Pretty Pretty Zebra

Here's a cupcake that caught my eye... the design... PERFECT!

The black and white go perfectly with the Zebra cuppycake wrap... I love it.. I wish I knew the flavor of the icing, chocolate? Maybe Chocolate Mint? Oh I hope it's mint!

What do you think?? Pretty perfect? Or not so much?

Honor The King!

Via examiner.com

"Searching for a tasty way to observe Elvis Presley's birthday today? Then head on over to Sprinkles in Beverly Hills (www.sprinklescupcakes.com, 9635 Little Santa Monica Blvd., 310-274-8765) and savor one of their limited edition peanut butter cupcakes available today only!
Aptly nicknamed "The King", this Sprinkles exclusive creation is a moist banana cake with peanut butter frosting (one of Elvis' favorite flavor combinations), topped with a gold star! You can also place your order online at http://www.sprinklescupcakes.com/order/order_cupcakes-1.php or by phone at 888-220-2210.
Long live the King of Rock 'N Roll!
Until our next food find....may all your food finds be fabulous!"

Go on guys! Get some Elvis cupcakes! Let me know how they are!!

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The Daily Cupcake

Seashell Cake – Mmmm Belgium Chocolate - Fin-ish me cupcakes


Laugh of the Day- I really hope these are for “adult only” parties – Cake Wrecks


Rachael Ray Magazine Features… what else… CUPCAKES! - Cupcakes Take The Cake


Top 10 YUMMY 2008 Posts – My Sweet and Saucy


A little Peanut Butter Swirl Bread for Breakfast – Baking Bites

If you like Pina Colada...

and getting caught in the rain....

Oh how I'd love to bust out in song. I'd record the video and post it on YouTube for all of your viewing pleasures... However, I'm at work, and therefore it's not a good idea to make a complete fool of myself.

Moving on! The reason for my singing would be:

Pina Colada CUPCAKES!!!!! Oh not only do I want to sing, but I want lay on a beach and get a tan while drinking a real Pina Colada and munching on one of these cupcakes. Mexico, here I come.

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The Daily Cupcake

The morning round up of other blogs!

The Vera Bradley Cupcakes – COMING SOON No One Puts Cupcake in a Corner



Laugh of the day – Giraffe or Really messed up cake – you decide – Cake Wrecks


The New Year Cupcake Round Up – Cupcakes Take The Cake


How to lose $25,000 – A Story by Sugar Plum also known as Emily – Visions of Sugar Plum


Photo Credit: Elysia in Wonderland's Flickr

Suri Cruise - And another Cupcake

Why couldn't my parents be this cool... I would get cupcakes on my birthday and that was it! They had this belief that cupcakes make a kid a hyper... Which maybe in my case was true. Or maybe I had A.D.D... Who knows. I do remember one particular Slurpee that had me bouncing off the walls. My mommy let me get it, only because she was leaving and my daddy had to take over for the night. I'm pretty sure she was mad at him... That's good revenege, I shall try that one day with my own kids.

Moving on. Suri Cruise. CUTE and a Cupcake lover. Along with her Juicy Couture Dress and little Mary Janes, the girl has style and taste. This little girl is going to be the talk of town for years to come, and she only helps to make little cupcakes way more popular!

Photo Credit: NY Daily News

SUPERBOWL!

Here's some cute and creative ideas for your Super bowl party... Make sure you have plenty of cupcakes on hand... I bet the cupcakes go quicker than those Frito's that you bought!

Ooh, how about a Frito cupcake... hmmm


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Edible Art

If you're in California, check out this creative and fun idea for both kids and adults!!

Via A News Cafe

"Kick off the evening with a trip to Sweetspot for “Edible Art.” They’ve teamed up with Northstate Parent Magazine to provide an evening of delicioso where the young (and young at heart) can partake in creating their own yummy masterpieces. All visitors will receive a small cookie on which to create, so they can play and then eat what they make!
Following in last month’s success, Sweetspot is offering classes in edible art the whole month of January. The classes will begin with a giant cookie canvas, followed by cupcakes and whatever other sweets they can dream up! And on Saturdays from 1-4, people of all ages are invited to Sweetspot’s cookie class for only $6. Yum!"

83 Fortune DrSte 225Irvine, CA 92618(949) 754-9004
www.sweetspotbakery.com

Photo Credit: Purple Foods Flickr

HINT... hint hint hint...

Recently, I've learned that hints don't work. I'm not sure why that is though... I can hint to my girlfriends all day, and they completely get it. I don't even so much as have to speak a word, just a look or a nudge and it's like they've just read my mind. Guys on the other hand, I don't understand how you can't do that! Sometimes being blunt is rude, so girls hint things. Hints that are so obvious you should pick up on it, but don't.

Case in point, the Ring on the Tiffany Blue Cupcake. I wonder what that could mean...

Photo Credit: Two Parts Sugar's Flickr

Pretty Ornaments!

Guess what I get to do tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!

SET UP THE CHRISTMAS TREE!!!

