Blow Pop cupcakes with bubble gum marshmallow buttercream and a strawberry marshmallow inside, plus recipe link

Yes, Blow Pops, the lollipop with bubble gum in the middle, can be paired with cupcakes, and marhsmallows! Get the recipe for bubble gum marshmallow buttercream (!!) and instructions at Cookies and Cups.



and the inside:

Spiced Chocolate Cupcakes with Caramel buttercream plus recipe link

Here's what Jessie Oleson of Cakespy writes about these cupcakes by Lori Falce for caramel lovers (get the recipe too from Cakespy):

"Surprise! There's a cayenne kick hiding in these fudgy brownie cupcakes smothered in a delightful caramel and whipped cream frosting"

Bursting with blueberry pancake cupcakes and recipe link

Look at the blueberries bursting out of this cupcake! Wow. Get the recipe at Your Cup of Cake.

Strawberry salsa jalapeño cupcake plus recipe link!

Yes, this is a cupcake using strawberry salsa and a jalapeño pepper to recreate a Cupcake Wars winning cupcake, and it's raw and vegan! It's by Shannonmarie at one of my favorite food blogs, Rawdorable, who has the recipe for you. I'm a big fan of spicy foods in general and jalapeños in particular, so I'm excited about this one.

A twist on the Easter cupcake: chow mein noodle twigs for bird's nest cupcakes

Here's a twist for your next cupcake topper: chow mein noodles used as twigs as part of bird's nest cupcakes! These Easter (or spring) cupcakes are by Better Homes & Gardens, who tell you how to make them. Via Lilsugar.

Cool Mint Oreos and Birthday Cake Oreos inside cupcakes!

Lots of cupcake creativity going on! The Mint Oreo baked inside cupcakes are by Bahama, North Carolina home-based bakery Cakes by Becky via Flickr and the Birthday Cake Oreo (didn't know that was a kind of Oreo!) birthday surprise cupcakes are by An American Cupcake in London via Flickr.





From the blog post, where you can get the recipe:

The cupcake recipe is a nice time-saver as it uses a chocolate boxed mix for the base with a few additions (still comes out super tasty!) and I paired it with my basic buttercream recipe with finely crumbed cool mint oreos and peppermint flavoring added in.

From An American Cupcake in London:

I used a funfetti cupcake mix, which made 6 cupcakes. I put one spoon of batter into the liner and placed the Oreo in and then placed another spoon of batter on top. I made half of this frosting recipe with some vanilla paste and no food coloring.

Funfetti cupcakes and recipe link!

Get the recipe for these these funfetti cupcakes at The Whimsical Cupcake!

Extreme cupcake cuteness: Bird's nest lemon Easter cupcakes with chicks hatching out of them!

These cupcakes deserve some sort of prize for internet cuteness! They're bird's nest lemon cupcakes with chicks hatching out of Easter eggs, and you can find out how to make them, including recipe and instructions, over at The Southern Institute, in a post by Jenn from Rook No. 17. Via Craftzine. Love love love. Happy baking and decorating; I don't see how you could make these and not smile.



From the post:

Atop a tender mini lemon cupcake(with coconut cream cheese icing)sits a nest of toasted coconut,gently cradling a tiny speckled chocolate egg.

4 Cupcake Wars inspired raw vegan cupcake recipes: green tea vanilla, sweet pepper, corn and sage, lavender and orange, cacao spice

Yes, Shannonmarie at Rawdorable is at it again, this time taking inspiration from Cupcake Wars winner Stephanie Sparkle and her vegan baking fame, and turning Stephanie's cupcakes into raw vegan cupcakes. She's also got the recipes for these four lovely cupcakes for you all in this post and an interview with Stephanie!


the raw cupcake quartet


green tea topped vanilla cupcake


sweet potato, corn and sage cupcake


lavender and orange cupcake


cacao spice cupcake

Irish cocktail whiskey chocolate ganache cupcakes in jars for St. Patrick's Day

Blogger ever clever mom made Irish cocktail cupcakes in jars for St. Patrick's Day! She's got the recipe and writes:

Serving the cupcakes up in jars means the frosting can be creamier and I added a lot more of that whiskey chocolate ganache this way. I love the way they turned out in the glass with the frosting on top... almost like little pints of Guinness.

