Beautiful cherry almond cupcakes plus recipe link

Find out how to make these cherry almond cupcakes over at North Dakota Kitchen. They look fabulous!

Gingerbread Latte Cupcakes with Recipe Link

Ta ta Thanksgiving, HELLO CHRISTMAS! Now that Thanksgiving and Black Friday have come and gone I think now we can officially start gearing up for Christmas!

In honor of this season's most anticipated holiday I present to you a special Christmas themed treat...Gingerbread Latte Cupcakes with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting!

These ridiculously cute and delicious looking treats are brought to you by Bakers Royale! The recipe actually came about because of a disappointing Starbucks drink order, goes to show that the best inspiration really can come from anywhere!

I was a little taken aback by the idea of mixed lemon cream cheese with something as spicy as gingerbread but after reading why this was used, I have to say I'm more than curious to try out the recipe for myself. If you want to try this out as well, go ahead and check out the recipe here!

Cute vanilla snowman cupcakes with only 143.5 calories each

Blogger Gina Homolka at SkinnyTaste serves up recipes that are fun and healthy - even cupcakes! From her about page:

On Skinnytaste, you'll find healthy dishes that don't sacrifice any of the flavor that can be found in their full-fat origins. Gina knows all the food she prepares for Skinnytaste is tasty and satisfying, because after all, this is the same food she cooks on a daily basis for her friends and family, and they are some of her toughest critics!

She caught my eye with these very cute vanilla snowman cupcakes.



The recipe involves Duncan Hines Cake Mix and Chobani yogurt, whose nutritional stats clock in at:

Servings: 24 • Size: 1 cupcake • Old Points: 3 pts • Points+: 4 pts* (3 pts no frosting)Calories: 143.5 • Fat: 2.7 g • Carbs: 27.3 • Fiber: 0 • Protein: 2.1 g • Sugar: 19.6Sodium: 143.2 mg

And if you just can't get enough, she's got lots more recipes on her site. Here are two of the cupcake ones:


super moist low fat chocolate cupcakes with chocolate glaze


pink lemonade confetti cupcakes

You can also follow SkinnyTaste on Facebook and @SkinnyTaste on Twitter.

Gluten-free Shirley Temple cupcakes plus recipe linke

These gluten-free Shirley Temple cupcakes are by Carol Kicinski of the blog Simply...Gluten Free, author of the cookbook Simply...Gluten-free Desserts, via Best Friends for Frosting.

Pumpkin cheesecake cupcakes with chocolate fudge frosting plus recipe link by cupcake romance novelist Donna Kauffman

Donna Kauffman, author of the upcoming Cupcake Club romance novel series, featuring Sugar Rush (out December 27th) and Sweet Stuff, made these pumpkin cheesecake cupcakes and has the recipe for you on her blog, Cakes by the Cup. Check it out! More on her books coming soon. You can win a copy of Sugar Rush from publisher Kensington Books by following them @KensingtonBooks on Twitter.

Donna writes:Seriously…you have to try this! Incredibly moist, with that surprise bite of cheesecake in the middle, topped with chocolatey fudge goodness. It doesn’t get much better than that!



More about her cupcake novels, via Donna's website:


Sugar Rush

When baker extraordinaire Leilani Trusdale left the bustle of New York City for Georgia’s sleepy Sugarberry Island, she didn’t expect her past to follow. Yet suddenly, her former boss, Baxter Dunne, aka Chef Hot Cakes, the man who taught her everything pastry, wants to film his hit cooking show in her tiny cupcakery. The same Chef Hot Cakes whose molten chocolate brown eyes made Lani’s mouth water and her cheeks blush the color of raspberry filling–stirring all kinds of kitchen gossip, much of which Lani wished was true…

Lani’s friends are convinced that this time around, Baxter is the missing ingredient in her recipe for happiness. But convincing Lani will be a job for Baxter himself. And he’ll need more than black velvet frosting to sweeten the deal…


Sugar Rush

Riley Brown never imagined she would find her bliss on Georgia’s quiet Sugarberry Island after years of Chicago’s city life. With a new career and fantastic new friends, she’s got it all—except for eligible men. But a gig staging a renovated beach house delivers a delicious treat—six feet of blue-eyed, gorgeous writer as delectable and Southern as pecan pie. Quinn Brannigan has come to Sugarberry to finish his latest novel in peace, and suddenly Riley has a taste for the bad boy author that no amount of mocha latte buttercream or lemon mousse will satisfy…

