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

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!

Temptation at Sweet E's Cupcakes

I'll be buying, tasting and reviewing some of these soon, but for now, a peek at what they have at the Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard bakery Sweet E's Cupcakes:


s'mores cupcakes



apple filled cupcakes



grapefruit cupcakes



marshmallow coconut cupcakes



salted caramel cupcakes

Raspberry truffle, salted caramel, s'mores, El Diablo Mexican chocolate and ice cream sundae cupcakes!

5 gorgeous cupcakes, 5 intriguing flavors. Photos and captions from Cupcakes by the Beach in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, via their Facebook page. Visit cupcakesbythebeach.com or contact them at 850-362-6244 for more information.


Dark Raspberry Truffle. This decadent dark chocolate cake has a raspberry and ganache truffle filling, topped with a raspberry buttercream and dark chocolate swirls.



Salted Caramel. This delicious combo of salty and sweet is a cinnamon-vanilla cake, topped with luscious caramel buttercream. Drizzled with caramel and sprinkled with a pinch of sea salt




This chocolately cupcake has a chocolate chip filling and is topped with a yummy marshmallow frosting that has been hand torched.




El Diablo. Mexican chocolate cake, topped with a rich chocolate ganache frosting and dusted with red glitter sprinkles




Hot Fudge Sundae! Delicious chocolate fudge cake topped with a scoop of vanilla buttercream, drizzled with chocolate syrup and finished with a maraschino cherry!

Purple heart cupcakes will always win me over (plus peach blackberry and salted caramel)

There are certain things on a cupcake I'm an instant sucker for: Hello Kitty, marshmallows, owls (though Nichelle thinks "bees are the new owls"). Hearts are one of them! These are so simply and pretty; I love elaborate cupcakes, too, don't get me wrong, but sometimes the simply ones just speak to me. These are by custom cupcake company Angel Cakes in San Francisco, via Flickr.



Even better? Lots and lots of them. They're red velvet mini cupcakes.



I'm also pretty into these peach blackberry cupcakes:



Last but not least, chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel are their flavor of the month for July! And coming up, for their cupcake of the month club members, via their blog:

Next month the flavor will be peaches with cream cheese brown sugar frosting! And you know they will be good because California peaches are AMAZING in August. The delivery date is August 10, and you can place your order through August 8 to receive that delivery. All the info is here.



Questions? Call 510-910-5627 or email info at angelcakessf.com and you can also keep up with them on Facebook and @AngelCakesSF on Twitter.

Salted Caramel Chocolate Winner from PinkaBella

Gorgeous image of a salted caramel (yum!) chocolate cupcake from Seattle's PinkaBella Cupcakes (f/k/a Wink).








Image courtesy our friend WordOfMouth.

Stump the Cupcake Chump

It's not often that we post cupcake descriptions in Latin, but these ad hoc babies sure deserve a prize:

"Ad Hoc Chocolate Cupcakes with whipped cream, butterscotch and fleur de sel."

Are they not gorgeous? Drool-worthy.
Excellent cupcake shot courtesy gtrwndr87. Thanks!

Win a copy of cupcake cookbook Sparkle Cupcakes

More from this new cupcake cookbook next week, including two recipes, one for the salted caramel cupcakes seen below, but for now: a contest! Win a copy of Sparkle Cupcakes: The Little Black Book, the cookbook by Kathryn Sutton; to enter, go to Formstack and fill out the form there by July 18th. That is the ONLY way to enter (not as a comment here). US addresses only (sorry). You can also buy it on Amazon if you just can't wait!



More about the book:

Cupcakes make every occasion a celebration. The Little Black Book captures some of the celebrations that have been marked with a Sparkle cupcake or many. In this book, Sparkle Cupcakery shares its secret recipes- from rich red velvet Valentine’s day cupcakes to wedding day cupcakes- there’s even cupcakes for men and pupcakes for the pooch! Complete with step-by-step instructions on baking and decorating, you’ll be sparkling in no time!


salted caramel cupcakes from Sparkle Cupcakes.

Find out more about Sparkle Cupcakery on their website and Facebook page.