Babycake Cupcake From B5 Media Party

Last Tuesday, I attended the B5 Media party on Tuesday night at Kingswood in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood to promote its three Web sites, Blisstree, Crushable, and The Gloss. There were cupcakes from Babycakes there.

Kids and Cupcakes: Will

Will, I would be just as smiley if I had a plate of these in front of me.







"Bunny cupcakes" courtesy of coopcoopbware.

Or, I'll take 'em all.

Vegan, which is excellent, plus sour cherries and poppy seeds? And cream cheese frosting? Perfection.




But then I saw this one:






Turkish fig and vanilla bean vegan cupcake? Might have to go with this one.





But then I decided, just cause I'm in a chocolate kinda mood, that this one is my pick:





Vegan spicy chocolate with cinnamon. With almond milk.



All images by QuintanaRoo, whose pictures I love. Quintana Roo, by the way, is where I went on my honeymoon.

Inky

Groovy and kinda retro-feeling cupcake tat. I especially love the blue swirls and the black accents.






"Cupcake and fun!" by Mez Love.

Fair Cake cupcake classes yield beautiful results

Please sign me up for any class that produces cupcakes that look like this:








Ah. Well, these classes were held in London at Fair Cake (basic cupcake class info here). *sigh* A tad bit too far for me to commute.








Beautiful work!







All pictures courtesy of Yukino Miyazawa.

Something ya don't see every day...

A cupcake hat would make me a very happy gal indeed:






Shot courtesy of pining for the moon.

Chocolate peanut butter hi hat cupcakes (!!), ice cream cone cupcakes and a stupendous cupcake cake

All of these amazing cupcake photos are by Kelly of the blog An American Cupcake in London, via her Flickr account. All I can say is WOW! Seriously, these are incredible, beautiful and delicious-looking. Visit her blog for cupcake recipes and more information on these cupcake treats.


chocolate peanut butter hi hat cupcakes


strawberry ice cream cone cupcake

and the inside:




Princess cupcake cake - which, might I add, truly is fit for a princess!

Graduation cupcake pops, Elmo cupcake pops & much more by Lollicakes

I've been meaning to post about The Lollicake Bakeshop's adorable cake pops for a while and will do a more extensive post at some point but couldn't resist the adorableness of these graduation cupcake pops (via Flickr). They're in Denver, Colorado (with a satellite location in Boston), which I wish I'd known when I visited, though I will be back and will be sure to contact them.



Here's their official description of what a Lollicake is:

Lollicakes are yummy, bite-size cupcakes on a stick! Rich cake blended with creamy frosting and dipped in vanilla or chocolate, lollicakes are the perfect hand-held treat.

For regular flavors, 24-100, they're $2 each, 101-250, they're $1.75 each, for specialty flavors (below), for 24-100, they're $2.25 each, 101-250, $2 each, for both over 250 pops, prices available upon request.

Actually, I couldn't resist a few more adorable cupcake pop photos:


birthday cupcake pops


glittery ladybug cupcake pops


Mother's Day cupcake pop bouquets


smiley face cupcake pops inspired by Bakerella, who has an entire cookbook of (cup)cake pops coming out this fall


Elmo cupcake pops!

Gluten free Lollicakes are available and these are some of their flavors:

Seasonal Flavors
Pumpkin Spice - Delicious pumpkin cake blended with cream cheese frosting

Lucky Charms - Lucky Charms cereal combined with cream cheese frosting - they are magically delicious

Girl Scout Thin Mint - Thin Mint cookies mixed with cream cheese frosting

Gingerbread - Traditional gingerbread with a hint of orange combined with cream cheese frosting

Specialty Flavors
Jack and Coke - Chocolate Coca-Cola cake infused with Jack Daniel's whiskey and mixed with cream cheese frosting

Guiness Stout - Dark chocolate cake drenched with Guiness stout and mixed with Bailey's cream cheese frosting

Chocolate Cabernet - Wine soaked chocolate cake mixed with dark chocolate frosting

Mimosa - Bubbly champagne cake mixed with orange cream cheese frosting. Try it dipped in chocolate for a delicious twist!

The Lollicake Bakeshop
720-480-1906
lollicakebakeshop at gmail.com

Very colorful cupcakes

These are by Tangerina Cakes of Buenos Aires, Argentina via Flickr. You can find out more on their website and on Facebook. They can be reached at tangerinacakes at gmail.com or 1558480908 or 156716166.



And while I'm posting about them, I couldn't resist including these shots of their Marroc cupcake:





And inside the Bon Bon cupcake:

Spotlight on: MelEdwardsPhots

I love all these cupcake photos by New Zealand's MelEdwardsPhots.








Gorgeous!







Makes me hungry.














Beautiful photos and cupcakes.














And possibly my favorite:





A pretty and colorful heart.


Super-nice work!

Orange strawberry poppyseed mini cupcakes, $1 each, Hester Street Fair, NYC

I stopped by the Hester Street Fair today to visit Kumquat Cupcakery, one of our favorites, who is also selling this weekend at the Brooklyn Flea. Her mini cupcakes are $1 each and she had 5 flavors on offer. The orange strawberry poppyseed cupcakes, which were delicious and not too overpowering (I'm not a huge orange fan), a dark chocolate mini cupcake that was wonderful, as well as chocolate peanut butter, lemon lavender and red velvet. See the Kumquat Cupcakery blog and Twitter (@kumquatcupcakes) to find out where they are on any given day.


orange strawberry poppyseed mini cupcakes


dark chocolate mini cupcakes


lemon lavender mini cupcakes


red velvet mini cupcakes

Kids and Cupcakes: Elijah

Reader Kim (whom I suspect is a photographer) sent in this shot of her son Elijah enjoying his first-birthday cupcake. It might be hard to find a shot more adorable than this one.






