It’s hard to believe that fall, and Labor Day, are almost here again, but you can soften the blow with a cupcake. Georgetown Cupcake will be offering the Labor Day cupcake in several flavors, including red velvet. (Need I say more?) It might be the best investment you’ll make this year!
These plates and bowls come in beautiful pastel colors, and the bowls are shaped like cupcake liners. I think these would be fabulous for a nice brunch or a wedding shower, and it sure beats getting out your fancy china, because these are dishwasher safe, which will save you a bunch of time for clean-up.
I’m impressed by these creative and upcycled DIY Party Animal Candles. Jenny from Hank + Hunt posted the full instructions The Sweetest Occasion. She used gold spray paint to give the candle holders a uniformed appearance. I think they make perfect cupcake toppers for a child’s birthday party, maybe one that’s circus themed?
Are you busy back to school shopping for the little cupcake lover in your life? Have you been looking for a cupcake backpack to send your child back to school in cupcake style? Stephen Joseph has tons of fun cupcake products including two different cupcake backpacks. Both bags cost $26.99 but one is quilted while the other, named the go-go bag, is vinyl with appliqued designs. Be sure to check out the other cupcake items on the website including lunch boxes, stainless steel water bottles, there’s even a nap mat.
I found these fondant cupcakes on Pioneer Woman’s site and had to share. Using fondant seems like it would require lots of patience, but I love how Pioneer Woman outlines the process for us step-by-step AND with pictures. These are some amazing-looking cupcakes! The Wii cupcakes were made by Bakerella.
After noticing these by the checkout line at my local Wal-Mart I realized that filled cupcakes must be the latest trend in cupcakes. This is because Betty Crocker created these FUN da-middles cupcake mixes with filling. Four flavors are currently available including chocolate cake with vanilla filling, white cake with vanilla filling, and white cake with chocolate filling. These have come out at the perfect time with school starting back up these would be great to bring to a class room party, bake sale, or as a special after school treat!
Gigi’s Cupcakes of Savannah Georgia is using cupcake power to help a local foodbank, America’s Second Harvest. Customers who bring in food to donate are treated to a discount on in-store orders. Gigi’s has already filled a barrel of food in just three days and they hope to do even better this weekend. In fact, on Saturday, if you bring in five or more canned goods between 1 and 6, you get a free cupcake!
Real Simple always has great ideas in their New Uses for Old Things section, especially when it comes to cupcakes! If you are looking for an easy solution for cupcake transportation why not try this DIY gift box cupcake carrier. Simple cut X’s into a shirt box and insert cupcakes.
One of our readers shared this idea with us. This cupcake balloon art would really impress guests at your next party. Looks like a lot of balloons to blow up, but totally worth the effort. I think these would make good picture backgrounds.
I went to Target today and saw these two cupcake notebooks in the seasonal back to school supply section. Since they are only $1.00 each they are hard to resist and are definitely not just for students!
Butter Lane Cupcakes in New York has given us the scoop on their banana cupcakes. Enjoy!
I am so excited that today I found these Cath Kidston cupcake liners at my local TJMaxx. I love TJMaxx just because you never know what you might find there and they always have something different. The pack of 100 liners, which includes four different patterns, are also available on the Chronicle Books website for $9.95. Or stop by your local TJMaxx and test your luck to see what cupcake find might be in store for you.
I don’t think my giant, slobbering bloodhound would appreciate this adornment, but if you’ve got one of those clean, cute, little, foo foo pups, you might want to check it out. What discerning foo foo creature wouldn’t want a rhinestone around her neck? And at Swing Design, a cupcake pup charm is only $5.25!
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 love these trendy cupcake toppers by Fiskars. The bright colors make them really fun and after reading the directions they seem easy to make if you have the right tools. My favorite are the pinwheels although I know the mustache toppers are really popular right now.
Are you looking for new after-school snack ideas? Or maybe you’re just looking for an extra special treat for your kids’ first day back? Twinkle VanWinkle has the winning treat for such an occasion: PBJ Cupcakes! Not only do they have two all-time favorite kid ingredients (peanut butter and jelly), these cupcakes are also remarkably healthy. Whole-wheat flour in the cake adds an extra nutritional boost, applesauce cuts back on the amount of oil required, and they are dairy-free, which means they are lower fat. The filling is quite simple: cut a hole in the center of the cupcakes and add peanut butter. The frosting is buttercream made with strawberry preserves, which can be made healthier by using sugar-free preserves. And of course, add some colorful sprinkles and fresh, sliced strawberry to make this treat even more enticing (as if it weren’t already!).
If you are a cupcake baker, or just starting out in the cupcake baking world and are looking for a hand mixer, then I have found just the mixer for you.
Cupcake Creations Hand Mixer w/Decorating Kit and Case from Amazon.
This kit is great! It comes with a neat little case. And not to mention, everything below…
Just fabulous!
If I was a coffee drinker I would definitely make these caramel frappucino cupcakes that Sweet Tooth made for a friends’ birthday. These cupcakes consist of mocha cake filled with homemade caramel sauce, topped with whipped cream frosting then drizzled with more caramel sauce.
Chocolate and peanut butter is a winning combination in my opinion. These chocolate mud cupcakes have dark chocolate and espresso in the batter, and the peanut butter frosting is cream-cheese based. To top it all of are toffee peanut shards. Yum, yum, yum!
A little something for the Pulp Fiction fans out there …
Forever 21 always seems to be up on the latest trends which is why they offer several cupcake items. Here are some of my favorite cupcake finds, 
such as the Sweet Little Cupcake Shirt, pictured above, that comes in charcoal or cream for $14.90. I also like the cupcake love boyshorts that are $3.80. There are also these sweet cupcake ankle socks that come in heather grey or yellow and are only $0.95!! The website has more cupcake tee shirts, young girls cupcake shirts, jewelry, buttons, and a tote so check it out!
I just found this lovely cupcake tattoo on Flickr. Mez Love is a tattoo artist from Tattoo Boogaloo in San Francisco! Check out her portfolio for more amazing designs (including more cupcakes)!
I don’t know about you, but once fall weather sets in, I enjoy grabbing a warm beverage and curling up on the couch to do a little knitting. Even though fall is still a little way away, the rainy weather and cooler temperatures this week have gotten me thinking ahead. I found this free knitting pattern, and it looks pretty simple. You could sew it onto a t-shirt as suggested, or you could dream up some other ideas for it.
I have this cupcake book of labels by Gailson. It’s great when you need to write a small reminder note and don’t want to use a whole post-it note. The book that costs $5.00, consists of 80 labels in two different sizes and eight different patterns. The line offers other cupcake products including a magnetic pad, mini sticky notes, a mini journal 6 pack, or gift notes and thank you notes.
Registration for Canada’s first Iron Cupcake competition, Iron Cupcake of Toronto, is now open. The competition will take place on Sunday, September 18th from 1-3 in the 2nd floor lounge of the For the Love of Cake Bakery at 171 East Liberty Street, unit 117, in Toronto. Visitors get to sample and judge the cupcakes!
Iron Cupcake is open to everyone. The “secret ingredient” has been announced and this ingredient is … Apples! Competitors must somehow incorporate apples into their cupcakes. Points will be awarded for presentation, taste, and creativity. There is an entry fee of $15. Hurry, registration is limited!