There is one word that describes these fun cupcakes and that is BRIGHT and there is nothing that kids love more than colorful cupcakes.  These ones are from Spearmint Baby’s blog and will not only bring a smile to your kid’s faces but probably yours as well!

The best news is that Shari takes you step by step through how she made these including her hints to avoid color mix!  I love the ones she did in the plain white wrappers, which were their own gorgeous rainbow color by the time they were done.

Try them yourself and if you have any great tips for rainbow cupcakes, let us know!

I have heard of Red Velvet cupcakes, but never BLUE Velvet. Have you?

If you havent and are curious as to what they are all about you can purchase a gourmet Blue Velvet Cupcake Mix from Red Velvet Stefanie.

These look like a little slice of blue heaven.

Ever since Stefanie’s appearance on Cupcake Wars she has been blowing up and getting more and more popular. Follow her on Facebook to see all that she is up to — Red Velvet Stefanie on Facebook.

Yesterday Applecupcake introduced you to Diva Entertains, an online store specializing in favors for all types of parties. Today we are hosting a giveaway for this fantastic site.  Check out what you can win!

 Diva Entertains is giving away 3 adorable faux cupcakes (with photo wire or without) to 3 lucky winners!

 So how do you enter this giveaway?  Just go to Diva Entertains and pick your favorite cupcake item.  Click on the comment area below and tell us about it and also tell us what kind of non-cupcake favor you’d like to see on their site.  Three winners will be chosen on September 13th.  Good luck cupcake fans!

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! :)

Keanu Reeves has always been a bit mysterious, and apparently, he celebrated his 46th birthday this past Friday enjoying a single cupcake, bearing a single candle, by himself outside a film prop warehouse. 

There is nothing wrong with a little solitude, especially when it is accompanied by a little sweet.  Happy Birthday Keanu!

Zombies on Cupcakes?  Yummy! 

The Walking Dead is a new television series based on the comic book series of the same name.  In the US, the series will air on AMC, and in the UK, FX.  Hence the Fox logo amongst the spooky frosting faces.

It was Fox who ordered the cupcakes from Clares Cupcakes of London, for a press party.  The folks at Clares really know how to make a cupcake.  I was blown away by the pictures on their website. 

They specialize in cupcakes for special events, and I have never seen more tantalizing displays.  I wish I’d had them for my wedding!  They hand deliver orders to events in the London area. Continue reading »

When my sister shared with me Gemma Correll’s flickr I immediately loved her cupcake images.  The first image, titled “Let Them Eat Cake” shown left is exactly how I feel about cupcakes, you can eat them, just not so many that it becomes unhealthy.  People always find my interests to be contradicting since I have a love of cupcakes but studied nutrition in college but Gemma’s image sums up how we should go about eating cupcakes.  I also liked the cupcake fight image (featured below) with a cupcake that has gotten into a fight so he has a bite taken out of him.

Gemma Correll has tons of other fun photos on her flickr page or her website features her portfolio.  She also has an etsy page, for the purchase of her art and other goods.

I so just had to share this most adorable few cupcakes with you.  Sometimes I like to cruise Flickr or Cake Central looking for cupcake ideas and inspiration, and I was doing that over at Cake Central today with their 2009 FairyTale Contest when all of a sudden I found this absolutely amazing cupcake in amongst all those big cakes.  The kitten and mouse are priceless!  Well done to Niknips Cakes who created them.

We all have just under 2 months to start brainstorming and making costumes for Halloween for us and our loved ones, we all better get cracking!

If you have a young child who loves to bake and loves to dress up, then I have the perfect costume for you!

Kids Cupcake Chef Costume from Better Homes and Gardens

What do you plan on being for Halloween?

This week marks one year since I began working with All Things Cupcake and I have to say, I love my job!  I get to write about cupcakes, give away cupcake stuff and talk to cupcake obsessed people just like me on a daily basis.  In my very first post for ATC, I shared some Etsy cupcake items that our kiddos (our ourselves) could use on their first days back to school.  So I thought, what better way to mark my one year anniversary than to update that post!   Here are some wonderful back to school essentials I found this year:

Cupcake Backpack $25.00

Cupcake Paperclips $6.00

 

 

Cupcake Pencil Pouch $8.00

 

 Here’s to another wonderful year with ATC!

Want to listen to some sweet, sweet music but can’t find your head phones? Well hop on over to ModCloth and check out these Sweet Sounds Ear Buds.

Your one and only will really want to nibble on your ear now!

Super Mario Cupcake by hello naomi

There’s nothing more classic geek than Super Mario Brothers.  I love how sharply detailed the iconic little characters turn out in fondant!

Amazing cupcakes and picture by ATC favorite and baker extraordinaire, hello naomi. Thanks to GeekSugar for the cupcake tip!

Curry Kay Designs is  a handmade textile business based out of West Hartford, Connecticut.  Since opening her Etsy shop a little over two months ago her cupcake prints featured on aprons, dish towels, and bags have been her best seller and it’s easy to see why.  The apron and dish towels which came for us to review are beautiful.

