valentine's day Red velvet chocolate-covered strawberry and cherry cupcakes for valentine's day

BlakeyCakes in Los Angeles is baking up these valentine's day cupcakes. Via their Facebook page.

Specifically, these are:

"Red Velvet cake filled with a flowing lava of chocolate fudge inside with valentine's cream cheese frosting adorned with fresh, luscious chocolate dipped strawberries, fresh, juicy, Bing chocolate covered cherries, and even a cake-heart-cut out as a topper too!"

Email b.arias101 at hotmail.com to place an order.

valentine's day Inside filled pumpkin pie cupcakes, plus monsters and blondie crunch

Wow...these filled pumpkin pie cupcakes and the others are by Kayla's Cupcakery on Flickr are so cute! "A mini Pumpkin Pie baked into a vanilla cream cheese cake and topped with a cinnamon butter cream frosting"



And I couldn't resist these Halloween monster cupcakes:



And one more...Blondie Crunch! "Butterscotch, Toffee, and cashew crunchy cake with butterscotch butter cream topped with toffee bits." I love how high the frosting is piled here - not sure I could eat all that frosting, but I love how it looks.

valentine's day Superman, Batman and Spider Man cupcakes!

Blogger Sugar Swings! Serves Some baked these superhero cupcakes and gives you instructions on how to do it yourself!

valentine's day Snowflake, Care Bear, wedding and Scooby Doo cupcakes plus a cupcake tree (!) from i Bake Cupcakes

These cupcakes are by blogger i Bake Cupcakes, who you can also follow on Facebook, and who is baking up all kinds of adorable cupcakes, for the holidays and just for fun. Via her Flickr account.


Not only are these glittery and beautiful, they're gluten-free and cranberry, with "vanilla buttercream icing dyed blue with sprinkled white sugar and crushed clear mints on top; the snowflakes were made of fondant, white sugar and meringue."

Look inside:




gluten-free Care Bear cupcakes (read about them here)


wedding cupcakes for her best friend's wedding (read about them here)


Scooby Doo cupcakes! Click here to read about them. My personal favorite is:

Daphne Blake: Peach buttercream, orange chocolate melting wafers (hair), black icing, green fruit chew (tie).

And then, because I just couldn't resist...a spicy apple tree cupcake! It was made for Iron Cupcake: Earth last year. Wow. Just wow.

valentine's day Grinch cupcakes: peppermint chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream!

Not everyone is making Santa or reindeer cupcakes...blogger Sugar Swings! Serves Some has made Grinch cupcakes, inspired by Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Click above to read more about how she made them.









photos via her Flickr account

She writes:

....it took a little time to do the detail....but it was fun...and candy melts are great because you can do them ahead of time and store them for when you need them....did these a couple nights ago....but then got another idea.....an awful idea....a wonderful, awful idea....!

....same cupcake and icing (tinted grinch green..which btw is some kelly green to get a nice light green then add canary yellow until you get the chartreusy color)....with his mean yellow eyes and a santie hat.....

valentine's day New cupcake company: Cocoa Van Cupcake in Memphis, Tennessee

These cupcakes are all by new Memphis, Tennessee custom cupcake company Cocoa Van Cupcake, via their Facebook page.

Here are some of their seasonal flavors this month:

gingerbread: Gingerbread spice cupcake with Citrus Buttercream topped with Holiday Sprinkles

peppermint candy cane: Peppermint Infused cupcake with White Chocolate Mint Buttercream topped with Peppermint Candy Sprinkles

eggnog: Eggnog Infused cupcake with Nutmeg Buttercream











Cocoa Van Cupcake
phone: 901-417-1958
fax: 901-248-6862
iwantcocoavan at cocoavancupcake.com

valentine's day Rudolph cupcake and orange creamsicle cupcake

So the first of these cupcake photos, the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and twinkling star, is obviously seasonally appropriate. The next two, the orange creamsicle cupcakes, have nothing to do with December and everything to do with me thinking they're beautiful. They're by blogger Kelli's Cakes & Sweet Treats via her Flickr account.

valentine's day Strawberry flambé, peppermint chocolate cheesecake, and cranapple cider POP! cupcakes from LA's BlakeyCakes

When I was in LA a few weeks ago, I got to meet Blake of custom and delivery cupcake company BlakeyCakes and try his sinfully delicious banana chocolate drizzle cupcakes, which I will post about...when I can. I still haven't posted about cupcakes I tried on my visit to LA in September, that's how behind I am!

But since these are seasonal, and look amazing, I wanted to share them with you now; photos and descriptions from this Facebook album:


Strawberry Flambé
Making its way into the BlakeyCakes hall of fame, the strawberry flambé! Contained within this complex wonder is a strawberry fruit filling flambéed with Gran Marnier smacked with a dollop of custard! This wonder filling is sandwiched between two moist vanilla cakes topped with a deluge of chocolate ganache and a decadent chocolate dipped strawberry.


Holiday Peppermint Chocolate Cheesecake
This holiday cheesecake is baked with a chocolate graham cracker crust, a creamy cream cheese center with a chocolate ganache swirl, and infused with just a whisper of peppermint. The topping is your standard homemade whipped cream lightly dusted with ground up peppermint candy canes.


Cranapple Cider POP!
POP-ing with apple and cranberry goodness, these holiday cupcakes just pour forth a festivity of glee! Just imagine being able to bite into a fresh, juicy apple with hints of spicy cinnamon and nutmeg; then being welcomed by a gush of homemade cranberry filling and finally unified by a dollop of cream cheese glaze.

BlakeyCakes
b.arias101 at hotmail.com
Los Angeles, CA
818-577-8302

valentine's day Chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes

Blogger The Little Foodie made these chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes (and has a link to the recipe!) and writes:

Chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes taste exactly like they sound. The cupcake, the frosting, the cookie dough balls—every texture is different even though it all tastes like cookie dough which makes it more interesting than just raw cookie dough. If you’ve got a significant other who likes cookie dough more than cookies, this is going to keep him tied to you forever. Or maybe you love cookie dough yourself and you’ll just continue believing in your own awesomeness for years after you make these even if you don’t cook another thing.

valentine's day Thanksgiving turkey cupcake with a Nutter Butter and candy corn, plus Baked Alaska ice cream-filled cupcakes

The always-creative Jeanne Benedict has given her spin to the Thanksgiving turkey cupcake. She writes:

Sweet yes; yet ominous too. Obvious candies give this holiday cupcake his character. What I mean are his eyes made from the tips of candy corns and a dab of frosting. Somehow, when I photographed it, it stared back as if to say, “Don’t even think of eating me as a cupcake or otherwise.” Your kids will love, love, love this turkey cupcake. Basically, you turn a frosted cupcake on its side, stick a Nutter Butter Cookie in it and then feather it with candy corns to make an adorable holiday cupcake. I used a red fruit roll-up as his wattle.



And the Baked Alaska cupcakes (click for recipe) have ice cream inside them!