5 green velvet St. Patrick's Day cupcakes plus green velvet cake pops

St. Patrick's Day is this Saturday, March 17th, and there are so many shamrocks we almost can't keep up. Here are 5 green velvet cupcakes to get you in the holiday spirit.


by Patty's Cakes of Fullerton, California


by Real Mom Kitchen


by A Dozen Eggs Bake Shoppe


by Snappy Gourmet - these green velvet cupcakes have cream cheese frosting and are dipped in candy melts! Click through for the recipe and instructions.


Green velvet cupcakes topped with green macarons by The Boogie Blog


by Jeanne Benedict

And last but not least, green velvet cake pops by custom cupcake baker Amanda Cupcake in Waupaca, Wisconsin, via Flickr. Stay tuned: we have an interview with her coming up!

Beautiful St. Patrick's Day shamrock cupcakes with Bailey's Irish Cream/Frangelico/Creme de Cacao buttercream and recipe link

These beautiful St. Patrick's Day cupcakes are above and beyond your typical shamrock! They're made with Bailey's Irish Cream/Frangelico/Creme de Cacao buttercream and blogger Pink Martinis and Pearls has the recipe and cupcake decorating tips. Happy, boozy cupcake making!







From the post:

These friends play together beautifully and are three of the five ingredients in the espresso martinis that I love.

Bailey’s is creamy goodness. Frangelico is hazelnut-flavored liqueur and Crème de Cacao has a light chocolate flavor.

For the cupcakes, I substituted the liquid ingredients in the batter with two espresso martinis. Texturally, the recipe works but the intensity of the alcohol needs some refining but what I came up with for the icing is absolute perfection and I’d like to share the Irish love with you and how to decorate the shamrock cupcakes.

Chocolate mint Oreo and dark chocolate mint cupcakes plus recipe links

2 cupcakes for chocolate mint lovers, plus recipes!


Chocolate mint Oreo cupcakes from Half Baked in a guest post by Lauren of Crave. Indulge. Satisfy. who writes:

The fun thing about Oreos is that they are just the right size to sneak into the bottom of your cupcake liners before adding your cake batter. The cake bakes up perfectly leaving the Oreo at the bottom of the wrapper so its completely hidden. It is not until someone takes a bite into the cupcake do they discover the surprise of the cream-filled cookie inside and that extra burst of color from the green Cool Mint! I must say these go over great with the kids…it’s like they found a hidden treasure inside their cake!

Dark chocolate mint cupcakes by The Curvy Carrot

Peanut butter chocolate chip cupcakes plus recipe link

Blogger Food Snots has the recipe for these peanut butter chocolate chip cupcakes and writes:

You have to like peanut butter, obviously, cause there is a ton of peanut butter that goes into these cakes. But basically, this is a super moist peanut butter cupcake, with chocolate chips, and peanut butter frosting. I added the additional drizzled chocolate on top cause I felt like these cupcakes needed just a bit more chocolate.

How to bake a LEGO® inside your cupcake for Double LEGO® Cupcakes!

Blogger S'tasty was inspired by toys and found a way to create these awesome Double LEGO® cupcakes that are so full of coolness I don't even know what to say. There's detailed instructions there on how to do your own. Oh, and the LEGO® pieces on top are made of chocolate and totally edible! S'tasty also has the recipe. We've seen hearts inside cupcakes, shamrocks inside cupcakes, what's next? I am always going to be enamored of anyone who can pull this off. Via Craftzine.


chocolate LEGO®s on top!


LEGO® shapes inside!

From the S'tasty post:

It all started with a brown piece of LEGO®. To me it looked like a shiny cube of delicious milk chocolate. Wouldn’t it be great if it actually was chocolate? The cream coloured pieces could be sweet white chocolate and the glossy black pieces a rich dark chocolate. If only that were possible, I thought. Well, with the help of some magic blue stuff, I made my chocolate LEGO® dream come true. It was pretty simple to make them too.

