Pretty in Pink Cupcake Mosaic Plaque $29.00

This pretty cupcake mosaic is made from hand cut lead lighting glass in pinks, creams and red amber with gold chips of glass. A special technique has been used at the top to make it really girlie and unique!

The sides and back are painted in a dark pink and varnished for protection.

You can display on a stand or hang on the wall as a hook has been added to the back. It looks great in the kitchen or in a little girl’s room and would make a great gift.

The plaque measures 30cm (12”) x 20cm (7.5”).

Available at Smash Studio.

For a sweet start to your party, use these Cupcake Placecard Holders (set of 4). Each holder is creatively shaped as a cupcake with unique color and design that will make them the perfect décor for your party. Each set comes with 8 blank cards and 4 hand-painted earthenware holders in assorted colors and styles.

Price: $8.95

www.wrapables.com

Thanks LaLaLa for letting ATC know about this sweet product!

This contest is now closed! We will post the winner by the end of the month.

After counting the votes we have come up with the top 5 cupcakes. Pick your favorite cupcake. One cupcake vote, per person and IP address! Since this is the finals…we are including the recipes of the top 5!

The top 5 cupcakes are… (more…)

Missy-licious

Beesting

Jilly’s Cupcake Bar

What started out as an idea to bring the freshest and best ingredients, incredible bakers and pastry chefs with true culinary genius and a fun, comfortable atmosphere has grown into so much more.

Of course it’s still about the cupcakes—and you have to taste them to believe them—but the owner Jill has partnered with an incredible chef that has put together an outstanding menu of breakfast, lunch and future dinner items. She has also brought together an extremely talented group of bakers that amaze her every day with their inventiveness.

With cupcakes such as Missy-licious and Beesting on the menu it’s no wonder everyone in St. Louis is falling in love with Jilly’s Cupcake Bar.

Please visit, Jilly’s Cupcake Bar, for more information.

Lily Lohe Handbags has three super cute cupcake handbags! I want them all!

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Wow! PhillySwirl on The Today Show
via PR web press release
PUBLISHED: July 20, 2008

PhillySwirl, maker of unique and delicious Ice Cream Cupcakes, is delighted to announce its television debut on The Today Show, July 15, 2008! These frozen delights, half cake (either chocolate or white) and half vanilla ice cream topped with icing and sprinkles, were featured on Phil Lempert’s “Before You Bite” annual ice cream review.

“These are delicious! In fact, everyone in the crowd this morning has been begging for Ice Cream Cupcakes!” raves Phil Lempert, food editor of The Today Show and famed Supermarket Guru. To check out the show, follow this link: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25679074/. [Click the video camera icon under the image.]

PhillySwirl’s fresh-from-the-freezer ice cream cupcakes come in a six-pack serving tray shaped like a muffin tin and a party sized 12-pack box (containing two six-packs) available at club stores. “They’re perfect for all kinds of entertaining,” says PhillySwirl co-founder Max Lapin. “Fun, refreshing, ready to serve, individually sized…what more could you ask for in a dessert?” And unlike a traditional ice cream cake, there’s no need to worry about ice cream melting faster than you can eat it: Serve the whole tray or remove as many as you need from the re-sealable plastic package. Prices range from $4.99 - $5.99/6-pack and $7.99 - $9.99/12-pack box.

You can read the whole article here.

Notice to the oversea-ers, we will be having a Miss World Cupcake coming up soon. Don’t feel left out.  

Voting ends on Sunday, get your vote in.. but please, before you vote, read the rules.

How to Vote: Please vote by leaving a comment to this post. Vote for your top 3 favorite cupcakes, and you may vote only one time per person. The top 5 overall will move on to the next round. Put the State AND the name of the cupcake when you vote. There are more than one entery for a few of the states! ;) Comments that are only voting for one cupcake will be deleted.  ATTENTION ON COMMENTING & VOTING: ONLY ONE COMMENT IS ALLOWED PER IP ADDRESS. Comments that are only voting for one cupcake will be deleted. Please read the voting rules before voting! Thanks :)

2008 Economic Impact Awards Top Honors
Entrepreneur of the Year: Shawn Askinosie
By Tresa McBee, Springfield Business Journal
PUBLISHED: July 21, 2008 [not sure if that's a typo on the article?]

It started with the cupcakes.

Chocolate desserts came next. Then the idea for a chocolate factory, but not before the cupcakes were perfected.

