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

Butter Lane NYC cake pop class September 11th

East Village bakery Butter Lane announces a cake pop class September 11th, 7-9 pm, $45, max class size is 12.



Bite size cupcakes!? Covered in chocolate!? Sounds like a recipe for perfection! Learn to make these delicious treats that can easily be shared or keep at home in the freezer for a nice cold treat.



Keep up with them on their Facebook page and visit butterlane.com for more information.

Butter Lane Cupcake Class Review

Jackie Nadel, who is our newest cupcake event intern, recently took a cupcake baking class at Butter Lane.  Here is her review.

Recently I attended Butter Lane’s cupcake baking class. I had used their Groupon deal, and signed up for the class a few months ago. The class was a lot of fun and I came home with plenty of cupcakes. However, be warned that it is a bit more of a “fun” class than a serious baking class, so it may or may not be for you depending on what you want to get out of a baking class. I’ll explain why below, but it was a still a great time. The class is held in the room adjacent to the bakery, with its own entrance. Joe, our baking instructor, was there to greet everyone and let us know that we were welcome to the dozen cupcakes and pitcher of water out on the table. I split a chocolate cupcake with raspberry frosting with a fellow classmate, and it was delicious. Once everyone arrived, we were split into three groups, and centered around a baking station. Each group would bake one of three cupcakes- vanilla, chocolate or banana. I was in the banana group. Each station was set with a stand mixer, pre-measure ingredients and a laminated recipe. Joe let us know that if we wanted copies of the recipes, we could download them from Facebook. Joe led us through the baking process step by step, stopping by each group to explain the steps that were individual to their recipe. The best thing about this part was that I got to learn how to use a stand mixer. It was so easy to use now I want one even more, but it’s a pipe dream for now as there’s no way that one will fit in my tiny kitchen.  I also learned a more effective way to scoop batter into liners, which I’ll definitely be trying out at home soon.

After Joe and his assistant whisked away our cupcakes into the oven, we started making the frostings. The vanilla group made a vanilla buttercream, the chocolate group made a chocolate buttercream and the banana group made a cream cheese frosting. The frosting making was pretty straightforward, and when we finished we split the frosting into two smaller bowls so we could learn how to make specialty flavors. The groups all moved to a long table, and Joe demonstrated how to use mix-ins to make new flavors of frosting. The vanilla was turned into strawberry, the chocolate was turned into chocolate peanut butter and the cream cheese was turned into cinnamon. All were quite tasty.

As the cupcakes continued to bake and then cool, Joe showed the group Butter Lane’s technique for frosting cupcakes with a spatula and getting the signature swirl in the middle. It is harder than it looks, and Joe made it look super easy.  (Note: If you are interested in learning how to pipe frosting, you will not learn that in this class, since Butter Lane decorates with spatulas). We were then given two cupcakes to practice the technique on (baked earlier by Butter Lane), and the person with the two best looking practice cupcakes received a Butter Lane tote bag as a prize. Once the cupcakes were ready all 10 of us were left to frost the 100-plus cupcakes, with any frosting/cake combination we pleased. I’d guess it took us all around 25 minutes or so to frost the cupcakes. When we were done Joe brought in medium and small sized boxes and we each got to pick 13 cupcakes to take home. They also gave us big Butter Lane shopping bags to put the boxes in.

All in all I had a great time in the class, but it definitely felt more like something fun to do than actually learning about baking. I did pick up a couple of tips that I didn't know from previous classes and cookbooks, but I had thought that it would be more about baking technique. Had I known that, I definitely would have encouraged a few friends to sign up with me, because it would have been a really fun way for us to hang out.  Another reason that it seemed more “fun” than “serious” is that each group had been able to make only one cupcake type and frosting, but I know that Butter Lane would probably need a bigger space, more assistants or more time in the class in order to let each group try out more than one recipe. If you are looking for an intro to baking, a creative date, a unique party for a small group or just are obsessed with Butter Lane and want to learn their techniques, I’d definitely recommend this class for you.  If you’ve taken baking classes before, you might want to think before you spend the money because you probably won’t come home with any new information, other than a couple (but probably not all) of Butter Lane’s trade secrets. However, if you do go you are guaranteed a good time and plenty of yummy cupcakes to go home with.

FRESNO, CA: Cocktails & Cupcakes Class NEXT FRIDAY

Bloggers Katherine and Flannery of Fashionably Bombed will be hosting a Cocktails & Cupcakes Class next Friday, August 26 at the Fresno, CA location of the Young Chefs Academy. More info here.

Cupcake Challenge for 7-13-year-olds at Taste Buds

This isn't until October, but it sounds so fun! At Taste Buds in NYC.

Friday, Oct 28th
Cupcake Challenge

Take this class with friends and challenge each other to a cupcake making duel! Well bake Apple and Vanilla cupcakes and make Vanilla and Brown Sugar Frosting. Well learn how to use a piping bag and work with icing tips to create beautiful designs on top of our cupcakes. This class ends with a competition, each challenger will present a cupcake to judges who will vote on a winner based on taste, presentation and creativity! Each student takes home a box of uniquely designed and created cupcakes.

Closer on the calendar is next Monday, August 1's, Cupcakes and Cookies class. 9-noon is for 4-8-year-olds, while 1-4 pm is for

Older kids are welcome to join our younger kids camp as "Counselors in Training" call for details!

Our younger kids will focus on kitchen basics like kitchen etiquette, mixing and measuring while our older class will learn more independence in the kitchen and advanced techniques.

Each Thursday at 11:30 this summer from June 16th to Sept 1st we will be having a BAKE SALE with our morning campers to support Cookies for Kids Cancer. We will spend that day of camp preparing our baked goods and signage for the bake sale. Be sure to come for pick-up a few minutes early to see your budding chef in action and sample a few treats!

Click here for their full schedule - coming in the fall is a Cake Pops class and a Harry Potter's Cauldron Cakes class!

We've got your extremely gorgeous flower cupcakes right here

These very beautiful flower cupcakes are by Creative Cake Academy, which has a huge array of cupcake workshops coming up to teach you to make your own, all via their Flickr account. Creative cupcakes is coming up August 14 and 18, while Vintage Cupcake Design is September 18 and Garden Cupcakes is November 13, plus many others.











More information:

The Creative Cake Academy offers a very modern day approach to Cake Decoration and design, bustling with new ideas, all of which are firmly rooted in the trends of today. We do not produce cakes for direct sale, but offer full day workshops to participants at all levels in the art of Cake Decoration.

As most people are aware, Cupcakes are very trendy right now and with a little skill and practice, the old fashioned ‘Fairy Cake’ now appears in a new wardrobe of clothes, becoming the perfect partner not only to serve for special treats, but also very much on-trend for many other occasions. Cupcake Towers are very fashionable in place of the traditional Wedding cake; they also make lovely gifts when packaged for birthdays and all kinds of celebrations and create wonderful displays at parties. Our Cupcake workshops cover many themes including Creative Cupcakes, designed to be an overview of a ‘Dressed up Cupcake’ and leads onto other courses to include Vintage, Wedding designs, and a special range for Christmas.

Farncombe Estate
Broadway
Worcestershire
WR12 7LJ