So in honor of that loveliness here are some pretty Ornament Cupcakes, with the "How To" Courtesy of Star Telegram:

Edible Ornaments
Makes 24 cupcakes
24 vanilla cupcakes in assorted green, red and white paper liners
2 cans (12 ounces each) vanilla frosting
1/2 cup each green, light green, red, yellow and white decorating sugars
24 yellow spice drops
Black licorice laces, cut into 24 (1 1/4 -inch) pieces
24 thin pretzel sticks
Assorted colored fruit chews and leathers, such as Laffy Taffy, Airheads, Starbursts
Red licorice laces
1 cup M&M Minis
Cinnamon Red Hots
1. Spoon 1/2 cup vanilla frosting into a self-closing plastic bag, pressing out excess air; seal and set aside.
2. Place decorating sugars in separate small shallow bowls.
3. Spread tops of all cupcakes in remaining vanilla frosting, mounting it slightly. Roll top of each cupcake in one of the sugars to coat completely.
4. Make top of ornament by poking a hole in each end of each spice drop with a round toothpick. Bend one black licorice piece in half and insert both ends into one of the spice drop holes to make a loop. Insert one end of a pretzel stick in the hole in the other end of the spice drop. Press the other end of the pretzel stick all the way into a cupcake. Repeat with remaining cupcakes.
5. Roll out fruit chews on a piece of wax paper to 1/8 -inch thickness. Use clean scissors to cut the fruit chews and leathers into decorative pieces. Arrange these with red licorice laces to make strips, bands and other designs on the cupcakes.
6. Snip a tiny corner off the bag with vanilla frosting and pipe dots in different patterns over the cupcakes, atop the fruit chew designs. Press M&M Minis and Red Hots into frosting. Place cupcakes into small boxes or arrange on a platter.
— June Naylor

Photo Credit: Rachel From Cupcakes Take The Cake's Flickr Via Star Telegram

Sugar + Sunshine Bakery

I like Sugar
I like Sunshine

Why not have both?

Sugar + Sunshine Bakery, 6 Market St., Plainsboro. (609) 936-3777. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays; 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays. Closed Mondays. sugarandsunshinebakery.com.

Article Via NJ.Com:

I am sitting in my car behind 1st Constitution Bank in Plainsboro, pondering the next step in a daring daylight heist.
The loot is spread across the passenger seat -- two boxes and two bags of unmarked, untouched goods.
Cupcakes, mostly, with a dozen cookies and muffins scattered throughout.
The big question: How much of the merchandise do I sample right now, and how much do I take back to the office?
This, I tell myself, is no time to suddenly develop a conscience. I have a job to do, and besides, I am hungry.
The baked goods are from Sugar + Sunshine in Plainsboro, and they're so good I immediately hate owner Gigi Burton. Why? When I lived in Plainsboro eons ago, there was no bakery like this -- or much of a town, for that matter.
We're several years into the "Sex and the City"-fueled cupcake craze -- one trend I really wanted to avoid -- but Burton's cupcakes, and the rest of her baked goods, are first-rate, and Dec. 15 is National Cupcake Day, after all.
"We wanted to focus on nostalgic American desserts," Burton said. "We didn't want to do these fancy little French pastries."
For 12 years, Burton worked in the credit card division at J.P. Morgan. But baking was always on her mind, and when her job was transferred to Delaware in the wake of J.P. Morgan's merger with Chase, Burton took it as a sign to get out of the office and into the kitchen. The bakery opened in April, and Burton's commute is painless -- she lives in town.
Supermarket cupcakes, even the bakery cupcakes I've sampled, are no match for the cupcakes at Sugar + Sunshine. The icing, a thick swirl of rich buttery goodness, emboldens but doesn't overwhelm the soft cake. In fact, all her baked goods have great texture; the banana nut muffin, with a flaky, sugary crust, is just about perfect. The chocolate chip cookie tastes like home; the chocolate brownie tastes like real chocolate. The oatmeal raisin cookie may have been my single favorite item. The sole disappointment: the blueberry muffin, which tasted more like lemon than blueberry.
"Everyone wanted to sell us pre-made pie filling, pre-made everything," Burton said. "We could buy tons of frosting, but then we'd be just like the supermarket. Our suppliers said, 'You're never going to make it.'"
She seems to be doing quite well, thank you. There are a dozen or so cupcakes, from chocolate/chocolate (double yum) and vanilla/chocolate to carrot/cream cheese, strawberry/strawberry buttercream and coconut/lemon buttercream. The frosting is done out front, so if you want to create your own combination and there's cake available, you can.
Cupcakes are $2 each or $20 per dozen. Cookies are $2 each; brownies $2.50 each. Cakes and pies are made to order. Cinnamon rolls, $2 each, are available Thursdays through Sundays only.
In the end, it was probably a good thing I brought my loot back to the office.
"I am going to walk away before I stick my face in that box," a colleague said.
"The most astounding cupcake I ever ate," raved another.
Some complained the cupcakes, from which I extracted small slices, weren't whole. "Hey," I replied, "I'm working here!"

Photo Credit: Amanda Brown/The Star-Ledger

Candy Cupcakes M&Ms!!!!!

