August 25th, 2010
Birthday Cupcakes
Today’s cupcakes go to a beautiful little girl who is turning 6!! Her Daddy just got back from Iraq and this birthday is going to be a super special one for her!
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August 24th, 2010
Ask the Baker: Betsy Eves of JavaCupcake
JavaCupcake Note: This is the 16th and last post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed.
August 19th, 2010
Cupcake Tweet-Up at New York Cupcakes
Monday was a GREAT DAY! I had not just one great Tweet Up, but TWO! A Military Wife Tweet Up and a Cupcake Tweet Up! Can’t beat that with a bat!
August 17th, 2010
Ask the Baker: Lev Ekster of Cupcake Stop
JavaCupcake Note: This is the 15th post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back on Tuesdays for a new interview!
August 12th, 2010
JavaCupcake on Cupcakes Take the Cake!
HOLY COW!!! I’ve written a post for the blog, Cupcakes Take the Cake!! If you haven’t heard of CTTC, well… let me tell you that it is the biggest, more reputable, famous, important, been on the Martha Stewart Show, cupcake blog out there!!! What an HONOR this is for me!
August 10th, 2010
Ask the Baker: Karla Jennings of Sugar Cupcakery
JavaCupcake Note: This is the 14th post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back on Tuesdays for a new interview!
August 7th, 2010
Mini Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes
It’s been over three months… three long months since I’ve baked a cupcake. Today, I reclaimed my excitement, desire, and drive to bake again thanks to an old friend who called and asked me to make cupcakes for an upcoming bridal shower.
August 3rd, 2010
Guest Blogger: Sylvia of A Baked Creation shares her mouth-watering Reese’s Pieces cupcakes
JavaCupcake Note: This is a guest blog post from Sylvia of A Baked Creation. She has so many amazing recipes that look so good I want to crawl thru my computer and EAT THEM! hehe You can also find her on Twitter!
July 27th, 2010
Jubilee Cupcakes & Vintage Candy opens in Tacoma, WA
Two months ago I visited Sweet Things Cupcakes in the Proctor District of North Tacoma, WA. A quaint little cupcake and vintage clothing shop nestled in an old Tacoma house.
July 27th, 2010
Ask the Baker – Sabrina of The Immortal Bakery
JavaCupcake Note: This is the 12th post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back on Tuesdays for a new interview!
July 13th, 2010
Ask the Baker: Porche Lovely of Lovely Confections Bakery
JavaCupcake Note: This is the 11th post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back every Tuesday for a new interview!
July 10th, 2010
Portland Cupcake Crawl: Saint Cupcake
Our third stop in our Portland Cupcake Crawl, Saint Cupcake, was the only shop that I had heard about before coming down to Portland. Saint Cupcake is located at 407 nw 17th ave @ flanders, portland oregon 97209. You can also find Saint Cupcake on Facebook!
July 5th, 2010
Portland Cupcake Crawl: Sweetpea Baking Company
Our second stop on our Portland Cupcake Crawl was the vegan bake shop Sweetpea Baking Company located 1205 SE Stark St, Portland, OR 97214. Sweetpea makes from scratch, everyday, 100% Vegan cupcakes and other baked creations! You can find Sweetpea on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and Flickr too!
July 2nd, 2010
July 2010 Cupcake of the Month
This month’s Cupcake of the Month comes from Food Network’s Cupcake Wars winner Chef Chloe Coscarelli and is her “Chocolate Strawberry Shortcake” cupcake – 100% Vegan!
June 22nd, 2010
Ask the Baker: Sarah Smallwood of Life is Sweet
JavaCupcake Note: This is the tenth post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back every Tuesday for a new interview!
June 15th, 2010
Ask the Baker: Rebecca Treherne of Alice in Cakeland
JavaCupcake Note: This is the ninth post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back every Tuesday for a new interview!
June 11th, 2010
Portland Cupcake Crawl: Bliss Bake Shop
The first stop on our Portland Cupcake Crawl was Bliss Bake Shop located at 4708 Northwest Bethany Boulevard, Portland, OR. What a treat this was too… it couldn’t have been a better place to begin our crawl!
June 8th, 2010
Ask the Baker: Jamie of My Baking Addiction
JavaCupcake Note: This is the eighth post in a series titled, “Ask the Baker” featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners!
June 1st, 2010
Ask the Baker: Rhienn Davis of Look Cupcake
JavaCupcake Note: This is the seventh post in a series titled, “Ask the Baker” featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners!
May 6th, 2010
Rest & Relaxation
My husband will be home any day!! I can’t believe either…. Eight months apart and in just days, I’ll be in his arms again for what will be the most amazing 15 days of my life!