Elijah's now four years old -- I can't wait to see his next birthday cupcake shot!

Reader-submitted cupcake tat!

Keep sending them in, people, I adore them all.





This fresh inking is by Phat Joe's Tattoo Parlour in Miami, Florida, and reader (and cupcake-enthusiast) Cristina is proud to sport it and two others. Rock on, Cristina!

Buttercream frosting cupcakes at Cupcakeland

Buttercream frosting cupcakes at Cupcakeland
Originally uploaded by Rachel from Cupcakes Take the Cake

Cupcakeland in Williamsburg, Brooklyn now has buttercream frosting
($2.25) in addition to cream cheese frosting. Cool!

Gorgeous love cupcakes

I am a sucker for love! And truffles.






"Love" by Ana_Fuji.

PattyCakes mini cupcake delivery from NJ

[Update! See my note at the end of this post, as Pattycakes no longer offers shipping. -- Stacie]



New Jersey cupcakery PattyCakes just sent me a box of bite-size do-it-yourself cupcakes to taste, photograph and review:






I don't recall it being marked perishable, but it did arrive two days after it was mailed (a Monday to Wednesday travel schedule).


First thing I noticed was the cute packaging:





The packing peanuts are made out of corn starch and dissolve in water. That was a BIG plus to me, as I detest Styrofoam and the wastefulness of most packing materials. This might be even better than my first choice, popcorn.




There was a sweet note included in the box giving directions and information about PattyCakes's dedication to the environment. Another plus.






In correspondence with Patty I mentioned that I was a vegetarian who almost never gets to try marshmallow cupcakes, because they are usually made with gelatin. Patty sent an extra-large helping of the vegetarian (!!) marshmallow topping for me.



The mini-minis (they are bite-size) cupcakes came in egg containers! Too cute and a great idea for shipping. The wrappers, which were soaked by the cupcake grease, looked like they had a cute print on them (but I couldn't be sure what exactly it was).








I am not normally a fan of sprinkles, so I constructed the cupcakes without findings.







Patty's instructions were to dip the cupcakes in frosting and then the sprinkles, but I found it much easier to spread the frosting with an offset spatula or a knife.








I did dip them in the sprinkles though, just to see what they'd look like.



PattyCakes sent chocolate chip, dark chocolate, and red velvet cupcakes. My favorite were the chocolate chip, because they had a bit of texture in them. The cakes themselves were fine. A tiny bit dry from shipping, but tasty. The red velvet was moist, and stood up to the trip.

The two frostings included were marshmallow and raspberry. I actively disliked the raspberry (crisco-ish and tasteless) but the marshmallow was sweet and marshmallow-y. As I said I don't like the waxy taste of sprinkles so I didn't eat them.

I would say that these cupcakes are best for kids and kids' parties. I can imagine how excited all the kids would be assembling and topping their own mini cupcakes and the flavor profiles are perfect for children. These are not sophisticated cupcakes. But who says they have to be?





Pattycakes Bakeshop
Haddonfield, NJ
856.330.4377
patty@pattycakesbakeshop.com


Shipping policy:

"All orders are sent via USPS Ground (2-3 Day Priority) or USPS Next Day Air. We do not ship to Alaska and Hawaii at this time. USPS Ground is only available to select zip codes that deliver within 48 hours from NJ.
Because mini’s are perishable, they are shipped nationwide within two days via USPS. All orders are shipped Monday - Wednesday to arrive within two days."

All images by Stacie Joy for CTTC; see full set here.






[Important Update! Pattycakes no longer offers shipping, so please do not contact her for cupcake shipping, thanks.]

Zebra cupcakes at Disney Food Blog

Over at The Disney Food Blog, AJ posted about these amazing-looking zebra cupcakes!



It’s clearly the Disney dining equivalent of avant garde artwork — a representation of a zebra vs. an actual molded animal, as you find in the White Chocolate Elephant Cupcake, also sold at Kusafiri Bakery. Personally, I think it’s beautiful, and it actually reminds me of the puppeteer-ed floats that prowl the streets of the Animal Kingdom during the parade each afternoon; the angular puppets, stark color contrasts, and artistic animal representations in the parade make me feel that this cupcake is right at home with the way the Imagineers are presenting the animal details in the park. They’ll often give you the impression of the animal, and your imagination takes it the rest of the way.
Zebra Cupcake Cross Section

But, we’re not here to talk detail and design. Let’s talk cupcake. As I said, the thing is giant; easily the size of the chocolate peanut-butter cupcake and easily enough to split between two (or three!) people. The vanilla cake is incredibly moist and super-sweet (I’m always amazed how they keep the mass-produced cake tasting so fresh and moist). And the mounds of vanilla buttercream frosting, again, have a great texture. This frosting is creamier than your typical birthday cake frosting, though — it’s not the same stuff you find on the Butterfinger Cupcake. While just as thick, it’s smoother.

Tie dye heart mini cupcakes with rum frosting!

One of the things I love about the cupcake world is that there is always something new, a new twist whether it's design, shape, flavor or decoration. Case in point: these adorable tie-dyed mini cupcakes with rum frosting topped with hearts. They're by Washington, DC custom cupcake company Pretty Please Cupcake, which specializes in mini cupcakes and does delivery and can be reached at prettypleasecupcake at gmail.com (via Flickr).