What else would you wear to a cupcake party, but a cupcake dress!  Well that was Helene’s thinking, but when you cannot find the right thing you may just have to resort to making it yourself.  Helene is obviously pretty talented whipping up this gorgeous little lime green cupcake dress in just two days while also making a stack of cupcakes for her cupcake birthday!

It looks great teamed with a cardigan too, see below!

So next time you need to strike a cupcake pose, why not consider making one? Cupcake fabric is easier to come by than pre made cupcake dresses!

Bake me anything and I will be yours …. but bake me a cupcakes and you have my heart forever!

Check out this cute book I found at Amazon with over 100 ideas for cupcakes. I love it if just for the name!

Bake Me I’m Yours Cupcake: Over 100 Excuses to Indulge

If you are a Kindle lover they have a version for that as well!

I think we have officially hit the cupcake mother-load!

50 cupcake recipes all in one blog post. I think I have died and gone to cupcake heaven.

Check out The 50 Best Cupcake Recipes on the Internet on the blog Restless Chiptole!

This cupcake tattoo is literally still hot only being done a week or so ago!  But what makes it so cool is the unique idea that Margo had.  You see Margo has three gorgeous kids, so she asked them to each select a frosting and then had each one tattooed on her back. The picture to the right here is Margo showing off her new tattoo less than an hour or so after it was done!

Our second idea was found and greatly admired by one of our readers.  It is a cool swirl of blue in the middle of which sits a very prim and pretty cupcake adorned with bow and pearls!

Thanks Margo and Angie for sharing.

As a stationery lover, Paper Source is one of my favorite stores.  They always seem to have what you are looking for like these really cute cupcake stickers that are great for sealing envelopes or adding a little fun to a note! A pack of 12 circle stickers that are each 1.25″ costs $2.50

GreenPartyGoods.com has some amazing cupcake accessories that help keep the earth clean and that also help provide yummy cupcakes!

One of the latest items that has caught my eye is the Skull Silicone Cupcake Molds. These would be perfect for a younger boys birthday party!

Here is a great recipe to go along with these cupcake molds, it may have to modified slightly – Brain Cupcakes

Have you ever heard of TUK Shoes?

They are pretty huge in the music scene.  TUK create underground Rock n’ Roll inspired footwear for men, women, children and rock n’ roll bands like Green Day and the base guitarist from Slash’s recent tour.

They love to create inspired eclectic designs and often push the boundary of what you would expect on a shoe!  And then some of those designs just happen to include brilliant little cupcakes, and in the case of the purple ones and pink pumps, skulls as well.

I so want the purple ones!  I think they are so adorable I just had to share them with you all!  They would be my concert going shoes :)

What do you think?  Would you find somewhere to wear cupcake shoes?

Hop on over to From Married to Merry to learn about Meg’s “semi-homemade” Hostess Cupcakes.  She’s too humble to say it, but I bet they taste better than the “real thing.”

She uses a cake mix for the cupcake, but her filling is homemade: 

• One 8 oz package cream cheese
• 1 jar of marshmellow fluff
• 1 tsp of vanilla

Mix all ingredients in a food processor.  Then chill for 30 minutes.  She recommends setting aside a little bit of the chilled filling to use as topping.  To fill the cupcakes, she used a Pampered Chef Easy Accent Decorator.  Continue reading »

The one movie I have been waiting for ALL summer is coming out today. Eat, Pray, Love and in honor of me going to the movies to see it I have found some lovely Cupcakes to look like popcorn! I know that I will be indulging in popcorn this weekend, only if they were popcorn cupcakes!

POPCORN CUPCAKES! from the blog Smiley’s Sweets and Creation

Congratulations to CCSweets, the first cupcakery to open in Beijing!  The people of Beijing are in for a treat!

These tigers were made for a baby’s 100 day celebration, which is a big event for Chinese families. 

And the frogs?  Well, these were just too cute not to share with you!  You can see many more of CCSweet’s cute and scrumptious creations on their blog.

The idea for a cupcake tattoo may to some of you be a wild and fanciful idea that although tempting is too permanent to seriously consider.  Plus those big cupcakes that take up a whole shoulder may cause you concern, perhaps you do not want to be defined by your tattoo, but merely want to have a little piece of what is important to you close to you at all times.  If this is you, then maybe a smaller cupcake tattoo is more your style!
The smaller the tattoo the less detail you can capture, but you can still achieve something amazing as these two reader submissions clearly show.  The first one above is quite simply adorably cute.  The girly lashes and that fifties fringe curl are just so sweet.  And if you are looking to make it smaller skip the additional candy.

This is Sue’s tattoo and she used this site to find a design that she liked, she then adapted it into this irresistible cupcake.  Her tattoo was  created in Pont Credit Ontario.

The cupcake tattoo in the picture to the left is another idea at how to create a gorgeous little cupcake tattoo, that is both discreet and funky.  Danielle got her cupcake done because it reminded her of her mother’s name for her ‘cupcake’ but it has become more a symbol of where she has come from and gone too.  Danielle now has her own successful cupcake business which she runs from home.

