I was searching the internet for some interesting Cupcake things and I came across this cute & hilarious video of a dog being trained and they are using cupcakes.
Look at his EYES … crazy! Hope you enjoyed this!
My husband brought me home a nice little present from BJ’s Wholesale Club this weekend. It was this box of Ghirardelli Triple Chocolate Cupcake Mix.
Recently I have been brave and tried some new scratch cupcake recipes but boxed mixes will always have a special place in my heart. This box came with 2 powdered cake mixes, 2 powdered frosting mixes and liners to make 2 dozen cupcakes total. Both mixes needed a few simple liquid ingredients. Here’s the finished cupcakes:
These cupcakes were so yummy! Although the recipe stated that each bag made 12 cupcakes, I ended up with 15 and had to resort to some Betty Crocker frosting to finish them off (that’s why you see 2 shades of brown). We are also big frosting lovers in my house so if I had put on less I may have had enough for all 15. I added some chocolate sprinkles to a few so maybe these were actually quadruple chocolate cupcakes! They tasted best the same night they were made because the chocolate chips in the cake were still melted. I can’t wait to make the other batch!
Thank you readers for the Halloween cupcake submissions. We are always happy to hear from you! Unfortunately, I received so many that not all of them can be posted, but I will do my best to post throughout this week the best reader cupcakes I have received!
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I know this submission is kind of late, but I thought I would share anyway. I made rainbow cupcakes with Jack Skellington frosting. I know rainbows and halloween don’t usually go together, but I can’t help it, I love any and everything colorful and cupcake and I adore Nightmare Before Christmas, so I just combined my loves into a colorful and cute treat. I also have a cupcake tattoo on my foot.
Love your blog, thanks!
KiKi
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Love the blog!! Here are my Halloween Cupcake Creations. :) I thought they turned out great and wanted to share with you too. – Vanessa
This week’s giveaway comes to us from Etsy seller namethatthing. Her shop specializes in personalized items. She finds the best buys on popular items and can embroider a name, initials or clip art. I was so excited to get this little cupcake tote in the mail from them:
The bag was well made and is probably the cutest cupcake bag I have ever seen. She has so many bags that would be great for gift-giving this holiday season or for goodie bags for a special birthday party. I also love these other cupcakes from her shop:
Now it is your chance to win your own cupcake bag (you pick which one!) and have it personalized! Just go to namethatthing’s shop and take a few minutes to look around. Then come back here to ATC and click on the comment area below. Please tell us what non-cupcake you like best and why. One winner will be chosen on November 9th. Thank you namethatthing for sponsoring this giveaway!
Since I started as contributing to ATC, I have had a lot of “why didn’t I think of that” moments and this was another one. Black Bottom Cupcakes have been a long time family favorite at our house and are possibly my favorite type of cupcake even though some would argue that they are not true cupcakes because they lack frosting. Having said this you would think I would have come up with at least dying the cream cheese filling orange to make them festive for Halloween. That is exactly what Tender Crumb did, and she even took it one step further and tweaked the recipe to make pumpkin cream cheese filling. I know I am late posting this as Halloween has passed but I just found it on tastespotting and figured it’s always a good idea for next year. Plus pumpkin black bottom cupcakes could would be great for Thanksgiving or Christmas or any other day of the year!
I would like to add that black bottom cupcakes are a really easy cupcake to make. The recipe is very simple and they always come out perfect. However I never seem to have enough of the filling so buy some extra cream cheese, just to be safe. And remember you don’t have to dye them orange, you could pick any color or do tye dye!
Hello all my favorite cupcake goers! I had a creative spark this weekend and came up with a few things. If you guys could take a look at them and let me know what you think and if it is something that you would purchase. I am thinking about putting them on Etsy. Here are pictures … thanks for the feedback ahead of time!!
My idol, Martha Stewart, recently announced the cutest cupcakes of 2009 contest winners and I have to agree they are cute. There’s a total of 18 cupcakes and by the looks of things, I am sure it was hard to narrow it down. My personal favorite are the Hedgehogs, by Ladybug Luggage. The two look like such a cute little couple, with the girl hedgehog wearing a little flower. After checking out her blog, I found that Mr. & Mrs. Hedgehog go on “adventures” which means the couple are dressed up aka decorated differently and even have little children hedgehogs.
I also love the Where The Wild Things Are cupcakes by Kitchen Dough Dough who always has unique ideas. I personally like that they are decorated without fondant and that they are an Old Fashioned Applesauce Spice Cupcake recipe with cinnamon buttercream frosting.
I was just browsing one of my new favorite website ModCloth and I found this wonderous find!
Keep warm this season with the Sweet Nothings Scarf!
Enjoy!
