I am thrilled to announce our Fancy Flours giveaway! You know how much I love Fancy Flours' unique baking supplies. I've mentioned them in several posts. Remember the Peeps cupcakes and the Graduation Wrappers? Here is what my friend Nicole had to say about them. If you are not familiar with their awesome website here is a bit more about them:
Fancy Flours, a unique online baking supply company, specializes in high-quality ingredients, hard to find cookie cutters, delightful muffin cups, sugar whimsies and much more. Fancyflours.com will bring out your artistic, whimsical, and imaginative side; the baking-lovers dream.
So true! You must check them out asap.
They have kindly sent me TWO prizes to be given away! That's right TWO. All you have to do is leave me a comment telling me about your most creative cupcake idea. I know many of you are cupcake connoisseurs so this should be easy and fun!
Now onto the goodies!
Prize One includes a Blue Poppy Field dish towel by Jessie Steele, Garden Cupcake Picks(12), yellow baking cups(40) and two recipe cards.
Prize Two includes a Pink Poppy Fields Dish Towel by Jessie Steele, Puffy Flower Cupcake Picks (12),red baking cups(40) and two recipe cards.
Cute and cute! They would make a great gift for the hostess or your baking friend OR keep for yourself!
Just leave me a comment describing your most creative cupcake idea and I will randomly choose TWO winners. Contest ends Friday, May 22! Good Luck!
(i don't know what time zone you're in..but here in mtn. time it's 11:53, so it's still the 22nd..yes, i barely made it!)
it would definitely be my SNOW CONE CUPCAKES!
i'm planning a circus party and was thinking about renting a snow cone machine but didn't know if I wanted to stand behind the thing making snow cones throughout the whole party :). I sat there thinking for a bit, and suddenly came up with the idea of 'snow cone cupcakes'!!! Just use snow cone papers as cupcake liners and there ya have it! I went right to the store and bought my supplies and came home and made them. I used wire snow cone holders to bake them in :). I frosted the top in a rounded 'snow cone' shape and added bright sparkly sprinkles. They turned out way cute, and looked EXACTLY like actual snow cones! here's the link to 'em..
http://karascupcakes.blogspot.com/2009/05/snow-cone-cupcakes.html
Posted by: kara @ kara's party ideas | May 23, 2009 at 01:58 AM
I have made pupcakes with nutter butters as the ears and a drawn on puppy face - these were for my doggie's 10th birthday. I also made cupcakes for my sister-in-law's baby shower that looked like elephants and lions for a circus theme. The cupcake embellishments included fruit leather ears and trunks, jellybean eyes, peach gummy (cut in half) for lion muzzle, black licorice laces for lion whiskers.
Posted by: Kari | May 22, 2009 at 07:41 PM
my favorite creative cupcakes has to do with a garden theme. They were devil's food cupcakes with a oreo/chocolate frosting. We put worms on them too.
Posted by: linda | May 21, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Wow lots of great ideas only if I could be creative. My most creative idea is to go looking at the bakeries to find the most yummy cupcakes.
Posted by: Dawn W | May 20, 2009 at 08:38 AM
I've been toying with making Pineapple Upside-Down Cupcakes. These would not require a liner. A little brown sugar at the bottom of the muffin tin, a pineapple ring, a cherry in the middle (of course!), topped with a delicious golden cake batter. Bake, invert, and serve while still warm. Yummy! I think these might be the first thing I make in my new kitchen. They would be fun to eat at a dinner party and would look very pretty all lined up on a serving tray.
Posted by: Amy Roberts | May 19, 2009 at 09:50 PM
I hosted a garden tea party and decided to make garden themed cupcakes instead of tea cakes. I baked chocolate cupcakes in mini terracotta pots, decorated them with different colors of green frosting--made to look like dirt & peat moss or grass. Then, I made cake-pops and decorated them to look like flowers or topiaries and stuck them inside each cupcake pot. I put a ribbon around the edge of the pot to coordinate with the colors and they turned out super cute!
Posted by: Nicole | May 19, 2009 at 09:40 PM
Ha, got dates wrong. I'm so excited - love contests. Thank you Fancy Flours!
Another idea:
for the inside of your cupcake, place a caramel Ghirardelli square in the middle of a chocolate batter. When your friends bite into it they will have a delicious surprise.
Posted by: Christine Zuercher | May 19, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Oh well, I'm too late for the contest as I have been out of town, but I'll share my tip anyway as it may be helpful to someone.
I have made really pretty cupcakes by piping primroses, pansies, daffodils or anything that you would normally use royal icing to make.Instead of the royal icing use your regular butter-cream icing, pipe it on a square of wax paper which is attached with a dab of icing to your flower nail. Remove your flowers from the nail, they are still attached to the wax or parchment paper, and place them on a baking sheet or any flat surface that you can put in the freezer. Depending on the size of your flower, let your flowers freeze for about 10-15 minutes, remove from freezer and peel the flower off the paper. They will be easy to handle. Place on your cupcake and add a leaf or two and ta-da! you have pretty cupcakes that people can sink their teeth into.
Works great for cakes too as the flowers are not hard like the royal icing ones which you sometimes have to move when cutting the cake.
P.S. Thanks Fancy Flours - love your website.
Posted by: Christine Zuercher | May 19, 2009 at 11:40 AM
I loved your peep idea. For Mothers Day, I made ladybug cupcakes. I put red frosting on 2/3 of each cupcake and then black frosting on the remaining 1/3 of the cupcake. I put eyes on the black and then I piped three or four black dots on the red back of the ladybug. They were a hit!
Posted by: Kari | May 18, 2009 at 12:36 AM
I have no creative cupcake ideas of my own but I've copied almost every creative cupcake idea belonging to someone else. :) Does that count? One of my favorites was a teacup/teapot made from cupcakes (a FamilyFun idea).
Posted by: Randi | May 15, 2009 at 06:54 PM
I'm not great at decorating cupcakes but last year for my daughter's birthday we used lollipops and spearmint leaf candies to make flowers in them.
Posted by: Satsuki | May 15, 2009 at 09:39 AM
Ok...so I am not that creative with cupcakes but I do try and I LOVE Fancy Flours! I have made the spider cupcakes with oreos and licorice.
Posted by: Shelley | May 15, 2009 at 08:22 AM
I am going to try the apple ones, but mini!
Posted by: Nicole | May 14, 2009 at 08:39 PM
the most creative cupcakes i made were robots made out of candy on top of cupcakes for some friends. they were super cool!
Posted by: carrie rowe | May 14, 2009 at 03:47 PM
It is not an original idea but one I found on a blog recently. For my friend's college graduation party I am going to make the grad cap cupcakes. She has chosen pink frosting and I will top them with an upside down mini reece's pb cub and a ghiradelli square to form the cap. I can't forget the adorable frosting piped tassel!
Posted by: Sarah | May 14, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Yay! I love Fancy Flours! I think my most creative cupcake was for Thanksgiving. I made little Turkeys on top of the cupcakes using pipecleaners, fudge stripe cookies, and Reeses!
Posted by: Loralee - No Fuss Fabulous | May 14, 2009 at 12:12 PM
The last cupcakes I made were peanut butter cheese cake Brownie cupcakes! They were oh so yummy topped with whip cream and a cherry!
Posted by: The Gray Gang | May 14, 2009 at 10:22 AM
I have used licorice laces as whiskers and a half a gumdrop for ears for a kitten.
I have again used licorice laces as a handle (as in a bucket) and then put green food dyed coconut and jellybeans in flower shapes on the frosting.
Just basic decorations.
Posted by: maureen | May 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM