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!
Just in case you needed a laugh this morning, I thought I would share a photo from Misty Warden’s Flickr stream. Happy Easter!
Why do I love this picture so much? Because it’s cute, creative, festive … and EASY! Pick up some candy eggs and then pipe on some grass, and voila! You’ve got photo-worthy easter cupcakes! Brilliant, and way easier than the bunny heads I was trying to create. I found this awesome idea and photo at Toronto Sweet Cakes. Visit their website for more mouthwatering ideas!
What could be a great ingredient for the letter D? I admit I have been a little stumped! But in the end it hit me, what else but Dr Pepper?
Down here in Aussie land, Dr Pepper cannot be found in many places… there was once a day when Dr Pepper tried to storm our shores in force, but for some reason cherries and Aussies don’t mix and it quickly disappeared from our supermarket shelves. You can still get it in some specialty stores, though…
And I think it would be fantastic in a cupcake, like in this one from Cupcakeables! The cupcake here can be made either from scratch or from packet mix, so whether you are looking for a simple quick fix with a bit of pizazz or want to experiment with a potential future masterpiece you are sure to have fun with these!
Cherry Dr Pepper cupcakes from Cupcakeables
This week’s giveaway comes from a virtual celebrity in the cupcake world! Dollhouse Bake Shoppe’s founder, Lindsay Morton, was the very first winner on Food Network’s hit show, Cupcake Wars. She has taken her sweets from local to national in the blink of an eye and is now selling more than just cupcake products on her adorable site. I received the Cupcake Confetti Kit and adored how everything I needed was right there! One of my favorite things was the adorable box the items came in!
Each Kit Includes:
-Detailed instructions -All natural, gourmet vanilla cupcake/cake mix
-All natural, gourmet chocolate frosting mix -Decorating bag to pipe a professional swirl of icing
-Premium rainbow sprinkles topping/mix-in pouch
-Dollhouse Bake Shoppe cupcake carrier box
I made these cupcakes with my kids and they were very moist and delicious. The directions were easy too follow and you only needed to add a few of your own ingredients. The cuppies did not stay around my house for very long!
This week, Dollhouse Bake Shoppe is giving away one cupcake kit to a lucky ATC fan! To enter this giveaway, click on the comment area below and tell us what is your favorite item from Dollhouse Bake Shoppe AND what you think they should add to their shop. Special thanks to Dollhouse Bake Shoppe for sponsoring this giveaway!
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I have made donut muffins in the past and now that I found this chocolate dipped donut cupcake recipe I think I will have to try donut cupcakes. They fit perfectly into the breakfast cupcake kick I have been on. It started with stuffed pancake cupcakes which was followed by cinnamon roll cupcakes. Now these donut cupcakes which I saw on The Family Kitchen but originally came from The Fannie Farmer Baking Book, have been added to the list!
So many choices, the obvious leader… Chocolate, the other contenders carrot and caramel… but I wanted to choose something a little different, chili! But don’t worry, if you love chocolate, I have actually mixed the two and gone for a chili chocolate cupcake! In fact, why not add another C, in the form of some Cinnamon!
Throw it all together and you have these wickedly good looking cupcakes…
Cinnamon, Chili, Chocolate Mud Cupcakes
As you can tell from the photo, this cupcake is from Not Quite Nigella. Lorraine is from down under, in fact, from my original home city of Sydney. She is making quite a statement and has a book due out next year. But lets get to talking about this cupcake, the mud cake is rich and dense (like a good mud cake should be) and uses Dagoba Powder for the spice mix. Don’t fret though if you don’t have this in your local supermarket as it can easily be recreated by making your own, which is explained on the blog, along with the irresistible recipe!
I know what some of you out there are thinking, “geeze, another cupcake card.” But I saw Boris the English Bulldog and couldn’t resist! Boris is the name of the dog featured on a line of products created by Cuore and shown in the picture above. Cuore has a variety of items for sale on her Etsy page including several birthday themed notecards with original illustrations of dogs holding cupcakes in their mouths. In addition to the english bulldog option there is a french bulldog option and a chihuahua which has a really cute heart shaped spot!
The winner of the One Haute Cupcake Charm from Sweet Bling is…
Dawn Bohm
My 24 year old son Kyle is Autistic. He is the joy of my life. Kyle will live with me for the rest of his life and I look forward to every day with him.
He is soo funny and such a character…to hear him laugh brings a smile to everyone’s face.
We have had good days and bad days but they are all special.
I am also an avid baker and he’s my cupcake tester…even though there are no bad cupcakes if you ask Kyle!! I love all the pendants…but I’d have to pick the Live, Love, Eat cupcakes tshirt says it all.
Congratulations! Please email your mailing address to [email protected]. Thanks again to all who entered the giveaway and thank you Sweet Bling for sponsoring this wonderful giveaway. For more information on autism or how to help support children and adults living with autism, please visit TERI .
I am absolutely in love with the online store ModCloth. They always have the coolest things from jewelry, clothes and most important – baking/cooking supplies.
I love to bake and when I saw these great Cupcake Measuring Spoons and Cupcake Measuring Cups I thought to myself, ” The cupcake Gods are looking out for me!”
What is your favorite cooking utensil in your kitchen?
So you thought I would go with banana, right? Well I am not sure about making this too healthy and seeing I featured fruit yesterday, I thought today we could do with a Triple dose of sugar!
