Bid on a 10-person master cupcake class taught by Allison and Matt Robicelli

Tickets for our August 2012 Cupcake Cruise to Bermuda go on sale next week - sign up at cupcakecruise.com for the inside scoop, and we'll also be posting here and on @cupcakecruise on Twitter and on Facebook.

Allison and Matt Robicelli of Brooklyn cupcake bakery Robicelli's will be two of our many presenters on the cruise. If you just can't wait until August, right now you can bid on a 10-person master cupcake class taught by them. Click here to bid, and visit their Facebook page for more information.

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Learn the secrets behind the best cupcakes in Brooklyn! Allison and Matt, husband and wife owners of Robicelli's Cupcakes, will lead you and 9 friends through a class of approximately one and a half hours at Ger-Nis Culinary & Herb Center. You'll come away with the basics of baking and decorating, and a taste of their artful philosophy behind cupcake flavors with unique ingredients.

About Ger-Nis Culinary & Herb Center:

Ger-Nis Culinary & Herb Center specializes in a wide range of recreational cooking & education classes for adults and children, promoting healthy eating and living habits through hands on and lecture style classroom environments. Our commitment to our community, as well as our planet, and an exceptional understanding of the culinary needs of our students of all ages allows us to focus on the entire cooking and eating process, from grower to “cooker”.

Classes must be scheduled on Monday or Friday; Expires March 31st 2012

Two mouth-watering cupcake photos from their Facebook page:


cupcake topped with espresso salted caramel buttercream, rolled in Liddabit Sweets "Breakfast of Champions" Caramel Corn & drizzled with chocolate



fresh fig cake with goat cheese buttercream, fig balsamic gastrique and crisped prosciutto

Breakfast Of Champions Cupcake

Stopped by Robicellis at DeKalb Market and had their latest creation which is more of a Brooklyn artisan collaboration. The cupcake, "Breakfast of Champions" is a vanilla cake, salted caramel & espresso buttercream, topped with Liddabit Sweet’s “Breakfast of Champions” Caramel Corn (popcorn, caramel, espresso, bourbon, bacon), dark chocolate drizzle.

August 13: Delicious Sandwich Social and Cupcake Picnic in Prospect Park

Our next cupcake meetup is all about cupcakes and sandwiches at our annual  Delicious Sandwich Social and Cupcake Picnic. We will eating sandwiches and cupcakes on Saturday, August 13th at Prospect Park.



What is the Delicious Sandwich Social?! Created by Jon Friedman, The Delicious Sandwich Social is like "Secret Santa" for sandwiches at a picnic in a park.  There will be cupcakes!  Cupcakes Take The Cake will be bringing  four dozen. If you are baker, feel free to bring cupcakes. Please bring your picnic items like blankets and such.

LOCATION: Near The Picnic House @ Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Take the F/G to 7th Avenue stop in Brooklyn. Walk to Prospect Park West into the park. Look for signs for the Picnic House.  We will be on the lawn. Follow Cupcake us on Twitter day of event for updates:  http://twitter.com/cupcakeblog.  Rain date will be  August 14.

THE RULES

1. You must bring one FULL delicious sandwich (cut in half) with you to the park. (homemade or deli-bought )

2. Label and submit one half of your sandwich to the DSS advisory board (Meetup Organizers).

3. Sandwiches will be labeled with the name of submitter, the name of the sandwich and the kind of sandwich (vegetarian or meat).

4. Every participant will get one half of another participant's sandwich and keep the other half of their own.  You will get a number. Numbers will be pulled at the social for sandwich halves.

5. One lucky random sandwich half will contain  THE GOLDEN TICKET redeemable  for the DSS prize package. Another person will win a prize for  most creative sandwich name, so make sure to think of a good name for your sandwich.