May 4th, 2010
Ask the Baker: Jessie Oleson of CakeSpy
JavaCupcake Note: This is the sixth post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. This is the last interview until June! My husband is coming HOME and “Ask the Baker” will be taking a break!
April 27th, 2010
Ask the Baker: Clara of I Heart Cuppycakes
JavaCupcake Note: This is the fifth post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back every Tuesday for a new interview!
April 21st, 2010
Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes
It’s SPRING and I’ve got the FEVER! Fresh fruit is everywhere and I am buying a lot of it! I had about a flat of strawberries and these beautiful lemons in my kitchen and an itch to come up with a new recipe.
April 20th, 2010
Ask the Baker – Monica of Two Parts Sugar
JavaCupcake Note: This is the fourth post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back every Tuesday for a new interview!
April 15th, 2010
Guest Blogger: Katherine Shares Her Secrets to Taking Amazing Cupcake Photos
Katherine Moore is a friend I met through the power of Twitter and social media. We realized quickly that we lived only a few miles from each other and had a lot in common… our husbands are both deployed and we both have a love for cupcakes!
April 14th, 2010
Review: Cupcakes at Safeco Field
Opening Day at Safeco Field was AMAZING!!! (And not just because of the baseball!) As I arrived to the Stadium, the very first thing I did was go straight to Section 185 for the cupcakes I had heard so much about!
April 13th, 2010
Ask the Baker: Carrie & David of Crumb
JavaCupcake Note: This is the third post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back every Tuesday for a new interview!
April 10th, 2010
Cupcake Camp was a Success!
Cupcake Camp Seattle has come and gone and I have to say… I HAD A BLAST! I brought about 200 homemade “Tree Hugger Apple” cupcakes to the event and they were gone in about 20 minutes!
April 6th, 2010
Gluten Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
For some crazy reason (that has everything nothing to do with Aunt Flo being in town) I have been craving peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
April 6th, 2010
Ask the Baker – Foiled Cupcakes
JavaCupcake Note: This is the second post in the “Ask the Baker” series featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! Click here to see the complete list of bakers being interviewed. Check back every Tuesday for a new interview!
April 5th, 2010
Easter Cupcakes
To go along with the bunny cakes, I decorated some super cute cupcakes for Easter. I used my White Butter cupcakes with Vanilla buttercream recipe for these yummies!
March 30th, 2010
Ask the Baker – Kari Haskell of Retro Bakery
JavaCupcake Note: This is the first post in a series titled, “Ask the Baker” featuring interviews with bakers and bakery owners! I met Kari in August of 2009 when my husband and I went on a little vacation to Vegas! Her bakery is charming and her cupcakes are divine! Thank you Kari for doing this [...]
March 26th, 2010
Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes
JavaCupcake Note: This is a re-post of a recipe from Culinary Concoctions by Peabody! She has so many amazing recipes for bakers, you’ll have to check them all out!
March 21st, 2010
Emme’s Banana Bread
My daughter Emily has always loved being in the kitchen with me and today, while we were washing the dishes before we started she says to me, “Mom, I love it when we’re in the kitchen together. Even if we’re just doing dishes or we’re baking cupcakes, I really like spending time with you in [...]
March 21st, 2010
Guest Blogger Judy shares her recipe for Spring Flower Cupcakes
JavaCupcake Note: This is a guest post from Judy in Her Natural Habitat: The Kitchen. You can find more great recipes from her on her blog… she’s got lots of great cupcake recipes!
March 19th, 2010
Whole Wheat Blueberry Scones
Yesterday I made Brown Sugar Chocolate Scones and realized that I could use this basic recipe to make any flavor of scones! So I went to the Metropolitan Market and picked up some blueberries and some whole wheat flour! I was going to make a healthier scone full of delicious berries!
March 19th, 2010
Brown Sugar Chocolate Scones
Evil Shenanigans is one of my favorite blogs to follow, so when she posted the recipe for Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Scones from SCRATCH I knew I had to make them!
March 10th, 2010
“Rainy Day Gal” makes Girl Scout Cookie Cupcakes
JavaCupcake Note: This is a re-post from Jenny of the blog Rainy Day Girl! Be sure to check out all her other delicious creations… she’s got a lot!
February 28th, 2010
Chocolate Mint Cupcakes
Yesterday’s mini cupcake disaster inspired me to turn the rest of the chocolate batter into perfect regular size cupcakes. I was able to salvage enough for 21 perfect Chocolate Mint cupcakes.
February 28th, 2010
How to make Mint Buttercream (video)
While making cupcakes tonight, I decided to try out my new iPod Nano video and make a buttercream tutorial. It’s my very first video tutorial! The video is “How to make Mint Buttercream”! Enjoy
