Since it’s citrus season now would be a great time to try these gluten-free clementine cupcakes by Emily Malone of Daily Garnish. If you are wondering if you have the ingredients necessary to make these gluten-free cupcakes, I have included the ingredients list below.  For the directions check out the original post!

3 tbsp Earth Balance vegan butter

2 tbsp coconut oil

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

3/4 tsp vanilla extract

1 tbsp ground flax

5 clementines, peeled and segmented

1/2 cup walnuts

2/3 cup brown rice flour

2/3 cup coconut flour

2/3 cup garbanzo bean flour

3/4 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp xanthan gum

1/4 tsp sea salt

3/4 cup orange (or tangerine) juice

1 cup powdered sugar

(Note: If you don’t want to make these gluten-free, you can simply sub in 2 cups AP-flour for the other flours, and remove the added xanthan gum.)

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! If you’re still looking for a cupcake idea to bake for this evening or maybe after school, here’s one more idea for you! I originally saw these semi-homemade red velvet cupcakes with hearts cut out of them on Two Tiny Kitchens.  The cupcake and frosting recipe is posted there along with the instructions for how to make the heart shaped cut out.  One important tip she shared for the heart cutout is to fill the cupcake molds all the way to the top of the liners! Happy baking!

This Valentine’s Day season we have showed you how to put hearts on top of your cupcakes and bake cupcakes in the shape of hearts.  Now we share with how to bake a heart in your cupcake.  If I was a little kid and bit into one of these I know I would have freaked out in excitement.  To be completely honest, if someone made these for me now I think I would still freak out! Bake It in a Cake seems to be willing to try baking anything into a cupcake.  She once baked a pie into a cupcake!  These hearts baked in cupcakes are much more tame and the pink hearts are actually sheet cake; so you’re baking a cake in a cupcake!  Head over to Bake It In a Cake to see full instructions on how to bake hearts in your cupcakes!

Red Robin is one of my family’s favorite restaurants because of their kid-friendly atmosphere and their yummy burgers.  Now we have three more reasons to love it!  They have cupcakes!  I haven’t tried them yet so if you have, please click on the comment area below and let us know how they are.

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Only three days left until Valentine’s Day and today I wanted to share with the most amazing Valentine cupcakes yet. This link comes to me from my sweet friend Nicole who is always on the lookout for amazing cuppies.  Take a look at these chocolate cupcakes with flaming strawberries from Sprinkle Bakes.

The flame is made by hollowing out a strawberry and pouring in a small amount of Vodka, rum, or your choice of liquor 80 proof or higher before it is set aflame.   Click here to read the full directions in their post. 

Click the comment area below and leave a link to your favorite Valentine recipe!

Apartment Therapy Ohdeedoh’s website includes home, design, and children’s sections.  While looking around on the children’s page I noticed these heart-shaped cupcakes.  They’re perfect for Valentine’s day which is only 3 days away! The original post comes from Disney’s Family Fun where they call them Cupid’s Cupcakes. Below are the easy instructions for making these heart-shaped cupcakes without buying a heart-shaped pan.

To create the heart shape, place a small marble or a 1/2-inch ball of aluminum foil between each liner and one side of the tin (a great job for kids). This will push the paper into the batter to form the notch in the heart.

Just found these adorable bunny cupcakes on Joanna Si’s Flickr stream. Are they cute or what? And I am one of coconut’s biggest fans!

Amanda and Blue Paperie

Amanda Parker and Family

The Gypsy Factory

I’m a huge fan of cupcake toppers since they are quick and easy cupcake decorations that take a simple frosted cupcake and transform it into a beautifully festive cupcake. Here are six different free printable cupcake toppers that I have found.  Click on the images to be taken to the respective websites where you can download the pdf files.

Country Living

Love2Create

Penny Candy Studio

At Christmas time, we brought you gorgeous photos of Keira’s cupcakes. Now here she is again with Valentine’s Day cupcakes that are too beautiful to eat. 

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Want a lovely way to make something fantastic for your cupcake loving valentine? Then I have found just the thing for you… a DIY yourself necklace kit with a cupcake twist.

I found this great DIY project on Etsy at Annie Howe’s shop.

Be Mine, Valentine — DIY Cupcake Necklace

Make sure you check out the rest of Annie’s shop. She has a bunch of great stuff.

