Tis’ the season for baking and I have found just the right item to start off your Christmas baking.
Christmas Cupcake Kit found at Patina
What will you be baking for the season?
This Winter Wonderland Holiday Cupcake Decorating Kit includes everything you need to decorate 24 cupcakes. The kit comes with 24 liners, 12 of which are silver and the other 12 are green and white carnival stripe. For decorations, the kit has old-school reindeer, sparkling blue sugar, and white snowflakes, sugar buttons and ribbon flags. The kit costs $12.95 and is available from BakeLab.
Its that time of year again! Less than a month until Christmas day and you have to buy presents for all those people in your life and more often than not, you have no idea what to get!
Well here are a few cupcake ideas for a cupcake inspired Christmas!
First is a cupcake clutch, this one was spotted by Rebecca A. Cooper in Periwinkle boutique at Shirlington and is USD $52 plus tax. The patent bag is super cute with its embossed cupcake! See more here.
For kids, you cannot really go past this year’s best seller, the Squinkies and their Cupcake Surprise Bake Shop from Blip Toys! You can pick this one up for just USD $39.99 from Amazon and it is currently in stock (though only just).
Or how about something a little more strange? Like Angel Heart Design’s Cupcake Chandelier? This white iron chandelier comes with three cupcake lights and is USD $145.00. You can also have a say in the color of your cupcakes!
Or play it safe with body products like these adorable little cupcake soaps from Ditsy Daisies. They are just GBP 8.50 and come in three flavors, or should that be smells!?
Then don’t forget, if they bake there are heaps of ideas around, such as cupcake liners, wrappers and toppers, not to mention cupcake books and baking trays!
Looking for a cute and easy way to decorate cupcakes? Well, look no further than Cupcake Cuties! Each Cupcake Cuties Kit comes complete with 24 easy-to-use, self-adhesive sleeves and all the custom toppings to complete the designated cupcake design. Easy to follow instructions and pictures are included in each Cupcake Cuties Designer Kit. Check out my favorite:
This week Cupcake Cuties is giving away their “Cutie of the Month”, Santa!
To enter this giveaway, just visit Cupcake Cuties website and take a look around. Then come back to ATC and click on the comment area below. Tell us what was your favorite cutie and what cutie you believe they should add to their shop. One winner will be chosen on Monday, December 6th. Good luck!
This $20.00 cupcake pincushion ring is both cute and functional! It’s made entirely from wool and even includes the pins. What better way to craft then wearing a cupcake? And the best part is that you have the pin already in your hand!
When I was growing up I always loved when we had make-your-own ice cream sundaes at school. So naturally I loved the idea of a DIY Cupcake Topping Bar. This Build It cupcake bar was featured on Green Wedding Shoes and is based on a fall theme. I really love the idea of a topping bar because it allows guests to create their own unique cupcake!
For this cupcake bar, the cupcakes were frosted with a ring so that the toppings, which included syrups in vintage syrup dispensers, could be added to the whole in the middle. I especially liked the idea of using mini hallowed out pumpkins to serve as “bowls” for a toppings, such as sprinkles. The possibilities of toppings for cupcakes seem endless which means you could get really creative with what you put out for guest to top their cupcakes with.
Or both?
Oh, Brother by Bob Weber Jr. and Jay Stephens explore the difficulty of life with cupcakes! You can see more of their delightful comics on their website!
Earlier this month we shared with you the Sunbeam Cupcake Maker available from Target for $49.99. While looking around online I came across the Lakeland Electric Cupcake Maker which is available in the UK from Lakeland, The Home of Creative Kitchenware. With this piece of equipement you can bake 6 cupcakes without even turning on your oven. The maker costs £39.99 and right now there is a special where you get 12 Pastel Silicone Cupcake Cases FREE!
Anthropologie is without a doubt one of my favorite stores. I love these Clothbound Penguin Classics For Children. According to the website’s description, “the revered books of childhood and adolescence are now bound in a brightly colored, smartly embossed canvas covers to add that much more excitement to their enduring stories”
There are six books available, each costing $16.99. The one cupcake lovers will be most tempted to buy is Anne of Green Gables which has a pink cover with cupcakes, ribbons, butterflies, teapots and teacups.
Today I have two new cupcake tattoos to share with you and these are both fantastic!
The first one here is from Kiana. She had her cupcake tattoo with stars done by Rob at Electric Body Art in Marietta, GA.
It is a large tattoo on the right hand side of her tummy.
The next one is from Ida in Austria and it is also just above her hip.
The colors of this are fantastic, a thick swirl of strawberry frosting on a vanilla cupcake in a bright blue wrapper.
Thanks to both Kiana and Ida for sending in their cupcake tattoos.
Gobble Gobble stands for TURKEY!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I have found a great little tutorial on how to make some awesome little Turkey Cupcakes.
Thanksgiving Harvest: Turkey Cupcake on Top Party Ideas
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
What are you thankful for?!
I am always envious of people who can pull off nail art. I came across this tutorial for cupcake nail art and wish i had the patience and talent to attempt these super cute nails! Simply Rins provides instructions and tips on how to create these and many more nails that are truly a work of art.
It is so hard keeping up with which movie is being released where and when! In Australia last weekend marked the opening of the Harry Potter movie “The Deathly Harrows (Part 1)”. So in order to celebrate its release I went looking for some cool and funky Harry Potter cupcakes!
Not surprisingly I found some! I totally adore these cupcakes from Sara Schneider on Flickr! How cool and fun are they?
