I pooped a cupcake?

Is it just me (and my sordid imagination!), or is this meant to be a poop frosted cupcake?

Whatever its frosted with its v.cute, although I'd not be quite so lapsidasical about it if I was going to eat it!

Cupcakes in Bloom

What an adorable little gift from Flowers.com - Cupcake in Bloom is:

an unforgettable sweet surprise--our fabulous floral cupcake-shaped arrangement of fresh white carnations! It's an Everything Cupcake� for every occasion!

How cute - and Flowers.com also deliver REAL cupcakes , including these yummy looking Snowflake cupcakes, so you could send a bouquet and cake!!! Why can't Interflora do that???

Bangers and Mash cupcakes?

Another take on the meat cupcakes -this time from Racheal Ray! I'm really not sure about these - they look kinda cool but I just think when I bit into them my brain would be screaming "wheres the vanilla frosting" rather than "mmmm sausage!"

You can get the recipe for sausage meatloaf cupcakes with creamy mash frosting here! I have to say I do prefer the look of her banana caramel cupcakes personally!

I came across the meat cupcakes on Hostess with the Mostess in their Halloween Dinner Menu! I love the look of the French toast ice cream sandwiches :)

Madras curry cupcakes??

So I wrote about More cupcakes opening in Chicago a few posts ago and today I found a review of their cakes...

We were smitten with a BLT cupcake, whose Ranch dressing frosting was dusted with a slice of Heirloom tomato and microgreens. The Madras Curry cupcake was a delicious experience, with its goat cheese frosting and blackberry topping.

If you want to read more click here.

Can I just say I LOVE curry and as you know I heart cupcakes but I just cannot imagine them going together!

Thanks to Gapers Block for the pic

The tale of the Cookie Girl and a courgette!

First visit on our mini-cupcake tour of the Notting Hill area was the Cookie Girl's stall in Portobello Rd market! Manny had been keen to visit the Cookie Girl ever since seeing her website and was rather excited to finally go there today!

As usual the selection of cupcakes was FANTASTIC! We opted for 4 - vanilla, courgette (top pic) and Jack Daniels and coke and chocolate praline (second pic). Other flavours included beetroot, pina colada and some other fab ones I can't remember! I opted for the courgette due to the fab green frosting! Manny also had a chocolate and orange brownie - no pics as he snuffled it as soon as he got it - he said it was magnificent!

We had the cupcakes when we got home with a nice cuppa tea and my favourite was definitely the courgette - the base was really really nice and the frosting was absolutely gorgeous - I could have eaten it by the cup. Who'd have thought something like a courgette could make one of the best cupcakes I've ever had! Manny's Jack Daniels and coke one was really nice as well - the frosting was very dense and chocolaty! Manny declared these his favourite cupcakes ever!

I do kinda regret not having the beetroot one now - I wasn't sure how they'd taste, but after the courgette one I'm thinking the beetroot one would've been yummy too!

Am looking forward to the Cookie Girl's cookbook coming out -it'll be a fave on my shelf for sure!

As you can see Angel enjoyed a bit of the vanilla frosting as well - her nickname is pudding due to her tendency to run over to me and look at me imploringly if ever I have anything pudding-like! Today she got a bit of frosting and she's my best friend :)

Mmmmmmm meat???

Meat cupcakes? Sounds yukky to me but maybe I'd feel differently if I actually liked lamb?

I found these today checking out different cupcake recipes and thought it was unusual - then I googled meat cupcakes and found loads including this rather fab photographic story of how to bake meatloaf cupcakes and these rather fancy looking meat ones (bottom picture)

Not sure I'd eat them but they do look cute! Think I'd rather stick to good old Martha's lamb cupcakes!

Outsider Tart....a journey of epic proportions

I've been meaning to check out Outsider Tart for some time now and finally got round to it this weekend. After emailing them about their cakes, they kindly let me know that the first Saturday of the month is cupcake day at their stall at Richmond Farmers Market (isn't EVERY day cupcake day??!!!) so I decided to go along this weekend to check them out.

I called National Rail earlier in the week to check that trains were running as its bank holiday weekend and that usually means hell on the rails..but the person I spoke to in a call centre in deepest India assured me that there were to be no problems with this line..I hope there is a pox on his house now as the journey was screwed up and took over an hour each way...which made Manny sulk and in the end ruined our day out...but we did manage to get cupcakes which, for me anyways, was worth it!

Outsider Tart specialise in rather unusual flavours of cupcakes - I had a banana pecan and an orange and lemon with a meringue topping...both of which were divine! I loved the meringue topping although it was definitely one to eat at home as I got covered in the topping from nose to chin! Or maybe that was just me being a messy cow! Manny had an ambrosia one and an anise one..he said that one of them was an orange spicy one, which I think was the anise one, but I can't be sure!! The ambrosia one was a filled cupcake, which means it had something inside I think - Manny didn't really go into detail, he just said that they were nice!! The guy from OT explained the flavour combinations to us about 3 times but I totally forgot them by the time I got home. I shall be heading back the first weekend of June hopefully and can get a full run-down of their flavours. Definitely worth the journey to Richmond...just not on a bank holiday!!!!

Sorry about the pics - they got a bit smooshed in my bag - I think I need to get a cupcake carrier!