Sweet potato cupcakes, Samoa, cotton candy, cute dog, salted caramel crunch and more from Sweet B Cupcakes in Cour d'Alene, Idaho

Sweet B Cupcakes in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho is getting ready for fall--and Thanksgiving (!!)--with their special seasonal cupcake flavors. Photos and captions via their Facebook page.





Sweet potato cupcake: "It is a playful rendition of a favorite Thanksgiving side dish complete with marshmallow cream frosting toasted to order...and topped with candied walnuts."



cookies and cream cupcake



Doggies!



Salted Caramel Crunch- A chocolate toffee cake filled with salted caramel and topped with a ganache dipped caramel buttercream drizzled with caramel.



On the left we have Cotton Candy, a vanilla cupcake topped with a cotton candy butter-cream swirl! And on the right we have our Bubble Gum cupcake, a vanilla cupcake with a bubblegum butter-cream topped with a gumball!



Samoa cupcake



White chocolate raspberry cupcake

Sweet B Cupcakes
501 Sherman ave
Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814
208-704-2506
SweetBcupcakes at gmail.com

5 kinds of edible leaf cupcake toppers for fall

It's fall, which means leaves turning colors, Halloween and Thanksgiving around the corner, pumpkin cupcakes and other seasonal fun, including fall leaves cupcake toppers. Here are five examples we found on Etsy - click through on photo to be taken to the sales page.


Fall fondant maple leaves cupcake toppers by Etsy seller cakesandmoredly, 12 for $12. Listing is for 3 of each color show, they are approximately 1 1/2 inches tall. "Each order is hand made and will be unique, so there may be some minor differences between the stars pictured and the ones you receive."



Fall leaf monogrammed cupcake topper by Etsy seller FancyCakeArt, 12 for $14, choice of monogram letter and date. "Each leaf measures about 2.5" tall/wide. The leafs are made from fondant, royal icing, and topped off with edible sugar glitter."



Lot of 12 variegated leaves, they are about 1 inch long and 1 inch wide, spray colored in all edible colors made of fondant by Etsy seller craftyrosy, $6



Fall leaves fondant cupcake toppers dusted with bronze pearl dust by Etsy seller LittleSugarTops, 24 for $6



Edible Leaves are made from wafer paper (potato starch, water and vegetable oil) printed with FDA approved 100% edible ink on a printer that is used exclusively for edible items, 1.5-2 inches, by Etsy seller CakesbyChristi, 24 for $9.95

Starlight Mints cupcakes, fall corn on the cob and mini marshmallow monster cupcakes by Cupcake Cruise presenters Karen Tack and Alan Richardson

Exciting 2012 Cupcake Cruise news: very soon you'll be able to purchase tickets at www.cupcakecruise.com! We've also set up a Facebook page and @cupcakecruise on Twitter to keep you posted as we book presenters and have more information.

Two of our workshop presenters will be Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, authors of the bestselling cookbooks Hello, Cupcake and What's New, Cupcake?, as well as the forthcoming Cupcakes, Cookies, and Pie, Oh My!. Visit their fabulous cupcake decorating blog to find out how to make these holiday Starlight Mints cupcakes and corn on the cob cupcakes, plus monster cupcakes for Halloween (Photo courtesy Taste of Home Magazine, copyright 2010, search cupcakes on Taste of Home's site for decorating tips) plus lots more!

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.

Chocolate pretzel amazingness, Harry Potter butterbeer cupcakes and much more by The Confectioneress

These cupcakes are all by bakery The Confectioneress in Zionsville, Indiana, who you can find on Facebook and Flickr, both of which are the sources for these gorgeous cupcakes. Today's cupcakes are coffee & cream, chocolate covered cherry, red velvet, chocolate/choc, chocolate/van, vanilla/van, vanilla/choc, maple bacon, almond amaretto latte, chocolate pb, cookie dough, coconut snowball, hummingbird, & malted vanilla caramel. Also: "End of the week special! If you dine in, you can get a cupcake & a drink for only $4. That includes any of the flavors of homemade Italian cream sodas, hot or iced coffee, hot or iced loose leaf tea, or any of our gourmet sodas!"


B&W pretzel cupcake


that's a hand-dipped chocolate cherry on top




the birthday girl picked this cupcake out for herself!


flip flop cupcakes


keeping up with the summer theme - these are leotards, but I thought they were swimsuits!


this is technically a hamburger made with macarons but it could've been made with cupcakes and is super cute so I'm including it.


med school graduation cupcakes


Last but not least, these are from last weekend: Harry Potter butterbeer cupcakes!



Confectioneress
80 Brendon Way
Zionsville, IN 46077
317-873-0880
mica at confectioneiress.com

Picnic cupcakes with bugs, burgers and watermelon on top!

These It's My Treat by Janice picnic cupcakes are so fun (and probably have the only kind of ants you'd want crawling on your cupcakes), and perfect for summer! Via Flickr. See more in this Flickr set and get more info on this Charlotte, North Carolina company on Facebook. Fondant cheeseburger for the win!