Festive pina colada cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and filling, topped with a pineapple chunk and a cherry

Food blogger Beantown Baker made these pina colada cupcakes back in March, but they stood out to me and are festive so I thought I'd post them now, click above for the recipe for the coconut cake and cream cheese frosting and filling. And if you want her new go-to chocolate cupcake recipe, click here.



From the post:

I used festive cupcake liners and topped each with a pineapple chunk and cherry. The toasted coconut on the outside added some great nuttiness and texture to the cupcake overall.

Chocolate chip cookie filled cupcakes and recipe link!

Brandy of Brandy's Baking, in a guest post at the blog Alli N Son posted these chocolate chip cookie filled cupcakes, along with the recipe! She writes:

Can’t decide between a chocolate cupcake and a chocolate chip cookie? I don’t know about you, but I find myself in this predicament quite frequently. This little cupcake is the solution–have both! It’s a very tasty chocolate cupcake topped with vanilla buttercream, mini-chocolate chips and an itty-bitty chocolate chip cookie. That’s not all though! There’s a delicious bit of chocolate chip cookie dough baked in the center of the cupcake.

3 easy steps to Core & Fill cupcakes

Recently, I made Caramel Apple cupcakes where I needed to core and fill both mini and regular size cupcakes. I realized how simple the process was and decided to take a few pictures so I could share the process with you.

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Mini Cupcakes
Tools: 
Apple corer
Piping bag

3 Steps:
-Press the apple corer into the center of the mini cupcake.  Twist gently and pull out the center piece of cake.
-Fill a piping bag with your mixture, cut off the tip so you have about a 1cm opening.
-Pipe the mixture into the cupcake just until it reaches the top.

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Standard Cupcakes
Tools: 
Sharp knife
Mini ice cream scoop

3 Steps:
-Using a sharp knife, cut a cone out of the center of each cupcake.  Make sure the knife goes almost to the bottom of the cupcake when cutting the cone.  Trim off the bottom of the cone so what you have left is a flat top.
-Using the mini ice cream scoop, scoop a dollop of filling into each cupcake until it's full.
-Replace the flat top of cake back on top of the filling and press down until it's flat.

Magnolia Bakery selling peanut butter and grape jelly cupcake; will set up icing bar in Bloomingdale's in LA

Wow! For the peanut butter cupcake lovers, here's some good news from Magnolia Bakery, via Facebook:

Introducing our new Peanut Butter Cupcake: Rich peanut butter cake topped with peanut butter buttercream and filled with a smidgen of grape jelly.



We'll have more cupcake and Fashion's Night Out coverage soon, but here's a little teaser from Magnolia Bakery in Los Angeles, from the Los Angeles Times food blog Daily Dish:

Couture + Cupcakes: Fashion's Night Out is happening Thursday at the Beverly Center. Magnolia Bakery will set up shop -- an icing bar -- at Bloomingdale's where guests can choose from their rainbow of iced offerings. For every cupcake sold at Fashion's Night Out, Magnolia will donate 50 cents to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. 8522 Beverly Blvd., L.A., beverlyFacebook, filled cupcakes, inside the cupcake, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and jelly cupcakes, Bloomingdale's, cupcakes in the news, Magnolia Bakery, Los Angeles, icing, Fashion's Night Out, center.com.

Cookie dough cupcakes with cookie dough buttercream frosting, and recipe link

For the cookie dough fans out there (I'm one - I love raw cookie dough, though haven't had any in years, must fix that), check out Chef in Training for the recipe for these doubly cookie dough goodness cupcakes!

Chocolate chip cherry cupcakes

This top cupcake has cherry chocolate chip cake, plus cherry frosting and Heath bar frosting! Whoa...By bakery Dollop in Penfield, New York, via their Facebook page.

The Cat in the Hat cupcakes, featuring marshmallow birthday cakes, edible blue glitter hair and peanut butter and jelly, by Amanda Cupcake!

Wow! Blogger and custom cupcake baker Amanda Cupcake has done it again with her The Cat in The Hat Dr. Seuss inspired cupcakes! See more on her fabulous blog and find out how she used marshmallows, frosting on sticks and peanut butter and jelly to make these, and see more photos in this Facebook set and on Flickr. Happy 5th birthday, Brady! If you are in Wisconsin and would like to place a custom Amanda Cupcake order, you can email her at msamandacupcake at gmail.com - I always look forward to seeing more of her work!





