Wedding cupcakes by La Crème Cupcake in the UK

These wedding cupcakes are all by La Crème Cupcake in Littlehampton, UK, via their Flickr account. They're also @LaCremeCupcake on Twitter and are on Facebook.









La Crème Cupcake
Telephone: 07983 458 635
info at lacremecupcake.com

We're #8 in the Shorty Awards for food - have you nominated us yet?

Another plea to vote for us for The Shorty Awards for food...we've got 41 votes and Tyler Florence is currently in the lead with 335 votes, so please please take a minute to Tweet: "I nominate @cupcakeblog for a Shorty Award in #food because..." and fill in the blank!



Thanks from all of us! And, of course, if you don't already, follow @cupcakeblog for our posts, updates, bakery Retweets, Twitpics and more!

Cupcakes this very second via Google search

I was just showing the very nice guy at the Apple Store who was talking to me about external hard drives that we are easy to find, since we still come up #1 in a Google search on cupcakes, and discovered that Google has integrated Google news searches and Twitter searches, so this is what came up for Twitter:



You can always search Twitter yourself to find out who's talking about cupcakes this very second.

113 cupcake recipe online cupcake adventure

Blogger Abbi Z. Meadows over at Z as in Zebra is taking a page from Julie Powell's Julie & Julia blogging project and making all 113 recipes in the cupcake cookbook Cupcakes Galore by Gail Wagman.

She writes:

There are 113 recipes in the entire book. Even the author admits some of the recipes do not fit the classic definition of a ‘cupcake’ (i.e. the gelatin/fruit cups that use cupcake tins as a mold), but nevertheless my goal is to complete each and every recipe in the book. Rather than give myself a time limit, I am setting my sights on 1 to 2 batches a week. At that rate, it will take me about a year or two to get through everything.

As I work my way through the book, I will be posting my creations here on the blog. I will also be tweeting on my baking days, looking for people to take my creations off my hands (I do NOT want to eat 113 batches of cupcakes and end up weighing 400 pounds!) To help offset expenses and buy ingredients for the next recipe, I will be charging a small fee for the cupcakes and dividing them based on need (you want 4? 8? 10?), rather than on ‘typical bakery’ numbers.

Here's a sampling of what she's made so far (click on cupcake name for the post, all photos from Z as in Zebra):

Banana split cupcakes





Cookies 'n cream cupcakes



After Eight cupcakes

Trix cereal cupcake + mail order Twilight cupcakes from Sweet Avenue

I'm loving this Twitpic by The Urban Housewife of cupcakes from Rutherford, New Jersey's Sweet Avenue Bake Shop. They just look so fun!

The cereal one is their new January special, via Facebook:

For the month of January, our Magical Mystery cupcakes will feature the same theme - Cereal Surprise! We wanted to create something fun & childlike. No matter how grown up you are, everyone loves a colorful bowl of cereal. Today's Magical Mystery flavor is TRIX.

This one is a Trix-filled vanilla cake with cotton candy frosting, topped with more Trix.

Sweet Avenue is now offering national shipping on their cupcakes, which includes their famed Twilight cupcakes and a DIY cupcake kit to create your own. The cupcakes are $45 for 6 cupcakes for the Twilight ones or "The Decorate It Yourself Cupcake kit includes your choice of three cupcakes, three frostings, and your choice of 3 sprinkles."

Here's a fan photo from Facebook of what someone made with the DIY kit:



They've been doing printed cupcakes; you can see lots of examples in this Facebook album - a few are below.






Lost cupcakes


Twilight cupcakes

Sweet Avenue Bake Shop
153 Park Ave.
Rutherford, NJ 07070
201-935-2253
info at sweetavenuebakeshop.com

10 Elvis cupcakes to celebrate the King's birthday

Today would have been Elvis Aaron Presley's 75th birthday, so we're celebrating by posting 10 Elvis cupcakes (usually a version of peanut butter and banana, sometimes with bacon), sometimes with images of Elvis (and yes, some of these are oldies but goodies). It's actually 11 but two are by the same person:


Elvis casino cupcakes by Scrumptious Buns on Flickr


by Erica Barraca (via Flickr) - banana cupcakes with some (hidden) chocolate ganache and alot of peanut buttercream frosting from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World


Vegan Elvis Comeback Special by Bake & Destroy (click for recipe) photo via Flickr


Banana cake with Peanut Butter Frosting and Choc Chips by obliviousfire on Flickr


The amazing peanut butter banana bacon cupcakes Brownie of Blondie and Brownie (click for recipe) made for my 33rd birthday!


Peanut butter bacon banana cupcakes by Milwaukee's Miel y Leche; photo by Sharyn Morrow (massdistraction) on Flickr


Latin Elvis cupcake by thecupcakeheiress on Flickr: this is a banana cake filled with rich dulce de leche topped with a peanut butter buttercream and another dulce de leche swirl on top! blogged at Chica Chocolatina

And a version by her with bananas and fried plantains!


via thecupcakeheiress on Flickr


This one's by Sandy at Iron Cupcake Milwaukee (please note the Elvis cupcake wrappers!!!). She writes:

My hunka hunka burnin' cupcake seemed to be a little much for the crowd at the CCCCCC 2009. My final entry was a banana cake with a peanut butter cup in the center, topped with spicy chocolate ganache, spicy peanut butter buttercream, marshmallow fluff and with or without bits of bacon on top and in the cake. In a community full of vegans and vegetarians, it was surprising to see that the bacon version of my cupcake was hands down more popular than the plain.


Lori Writer at Heavy Table took the above photo, and has the recipe for these banana chocolate chip and bacon mini cupcakes with peanut butter frosting! She writes:

The banana chocolate chip cupcakes are good on their own, even without the frosting, the bacon garnish, or being battered and fried. The bacon provides a surprising crunch and rescues the frosted cupcakes from being overwhelmingly sweet. Battering and deep frying is only for the truly committed. You can quit as soon as you’ve had enough, but you won’t know if you’ve gone far enough until you’ve gone too far. As my husband said as he finished off a deep-fried Elvis cupcake in two bites, then licked the honey from his fingers, “It’s not sick and disgusting if it tastes good.”

And another with Elvis's image...


Chocolate cupcake topped with vanilla buttercream and a handmade fondant Elvis Presley decoration by Montreal's Clever Cupcakes via Flickr.

Lots of bakeries are doing specials (NOT a complete list, just a random sampling). Bakery links are at right.

The Sweet Tooth Fairy (Utah):



The Petite Cafe:

We will be giving away free Elvis Cupcakes throughout the day, when we ask for the phrase of the hour!!

Buttercream Philadelphia cupcake truck:



Expect Blue Suede (red velvet with blue) and Peanut Butter Banana.

Crumbs Bakeshop cupcake of the month (via Twitter/website):


Vanilla cake filled & frosted with banana cream cheese frosting, topped with a swirl of real creamy peanut butter and edged with peanut butter chips.