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Cupcake Style!

Source: brides.com via BRIDES on Pinterest

Give your guests the choice of chocolate or vanilla cupcakes at your wedding.  Then add a gorgeous cake at the top to give it a beautiful finish.

These Are Not Your Old Fashioned Cupcakes!

Source: lovemydress.net via Jennifer on Pinterest

 (cupcakes by Olofson Cake Design, both can be seen on lovemydress.net)

Are you a bride who is in love with cupcakes? Looking for some inspiration? These cupcakes by Olofsun Cake Design can certainly provide that! Every tiny detail of these cupcakes are gorgeous! My personal favorites? The cameos and the ones at the bottom left with the white petals and silver dragees.

 (Just a heads up, if you're a bride in California, I've found several sites that say California law does not allow them to ship these into the state, so if you wonder why you can't find them in the stores, that might be why. The rest of us can take the chance of breaking our teeth on them all we want!)

Dessert Gold!

Source: marthastewartweddings.com via Chris on Pinterest

Go for the gold when you serve your wedding guests these gold luster dusted, espresso flavored cupcakes.  The decorations on top are made using Martha's punches available at your local craft store.

The golden baking cups and wraps can be ordered from Plastic Container City  to add to the overall look of cupcakes with the Midas touch!

Magic Cupcakes!

Source: pinterest.com via Mindye on Pinterest

Magic cupcakes! Who knew? So if you want your cupcakes puffed up and full looking, go with option #1! Flat and boring... choose #2! Something for everyone in the cupcake world!

White On White Cupcakes For Shower or Wedding

Source: myrecipes.com via Linda on Pinterest

Fall in love all over again with these beautiful cupcakes! Perfect for either a shower or wedding reception, these white on white beauties will look good and taste even better! Find the recipes at Myrecipes.com. 

Make these yourself if you're creative, or if you aren't, show them to your baker, I'm sure she can reproduce the look for you!

I found the photo on Pinterest, but myrecipes.com is the originating source according to the person posting.

Takes The Cake?

This pretty sign done in gold ink on white card stock invites your guests to help themselves to the prettiest cupcakes around! A nice extra touch to your sweet table.

See other great ideas for your cupcakes on Peter's blog and web site, linked below.

Photo by: Your Wedding Photos by Peter Lammers.

Angel Food Anyone?

This double-decker angel food cupcake with it's boutique cupcake paper is perfect for a wedding.  It looks just like an asymmetrical wedding cake! This cupcake was an entry in a contest and was created by The Insomniac Baker.  The recipe is on the Baker's web page linked previously.  Photos also courtesy of The Insomniac Baker.  Try out this combination of angel food cake and meringue with gelato!  Two fluffy angel food cupcakes with meringue gelato in the middle and a smooth, Swiss meringue buttercream on top, with a sweet little meringue cookie to top it all off--perfection! These are an ice cream cupcake though so your caterer will need to assemble them on site and they won't work for a sweet table.  You could probably adapt the recipe to use something other than the gelato if you wanted to use them for a sweet table display. 

Tiramisu Cupcakes For A WOW Factor At Your Wedding

OK, tell me your mouth isn't watering just looking at this picture! I am a big fan of tiramisu so maybe it's just me, but this idea wow'd me.  The recipe is easy and your guests are sure to love them.  Serve these cold to help cool off your guests at a summer wedding or after your guests have been dancing any time of the year.  The wow factor in any tiramisu is not the ladyfingers but the filling.  That lush mascarpone, whipped cream, run, and coffee combo is what sets these cupcakes apart from the usual ho hum mini cakes.  The trick is to use just a small amount of ladyfingers(or cake) and LOTS of filling and topping.  YUM! 

Tiramisu Cupcake recipe adapted TiramisuII recipe from AllRecipes.com.

