Tis’ the season for Christmas Trees & Christmas Decorating! I spent a good part of my day yesterday buying Christmas Tree decorations, so in honor of this lovely season I thought I would find some Christmas Tree Cupcakes. They are from none other than Martha Stewart.
Enjoy!
These yummy turkey cupcakes are submitted by Lisa Griswold.
I made these cupcakes for Thanksgiving. The turkeys are “drawn” with chocolate on wax paper and then flipped over to reveal a cute and edible cupcake topper!
Happy Holidays!
Fantastic! Here is another examples of chocolate art. More here at Instructables on how to make your own chocolate painting.
I love reading cupcake cookbooks and trying new recipes I find in them. Today, I found some great looking cupcake cookbooks to share with you. I went on Amazon.com and picked out a few that got top ratings from their customers. I know money may be tight with the holidays coming up so think free: try your local library and enjoy some cupcake reading this winter for nothing. The photos on the covers make my mouth water!
Sweetness Delicious Baked Treats for Every Occasion by Sarah Levy
Cupcakes, Cupcakes and More Cupcakesby Lilach German
Cupcakes to Celebrate Love and Life by Callie Maritz
101 Gourmet Cupakes in 10 Minutes by Wendy Paul
Do you have a favorite cupcake cookbook you’d like to share? Click on the comment section below and tell us about it!
So I’m not sure if you are, but I am a Twilight fan, and in honor of New Moon coming out I made caramel apple cupcakes! I baked apple cupcakes, cut out the center &added caramel, then topped them with cream cheese frosting. I dipped them in red sugar, then added a pretzel and a mint leaf! I used the recipe found at iheartcuppycakes.My boyfriend even took a picture of me holding one of the cupcakes in my hand and edited it like the first bookcover! =]-Holli Risvold
And the winner is… Lauren!
Congratulations! Please email us at [email protected] and give us your full name and email address so littleanu can contact you. Thanks to all who entered and commented on her wonderful items. Be sure to enter our next giveaway coming one week from today.
Hi there! Yesterday I made Sweet Potato cupcakes using fresh baked yams, and topped them with mounds of roasted marshmallows! I used the sweet potato cupcake recipe in Martha Stewart’s Cupcake book! My grandma ALWAYS makes sweet potatoes with marshmallows on Thanksgiving, so i figured this would be a perfect fall treat for my family and friends! I attached a picture to this email!-Holli Risvold
As we all know Tree Decorating time is coming near so pull out all your ornaments and maybe purchase some new shiny ones for yourself. This is a great Ornament for any and all cupcake lovers. I found it at Sur la table!
Hello Sugar his already in the holiday spirit with several holiday cupcake images on their website that look amazing. I think my personal favorite is the snowman. They kept him simple and traditional but still managed to include a lot of detail. I also like that they use edible glitter. I always loved it when my mom did food styling jobs that included edible glitter, something about it is fun to me. According to the website the cupcakes are Callebaut chocolate cupcakes with dark chocolate chips and peppermint buttercream which sounds delicious!
Ornament Cupcake
Sometimes I want to open my front door wide and shout, “I love cupcakes!” For the sake of my neighbors (and my husband) I have found a few ways this week that I can show my love for our sweet little friends using the words of some crafty Etsy sellers.
As I was picking up the mail yesterday I found one of my Favorite Catalogs in my mail box, The Lakeside Collection . I love this catalog but I loved this one even more. The whole front cover is advertising all cupcake items!
This is what the cover looks like;
The 2 items that are on the front cover are these 2 items …
AND
These are great gifts for all the aspiring cupcake bakers both young and old out there!
Enjoy!
This week I’d like to introduce you to Etsy crafter littleanu. Her shop is full of whimsical cupcake items and I am so happy to own a few of them. Check out some of my favorites:
These little cupcake pillows are part of a series thatlittleanu calls “The Sweet Tooth Family”. Buyers can pick a flavor/color scheme, and she’ll cook up something special for you. I have a pretty pink one and it is as soft as it is cute! The cupcakes are hand-painted on fabric and the backing is made using recycled (& washed) T-shirts. Here are some other beauties from her shop:
Now you, our loyal ATC readers, have a chance to win your own cupcake pillow from littleanu. She will let you pick ANY flavor cupcake you would like. What a treat! To enter this contest, please visit littleanu‘s shop and then come back to ATC. Click on the comment area below and tell us what cupcake pillow color scheme you liked best or what flavor you think would be a great addition to her shop. One winner will be chosen on Monday, November 23rd. Thanks littleanu for giving away a wonderful pillow!
If you are looking for a unique way to display your cupcakes, an individual cupcake stand is an alternative to cupcake trees. These antique white ceramic stands come as a set of six and are available from farmhouse wares for $38.95.
Hi, I love the site and cupcakes :) I recently made this cupcake cake for my niece’s 4th birthday. It was chocolate with pink buttercream, and the decorations were all handmade by me with fondant and edible sparkles. Enjoy <3 Tiffaney from cakesbytiffaney.blogspot.com
It is hard to find the words to describe how much I love what Amy Atlas Events creates. As soon as I saw the company’s website I thought of how much I would love to work for this company for a living, despite the fact that it has nothing to do with the Nutrition degree I will be earning in one month. If someone ever asks me what my dream job would be I now know the answer is “working for Amy Atlas Events.” All the pictures look like how I wish everyday of my life was, bright, cheerful, and everything going together but not necessarily matching. Of course I also like the fact that they deal with cupcakes and that they make people happy on a daily basis.