Yes, I know it isn’t even Thanksgiving yet but cupcake Christmas ornaments are popping up everywhere! Our Facebook readers have been keeping me posted and I have also had many sightings myself. So far I have seen or heard of cupcake ornaments at Kohl’s, Walmart, Target, Hobby Lobby, JcPenney and Macy’s. Here are also I few more I found online today.
So have you had some sweet sightings? Leave us a link or tell us where you saw them!
We all know Christmas is coming and we are all making our lists for ourselves and what to get others. I have the perfect gift for any cupcake lover who want something a little bit different —
Pantone is a universal color system used by a variety of industries, mostly printing and graphics. This a good find for an graphic geek/cupcake geek like me!
In the past I have posted about Amy Atlas Events and expressed how much I love everything that Amy Atlas creates. Over the summer we shared with you a DIY tutorial for cupcake liner garland. Now, this past week Atlas shared her own tutorial for cupcake wrapper garland. The very easy directions for this fun decoration are included on her website.
Fondant snowflakes!
Now, why haven’t I thought of that?
I discovered these gorgeous photos at Maison Cupcake, a fun and fantastic blog about baking, desserts and party food!
Jenn
November 16th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Wow, cake mineral make-up, awesome! Great color choices, but I think I’d most likely wear Dark Ganache. Hmm, cake mineral eye liner would be awesome too! :)
Amanda M.
November 21st, 2010 at 10:28 pm
I love the Coffee shade of eye shadow, and I would love to see shimmery/glittery lip glosses added to the site, perhaps with different flavors or all of them having a vanilla buttercream frosting flavor. :)
Congratulations! Please email your mailing address to [email protected]. Thanks to all who entered and to CAKE Mineral Makeup for sponsoring this awesome giveaway.
Indie Fixx is one of my favorite blogs, I can always count on it to find great crafts, style ideas, and recipes! Just in time for Thanksgiving, I noticed this unique cupcake recipe for squash and chocolate swirled cupcakes with orange cream cheese frosting and candied pecans. These cupcakes, as the author explains, will make a nice alternative to the traditional holiday dessert, pecan pie. The recipe for the cupcakes is included below but for the toppings be sure to check out the original post on Indie Fixx!
Note: Most any roasted pureed winter squash would be wonderful. You could, of course, used canned pumpkin but your homegrown buttercup, butternut, or other winter squash would be just as lovely. Read the rest of this entry »
Given you now have only three full days left to prepare it is time to turn those ovens on! You know that you are going to be CRAZY on Thursday so in order to ease the pressure why not bake a range of fun cupcakes for dessert instead of stressing over the pumpkin pie on the day?
In addition given you can make your cupcakes out of all those traditional thanksgiving 
foods such as pumpkin, sweet potato and apple, there is no reason why you shouldn’t create a Thanksgiving Cupcake bar! Plus your kids will think it is fantastic and will probably even offer to help you with the decorating and the cleaning (well, at least the cleaning of the beaters and cleaning of the bowl parts!).
Therefore today I thought I would bring 
you a little Thanksgiving ‘Turkey’ inspiration! Here are some of my favorite recent Thanksgiving turkey cupcake ideas.
Firstly I have cupcake pops. Bakerella’s new book has put cupcake pops on top, and what child could refuse these frosting covered cute turkeys? They have been created by Sue and Darlene of the Cupcake Project.
Next is a fantastic cupcake turkey cake. I love this, how much fun would it be and this one from Cupcakes A Go Go is brilliant. I am guessing that there are about 22-24 large cupcakes included in this creation!
Finally I just adore this little guy, isn’t he cute?? Mary MacAskill made this turkey using a marshmallow for the head and shredded coconut as feathers. A beak and tail out of gummies and what could be more sweet!
One of our lovely sponsors, Cindy from Angel Heart Designs was recently featured in the Christmas edition of Romantic Homes. She talked about her new line of ceramics that is available on Etsy at Cynthia Joy Ceramics, it is vintage french-inspired decorations for your home.
She also talks about her husband of 32 years who is a source of on-going inspiration for her. As well as some of her most valuable possessions — her friends and family and her Lalique from her french in-laws.
Her cupcake night lights and cupcake trinket boxes are also featured in this article —
You can take a look at both of these items in Cindy’s shop.
Be sure to check out the full article when the magazine comes out in a few weeks.
Follow Angel Heart Designs and Cindy at her blog and on her Facebook page.
Beauty Spot’s Etsy page offers these elegant pieces of jewelry. The cupcake ring costs $15.00 while the earrings are $20.00. Right now Beauty Spot offers free worldwide shipping and gift wrap!
Are you a cupcake genius who lives in the UK? Tesco Real Food is holding a contest, “The Great Christmas Cupcake Decorating Contest,” to be exact.
To enter, all you need to do is take a picture of your own Christmas cupcake creation, and then upload it to their site here. Two lucky winners will get to cook alongside a celebrity chef for an afternoon. Tesco will also honor ten runner-ups!
Entries will be accepted until November 29th.
Sorry kids, you have to be 18 years old to enter. (Get your mom or dad to help!)
Calling all moms! Who can resist a children’s boardbook that compares a baby’s sweetness to our other favorite sweetness?
I am excited to learn that Amy Sklansky has a new children’s book coming out! You Are My Little Cupcake is illustrated by Talitha Shipman and will be published by LB Kids. The planned release date is April 19, 2011, but you can preorder your copy now from Amazon for only $6.99. I’ve already ordered mine!