Relaxing Cupcake

Not sure how I feel about lavender as a cupcake flavor (sadly, I had a bad herbes de Provence experience once) but there's no denying how beautiful this looks:











Lavender honey vanilla bean cupcake by DixieBelleCupcakeCafe.

Artist easel and blackberry vanilla bean cupcakes

Both cupcake photos are by Dixiebelle Cupcake Cafe in Fredericksburg, Texas, via Flickr. See their Facebook page for more information.

Peach QuadrupleThreat Cupcake

Ohh Dixie Belle Cupcake Cafe, how you taunt me with such scrumptiousness! Please, send me this cupcake immediately. I cannot enjoy the rest of my summer without it.















From the description:

"Peaches and cream cupcakes...moist, tender cupcake infused with fresh peach puree and chunks of fresh peaches, filled with spiced peach jam and our cream cheese filling, topped with fresh peach buttercream!"



Yum.





;)

Cupcakes are all in the presentation: a perfect swirl of chocolate and peanut butter

I think this chocolate peanut butter swirl with a banana on top is the epitome of what a cupcake should be: beautiful, stunning to look at, and makes you want to eat it! It's by Dixie Belle Cupcake Cafe in Fredericksburg, Texas, via Flickr. Find out more about them on their Facebook page.



And a few more of their cupcake creations, descriptions via Flickr:


Guinness & Baileys Cupcakes: "a tender, moist Guinness chocolate cupcake filled with a rich dark chocolate Baileys Ganache, topped with a Baileys Butter Cream and drizzled with Baileys Ganache"



M&Ms cupcakes



Pina colada cupcakes: "rich, moist rum cupcake baked with fresh pineapple and coconut, brushed with a rum glaze, topped with a Pineapple, Coconut, Rum Butter Cream, toasted Coconut and a Cherry"



blueberry lemon cupcakes (seems to be the cupcake flavor of summer 2011!): "tender, moist lemon cupcake filled with a Blueberry Lemon Tahitian Vanilla Cream, topped with Lemon Butter Cream, fresh Lemon Zest and a fresh, plump Blueberry"



sunflower cupcakes

Gorgeous, colorful tropical flower cupcakes and Kentucky Derby hat cupcakes

I love how brightly colored and beautiful these tropical flower cupcakes by Dixie Belle Cupcake Cafe (via Flickr) are. Officially, they are: "Confetti Cupcakes with Vanilla Butter Cream and handmade Tropical Fondant Flowers." If these were real flowers I'd want to put them in my hair! They're located in Fredericksburg, Texas, and you can find out more at their Facebook page.



And we missed this back in May but here are some Kentucky Derby hat cupcakes they made: