Did you watch this week’s fun episode of Cupcake Wars on Food Network TV? If not, you missed a lot of cupcake fun and sweet surprises.

Four cupcake teams from bakeries around the country competed to bake yummy cupcakes for a glamorous red carpet charity gala for Children Mending Hearts/Women for Women in Hollywood. Suite 106 Cupcakery was the winner! The excitement continued during the episode as the teams began by baking a single cupcake, then three cupcakes and then more….finally to make 1,000 cupcakes on a custom designed stand for their cupcakes.

Sisters Christiana and Rebecca Grammer, co-owners of Suite 106 Cupcakery in California won the July 20th episode with their sweet and touching cupcakes. With flavors reminding everyone easily of childhood tastes and memories – and sweet drawings from Christiana’s daughter making the cupcake stand artistic and creative – her cupcakes were chosen as the winner. With buttermilk cupcakes, espresso and chocolate cupcakes and other sweet treats – they easily won the judges hearts (and taste buds!)

The biggest challenge was baking 1,000 cupcakes in 2 hours. Fortunately, they had 4 additional helpers to frost and bake cupcakes and also to build the customized cupcake stand. The cupcake stand featured artwork by Christiana’s daughter. With hearts and butterflies, it easily connected with the Children Mending Hearts charity, as their symbol is a butterfly. The charity gala was held at the Peter Fonda theatre in Hollywood, California.

Their cupcakes have been eaten by celebrities such as Ben Affleck, Alyssa Milano, Jimmy Kimmel and Chad OchoCinco.

Missed this fun episode? Don’t worry…it will be re-broadcast on Sunday, July 25th! Check your local listing for the show time. Enjoy the fun and yummy Cupcake Wars…we know we are!

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Get ready for more cupcake fun and reality TV show antics with TLC’s latest show! DC Cupcakes begins this Friday, July 16th at 10 p.m. EST. It is a six-part series that follows sisters who are also business partners that own Georgetown Cupcake. Georgetown Cupcake is a small cupcakery that according to TLC’s site has become a “sweeping success.”

Sisters and partners Sophie LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis own Georgetown Cupcake. This series will take us through their days as cupcakery owners. Watching them make pretty and yummy treats for parties, celebrations or even those who walk in craving something sweet. We imagine that owning a cupcakery must be so much fun! It will be great to watch this series and see all that goes on at Georgetown Cupcake.

According to the TLC site, the sisters began baking with their grandmother as toddlers. They first baked a cake for their grandfather’s birthday, a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting! Grandma taught them how to bake the very best way, by letting them imitate what she did in the kitchen. The sisters do not have formal training and credit their grandmother with teaching them about cooking and baking. They opened Georgetown Cupcake together on Valentine’s Day 2008. At the time, the cupcakery was the city’s only cupcakery – and it grew to great popularity. Today they bake more than 5,000 cupcakes daily and send cupcakes across the country.

How exciting to watch the growth and development of a cupcakery in this fun TLC reality show. Especially for cupcake lovers and “foodies” a show like this is truly one-of-a-kind. You can count on DC Cupcakes to give you lots of behind the scenes tips for what it is like to own a cupcakery or even a bakery – and perhaps some cool cupcake baking tips. Reality show fans will likely tune in for the (hopeful) drama and antics these shows are known for.

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Chicagoans are in for a sweet surprise. Sprinkles Cupcakes is opening a cupcakery right in Chicago!

ChicagoNow.com reports that Sprinkles Cupcakes are the sweet treats beloved by celebs such as Katie Holmes and Oprah. The Sprinkles Cupcakes cupcakery will open on the Magnificent Mile at 50 East Walton. This is the very first Midwest location for Sprinkles Cupcakes. How exciting for Chicago and the surrounding area!

The popular cupcakery is owned by Candace and Charles Nelson and is known for using the very finest of ingredients, including sweet cream butter, natural citrus zests and bananas.

