Junior Mint cupcakes and recipe link

Blogger Piper at Got It, Cook It made these Junior Mint cupcakes. Get the recipe at her blog, where she writes:

The cupcakes are dark chocolate and super moist, but the frosting is the thing.
The thing that you want more of.
The thing you want to eat with your fingers, a spoon, a bucket.
So light and delicious whipped cream frosting with a hint of peppermint.
Cool and refreshing, and totally yummy!

Kids 12 and under can win a prize for best cupcake decorating at Little Pearl Cupcake's Sprinkle Station

Little Pearl Cupcake in Grand Rapids, Michigan is hosting a Sprinkle Station at their bakery through October 9th, with an Art Prize for the best decorated cupcake. Here's one example, from their Facebook page. Fun! Anyone can do this with some Halloween candy and a little imagination, too, at home or at a picnic or anywhere. Visit littlepearlcupcake.com for more information.



And these are their Halloween cake pops, available for special order:



And for those who are like "Halloween, whatever," here's their caramel apple cupcake:

Adorable chocolate spider cupcake toppers

How fun are these? Yum! More Halloween cupcake fun, this time from blogger The Decorated Cookie, where you can find out what to do with these ingredients to make these sweet toppers: chocolate chips, disposable decorating bag, lollipop sticks, candy eyes, scissors, baking tray, wax paper. Via Flickr.

Bacon, egg and maple buttermilk pancake cupcakes! Plus recipe link.

Whoa! Bacon, egg and pancake cupcakes! They're by blogger The YouFinder (via Neatorama).

Light saber cupcakes!

Via @thinkgeek on Twitpic.

Elmo cupcakes with orange jelly bean noses

These cute Elmo cupcakes are by blogger Never Dessert You (via Flickr).

Alien UFO cupcakes for 2nd birthday!

How cool are these UFO cupcakes by Jamieanne of The Sweetest Kitchen (via Flickr)? They were made for her son's 2nd birthday, inspired by Donna Hay. They're chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream.

Strawberry ice cream cone, Rolo and Cherry Coke cupcakes by Katiecakes!

These fun cupcakes are all by blogger Katiecakes - click through on each photo below for the blog post, more photos and the recipe!





Strawberry ice cream cone cupcakes





Rolo cupcakes





Cherry Coke cupcakes

Rolo cupcakes and monkey cupcake wrappers

Rolo cupcakes (Rolo flavored Cupcakes with caramel butter-cream frosting, topped with chocolate ganache and a Rolo Candy) and gluten free chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting in monkey cupcake wrapper with fondant bananas on top by Lucylupop's Kitchen, via Flickr.

Gooey chocolate chip cookie cupcakes, plus drumstick, caramel latte, oreo, peach and cupcake-topped cupcake!

Bonus day-after-National-Chocolate-Chip-Day cupcakes! These are by Ventura County, California custom cupcake maker Fatgirl Baking Company, who you can reach at ilovecupcakes31 at gmail.com and also find @FatgirlBaking on Twitter and on Facebook.






Click here for more ordering information. From their info page:

I provide FREE delivery of my cakes anywhere in Oxnard or Port Hueneme. There's also free delivery to certain parts of Ventura (near the 101 freeway).
I will deliver up to Santa Barbara, down to Thousand Oaks, Camarillo, Santa Paula or Fillmore for an extra delivery fee

And because I couldn't resist, 5 more of their cupcake creations. Photos and captions via Facebook:


Cookies & Cream Cupcake: Vanilla cake mixed w/oreo cookie goodness covered w/oreo cookie vanilla buttercream, finsihed off w/a mini Oreo cookie garnish



The Drumstick Cupcake: Vanilla cupcake w/vanilla buttercream frosting, covered in chocolate ganache and topped with roasted peanuts!



Caramel Latte Cupcake: Caramel-laced vanilla cupcakes w/coffee buttercream, caramel and a chocolate/caramel candy (aka milk dud) on top :)



"Peachy Hollie" - Peach tea infused cupcake w/peach pieces sprinkled throughout; cinnamon-sugar crumb topping and a brown sugar caramel drizzle for good luck



and last but not least...Cupcake...cupcake! Vanilla caked topped with a MOUND of vanilla swiss meringue buttercream frosting AND topped w/a mini Reese's peanut butter cup AND THAT'S topped w/a little bit of vanilla meringue buttercream, sprinkles and a candy "cherry" for good luck

What's inside these chocolate peanut butter cupcakes?

