On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Ten Lords A-Leaping
Nine Ladies Dancing
Eight Maids A-Milking
Seven Swans A-Swimming
Six Geese A-Laying
Five Gold Rings
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
I found this wonderful recipe for French Toast Cupcakes a few weeks ago and just last night I got the time to make them. This is a great twist on two fabulous foods, french toast & cupcakes!
Shopping List
Loaf of Raisin Bread
Eggs
Real Maple Syrup
Cinamon
Milk
Foil Cupcake Liners
Vanilla
Line cupcake tins with 4 cupcake liners. Spoon a teaspoon of maple syrup into each liner. In a larger bowl break up 4 pieces of bread into pieces. In another bowl mix together 4 eggs, 1 tsp of vanilla, 1/2 tsp of cinnamon and a 1/2 a cup of milk. Once that is mixed ll together pour over the bread. Give a quick gentle stir to coat all of the bread. Let sit for about 5 minutes so the bread can soak up the egg mixture. Scoop the mixture into the cupcake liner evenly. Bake for 3o minutes in a 400 degree over. After they come out of the oven let cool for 5 minutes then dive in & enjoy!
A good twist on this would be to whip of a batch of cream cheese frosting and once they have cooled spread a thin layer on the cupcake and sprinkle with cinnamon. I think I want to make some more now! Yummy!
In October StayHomeCupcake had shared the cupcake car by Neiman Marcus that costs $25,000. In December David Letterman test drove one of the cupcake cars on The Late Show. In the video he gets off to such a fast start that he crashes and the hat flies off!
On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Nine Ladies Dancing
Eight Maids A-Milking
Seven Swans A-Swimming
Six Geese A-Laying
Five Gold Rings
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Pottery Barn Kids has a realistic looking toy version of everyone’s favorite food. They have a cake and cupcake set made out of fabric, making it safe for little kids. The set includes 4 differently designed cupcakes for $24.00 and the cake which is purchased separately for $34.00.
As I was traveling home from the Holidays I had to make the obligatory fast food stop (there is no fast food on Martha’s Vineyard), so my friend Heidi and I stopped at Burger King! As I was reading the Menu trying to decide what to get I saw that they had a Cupcake Shake … I didn’t indulge in it for the simple fact that it probably cost more than my whole meal and that I had just ingested enough calories for a month over the holidays. But I did find a few people on the web that did.
donuts4dinner.com did a review, Burger King Cupcake Sundae Shake
Ridiculous Food Society of Upstate New York also did a review, BK Cupcake Milkshake
The Impulsive Buy did a review, REVIEW Burger King Cup Cake Sundae Shake
and last but not least Kissing Cupcakes did a review as well, Burger King Cupcake Shake
Facebook also has a Fan page for this interesting shake!
On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Eight Maids A-Milking
Seven Swans A-Swimming
Six Geese A-Laying
Five Gold Rings
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Seven Swans A-Swimming
Six Geese A-Laying
Five Gold Rings
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Six Geese a Laying
Five Gold Rings
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Goose cupcakes were surprisingly hard to find, but I was able to find a fantastic assortment of Mother Goose Cupcakes from A Baked Creation.
As I was brainstorming of an idea to do for a blog tonight for my last day of Holiday Cupcakes, I was searching and thinking … what do we drink on New Years Eve, Champagne!!! And just last year I made a simple Champagne Cupcake with strawberry frosting. Here is the recipe that I used.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line the cupcake tins with liner.
In a large bowl combine cake mix, 1 & 1/3 cups champagne, 3 egg whites , 1/3 cup vegetable oil, and the zest of one orange. Beat with an electric beater for 2 minutes. Spoon batter into cupcake liners, fill either one half or 3/4 of the way full for the perfect cupcake. Cook for 18-20 minutes.
While cupcakes are cooling you can start on the frosting. In a bowl cream 1/2 cup shortening and 1/2 cup butter until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and mix well. Gradually add 4 cups sifted confectioners sugar. Once that is all mixed beat in 2 tablespoons of milk. Stir in 1/2 cup of strawberry jam to the frosting … add more to taste if needed.
Once cupcakes are cooled you can frost them. Garnish with halved strawberries.
So yummy & moist!
Here is a photo of the cupcakes i made last year
I find that this time of year is particularly hard for cupcake hunters like me. It seems that many stores use cupcakes in the Valentine’s decorations so now they are popping up everywhere just screaming for me to take them home! I have to use extreme self-restraint because they are all so cute!
Here’s what I found at Target:
Oven Mitt and Pot Holder Set and Jar
Target also had kids utensils, divided trays and plates with cupcakes on them.
