Jabba The Cupcake

courtesy of tumblr

Jabba the...cupcake?! I found this impressive Jabba the Hut cupcake on tumblr and was surprised at how easy it looked to replicate. He looks to be made mostly of frosting with some special attention to coloring detail. Perfect for all Star Wars fans!

Chocolate Ornament Cupcake Toppers for Sale

These absolutely gorgeous Chocolate Ornaments are on sale via Etsy and would be the perfect trimmings to your holiday cupcakes. Ornaments are available via janessugarshack for $30 per pack of six.

Happy New Year 2012, Christmas, snowflake, number and cute dog cupcake transfers from Ticings

Cupcake transfer company Ticings has a Black Friday sale going on through November 27th! Save 25% by using the code 25BLACK. Some of their designs include Happy New Year 2012, Santa, Christmas stockings, snowflakes, numbers and cute dogs, all seen below. Visit ticings.com and their Facebook page for more designs and ordering information. You can also follow them @ticing on Twitter.

Fancy Frosting in Five Minutes

Courtesy of In Katrina's Kitchen

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all are feasting on wonderful food while spending time with your even more wonderful families! Speaking of wonderful, I found a blog entry that can help you make your Thanksgiving cupcakes even more exciting!

Thanks to In Katrina's Kitchen for creating this super simple guide to creating multicolored frosting! Check out the directions on her site here!

Thanksgiving turkey dinner on a cookie on a cupcake!

Love love love this turkey Thanksgiving dinner on a cookie on a cupcake by Mrs. Fox's Sweets (via Flickr), who writes:

I decorated the cookie before putting it on the cupcake.First I frosted the the cookie, then added a little white icing for the mashed potatoes. I put a little yellow circle sprinkle in the center for butter, and then a little yellow piping gel since the sprinkle wasn't enough. For cranberry sauce I used red colored sugar. The green beans are made with green jimmies and the turkey was made with coffee flavored fondant (from Fondarific).

I love how fun, adorable and creative this is, and it's vegetarian! Who wouldn't smile when seeing this on the dinner table?

Cupcake decorating improvisation: candy necklaces for turkey feathers

One of my favorite things about cupcakes is that you can literally use anything to decorate them, and this post at Hoosier Homemade involves decorating improvisation in the form of candy necklaces! So fun, and a great way to use leftover Halloween candy (if any should exist in your house). True confession: sometimes my favorite part of a post like this is the ingredient list!

Pilgrim Cupcakes: Deconstructed

Hey there little pilgrim, how adorable are you?! There isn't an official tutorial on how to re-create these ridiculously cute cupcakes that I found so I'm going to attempt to de-construct them.

The cupcake looks like your standard vanilla or white...box cake mix perhaps? There's a blob of some sort of lighter colored frosting as the head and a face piped with black piping gel. The hat looks like the brim/foundation is an upside down striped cookie (like those keebler ones). The top hat part is what I believe is a chocolate covered jumbo marshmallow. The hat is also decorated with piping gel. The dark cupcake liner is a good idea to stick with, makes the pilgrim look even more authentic!

I hope this has helped you so you can create your own Thanksgiving Pilgrims!

NCIS typewriter cupcake!

NCIS fan Aikko at the very cool blog Bake Happy (she's the one who made these Lady Gaga cupcakes!) made these very cool fondant typewriter cupcakes and tells you exactly how to make your own!

She writes:

I am a NCIS fan. I have watched the whole series (whole 8 seasons, season 9 on-going) four times, excluding the times I catch the show on Fox and Jack (which is a lot) . I decorate cakes while watching the show which is kind of ironic and contradicting because cakes are all happy, cheery, endorphine enducing cute little things while I watch a show which investigates not so good events every episode. My favorite episode is the first one from season seven because I'm a girl and I'm rooting for Tony and Ziva. And also when Abby found evidence linking Gibbs to Paloma Reynosa. Then there's McGee who loves to his write his novels on a typewriter which got him into trouble because an obsessed fan used the typewriter ribbon to act out the not so good events of his soon to be published second novel.

2 great gifts for cupcake-loving kids: Princess Cupcakes kit and Pink Princess Party Cookbook

This Princess Cupcakes kit from Chronicle Books would make the perfect gift for a budding baker! It's got 75 cupcake liners in princess patterns, 30 reusable cupcake crown wrappers, a recipe booklet, which includes pink velvet cupcakes, deep dark chocolate cupcakes and sugar and spice cupcakes, and a castle display. Cute! For sale now from Amazon, the publisher Chronicle Books and other stores, and we'll be giving one away at our 7th anniversary party in NYC on December 5th. Get your ticket here. More prizes to be announced soon.





And what better gift for a kid learning to make cupcakes than Barbara Beery's Pink Princess Party Cookbook? She has fun recipes and designs for crystal candy necklaces, pink ladybug cupcakes, prancing pony cupcakes and other fun party treats! And if you're in Austin, Texas, check out their retail shop and Kids Cook Cafe; visit kidscookingshop.com to find out all about it.




prancing pony cupcakes

5 fondant Christmas cupcake toppers for sale on Etsy

These cute fondant Christmas cupcake toppers are all for sale from Etsy seller Two Sugar Babies. Click on each photo below to be taken to the sale page.

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).

Fun bumblebee cupcakes

Cupcake cuteness in bumblebee form! Get the recipe (in German or you can translate it into English) at Ninas kleiner Food-Blog.

Ghost, jack-o-lantern and chocolate turkey cupcakes

All of these cupcakes are by blogger Culinary Adventures with Julie, where you can find out more. They're pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes and you can use them for ideas for your own fall and/or Thanksgiving cupcakes.

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!

Extra cute bat Halloween cupcake

Adorable bat cupcake by David Wheeler on Flickr, inspired by FamilyFun.

How to make Halloween black bottom spider web and witch cupcakes

Sweet Simple Stuff has got your Halloween cupcake needs covered! (They've also got lots of other Halloween treats.) First, they show you how to make these Halloween spider web black bottom cupcakes! Then they've gotten crafty with candy and share details on creating these Halloween witch cupcakes - love the use of cupcake wrappers! Plus, here are the ingredient ideas: "Sour Punch Sticks, pretzel sticks, Pixy Stix, licorice, sugar sticks, stick cookies and tiny chocolate cigarettes, colored Jordan almonds, small jelly beans and Starburst and candy melts!" Also the Hershey's Kisses candy witch hats! Totally adorable. These cupcakes make me feel like a kid again. Follow Sweet Simple Stuff on Facebook to stay up to date.

Learn how to make a cute green Frankenstein cupcake!

Check out the blog Purple Chocolat Home to find out how to make this cute green Frankie Frankenstein cupcake!

Halloween bat, spider and spider web cupcake decorating tips

I will reiterate that Halloween is my favorite cupcake holiday - there are just so many fun designs! TidyMom has two Halloween cupcake decorating posts for you: one on bat cupcakes (using candy molds) and one on spider and spider web cupcakes. Click through to find out how to make the cute creations seen below!

"Killer" Halloween cupcakes for a scary movie party

These "blood"y Halloween cupcakes with little knives sticking out of them are by Inking Pink, who have a whole menu for your scary Halloween movie party planned. From the post:

The Ice the cupcake with white buttercream, and spread a puddle of "blood" {red gel icing} and place candy knife by Wilton into puddle. Add drops of blood one at a time.

Cute and easy spider marshmallow Halloween cupcakes

Love these spider marshmallow and candy cupcakes by blogger Beurrista, who has tips on how to make them! Via Triology Edibles, where there are more Halloween cupcakes.