If you haven’t already done so it’s definitely time to start that holiday wish list. The Betty Crocker Store has a giant pink cupcake carrier for $24.95. What better way to tote your cupcakes around then in a giant cupcake container? This cupcake carrier holds 24 cupcakes and can be pre-ordered from now until 12/8/10.
In May we shared Recipe Look, a site that simplifies recipes into illustration. This weekend I came across They Draw and Cook which is a similar concept; Artists and illustrators submit illustrated versions of recipes. I only found two cupcake recipes but came across tons other recipes with really great artwork.
Well why not mix your cocktail and your cupcake? And at Cocktail Cupcakes in Atlanta they do just that!!
You would be more likely to find this list of flavors in a bar than a bakery, but the cupcakes they offer are:
Patron
Who would have thought to turn a game of chess into cupcakes! These cupcakes come from the fantastic Sweetopia blog where they used a chess chocolate mould to make a series of white and brown chocolate chess pieces. They then made up two batches of cupcakes one set in vanilla with white frosting and the other in chocolate with chocolate frosting. The chess pieces were then added to the top.
The board is a vinyl one, which was the perfect size for the standard cupcakes, and I totally adore the cupcake wrappers used.
You can find the recipes and instructions for these cupcakes on the Sweetopia blog.
I know we have shared cupcakes with you from The Cupcake Project before but I could not resist sharing these apple cobbler cupcakes with pumpkin pie frosting. Here’s the recipe for the cupcakes: Read the rest of this entry »
You may remember a post I shared a few weeks ago about Scharffen Berger’s Cupcake Adventure Contest. Original cupcake recipes can be submitted for the chance to win great prizes. Want to know why they call this contest an adventure? Click here to find out!
Well, this week we are hosting a giveaway of the wonderful chocolates! Three winners will each win a 70% and a 62% 9.7oz baking bar along with branded Scharffen Berger cupcake liners. Such a sweet prize! To win, simply click on the comment area below and tell us why you love chocolate. Three winners will be chosen on Monday, November 8th.
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The November 2010 catalog for J.Crew’s kid line, Crew Cuts, not only features kids in ridiculously stylish clothes but also kids with a sweet tooth! There are additional images on the Crew Cuts site where kids and cupcakes conform to spell out the letters of Crew Cuts (hop over to the site if you’re not sure what I mean)!
J.Crew must really love cupcakes since in August we shared with you images from The Romantics photo shoot where the cast enjoyed cupcakes.
Oh how I love vintage things and when they involves cupcakes my heart just goes pitter-patter. I also happen to love Etsy and jewelry so this find was a no brain-er for me.
I found this great Vintage Cupcake Necklace at Chocolate Silver Designs Etsy Shop. You can even choose the color freshwater pearl you want.
What is your favorite piece of cupcake jewelry you own?
Once again that time of year is here! One of the most creative holidays is upon us … creative costumes, creative parties and most of all creative cupcakes, Halloween!
I have found a few great Halloween Cupcake ideas and will be sharing them with you.
My first 2 choices are from Better Homes and Garden’s Website. I love their website’s cupcakes because just about anyone can recreate them.
Although this year I didn’t carve a pumpkin, if I had I know I would have attempted to carve it into a cupcake! Baking Bites did just that my carving a cupcake Jack-O-Lantern which has been titled, “I vant a cupcake.” On the website area few tips for anyone that wants to attempt carving their pumpkin into a cupcake!
Okay I’m a little over the traditional round cupcake, I’m looking for something interesting, where are our square cupcakes, our star cupcakes, our oval and rhombus cupcakes? Lets have diamonds and fleur de lys! We have giant, and we have mini, but lets see some more variety in the shape and design!
I guess the thing that is limiting is that the cupcake pan or muffin pan as it is more commonly known has round circles and although you may be able to find one that differs, you just can’t find the liners which means lots of greasing the pan in a desperate hope that your cupcakes will come out cleanly. So what is the solution?
