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Popular Flavors for Fall Cupcakes

by Abigail on September 4, 2010

Fall is here and for cupcake lovers that means one thing: fall cupcakes! There are some flavors that simply say “fall” more than others. Now is the perfect time to enjoy these yummy flavors during this beautiful season. Why not try one or a few of these fall cupcake flavors as you do your cupcake baking?

Apple – Everyone has the image of the good student bringing the teacher an apple. Or of going apple picking in a country orchard. Or drinking apple cider. Yes, apple is certainly a delicious fall flavor perfect to enjoy for this season. Try apple shaped or apple flavored cupcakes this fall. Whether red, golden delicious or granny smith, apples are a popular flavor with adults and kids.

Pumpkin – This is another crowd pleasing flavor for fall. The pumpkin reminds many of Halloween Jack O’Lanterns and of fall’s pumpkin based foods like soups or breads and muffins. The spices associated with pumpkin are perfect for fall and will make your cupcakes sweet and have a delicious flavor. Nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and more – there is so much to enjoy about pumpkin and their spices. Try making pumpkin shaped cupcakes or cupcakes flavored with pumpkin.

Caramel – Salted caramels have been especially popular lately so it is easy to see how adding caramel to your cupcakes would make them anyone’s favorite sweet treat. Both adults and children enjoy caramel. Try caramel frosting or caramel inside your cupcakes for a sweet, gooey center. Or add tiny caramel chunks to the batter for a sweet surprise to your cupcakes everyone will love to sink their teeth into.

Spicy – Lots of people think of warm spices when they think of fall. Just like the pumpkin has its spices, so do many other fall foods – like apples. Even just using some of these spices with your favorite cupcake treat can make any cupcake more full of delicious fall flavor. Warm spices like cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and cardamom. Remember a small amount of spice goes a long way!

Enjoy fall and your sweet yummy cupcakes with this great season!

(c) photo by Adriana Herbut

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Ready for Halloween Cupcakes?

by Abigail on September 2, 2010

In a few weeks Halloween will be here. That spooky and fun holiday that children and adults look forward to. And if you love cupcakes, this creative holiday is easily one you’ll look forward to with great anticipation. Because anyone knows that just about anything goes on Halloween! So let’s talk a bit about Halloween cupcakes!

Halloween cupcakes are perfect for children and adults. We’ll let you in on a little secret: you can often make your “adult” cupcakes just as cute and silly as your children Halloween themed cupcakes because of this day – no one will raise a frosting covered eyebrow at you. Halloween is the perfect day to be silly, spooky and even a little goofy. So it’s okay to make those great alien cupcakes for your co-workers from Hello Cupcake! You’ve had your eye on all year. They won’t mind – as a matter of fact, they’ll dig in and ask for a second one to take home.

If you are having a Halloween party you want to be sure to have enough Halloween cupcakes. Halloween is often the perfect time to have a party – whether for children or adults. And for both it is known as a day of indulgence in sweet treats. So it is a great day to have some yummy cupcakes. Try making a combination of regular and mini sized cupcakes to please everyone. Especially if some guests are in fancy costumes, they’ll want a petite sized cupcake they can take tiny bites from. But that adorable dinosaur in the corner is going to want to take b-i-g bites from their cupcake! So be prepared.

Hello Cupcake! has pumpkin themed cupcakes that are perfect to make. I can also tell you if you are new to making fancy cupcakes this is a great one to start with. Try getting the orange frosting and green licorice ahead of time, as you probably wont be the only one with cupcakes on your mind for Halloween. These pumpkins come out cuter than you can imagine – and as a mini cupcake they are really cute too.

A variety of cupcakes is often a good option for Halloween. Children today seem to hold more Halloween parties and no longer go trick or treating. If your children are going to a Halloween party, you can offer to bring cupcakes and the host will be pleased at your kind offer. Try a variety of cupcakes from flowers to wild colors and fun shapes. Just as every child has a different idea of the “best” Halloween costume, they also have a different idea of what makes a great cupcake. They will appreciate having lots of cupcakes to choose from.