Amy Atlas Events works with their clientele to create customized events that are an expression of the individual. They are known for their dessert tables which almost look to good to eat. Amy Atlas Events is located in New York City and has a great blog, Sweet Designs, that is loaded with pictures, recipes, ideas and more! Just looking at the pictures from past events makes me wish I still leaved near NYC and that there was an event in my life that I could use as an excuse to work with Amy Atlas Events. Also she was featured in the Martha Stewart Weddings, Summer 2009 issue that was my first blog post.
i love your blog and i wanted to share some cupcakes i made recently for a friends birthday. vanilla cupcakes with butter cream frosting..the birds are marshmallow fondant and the clouds are large sprinkles. they turned out really cute and then i couldn’t get anyone to eat them!
thanks!
amanda kirk
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Beautiful work Amanda. The details on the decorations are very impressive! They remind me of these Twitter Cupcakes.
This weekend my best friend Heidi and I made some yummy cupcakes! I wasn’t too sure about what kind to make, but my mom spoke up and said she wanted Pineapple Coconut Cupcakes and Mom’s always get what they want. :-)
Off to the store Heidi and I went to get the ingredients …
And you can grab these items from your fridge and cupboards at home…
And GO …
Drain the crushed pineapple and save the juice.
Follow the directions on the box of cake mix … substitute the water for pineapple juice (if you don’t have enough juice, just use as much juice as you have and use water for the rest).
Once you have filled the cupcake liners with the batter spoon crushed pineapple into each liner on top of the batter, make sure you start off with a little at a time because you want to be able to get it into all of the cupcakes. If you have more after all are filled disperse to your hearts content into the rest of the liners. ( Psst … you can also save some to throw into the frosting)
Throw em’ in the oven and bake according to box.
While those are cooking you can go ahead and start on the frosting. Make sure that the butter is at room temperature (if you take it right from the fridge you will have a hard time mixing the frosting).
Mix together one 8 ounce package of cold cream cheese , 5 tablespoons butter and 2 teaspoons of vanilla until light and fluffy. Gradually add 2 cups sifted confectioners sugar.
Once you have mixed this all together gently fold in about 3/4’s of a cup of Coconut! (if you want to add crushed pineapple in you can do it at this time)
Once the cupcakes have come out of the oven and have cooled all the way through you can go ahead frost and ENJOY!
My family LOVED these cupcakes! They gave em’ and A+!
Here are a few photographs (sorry they aren’t the best, they were from a camera phone)!
(I am the one on the Left)
Last week I posted several metal cupcake crafts I was drawn to on Etsy and this week I found something interesting wooden items. One I loved so much I went ahead and bought it immediately. See if you can guess which one!
Cupcake Soap Dish $8
Cupcake Board Game $20
Cupcake Puzzle $19.95
Birthday Cupcake $12
So which one did I buy? The wooden soap dish! Although I can’t bring myself to put soap on it yet- it’s just too cute sitting on my desk!
And the winner is… Adrienne!
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This is a technique that I have never heard of, adding chocolate Necco Wafers to chocolate cupcake batter for a unique texture. According to Melody Kramer who tried this addition, the result is surprisingly delicious. She crushed the Necco Wafers and then added them to the batter. While they did not melt while baking the end result offered the texture she desired.
And the winner is… Drea!
I posted this last week but must have missed you! Please email us at [email protected] and give us your full name and address so we can have the decals mailed to you. Thanks again to tweetheartwallart for the great prize!
There are so many cupcake shirts, dresses and pajamas in stores for little girls right now. I went into my daughter’s closet today and counted 15 cupcakes shirts that I have bought for her! I have looked long and hard to find a cupcake shirt for myself that doesn’t make me look like I raided her wardrobe. I finally found one!
(No, this isn’t me!)
This shirt was made by DressingOnTheSideand it is pen and ink artwork silkscreened on a supersoft white women’s basic crewneck t-shirt. It is a lightweight shirt which makes it perfect for layering. She advised me to get one size larger than my normal size and it fits me great. Please note that she has a limited stock of this cute cupcake design. DressingOnThe Side is currently running a special for ATC fans. Just mention All Things Cupcake at checkout and you will receive $5 off!
I found this cute and innovative video about this little cupcake who learns a lot in a matter of a few days. A cupcake with Dreams!
It is by freelance artist Kristen Lepore. Check out her other work. You can also check out her Blog. Enjoy!
Some cupcakes do scare me: super dry cake with face crushingly sweet frosting. These dear readers find their own scary cupcakes. One in a Tim Burton inspired creation, the second as the victim to those seeking her sweetness!
I am an avid follower of the website and I have a huge cupcake obsession that is constantly fueled by the amazing cupcakey goodness I find there! I live in the UK and cupcakes are not as celebrated here as I think they should be. So, with this in mind, I decided to make a personal homage to the cupcake with a Tim Burton-esque cupcake costume for Halloween! It is entirely handmade, from the purple glittery cherry on my head to the handmade bows on my shoes! This is my first attempt at a handmade costume and I was so proud of my efforts that I wanted to share them with All Things Cupcake and fellow cupcake fans.
I hope you like it!
Rebecca Fishwick
So, not only do I have a cupcake tattoo (that you’ve featured) I went all out on a big cupcake costume for halloween. At each bar I went to, the doormen were sending people to find me because they thought my costume was just so incredible. Embarrassing and flattering, especially when I was wearing a laundry basket as the base of the cupcake. – Kelly from NY
