Sparkly dirty cupcakes with carrots, glitter and gummy worms

Gummy worms, carrots, sparkles and "dirt" on these cupcakes by iSparkle Cupcakes in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. via Flickr.

To Share or Not To Share?

A pretty photoessay by cdedbdme, cupcake by Madison, Wisconsin's Gigi's Cupcakes.

I hope she didn't share...

;)

Happy birthday, Milwaukee Cupcake Queen!

Please join me in wishing Sandy Ploy, aka Milwaukee Cupcake Queen, who has the license plate to prove it, a very happy birthday. She organized yesterday's wonderful Iron Cupcake Milwaukee and has shown me all around, including today's visit to Miss Julia's Bake Shop in Brookfield, Wisconsin, where the photo below of her holding a delicious-smelling raspberry cupcake was snapped.


Raspberry Love Bomb cupcake excitement at Miss Julia's Bake Shop




at yesterday's final Iron Cupcake

9 more high heel cupcakes for fashionistas who just can't get enough

9 more of what you love, during New York Fashion Week, even: fashionista cupcake high heels by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, sporting t-shirts promoting their fabulous new cookbook Cupcakes, Cookies & Pie, Oh My!, at Iron Cupcake Milwaukee. Come see them on their book tour; click here for dates. And enter to win a copy from us by February 14th at 6 pm EST. Oh my, indeed!

Live from Iron Cupcake Milwaukee: Chocolate cherry robin cupcakes by Robin's Nest Cakery

Adorable and delicious chocolate cherry robin cupcakes by Robin's Nest Cakery at Iron Cupcake Milwaukee! "Robin's Nest Cakery, Inc. is a local custom sweet shop that is owned an operated by the Shiels family in Kenosha, WI." See more at Facebook. Contact them at Robin at robinsnestcakery.com or 262-652-1054.

Quick cupcake snapshot: Classy Girl Cupcakes

More soon on Classy Girl Cupcakes in Milwaukee, but I liked the shop and their cupcakes, including their mini cheesecake cupcakes, and I'm not even a cheesecake fan! And $2 each seems like a big cupcake bargain to me. My favorite flavor was the grasshopper (chocolate mint), which I don't have a closeup photo of, unfortunately, though the strawberry champagne was the prettiest in my opinion. They also had lots of cupcake themed items, including cupcake earrings, necklaces, onesies, Cakespy and other greeting cards, air freshener, etc. You can also find them on Facebook.


chocolate raspberry (next to a Butterfinger cupcake)


strawberry champagne


cheesecake cupcakes


coconut, peanut butter dream and Nutter Butter cheesecake cupcake


cupcake necklaces!

Sparkly s'mores cupcakes every which way by Amanda Cupcake

One of the things I'm most excited about regarding my first trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin this weekend is getting to meet blogger and baker Amanda Cupcake of Waupaca, Wisconsin, who bakes up all kinds of sparkly cupcake and cake pop treats. S'mores is one of my favorite cupcake flavors and she does them in all kinds of ways, as you can see below: extra blinged out glittery cupcakes, cupcakes in jars, cake pops (okay, a marshmallow pop), ice cream cone cupcakes! I love her spirit and that on her about section on Facebook she describes herself as "Cupcake Artist/Chemist/Bringer of Happiness."

Visit her at amandacupcake.blogspot.com and on Facebook for ordering information and I'll have a first-person report soon. All photos via Amanda Cupcake on Flickr. She can be reached at msamandacupcake at gmail.com or 920-915-3409.




her latest glittery s'mores cupcake creations


green glitter for First National Bank


toasted marshmallow Jelly Belly jelly beans on a s'mores cupcake


very tall s'mores cupcake featuring graham crackers, marshmallow, chocolate ganache, edible sparkles, and a Hershey bar.


s'mores cupcake in a jar!


s'mores cupcake stuffed marshmallow pop


s'mores ice cream cone cupcakes!