How to fit a macaroon, a cherry pie or a Cadbury creme egg inside a cupcake

The Tumblr blog Bake It In a Cake is “dedicated to cake and cupcakes and all the things you can fit inside them.” Here are three examples of their filled cupcake experiments. You can also follow them @bakeitinacake on Twitter . All images from their blog. Macaroon-Filled Brownie Cupcakes Topped with Chocolate Ganache and Toasted Almonds – click through above for the recipe! Vanilla cupcakes with mini Cadbury Creme Eggs baked inside—topped with cream cheese frosting, coconut, and Jelly Belly jelly beans. Mini cherry pies baked into dark chocolate cupcakes—topped with vanilla bean buttercream.

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Caramel macchiatto cupcakes, ice cream sundae cupcakes and more from fat bottom

All of these wonderful-looking cupcakes and the captions are from the food blog fat bottom , which I just discovered. Yum! here are some caramel macchiato cupcakes… they were a yummy coffee cake, topped with espresso buttercream, homemade salt caramel, rice krispies, mini chocolate chips, and toffee bits… such a explosion of awesomeness… and another caramel macchiato cupcake click here for the recipe for these. “deep dark coffee-chocolate-chip cake with milk chocolate and Kahlua buttercreams…” “sundae inspired cupcakes… awesome chocolate cake, topped with vanilla buttercream, dark chocolate ganache and a cherry…” Livestrong cupcakes

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Cupcakes jobs at Sweet in Boston, plus New York company wants "Cupcake Rockstars"

From Boston Business Journal , some good news about the economy and cupcakes: Courtney Forrester’s decision to open her third Sweet cupcake shop on Newbury Street earlier this month means that shoppers can now indulge in freshly baked dark chocolate, red velvet and Boston cream pie cupcakes. The news is also sweet for the job market. Forrester hired seven new employees — from managers to cake decorators ­­— for the store. “Opening a new location gives us a great opportunity to employ some local folks,” said Forrester, who also has stores in Harvard Square and on Massachusetts Avenue. I didn’t see any Boston job listings on Craigslist, but found this one in New York that amused me. Imagine “Cupcake Rockstar” on your business card! Needed: CUPCAKE ROCKSTARS!!! Date: 2010-07-06, 5:46PM EDT Reply to: job-k5kz7-1828932937@craigslist.org Awesome downtown cupcake bakery is seeking CUPCAKE ROCKSTARS for our Union Square location!!! Love cupcakes? Awesome at customer service??? Apply to join our amazing team!!! Counterperson responsibilities include: – great customer service – neatly boxing cupcakes – handling register transactions – maintaining a sparkling clean store A positive, up-beat attitude is a must! Please send us: – An up-to-date resume – A …

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Cupcake spotlight on Kupcakespot, custom cupcake company in Tustin, California

I love when I make a cupcake discovery and it totally wows me, as happened with custom cupcake company Kupcakespot of Tustin, California, who you can also find on Facebook and @Kupcakespot on Twitter . All photos below are from their website, where there are many, many more beautiful cupcake photos; I had a tough time choosing! red velvet heart cupcakes with powdered sugar! How good does this lemon meringue cupcake look? I have a soft spot for lemon meringue anything, especially cupcakes. “Has lemon curd and meringue brulee with a torch! Topped with lemon zest for additional kick to it.” mini wedding cupcakes more mini wedding cupcakes Official list of their flavors : Sophisticated Vanilla: white cake made with Madagascar Bourbon vanilla bean topped with whipped vanilla bean frosting. Cinnamon Sugar: cinnamon white cake with whipped vanilla cinnamon frosting, topped with cinnamon sugar Chocolate Oreo: dark chocolate cake frosted with smooth Oreos frosting, topped with mini Oreo. Romancing Red Velvet: red cake topped with whipped vanilla cream cheese frosting. Carrot Top: carrot cake topped with whipped vanilla bean cream cheese frosting. Lemon Sublime: naturally flavored lemon cake topped with lemon frosting. Coconut Heaven: coconut cake frosted with

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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

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ZZang Candy Bars

A few years ago my Dad mailed be a copy of Steve Almond’s book, Candyfreak , a quick, fun read that takes a closer look at regional and specialty candy bars of the United States. My interest was piqued, and in probably one of the most indulgent months of my life, I ate my way through eighteen US regional candy bars and lived to tell the tale . It’s been a while since I’ve wanted to eat multiple candy bars, but here I am taste-testing ZZang candy bars from Zingerman’s , the Ann Arbor, Michigan, gourmet and specialty foods purveyor, which most of us living elsewhere know from their catalogs and online site . The tag line on ZZang candy bars reads, “taking candy bars back 100 years,” and is a nod to the old-timey regional candy bars that used to be so prolific. And, to make you feel at least a little bit better about eating candy bars, the ingredient list on the ZZang bars are populated only with items you’d find in your kitchen. Ca$hew Cow is milk chocolate cashew butter gianduja, cashew brittle, and roasted cashews dipped in dark chocolate. There’s an interesting play of crunchy textures from the cashews, cashew brittle, and crisped rice amongst the softer texture of the gianduja. There is also a noticeable …

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How Much Do You Know About Chocolate Chip Cookies?

