Very cute milk and cookies mini cupcakes from Baked by Melissa, this month only

I checked out the new flavor of the month at mini cupcake bakery Baked by Melissa in New York, at their Union Square location. This cute cookie-studded cupcake is very sweet, and tastes indeed like milk, but like milk after your sugar cereal has been sitting in it for a long time. And the cake is the whitest cake I've ever seen. This works in mini form, but I think would be too much in a bigger cupcake. I've found that their special limited edition month-long flavors are usually my favorites. And they're only $1 each (cheaper if you buy more). See bakedbymelissa.com for more information; they also ship nationwide.



Milk and cookies mini cupcakes:

















with a red velvet in the middle











Other cupcakes:

New cupcake bakery opens today, free mini cupcakes Friday 12-4 at new Larchmont, New York bakery Sweet and Social

A new cupcake bakery is opening today in Larchmont, New York! Their official site is sweetandsocial.com and you can also follow them on Twitter and Facebook. Contact them at 914-630-4834 for more information.



Sweet and Social is celebrating its grand opening and support of the Larchmont community thus far with two days of sweet treats. On Thursday, Mayor Joshua Mandell will be in store for a ribbon cutting (and cookie breaking!) ceremony followed by an afternoon of giveaways and raffles. Enjoy free mini cupcakes between 12-4:00 p.m. (while supplies last) and enter to win an assortment of prizes including free menu items on both Thursday and Friday.

Colorful mini cupcake wrappers and pretty dots

Visit blog the decorated cookie for a template on how to make these mini cupcake wrappers and instructions!



Also? Meaghan of The Decorated Cookie is writing a book for Harlequin. You can follow her on Flickr and @DecoratedCookie on Twitter and on Facebook.

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!

Rice Krispie Treat Mini Cupcakes - with TUTORIAL LINK

Check out today's tutorial over at The Decorated Cookie on how to make these *adorable* Rice Krispie Treat Mini Cupcakes!