Welcome to the cupcake blogosphere, Open Source Cupcakes! They were the organizers of last weekend's CupcakeCamp East.
What is Open Source Cupcakes, you ask? I'll let them speak for themselves:
Being involved in the Philadelphia tech community, I heard the open source concept tossed around daily. Sharing with others, communication, making things better. That certainly can be applied to cupcakes.
Katie and I started baking cupcakes because they’re cute, portable, and fun to decorate. But after the first few batches of vanilla with chocolate frosting and chocolate with vanilla frosting I was stuck. Having art backgrounds instead of a baking one, we felt a little unprepared to be making cupcakes willy-nilly from scratch. We started looking through big overwhelming baking books for new recipes without much success, so we turned to the ever useful, universal tool: Google. However, although some people were generously sharing their recipes and wonderful photos, the information scattered and there wasn’t a whole lot of conversation going on. Katie and I thought there should be more, a place where we could easily find cupcake recipes that others have tried and maybe some tips and variations. Let’s face it, staring at eggs, flour and milk is just as scary as a blank canvas and paintbrush.
It’s time to open source the cupcake. Baking support, new ideas and place where cupcake lovers and bakers alike can communicate.
Open Source Cupcakes is run by Katie Regenye, Dana Vachon and Jessica Victor out of Philadelphia, PA.
They also have recipes! Lots and lots of cupcake recipes, namely:
Chocolate Orange Cupcakes
Chocolate Candy Cane Cupcakes
Cheesecake Cupcakes
Boston Cream Cupcakes
Orange Butter Cream Frosting
Easy Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes
Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes
Bannoffee Cupcakes
Apple Cider Cream Cheese Frosting
Key Lime Cream Cheese Frosted Cupcakes
Raspberry Kahlua Frosted Cupcakes
Kahlua Cocoa Whipped Cream Cupcakes
Quick Cream Cheese Frosting
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