Cute cupcake cookbook

I couldn't resist this cupcake book I noticed while doing my shopping in Marks and Spencer! Its packed full of gorgeous pictures and really great sounding recipes and it was a bargain for �3.50!

Also from M&S, this really cute birthday card which cost �1!

Cupcaketastic :)

Desert Wars in Ann Arbour

The Cupcake Station opened last Friday and gave away 500 free cupcakes!

"People like the individuality of a cupcake," said co-owner Kerry Johnson. "They get their own choice of what they want for dessert that day. And it's the perfect size - it's not too much."

The Cupcake Station will sell up to 25 different kinds of cupcakes, including Michigan bumpy cake, red velvet and Snickers - a caramel-filled chocolate cupcake topped with butter cream frosting, peanuts, more caramel and dipped in dark chocolate.

Their cupcakes are making me HUNGRY and I'm too hungover to go out and get a cupcake! I love the look of the Michigan bumpy cake, the snickers, the vanilla filled and oh I just want them all!!!!! And Ann Arbours just too damn far :( I love their idea of build your own cupcake with up to 4 toppings and you can choose a filling too!!!! Their frosting choices, including Oreo butter cream are making my mouth water!

In case you're wondering why I get excited about a cupcake place so far away its because my lovely chum Dennis lives there and I'm forever bombarding him with cupcake news, and he brings me lovely things like Sprinkles baking sets :)

Now here's a meat cupcake I'd eat

Cuz it really is a cupcake, no meat added :)

They look yummy don't they!!! From the wonderful Hostess with the Mostess via Cupcakequeen

Scrumptious cakes,happy people

A reader of the blog suggested I check out Fair Cake, and Anna I want to thank you!

Fair Cake make some gorgeous looking cupcakes AND they use Fair Trade ingredients and only free range eggs, which only makes them yummier sounding!

I love their motto - scrumptious cakes, happy people as it sums up to me what cupcakes are all about! I'm told their cupcakes taste as good as the ones from New York, and from the look of their cakes, especially the rather yummy looking frosting I am inclined to agree!!!

Check out their blog for some lovely pictures of their cupcakes, with links to their Flickr site also!

Hello cupcake..theres a queue!

I found this via my Google news alerts...yes I've signed up for cupcake news alerts, and yes that may be a tad obsessive but meh!

Anyways a rather spiffy new cupcakery, Hello Cupcake has opened in Washington and has led to queues for cupcakes! The article seemed to imply that $3 is expensive for a cupcake, they should come to the UK!!! Also I read on Cupcakes take the Cake that they've imposed a four cupcake rule, so even after you've queued for an hour to get a cake they only let you have four!!! Mind you perhaps they should impose that here too - my diet (well LACK of diet currently) could do with some policing!

I love their section on the anatomy of a cupcake!

I want to try the vanilla gorilla, prima donna (SOOOO pink and gorgeous looking), the princess (so me!), de lime and de coconut (I have a thing for coconut cake at the mo so maybe even the triple coconut!) and the maya favourite, with chili sounds lovely too! Oh I want them all! Wonder if I could nip there while I'm in New York ;)

If you're nearby go check it out and let us know how it was

Another day, another blog I'm engrossed in..

I HAVE to stop looking for cupcake blogs -my favourites are groaning under the weight of cupcakes!

Cupcake D'lights is just too lovely not to be obsessed with though! Go check it out...and drool!

The Lavender Bakery - a cupake adventure

This has taken me ages to write up as I've been trying desperately to get the pics I took from my phone to the computer but alas its just not working but will keep trying as I took some good ones, including Manny covered in some rather scrummy caramel frosting!

The lovely Michelle from Lavender Bakery offered me some cupcakes via email after I contacted her as I'd been to the LRB cafe to try some of her cupcakes and was disappointed they weren't there! So one Friday last month I sneaked out of work to meet Michelle's boyfriend and collect my cupcakes, I was only expecting a couple and there were LOADS! A BIG box full of utterly gorgeous, beautifully decorated cupcakes. The bases were really soft and the frosting was really yummy. Guess what I had for lunch that day..lol

We were going to a gig that night so Manny and I met at Lincoln's Inn Fields for a cupcake supper before going, which is where the aforementioned Manny covered in frosting incident happened - he looked rather amusing in his denim cut-off with frosting all over his nose!! I shall post the pics once I have figured out how to transfer them! The pic above are the actual cupcakes I got, borrowed (with permission!) from Michelle's flicker site - go check it out and see how pretty her cupcakes are!

I think the LRB cafe does the Lavender Shortbread which sounds rather yummy and deffo worth popping into the cafe for!