Jessie Oleson of Cakespy wants to draw you a cupcake on her nationwide bakery book tour!

The countdown has begun for beloved Cakespy blogger, artist, baker and author Jessie Oleson's first book: Cakespy Presents Sweet Treats for a Sugar-Filled Life. She will kick off a nationwide book tour on October 13th at her retail store, Cakespy, in at 415 E. Pine Street in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and visit cupcake bakeries around the country, including Portland, the Bay Area, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Chicago and more. Her New York City visit coincides with my birthday, November 10th, which is also National Vanilla Cupcake Day. She'll be at Brooklyn bakery Baked on the 9th (and Butter Lane on November 9th).





From her blog post (where you can find her tour dates):

Basically, we're going to hang out, eat baked goods, and then you will buy like 30 copies of my book (Official Tour de Sweet Promise: I promise to sign and draw a unicorn, cupcake, and/or robot in each and every copy of my book you buy).

Woo-hoo! Go see her on tour, you won't be disappointed.


photo of Jessie Oleson by me, in her Cakespy store

In a word: yum! Photo via Flickr; if you want to know h ow to make your own "yum" cupcake, which is, to call it by its proper name, a chocolate chip cookie dough filled funfetti cupcake (!!), see this Cakespy post for the recipe and bake your own.

50 free cupcakes for kids at today's back to school party at Seattle's Trophy Cupcakes

Very cool! Via Facebook, we learned about this fun event today hosted by Seattle bakery Trophy Cupcakes:

The beginning of the new school year is here and Trophy is throwing a party! A Back-to-School party, that is. On Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 3-5 p.m., the Trophy Party Room, located in the old school house at Wallingford Center, will be adorned in the smartest school-themed trinkets and décor. There will be lots of fun to be had including a cupcake decorating demonstration and a coloring contest and a raffle, the prizes? you guessed it, school supplies and Trophy Cupcakes! The first 50 kids who attend Trophy’s Back-to-School soiree, will receive a complementary cupcake! See you and the kids on Wednesday!

For more information about the Trophy Party Room please email party@trophycupcakes.com, or visit Trophy Cupcakes and Party online.

See trophycupcakes.com for more information.

3-5 pm today at:

Trophy Cupcakes Party Room, Wallingford Center
1815 N. 45th St.
Seattle, WA

Huckleberry & Peanut Butter and Jam from Cupcake Royale

Every season, Cupcake Royale in Seattle, WA, comes out with some super delicious seasonal flavors.  This year they have brought back their Huckleberry Cupcake.  On their blog they describe this cupcake...

"We fold in fresh, local huckleberries (fresh, as in they were picked for us this past weekend) into our vanilla cupcake and top it with a huckleberry buttercream frosting."


Can we say YUM?

Cupcake Royale's newest cupcake is the Peanut Butter and Jam cupcake!  I love this combo! It's available through September at all of their locations.  Cupcake Royale tells us...

"This classic combo has our vanilla cupcake, filled with fresh local strawberry jam (fresh, as in they made it last week) topped with a super fluffy, salty peanut butter buttercream. Sprinkled with chopped peanuts and a coarse sugar and sea salt."

A back-to-school cupcake party!

Jennifer Shea of Trophy Cupcakes in Seattle, WA shares her tips for making perfect back to school cupcakes!

Salted Caramel Chocolate Winner from PinkaBella

Gorgeous image of a salted caramel (yum!) chocolate cupcake from Seattle's PinkaBella Cupcakes (f/k/a Wink).








Image courtesy our friend WordOfMouth.