Riley’s friends are rooting for her to give in to her cravings and spice up her life, but it’s Quinn who needs to learn that life’s menu just might include love, in all its decadent, irresistible flavors…

Cutest cupcake video EVER: 3-year-old Makes Vegan Pumpkin Cupcakes

Can I just spend all Thanksgiving Day watching this extremely adorable video? Via One Green Planet and it's not just cute, it really has a vegan pumpkin cupcake recipe! Petey Rojas, I hope you will be making more cupcakes and more videos! "What's vanilla?" "You mix it up until the pumpkin goes away." Love this!

Pumpkin Ale Cupcakes with Recipe Link

image courtesy of My Baking Addiction

Yes, I'm posting yet another "when worlds collide" type cupcake...this being alcohol and cupcakes meeting once again to become: PUMPKIN ALE CUPCAKES! The name alone makes it sound seasonal and fun, don't you think? I can only imagine the absolute hit these would be with all the guys at my Thanksgiving celebration!

This simple yet exciting looking recipe was created by My Baking Addiction. Check out the recipe here!

Buckeye Cupcakes!

Chocolate. Peanut butter. Who could ask for anything more???

You may have heard of the term "buckeye." For instance, a cookie, or a brownie which is usually chocolate, and a lot of peanut butter inside. I decided to make this duo into a cupcake with my attempt at mile high frosting peaks.....

I made my favorite chocolate cupcake recipe, peanut butter buttercream and a special chocolate sauce that hardens when it cools. Like on ice cream cones and candies!!

These were very, I mean very, addicting. My favorite part was the frosting.

I couldn't resist....

And eating as many as I did made me a little silly with my photos of the cupcakes.....

why hello there....

Click here for the full recipe and more pictures!!

Sweet potato pie cupcakes with marshmallow frosting plus recipe link

Not only do these sweet potato pie cupcakes with marshmallow frosting by blogger Jessica at How Sweet It Is look amazing, she has never actually eating sweet potato pie! Read all about it and get the recipe at the link above. I'm a sucker for anything involving marshmallow so these sound amazing to me.

Pomegranate cranberry mini cupcakes and recipe link

I just ate some pomegranate seeds during breakfast - I love the sweet/tart combination, so these vegan pomegranate cranberry mini cupcakes by blogger and cookbook author Hannah Kaminsky are right up my alley, and very Thanksgiving appropriate. Visit her blog Bittersweet for the recipe!


image via Flickr

3 kinds of ginger in these ginger cupcakes, plus recipe link

These ginger cupcakes are by blogger Lite Home Bake, where you can get the recipe. From the post:

Verdict? Nice, I love the spice in them. It was soft and moist too. Although it has 3 forms of ginger in it (ground, fresh and crystallized), I would have preferred it to be more intense, will spike up the amount of ginger powder the next time around. The other thing that I I would change is to cut down on the amount of sugar, it was a tad too sweet for me.

Black Forest bacon on Cupcakes Benedict!

Yes, these are Cupcakes Benedict, by Stefani of the always-creative blog Cupcake Project! They're maple cupcakes topped with Black Forest bacon, poached eggs, and maple hollandaise sauce! She's got the recipe and instructions for these sinfully-good-looking cupcakes. She writes:

While cupcakes get some frosting lovin' on a regular basis, sometimes they get jealous of English muffins (or as I call them, stud muffins). Stud muffins are a key player in Eggs Benedict, where they are topped with bacon, eggs, and drippy, buttery hollandaise. Cupcakes are used to playing it safe with perfectly coiffed frosting, but after years of dreaming, they were ready to get a little dirty. They came to me for help and I arranged a cupcake and Eggs Benedict liaison - Cupcakes Benedict.

Check out her post to find out exactly what's in these breakfast (or anytime, really) cupcakes!

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.

Butterfinger Blizzard candy cupcakes and recipe link!