And Kohl’s had even more sweet items:
My Kohl’s store also had cupcake welcome signs, table runners, picture frames, large bowls, hand towels, cookie jars, adult aprons, kid aprons and jar candles. They are all between 30%-50% off their price this week. I must resist!
OurFacebook Fanpage started up just three weeks ago and we already have almost 400 fans! If you haven’t already fanned us, we’d love to have you join in the fun and also share the link with your friends. I encourage readers to post their own cupcake photos or leave us a message when they find cupcake items. We have also had cupcake questions and comments posted by many of you. Here are some yummy photos posted recently by one of our fans, Jayne.
Thanks Jayne! Keep those cupcake comin’!
On the fourth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
And the winner is… Terri!
Congratulations! Please email us at [email protected] or go to sassybellewares Etsy shop and email her directly. Thanks to all who entered and commented on her wonderful items. Our next giveaway will be mid-January. Special thanks to sassybellewares for sponsoring this giveaway!
On the third day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
On the second day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
Two turtle doves
and a partridge on a pear tree.
On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
a partridge on a pear tree.
Merry Christmas ATC readers! Make sure to enter this week’s giveaway sponsored by Etsy crafter sassybellewares. The winner will get to choose one item below and it will be made into a pin or bracelet. Contest ends on Sunday, so please click here to enter!
Over the past few years, I have been on a cupcake collecting mission. I love cupcake clothes, books, stickers, bags; pretty much anything that has a cupcake on it begs to be in my collection. My friends and family have graciously helped me by giving me numerous treasures or calling me to tell me where they have seen cupcake items. I also loved making my own cupcake crafts and buying other handmade cupcake items from Etsy.
Recently my sister-in-law asked to borrow some of my cupcake collection to display in her library’s children’s section. Here’s the display:
She added some great literature to the display to encourage others to read about cupcakes. She is helping to build the next generation of cupcake lovers! So if you live in New Jersey, stop by the Monmouth County Library Headquarters in Manalapan and say hello to all my cupcake stuff and my sis-in-law. My collection will be there through the end of January. I am happy to share my cupcake collection with others but boy, do I miss them!
Visitstayhomecupcake’s Etsy shop.
Ahhh … finally home with my family in good ol’ New Hampshire. After a long day of traveling yesterday I was ready to get back to my parents house and settle in with a cup of hot chocolate, or maybe eggnog or even hot mulled apple cider, that would be perfect! But what if you could have any of these in the form of the Cupcake? Well no need for you to look up the recipe, I have done that for you.
Eggnog Cupcakes from Baking Bites
Hot Cocoa Cupcakes from The Food Network
Apple Cider Cupcakes from Epicurious
Eggnog Cupcakes
Hot Cocoa Cupcakes
Happy Holidays! Enjoy one another during this holiday season!
Work has been soooo busy that I had time trying to fit in my Christmas Wrapping, but I am happy to say that it is all done and in honor of that I have found some gorgeous easy to make Bright Bow Cupcakes from the Wilton Website!
These are easily made by flattening spice drops into long strips! Easy way to decorate with a great outcome.
I know this is going to sound crazy, but I just ate my first Candy Cane of the season at my holiday work party today – soo yummy! In honor of this Candy Cane I have found a great cupcake for the candy cane’s little brother, the Starlight Mint! Such a cute idea for a cupcake! Once again this is from the Wilton Website.
For our last giveaway of 2009, I wanted to make it a really special one. I met this wonderful Etsy artisan a few months back and now sassybellewares is one of my favorites. I believe she truly gets us cupcake crazy people here on ATC. Check out this cute jewelry from her shop.
I own one of Sassybellewares pendants and love that not only can you wear it as a necklace, but you can take it off the chain and use it as a pin. So clever! This week sassybellewares is giving away one of her “I Speak Cupcake” items. The winner will get to pick one of the items below and choose if they want it as a bracelet or necklace/pin.
To enter this giveaway, go to Sassy’s two Etsy shops and come back to tell us what other item(s) was your favorite in the comment area below.
Contest ends Sunday December 27th so enter today!
And the winner is Jon Arntson!
Congratulations! Please email us at [email protected] or go to hopeNdew‘s Etsy shop and email her directly. Thanks to all who entered and commented on her wonderful items. Be sure to enter our next giveaway coming later today. Special thanks to hopeNdew for sponsoring this giveaway!
As I sit here literally snowed in on the island of Martha’s Vineyard I can not think of anything better to do today than to decorate cupcakes and Bake It Pretty has all of the instruments to do just that. Here are some of my favorite Christmas items they have.
To see the rest of the Holiday Toppers click here …
To see more cupcake wrappers including more Holiday ones click here …
Snowmen & Christmas Tree Liners
To see more liners click here …
Too see more sprinkles click here …
Happy Holidays!!!
