Extreme Cupcakes are next at Iron Cupcake: Milwaukee

June 23, 2010 – 11:34 pm | by admin

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The next Iron Cupcake: Milwaukee is all about Extreme Cupcakes ! Click to find out full event details. I just like how that sounds: extreme cupcakes. Held, appropriately enough, at the Harley-Davidson Museum! To give you a teaser, below are a few photos from this Flickr set (© James Conway Photography ) of May’s candy-themed Iron Cupcake: Milwaukee. Do check out the whole photo set because there are some real beauties in there.

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10 cereal cupcakes that will make breakfast your favorite meal

June 3, 2010 – 2:34 pm | by admin

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Everyone’s heard the saying “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” right? Well, I am a major cereal fan, and cupcakes and cereal pairings are a lot of fun. There’s cupcake bakery The Shoppe in Denver, where they sell big bowls of cereal alongside cupcakes. And then there’s Post’s new Cupcake Pebbles cereal. And then there are these cupcakes…with cereal on them! Have you made one we missed? Write us at cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com or add your photo to our almost 80,000 cupcake photo pool on Flickr . Tawest64 on Flickr went above and beyond…combining Cupcake Pebbles with cupcakes! Vanilla cupcakes studded with Cupcake Pebbles, frosted with white chocolate frosting and dipped in Post Cupcake Pebbles! death by cupcake on flickr made Captain Crunch Berry cereal cupcakes Crunch flavored cupcakes with berry icing and topped with a crunch berry marshmallow treat that is drizzled with white chocolate Flour and Sun Bakery in Pleasantville, New York made Fruity Pebbles cupcakes (via Flickr ) urbanfoodie33 on Flickr made these: Orange-Carrot cupcakes with orange cream cheese frosting and topped with Basic 4 cereal Lucky Charms cupcakes by saucydragonfly on …

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Winning IronCupcakePRO cupcake sculpture by Chris Leslie

December 22, 2009 – 10:01 pm | by admin

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This cupcake sculpture by Chris Leslie was the winner at last Friday’s IronCupcakePRO, which you can read more about at No One Puts Cupcake in a Corner . Congratulations to all the winners and entrants. IronCupcakePRO Milwaukee Art Museum 12.18.09 © James Conway Photography special permission to IronCupcake:Milwaukee And for those in Milwaukee, don’t miss this beer-themed cupcake baking competition next month for Iron Cupcake: Registration being accepted now. First 24 bakers at ironcupcakemilwaukee at wi.rr.com

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"Cupcake exhaustion" in Chicago? Say it ain’t so!

July 21, 2009 – 9:23 pm | by admin

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Well, that’s exactly what Grub Street Chicago is proclaiming, after MLive.com profiles Michigan’s The Cupcake Station: Johnson said his Ann Arbor location sells 400 to 700 cupcakes on weekdays and 1,000 on Saturdays and Sundays. At $2.75 for one cupcake, $15 for six or $27 for a dozen, that’s $4,530 to $5,500 on weekends in Ann Arbor alone, and that’s without catering revenues, which make up some 30 percent of the total. Birmingham’s daily sales are 50 percent higher, and catering is at 50 percent there, Johnson said. Why are cupcakes selling in this economy? “The price point is great,” Johnson said. “Everybody that walks by our store can afford something, whether they have a job or not. This is what people are looking for … some happiness in their lives.” A Rochester location was on the horizon this year, but the lease fell through. Now Johnson’s looking at other Rochester spots and a Washington, D.C., location…

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