Cupcakes are sweet and kids are cute. So it makes sense that by bringing the two together in the right way you can create a recipe for success, right? That is just what the folks at Susie Films have done in their recent short film, Henry’s Cupcakes. Warning: the following short film may put a smile on your face and a growl in your tummy. Do not watch on an empty stomach. Read the rest of this entry »
I know that Easter is a few months away but, I can’t help but share this great cupcake tutorial/recipe with you.
Crazy, creative bakers our there are always coming up with new amazing techniques for baking cupcakes and this one takes the (cup)cake!
Simply, Amazing!
Easter Cupcakes Baked in Real Egg Shells from Cupcake Project
Owls seem to be all the rage lately! Why wouldn’t they be with all the cute owl things I see around – checks, wallets, earrings, etc. You want it (with owls), you got it!
If you want Owl Cupcakes, we got those too. These are so stinking adorable!
Reeses Owl Cupcakes from Inside BruCrew Life
Get it while you can …Eat a Cupcake Poster from AllPosters.com is on sale for $.98. You can get this great cupcake poster for yourself or for another cupcake lover for under a dollar!
You don’t have to be a lawyer (but I am) to enjoy this news flash: Sprinkles Cupcakes has filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in CT against Pink Sprinkles Cupcakes. The claim? Trademark infringement. Here is the 10-page “Complaint,” the document that starts it all.
Copyright Me Cupcake Photo!
What is there to gab as part of the exclusive All Things Cupcake blog not found anywhere else? Well, as to what matters to us, Sprinkles claims in paragraph 8 that it “plans on opening stores throughout the United States and around the world, including Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, London, and Paris.” Magnifique!
My curiosity spun me around the US Patent & Trademark Office website. “Sprinkles” produced 192 results, including “Magic Sprinkles,” “Serenity Sprinkles,” “Twisted Sprinkles,” “Garden Sprinkles,” and “Pet -,” “Kitty -,” and “Doggie Sprinkes.” In fact, in 2002, before there was “Sprinkles” of Beverly Hills, there was “Sprinkles of Palm Beach” – that is, until Sprinkles bought the assignment for that trademark. (Don’t tell Sprinkles, but there is currently a “Sprinkles Ice Cream” in Palm Beach…)
Stay tuned as we track the Answer to the Complaint, due in from Pink Sprinkles within just a few days.
Oh, and just to be on the safe side…I’m not publishing photographs of cupcakes from either Sprinkles or Pink Sprinkles – here is one of my own!
And not just any old Hazelnut!! Gourmet Hazelnut Cupcakes thank you!
Cupcakes should not only taste delicious, but should look appealing and exciting too. To be honest I could show you the yummiest naked cupcake, and well it would look.. boring… truth is, these days every book is judged by its cover, and every cupcake by its decoration. But that doesn’t mean to say that a cupcake can just look good, because although we show you only a few dimensions, when you bake it up, you bring something we never can… that third dimension… taste…
Now I cannot really speak for these hazelnut cupcakes, as I am yet to bake them myself. I love hazelnuts, but as yet haven’t quite had time… but these caramel stringy amazing hazelnut decorations… well they look amazing, so if you want to make an impact, they are a definite YES!… and if you try out the cupcake, let us know if it tastes as good as it looks!
Find the recipe here!
Found these AWESOME cupcakes today by the super talented Solange Queiroz! Aren’t they fantastic! I love this idea and it would be brilliant for a sixties party or a musical themed party… I can just imagine these four cupcakes atop a cupcake tower with all the other cupcakes decorated with screaming girl faces!
What else this Easter would you rather be than a bunny?? And with these colorful easter themed easter cupcakes from Keira’s Cakes how can you argue?! I love the purple carrot cupcakes, and personally I don’t think there would be a sweeter or nicer way to eat a whole raw carrot, than these lovely icing ones on top of a fantastic moist and delightful cupcake!
Want the sentiment but don’t have the time?
Well how about a really simple but really effective cupcake?
Too hard, well, how about a simple picture tutorial with no words?
Well that is what Pilli Pilli has provided with their simple but amazing Valentines Cupcakes!
Do you reckon you can create something like this? A cupcake decorated in Jelly Belly Jelly Beans?
If the answer is maybe, or yes, then you need to get buying or baking. That’s right you can buy your cupcakes, the only rule is that you need to decorate the cupcake yourself with Jelly Belly Jelly Beans or other Jelly Belly candy! This competition is therefore great for kids and parents alike! Best of all you’ll be in the running to win $10,000!!
You have plenty of time to create your masterpiece and load it to the Jelly Belly website. Form more information or to enter, click here!
One of readers Traci recently sent in photos of her daughter’s first birthday party and she took their chosen theme ‘cupcakes’ to the extreme! Traci indicated that All Things Cupcake provided much of her inspiration, but I have to say she has provided me with all the inspiration I need to organize my daughter’s 6th birthday party next year. Megan has been longing for a cupcake party, and there is no way you can get more cupcakey than this!
