Peanut caramel corn, Swedish fish, vegan apple cider, strawberry banana, blueberry almond struesel and butterscotch sundae cupcakes!

I was recently in Vermont visiting family and while we stopped by Essex Junction, I didn't get to try any cupcakes, but I plan to go back and will definitely visit My Little Cupcake. All of these photos and descriptions are from their Facebook page.


Peanut caramel corn cupcake: "It's a vanilla cupcake with vanilla buttercream, caramel dizzle, sprinkled peanuts, and cracker jack popcorn!"



Swedish fish cupcake



Vegan apple cider cupcake (from yesterday's vegan Tuesday special)



Strawberry banana cupcake



Butterscotch sundae cupcake



"Your taste buds will go absolutely bananas today over this blueberry almond streusel. It's a perfect combination of blueberry cake, vanilla buttercream, and homemade streusel with chopped oats and almonds."

My Little Cupcake in Vermont is hiring full-time and part-time bakers

Vermont bakery My Little Cupcake, with locations in Burlington and Essex, is hiring. Via their Facebook page:



"My Little Cupcake is hiring...within the next month, we need to hire 2 full-time bakers (one for essex, one for burlington), 2 part-time bakers (one for essex, one for burlington) and 6 part-time counter positions (all in burlington). Bakers MUST be able to pipe frosting from a bag using various tips and will be asked to do so during the interview. If interested, please come to the bakery in essex (mon-fri) and fill out an application. No phone calls or emails, please."



I'm going to Vermont soon, so hopefully I'll get to taste them. They have vegan Tuesday, featuring lots of vegan cupcakes. Visit mylittlecupcakevt.com for more information and see their flavor listings for the full variety.



And some fun cupcake photos of theirs, also via Facebook:

















vegan red velvet cupcake

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!

Video: How to make raw vegan cupcakes with Shannonmarie from Rawdorable and her kids!

I've been a fan of the raw food blog Rawdorable and their beautiful cupcakes for a while, and now I've discovered blogger Shannonmarie has videos! Here she has her son filming and her daughter "helping" and walks you step by step through making a raw vegan cupcake inspired by TV. I'm not gonna lie: hearing her talk to her kids while also dishing out cupcake instructions is my favorite part of this video! I also like that she doesn't speed through it, she tells you why she's using each ingredient and how it works. Yes, this is a long video, but I'd rather watch a longer video that walks you through each step than one that leaves things to the imagination. I also like that these are unusual (liquid aminos! paprika! cayenne!). Plus it's funny ("you don't even know what bacon is, you think it's a funny word"). And Happy Anniversary to Shannonmarie and her husband and good job to her son on being a videographer.



If you're not the video type, you can get not just one but two cupcake recipes over at Rawdorable, photos below. They're a strawberry lemonade cupcake and a Maple Fakin' cupcake.

Vegan cupcakes galore at AriGateaux in Montreal, Quebec

These cupcakes are all by Montreal, Quebec (Canada) vegan cupcake company AriGateaux, via their Facebook page. They can also be reached at 514-567-4154 or mariko at arigateaux.ca and are located at7787 rue LaJeunesse, Montreal, QC H2R 2J5.











Here are their specialty flavors ($30/dozen) - see their site for full menu:

Cookie Heart
Chocolate cake with a chocolate chip cookie dough “heart”, chocolate frosting
Green Tea

Moist and tangy matcha cake with flecks of green tea leaves, topped with a green tea glaze

Strawberries & Cream
Moist white cake with fresh strawberry chunks and an extra creamy strawberry frosting

Masala Chai
Chai tea spice cake topped with cardamon “cream” frosting

Lime In the Coconut
Lime zest and coconut swirl in a subtle coconut cake, topped with coco-lime frosting

Maple Crunch
Pure maple syrup spice cake with maple sugar crunchies and rich maple frosting

Banoffee
Sweet banana cake, vegan dulce del leche filling, coffee kissed vanilla frosting

Cocoa-Mint Cream
Chocolate brownie cake with mint “cream” filling & frosting and chocolate sprinkles

Mexican Hot Chocolate
Extra rich chocolate cake with a hint of cayenne, topped with toasted vegan marshmallow

These cupcakes are all gluten-free, vegan and allergy-friendly!

These cupcakes are by Philadelphia's Sweet Freedom Bakery via their Facebook page. You can also follow them @sfbakery on Twitter. More about them:

Not only are our goodies gluten-free and vegan (dairy-free, egg-free) but we are kosher, corn-free, wheat-free, peanut-free, soy-free, casein-free and use no refined sugars.


Brownie Sundae (as seen on Cupcake Wars)
Brownie Cupcake topped with Chocolate & Vanilla frosting, chocolate ganache & chocolate chips.



French Toast Cupcakes with Maple Syrup sprinkled with cinnamon~cupcakes for breakfast!



Orange Cupcake with Chocolate Ganache



Samoa (like the girl scout cookies)
Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate & Caramel filling, Vanilla frosting, toasted coconut



Banana Split~
Banana Cupcake with Strawberry filling, Vanilla Frosting topped with Chocolate Ganache & more vanilla frosting.

Sweet Freedom Bakery
1424 South Street (between Broad and 15th)
Philadelphia, PA 19146
215-545-1899
sweetfreedombakery at gmail.com