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.

Easter cupake cuteneess, or Peeps=fun!

Peeps. I love them! I don't tend to eat too many because one goes a long way but I like looking at them and think they make a perfect cupcake topper. See more Easter cupcakes like these at Food Network.

New baby cupcake cuteness

Baby in white chocolate on top of a cupcake, by Something Sweet for You in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, via their Facebook page. Visit their website for more information.

Edible shamrock St. Patrick's Day cupcake toppers on Etsy

Yes, we have more St. Patrick's Day cupcake toppers to share! These edible shamrocks are for sale by Etsy seller Sugar Robot.

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!

St. Patrick's Day edible beer mug cupcake toppers on Etsy

From Etsy, of course!


fondant beer mug edible cupcake toppers by Etsy seller Goodies by Melissa


Irish beer fondant cupcake topper with shamrock by Etsy seller Two Sugar Babies

6 Easter bunny cupcake toppers

Easter is fast approaching (April 8th), so here are 5 Easter bunny cupcake toppers you can buy on Etsy to decorate your cupcakes for the holiday. Click on the Etsy seller name to be taken to the listing.




pink fondant bunny and carrot sold here and Easter egg fondant cupcake topper by Etsy seller Two Sugar Babies


colorful bunny cupcake toppers on sticks by Etsy seller gundgangs


Trio of Easter cupcake toppers by Etsy seller Apple Blossom Cupcakes


Lots of edible fondant bunnies by Etsy seller Mimicafe Union


Carrot and bunny cupcake toppers by Etsy seller Foolish Worker Bee

Fondant shamrock cupcake toppers for St. Patrick's Day

For sale from Etsy seller Harriet's House of Cakes, in time for St. Patrick's Day! The listing is for 12 toppers for $10.95.

Mini pancakes piled high with maple syrup frosting on cupcakes plus recipe link

Apparently, it's Pancake Day, so Happy Pancake Day! That one passed right by me, but it did not escape the notice of blogger Butter Hearts Sugar, who made these piled high with pancakes cupcakes and has the recipe!



From the post:

While eating cupcakes for breakfast is not new to me I get that some people might get bit funny about it. With these cupcakes there's no need to feel bad about having them for breakfast or if you look at it the other way around, having pancakes for dessert. These cupcakes are so super quick and easy to make and turned out beautifully, light and airy just like perfect pancakes should be. I couldn't have pancakes without syrup and cupcakes without frosting, so each little cake was finished with some buttery maple syrup frosting and a mini stack of pancakes.

Edible Mardi Gras beaded necklaces and necklace cupcake toppers

Check out what blogger 1 Fine Cookie has cooked up: edible Mardi Gras beaded necklaces and necklace cupcake toppers using gumballs! So, so cool. Via Flickr. Oh, and she's got her frosting and her makeup to match her Mardi Gras colors! From the post: "Don’t forget to eat your necklace, it being edible and all. And flex your guns, of course."

Gorgeous edible chocolate heart topper on red velvet cupcakes, plus recipe link

Valentine's Day or not, this is a beautiful cupcake, and the chocolate heart topper makes all the difference. Find out how to make the chocolate heart and the red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting (a modified Paula Deen recipe) at food blog Hooray for Off-Weekends!.

Big yellow taxi New York cheesecake cupcake at Georgetown Cupcake SoHo

I'll post later about how much I loved the new Georgetown Cupcake SoHo (see Stacie Joy's post about launch party), and more details about their blinged-out mixer, but a short post for now about their cheesecake cupcake, one of many flavors they sell. Below are details about Sunday's meetup there from 2-4 pm. One thing I love is that they have different flavors daily. I've circled the ones I want on the handout they give you, so I know when to come back for which ones. I have a feeling I will be back very often (like today, tomorrow...) because there are so many I want to try! Georgetown Cupcake, 111 Mercer Street, NYC. Visit georgetowncupcake.com for more information.





The cheesecake was good, though I'm not really a cheesecake fan, so a true cheesecake lover could tell you more. I liked the way it looked and it was smoothy and creamy. I bought this one ($2.75) mainly because I liked that it was New York specific. It was a bit crumbly, and had a graham cracker crust on the bottom. I'm not sure what the disk on top was made of but it was very sweet; edible, but I'd say leave it for decoration. If you like cheesecake, I recommend this; they also had cheesecake cupcakes with Broadway street signs on them.

Cupcakes Take the Cake Meetup
Sunday, February 19, 2-4 pm
The famous Georgetown Cupcake from the DC area has just opened a location in New York City. We are going to eat cupcakes, meet people and have fun. Georgetown Cupcake is in Soho at 111 Mercer Street between Prince & Spring Streets. Please bring cash/credit/debit card as cupcakes are a la carte. The Cupcake Meetup will be from 2PM-4PM.

You can get to the bakery by taking the R to Prince Street or the 6 to Spring Street.

And yes, the meetup page says we're full, but feel free to show up and join us, and make sure to join our group so you can keep up with all our wonderful plans. And everyone is welcome on our Cupcake Cruise August 19-26, 2012, from New Jersey to Bermuda! More details on that coming next week.

Mahalo, Hawaii, for all the delicious and beautiful cupcakes!

I'm at HNL (Honolulu International Airport) and while I could easily stay another week, I have to get home, and then get to Milwaukee for the last Iron Cupcake Milwaukee. Mahalo (thank you) so much to everyone who made me feel at home in Honolulu and whose cupcakes I got to try. I will be back, for sure. These gorgeous and delicious flower cupcakes are by custom cupcake and cake pop maker Sweet as Sugar, who you can find on Facebook. You can reach them at info at sasugar.com or 808.294.4803 and find out more on their blog.

Patriots vs. Giants Super Bowl XLVI cupcakes

These fun team spirit New England Patriots vs. New York Giants cupcakes are by blogger Cupcake Adventures, who you can also find on Facebook. They're chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and white chocolate cupcake toppers. Via Flickr. The other day my friend said, "Rachel, who's playing in the Super Bowl? I know you'll know, because of cupcakes." And he was right! So thank you to all of you who've raised my football awareness by 1000%.

Chocolate cake on top of a cupcake? Why not?

Sweet Cupcakes in Boston and Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, celebrated the recent holiday National Chocolate Cake Day (January 27th) with a mini slice of chocolate cake on top of ac cupcake! They also celebrated National Blueberry Pancake Day (January 28th) with a blueberry pancake cupcake and then they didn't need a holiday for their vanilla cake with with sandwich cookie-infused frosting and cookie crumble. All via @SweetCupcakes_ on Twitter. See sweetcupcakes.com for more information.