(c) Greg Jordan

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25 Fabulous Autumn Fall Cupcakes

by Sprinkles on August 28, 2010

Caramel Apple Cupcakes by I Heart Cupcakes

And without much further ado, here are our fantastic, fabulous, fall cupcakes.  Hopefully you will feel inspired to bake a batch or two!

1.  Autumn Oranges

These cupcakes are very beautiful featuring a large swirl of cream cheese frosting and come from Mark of Saucemania.  We found them on the Cupcake Blog.  Each cupcake is simply decorated with sprinkles of orange and brown.

2. Double Ginger Carrot Cakes

The Pumpkins do not need to be the only orange thing served this Autumn, why not go with the carrot.  These delicious looking Double Ginger Carrot Cupcakes from Coconut and Lime are fantastic.  Decorated simply they create quite an impact because of their strong autumn colors.

3. Lemon, Pistachio and Millet Cupcakes

If you are keen to try a different recipe this fall then the Cannelle et Vanille website is the place to go.  This is one of my favorite blogs because the photography is all stunning and the cakes look simply amazing.  I haven’t yet made this cupcake, but if you do, give us your opinion, are they really as good as they look?

4.  Why Nut? Hazelnut Cupcakes

As Autumn rolls around in comes the nuts and A Baked Creation has used her Hazelnuts in this fantastic cupcake recipe from The Whimsical Bakehouse.  The cupcakes use brown sugar to sweeten them and have used a spiky decoration on top, and as her pun goes, why nut?

5. Autumn Leaves

The Serial Cooking Blog post here features a number of ideas, many non autumn related but the very last picture by Kim Dowsett Taylor is just an amazing example of what can be achieved in creating an autumn or fall themed cupcake.  These cupcakes feature only autumn leaves but it is the range of colors that make them spectacular.

6. An Autumn Wedding

We include some Autumn or Fall Wedding cupcake ideas in our huge Wedding Cupcake round up, and this is another example of what you can active.  There are a few multicolored leaves scattered over the cupcakes and real flowers inserted around the base to really highlight the yellow and red color combination.  The cakes are created by Wild Cakes.

7.  Brown Leaf Cupcakes

Fancy Flours is showing off these fantastic new cupcake wrappers with these cupcakes, but I also love the way that they have matched the design of the wrapper with these beautiful pale brown almost translucent leaves.  They make a perfect Happy Fall cupcake.

8. Kara’s Autumn Cupcakes

We haven’t visited Kara’s Cupcakes in one of our lists yet, but these little autumn cupcakes definitely caught my eye.  They are little carrot cakes topped with cream cheese frosting and then decorated with an orange squiggle and topped with a little leaf.

9. Cupcakes and Tea

India Tree have a selection of autumn cupcakes on their site with recipes and decorations to boot.  I love this photo showing what you can simply do with buttercream frosting, orange sparkling sugar and fall decorations!

10. Autumn Cupcake Love

Over at Cozy Cottage Michelle loves Autumn and brings a range of her favorite images from different websites and around.  Some are duplicated with our list but many are not, so enjoy this idea gallery!

11.  Chocolate Fall Cupcake Trees

Crazy Delicious Food has this fantastic cupcake fall tree that she does for her autumn cupcakes, but what is best is that she is now sharing all of the steps on how to create them with you!  Well that isn’t quite the absolute best thing, no that is that they really are super easy to create!

12. Caramel Apple Cupcakes

I heart Cupcakes has created these absolutely gorgeous looking little green apple cupcakes a few years ago for Autumn.  They are just so adorable, and the website includes a full recipe, so there is no excuse to not get baking!

13. Pumpkin & Scarecrow Cupcakes

Wow, these are simply amazing from Wisk This!  They feature little scarecrows popping out the top of chocolate buttercream with straw going everywhere!  And the Pumpkin ones look great too.  There are no instructions on how to create these but they could be good for an idea prompter.