It’s that time of year again!  Time to buy school supplies, clean out the backpack and shop for new school clothes.  My son goes back to school in just two short weeks and of course my mind has drifted to thoughts of making him some special cupcakes to celebrate.   Although I haven’t decided what kind I am making yet, here are some of my favorites.   And if you pull out your mixer and pans to celebrate back to school as well, make sure you send us some photos!

School Bus Cupcakes

Apple Spice Mini Cupcakes

 Back to School Cupcakes

A is for Apple Cupcakes

Chocolate Cupcake Single Card

Owl Make a List-Jotter

Night Owl Paper Goods is a stationery company based out of Birmingham, Owlabama. In addition to their online store I have found several retailers near me which is where I have purchased multiple cards  They seem to have a card for every occasion you might need in addition to tons of nice blank cards and other gift items.  The cards I have given are always well received by the recipients and although they can be  a bit pricy they are really great quality. 

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I was pondering 50’s style earlier today, looking at the dresses, the fantastic matched accessories (hats, gloves, bag, shoes) and then got to thinking, as is the progression, to cupcakes and wondering what I could find in the way of 50’s cupcakes!  Well that is 50’s memorabilia for cupcakes and baking as opposed to an actual 50’s cupcake!  Firstly I adore this little picture of a girl rolling pastry, she is adorable.  And I loved this old baking poster.

Then I found these classic images…

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 And the winner of one dozen cupcake cookies is…

Laura
August 2nd, 2010 at 4:17 pm

I love the sweet cupcakes sugar cookie favors, they’d be perfect for my bridal shower! I’m having a fun baking/cupcake theme!

Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to [email protected].   Special thanks to FunFavors for sponsoring this sweet giveaway.

This summer has been all about various types of Lemonade! I have been try to cut back on my soda consumption and I have substituted soda with strawberry lemonade since the beginning of summer. And let me tell you, it has been a delicious summer so far. But what if you had this refreshing drink in a cupcake? It would be so much better. And it is so much better, I have found this luscious cupcake recipe for Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes from the blog  Love and Olive Oil.

Make sure to check out their blog for more fantastic cupcake recipes and much more!

Love Peace and Cupcakes.

Here in North Carolina peaches are in season which means it is the perfect time to try Peach Bellini Cupcakes.  I was really excited when I came across this recipe on My Man’s Belly, since after visiting Italy in the spring I fell in love with prosecco! Prosecco is an italian sparkling wine that is usually described as dry and having a flavor similar to white peach, which explains why it is paired with peached to make Peach Bellini which is a type of cocktail.

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Cherish Cupcakes, of Belfast, UK, recently updated their Flickr photostream.  You should check it out, because there’s a lot more to see.  I’m just including a few of my favorites here.  They call the top one the “Endangered Cupcake” which made me laugh out loud.  And I guess it means we shouldn’t eat it.  (Are those Cheerios for ears?  How cute is that?)  

The Cupcake Girls is a new series premiering Women’s Entertainment tv! Starting August 14 at 9pm/8c viewers can watch these two Canadian cupcake bakers run their chain of Cupcakes stores while trying to remain best friends.  Heather and Lori created Cupcakes over 8 years ago and have been baking cupcakes like The Sweet 16, (vanilla cake with pink vanilla buttercream, finished with pastel sprinkles) the inspiration for their companies’ colors,  ever since.

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?

Ruche’s latest email is titled “Indulge in Decadent Ruffles” which are looks inspired by cupcakes! For each of the three cupcake flavors there are collections of clothes that go with the flavor.

Brown Sugar Peach Cream

Strawberry Pink Lady

Chocolate Peanut Butter

While vacationing with my family in Vermont a few weeks ago we visited the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.  I was very delighted and surprised to see a cupcake bear in their gift shop.  Not only does it have a cute pink and yellow cupcake on it but it also has a vanilla cupcake smell!  They also had gumball, grape, beer (huh?)  and popcorn scented bears but the cupcake one caught my heart very quickly.  Online they have a bouquet of three bears for $69.95 but in if you live in the Burlington Vermont area, you can go to their store and buy just the cupcake one for $24.95.

I am so thrilled to share with you this vegan-friendly satchel from Need Supply Co.  The outside is soft, textured, faux-leather and the inside is cute little pink cupcakes galore.  The purse costs $72 and comes in black and grey.  It also has an adjustable shoulder-strap.  If you choose to visit Need Supply, be prepared to stay a while.  They have lots of great stuff!

Just a reminder that Sunday is the last day to enter our cupcake cookie giveaway sponsored by Etsy crafter FunFavors.  Please click here to enter!

Little Jane St. is a boutique stationary and textile studio, one product that they offer are ceramic magnets.  There are a total of twelve designs to choose from and even more colors.  One design featured on the magnets the cute little magnets are cupcakes! Each is handmade and for $4.00 you can get one magnet.