Make super cute chick cupcakes with chocolate chips and sanding sugar, from Bird on a Cake

Easter = time for cute chick cupcakes! Blogger Bird on a Cake (what a perfect name for this post!) shows you how to use chocolate chips for the eyes and pipe on frosting for the wings, beak and feet!

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.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cupcakes with Recipe Link

Have you been looking for a new and excitingly unique cupcake recipe to try? Well, I think I might have found just that for all you readers! How Sweet It Is has created a Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cupcake recipe topped with a Cinnamon Sugared Chocolate Chip Frosting. Yes, the name is quite a mouthful and after looking over the recipe I'm sure the cupcake itself is chock full of flavor, textures and amazingness as well! Want to try this for yourself? Check it out here!

Banana lover cupcake alert: Bananas Foster, banana chocolate chip and peanut butter banana at Brooklyn Cupcake

I stopped by Williamsburg, Brooklyn bakery Brooklyn Cupcake today to try their new banana cupcake flavors and I loved them all! I'm not even sure which one was my favorite. I will say the Bananas Foster is less like a cupcake and more like a dessert you'd eat after a meal at a restaurant. It was warm and gooey and delicious, with the banana and rum filling all gooey and oozing out from the cake, and their deliciously light and sweet whipped cream frosting. They went around tasting various Bananas Foster desserts at restaurants, at the suggestion of a customer (yes, you have that power as a customer!) and spent two weeks perfecting this special cupcake. If you try the Bananas Foster, use a fork! That's not one you want to bite into and get all over you. It will probably be for sale on weekends, and is on sale today; call them if you want to check on that day's flavors, or visit brooklyncupcake.com or their Facebook page. All are highly recommended, and their cupcakes are $2.50 each.





The other other new banana flavors are banana chocolate chip, featuring chocolate chip banana cake and a chocolate ganache topping, and an excellent, rich, thick peanut butter frosting on banana cake. The peanut butter frosting had the consistency of peanut butter, almost, but was sweeter. All three banana cupcakes were excellent.


banana chocolate chip cupcake


peanut butter banana cupcake

Pancakes and bacon, salty chocolate trail mix, piňa colada, chocolate coconut custard, blueberry cream cheese, chocolate chip and many more cupcakes by Brandon Cakes in Kailua, Hawaii

Before I share these beautiful cupcake photos that make me want to just be in a room with all these gorgeous cupcakes, I want to say that one of the things I love most about cupcake blogging is the community of bloggers, bakers, and eaters. I've been very impressed with how collegial the bakers I've corresponded with in Hawaii are, and this is a case in point: I discovered Brandon Cakes, the company whose custom cupcakes are seen below, because Angel Cakes Hawaii posted on our Facebook page. Pretty cool, right?

Also cool is Tuesday night's Honolulu Cupcakes Take the Cake meetup with free cupcakes! You don't have to RSVP, but if you're coming we ask you to so we know how many cupcakes to have on hand. So far we've got 25 people and I am thrilled about meeting local cupcake fans and bakers (whether you sell your cupcakes or not, you're welcome to bring some, but not obligated to). Any questions, email us at cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com (if it's related to Hawaii, put "Hawaii" in the subject line).

You can order custom cupcakes from them; they're based in Kailua. These photos are from their Facebook page. They also sell their cupcakes at The Food Company Kailua at 1020 Keolu Drive. You can email them at sales at brandoncakes.com or call or text for faster service: 808-780-3505. You can see all their regular cupcake flavors here, and they also have a special alcohol cupcake menu here. Those flavors have names like angry gorilla ("chocolate cupcake baked with brandy-soaked bananas, frosted with 99 Bananas buttercream, drizzled with brandied chocolate, topped with crushed banana chips") and lava flow ("oconut rum cupcake filled with strawberries frosted with Piña Colada cream cheese, trimmed with coconut flakes, topped with a cherry & pineapple chunk"). January's featured flavor is champagne! They also sell mini cupcakes.




pancakes and bacon


salty chocolate trail mix


piňa colada


chocolate coconut custard


blueberry cream cheese


chocolate chip


pink coconut ice - white chocolate and coconut


white chocolate macadamia


peanut butter cup


Valentine's Day rose cupcake bouquet (order by February 7th)