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If you didn’t have any instructions, how would you duplicate this cupcake? Suggest a method and then click on the link to see Kurryleaves’s clever approach. Did you guess correctly?
Link -via Tasteologie
Oh, my God, it’s a double rainbow all the way! Woah. It’s so bright. What does this mean?
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious! | Photo: Megan Seling
Melanie Janem is a modern day Prometheus, shining a sugary light into the darkness of our stomachs. Let us be thankful.
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious! | Previously: Death by Oreo Cupcake
The Super Bowl is less than two weeks away. Now I know that most of you probably eat, in accordance with tradition, nothing but cupcakes that day. But hear me out: buffalo chicken wings. I know that it sounds crazy, but try it. Even if it’s as a compromise recipe, like this cupcake by Stef of The Cupcake Project.
Buffalo wings and cupcakes. Like haggis and this tube of expired cookie dough that I found behind Alex’s desk, they just naturally belong together.
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious!
Erica has a sweet tooth, and that’s a good thing because she’s a dental student. She made these cupcakes and you can, too, by following her instructions at the link. When you see the Baron, remember the tooth! The tooth!
Link -via Bit Rebels
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To be fair, not all of these adorable treats are all that Christmasy, but those that are will certainly put a holiday smile on your face.
We’ve seen cupcakes that look like these before, but those were just imitations. This here, ladies and gentlemen, is the real deal. I can’t trace this particular image, but I have found a recipe. Drop everything you’re doing and begin work immediately.
Recipe | Image -via Bit Rebels
So let’s say that you’re a college sophomore and you want to eat a balanced diet from all of the three major college sophomore food groups: Mountain Dew, Doritos, and snack cakes. The problem is that it takes time to acquire and store all three of those items. The solution is to eat a cupcake that combines all three food products! The bakery 4 Rivers Smokehouse in Orlando, Florida has you covered. It also offers Coke and Ruffles cupcakes and Cheerwine cupcakes. Coming soon: Nehi grape soda cupcakes!
Link -via Geekosystem | Official Website | Photo: Katie Quinn/Today Show
While there are no instructions to make your own, most of it seems pretty easy to make. The hands look like they would take a little work though.
Link Via BoingBoing
If art made from Thanksgiving food isn’t quite your thing, then what about delicious turkey dinner cupcakes? The bottom is made from turkey meatloaf, which is then topped with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and cranberry sauce.
What do you think? Yum or yuck?
It’s understandable why the Wonder Twins are absent. But no Marvin and Wendy? They were, like, the backbone of the show. Still, Ray, a Geeks Are Sexy reader, got a pretty good birthday cake.
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious!
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I don’t know about you guys, but I’d love to have a batch of these wampa cupcakes. There are also cool wookie ones if you prefer. They look pretty easy to make, so even though there are no instructions, I think you could make your own just using the pics as a guide.
No those aren’t snowcones, they’re actually cleverly disguised cupcakes made by JustJenn Rants & Raves. For more cool cupcakes that look like other things, check out this fun BuzzFeed article.
Katalina of TheYouFinder bought a bag of gummi eggs and looked for a creative way to use them. After exploring her options, she decided to make these gorgeous cupcakes that come from a modified buttermilk pancake recipe but completely real bacon.
Link -via Tasteologie
These cupcakes were made by chef JB Cada & Stephanie Santos of The Regali Kitchen in the Philippines. They consist of chocolate cake with caramel icing and edible toppers featuring insignias from the HBO series Game of Thrones. Link
Look at these adorable cupcakes! DeviantART member tomo-chi made mushrooms and Goombas from the world of Mario, with green ice cream cones serving as pipes. Link -via Buzzfeed
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Yup, those summery lovelies are actually bites of cake, not corn. I’ve been meaning to make these ever since I got the book Hello, Cupcake! last year – maybe this is the inspiration I need to finally do it. In case you can’t quite decipher all of the ingredients in the photo, the kernels are jelly beans, the pat of butter is a Starburst and the salt and pepper is just colored sanding sugar.
Link via OhDeeDoh
Photo via Martha Stewart
This is my last Star Wars post today, I promise. But just look at how cute this Princess Leia cupcake is. Best of all, it’s super easy to make with just a little black frosting, a few Oreos and pink sprinkles.
Link via Geeks Are Sexy
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MI6 and GCHQ trolled an al-Qaeda online magazine by replacing bomb-making instructions with a list of recipes for the best cupcakes in America. ”Operation Cupcake” was launched to disrupt efforts by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular who were recruiting “lone-wolf” terrorists with a new English-language magazine.