Mother and daughter blog duo Double the Deliciousness has baked up these delicious-looking Butterfinger Blizzard cupcakes, and they've got the recipe! I love this part of the instructions:

Now for he Butterfinger Buttercream!! You need to unwrap the butterfingers and shave the chocolate off the outside of each bar. It's a little tricky, but if you've got some helpers (Kyla!) this is something they seem to think is fun!! Take the orange middles and crush in a bowl or in a plastic bag. Sift as much of the candy as possible. You want to get about 1/2 cup of orange Butterfinger powder.

Candy cane ice cream cone cupcakes

These candy cane ice cream cone cupcakes were made by blogger Christi at Love From the Oven using the Kupcake Konz pans and they're giving a combo pack away!



She writes:

WHERE HAS CANDY CANE BUTTERCREAM BEEN ALL MY LIFE????? Wowza. I used my favorite buttercream frosting recipe from Sweetapolita, and added 3 teaspoons of the crushed and sifted candy canes. It’s life altering deliciousness. I recommend making it ASAP. Even if you aren’t making cake or cupcakes. Just make it and get a spoon. Seriously.

Simple Vanilla Cupcakes Recipe

Happy National Vanilla Cupcake Day! Per the title of the picture, here's a Simple Vanilla Cupcake recipe! If the picture is hard to read, I've typed it out below! Thanks to DestinedForFame.tumblr.com for the picture!

Simple Vanilla Cupcakes

Ingredients:

1 cup white sugar

1/2 cup butter

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 3/4 tsp. baking powder

1/2 cup milk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and place liners in pan

2. In a bowl cream together the sugar and butter. Beat in eggs and add vanilla. Combine flour and baking powder, add to mixture then mix well. Stir in milk until batter is smooth. The pour.

3. Bake 20-25 minutes.

Calories: 209

Happy National Vanilla Cupcake Day!

We'll have many more vanilla cupcakes for you today as we celebrate National Vanilla Cupcake Day (have you made some? Email us at cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com with "Vanilla" in the subject line and your URL or photo, though, as always, the best place to submit photos is via our Flickr pool) or send links we can retweet on Twitter (we're @cupcakeblog). Thanks and hope you have a delicious National Vanilla Cupcake Day! The next cupcake holiday is National Cupcake Day on December 15th! See the master list of American food holidays here. And tomorrow is our latest Twitter chat, taking place on Friday, November 11 at 2PM EST. Follow @cupcakeblog on Twitter as well as follow the hashtag #cupcakechat.

This beautiful vanilla cupcake is by blogger The Lone Baker, who always goes all out, and who has the recipe for you! Via Flickr. Officially, it's "Vanilla fairy cake with Fluffy Mock Vanilla Bean Cream and crystallised vanilla pod shred."

Turkey Cupcakes

Courtesy of Sweets by E.

Well these look fun! These Turkey Cupcakes were crafted by Evan of Sweets by E blog. They look perfect for any Thanksgiving celebration...and they seem simple enough to make! Check out the recipe and step-by-step Turkey assembly guide here!

Burwell General Store Recipe Swap via Linda Eckhardt

Burnt sugar cupcake with caramel frosting. That sounds so scrumptious and appealing I am gonna say it again, slowly: Burnt. Sugar. Cupcake. With caramel frosting...

Photo by Linda Eckhardt, used with permission.

This stunning cupcake can be made in many forms -- a cake, a layer cake, a bombe (as Linda Eckhardt experimented with here, baking hers in the mixing bowl of a Kitchen Aid stand mixer!), but we like it best as a cupcake. A delicious, individual, special caramel-y treat.

You can download the recipe here (a .docx document) or just visit Linda's site, Everybody Eats News, which focuses on sustainable living and eating. I admit to being a fan of Linda's so I extra-encourage you all to peruse her site. She hasn't won her James Beard prizes and Julia Child award for no reason!

Andes mint chocolate cupcakes and recipe link

Audra of the blog The Kurtz Corner made these Andes mint cupcakes and I'm right there with her in my love of Andes mints! Click through to her blog for the recipe! She writes:

Mmmm...Don't you just love those mints from Olive Garden, you know, the chocolate and mint ones? Love Andes Mints! And judging by several of my previous posts you should know I love cupcakes! So I thought to myself, why not combine the two?! Yes! Low and behold others have had the same idea. Lizzy from Your Cup of Cake perfected this cupcake recipe and inspired me to make my own, minus the from scratch part!