More chocolate peanut butter in the form of a mini dark chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter cup baked inside! Get the recipe and instructions for filled candy cupcake yummines from blogger Curry and Comfort.

2012 Olympic cupcakes with candy colors by Local Sugar

The latest from London custom cupcake company Local Sugar, via Facebook. Love the cupcake toppers! Contact Melissa at melissa at ilovelocalsugar.com for more information. I predict 2012 will mean Olympic cupcake mania!

Harry Potter Butterbeer Cupcake and Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans Cupcake

More Harry Potter cupcakes: butterbeer (isn't that just fun to say?) and Bertie Botts Every Flavour Jelly Beans! These are by Manchester, UK company Jellytots & Dollymixtures, via Flickr. Find out more at their website and Facebook page and follow them @JellytotsDolly on Twitter.



And in non-Harry Potter cupcake news, also by Jellytots & Dollymixtures, a huge, beautiful red velvet cupcake cake with flowers on top surrounded by smaller cupcakes!

Cheesecake on top of a cupcake, marshmallow heart and more by Clyde's Cupcakes

These cupcakes are all by Clyde's Cupcakes in Exeter, New Hampshire, via their Facebook page. I'm not personally a huge cheesecake fan but I admire the ingenuity that comes with putting a mini slice of cheesecake (and chocolate!) on top of a cupcake. Find out more at clydescupcakes.com.








This is actually a s'mores cupcake with (I think) licorice on top!

A cute Hello Kitty cupcake with candy bow!

Hello Kitty cupcake cuteness by le fluff le puff on Flickr.

Jelly bean cupcakes (and a huge cupcake cake with edible jelly bean liner) gone wild by the one and only Amanda Cupcake!

No offense to the other entrants in the Jelly Belly Cupcake Challenge (I haven't seen any other entries), but I would vote for food blogger Amanda Cupcake, who made not just one but three outrageous cupcake jelly bean entries! Wow. I'm in awe. And I want the s'mores one! Do check out her post for more on these spectacular entries. Photos via Flickr, captions in italics by Amanda Cupcake. The 5 finalists will be announced July 18th!


Giant Cupcake with an Edible Jelly Belly Liner. This whole thing is a cupcake. But the Liner is made out of Edible Candy Melts. (I molded it using a giant cupcake pan) Then I "glued" each Jelly Belly to the Cupcake liner using melted chocolate.


Jelly Belly s'mores cupcake with toasted marshmallow jelly beans


Amanda's description: I made a "blue velvet" cupcake that tastes like a blueberry jelly belly. The cupcake itself is blue. The frosting is blue. Decorated with a delicious carmelized candy bridge, some blueberry Jelly Belly beans..and topped with a fresh blueberry!

What big eyes you have, owl cupcake!

Once again, owl cupcakes prove they have giant cookie eyes and are totally adorable! This one's by Pamela Napoli on Flickr, who also takes photos for T.H.E. Fitzgerald Photography.



Pamela's Flickr caption:

I made these owl cupcakes for my dad's birthday last weekend. He collects owls (we're talking like 100X as many owls as I have Hello Kitties!) Anyway, these are chocolate cupcakes with dark chocolate frosting, Oreo cookies for eyes and ears, Junior Mint eyeballs, and banana Runts for beaks. I used a patriotic cupcake paper with red and blue stars since it was 4th of July weekend :)

Orange creamsicle cupcake and recipe link

This orange creamsicle cupcake comes to us via Yum Sugar, where user Nestingproject writes:

In honor of Florida I decided to make an orange creamsicle flavored cupcake. I used my favorite recipe from Nigella: the delicious and easy Fairycake recipe from her cookbook How to Be a Domestic Goddess. Then I added orange flavoring to the icing and the cupcake batter. Top it off with a candied orange slice and we are good to go.