As I sit in my Cubicle... WORKING OF COURSE... I came across these cute little M&M cupcakes. I find it Ironic, because as I work, Blog, and look for cupcakes, I play BINGO. Horrible Christmas Music Songs BINGO. The prize you ask? M&Ms!!!!! We've switched to BLACK OUT, and I only have 4 more songs until I can fill my card and collect my prize! So, call in and request Horrible Christmas songs for me. I need some Kenny G and Whitney Houston. My partner in crime next me needs Madonna and Gloria Estefan! Hop to it!

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Cupcake Camp?

Okay, I've been reading all about this Cupcake Camp I have to say, I'm intrigued, and depressed that I don't live in the San Fran area... However, if you do, please feel free to partake. Click the link and go!

I really hope that the day after they have Cupcake Camp they have Boot Camp, so people can work off the 15 cupcakes they ate the day before. I'd be completely ready for that... I wonder how many miles you have to run to burn off one cupcake. My guess is 2-4, depends on the size and amount of frosting. A CRUMBS cupcake is probably closer to 4 miles. Who cares, Cupcakes are one of the best things on EARTH, enjoy 1, or 10. Worry about running when you're dead.

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Toasted marshmallow frosting on a sweet potato cupcake

Yummmmmy! And I even got you guys the recipe to try out yourself... Courtesy of Coconut & Lime so go to her site, and get the recipes, plus tons more and enjoy these!

Send me any photos if you make them... I'd love to see your creations!!

Photo Credit: Rachel is Coconut & lime's Flickr

Santa is real

He's real to me at least... And look, here he is on a red cupcake! He's everywhere! He watches me everyday to make sure I stay on the Nice list. How many of you are on the Naughty list this year? I know I've been very good... And instead of cookies and milk, Santa is getting cupcakes in Milk. I'm sure that'll please him more than a batch of Oreos! Who am I kidding... My dad won't stop at the Cupcakes on the plate he'll head to the fridge and eat the whole batch afterwards. Very Un-Santa like behavior, but I guess he's no longer participating in that charade for my benefit anymore.

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Good Morning Cupcakers!

It's the cupcake NINJAS! Here to protect all my cupcakes from the evil cupcake stealers!!

Don't let their cuteness fool you, they are dangerous, and they can kill you will their little pinky finger! Don't get near any cupcakes today, or they are coming for you.

I want to be a Ninja when I grow up. Bailey will be my side kick "Ninja Pup".

Photo Credit: Lilley1's Flickr

Winter Wonderland

Pretty Pretty! The snows is pretty, the tree is pretty, and the cuppy liners are the the prettiest! I love how classy Christmas stuff can look!

We have a fake tree... just like this one, but probably bigger. Every Christmas, I get to set it up. Then I get little green slivers stuck in my skin... My dad sits on the couch and usually talks on the phone... Then I get mad, and call him a scrooge. He usually helps after that. Good Story huh.

Photo Credit: Couture-Cupcakes.com's Flickr

PRESENTS!!!!!!!!!

I'm the kid who refused to go to bed because I was to excited to open my Christmas presents. Eventually, I passed out, and I had to be carried to my bed. The day I found out that my dad was really Santa Claus, I nearly had a heart attack at the age of 6. I always found it odd that my dad and Santa had the same handwriting... And so did the Easter bunny... I put two and two together and realized I had been DUPED!

These are whole new kind of present... the cupcake kind. I'm excited to tell you that, I will be ordering cupcakes online, right before Christmas, as a present to myself. Not only will it be Christmas, but I will be 5 lbs lighter. That's my goal at least... Then I'll gain all 5 back, but who cares!

Photo Credit: +0+cupcakes.com's flickr

mmm. moist.

Seriously, you can almost tell that this cupcake is going to melt in your mouth! It's also got me wondering how they get that pretty pinkness in the middle. Hmm... I may need to experiment with that! I've seen ones where they cut the cupcake in half, and then put the yumminess on, and then put the cupcake back together, but this looks way to dainty to have been done that way... Any ideas?!

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The Diaries of a Cat and a Dog

Photo Credit: Bev (SugarBloom Cupcakes)'s Flickr

Excerpts from a Dog’s Diary:

8:00 am – Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am – A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am – A walk in the park! My favorite
thing!
10:30 am – Got rubbed and petted! My favorite
thing!
12:00 pm – Lunch! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm – Played in the yard! My favorite
thing!
3:00 pm – Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 pm – Milk bones! My favorite thing!
7:00 pm – Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 pm – Wow! Watched TV with the people!
My favorite thing!
11:00 pm – Sleeping on the bed! My favorite
thing!

Excerpts from a Cat’s Diary:

Day 983 of my captivity. My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects.

They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates & I are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet.

Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates what I am capable of. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a “good little hunter” I am. Sadistic fiends.

There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of “allergies”. I must learn what this means and how to use it to my advantage.

Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow – but at the top of the stairs.

I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released – and is happy to return! He is obviously stupid. And the bird has got to be an informant. I observe him communicating with the guards regularly, surely reporting my every move. My captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe. For now…. ~Author unknown

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