When followers tried to download the 67-page colour magazine, instead of instructions about how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom” by “The AQ Chef” they were greeted with garbled computer code.
The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.
Written by Dulcy Israel and produced by Main Street Cupcakes in Hudson, Ohio, it said “the little cupcake is big again” adding: “Self-contained and satisfying, it summons memories of childhood even as it’s updated for today’s sweet-toothed hipsters.”
It included a recipe for the Mojito Cupcake – “made of white rum cake and draped in vanilla buttercream”- and the Rocky Road Cupcake – “warning: sugar rush ahead!”
The efforts are ongoing, as the cupcake recipes were quickly replaced and the magazine has since been distributed with its original content. Read more at the Daily Telegraph. Link
They look like cups of hot chocolate, right? Keep scrolling.
The blogger behind Diary of a Ladybird made these cupcakes out of fondant. All they need is some chocolate syrup on top!
Link via Doobybrain
We often post about inventive cakes and cupcakes, especially those made with other delicious foods inside, such as Oreos and Cadbury Creme Eggs. Now it’s no longer necessary to scrounge around for such confections. Thanks to the specializing tendency of the Internet, there’s a blog devoted entirely to baking foods inside cakes and cupcakes. Pictured above is on example from Bake It in a Cake — a banana cupcake with a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup inside and topped with chocolate buttercream and chocolate chips.
Melissa Smith of Zoey Cakes has made what may be the ultimate Cadbury Creme Egg creation. It’s baked with an egg inside, covered with vanilla buttercream frosting, and then topped with a mini egg.
Link via Craft | Zoey Cakes
Previously: Giant Cadbury Egg
The great thing about cupcakes is, well, everything. But it turns out that they can be improved upon. If you’re looking for a faster way of shoving cupcakes into your mouth, you might want to try the PushCake by the Meringue Bake Shop in Orange County, California. Do you need more cupcake? Just push the bottom up.
Link via Super Punch | Photo: Meringue Bake Shop
Debbie Wright invented this culinary delight. The batter and frosting are both made of oreos, and there’s an oreo resting at the bottom of the cake. Finally, it’s topped with a mini oreo.
Article Link and Recipe Link via Michael Silence | Photo: Eat. Drink. Smile.
Previously: Oreo Cupcakes with Internal Milk Glass
This Koch snowflake cupcake is the tastiest mathematical iteration ever. These lovely fondant fractals are made from edible dough rolled, cut to exacting detail and assembled on top of the cupcake of your choice. Warning: some manual dexterity required.
The interesting thing about fractals like these is that they are emergent phenomena– complex patterns that show up when a simple algorithm is iterated. We often think of mathematical iteration as something that only happens in computers, but as these examples show, there are a number of interesting certain cases where you can perform iteration with your hands as well.
Link – Via RealityCarnival
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Stacy Conradt makes cupcakes, and is planning to experiment with new styles and flavors.
Key Lime: vanilla cake with key lime frosting rolled in graham cracker crumbs.Captain Crunch: crush the cereal into the flour and the frosting.
Whopper: vanilla cake with malt powder; chocolate frosting with crushed Whopper candy.
Mochaccino: Vanilla cake with chocolate frosting that has coffee granules in it. Or maybe just coffee flavoring, topped with a coffee bean.
Chicken and Waffles: waffle-flavored cupcake with maple-flavored frosting with a little piece of friend chicken on top. Must. Try. This.
She has a much longer list of proposed cupcakes. Which ones do you think will be a hit? Link
Butch Bakery offers manly cupcakes for manly men who love cupcakes. Each cupcake is covered in a chocolate disk decorated in manly styles, like wood grain or camouflage. The flavors are manly as well, like the Driller: maple cake with chocolate ganache and bacon bits. Or the Old Fashioned, which is orange-soaked whisky cake with a lemon curd filling. Or the B52, which is a Kahlua-soaked vanilla cake with Bailey’s bavarian filling. Twelve manly flavors are offered. Link -via Gorilla Mask
If you love Futurama, then you’ll certainly appreciate these adorably gross brain slug cupcakes. Just hope they don’t take over your mind after you eat them.
Flickr Link Via Craftzine
My sister hosts a big game party every year, mostly non-video games (word games, board games etc.) This year she made 100 cupcakes, each with a decoration referring to a game, video and otherwise. Have a go at guessing them all! (keep your own score manually)
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This periodic table of cupcakes is for a chemistry nerd’s birthday party. Each cake is labeled with an element and color-coded by its state of matter. I hear hydrogen and helium are very light and fluffy. Looks like someone already ate ununseptium. Link -via reddit