However, once I had made my sweet chocolate specimens, they seemed a little small and insignificant. What I really needed was a vehicle to carry my chocolate LEGO® and lift them up for the world to see. So, I decided on a simple vanilla cupcake and some creamy vanilla icing as a platform for my glorious chocolate LEGO®. The problem was though, the vanilla cupcake idea seemed a little lame and boring. LEGO® is so fun and colourful, so I figured the cupcakes should be bright and vivid too. I saw this great idea, on a blog on Valentine’s Day, where the blogger made a cupcake with a red cake heart concealed inside. So I borrowed this idea, but modified it a bit. I placed a colourful LEGO® cake piece inside my cupcakes. Now, I really had a cupcake worthy of my chocolate LEGO® and all my LEGO® dreams were complete. I really have to stop imagining everything can be made into food….what next!

Cake mix win: Cadbury creme egg in the middle cupcakes, plus Oreo cookies and cream, Andes Mint and chocolate potato chip cupcakes

Below are four outrageous, awesome cupcakes, all from one blog post by Love From the Oven and one mix, Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge cake mix. There's also mayonnaise involved. I hate mayonnaise but even I am willing to try it in my cupcakes if it will yield these! Visit Love From the Oven for more photos, recipes and instructions on making all four of these cupcakes: Cadbury Creme Egg, Oreo cookies, and cream Andes Mint chocolate, and chocolate potato chip! Kudos to Love From the Oven for making all these fun cupcakes (cue the words "frozen Cadbury creme egg") from such a basic set of ingredients.












Did you know March 14th is National Potato Chip Day? It is! We'll be blogging lots more potato chip cupcakes. And yes, i spend a lot of time studying the list of American food holidays! Speaking of which, why isn't there a Cadbury Creme Egg day??

The Lorax Truffula Tree vegan dark chocolate cupcakes with cotton candy on top, plus recipe link

Find out how to make these dark chocolate vegan cupcakes with cotton candy on top, styled in homage to Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, at Meet The Shannons (via Babble).

How to make St. Patrick's Day green velvet cupcakes with handmade gumdrop shamrock toppers

These are a fun take on St. Patrick's Day cupcakes: green velvet with handmade shamrock gumdrop candies on top! They're by Dollhouse Bake SHoppe, who has the recipe and instructions on exactly how to make them in time for March 17th. A cookie cutter is involved!

5 Lucky Charms cupcakes for St. Patrick's Day plus recipe links and cereal history facts

With St. Patrick's Day coming up on March 17th, and being that Lucky Charms is one of my favorite cereals (though I tend to pick out the marshmallows and eat them first), here are 5 Lucky Charms cupcakes to get you in a celebratory mood.




Magically delicious sparkly gold flake and green velvet Lucky Charms cupcakes by Saucy's Sprinkles - click for recipe


by Cupcake Project made with homemade Lucky Charms - click for recipe


by blogger Mrs. Fox's Sweets. From the post:

The icing is homemade buttercream. The cupcakes are topped with a little green sugar and then, of course, the Lucky Charms! From reading the reviews on the Betty Crocker website, I already knew that the cereal will quickly go stale if not served immediately. I tried using meringue powder in the icing and a layer of green sugar on top of the icing to possibly help prevent this, but no luck. The cereal did stay crunchy for an hour or two, but after a couple hours the cereal and marshmallows did get soft. They still taste great, but it is just as easy to put a handful on Lucky Charms on top right before serving. They are definitely best with that nice crunch on the top!

Double rainbow cupcakes by Clutzy Cooking


Last but not least, the very awesome With Sprinkles on Top has a Lucky Charms cupcake recipe and news about where you can buy just the marshmallows (from a site called, appropriately enough, cerealmarshmallows.com, via CHOW) and fun facts about Lucky Charms gleaned from Wikipedia, including:

• The original cereal contained pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, and green clovers.
• Blue diamonds were introduced in 1975, purple horseshoes in 1984, red balloons in 1989, rainbows in 1992, pots of gold in 1994, leprechaun hats in 1996, orange shooting stars in 1998 (other colors of shooting stars were added in 2011), and an hourglass in 2008.
• Older marshmallow shapes were gradually phased out; the pink heart is the only shape to survive since the beginning.
• Limited edition marshmallows were also added over the years — including a whale in 1986, pine trees in 1990, a red balloon with a gold star in 1991, and a sparkling rainbow in 2000.