Lovely ATC reader Jessica just sent us pictures of her Superbowl cupcakes! The first are vanilla cake, filled with chocolate chip cookie dough and topped with vanilla frosting. The second are chocolate cake filled with chocolate ganache and topped with chocolate frosting. Yum! Thanks for sharing, Jessica!

 Congratulations to our five Batter Baby giveaway winners! 

jenny ventura
January 31st, 2011 at 11:10 am

Half cupcake:
I would make half shortcake and half dark chocolate. I would fill it with strawberry filling with a cream cheese frosting and nila wafers cookies crumbled on the top.
Yummmm !!!

Rachel Moyers
January 31st, 2011 at 11:49 am

I would make a strawberry mix– some would be half chocolate/strawberry And other half of the batter would be champagne/strawberry. YUMMM — This would be so exciting to try.

Angela S
January 31st, 2011 at 5:13 pm

I love this product! I would definetly use it for a baby shower I am going to where the mommy-to-be doesn’t know the sex of the baby! It would be half pink and half blue cupcakes (for girl or boy!) and flavored strawberry for the girl side and blueberry for the boy side! :]

Linda H.
February 1st, 2011 at 7:59 am

I can’t imagine a yummier, nor prettier, cupcake than one that’s pink (strawberry) and white (vanilla). Must be the world’s most perfect combination! Thank you for your nice giveaway.

Leah
February 1st, 2011 at 11:50 am

These are a brilliant idea & so versatile. I think I’d go with a classic combo of either vanilla & chocolate or maybe banana & chocolate. I’d love to see if it’s possible to cut the dividers down and make even more divisions, a way of making vertical rainbow cupcakes maybe?

Congrats and please email your mailing address to [email protected].  Thanks again to Kimber Cakeware for sponsoring this giveaway!

That’s right, last issue, one of our Sponsors Angel Heart Designs was featured in the popular Romantic Homes magazine.  The issue hit the stands in mid November and featured a full page about the very lovely Cindy Houot, who runs Angel Heart Designs.

It was an exciting month for Cindy, not only in relation to the magazine article, but she also announced the very exciting new line she is stocking which are all French inspired ceramics such as this beautiful clock.  The range is called Cynthia Joy Ceramics, so keep an eye out for them, but in the mean time you can read more in the article!

Girl Scout cookies are one thing I will never pass up — Thin Mint, Samoa, need I say any more. And of course I love cupcakes, so when I saw this I said,”Yes Please”

Duffy’s Sports Grill and Girl Scouts or Southern Florida teamed up to create this lovely piece of work.It is a chocolate cake cupcake with chocolate ganache and butter cream frosting topped off with a famous Samoa.  They are 99 cents and for each one sold 50 cents goes right back to the Girl Scouts.

I wish I lived in Florida so I could try one of these.

This is truly hilarious, and ATC thanks Alison of AliCakes for sharing them with us. Asked to bake for a “swim” themed baby shower, Alison got creative (and a little crazy). The cupcakes are rated G, but the cake? Adults only.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, the hot new thing is Lasagna Cupcakes. While I’m a cupcake purist, and am excited by a simple chocolate chocolate, these do look delicious. These beauties are the creation of Heirloom-LA, a catering company in Eagle Rock, California. And yes, I know what you’re thinking — people do eat them with their hands. De-lish.

Dana Fox, the screenwriter of “Couples Retreat” and “What Happens in Vegas” offered her wedding guests lasagna cupcakes. I’m wondering how those fared with her (I’m assuming here) white dress.

Groundhog day is one of those holidays you get excited about as a kid but as an adult you seem to forget about; at least I know I do.  But since tomorrow’s Groundhog Day it’s the perfect excuse to bake cupcakes, more specifically  to make these Groundhog Day cupcakes by Lilly Jane.  I found this recipe via Hip Hip Hooray and really like how easy they are with the DIY toppers for the groundhog  and cocoa powder for the shadow.  I would only want to eat one without a shadow which means spring will come quickly! Below are the four simple steps to decorating your cupcakes for Groundhog Day.  For the groundhog cupcake topper PDF visit Lilly Jane’s original post!

1. Bake some delicious cupcakes.

2. Frost cupcakes with a white tones frosting (so it looks like snow)

3. Using tape and a little extra paper create a stencil from your cupcake topper paper trimmings. Dust cocoa powder onto cupcake.