6.   Cupcakes Take the Cake will be providing cupcakes but feel free your own cupcakes to share.

7. Enjoy your sandwiches, meet the person who's sandwich you've eaten, eat a cupcake and have some fun!

P.S. Let us know if anyone wants to volunteer to be the "Sand Witch" complete with wand and whatever witches who love sandwiches would wear.

VIDEO: Hungry In Brooklyn Makes Chocolate Cupcakes With A Kick

Something to wake up in the morning, chocolate caffeine cupcakes! Shea Hess of Hungry in Brooklyn, invites our friend Michael Cyril Creighton of the hit web-series Jack in a Box into her kitchen for a little baking lesson. Together they make "Caffeine Cupcakes" with cocoa, cola, and coffee.

Lizards, birds, turtle, fish and dolphin cupcakes

These animal and beach cupcakes are by Greenpoint, Brooklyn's, The Measuring Cup, via Flickr. Find out more at themeasuringcupco.com or email info at themeasuringcupco.com or call 646-415-4995.

You Can Win A Charm Bracelet From Brooklyn Charm!

We are very excited about tonight's Cupcakes, Cocktails and Charms event tonight at Brooklyn Charm.  Lucky for you who don't have a ticket or live in the New York City area, you can win a charm bracelet. Tracie from Brooklyn Charm is kind enough to give away this lovely bracelet. One will be given tonight and other one to our of lucky readers online This bracelet has an $80 value so it would make a great gift for yourself or someone else. Enter by Friday, July 22 at 5PM. US Residents Only. Use this link to enter. Don't leave comments for entry. Good Luck!

Robicelli's to open Brooklyn cupcake bakery at end of July

One of our favorite New York City cupcake companies, Robicelli's, is profiled in the New York Daily News, which reveals that they're opening their first retail storefront bakery in the DeKalb Market in Brooklyn at the end of July! (They used to own a gourmet market which also sold cupcakes.). Very exciting news for Robicelli's fans and those who've yet to discover their unique, fun flavors.

From the article, which has more information on how they got started and built their family-run business:

"We started using a borrowed kitchen and $40 in quarters I stole from my kids' piggy bank to buy butter and eggs," says Allison.

Now, 150 flavors later, with nearly 400 recipes still on their wish list, Matt and Allison have made Robicelli's irresistible.

Their unconventional flavors include Allison's favorite, Chicken and Waffles, and Matt's favorite, The Elvis — a peanut butter, bacon and banana combo.

They send out 1,400 cupcakes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to 15 locations, most recently Battery Place Market. They include everything from blue cheese to tiramisu.

Every cupcake, it seems, is a labor of love. Here's how Allison describes one:

"To make the tiramisu, first we make an espresso cake and then we hand-soak every cupcake into a dark espresso syrup to make sure that each is dripping with flavor. We take dark chocolate and espresso to make a really rich ganache and coat each and every one. We then make our French butter cream, which you really only see on wedding cakes, and put it on top of the cake. We then dust a nice, rich, Dutch processed cocoa powder from Belgium over the top of that."

Photos from the Robicelli's Facebook page:


Pecan French Toast, Toasted Almond, Bananas Foster, Bea Arthur


Wild Maine Blueberry Cobbler, Cinnamon Bun, The Bluth, Butterbeer


Green Tea Mandarin, Blueberry Port, Tiramisu, Chocolate Turtle


and last week's flavors, via their Tumblr: Clockwise from front: The Odessa, Banana Nutella, PB&J, Peach Cobbler

For orders, contact Robicelli's at info at robicellis.com or
917-509-6048 and visit their Tumblr for weekly flavors and locations (they do various markets and events).

Here are this week's flavors; click here to find out where to get them!



CPB: Chocolate cake, peanut butter buttercream, ganache, roasted peanuts

Tres Leches: Three milk soaked brown butter cake, dulce de leche buttercream, caramel shards

McFadden: Victorian lemonade cake and buttercream made with a splash of Pimm’s, candied lemon peel

Creamsicle: Orange cake, vanilla buttercream, candied orange peel