Chocolate-covered cherry chocolate cupcakes!

These fun, adorable chocolate-covered cherry chocolate cupcakes are from blogger Confections of a Foodie Bride. She's got the recipe(s) and writes:

Chocolate Cake – I’ve flip-flopped over the last few years on a favorite chocolate cake recipe. I’ve been torn between America’s Test Kitchen’s Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake and Martha Stewart’s Devil’s Food Cake. But with this last batch of cupcakes, I think it’s finally settled. Martha’s recipe is fluffy, moist, and gets a big dose of deep chocolatey flavor from dutch-process cocoa. To me, it’s the perfect chocolate cake.

The prettiest fruit cupcakes you'll see all week (or probably year)

Fruit! So pretty. Specifically, vegan fruit tart cupcakes!



"A light golden vanilla cake, filled with vanilla custard and topped with fresh fruits."

This looks so beautiful and glistening and fresh and yummy.

These cupcakes are by Fresno, California custom company Sweet Elites Vegan Cupcakes. You can contact them at sweetelites at gmail.com and find out more on their blog and Facebook page. And so are these lion cupcakes:

Vegan s'mores cupcakes with double the marshmallow and chocolate curls on top

If you've been reading this blog for even a month you know that I have a weakness for all things s'mores. All things marshmallow, really, but I love s'mores and I do see a fair number of s'mores cupcakes online but I don't encounter them very often in my cupcake tastings, and I think more bakeries should offer s'mores cupcakes. These look amazing. And they're vegan! And mini - though they look bigger than what I think of as "mini" but that could be the angle of the photo. That just means if they were in front of me I wouldn't feel as bad about eating 5. Or all of them. They're by Angel Cakes in San Francisco (via Flickr), and you can get more info on them in this blog post which I will also quote for you:

First up, s'mores. I've been wanting to do them for a while and had been debating - chocolate cupcakes with icing and graham cracker topping? Or graham flavored cupcake, maybe with a chocolate ganache (to mimic the melty chocolate of smores) plus frosting? I *know* - really important questions, right?

Well since the other flavor I was doing was fruit, i wanted one with a dominant chocolate flavor, so I took a dark chocolate vegan mini cupcake with a vegan vanilla buttercream, a piece of graham cracker, and a dark chocolate curl. I am very happy the way they turned out - very modern. They were quite popular, and a number of people commented that they liked the crunch of the graham cracker. I'll definitely try the reverse, because the idea of a dark chocolate ganache is so tempting!



And the fruit cupcakes referred to are strawberry balsamic cupcakes:



Want your own? Call or 510-910-5627 or email info at angelcakessf.com to place an order!

Gorgeous glazed cupcakes in blueberry, strawberry, mint and cantaloupe flavors!

I'll be honest - when I first saw the photo on top in our Flickr cupcake pool, which now has over 106,000 photos, if you can believe that, I thought they were macarons!



They had that round, colorful look to them. But they are, in fact, cupcakes, and gorgeous ones at that. The flavors are blueberry, strawberry, mint and cantaloupe! Cantaloupe...a melon I love, but I've never had a cantaloupe cupcake. Find out how to make them from always-creative blogger Sugar Swings! Serve Some, who was inspired by Martha Stewart Living and offers step by step instructions on how to get your fruit glaze just right.

Blueberry pie cupcake every day in August at Seattle's Trophy Cupcakes

Seattle bakery Trophy Cupcakes is combining two beloved desserts, pie and cupcakes, into this:



Via Facebook. They say: "Our Blueberry Pie Cupcake is back for the month of August! If you love flakey, buttery pie crust, organic blueberries, real vanilla bean buttercream and moist vanilla cake, you are going to love this Farmer's Market Blueberry Cupcake!"

Visit trophycupcakes.com for locations and more information.

Blueberry lemon cupcakes with lemon cream cheese frosting and recipe link

I love how fresh these cupcakes from How Does She look! Click through for the recipe. Sarah writes: I really can’t think of a better flavor partner for blueberries than lemon. For this recipe, make sure that your ingredients are all at room temperature. No cheating or you could have some extra lumpiness and toughness to deal with.

Strawberry cupcakes with strawberry buttercream and a mini strawberry on top!

These cupcakes are by blogger Chelsea at Cupcake Adventures, via Flickr.

She writes:

Because strawberries have so much moisture in them, my past buttercream attempts turned out more like a glaze instead of a sturdy frosting. This time I made it just right. I chopped up the strawberries and drained them until any extra liquid was gone...then mixed them in with the butter and powdered sugar. Each cupcake has a fondant strawberry on top.

Strawberry inside a cupcake, and it's shaped like a heart!

I love love love these strawberry-filled cupcakes by Tiffany Steinke on Flickr, which were made for the SugarSlam 2011 Bakeoff by Bake & Destroy. The deadline just passed, sorry I didn't get to post about it sooner.