The apron is absolutely gorgeous; it arrived while I was in the middle of baking earl grey cupcakes and I immediately put it on.  A bright, bold violet is complimented nicely by the light green trim and ties for the apron.  Unlike many aprons the neck piece on Curry Kay’s apron is adjustable thanks to two slots and a polka dot button.  The lower corner features a big, white screen printed cupcake with sprinkles and a cherry on top.  Just above the waistline is an adorable little bird.  I really liked the apron and the dish towels matched.  The dish towels are the same rich violet and feature the same cupcake image. Continue reading »

I know it is a little early for all of us to start thinking about Christmas, but I saw this cute set of cupcake ornaments that I just had to share with all you fellow cupcake lovers.

Sweet Cupcake Glass Ornaments from PLASTICLAND.

How many cupcake ornaments do you have on your tree at Christmas time?

After my post about the Blue Q Cupcake Shopper by the fine folks of 64 Colors, I took a tour of the 64 Colors photostream.  And what d’ya know: more cupcakes!

Cakewalk

Falling

Cuppycake Pals

Hello Kitty Print

Also, I checked around the internet, and as I far as I can tell everything here was custom, either one-of-a-kind and already sold or for a show. However, if you like 64 Colors and you don’t mind your merch not having a cupcake on it, check out their online store or search for them at Rotofugi.

Boys between the ages of 10 and 14 can be really difficult when it comes to selecting a cupcake design.  Basically cupcakes are girly, and they, of course, are manly, so you need something that they can relate too.  Ben 10, dinosaurs and matchbox cars are things of the past, but they are not quite at that stage where everything ‘food’ especially if it contains sugar, grease or both is desirable regardless of how it looks!

So coming up with ideas can be difficult.  The best method is to look for things they are into, and this includes the games they play on their x-box or computer.  These cupcakes above come from Sugar-Design and are perfect for a boy anywhere between the ages of 7 and 12, however you could make them for older boys too, using logos such as Starcraft 2 or COD. Another seven ideas are:

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It seems as though there is always something threatening to take the cupcakes spot as a popular food trend.  First there were macaroons, then there was pie and popsicles and now it’s doughnuts!  Over the last couple of months I have seen lots of recipes for doughnuts in magazines and online.  I will admit that I have even considered purchasing a doughnut pan to try out some of the recipes.

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I want to have a baby girl right now so I can dress her up in this outfit!

A tutu and a cupcake, what could be better? I love the tulle in the cupcake mimicking the  tutu below.

This Kaiya Eve Cupcake Dress can be found at Neiman Marcus. It even comes with a diaper cover.

It is never too early to begin thinking about your Halloween costume. PBteen has a cupcake costume available in small, medium, or large for $69.00.  The costume includes the cupcake body and headpiece and currently has free shipping.

These cupcakes are so stinking cute! Muppet Cupcakes from BlueRett Cakes

These remind me of growing up an watching the Muppet’s. If you could have a cupcake designed from anything reminding you of your childhood what would it be?

And our winner is…

onerockinmomma

Here was her comment entry:

“No Way! These are the cutest cupcake charms ever! I would be honored to win the chocolate sprinkles cupcake charm, so darn CUTt. For a new flavor I think an “Elvis” inspired cupcake would be a HUGE hit. Peanut butter cake w/ Banana frosting.  Cheers to Miss Kitty for having such a sweet talent.”

Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to [email protected].   Special thanks to Miss Kitty Creations  for sponsoring this week’s giveaway.

There are few things in life that I love more than Glee, Fox’s hit musical comedy.  While Glee did win a few Emmys last night, I was disappointed that Lea Michele, who stunningly plays the character of Rachel, did not win.  She was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and I think she should have won, but she is young, and I can root for her for years to come.  Yesterday was her 24th birthday.  I remember where I spent my 24th birthday, and it certainly wasn’t at the Emmys.  But all is well that ends well because guess what she got for her birthday?

Pre-show host Billy Bush presented her with a vegan cupcake in a jar.  And though I would be pretty darn excited about such a gift, this red carpet gal pronounced the gift both “ghetto” and “cool.”

New York Couture has been featured on MTV, in Elle and Glamour Magazines and has been worn by personalities such as Katy Perry and Pink.  Their website describes their look as “a harmonious blend of punk-rock cool, ultra-glam and prima ballerina.”  There is no denying they are hip, modern and perfect for the ultra confident rock goddess or super cool party princess.

Best of all they have quite a range that feature the cupcake, so if you are in the market for some new cupcake wear that is very funky, definitely check them out!  This image here is of their cupcake dresses, and you can see the variety and their liberal use of color and design.

Below are more shots of their t-shirts and accessories…

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2009-2010 Holiday Location of The Cupcake Store at Downtown Disney

Downtown Disney is about to have a new permanent attraction: cupcakes!  The Cupcake Store, based out of Mission Viejo, CA, had such a successful temporary holiday booth at Downtown Disney that they’ve decided to open up shop there permanently. Word is that they’ll ship in cupcakes daily from the bakery in Mission Viejo to the happy hordes looking to take a break from Splash Mountain and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

The Cupcake Store is run by cupcake veteran Janel Mitchell. This is her first solo store after parting ways with business partner John Frank, with whom she founded Frostings Cupcakes.  The new Downtown Disney location is set to open up in September. With any luck, they’ll be up and running by the time I go down to SoCal for a visit in a few weeks. If that’s the case, I’ll tell you all about it!