“For a while, I was very obsessed with cupcakes,” says Shawn Askinosie, founder of Askinosie Chocolate at 514 E. Commercial St.

Perhaps you’ve heard of him. He’s the same Askinosie who had a high-profile career as a criminal defense attorney before leaving the profession at the height of his earning potential to make premium dark chocolate. Although Askinosie and Stacie Bilyeu merged practices in 2006, he doesn’t practice law anymore.

That might seem strange for someone who loved the law for 20 years. But he defended people accused of serious felonies, and after two back-to-back, first-degree murder cases that catapulted Askinosie into the limelight that included national press coverage, he reassessed. “With each client, a little piece of you goes with them, and you think, ‘Well, how much longer can you do this?’” Askinosie says.

You can read the whole article here.

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Sidenote: Shawn Askinosie also sponsored Cupcake Hero in May. You can click here and here to read more!

Cupcake shops doing shots of sweetness
By Terry Tang, WRAL.com
PUBLISHED: July 18, 2008

Think you can handle a shot of the hard stuff? Better saddle up to the bar with your toothbrush.

The bake shop boom that has fueled the oh-so-retro love affair with cupcakes has spawned a new - albeit micro - trend that has Saturday night hipsters doing a new style of shot that won’t burn your gullet like 150 proof.

Frosting shots.

And yes, it’s exactly what you think it is. At a handful of cupcake storefronts around the country, the frosting shot has emerged as a short-but-sweet pick-me-up for urbanites and college students.

The gist is generally the same bakery to bakery: For a small fee, customers get a dollop of their favorite frosting in a paper or plastic cup, about the size of a frozen yogurt sample.

While some bakeries keep the frosting shot a strictly must-ask-for item, several cupcake shops have made it an official menu offering.

“It’s kind of the cut-to-the-chase evolution of cupcakes,” says Tanya Steel, editor-in-chief of foodie Web site Epicurious.com. “I can imagine it being at parties. It’s a great thing to have at an office party. It provides just a little bite of sweetness and yumminess without going whole hog.”

While some parents enjoy being able to buy just buttercream for finicky kids, bakers are finding it’s mostly the grown-ups who want to have their frosting and eat it, too.

You can see more pictures and read the whole article here.

Help serve up Carson City’s Sesquicentennial with style
via RGJ.com
PUBLISHED: July 18, 2008

To celebrate Carson City’s 150th Birthday, the North Carson Wal-Mart Bakery has generously donated 2000 cupcakes to create the world’s first 2000 Cupcake Cake. The Sesquicentennial Committee now needs servers to pass out the 2000 cupcakes to celebrants at the birthday party to be held in the Nugget parking lot on Aug. 16.

The 150th birthday party celebration is just one of the many official Sesquicentennial events being held on the weekend of Aug. 16. The “Official Sesquicentennial Weekend” will be jammed packed full of family events including a two-day Coin Education Fair at the Nevada State Museum, The Children’s Museum of Northern Nevada’s Annual Carnival and special exhibitions and events to be held at the Carson City Library, The Nevada State Railroad Museum, and the Roberts House Museum.

You can read the whole article here.

The Cupcakes Club Open House!

This delicious event is to introduce The Cupcakes Club - a book series and interactive website for tweens(ages 7-12). Created and written by a mother/daughter team, this series emphasizes wholesome values, delicious fun, and sweet life lessons for todays 7-12 year old girls. What perfect timing for parents looking for a kid’s summer reading activity!

Please join us at Barcliff and Bair 1112 State St. Thursday, July 24th from 2:30 to 4:30 to celebrate its Santa Barbara premier - we will have Aurora Painted Faces there doing face painting and, of course, cupcakes by Sweet Buttercup!!

We look forward to seeing you there - until then, have a cupcake-a-licious day!!

I just finished up this website design today and I thought I’d actually take a moment and write about this wonderful little business. A Cupcake Occasion in New York City.. with melt in your mouth cupcakes.

Their menu features many traditional and modern flavors named after New York City neighborhoods. They believe in small batch baking and take no shortcuts in providing their customers with fresh, delicious, one-of-a-kind cupcakes.

Here is a little taste of their menu:

West Village Dozen
Vanilla cupcakes, vanilla buttercream frosting.

Not fried snickers, not fried twinkles, not fried oreos…

FRIED CUPCAKES!

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What do you think? Yay or nay?

You can read more about it here.