Simply Caked's Choc Fudge and Peanut Butter Frosted Cupcakes
Well I found one cool new product the other day on the Simply Caked blog, okay, so it is still slightly a circle, but I commend the design for a few key reasons. It is different, with an interesting thick wobble edge, but also the liners are strong enough that you don’t need your pan!
Thats great, so you can create your cupcakes in a cool new shape. If I had these I would make toad in the hole cupcakes – I think it is the wobble edge that gives me the idea of jelly molds and water! So imagine, bright blue water cupcakes, frosted with a blue butter cream and a chocolate frog in the centre. It is like a jelly toad in the hole only better, because it is cupcake!
Simply Caked didn’t go a watery theme, instead they went with a chocolate fudge and peanut butter frosting. They look sooo yummy! You can get these cups from ATC Sponsor Simply Caked here. If you make some interesting cupcakes out of these, definitely let us know!
The latest issue of the Hello, Cupcake What’s News letter features a Bootiful Mummy Cupcakes! The cupcakes which are by the creators of the Hello, Cupcake and What’s New Cupcake Cookbooks, have marshmallows hidden under red fruit roll-ups which looks like blood under the melted frosting. Gory, I know but it’s Halloween after all! For tips on how to make the mummy visit the candy corner and for help with the spider webs seen in the image below check out the technique of the month and for directions look below!
Fionna
October 18th, 2010 at 7:45 am
I loved the cupcake patterned crayon roll up! It’s so cute and practical. I loved the minky/stroller blanket but would love to see it in the cupcake pattern. I was also thinking that a collar/leash set in the cupcake pattern would be nice. Thanks for this! She’s got a great shop.
Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to [email protected]. Special thanks to SewCosmic for sponsoring this week’s giveaway.
In April we shared with you DIY Cupcakes in a Jar, now as if anyone would need more then one reason to eat a cupcake from a jar, Daily Candy has given us 10 delicious reasons to eat cupcakes from a jar. Number 5 was something I had not realized, which is how long cupcakes in a jar can be stored (12 days in the refrigerator)!
Happy Fall Sunday cupcake fans! Just a reminder that today is the last day to enter our cupcake lanyard giveaway sponsored by Etsy crafter SewCosmic. Please click here to enter.
Cupcakes go with everything, including the theatre. Sylvia is a comedic play about a dog and the quarrelsome couple who adopts her. It is written by A.R. Gurney and was first performed in 1995 at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Sarah Jessica Parker played the part of Sylvia. That’s right — the dog.
The play is still popular in theatres all over the country, and Mariel, an ATC reader, just submitted this fabulous photo of her Sylvia cupcakes, which she made to celebrate a production near her!
She cut the pawprints out of colored gumpaste, then rolled white gumpaste into little balls, which she flattened and attached with royal icing. To make the “dogtags,” she tied scrapbook adornments into a bow, and then cut one side of the bow! Isn’t she clever? Thanks for sharing, Mariel!
NPR frequently discusses cupcakes, for instance they warned us that macaroons were going to replace the cupcake as the top dessert and explained that cupcakes are so popular because we are in a cupcake bubble. Now NPR shares with how to have your (less sinful) cupcake and enjoy it, too. This article, unlike the previous two starts off on a positive not saying that the cupcake craze is not going away (yay!). The downfall to the cupcake trend is that as a society we are realizing we need to be more health-conscious. So Eve Turow has created several healthy cupcake recipes which allow us to still treat ourselves but watch the calories. Since I have a few bananas on the verge of going bad, I think I might try the Banana Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting but be sure to read the full article for all the cupcake recipes.
Pizzazzerie recently had a Cupcake Skewer Contest, the deadline for which has since past, but designs are still relevant to the Halloween season. The winning cupcake skewers were Black Magic Cupcakes, created by Sweet Cheeks Tasty Treats.
