has created gorgeous china tea cup cupcakes filled with different colored roses!  Apparently it was quite a fiddly job to complete, but it looks sensational!

And HAPPY NEW YEARS!!

Got a no shoes policy at your home? or just want to provide a great take home gift for your girlfriends?  There is something so fun about these socks!

Okay if you don’t know what I am talking about, it is Grippy Socks, you know those great winter socks that you can safely wear around the house (that is you’ll stay upright).  But these are even better because they contain cupcakes on them and they can be personalised.

Instead of bird seed or a plastic take home gift from your wedding, you could provide something really useful and super fun in these socks!  Or generate your support for your cupcake cause or organisation by creating your own branded cupcake home footwear.  I am not sure though that they can replace shoes just yet in your bakery, but hey!

You can get these socks from ATC Sponsor Diva Entertains and best of all you can write text in both the top part of the sole and the bottom part as shown above.  Don’t forget that you can also choose the colors of both the socks and the text!

Sometimes, ideas are so perfect we wonder how no one has thought of them before.  For example:  Plastic cupcake vases that come in six delicious colors.  Brilliant!  They look like cupcakes, but they’re not.  Instead, the top of the “cupcake” is full of little holes, perfectly stem-sized, so you can insert the flowers into the cupcake at just the right angles. And voilà! You have yourself a perfect bouquet.  The vases are unbreakable, reusable, and only cost $10.95.  Learn more about them, or start your collection by visiting Fleur Daily online.

Pac-Man Cupcakes by hello naomi

hello naomi takes the nerdcake for the second week in a row with her Pac-Man Cupcakes. This 80 cupcake set is an expansion on an earlier batch of Pac-Man cupcakes; the set shown above is actually a wedding cake for a friend of Naomi’s.

So you are planning the best birthday bash, the most wonderful wedding?  Have you organized great music, food, a perfect venue and have fantastic cupcakes planned for the occasion?  So after all this planning and preparation you know that your guests are going to remember your party for a long time to come!  Right?  Well maybe, but what will help is a visual prompt to take them back to that day!

My daughter is constantly looking at things and recalling the day we got them, like the Mothers day shopping list stuck to our fridge.  She tells me about buying it for me every second morning when she sees it!

To create your own visual prompt why not add a magnet to your party invite or to your party favor bag / box?  This could be the perfect thing for people to remember the date of an upcoming party and the fun they have had long after the event.  I found these in our ATC sponsor’s store Diva Entertains and just had to share them with you.  You personalize them with what ever you want to say, choose the background color (where applicable) and presto.

What do you think? Have you ever received a really bad party favor and what was it?  I would love to know!  Or do you know of some really good party favors?  I found some heart shaped measuring spoons which were really cool, though I am not sure that people not into baking would like it so much, though I’d take theirs, one set is never enough! :)

What to choose as the cupcake design when you are getting engaged?

One thing is for sure, you will need a lot of them, so it is probably best to go for a simple design, but if you still want something amazing and stunning then these cupcakes by Isabella’s Sweet Tooth are sure to be perfect.

Depending on the amount of time you have you can create just 3-5 of the amazing little fondant birds (in white cuts down on time mixing a color), or just go with that funky heart!

When creating a tall stand up cupcake topper like the heart, use a toothpick in the fondant.  This also makes it easy for those eating it to remove it!

Cover your other cupcakes with the same color icing to create a uniform look, even thought the actual decoration on top may be different and less work.  Isabella’s Sweet Tooth cupcakes are vanilla with strawberry buttercream.

What do you think??

Do we need to keep it traditional and go cake over cupcake?  Are we messing with an age old tradition?  Do cupcakes really not have a place at this big event?

I ask the question, because Muskoee Phoenix has a story that suggests that when the author goes to a wedding she wants “to see two things”, that being “the bride’s gown, and a work of art, the wedding cake.”  She goes on to say that “they should not be served on the most important day of a woman’s life, next to having a baby.”

I’m sorry, but in my view it is your wedding and so therefore your choice!  Cake or cupcake, why not? and given some of the gorgeous cuppies around, you can certainly go glamorous with the little ones, like these gorgeous cupcakes from Ban Bakes – In Paris!  But what do you think?

Do you love cupcakes but think they don’t have a place at a wedding?

The new issue of People Magazine will hit the stands this Friday and it will feature 5 pages of photos from Carrie Underwood‘s July 10th wedding, where she tied the knot with professional hockey player Mike Fisher.  

The wedding cake was a cupcake tower made by bridesmaid Ivey Childers, who runs the IveyCake Bakery in Franklin, Tennesse.

Underwood describes her cupcakes as “as the most amazing cupcakes in the universe.”

IveyCake features cupcakes with names like:  Two-Faced, The Apology, Big Dreams, Crazy Ex, Gold Digger, Goody Two Shoes, and my favorite:  Lucky in Love.  

Check out AliCakes Blog, where she shows off her Tiffany cupcakes! 

Helping to decorate for her friend Tiffany’s bridal shower, she thought, 

why not create some Tiffany & Co. themed cupcakes for table centerpieces!   

  And what a great idea it was! 

Check these out! 

Being in business for seven generations, Hansen’s Cakes knows a thing or two about cakes & cupcakes. Celebrities love these cakes!

For location, menu, and other information please visit Hansen’s Cakes.

Custom Sculpted Strawberry Cakelets

Bride & Groom Cakelets

Dollhouse Bake Shoppe specializes in everything miniature, providing the option to indulge in a variety of their bite sized sweets. From their signature Dollhouse Cakelets, to cupcakes, brownies, cookies and more, we have the perfect treats to satisfy any sweet tooth. Choose from their unique flavor options and even have your treats customized to match any occasion!

Please visit Dollhouse Bake Shoppe for more information.

 This week we are hosting a giveaway for the website, Green Party Goods where their motto is “Planet Friendly Products for Any Celebration”.  I am pleased to own one of their eco-friendly cupcake stands which is made with recycled corrugated cardboard.  These stands are a great way to display your wonderful cupcake creations and are meant to be used many times.   They are made in a neutral white color so customers can decorate them to coordinate with whatever theme they need.  You can use a glue gun to attach ribbon or tule or even spray paint them.   The stands come in round and square shape.

My stand was easy to assemble and was a great deal sturdier than I had assumed it would be.  As a crafter, I also thought these stands would be a perfect way to display items, such as jewelry or cards, at a craft show.

This week Green Party Goods invites you to become a fan of the Facebook Page and to also enter this giveaway for a free eco-friendly stand.  They will also throw in your choice of any cupcake wrap or liner of your choice! 

To enter this giveaway, first go to Green Party Goods and pick out a favorite item.  Then come back here to ATC and in the comment area below tell us what was your favorite item AND what kind of wrap or liner you think they should add to their site. 

One winner will be chosen on Monday, March 29th.  Thanks Green Party Goods!

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 :)