The very first Sprinkles Cupcakes began in the charming Beverly Hills and it’s easy to see why they’ve become so very popular with the glitzy and glamorous – from the Hollywood stars and everyone who loves cupcakes. At Sprinkles Cupcakes you’ll find the very best cupcakes made from high-quality ingredients, stunning cupcake towers and trays, yummy frosting shots and other sweet treats you simply won’t find anywhere else.

So if you’re in the Chicago area or plan to visit, don’t miss the Sprinkles Cupcake store! There’s always a sweet and yummy cupcake just waiting for you there!

(c) photo Benjamin Earwicker

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Do your cupcakes have what it takes to win the prize? Are you lauded with compliments on your yummy cupcakes at birthdays, baby showers and other special events? Enter Duncan Hines ® exciting new cupcake contest to win a fun trip to L.A. and the best seats on the Red Carpet at the 62nd Primetime Emmy ® Awards.

Duncan Hines ® is the official dessert sponsor for the 62 Primetime Emmy ® Awards and Creative Arts Awards Governors Ball. The Performers Nominee Reception is held on August 27th. The winners will receive two tickets to Los Angeles and fans in the stands bleacher seats to see all of the glamour, fashion and fun of the arrivals!

The most exciting thing about winning (other than winning of course)? YOUR recipe will be served to those glamorous and great stars at the Performers Nominee Reception! How great is that! Now that should be enough to start quite a few ovens and kitchens a-whirling and twirling with baking action, going after this great prize. The thought that your favorite television star could be biting into one of your delicious cupcakes is simply too sweet for most of us too imagine!

Get to baking now, practice your best cupcaking. Your entry must be in by July 21st 2010. That’s a Wednesday. Entries will be voted on until July 28th. The recipes with the most votes will go on to the Top 10 category. These yummy cupcakes will be then reviewed by Pinnacle Foods Group and celebrity judges. They’ll be looking at creativity, ease of preparation and of course, taste! Winners will be announced on August 3rd.

Enter here and Good Luck!

So what kind of cupcake could it take to win this fun and glamorous trip to L.A., seeing stars and getting great cupcake glory? We can only imagine. They could pick a true classic cupcake recipe, someone who takes a delicious chocolate cupcake and makes it the most delicious chocolate cupcake ever. Or they could select someone who makes a more unique flavor, say red velvet (for a red carpet). A cupcake shaped like the Emmy Award could snag the winning vote. Or a cupcake shaped like a star could appeal to the judges, something that’s glamorous and glittery and fun!

Whatever you choose to enter, we wish you Good Luck. If you become a Finalist or win the Grand Prize, let us know here and we’ll be excited to learn of your great cupcake success!

(c) photo Moi Cody

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Wondering what to get your friend who loves all things cupcake? Well, you can buy this Sex and the City Swarovski crystal purse for $4,295. I’m almost positive you would be the only lady on your block with one How many cupcakes could you buy for $4,295? At $3.00 a piece, you could buy 1,431 cupcakes for your all of your friends and family. Do you think the purse is big enough to even hold a cupcake?

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Tori shares her adorable Pudsey teddy bear cupcakes with us. Pudsey is a mascot for the BBC Children in Need telethon in the UK. The telethon raises millions of dollars each year for UK hospitals. I think Tori did a fantastic job utilizing fondant with dots for the Pudsey bandage. Tori has a fun blog called Torilicious where you can read more posts about cupcakes and fun sweets.

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In 2009 artist Zilly Rosen and friends created A New Birth of Freedom cupcake art project. They placed 5,600 cupcakes in 5 hours at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and created this amazing art piece of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama. You can also watch a time lapse video of the artists at work here.

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I was up late last night baking cupcakes and found nothing of interest on at 1am. Until, I came across the 2009 MTV VMA awards. I was baking and half listening when I saw a camera shot of Lady Gaga in the audience wearing a circular white wreath covering her face. Since I was baking, the first thought that came to mind was that she looked like a cupcake decoration. I was baking brownie cupcakes and found some coconut in the cupboard…..and created my Lady Gaga cupcake.

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