Triple Butterscotch Cupcakes
This cupcake is from the delightful Annie’s Eats. I have featured her cupcakes before because I am yet to try one of her recipes and not be totally in love the results, and I have been eyeing these wonderful cupcakes off since she published the recipe in November last year.
There are three parts to this cupcake, the cake, the frosting and then the butterscotch sauce, which should be applied just before serving or eating, for MAXIMUM butterscotch appeal! But why read about it? see the recipe here.
Today I am going to do something a little different, that is, feature a different cupcake each couple of days… for each I will share with you a fantastic cupcake blog which features the cupcake recipes with that alpha ingredient! Each of these blogs have the recipe listed so you can try and make these yourself!
So first up (unless you have mastered reciting the alphabet backwards) is A, and what better than an apple! (With a name of AppleCupcake, I couldn’t really choose anything else huh?)
Spiced Apple Cupcakes with Maple Buttercream
These cupcakes come from Raspberri Cupcakes and represent everything that is hearty and good about apples! I love the look of these deep brown cupcakes that on the inside have a dense moist look, almost like a muffin, but topped with delectable buttercream.
Find the recipe here.
This week’s nerdcake isn’t so much about the design of the cupcakes, in fact these cupcakes are decorated in a very basic manner, it is more about what is done with the cupcakes. They play Tetris with the cupcakes! This fun, 39 second video was posted on Instructables and features color coded cupcakes in the form of tetris blocks. I love that when the cupcakes or blocks form a line they are eaten up!
Easter is upon us and we are all trying to figure out how to incorporate all things Easter with our cupcake making. Well, if you haven’t figured out how you are going to do it then look no further. I have found exactly what you need.
I found these great Easter Cupcake items at Chef Tools. They are all items from the amazing stationary company Meri Meri.
Is Easter late or early??
Well it can be both!
Technically Easter is really late this year, I struggle to remember when it happened so far through April! But it can also be early, in that I am bringing you a few Easter ideas today! Two cool ideas that you can create at home… well even if you can’t you can let them inspire you for your own holiday celebrations!
This is a super cute idea, placing a chocolate bunny inside a sugar basket atop a cupcake. This fantastic creation is by Yummy Mummy.
These little chicks are fantastic. These are from the wonderfully creative and also surprising Hoosier Homemade!
I am not sure if the same cupcake that we eat are the best to share with our dogs. If you want to give your loving dog some cupcake love why don’t you try maybe a Cupcake Doggy Bed or a Fluffy Cupcake Doggy Toy — the best thing about these animal accouterments is that they look like real cupcakes!
I found these lovely items at CSN Stores.
This week our giveaway is from longtime ATC friend, Sweet Bling. They specialize in cupcake tees and beautiful charms.
Being that this month is Autism Awareness Month, Sweet Bling is donating 10% of the proceeds from three of their cupcake charms go directly to TERI (Training, Education & Research Institute) Inc. Teri is a non-profit agency serving the needs of children and adults with autism and other developmental and learning disabilities and their families.
To help in getting out the word about Autism Awareness, Sweet Bling is giving away their One Haute Cupcake Hand Stamped Cupcake Charm to one lucky fan!
To enter this giveaway, click on the comment area below and tell us what is your favorite item from Sweet Bling’s shop. OR click on the comment area below and tell us how autism has affected your life or the life of a loved one.
One winner will be chosen on Monday, April 8th.
Every now and then you stumble, quite literally down and around the garden path, to discover something very unusual. This would have to be the first ever cupcake I have found which has featured wellingtons. Now I know in Australia as we head into autumn and winter the shoe stores are lining up gumboots as the second biggest fashion boot (apart from the fluffy avatar / Ugh style), but cupcakes adopting the wellington?
I guess if you do it as well as Poppy Kate has done here, then you are doing pretty well. I actually love these, they look so fun and so Spring or Fall, depending which half of the hemisphere you are in!
These Southport Cupcake Truffles by Truffle Truffle look delicious and I am dying to try them! The description reads that these truffles are white cupcakes, rolled in vanilla butter cream, covered in white, milk, or dark chocolate and finished with sprinkles. The four piece box costs $6.00 and the 12 piece tin costs $20.00, the cupcake truffles along with more unique truffle flavors, caramels, and s’mores are available on Truffle Truffle’s website.
I know that Halloween is more than 6 months away but this find was too funny to pass up. Check out this “Eat Me” cupcake cake costume from Buy.com.
Great Cupcake costume with a funny adult twist. Have you ever dressed up as a cupcake ? Where did you buy your costume?
After a cold, rainy week here in South Carolina it’s supposed to warm up this weekend. If it’s supposed to be warmer where you live, why not spend a little time outdoors and make this cupcake planter to grow your flowers in? This DIY project comes from Whimsy Love. Gather your supplies listed below and head over to Whimsy Love for the rest of the directions!
Supplies: shorter stubby terracotta pots (I found some at Home Depot & some really cool short stubby ones at Fred Meyer), spray paint, acrylic paint, clear spray sealer, rocks (for drainage), potting soil, plants, drill (with 1/4″ drill bit), 1/4″ dowel (Hardware store or Walmart), saw blade, round wooden balls (hardware store).
Also needed, but not pictured: wood glue, paint brush.
