No, I’m not saying have “green” wedding cupcakes. Unless you like green, then hey, go whole hog. I’m saying that you can have beautiful wedding cupcakes, gorgeously presented, and be environmentally conscious as well. There are a few companies that make festive wedding cupcake stands that clean up with minimal impact on the environment. Read on if you think you’d like your wedding cupcakes a littler “greener”… Read more…

Say the word “cupcake” and you may immediately think of gaily colored goodies for kid’s birthday parties or rich, chocolate and vanilla iced treats of a bake sales…anything but an elegant wedding. But hold on! Wedding cupcakes don’t have to be multicolored, candy-topped treats (which are AWESOME also almost any other time!) Cupcakes may actually be a better choice for your wedding reception than cake, and with decorating and presentation, wedding cupcakes can be as impressive as any 3-tiered number. Read more…

This video shows how we made our own homemade Christmas cupcake toppers. It’s a great family project … a lot of fun for the kids!

Use this idea for any holiday! Have FUN!

For neat looking cupcakes that are easy to handle, most of us use a cupcake liner in our cupcake pan. In a way, the liner is a part of the cupcake decorations.  And even for the those eating the cupcake, isn’t part of that joyful process, peeling off the liner and digging in to the cupcake?

Of course, you can get cupcake liners from the grocery store very inexpensively, but why not kick it up a notch. For your cupcakes, especially for special occasions, look at using fancy cupcake liners that dress up the cupcake as much as your decorations. Here are a few examples:

Who says cupcake liners have to be that pastel kid’s stuff? Cupcake liners with jazzy designs like this can make cupcakes a grown-up affair as well. (After all, what is the cupcake–just a miniature cake.) This arty striped number can Read more…