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

Tasting lemon, vanilla and mocha cupcakes at Dessert Club ChikaLicious

Last night I tasted cupcakes from two places, one of them being Dessert Club ChikaLicious in the East Village. I've tried most of the cupcakes at most New York City bakeries and while I have my favorites, am always on the lookout for something new.

I found it at ChikaLicious (will just call it that for shorthand). Firstly, their cupcakes are so cute - small, but not mini cupcakes (though apparently those are in the works. Just right...especially if you're going to try a few. I got a lemon and a vanilla to start ($1.75 each).



The lemon is on the left. The frosting is very rich and thick, almost like a lemon custard except it's not quite that thick and isn't overpoweringly lemon-y. The lemon taste is light, and the cake was very moist, I think a basic vanilla cake. The vanilla/vanilla cupcake was much the same, save for the frosting was vanilla-flavored rather than lemon. I think I liked the lemon better, but both were good.

Then I decided to try the mocha, which is one of their filled cupcakes, and costs $2.25.



I'm not really a coffee drinker, but I do like certain coffee-flavored desserts. This one is filled with some thick chocolate/mocha-like substance. It's much more intense than the first two, even though again, the frosting has that same consistency. This one was very good but the mocha flavor was stronger than the lemon or vanilla flavors were. The chocolate inside was pretty thick, and I think because by then it was my fifth cupckae of the night (I ate half of them - will post about the Public Theater cupcakes later, doing them in reverse chronological order for some reason), I couldn't really handle it. I will try the mocha again to get a better sense of it, but I think if I had to pick, s'mores is still my absolute favorite, then maybe the lemon. It's light and creamy (I know those might sound like they don't go together, but they do, the frosting is very smooth and creamy, but it doesn't feel heavy in your stomach after you've eaten it).

Hello Kitty cupcakes and more cuteness from Coco Cake Cupcakes

These are by Vancouver's Coco Cake Cupcakes, who we've featured quite often because their cupcakes are so adorable. I can never resist Hello Kitty! All photos via Coco Cake Cupcakes on Flickr

Here's an older Hello Kitty cupcake set they did:




Scottish animal cupcakes - dark chocolate with peppermint buttercream

And here are two non-character ones that are simply elegant and pretty:



Coco Cake Cupcakes
604-816-9922
lyndsay at cococake.com