Adorable Pastel Cupcake and Ice Cream Illustration

Perfect for spring, how sweet is this cupcake (complete with melting/crying ice cream) illo?

Artwork courtesy ♥ Melly Kay ♥.

Fat Ninja vs. The World's Largest Cupcake

Care to pick a winner?

Cupcake. FTW.

Great ink and watercolor artwork courtesy dorkboycomics.

Some of the cutest cupcakes you'll ever see: high heels, Twinkie heads, gumball machines, goldfish, Smurfs, brides, Matisse, Mondrian, Van Gogh and more

This cupcake spotlight could have been much, much longer, but I want to encourage you to check out Only in Bucks for a fun, brilliant, smile-inducing look at cupcake creativity in action. The press tends to focus on business and bakeries to the exclusion of the true heart of the cupcake revolution: cupcake lovers, at home, baking their hearts out. I love cupcake bakeries, of course, but the reason cupcakes are still as popular as ever (more, actually) is that they are something we can truly personalize in any and every way. Just look at how many high heel cupcakes have been created only in the past 2 months! Via @PinkeandBrowne on Twitter. This made my day!

From the post:

Last weekend I had the privilege to photograph Peddlers Village's first annual Cupcake Decorating Competition. Held at Giggleberry Fair, it was one of the special events planned to celebrate their 50th anniversary. I was the only blogger invited, and I must say... I felt pretty cool when I was allowed to enter the roped off section and preview the all the entries!

With over 1,000 cupcakes competing in various categories, I had to to quickly devise my own grading system. Anything you see here falls under one of my own categories: Pretty, Creative, or Simply Adorable. For those of you who didn't make it to the competition, here's a little "taste."

beautiful high heel cupcakes (I'd eat these, and I'd wear the real shoe version!)











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BabyCakes NYC Launches Cupcake Cake Art of the World contest

From the latest BabyCakesNYC newsletter and their blog:

It’s real easy: Make a cake using the BabyCakes mixes and frosting and decorate it with whatever Spring-inspired splendor you can imagine—there are no rules limiting your creative hankerings. Then, by April 19th, send a picture of this masterpiece to contest@babycakesnyc.com, along with your name, city and state, and what you are calling your cake. You can then consider yourself entered in the inaugural BabyCakes Cake Art Contest of the World! (If you want to send a photo of yourself as well, cool!)

We’ll set up an online gallery where your friends and loved ones can vote your cake into prize territory. The first place winner will receive a $100 BabyCakes gift certificate, both BabyCakes cookbooks, and an official BabyCakes apron exactly like those that the bakery bakers wear. There are also prizes for 2nd and 3rd place winners, because that seems fair.

BabyCakes has locations in New York City's Lower East Side, Los Angeles and Downtown Disney® Marketplace at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Orlando, Florida. Visit babycakesnyc.com for more information, and visit their online store where you can buy gluten free cake mix, frosting and more. And from their blog, a baby and cupcake photo I couldn't resist:




cake mix, $36, official description:

Here you go, the magical foundation of the cakes we make at the bakery, consisting of garbanzo-fava bean flour, rice flour, potato starch, arrowroot, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and xanthan gum. All you need to have in the cupboard is: vanilla, oil, agave nectar, and applesauce (preferably unsweetened).

Fun cupcake nail art tutorial

Blogger Skull Bones And Love Of Fashion shows you how to do cupcake nail art!

Bouncing Cupcake Graphic FTW

I found this cute cupcake illustration on Flickr, and then followed the link to find the animated version. Love it!

Jump, jump little cupcake! Shot courtesy lapendeja.

See him jump here, at Pistacch.io.