Friday, January 8, 2010

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
Elvis casino cupcakes by Scrumptious Buns on Flickr

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

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

The King's Cupcake
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
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!

Latin Elvis Cupcake
via thecupcakeheiress on Flickr

CCCCCC 2009 - Elvis
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...

Elvis Presley Cupcake
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.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Candyland Cake

I have quite a few cakes in the wings....ready to post. But I just couldn't hold this one off any longer!!!! It really is creative, different and so awesome!!!

My cousin Melinda made this for her son Aaron's first birthday. It's a Candy land themed cake. She covered her cake in fondant and all of the decorations were made from gum paste. Such a great cake. Thanks Melinda.









She also made a "smash" cake for him to eat!! So fun!








Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Holy Cutest Mickey Mouse Cake

Wow. That is all I can say...what an imagination!!!

This cake makes my brain hurt even imagining how to make this whole thing work. What an incredibly cute and amazing cake!!!




Thanks Jimi for sending me this one. Her friend made it for her son's birthday. What a fun cake!! Here's how she did it....
For the house portion, she baked a cake in her small pampered chef glass measuring bowl.
She used styrofoam balls spray painted black for the head and ears...smart!!
She cut 2 hands out of cardboard and glued them together and then covered them in fondant for the glove.
A cupcake covered in fondant made the foot and she cut a cupcake and made the leg out of it and covered that in fondant as well.
Wow, that's an ambitious cake but it was worth all of the work!! It turned out so cute!!!!!!

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