Cat in a tall marshmallow hat!







cat closeup







hat closeup







Thing 1 and Thing 2 (and an extra Thing)







The edible blue glitter hair deserves a closeup, don't you think?







peanut butter and jelly inside the Thing cupcakes!













a marshmallow on top of a cupcake, designed to look like a birthday cake - so meta, and giving the birthday boy the best of all worlds!

Strawberry Fig Newton in a cupcake!

Blogger Bake It in a Cake baked a strawberry Fig Newton in a vanilla bean cupcake with strawberry cream cheese frosting! Get the recipe here.

Earthquake cupcakes plus recipe link

Some of us in the U.S. felt an earthquake yesterday, so here's a link to a recipe for earthquake cupcakes by blogger Tasty Triumphs, who says these are kindof like German chocolate cake!

Peach cobbler and lemon meringue filled cupcakes at Molly's Cupcakes = yum yum yum!

I visited the new New York version of Molly's Cupcakes (see Nichelle's post about their opening, which is one of the most spacious cupcake bakeries in New York City and has what looks like the same flavors and much of the same design (sprinkle bar, swings) as the Chicago branch. Full writeup coming soon, but I loved the peach cobbler cupcake best (on top) and also the lemon meringue! $3.75 a cupcake is high for New York, and definitely adds up, plus these are sweet and big generally, so I recommend sharing with a friend or two!













peach cobbler cupcake, with an extra closeup of all the peach cobbler goodness - this had the best elements of everything, with fresh peach on top and it was chilled and the crumbly part was my favorite!









lemon meringue cupcake, outside and inside

Molly's Cupcakes Now Open In New York City

Good Golly, Miss Molly is here! Molly's Cupcakes is a very popular Chicago bakery that has expanded to New York. Molly's Cupcakes has opened on 228 Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. Instead of a big grand opening Wolfie the owner opted for a soft opening. I stopped by Friday afternoon and sampled a few of their centerfilled cupcakes.





Boston Creme Pie Cupcake





Check out the creamy filling inside. These are cupcakes that could be eaten with a knife and a fork especially if you are sharing.





The bakery case is full of fun flavors and they rotate.





While there, you can play some board games. Molly stays open until 10PM on weekdays and midnight on weekends. Follow their Molly's New York twitter for updates.

Gooey salted caramel cupcakes plus recipe link

Blogger Sweet Tooth Lulu made these salted caramel cupcakes from the cookbook Martha Stewart's Cupcakes. Visit her blog to get the recipe and read about her journey (including a mishap) making these!

Chocolate Oreo peanut butter cupcakes!

These chocolate Oreo peanut butter cupcakes (!!) are by Bella's Bakery in Devon, UK, via Twitpic, who can be reached at maidindevon at live.co.uk.

Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom cartoon character cupcakes and strawberry tea filled cupcakes

These are Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom cupcakes, by Victorious Cupcakes via Flickr. It's a Nick, Jr. UK show (no, I didn't know that, I Googled!)These aren't for sale, but there are tutorials online; check out their Facebook page.



These filled strawberry tea cupcakes for breast cancer awareness also caught my eye - so colorful! Ge the recipe here.

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.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice makes "Holy Cannoli" cupcakes at cookbook signing

From Patch.com:

Fans lined up around the block, and the large crowd was directed by Verona Police as well as private security people retained by the bakery.

During the signing, DiPaolo was in the kitchen preparing countless batches of "Holy Cannoli" cupcakes, which the bakery gave out in pairs to the assembled fans. When asked how many free cupcakes were given away in total, DiPaolo said he lost track after 650 boxes. The bakery even raffled off a fondant cake, valued at $500, to one lucky winner.

The recipe, he said, was borrowed from Giudice's cookbook, and consists of white cake stuffed with and topped with cocoa-infused cannoli cream.

I'll look into getting more info on whether there's other cupcakes in the book and maybe the recipe to repost! You can order Fabulicious!: Teresa's Italian Family Cookbook from Amazon or wherever books are sold.

Pink lemonade and filled lemon cream cupcakes, plus recipe link

Get the recipes for these pink lemonade and filled lemon cream cupcakes at the blog The Happy Life of 4 Swirled Peas!.

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.