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!!! :)

Brooklyn Cupcake's coconut and pumpkin cupcakes, plus Minnie Mouse, dinosaurs and Legos

I love having a neighborhood cupcake bakery where I can pop in for a cup of coffee, a cupcake and to chat with the owners. That's what Williamsburg, Brooklyn's Brooklyn Cupcake has become for me, especially since I'm now in the neighborhood during the day. A lot of Manhattan bakeries have small spaces and you either can barely get a seat or if you do it's cramped, and while Brooklyn Cupcake isn't huge, it's cozy and comfortable.

Today I bought a coconut frosting and chocolate cake cupcake and their new seasonal pumpkin cupcake. I'd tried the coconut with coconut cake and loved it; I'm a big coconut fan, and they put wide shavings of coconut on top.


coconut frosting on chocolate cake in front; pumpkin cupcake in back

This coconut one was also very good; the frosting is creamy and very sweet, and the chocolate cake is perfectly chocolatey, though if I had to pick one, I'd say the coconut plus coconut is my favorite.


pumpkin cupcake

The cream cheese frosting on the pumpkin cupcake is thick, in a good way. Cream cheese isn't really my thing so I don't like to formally review cream cheese frostings but it went well with the moist, delicious cake.

At a time when I'm seeing rising cupcake prices, I also like that their cupcakes are $2.50 each, and the more you buy, the more you save: 6 cost $13.50, and a dozen are $25.00, and if you buy 3 dozen or more, the price drops to $22.50/dozen. Mini cupcakes are made by special order and are $10/dozen. I'll be back next week to try their holiday flavors, including sweet potato!



Keep up with Brooklyn Cupcake at their blog, as well as @brooklyncupcake on Twitter and on Facebook, where you can catch their custom cupcake towers and special projects. Contact them at info at brooklyncupcake.com or 347-762-2253.


Minnie Mouse cupcakes


dinosaur cupcake tower! My cousin Adam turns 6 today (happy birthday, cuz!) and I'm sure would love something like this - I will keep it in mind for next year.


FDNY cupcake tower




Lego cupcake party

Nutella Cupcakes with Triple Cream Cheese Frosting

Image courtesy of Goodlife Eats

Just the sight of the name of these cupcakes made my mouth water. That's an indication of one amazing recipe...wouldn't you agree? These Nutella cupcakes are topped with a triple cream cheese frosting. What's so triple about it you ask? Well, there's actually three separate cream cheese frostings. Chya. It's so serious. The frostings are: Nutella Cream Cheese, Almond Butter Cream Cheese and Vanilla Cream Cheese. Katie Goodman of Goodlife Eats is a cupcake genius for creating these. Check out the recipe here!

Peanut butter caramel apple cupcakes

Aaaaannnddddd it's fall!


Here's a nice fall treat to feast on:

Peanut Butter Caramel Apple Cupcakes

Peanut butter cupcakes + caramel apple filling + cream cheese frosting + more apples + caramel drizzle + chopped peanuts.

Amazing.

For the full post and recipe click here.


More apple recipes to come!!

Cupcakes for Two Anyone?

Have you ever gotten a crazy cupcake craving but didn't have the will to bake up a whole batch? Or maybe you just can't contain yourself when your kitchen is chockfull of beautiful cupcakes staring you down, daring you to take a bite. If you've experienced these symptoms then I have a cure you might want to bookmark...

The Hungry Housewife has developed a delicious looking recipe for jelly filled cupcakes with cream cheese blackberry frosting...and it yields only two cupcakes. Yes, you read right. A recipe for only two cupcakes. This recipe could be just as dangerous as baking up a whole batch...because now you can whip up these treats with a crack of an egg!