Try to top this back to school cupcake: peanut butter and jelly heart sandwich on top of a peanut butter cupcake!

Okay, blogger and custom cupcake seller Amanda Cupcake has officially made me wish I would win the lottery and could have her cupcakes every day. Look at this!



There's more details on her blog, where she's got the recipe. Photos via Flickr. It's:

"A Peanut Butter Cupcake. Peanut Butter Frosting. Swirled with Strawberry Jelly. And a Sandwich. Lunch & Dessert all in one."



If you're in Wisconsin, you can order your own! Email msamandacupcake at gmail.com for ordering information.

Polkatots Cupcakes launches iPhone app, serves up bee cupcake cake

Polkatots Cupcakes in Pasadena, California, makes all sorts of amazingly fun cupcake cakes, like the bee cupcake cake below. They've also just launched their own iPhone app, joining a handful of other cupcake bakeries with iPhone apps. You can keep up with them on their Facebook page and at www.polkatotscupcakes.com/.



Here's the official iPhone app description:

At Polkatots Cupcakes, located at Pasadena, California, we decided to go mobile! With this fresh app you can check our menu flavors, our flavors of the month, directions to get to our bakery and even call us from the app. But the best of all is that now you can ask directly to our cupcake characters predictions of your present and immediate future! Have fun and get to know them. From time to time, and depending on your mood, they will even surprise you with free cupcakes and free gifts! Isn’t that sweet?

What you will find:

-Menu: check our flavors before arriving to the store and get familiar with them.

-Cupcakes Fortune Teller and FREE CUPCAKES: ask our fortune cupcakes your predictions, shake your device, and they will answer you: depending on the day they might even cheer you up with free Polkatots Cupcakes from the cutest bakery in Pasadena. Keep asking them everyday!

-Locations: Get driving directions and contact info.

Isn't this bee cupcake cake adorable?



And they've got two new cupcakes on the menu: peanut butter and jelly and Pasadena!

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.

Huckleberry & Peanut Butter and Jam from Cupcake Royale

Every season, Cupcake Royale in Seattle, WA, comes out with some super delicious seasonal flavors.  This year they have brought back their Huckleberry Cupcake.  On their blog they describe this cupcake...

"We fold in fresh, local huckleberries (fresh, as in they were picked for us this past weekend) into our vanilla cupcake and top it with a huckleberry buttercream frosting."


Can we say YUM?

Cupcake Royale's newest cupcake is the Peanut Butter and Jam cupcake!  I love this combo! It's available through September at all of their locations.  Cupcake Royale tells us...

"This classic combo has our vanilla cupcake, filled with fresh local strawberry jam (fresh, as in they made it last week) topped with a super fluffy, salty peanut butter buttercream. Sprinkled with chopped peanuts and a coarse sugar and sea salt."

A back-to-school cupcake party!

Jennifer Shea of Trophy Cupcakes in Seattle, WA shares her tips for making perfect back to school cupcakes!