Easter cupcakes in recycled egg cartons

How cute are these? These recycled egg cartons filled with Bliss Bake Shop cupcakes and Inkberry toppers at Fancy That (located in Bliss Bake Shop) in Portland, Oregon. Via Facebook. See blisscupcakeshop.com and shop-fancythat.com for more information.



Fancy That also sells these treat cups.

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.

Glittery Mother's Day cupcakes to make any mom smile, plus rocky road chunk and other fun flavors

We'll be sharing many more Mother's Day cupcakes (and Easter too!), so if you've made some, send them our way at cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com with "Mother's Day" in the subject line and details or links, or, better yet, post them to our Flickr photo pool or Facebook page. These Mother's Day cupcakes are by Lola's Kitchen, in London, UK, via @lolascupcakes on Twitter. Cupcakes are available at Harrod's and by special order. They can be reached at hello at lolas-kitchen.co.uk or 020 7483 3394, and you can visit lolas-kitchen.co.uk/ for more information, as well as their Facebook page.



While I'm posting about Lola's, here are a few of their Pink Label cupcakes, from this Facebook photo album (photos by Felipe Sucupira). Gorgeous!


rocky road chunk
chocolate brownie
lemon pie
chocolate mint truffle

Want a free St. Patrick's Day Jameson infused frosting shot today? Head to Swirlz in Chicago

And if you're there from 12-1 you can join our cupcake meetup, where Swirlz (705 W. Belden, Chicago) is serving up 2 dozen free cupcakes! They have vegan and gluten-free cupcakes too! Our next meetups are March 25th in Brooklyn at Baked and April 7th in Seattle at Trophy Cupcakes. Visit swirlzcupcakes.com and Swirlz' Facebook page for more information.

Happy St. Patrick's Day chocolate mint cupcakes

Happy St. Patrick's Day! These cupcakes are by IrishMomLuvs2bake on Flickr.

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.



From the post:

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 mint, pot o' gold, Lucky Charms and Guinness chocolate Irish whiskey ganache cupcakes for St. Patrick's Day

You can get these special St. Patrick's Day cupcakes as well as their other special March flavors below are for sale at St. Louis, Missouri cupcakery and Cupcake Wars winner Jilly's Cupcake Bar. Photos via their Facebook page, where you can get details about what's in each of them. Visit jillyscupcakebar.com for more information.

Shamrock, Lucky Charms, spaceship, alien, Ms. Pac Man, pig and chocolate cheesecake chip cupcakes

Flour & Sun Bakery in Westchester (Pleasantville), New York, celebrates St. Patrick's Day and also does custom cupcakes! Visit them at flourandsunbakery.com every day to find out what that day's flavors are, and also check them out on Facebook.




For St. Patrick's Day, they have Guinness & Bailey's cupcakes, plus Irish coffee, pistachio, Lucky Charms topped cupcakes with marshmallow frosting, green velvet, flourless chocolate and carrot cake with shamrock toppers.




Pacman!




aliens!




chocolate cheesecake chip

Bailey's Irish buttercream St. Patrick's Day cupcakes, plus mudslide and butterscotch cupcakes at Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique

I'm heading to Chicago this weekend for my cousin's wedding, an am looking forward to trying cupcakes I can't get at home. I like the cupcakes at Sugar Bliss Cake Boutique, and the fact that they offer mini cupcakes along with regular size, and I especially like that they rotate their flavors so there's always something new on the menu. Right now, through March 19th, they've got dark chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with Irish Baileys buttercream topped with shamrock sprinkles. Then from March . They've got locations downtown at 115 N. Wabash and in River North at 509 N. Orleans. Visit sugarblisscakes.com for more information and to sign up for their newsletter, and check them out on Facebook.


Bailey's Irish cream cupcakes


mudslide cupcakes (dark chocolate cake with Kahlua buttercream) for sale from March 19-25


butterscotch cupcakes (vanilla cake with butterscotch buttercream) for sale from March 26 to April 1


spring cupcakes for sale from March 20 to April 8

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

Irish cocktail whiskey chocolate ganache cupcakes in jars for St. Patrick's Day

Blogger ever clever mom made Irish cocktail cupcakes in jars for St. Patrick's Day! She's got the recipe and writes:

Serving the cupcakes up in jars means the frosting can be creamier and I added a lot more of that whiskey chocolate ganache this way. I love the way they turned out in the glass with the frosting on top... almost like little pints of Guinness.

5 green velvet St. Patrick's Day cupcakes plus green velvet cake pops

St. Patrick's Day is this Saturday, March 17th, and there are so many shamrocks we almost can't keep up. Here are 5 green velvet cupcakes to get you in the holiday spirit.


by Patty's Cakes of Fullerton, California


by Real Mom Kitchen


by A Dozen Eggs Bake Shoppe


by Snappy Gourmet - these green velvet cupcakes have cream cheese frosting and are dipped in candy melts! Click through for the recipe and instructions.


Green velvet cupcakes topped with green macarons by The Boogie Blog


by Jeanne Benedict

And last but not least, green velvet cake pops by custom cupcake baker Amanda Cupcake in Waupaca, Wisconsin, via Flickr. Stay tuned: we have an interview with her coming up!

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!







From the post:

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.

Hidden gold inside St. Patrick's Day rainbow cupcakes, a must see

You won't have to search far for the gold in these St. Patrick's Day rainbow cupcakes, just bite in! They're by blogger Confessions of a Cookbook Queen, who has instructions on making your own.