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To me, cupcakes are sweet and soft and I wouldn’t initially think that metal could be used to make them. Check out these unique metal cupcake finds from a few Etsy sellers that proved me wrong:
Cupcake Bicycle Bell $22
Cherry Cupcake Nightlight $15
Cupcake Bangle $95
Visit Stayhomecupcake‘s shop.
On their way home from Washington, DC the other night, my mom and sister stopped by my apartment to make a special delivery. They had stopped by Georgetown Cupcake and were delivering two amazingly delicious cupcakes to me. The flaovrs were pumpkin spice with maple frosting and chocolate peanut butter swirl. I have tasted a lot of cupcakes and I have to say these were some of the best. My sister warned my that I would not be able to take only one bite of the pumpkin cupcake and she was right! It was just the right amount of pumpkin flavor, and pleasantly moist. There was also the perfect amount of frosting, not too much where it overpowers the cupcake but also not too little. This is not to say that the chocolate cupcake was not excellent, it too was wonderful. Sometimes chocolate cake can be disappointing because it is dry and crumbly but this cupcake was packed with great chocolate flavor. I also really liked the cupcake decorating on each. They were simple yet attractive with the pumpkin cupcake topped with a festive fall foliage colored fondant leaf that was sparkly. The chocolate peanut butter had a simple peanut butter swirl and peanut butter inside.
I checked out Georgetown Cupcake online and they offer shipping which I would highly recommend because these were some of the best cupcakes I have had and I have tasted a lot of cupcakes. They have three options which include a Classic Dozen, Halloween Dozen, and Seasonal Dozen, each costing $29.00
Halloween inspires fear in us… and fear motivates us to innovate? ATC is happy to celebrate the creativity of its readers this Halloween season. Here is a halloween cupcake idea sent in by Erin from Sandy, UT:
I just wanted to tell you how much i love your site and share a cute halloween cupcake idea with all of your readers. My boyfriend Chris and i love to make rainbow/tie-dye cupcakes, so to celebrate the season we put i little twist on the traditional look.
We used the Betty Cocker Neon Gel Food Coloring to get all of these awesome colors(even the green for the icing)
All you need is a boxed white cake mix made according to the instructions. then divide the batter up in to separate bowls and dye each bowl a different color.
Spoon a little bit of each color into a cupcake liner to get the cute layered look then bake according to the box. these cupcakes are always a big hit and very fun to make.
-Erin from Sandy, UT
I will give all my thanks to my friend Laura for sending me this link about Irish Cupcakes. I spent three weeks in Ireland and I am sure if I were to taste these cupcakes it would bring me right back to the lovely feeling I had while I was there. These Guinness and Bailey’s Cupcakes came from the website Irish Central. Click HERE for the recipe!
My husband and I decided that our baby girl (Avalon, 7 months) would be a cupcake for her first Halloween. I needed some ideas and found your website! I bought her a knitted cupcake hat from Etsy, made her a cupcake shirt and pants (cupcake iron-ons), and since she is too young to walk, turned her stroller into a giant cupcake. Thank you for your website and inspiration!
Thank you for sharing with step-by-step photos of such a innovative concept! – ATC
I think that we all have that ONE dessert that someone in your family was famous for making! I certaintly do! My Nana always use to make a cake for our birthdays and other holidays. Our birthday would always roll around and she would always ask, ” What kind of cake do you want?’ We had 2 choices, Chocolate Cake or Banana Cake, both homemade. Most people ALWAYS chose the the Chocolate cake. And she would always put it on this super special Birthday Plate.
As the days go on she is unable to make this cake . So my family and I have taken upon ourselves to try and replicate this delcious treat.For some reason most people can not make it right. My mother and brother have successfully made it and now it is my turn. So being the cupcake geek I am put a little twist on them … cupcake style! Here is a quick photo adventure of my cooking venture …
I used a simple buttercream chocolate frosting. They were YUMMMY! If anyone wants the recipe, reply to this with your email and I can send it to you!
I love working with my hands to make crafts. There is a wonderful feeling that comes over you when you create something new. I wanted to share with you some instructions I found to encourage you to make your own cupcake crafts. Be sure to send us a photo when you make one of your own!
Make Handstitched Cupcake Purses
This link was posted in one of our giveaways a few weeks ago. Thanks Nikki!
Knit Your Own Cupcake
How cute would these be in your little cupcake’s play kitchen?
These would be great little stocking stuffers!
So i just recently got some new ink, a cupcake to be exact. I got it done by Albie Rock at White Mountain Tattoo in North Conway NH. I made cupcakes for the Tattoo peeps so they could tattoo that cupcake on me.