The first photo is of their create a cupcake stand! This would be great fun for all children allowing them to frost and then decorate their cupcakes. The awesome little cupcake containers were from the Posh Box on Etsy allowing the guests to take their creations home! And with a bit of ribbon and some buttons, Traci made them so much fun!
For more inspiring photos, click here to see more…
There are so many amazingly creative people out there who have grabbed hold of the cupcake craze, but instead of whipping up a tornado of flour and sugar in their kitchens have taken their ideas to the craft room.
One such person is Vanda, who is author of the blog Thingies. Here she experiments with many things crafty including these fantastic FabriCupcakes. My immediate thought is to stick pins in their plush tops, as they would make an awesome pin cushion, but as Vanda explained to me, lots of kids love these because they can decorate them with eyes and smiles and you can even hang them as the perfect soft mobile for babies!
For me, I think they are super cute!
Sweets for Sweetest Day by Shari's Berries
The third Saturday in October is Sweetest Day; this year that falls on October 16th. It’s a wee holiday that’s mostly celebrated up in the Great Lakes region with the giving of small gifts to loved ones. Sweetest Day originated in Cleveland, Ohio in 1922 as a PR move by a committee of Cleveland confectioners: on the first Sweetest Day, 20,000 boxes of candy were distributed to the city’s poor and unfortunate by movie stars. Admittedly, giving boxes of candy to the needy is great press, but what I take away from this is that Sweetest Day is about giving to those who need it most.
I want to advocate for a revival of Sweetest Day as a holiday where we again give to the most vulnerable among us. Since we can all agree that cupcakes are way better/sweeter than candy, it’s pretty easy to see how we can fit our favorite baked good into this equation. Also, from what I’ve read in All Things Cupcake, cupcake aficionados are all about uniting our favorite food with philanthropy. This is something we do naturally – it’s no secret cupcake-lovers are sweethearts.
Celebrations of Sweetest Day can be as literal as giving cupcakes to orphans, but they could also take the form of bake sales to feed the hungry or to raise awareness about epilepsy. We’ve already seen the outpouring of cupcakes and funds in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti and Jody Hall‘s use of Cupcake Royale as a platform for social justice. Let’s use Sweetest Day as a way to celebrate the best parts of ourselves and to use cupcakes to their greatest potential – helping our fellow human beings.
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If you decide to plan something for Sweetest Day, let us know! We at All Things Cupcake would love to hear about our readers plans to bring back what is possibly the only cupcake-related social justice holiday in existence.
Toolkit for Tasty Filled Cupcakes :)
I was paging through the Uncommon Goods catalog the other day when I came across this cupcake corer and decorating set. You can find decorating sets and kits all over the place, but I thought that the corer that’s included in this kit set it apart. Getting just the right-sized filling hole in a cupcake can be fussy, possibly crumbling the cupcake in the process.
In case you’re skeptical about this corer’s usefulness or the quality of the kit in general, Uncommon Goods did a gift lab on this product to see how well it worked. While
Finished Filled Cupcakes!
a manufacturer’s take on their own product isn’t exactly objective, the post is pretty informative about the kit’s performance.
You’ll want to click the link to get the long version, the short version is that the cupcakes weren’t picture perfect, but they turned out better than they would have without the kit. All in all, it sounds like it’s worth the $20 price tag if you’re into making filled cupcakes on a regular basis.
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.
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!
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.
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!
While combing the internets for cuteness, I found Japan LA and their adorable store. Among the Hello Kitty and the sushi scarves, there I discovered some prize cupcake accessories.
Rilakkuma Cupcake Pouch - oh no, it's brand spankie new and it's already sold out!
Yummy You! Knitted Cupcake Scarf - $65
Yummy You! Knitted Cupcake Purse - $70
Nomskulls - Silicon Skull Cupcake Molds by Fred & Friends
If I did “Nerdcake Product of the Week”, Nomskulls would be top of the list in the category. These cutie-skull molds come four in a box for $12 from Fred & Friends (though you’ll have to go to Amazon or Pop Deluxe to actually buy them). F&F also includes a recipe for the squiggly brain frosting shown on the above nomskullcake:
FRED’S BRAINY FROSTING
Add confectioners’ sugar to the frosting until it‘s stiff enough to hold its form, yet still soft enough to pipe. To the frosting add food coloring(s) to reach desired color. If your cupcakes aren’t dome shaped, pile on a small mound of frosting first. Then pipe two lines down the center of the cupcake. Finally, pipe a squiggly pile of frosting onto each “hemisphere”. Mmmm…brains.
photo courtesy of Look Cupcake
These were created for a first birthday party that was ever-so-appropriately hosted at Woodland Park Zoo. I like the mural-like frosting art on the cake, but am particularly tickled by the detailing on the cupcakes:
Photo courtesy of Look Cupcake
Rawr! Beware the wild cupcake! They may be sweet, but they are fierce!
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 »
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.
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.
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.