CancerCare Cupcakes: Send Free E-Cupcake

Cupcakes are love.
A cupcake makes us smile.
A cupcake reminds us of childhood.
A cupcake is a pleasure of life
that fits in the palm of our hand.
A cupcake makes us happy.
A cupcake can bring comfort to a child afflicted with cancer.

From the CancerCare for Kids cupcakes for a Cause website:

Send a FREE E-cupcake to your
favorite cupcake lover.
$1.00* is donated for
every E-Cupcake sent!

*Thanks to the generosity of friends of CancerCare, for every e-cupcake created and sent, $1.00 (up to $10,000) will be donated to CancerCare. Cupcake Week ends October 26th, so create and send your e-cupcake today!

The interactive site offers a choice of a chocolate,
vanilla or red velvet cupcake.
Choose your favorite frosting style
and flavor and decorate your cuppie with
sprinkles, coconut, chocolate chips, confetti, candies or smiles!
Or you can send a pre-made E-Cupcake.
It's fun and supports CancerCare for Kids.

Duncan Hines is offering a Cupcake Contest with Savings Bonds
and gifts going to the winning cupcake entries!
All entrants receive T-shirts.
Contest ends November 1, 2008

Don't forget to support your local participating cupcakery!

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DOMO KUM Cupcake by JustJenn

Konnichiwa!

JustJenn designed and baked Domo Kun as a
peppermint chocolate cupcake with chocolate chips!

ingredients:
2 sticks of butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 Tablespoon peppermint extract
(the good stuff. Don’t cheap out, you bastard)*
2-1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup Valrhona cocoa powder (again, don’t cheap out)*
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate milk
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips

*Listen to Jenn, buy the good stuff!
Her step by step recipe is here.

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Cupcake Canisters

Cupcake Canisters
Barbara Thompson, 2007
From NYC MoMA

These lacquer cupcake canisters are a festive way to serve sugar, sweets, or anything you like. They may also be used around the house or office to store small items. Hand-wash only. The small canister is made of lacquer on plastic. The large canister is made of lacquer on wood.

Size: Small: 3.5h x 3.25"diam., 4oz; Large: 5h x 4.25"diam., 8oz

Halloween: Witch, Ghost, Bloody Finger and Monster Cupcakes

Witch Cupcake by Melody of MySweetandSaucy.com

Ghost Cupcake by MySweetandSaucy.com

Molded Monster Cupcake by MySweetandSaucy.com

This is the ultimate Halloween Cupcake!
Melody gives step by step photo instructions
in her blog, My Sweet and Saucy.

Melody is a graduate of the Le Cordon Bleu program
at the California School of Culinary Arts as a Pastry Chef.
She owns her own catering business, Sweet&SaucyShop.com

Her cupcake portfolio is gorgeous!
Click on the Cupcake icon for a photo display of her creations.

Melody also teaches both sweet and savory cooking classes
at Prep Kitchen Essentials in Seal Beach, CA.
Very impressive, indeed.

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Cupcake Walk Benefit for Burned Mommy Blogger

Arizona Blogger Stephanie Nielson, 27,
wrote about motherhood
and domesticities on NieNieDialogues.blogspot.com

A blog about her recovery was created by her
family and is updated frequently.

A Fall Blissfair is planned to benefit a popular Arizona blogger
who was burned over 83 % of her body in an August small plane crash.
Stephanie remains in critical condition at the
Arizona Burn Center in Phoenix.

AZCentral.com:
In a special corner of the carnival, friends and fans of Stephanie will find a quiet place dedicated to her, and where a video that captures the moments of her life will play, showing Stephanie hosting a fashion show for her little girls or hiding fortunes for strangers on the streets of downtown Mesa.

Fall Blissfest & Market

When: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, October 18.

Where: Domestic Bliss and Blissful Living Studio, 166 W. Main St., Mesa.

Details: 480-733-0552, blissfullivingstudio.blogspot.com, blissfest.blogspot.com

Best wishes to Stephanie and her family.

Noah Webster Word Cupcakes

Noah Webster Word Cupcakes
Originally uploaded by altopower

Close up of the Yale Cupcake celebration