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!

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.

March Madness basketball cupcakes: Kentucky blue velvet vs. Indiana red velvet

Sports fans, check out the March Madness basketball cupcakes at Hoosier Homemade! Visit Hoosier Homemade to find out how to use candy clay to make your own team cupcakes.

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.



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

Shamrock baked inside a cupcake for St. Patrick's Day

Shamrocks are definitely the hot cupcake item of the week, with St. Patrick's Day coming up tomorrow, whether it's shamrock sprinkles, shamrock cupcake toppers or shamrocks baked inside cupcakes!

Here's another fun way to show your St. Patrick's Day cupcake love with a surprise in the middle for the lucky cupcake eater. Find out from blogger Kelli's Cakes/Come Join Me In how to go from this:



to this:


via Flickr

How to make Invader Zim cupcakes

This is video 88 by the awesome Yoyomax12, who seem to know how to make almost any type of cupcake!

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!







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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.

Cupcake video: How to make Orange Dreamsicle Popsicle cupcake, using Orange Sherbet and Coconut Jelly Belly® beans

Lisa Schrader, Jelly Belly® Cupcake Challenge Winner, shows you how to create her "Orange Dreamsicle Popsicle" cupcake, using Orange Sherbet and Coconut Jelly Belly® beans.

How to use fondant to make pot o' gold St. Patrick's Day cupcakes

Talk about clever and fun! Blogger Miss Make made pot o' gold cupcakes using marshmallow fondant and has detailed step-by-step instructions and photos so you can make your own! Happy decorating.





And if you like marshmallow fondant, Miss Make has also used it to make edible button cupcake toppers!

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!

Yes, Mother's Day cupcakes are already here, plus kids' cupcake decorating class in London

We haven't even gotten to St. Patrick's Day or Easter, but already cupcake bakers are touting their Mother's Day cupcakes, so for the big planners out there, here are two examples of what I'm sure will be many more Mother's Day cupcakes.


flower cupcakes by Bea's of Bloomsbury in London, via @beas_bloomsbury on Twitter. If you want to learn how to decorate your own Mother's Day cupcakes, they are holding a Mother's Day cupcake class on March 27th for kids! "Our kids cupcake class will teach your child not only how to pipe using different flavoured buttercreams but also decorate cupcakes using edible glitter, dragees and sugar flowers. The class will be held on the 17th March between 12pm-2pm by our Pastry Chef Kate Donnan. Your child will enjoy a fun and creative class and at the end take home 12 cupcakes that will make Mother's Day that extra special."


by Sugar Ruffles, also in the UK, via Flickr - click here for more information. Official description: "Vanilla bean cupcakes decorated with pink marzipan roses and sugar blossoms, presented in pretty pink laser cut cupcake wrappers and packaged in a handbag cupcake box."

St. Patrick's Day shamrock cutout filled cupcakes

Find out how to make these St. Patrick's Day chocolate cupcakes with American buttercream filling and a shamrock cutout over at Glorious Treats!

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!

Learn how to make green velvet cupcakes at Trophy Cupcakes' St. Patrick's Day cupcake decorating class tomorrow

Trophy Cupcakes in Seattle is holding a St. Patrick's Day cupcake decorating class tomorrow night, March 7th, from 6-7:30 pm, at their new party room in their Wallingford Center location (which is also where we're holding a cupcake meetup on Saturday, April 7th, 1-2:30!). Details:

Join our founder, baker and party maker Jennifer (O')Shea for a night of shamrocks, rainbows and maybe even a pot of gold (aka edible gold glitter)! This will be a green filled night with hands ...on decorating instruction in a party atmosphere that will include Trophy cupcakes, prosecco and yummy hors d'oeuvres.

Guests of our class will learn the basics of using pastry bags and tips, how to hand-frost with an offset spatula, how to create professional looking cupcakes, how to make custom colors of sparkly sanding sugar and the tricks of the trade that make Trophy’s Cupcakes so beautiful. In addition to receiving cupcake-decorating instruction, Jennifer and her team will also share their favorite St. Patrick's party ideas and the secret to making "Green Velvet" cupcakes with the class.

Each guest will take home the four cupcakes they decorate in a signature Trophy box. This class is appropriate for beginners.

The class is $50 per student. To sign up please call our party line at 206-390-0900. Please note *Our class size is limited and we tend to sell out quickly.

They're also selling Guinness chocolate stout cupcakes with Irish cream buttercream frosting this month. Visit trophycupcakes.com and their Facebook page for more information.

Smiling strawberry ladybug cupcakes with peppermint patties, plus recipe link

What cute cupcakes! It's amazing how the little smile on the ladybugs makes a huge difference. And strawberry plus peppermint patty? Count me in. Get the recipe at Tutus and Tea Parties, in a guest post by Pamela of Pamela's Heavenly Treats.

How to make tie-dye Easter cupcakes baked in Easter eggs

Yes, Yoyomax12 has another timely cupcake baking and decorating instruction video for you (Easter is April 8th), this time for tie-dye Easter cupcakes baked in Easter eggs! How's that for a surprise?



The video was inspired by these Easter egg cupcakes at the blog Cupcake Project!

Green Lucky Charms St. Patrick's Day cupcakes

In honor of St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) and all things green, blogger My Own Ideas baked these Lucky Charms cereal cupcakes that are green inside with "Lucky You" toppers, and tells you how to make your own! Via Edible Crafts.

May the force be with you in the kitchen: Star Wars cupcakes using Star Wars stencils

Star Wars cupcakes using Star Wars stencils! By Cuppitycakes Cupcakery in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, via their blog. They make custom cupcakes, and can be reached at info at cuppitycakes.ca or 403-392-5034 and their cupcake menu is here. You can also find @cuppitybakeshop on Twitter and on Facebook. For those wanting to make these Star Wars cupcakes yourself, you can find the stencils at Williams-Sonoma.



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I know it’s not as creative as cutting Yoda’s cute and creepy ears out of fondant but c’mon, how cool are these?! My inner child nerd screamed, “BUY THEM!”

Make your Super Bowl party memorable with nacho cupcakes!

I love nachos and I love cupcake creativity and they join forces in these nacho cupcakes by Sweet Simple Stuff who tells you how to make these sweet not savory cupcakes! It'd be fun to put these out next to a big plate of real nachos and see which gets devoured first! Via Flickr. You have to visit Sweet Simple Stuff to find out how to make them, but here's a hint: Sour Punch Bites candy!

Cupcake decorating class for kids in Greenville, South Carolina

Heads up about a cupcake decorating class for kids coming up in Greenville, South Carolina, via Edible Upcountry Blog:

Get your kids in the kitchen. This Saturday, Chef Corie Martin of Pink Lady Catering will teach the basics to making the perfect cupcake in a hands-on class at The Cook’s Station in Greenville. Each child gets to bake cupcakes from scratch, make buttercream frosting to pipe on their cupcakes with a pastry bag, and mold their own decorations using real fondant. Everybody takes a 6-pack of their own cupcakes home. Ages 8-12, reservations required. Cost: $30.

Decorating Cupcakes for Kids

The Cook’s Station, January 28th, 9AM-11AM

864-250-0091