Two-eyed and four-eyed turkey cupcakes by Man Bakes Cake

Major turkey cupcake cuteness (hi, candy corn, and hi, turkey with four eyes!) by New York City's Man Bakes Cake, via Facebook, where you can see some of their amazing, totally amazing, over-the-top cakes. And some holiday cupcakes - get your orders in now! Email martinez_rudy at msn.com for inquiries.


turkeys!


"Christmas Cranberry Cupcake." Orange-Cardamom Spice cake filled with Mulled Wine Cranberry Curd, Pomegranate Buttercream and Sugared Cranberry.


Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream and Gingerbread Men.


Red Velvet Cake filled with Chocolate Ganache and topped with Eggnog Buttercream.


Red velvet cupcake with eggnog buttercream.


"Naughty and Nice Cupcakes." Red Velvet Cake filled with Spicy Chocolate Ganache and topped with Milk Chocolate Buttercream.

Most creative sunflower cupcake I've ever seen

These are all by Zoey Cakes of Baldwinsville, New York, via their Flickr account. Get more information at zoeycakes.com and Facebook page and call 617-320-3590 for more information.


yes, this is a sunflower cupcake!


gingerbread cupcake with vanilla buttercream, topped with a gingerbread cookie


fondant hydrangea cupcake

Cookie topper cupcakes!

You get the best of both worlds--cookies and cupcakes!--with these fun cookie topper cupcakes are by the ingenious cupcake decorators Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, authors of Hello, Cupcake! and What's New, Cupcake?, via their blog, where you can find out how to make your own! And you can get live cupcake decorating advice from them on our Cupcake Cruise to Bermuda in August 2012 (click for details and to get your ticket).

Cupcake spotlight: Flowers, Oreos, numbers and bicycle cupcakes by The Funky Little Cupcake Company

Some cute cupcakes by The Funky Little Cupcake Company in Royston, Cambridgeshire, UK, via their Facebook page. Email sian at funkycupcakes.net or +44 772.584.2455 for ordering information.

Candy corn and cookie turkey peanut butter cupcakes

Cuteness! Thanksgiving is coming up soon, and blogger Sweet Simple Stuff walks you through all the steps, with photos and instructions, of making these cute turkey peanut butter cupcakes!

5 cute Halloween bat cupcakes, plus bat cupcake wrappers

So that bats get their own special due, and because these are extra cute Halloween bat cupcakes...I was very scared of bats when I was little, even though I'm pretty sure I've never seen an actual bat, so I love when cupcakes take something I'd find scary in real life and turn it into something adorable.


from The Chocolate Swirl Blog



glittery bat cupcake by oblivious fire on Flickr



Bat and mummy and ghost cupcakes by Abigail Bake Shop of Raleigh, North Carolina, via Flickr.



JustJENN tells you how to make bat cookies and use them to decorate bat cupcakes.



This is actually a Halloween bat cake with a cupcake on top, by Cupcake Project!

And you can get these bat cupcake wrappers from thatsawrap2 on Etsy!

RIP Halloween gravestone cookie cupcakes

When I first saw these I thought "RIP because they look so good people will devour them right away!" They're by blogger Kids and My Kitchen, who has the recipe for the dark chocolate cupcakes and chocolate dip! From the post:

These aren't your typically overloaded-on-sugar chocolate cupcakes. The chocolate is dark, rich, and not overly sweet. I have tried several chocolate cupcake recipes and have not been completely satisfied. So, I had to tweak a couple things and try one more time. The result is the recipe above and it is oh so perfect!

Can you say "too cute?" Pumpkin oreo spider Halloween cupcakes!

I want to make these for Halloween! Aren't they adorable? By Ninas kleiner food-blog (it's in German but you can translate it into the language of your choice at the top of the blog), who has extensive decorating instructions, via Flickr.

The cutest Cookie Monster cupcake I've ever seen

And trust me, I've seen a lot of Cookie Monster cupcakes, but these, by blogger Angry Asian Creations, just have that that something extra. The eyes are big, the blue coconut is bursting with color, the cookie is so bold. So fun. Color me impressed. And I'm not the only one: it won Best Decorated cupcake at Charm City CupcakeCamp.

Junior Mint and Oreo eyes, candy nose on very cute Halloween owl cupcake

Owl cupcake cuteness alert! By lavendermindy on Flickr.