While she did not win the contest, The Decorated Cookie still created bright, festive Halloween cupcakes that impressed me! Below are The Decorated Cookie’s instructions for creating Halloween cupcake skewers but for
additional directions, Pizzazzerie has a How to Make Cupcake Skewers post.
Be the hit of any Halloween party with these cupcake sleeves from Roundabout Sleeves! Transform your cupcakes into (possibly scary) works of art in about 2 seconds! One dozen sleeves costs $8.99. Your cupcakes will be almost too cool to eat!
Our giveaway this week comes to you from Etsy crafter SewCosmic. I love her shops’ name because of it’s fun meaning:
How cute is that? And how cute are these cupcake items from her shop?
This week you, our wonderfully loyal fans, will have the chance to win this amazing and very useful cupcake lanyard. And as a bonus, SewCosmic is letting the winner pick one add-on too! You may choose either a watch, whistle or badge holder. I personally have one of these lanyards with a watch and I love it. It is well-made and perfect for those of us who need quick access to keys or for attaching a badge for work.
To enter this giveaway, just visit SewCosmic’s Etsy shop and peruse her creations. Then come back to ATC and click on the comment area below. Tell us what was your favorite item and what item you believe she should add to her shop. One winner will be chosen on Monday, October 25th. Good luck my sweeties!
Momiji dolls are adorable little message dolls that are categorized into little collections. Each doll has a cut out hole in the bottom and a card inside the hole for writing a little personalized note. While looking around on the Momiji site I noticed that they have a few fun cupcake related items. There are two Momiji dolls that have cupcakes on them. Each of the dolls are pixies, one is from the vintage collection and the other from the random collection. Once is blond haired and wearing a pink dress while holding a yellow cupcake while the other has a cherry theme. Read the rest of this entry »
Organize.com offers a selection of cupcake baking items for Halloween they have sprinkles, stencils, liners and more. One item that I like is the set of 12 silicone cupcake molds with halloween designs. With cute spiderwebs, bats, witches, ghosts, cats, and caldrons, the $20.99 set is a nice alternative to paper liners.
*Tip: if you buy these, bake in them once or twice before Halloween. This will ensure the cupcakes come out of the molds easily. When I bought my molds I didn’t realize how important this was!
Every now and then we come across adult cupcakes, most of which include alcohol. This time, Cosmopolitan has and article with several recipes for alcohol cupcakes by Lucy Baker, author of The Boozy Baker: 75 Recipes for Spirited Sweets. Start with a basic recipe included on the Cosmo website then follow with one of the 9 alcohol variations of your choice shared below.
Do you love creating you own cupcake recipes? Well, get out your mixers and muffin cups and enter the Scharffen Berger Cupcake Adventure Contest! Cupcake recipes must include their chocolate and one or more of these selected “Adventure Ingredients”:
Yes, some of these ingredients are a bit more unusual but who doesn’t love a good challenge? I say go for the ricotta and fresh beet! Contest prizes include money (woo, hoo!), books, chocolate, a trip to New York and the chance to have your recipe published on Food Networks magazine! How amazing would it be to have one of our wonderful fans win this contest? Click here for all the contest rules and details. Good luck! 
You should also check out the new interactive cupcake builder on the Scharffen Berger website. You can select a base cupcake batter and virtually build a cupcake using adventure ingredients, get tips on how to use the ingredients and more.
Our Halloween cupfake set winner is Erin! Check out her sweet comments:
Erin
Cakery Fakery is my favorite Etsy shop! I’m surprised my laptop still works after all the drool I get on it when looking at the cupfakes. lol!
It’s a tough choice but I think my favorite has to be the Christmas Candyland cupfake. I’d love to see a cupfake with cute little bunnies on it. Oh~ or maybe for Halloween one with evil bunnies. :D Or peeps candy! lol, sorry I’m getting too many ideas.
Congratulations! Please send your mailing address to [email protected]. Special thanks to The Cakery Fakery for sponsoring this week’s giveaway.
