Happy leap year! Are you celebrating this day that only happens once every four years with cupcakes? I think these leap frog cupcakes by Betty Crocker are the perfect way to celebrate the leap year!
The name of these cupcakes is so long but they sound so delicious and like something I would make and love! Joy the Baker made these Chocolate, Peanut Butter Cookie Dough, Toasted Marshmallow cupcakes. There’s so many different components to these cupcakes but each part seems to compliment the others. Chocolate and peanut butter are one of my favorite combinations and I love the thought of cookie dough inside a cupcake. After majoring in nutiriton in college I am well aware of the food safety issues related to eating raw cookie dough but who doesn’t love cookie dough? Top the cupcakes off with a toasted marshmallow meringue and you have one deliciously rich cupcake combination!
Planning a wedding? Check out these amazing beauties! These pictures were taken at a wedding in Australia by Flickr’s mutedsinger. This is the bouquet I would like to catch!
Today the black bean cupcake with guava frosting was supposed to make its debut at the Food Network’s South Beach Food & Wine Festival. Who in the world thought up such a combination, you might be asking yourself? Goya Foods, a well-known Hispanic foods company, and pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith came up with this recipe in response to the challenge to make a dessert using the company’s product line. Go here for a recipe and see what you think!
Just in case there isn’t enough temptation in your life, check out what I just discovered: Butterfinger Cupcakes. I am so trying these! Steph, over at Plain Chicken has figured out a way to recreate a cupcake that she first discovered at Disney World. And she has shared the recipe and instructions with us! Hooray!
Even though Mardi Gras (or Fat Tuesday) has already come and gone, I thought I would share this recipe anyway. It’s never too late to begin planning for next year’s Mardi Gras feast, right?
Maybe next year you can give your party a little twist by serving up some of these King Cake Cupcakes with a cinnamon cream cheese filling. Don’t forget to hide the plastic baby (or whatever object you choose to use) inside one of them!
When it comes to cupcakes, I’m pretty open-minded. But I was truly horrified when I saw the title “Sushi Cupcakes.” Then I saw the picture. So, because this picture made me laugh aloud, I thought I should share it with you. I dare you to tell your friends you’re bringing sushi cupcakes to the party, and then show up with these:
Click here for a more involved way to make “sushi cupcakes.”
While searching on Etsy this morning for new and interesting cupcake items, this handsome little guy caught my eye. How cute is he and check out the adorable cupcake bandana he is helping to sell on Booh’s Etsy shop. Would be great for a child, puppy or you! Only $15 and make sure to check out her sweet cupcake hairbows too!
Are you a fan of cupcakes in a jar? I’m still undecided about the cupcake trend mostly because I love the look of a perfectly frosted cupcake. I also wonder what makes it a cupcake in a jar and not just a cake in a jar. I do, however, like this recipe from Family Kitchen for Cupcake Crumble in a Jar since the recipe uses left over cupcakes that other wise would most likely go to waste. The cupcake crumble reminds me of a parfait or trifle based on the layering technique. There are lots of options for ingredients beyond the cake and frosting so you can be as creative as you want when making your own cupcake crumble.
Now that March is just around the corner, I find myself daydreaming about sunshine, blue skies and days spent outdoors. For those of you who are eagerly awaiting spring’s arrival (or for those of you who live in a warmer climate than I do), here are some cupcakes to help usher in the spring season.
These “potted” cupcakes are topped with chocolate cream cheese frosting and green candy leaves, with oreo crumbs around the edges.
The carrot cupcake in the foreground is topped with crushed lemon poppyseed cookie and a smidge of orange cream cheese frosting.
These would make a lovely display at a spring luncheon or shower. I’m not much of a gardener, but I think I could get into this!
It’s easy to forget, here in the northern U.S., in the doldrums of almost-March, that there is green grass in other parts of the world. Here is some evidence for you–some yummy flowers and butterflies from dapur Difa. Let’s think spring! Visit dapur Difa for more great cupcake decorating ideas, photos, and even cupcake bouquets!
Got a birthday coming up? Having trouble deciding whether to do a cake or cupcakes? (Of course, if you ask any of us at ATC, we will tell you to go with the cupcakes)!
You can truly have your cake and eat it, too, with this tiered birthday cake made from chocolate cupcakes from the Duncan Hines website.
Each tower is made of one standard-sized cupcake, a mini cupcake, and a mini Reese’s peanut butter cup (for the top tier). Sounds delicious, and it looks beautiful, too!
We’ve seen this idea before, but somehow, it just bears repeating. Here is another Periodic Table of Cupcakes, this time from engineering student Rachel Howden.
Just last year, a Hobby Lobby store opened near my home and I have found this store to be my new favorite place to find amazing things. It is mostly a store for craft supplies, but it also has a large amount of home decor. My mom loves to call these “chachkies” (a Yiddish words for trinkets that gather dust). My last trip to Hobby Lobby this week made me exceptionally happy because they have a new display of cupcake items! Check out these adorable wall hangers and trays.