[Photograph: Robyn Lee] Chocolate chip cookies are an American classic. They are appropriate in every season and for every celebration (or for no reason at all). Whether you prefer yours chewy or crispy, with chocolate chunks or bits, with milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or semi-sweet chocolate, they all have certain things in common. Find out how much you know about this favorite indulgence. Take the quiz!

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Chocolate ganache, dark chocolate truffle, red heart and pink velvet Valentine’s Day cupcakes

These are “dark chocolate cupcakes with a velvety rich chocolate ganache frosting made with belgian chocolate and fresh double cream” and are from the UK’s (Hampshire) Pretty Sweet (via Flickr ). And these are dark chocolate truffle Valentine’s Day cupcakes . Here’s the official scoop on their Valentine’s Day cupcake boxes: Our wickedly indulgent Valentine cupcakes are here! ….. Choose from rich Dark Chocolate Truffle cupcakes topped with a velvety chocolate ganache made from Belgian chocolate and fresh cream, or our own unique take on Red Velvet – ‘Pink Velvet’ cupcakes are a moist pink sponge coloured completely naturally with fresh fruit puree and topped with a delicious vanilla cream cheese frosting. They are all topped off with gorgeous red and pink glitter hearts and icing letters. Choose your own way to say ‘I Love You’ – be original and send one of our pretty Gift Boxes as an alternative to roses or chocolates this year! My favorites are these glitter red hearts: And look inside the pink velvet cupcake: More photos in their Flickr account . From their site: We freshly bake our cupcakes to order and deliver our beautiful and distinctive cupcake gift boxes throughout Hampshire. We also…

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Peppermint, red velvet, chocolate and vanilla mail order cupcakes at Williams-Sonoma

Williams-Sonoma does mail order cupcakes (see right-hand side for our mail order cupcake links), and this is what they have this season: Peppermint Snow Mini Cupcakes Miniature cupcakes with great big flavors evoke the holiday spirit in each heavenly bite. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible: the dark chocolate cupcakes are topped with a generous dollop of peppermint buttercream and then hand dipped in white chocolate ganache; the vanilla cupcakes are finished with the same luscious peppermint buttercream and dark chocolate ganache. The cakes are shipped with a package of fresh peppermint snow for sprinkling on the tops before serving. Cupcakes Gourmet uses ingredients of the finest quality to prepare the handmade cupcakes, from premium Callebaut Belgian chocolate and Madagascar Bourbon vanilla to fresh butter and eggs. Set of 24, 12 of each flavor. $49.95 Perfect Endings Holiday Cupcakes Perfect Endings, the renowned Napa Valley bakery, makes these cupcakes for us from scratch, using fresh eggs, real butter and other premium ingredients. And they’re superb. Sam Godfrey, the founder, learned baking as a child under the strict tutelage of his Southern grandmother. This set includes three favorites re-created from her original recipes: rich chocolate, frosted with classic chocolate icing and scattered with dark chocolate sprinkles; red velvet, generously swirled with old-fashioned white…

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Free cupcakes tomorrow in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Seacost Online brings news of free cupcakes tomororw, November 7th, from 1 pm to 4 pm at The Old Stove Bake Shoppe in Portsmouth, New Hampshire! Plus what fun flavors they are debuting… The shop will introduce four new gourmet cupcake flavors: candy corn, death by chocolate, salted caramel and monkey bread. Two hundred customers will receive free their choice of one of the four new flavors on a first-come, first-served basis. There is a limit of one per person. “It fits with our style,” Mugherini said of the new cupcakes. “We’re always making up new flavors. It makes people smile when they see candy corn or monkey bread.” Mugherini’s personal favorite, monkey bread, is similar to the traditional cinnamon pastry, but with a cream cheese frosting. The candy corn cupcakes are made of a light butterscotch cake with vanilla buttercream colored orange, yellow and white. Death by chocolate is made with dark chocolate cake with mini chocolate chips, decorated with a dark chocolate buttercream with a chocolate drizzle. Made of vanilla brown sugar cake, the salted caramel cupcakes will have a caramel buttercream frosting topped with Himalayan

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