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!

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!

Pumpkin Patch Vegan Cupcakes

Pumpkins are still in season right?!?!

Here are some really cute Pumpkin Patch Vegan Cupcakes from Sweet Elites:

These were taken from the Cupcakes Take the Cake Flckr group.

They may be a little Halloweeny but they are still pumpkins and they're cute for fall!!!

Healthy Chocolate Frosting!



Healthy chocolate frosting? Is this real life? Yes! It is!

Katie at Chocolate Covered Katie got tired of paying for expensive Artisana Cacao Bliss, so she decided to make her own version that she just calls Chocolate Butter. It's made with coconut oil, cocoa powder, and agave. You can use this Chocolate Butter to make many different treats, like chocolate sauce, chocolate bars, or chocolate chips.

For directions and nutritional information, go here!

Purple Potato Cupcakes=witchcraft

Halloween is fast approaching-- and today is National Potato Day. What is the connection?
witchcraft!!!

Purple Potato Cupcakes

I looooove purple. When I saw these, my jaw dropped and I had to know the scoop!!

Hannah Kaminsky, of Bitter Sweet notes:

"Blue cupcakes. Bright purple frosting. No food coloring, naturally, so even I could hardly believe what I had baked. Truly, what sort of malicious curse would turn innocent confections into visions of the dark arts?"

Pretty freaky, huh?

Check out her blog, Bitter Sweet, to get the full story.

Brains in a Jar............

Halloweeen is approaching!! More yucky and scary cupcakes to report!

You may be saying to yourself "what is in that jar....." It's a cupcake with frosting stuffed into a jar made by Amy Locurto. On her blog, Living Locurto, she gives step by step instructions with photos on how to make these Halloween treats.

Brains seem to be a popular cupcake idea this Halloween season--but to me this is the most creative. Pretty awesome favors for a Halloween party--or a give to your teacher for Halloween!



Cupcakes in a jar are starting to become a big trend in the cupcake world.

photo courtesy of nummycrummies

Faith Durand writes on the kitchn :

"Cupcakes in a jar, it turns out, are like the illicit love child of cake pops and those jarred cake mixes ubiquitous in holiday gift-giving."

This is a present I would take any day for the holidays.......

Some cupcakes are baked in the jar; or they're made of a cupcake, or cake crumbles, layered in a jar with buttercream frosting. Once sealed, they can last for a week-- and can be frozen!!

photo courtesy of bangerang bake shop

I'm going to keep my eye on this trend for now... I wonder how they taste thawed out after being frozen??

Bloody Brain Cupcakes---not for the squeamish

People, these are kinda gross......but really cool!!!

These were made by Craftzine.com...

"Make these bloody brain cupcakes that will be sure to leave your Halloween party guests saying both "Eww" and "Yum" at the same time. Featuring raspberry jam on top as the blood and marzipan brain baked inside, these cupcake treats are also fun for the little ghosts and goblins before the run off for a night of trick or treating." ---from the Craftzine website


They are a bit graphic but a neat idea for a Halloween treat!

Cupcake Art: theBERRY

My husband was helping me research cupcake ideas and he came across this website called theBERRY. This site is like a smorgasbord of information about alllll kinds of things. One of those things is cupcakes!

The post was "Are these cupcakes too cute to eat?" and it featured 40 different photos of some really amazing cupcakes.


Here are just a few:

movies!




Squirt from Nemo!





look at the details!





nature!





Cowabunga!!





Purplicious!

The post has a ton of other pictures that are deemed too cute to eat : )

Click here to access the full post.

Oooey Gooey Brain Cupcakes

More Halloween ideas.....

Oooey Gooey Brain cupcakes!

photo courtesy of guidespot

(this photo reminds me of Igor in the movie Young Frankenstein when he goes to the "Brain Depository" and gets the wrong the brain-- the "Abby-Normal" one!!

I have seen these on a couple of different websites but its basically the same technique--piping the frosting in zigzag patterns to look like a brain.

Kraft foods has a recipe and instructions that you can find here.

Crumbs Opens New Location-- 6th Avenue

Crumbs Bake Shop is excited to announce that their 6th Avenue location in NYC is now open!

(Photo courtesy of Crumbs Bake Shop)

If you haven't been to Crumbs yet---you MUST go!! Their cupcakes are ginormous and delicious. I had their Peach Cobbler cupcake last time and it was amazing. Purely amazing.

The new location is at 655 6th Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets.

What's even better is that they are going to be celebrating their Grand Opening with a 1000 cupcake giveaway on Thursday, October 20th beginning at 12noon!!

For more information, please visit: www.crumbs.com/locations

Go and try to get a free cupcake!!