Yield: 12 Cupcakes

(see how little batter is in the cupcake pans--this will leave you room for lots of filling)

6 egg yolks

3/4 C white sugar

2/3 C milk

1 1/4 C heavy cream

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 lb mascarpone cheese

1 C strong brewed coffee, room temperature

2 tbsp rum

ladyfingers baked in cupcake wrappers (see my post on ladyfingers for instructions)

1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

a small amount of dark chocolate for chocolate curls (optional)

In a medium saucepan, whisk together egg yolks and sugar until well blended.

Whisk in milk and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils.

Boil gently for 1 minute, remove from heat, and allow to cool slightly.

Cover tightly and chill in refrigerator 1 hour.

Remove from refrigerator and whisk in mascarpone until smooth. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, beat cream with vanilla until stiff peaks form. Set aside.

In a small bowl, combine coffee and rum.

Drizzle approximately 1 tbsp + 2 tsp of the coffee/rum mixture over each pre-baked ladyfinger. Add it a little at a time and wait for it to absorb into the ladyfingers before adding more. When it stops absorbing, stop adding more.

Spread the mascarpone mixture over the soaked ladyfingers.

Pipe or spread the whipped cream over the mascarpone.

Sprinkle with cocoa powder.

Optionally, top with chocolate curls. Make the chocolate curls using a vegetable peeler on a piece of chocolate. It works best if the chocolate is slightly warm, but not melty.

Cover and refrigerate 4 to 6 hours, until set

  Ladyfingers Recipe for Tiramisu Cupcakes:

This ladyfinger recipe is adapted ever so slightly from the ladyfinger recipe on Allrecipes.

4 eggs, separated

2 tbsp + 2/3 C white sugar

1 C all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

Preheat oven to 400 F.

Line two 17 x 12 inch baking sheets with baking parchment. (Or, if you are going to use these for tiramisu cupcakes, line a 12 cupcake tin with cupcake liners.)

Fit large pastry bag with a plain 1/2 inch round tube. If you don't have one, just cut off the end of a Ziploc bag.

Place egg whites in a bowl and beat on high until soft peaks start to form.

Slowly add 2 tablespoons of the sugar and continue beating until stiff and glossy.

In another bowl, beat egg yolks and remaining sugar.

Whip until thick and very pale in color.

In a small bowl, whisk together flour and baking powder.

Fold half the egg whites into the egg yolk mixture.

Fold in flour, and then add the remaining egg whites.

Transfer mixture to the pastry bag (or Ziploc bag) and pipe strips that look like ladyfingers (or whatever shape you'd like) onto the prepared baking sheet. Alternatively, evenly divide the batter between the cupcake liners. The cupcake liners will not be filled to the top (see the photo above).

Bake for 8 minute

Violet White Velvet Cupcakes

I have to admit I'd never heard of white velvet cake or cupcakes before I came across these beauties!  Violet White Velvet Cupcakes, even the name sounds like they'll taste good! I found this recipe on the blog 'Diary of A Mad Haus Frau' and I had to share them with you.  The author loves using unusual ingredients to make your desserts a feast for not only the eyes but for your taste buds as well. 

These cupcakes use Rosolio Alla Violetta, a liqueur from Assisi, Italy.  This liqueur is pale lavendar (See photo) and has a delicate floral taste that you have to experience! The link to the recipe (and the rest of her blog is above).  Be sure to check it out for all the details that make these cupcakes beautiful as well as more great ideas to bake.

Wedding or Shower Cupcakes With Style

As I was reading OPB (other peoples' blogs) something I am guilty of doing way too often instead of working on my own, I found these beautiful cupcakes on MODWedding Blog. Of course then I ended up spending time reading more than just one post! If you're looking for some great cupcakes for your wedding or shower, these designs by Nicki's Cakes will enhance your event and give it that extra sense of style.  More of Nicki's designs are highlighted on the MODWedding Blog and on her own site.

For more inspirations for your wedding planning spend some time on MODWedding Blog, you won't regret it!