14. Pumpkin Cupcakes

For too long the pumpkin pie has ruled the Thanksgiving dinner table, well it is now time for the pie to step aside in favour of these gorgeous pumpkin cupcakes.  They look fantastic and are actually Pumpkin Cheesecake Cupcake, which is vanilla cake with pumpkin cheesecake baked in the middle.  On top of these cupcakes from Enjoy Cupcakes are spiced pumpkin cream cheese frosting and mint garnish.  Sadly there is no recipe, but you could experiment!

15. Apple Cider Cupcakes with Caramel Frosting

At Sugar Punk we have come across a Coconut & Lime Cupcake recipe that looks too good not to pass on to you!  These Apple Cider cupcakes play on that other fall favorite, apples and has a sweet caramel frosting on top.  Of course you could choose one of our fancy decorating ideas instead of the caramel frosting.

16. Chocolate Cupcakes with Caramel

These cupcakes are certainly not for the faint of heart, their full title is Chocolate Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Frosting and Chocolate Rum Ganache Filling, and they look simply divine!  There is a link to the recipe, which is from Ina Garten for the cupcake and to Chocylit for the Salted Caramel Frosting.  My Sweet and Saucy also includes step by step how to make these look SOOOO good.

17. Apple Crumble Cupcakes

As Fall starts rolling into winter and everything gets cooler and colder, there is one desert that just seems perfect to warm everything up and that is the good old apple crumble!  So why not make apple crumble cupcakes?  I know such a super idea, and one that Airy Fairy Cupcakes has experimented with – recipe included!

18. Cupcakes that are a Hoot!

These Owl cupcakes are from Catching Flieflies and are absolutely a heap of fun.  They use autumn favorites in their decoration like butter rum hard candies, choc chips, sliced almonds and whole cashews.  The cake used is a packet mix, which makes it easy to prepare or alternatively try one of our other Autumn cupcake recipes above or below!

19. Maple Walnut Cupcakes with Candied Walnuts

These cupcakes are some of my favorites, I just love the look of those crazy sugar spirals!  I know it is silly, but they completely draw me in with their messy goodness!  But I am getting off track!  These cuppies are from Desert Culinary and include a link to the recipe.

20. Ode to Fall Cupcakes

Well that is the name of the post over at Half Baked, where they have created a batch of Pumpkin Pecan Cranberry Cupcakes for the season!  The cupcakes are frosted in Chocolate and then decorated with I think cardboard leaves on little flags.

21. Fall themed cupcake collars

I strongly suggest if you have kids to check out these ideas from Chica and Jo.  They are perfect if you find your creative talents lie more with coloring and cutting than with baking.  The cupcakes themselves are not the center piece, it is the collars that make them!  Simple instructions are included and the results are brilliant.

22. An Autumn Wreath

This is a fantastic idea of how you can turn eight cupcakes into a fantastic fall wreath.  The website Pat and Kathie is a family blog, but it indicates that the cupcake leaves are made from white chocolate and using washed leaves collected from the garden.  It is a great idea for any autumn centrepiece.

23. Festive Fall Cupcakes

At Stephanie Cooks, she has taken an idea that she saw used for a cookie and converted it into a topping for a cupcake.  These are great autumn cupcakes with twizzler trees, pumpkin candies and fall leaf sprinkles.  There are instructions on how to achieve the decoration.

24. Pretty Aqua Acorn Cupcakes

If you are by now over the fall color scheme, which lets face it is pretty predominantly orange, then these are the cupcakes for you.  They are aqua and chocolate inside, frosted with aqua, and then decorated with autumn style acorns and come from Allen Designs.

25. Final Fall Wrap Up

There is lots of different variety on Dish with the Diva gathered from around the sites or flickr or somewhere, what is important is that they are here for you to feast your eyes all over and get inspired.  There is a rooster / chicken, multi shaded orange cupcakes, some Halloween ideas, pumpkins and apples a delicious maple cupcake and more!

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Welcome Autumn!

August 28, 2010

Ahhhh, it tis the eve of Autumn, well almost.  I am a few days early, which may not be so bad if you are planning to bake your way into the new season.  As you will know I am in Australia, and I have been envying you all summer with your nice warm weather as [...]

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