Asia Inspired 3: Thailand

The flavour description of this cupcake just says Thailand to me - Chocolate Thai Curry cupcake, from Mostly Foodstuffs blog page. Interesting.

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Mother's Day Cupcake Ideas

A pretty little bouquet of roses on a cupcake for mom.

A very clever bouquet of mini cupcake roses - love this idea-  from The Cupcake Faerie.

Simple and elegant, pink on chocolate - looks good! From Glorious Treats

Flower, flowers and MORE flowers ... it seems to be the Mother's day theme!

I love this, hand-drawn her work on fondant, beautiful! Cupcake from Nevie Pie Cakes.

One last, lonely flower in chocolate on vanilla - yum! I really just loved this photo setup.

Happy Mother's Day to all the 

amazing mothers out there!

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Asia Inspired 2: India

Love these beauty India inspired mini cakes from Icing Dreams Flickr page.

So awesome!

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Asia Inspired 1: Chinese Take-out

As I am away on vacation, traveling through China, Nepal, Inedia, Thailand, et.c etc. I will share some Asia-inspired cupcake designs and ideas I found online.  This is one of my favourite creative cupcake ideas - chinese food cupciakes from iSew Blog, original idea from Karen Tack's What's New Cupcake?

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Spring & Easter Inspiring Cupcake Ideas

Some inspiring Easter cupcake ideas ...

Candy Easter eggs in cozy green grass.

Yellow Easter narcissus flowers, lovely Spring flower!

Spring pistachio and rose cupcakes.

Baby bluebirds in a toasted coconut nest.

Very cute couple of sheep.

I love these! They are perfect for welcoming Spring!

A Spring flower from Martha Stewart.

And more flowers, pretty purple-blue hydrangea cupcakes.

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Carrot Cupcakes for Easter

Carrot Cake Cupcakes
Original recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World

1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground ginger
2/3 cup organic cane sugar
1/3 cup canola oil
1/3 cup vanilla soy yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup grated carrots

Vegan cream cheese icing for topping dyed light green.

1. Preheat oven to 350F.  Line a 12-muffin tin with cupcake liners.
2.  Sift together the dry ingredients from the flour to the ground ginger in a large bowl. Fold in the carrots.
3. In a medium mixing bowl combine sugar, oil, yogurt and vanilla.
4. Fill the liners two-thirds full and bake for 26 to 28 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
5. Transfer cupcakes to a cooling rack.  Once they completely cool down, top each cupcake with a generous amount of cream cheese icing.

And just for fun, vanilla raspberry swirl cupcakes

Happy Easter Long Weekend!

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St. Patty's Day Cupcakes to Inspire You this Weekend!

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One can't celebrate St. Patty's day without a clover - if only it was a four-leaf!

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 The decoration and flavour is perfectly suited for any St. Patty's day party.  From Gina's Skinny recipes, chocolate stout cupcakes with Bailey's Irish cream cheese frosting.

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 Heard of red velvet? Here are some green velvet cupcakes from Love from the Oven.

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Shamrock cut-out cupcakes, lovely! Get the recipe at Glorious Treats.

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The cupcake version of an Irish car bomb.

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It doesn't all have to be about Bailey's and car bombs, try some whiskey with these Irish Coffee Brownie cupcakes.

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Now these I love! Capture a rainbow in your cupcake this St. Patty's day.

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And more creative rainbown ideas, using candy and chocolate.

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Of course St. Patty's day wouldn't be complete without a 'kiss me I'm Irish' sign. How about some 'kiss me I'm Irish' cupcakes instead!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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January Showers bring February Flowers?

Well at least it does our home, through with the moderate Winter we have been having we probably could have real flowers outside soon, but in this case I'm talking about cupcake flowers. Special cupcake flowers for my wonderful mother's 60th birthday. She loved it!

 Orange candy clay daisies, mini yellow candy clay flowers and red gum drop roses.

 Pink candy clay flower, red gum drop roses and green licorice stems.

Happy 60th Birthday Mom!

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