Albie did a GREAT job … he had alot of fun doing it and he even thanked me for letting him do such a fun tattoo. And like me he is an avid blogger so he blogs every day and he called me a “Cute as a Cupcake Tatster”in his blog, ahhh i love it! So here is the new love of my life … try not to drool over it because it does look that tasty!
Spooks
by Sandra Liatsos
There’s a goblin at my window,
A monster by my door.
The pumpkin at my table
Keeps on smiling more and more.
There’s a ghost who haunts my bedroom,
A witch whose face is green.
They used to be my family,
Till they dressed for Halloween.
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As Halloween approaches, we are all gearing up for this special day!
hi there! my husband and I came up with this cupcake monster pumpkin, after our daughter, Brooklyn, whom we lovingly refer to as our cupcake. enjoy! mai and david
Spider cupcakes submitted by Colleen. Do you dare to eat them?
And the winner is… Drea!
Congratulations! Please email us at [email protected] and give us your full name and address so we can have the decals mailed to you. Thanks to all who entered and commented on her wonderful items. Be sure to enter our next giveaway coming one week from today. Thanks again to tweetheartwallart for the great prize!
Sunday is the last day to enter to win our Cupcake Wall Art giveaway sponsored by tweetheartwallart. Please click here to enter!
I found myself feeling very stressed-out today so I did what I always do when I am feeling that way: I went cupcake hunting. One of my favorite places to go is one of my local Hallmark stores. I can always find something sweet that I would love to own. Even if I don’t buy everything I see, it cheers me up just to look at cupcakes. Here’s what I found today:
Hallmark had these for each month and at a very reasonable price of only $8 each.
I have several shops that I frequent just looking for cupcake items. Some of my favorites are Kohl’s, Pier 1, and Target. Cupcake bakeries can often double your pleasure. Many times you will not only find yummy cupcakes to eat, but they often have cupcake clothing and knick-knacks for sale. Online I can always find interesting things on Amazon, Etsy and Ebay.
On the way home from my hunt I got to thinking; I wonder where our ATC readers like to go cupcake hunting? Where do they find good cupcake stuff? So let’s hear from you! Click on the comment area below and let us know your hot spots!
This week’s giveaway comes from Etsy seller tweetheartwallart. Tweet Heart Wall Art is a design studio that specializes in vinyl wall art. They only use top quality vinyl that is made for home interiors. The vinyl has a matte finish, giving you a painted on look. Vinyl wall arts are an easy and affordable way to decorate and personalize your home. Tweet Heart also specializes in custom design, including custom sizing, colors and personalization.
TweetHeart sent me these 4 cupcake decals in pink and brown. I displayed them on a wall in my craft room (which is quickly becoming my cupcake room!) and I love it. They were very easy to adhear and it really added something special to the room. They truly do look painted onto the wall. I think they would be a perfect addition to any baker’s kitchen.
This week tweetheartwallart is giving away these four cupcake decals to one lucky ATC reader. You even get to choose the color(s)you want!
To enter this giveaway, click here and go to tweetheartwallart and have a look around at the wall art she makes. Then come back to ATC and leave a comment in the comment area below telling us how you would use another decal in your house. One winner will be chosen on Monday, October 26th. Thanks tweetheartwallart for sponsoring this wonderful giveaway!
As the weather gets too cold for ice cream, Bergdorf Goodmans offers a fun and tasty way to remember those hot summer days. Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes that come in a set of 4 for $50.00 each. The set includes two of each variation, one with a milk chocolate dipped cone and another with a strawberry-flavored chocolate dipped cone. A second option is the Chocolate Cupcake Set. This set is two solid milk chocolate cupcakes with white frosting and sprinkles. The cost is $28.00 for the set of 2. What is nice is that to ensure freshness, you choose the day you want them to be delivered. They almost look too good to eat, almost.
I know some of these ideas have been shared before but it’s always helpful to see alternatives to help you come up with your own unique variations. Here are the M&M versions of Halloween cupcakes that are always fun because everything is edible and when it comes to kids and decorating candy is always best. These are some ideas that are great for individuals.
For larger parties, these are sure to be crowd pleasers:
A Creepy Crawly Creature
Giant Pumpkin
Dean & Deluca two delicious looking cupcake options for this fall. One of which is a set of nine cupcakes, which means you get three of each flavor for $55.00. The flavor options include pumpkin with cinnamon cream cheese frosting, chocolate with chocolate buttercream, and Madagascar bourbon vanilla with vanilla buttercream.
Dean & Deluca’s second option are little cupcakes are made out of white, milk, and dark chocolate that come with three filling options. Those options include chestnut caramel, spiced pumpkin, and maple walnut. The set comes with nine cupcake chocolates for $48.00.