4. Gently push groundhog cupcake topper into cupcake, just behind your new cocoa powder shadow.

You may remember last week I introduced you to ATC sponsor Kimber Cakeware. They specialize in creating unique products that make baking easy and fun. Check out their Batter Babies and the fabulous cupcakes they can help you make:

The Batter Babies are quite simple to use, just follow these steps:

1. Simply place the Batter Babies in individual cups
2. Pour the two separate batters into each cup
3. Remove Batter Babies before baking

You can make cupcakes that are two different colors (think amazing red and green Christmas cupcakes) or 2 flavors (maybe a chocolate and a peanut butter dou!).  I tried these out last week and I have to say that they really are that easy and they really do make great cupcakes. 

This week, five ATC fans will get the chance to win a set of Batter Babies.  Yes, we will have 5 winners this week!  To enter, click on the comment area below and tell us what kind of cupcakes you would make first if you won the Batter Babies.  Winners will be chosen on Monday, February 8th.  Thanks to Kimber Cakeware for sponsoring this amazing giveaway!

Make sure to become Kimber Cakeware’s fan on Facebook too!

Ken, Barbies on and off boyfriend makes one final plea for Barbies love via Cupcakes. Magnolia bakery has decided to help Ken in is fight to win the heart of his dream girl. The Barbie cupcake is a classic chocolate or vanilla cupcake with pink vanilla butter-cream frosting and sugar crystals, topped off with a personal inscription from Ken — “You’re the only doll for me. Love Ken”. These cupcakes are available at Magnolia bakery from January 28th until February 14th.

Check out this new product from All Things Cupcake sponsor Kimber Cakeware. It’s Batter Babies!  Bake one of a kind cupcakes containing two flavors (or colors). Batter Babies fit most standard size cupcake pans and cups.

The Batter Babies are quite simple to use, just follow these steps:

1.Simply place the Batter Babies in individual cups
2.Pour the two separate batters into each cup
3.Remove Batter Babies before baking

How fabulous are these?

Today is our 4th of July, well, actually tomorrow is!  26th January every year Australians celebrate what it is to be Australian.  We approach this, in much the same way as everything else, with great gusto! There will be burnt sausages, prawns, seafood, lots of food, fireworks and of course cupcakes!

I created these cupcakes for the kids at the BBQ we are attending today.  I created the fondant flags first by cutting it and twisting around a toothpick then piped the details onto them.  Unfortunately there is only six points on the bottom star which means I have lost an Australian State or Territory (as there is one point for each), and my red frosting bled into my white, but I am pretty happy with them!  And most importantly the kids will LOVE them as they are my favorite chocolate recipe with a chocolate ganache.

Prior to reading Kitchen Contessa’s blog post I’ve never heard of red velvet cupcakes being called devil’s food cupcakes.

I know I love red velvet cupcakes so I’m sure I’ll enjoy trying her Red Velvet Devil’s Food Cupcake recipe.  I especially like the fun decorating, dipping the frosted cupcakes in melted colored chocolate to transform the cupcakes into red devils!

The winner of our $25 gift certificate to Etsy seller Nattie Cakes is…

Vanessa Talamantes
January 23rd, 2011 at 2:47 pm
I love love the minnie mouse clips, i adore her and so does my neice! I also love all the cupcakes and the little birds are adorable! I believe scarves would be a great addition to this store especially along side the hats/beanies.

Congratulations! Please email your mailing address to [email protected].  Thanks again to all who entered the giveaway and thank you Nattie Cakes for sponsoring this giveaway.

This quick fix cupcake recipe is from a post on Creature Comforts.  The recipe was shared by Julie and Kathryn of Perfect Bound.  The recipe provide is a pdf file for front and back recipe cards for these delicious looking cupcakes.  I love the glossy frosting and the sprinkles which add color!

In September when I ate at The Culinary Institue of America at Greystone in California our butter came with a ticing on top.  Ticings are thing sheets of edible icing that have no flavor because they take on the flavor of the food the are applied to.  Ticings are a great way to quickly and easily decorate cupcakes, cakes, and cookies since you can add images or text to your baked good by simply peeling the ticing off the backing sheet and applying it to frosting.

These edible icing prints are a great way to decorate cupcakes!  They have a crisp, professional look to them but are actually simple. As an added bonus they are made with food grade ink and gluten free which means you don’t have to worry about food allergies. Additionally they last for up to six months when stored properly which gives you have a decent amount of time to use them.

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