Mustache Cupcakes From JustJENN

This cupcakes made by JustJENN were for a friend's birthday, but I think they work be great for Movember as well.

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!!! :)

Inspired by Seattle cupcakeries, Pacetre is a cupcake business success story

I read about Evansville, Indiana's Pacetre in this Evansville Courier & Press article, and was impressed, especially by the Seattle cupcake bakery inspiration in the forms of Trophy Cupcakes and Cupcake Royale, both of which I adore.

That's when Tracy, her sister, Kelly, and her mother, Judy, started hatching a plan. They had all spent time in Seattle together and fallen in love with the cupcakeries, so it seemed a natural fit for a family business. The name, The Pacetre, (pronounced 'pastry') was formed by combining their last name with the Italian word for three.

"I was completely intrigued by the business model of just cupcakes and light beverage fares," says Tracy, who started researching the ins and outs and found that even in a recession, cupcake-only bakeries were a booming business.

"The failure rate of cupcakeries is 6 percent and that is generally due to poor planning," says Tracy, who considered several different business models before opening her locale at 2734 Mount Vernon Ave. Finding the right spot had its own set of challenges. She knew she wanted to be on the west side, close to home, and not in the university district so it would retain a "neighborhood coffee shop feel."

The location opened in early April after 14 months of searching. It is nestled next to GoodFella's Barber Shop, The Furniture Trauma Center and Beyond the Veil Fellowship and near The Haircut, the Quilter's Nest and Teresa Haller Photography. Tracy considers it an ideal spot, especially since it had once housed The Depot and Annie Mae's cafes. The location's former café status helped eliminate much red tape in getting the green light for their project.


Movember (for only 50 cents you can add a moustache to your cupcake!)




Halloween


Butter Maple Bacon


S'mores: Graham cracker cupcake with chocolate ganache awesomesauce topped with a toasted marshmallow and Hershey piece.


Neopolitan


Icicles


Lemonade and flowers



The Pacetre
2734 Mt. Vernon Ave.
Evansville, Indiana 47712
812-402-6005
pacetre at gmail.com

Movember moustache cupcake

This very distinguished-looking moustache cupcake is by Savoureaux Cupcakery in Young Harris, Georgia, via Flickr. Find out more about them on their Facebook page.

C&C Cakery's Movember Manly Cupcake Challenge

The Movember foundation, started in 2003, encourages men of all shapes and sizes (as well as their female counterparts) to grow the most manly mustache they can muster. Through this act, men and their supporters will ban together to raise money and awareness for all types of male health problems. Hopefully, in years to come, prostate and testicular cancer will be talked about freely, and funding for these men health issues will start to really flow.Last year, around this time, something magical started. It involved frosting and whiskers. And it was glorious.

Butch Cakes by Ani & Lulu's Cupcakery

The Vancouver-Based C&C Cakery hosted the first annual Movember Manly Cupcake Challenge. They called upon bakers across the globe to bake the roughest, toughest, testosterone-filled cupcake the could muster. The results were absolutely amazing:

Beer and Pretzel Cupcakes from Sugar Comma

Mancakes by Vegan Cupcakes and other Culinary Creations

BBQ Football Cupcakes from Diamonds for Dessert

This year, C&C is pleased to present the Second Annual Movember Manly Cupcake Contest! This time around, however, the cupcakes are required to be inspired by the new contest theme: "Mos of the Movies". That means your cupcake recipe and/or decoration should reflect a manly movie star - especially one with whiskers on their face. All entries are due November 19th, so visit the main challenge page for full rules and regulations and get baking!

Movember Cupcake Toppers

It's nearly November, so it is almost Movember. What is Movember? Movember is a month-long moustache growing event where men grow moustaches to raise money for cancer. It also a time to build awareness for men's health and wellness. If you know someone who is growing a 'stache for Movember, you may want to support them with cupcakes. Frost & Fete made these fun Movember cupcake toppers.


My dad is both a prostate cancer survivor and a moustache wearer.