All aboard River's birthday cupcake train!

The always creative and cute Coco Cake Cupcakes in Vancouver made this cupcake choo-choo train for little boy River's birthday; see their blog post for all the details. This is such a fun idea! These are dark chocolate cupcakes and Berry Good cupcakes with fresh raspberries. Happy Birthday, River! For more information on Coco Cake Cupcakes, visit cococake.com. You can also check them out on Facebook and @cococakecupcake on Twitter.

Yosemite Sam Cupcakes for the Manly Cupcake Contest!!!

Well, I mustered up the courage and decided to enter myself in the Movember Manly Cupcake Contest hosted by C & C Cakery!!!!!

I decided on Yosemite Sam for inspiration.......

It's a Brown Sugar Brown Butter Beef Jerky Cupcake with BBQ Cream Cheese!!!

To see more pictures and the full recipe click here!

To learn more about the Movember Manly Cupcake Contest click here!

Voting starts today and ends on Friday, November 25th !!! Click here to vote!!! :)

C&C Cakery's Movember Manly Cupcake Challenge

The Movember foundation, started in 2003, encourages men of all shapes and sizes (as well as their female counterparts) to grow the most manly mustache they can muster. Through this act, men and their supporters will ban together to raise money and awareness for all types of male health problems. Hopefully, in years to come, prostate and testicular cancer will be talked about freely, and funding for these men health issues will start to really flow.Last year, around this time, something magical started. It involved frosting and whiskers. And it was glorious.

Butch Cakes by Ani & Lulu's Cupcakery

The Vancouver-Based C&C Cakery hosted the first annual Movember Manly Cupcake Challenge. They called upon bakers across the globe to bake the roughest, toughest, testosterone-filled cupcake the could muster. The results were absolutely amazing:

Beer and Pretzel Cupcakes from Sugar Comma

Mancakes by Vegan Cupcakes and other Culinary Creations

BBQ Football Cupcakes from Diamonds for Dessert

This year, C&C is pleased to present the Second Annual Movember Manly Cupcake Contest! This time around, however, the cupcakes are required to be inspired by the new contest theme: "Mos of the Movies". That means your cupcake recipe and/or decoration should reflect a manly movie star - especially one with whiskers on their face. All entries are due November 19th, so visit the main challenge page for full rules and regulations and get baking!