Beautiful, Elegant and Pricey French Cupcakes

 Very very very fancy cupcakes by pastry chef Claude Ducrozet, from Hotel Fouquet's Barriere (Paris).

From the PR sheet:

"Cupcakes -- as American as apple pie. But the pastry chef from Paris’ Hotel Fouquet’s Barrière, Claude
Ducrozet, is setting out to change that perception. In October, Claude Ducrozet introduces five flavors of
cupcakes (pictured above): strawberry-lemon, carrot with cream cheese, chocolate, pineapple-mango, and
raspberry pistachio. With French style and flair, each of these creations is a work of art and available from
morning to night – accompanied by coffee, tea, or a cocktail – at the hotel’s elegant Le Lucien Bar. And yes,
they taste as good as they look.
 

Price: 9 € each."

 

 

 

That's about $12 each (with current currency conversion)!

 

Hotel Fouquet’s Barrière 

46 avenue George V  

75008 Paris

33 (0)1 40 69 60 00

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Gorgeous Christmas cupcakes and cake pops by Wir Machen Cupcakes in Munich, Germany

Wir Machen Cupcakes in Munich, Germany is on fire this year - they got a lot of attention for their Princess Eugenie's hat royal wedding cupcakes, and now are selling these Christmas cupcakes! You can find them at wirmachencupcakes.de, on Facebook, and @cupcakesmunich on Twitter, and can reach them at iris at wirmachencupcakes.de +49 176 6685 5258.









And then check out this beautifully arranged tower of cupcakes - I love how the ones facing out just make this such a stunning visual:





And Santa hat, snowman and Christmas tree cake pops!

Is $2.50 too much to pay for a mini cupcake? These Dessert Club ChikaLicious ones were worth it!

I'll be posting more about cupcake prices, thanks to your responses to us on Twitter about how much you'd pay for a cupcake, but wanted to share that while in general, I'd say $2.50 is very high for a mini cupcakes, I paid $2.50 each for these 4 mini cupcakes today from Dessert Club ChikaLicious and they were worth it!


the four beautiful mini cupcakes I bought

Not an everyday indulgence, by they weren't just random cupcakes shrunk down to tiny size. Firstly, they don't have these flavors--banana, strawberry, lychee and green tea--in regular size cupcakes, as far as I know. Secondly, the care and attention that went into the look of them was impressive. I daresay their mini cupcakes looked even prettier than their big ones. I feel like both those things worked in the favor of the mini cupcakes. These were flavors I've rarely seen at all in cupcakes, and not flavors I'd seen at ChikaLicious. They are also, in the case of the lychee and green tea, a little unusual, so perhaps not flavors that people would want to try in larger form, or at least, not everyone. That's my thinking on it.

My general thinking on cupcake prices as a consumer is that I'm willing to try something if I've never had it before, even if the price is something I'd generally consider too high. It also depends on the presentation, delicacy, type of cupcake, and size. Not all "mini" cupcakes are the same size; some are one-bite, two-bite, or multiple bite. Some are filled, some are topped with lots of frosting, some are just mini versions of larger cakes. I think it truly depends on what you're looking for. Often I prefer mini cupcakes and wish more bakeries sold them, even though I'm sure it's more of a pain in some ways to make them. I like them when I'm trying new cupcake flavors or bringing cupcakes to a party; if I can get more minis for the same price, like 18 mini cupcakes vs. a dozen regular ones, I'll choose the 18 because that looks more impressive and they can be passed around more easily. What do you think about cupcake pricing? Let us know in the comments, on Twitter, or at cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com and if you sell cupcakes and want to share how you set your prices, feel free to drop us a line with "Pricing" in the subject.

You can find ChikaLicious at dessertclubnyc.com and @ChikaliciousNYC on Twitter.

Speaking of ChikaLicius, look out for them as I talk about them with Gayle King live today 10-11 EST on OWN on The Gayle King Show!


mini cupcakes!




green tea mini cupcake, outside and in


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Nightmare Before Christmas Cupcakes

Happy Halloween everyone! I just wanted to post some amazing looking Nightmare Before Christmas cupcakes created by Monnster Cakes! I've seen a lot of Nightmare Before Christmas themed cupcakes, but I've never seen any that were as detailed as these! You can see more of her work here!