Tempting Cake -- Fall In Love With Food For Your Wedding

Tempting Cake is a luxury cake company born out of twin passions for baking and fine design. When I visited their web site, Tempting Cake I fell in love with just the photos of their cakes, if they'd put one in front of me I would have fallen in love.  To see more of their incredible products and to find contact info for Emily Smith, to order some of these delectable confections for your wedding or shower visit Tempting Cake's web site. 

Tempting Cake has quickly built a reputation for creating beautiful, designer tiered wedding cakes, Tempting table dessert tables, cupcakes and hand iced cookies for discerning brides in London and surrounding counties.  Now all I have to do is entice them into opening a store in the United States!

Tempting Cake also has a track record for producing top quality, high end designer creations for corporate clients such as ITV and BBC TV stations, London Fashion Week, Britain’s Next Top Model, House of Fraser department store and Aveda to name but a few.  So if you are a Brit bride use Tempting Cake for all your sweet table needs.

Cupcake Porn

Photo from Cupcakes Take The Cake Blog

Better Homes and Gardens will be offering this magazine on the stands soon and will remain there until June.  It's filled with lots of great cupcake ideas perfect for your wedding as well as info on cupcake bloggers like Cupcakes Take The Cake.  Pick it up for food porn and for a great resource for recipes for cupcakes for your wedding.

Hot Cupcake Poppers from Betty Crocker - Easy and DIY Dessert Table Sweets

Photo from Moogie and Pap's blog at http://moogieland.blogspot.com

Recipe from Betty Crocker Trends web site

Looking for a dessert table item that pops? (Do you suppose that's why they call them poppers?) Betty Crocker Trends at http://redhot.bettycrocker.com/trends gives you an easy recipe to make these pretty poppers from their white cake mix (obviously you add some food coloring). They also offer a recipe for a marshmallow cream frosting for the centers. The recipe makes 60 mini-cupcakes for your dessert table.

Dazzling Cupcakes

Just when you thought you had seen it all, the folks at Bedazzle My Bonbons sent me an email with these photos that one of their creative clients had taken of cupcakes that she had designed using their bonbons.

Mishellle from Mishelle Handy Cakes in Oklahoma City purchased her liners from Wilton products at her local craft store and added faux stones and gems to add some more bling to the cupcakes. She turned boring cupcakes into a bedazzled and delicious dessert. For brides who love bling these cupcakes will match you personality to a T!

Choose the way you would like to display these at your wedding either individual or cupcake stands will give you a centerpiece that shines!

Cupcake Kit From Wedding Fads -- Easy DIY Cupcakes

Photo courtesy of: http://www.weddingfads.com/

This English garden cupcke kit comes complete with 48 gumpaste roses and a large cupcake stand (silver stand can be rented or purchased seperately.  Kit cost: $169.95 at http://www.weddingfads.com/.  Depending on the size of your wedding you may need more than one kit.  Just bake your cupcakes as usual (thank you Duncan Hines) and ice.  Top with the gumpaste roses.  If you already have a stand just purchase the roses seperately.  Please remember, gumpaste flowers are NOT edible but are considered food products, therefore this vendor will not accept returns. 

Cupcakes and Cookies From Artesanal Sweets

Photos courtesy of http://www.artesanalsweets.com/

Artesanal Sweets offers you a large selection of delectable cupcakes and creative cookies for your wedding guests. 

More Pretty Cupcakes

Photos and designs from: http://www.reinwaldsbakery.com/

Triple Layer Wedding Cupcakes by Artesanal Sweets

Photo courtesy of Artesanal Sweets at: http://www.artesanalsweets.com/

Artesanal Sweets offers a wide variety of confections to commemorate your special day. We do weddings, graduations, showers, engagements, or any time. Their specialty cakes, desserts and personalized cookies add a wonderful touch to any celebration.

Don't Let Making Your Own Cupcakes for Your Wedding Be A Recipe For Disaster!

Try some of these new cookbooks dedicated solely to cupcakes!  It's a sign of just how mainstream cupcakes have become that there are whole cookbooks dedicated to them.  If you can't find something luscious and beautiful in these books you're missing the boat!