How to take cupcake photos without a flash

I use my iPhone for almost all photo-taking purposes, because it's so easy to email the photos directly to Flickr or this blog. But I don't have the new iPhone, which has flash, so wasn't able to capture the beautiful display of homemade cupcakes, with chocolate and vanilla frosting, at least night's She Writes party, held in a fairly dark bar.

But when the candles were lit, voila!