They also had utensils with cupcakes on the ends, single cupcake pedestals, ceramic cupcakes, plates and cupcake shaped measuring spoons. So worth a visit to your local Hobby Lobby!
Pantone paint chips are really popular right now, remember the cupcake yellow mug? My sister loves paint chips and I had thought about making her paint chip cupcakes, thinking my idea was original but it turns out Pantone cupcakes have already been made! I found Bocaditos y Colores (Erika) flickr page which features her version of Pantone cupcakes.
Hello, Cupcake! is a cupcake cookbook by the creative food stylist Karen Tack and coauthor Alan Richardson. The original book in the series came out in 2008, followed by What’s New, Cupcake? and the most recent book, Cupcakes, Cookies, & Pie, Oh My! was released just last month. Over the years we have shared with you many recipes from the books and from the Hello, Cupcake What’s Newsletter. We here at ATC were sent the latest book to review.
Cupcakes, Cookies, and Pie, Oh My! Goes beyond cupcakes to include cakes, cookies, pies, rice crispy cereal bars and more! When I first flipped through the book I was impressed by all the new ideas. Since I have Hello, Cupcake! and What’s New, Cupcake? I initially wondered how many more unique cupcake ideas could there be? The answer was lot! I actually had a hard time deciding which recipe to test. For every occasion you’ll find a new quirky and cute idea. Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Valentine’s Day cupcake lovers! I hope today is extra sweet! If you’re looking for something to make your valentine I think these Love Bug Mini Cupcakes are really cute and perfect for guys or girls! Confessions of a Cookbook Queen created these love bugs using peanut m&ms, heart shaped sprinkles, pink melting candies, and a black food marker. Have a lovely day!
Do you remember when caboodles were popular? I had a bunch growing up, I think I even had one for my Polly Pockets. I saw this cupcake caboodle at my local TJMaxx/Homegoods. Even though it was only $12.99 I resisted the urge to buy it!
These simple (and gluten-free) cupcakes from the Betty Crocker website would be perfect to make with your kids for an after-school treat this Valentine’s Day (as if they didn’t already get enough sweets at school, right?).
You will need a few special materials in addition to the cake mix and frosting: a pair or two of decorative scissors, a heart-shaped paper punch, and a box of ‘Fruit by the Foot’ strawberry fruit snacks. Let your kids use the scissors and the paper punch to make fun shapes out of the fruit snack to decorate their cupcakes.
Happy Saturday everyone! I found this fabulous cupcake item today during one of my internet cupcake searches!
Have you ever wanted to go straight from the oven with your cupcakes to storing said cupcakes? If you said yes, then you have to see this.
Bake & Store Silicone Cupcake Holder from The Kitchen Outlet
$24.50 from Tiedwitharibbon
Happy Saturday cupcake fans! If you are anything like me, organizing your little ones hair clips can be a daunting process. But why not have cupcakes lend a hand? Take a look at this sweet and useful hair clip hanger I found on Etsy this morning. And how cute would this cupcake hairbow look on your new hanger?
$6 from Rainbowbow
This zig zag bowl from Lekker Home is so fun! I love the fact that it looks like a cupcake base! Since it costs $18.00 I think it would make a great gift for a friend or for myself!
I know over the past few years we have posted links to these type of color gradient cupcakes but I just can’t get enough of them. I am sure your honey would adore some of these Sweetheart Cupcakes from All Recipes for Valentine’s Day. So pretty & very easy to create!
All Recipes is my favorite place to find new recipes. The best part are the reviews left for each recipe from other cooks & bakers who have tested them out. You can find great tips to make each recipe a perfect one!
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
I just paid my first (apparently overdue) visit to the Sugar Shack of Lansing, Michigan. Think cupcakes are a fad? This bakery has been a family business for forty years!
Sugar Shack offers a wide and impressive variety of creative cupcakes with a rotating menu. And should someone grow tired of the menu, which would be completely impossible, the menu is completely wiped out and recreated every June 1st. So, though I’ve only paid one visit to the Sugar Shack (so far), I’m confident that no two visits could be the same.
Offerings included the “White Trash Cupcake,” a cupcake packed full of pecans, pretzels, and marshmallows, and iced with fudge frosting, then topped with more pecans, pretzels, and marshmallows, then topped with chocolate and caramel sauce. The cupcake of the day was the Menage a Trois, a cupcake with layers of strawberry and chocolate cake, topped with vanilla frosting and fresh coconut. My co-cupcaker enjoyed the Confetti Cupcake–a bubblegum flavored confetti cake. I was sorry to miss the Root Beer Float Cupcake and the Chocolate Turtle, but am grateful for a reason to go back to Lansing.
Of course, the traditional flavors were there, and I enjoyed a Mint Cookies and Cream cupcake straight from heaven: rich dark chocolate cake topped with perfect mint frosting.
While I was there, I heard another customer ask the baker what his favorite cupcake was, to which he responded, “That’s like me asking you which of your kids is your favorite.”
Seriously, I usually leave a new cupcakery happy and ready to discover the next one. But leaving this cupcakery, I just couldn’t wait until my next visit! These are cupcakes at their best!