TODAY Show Summer Blast Cupcakes!
Wednesday started early for us, it actually started on Tuesday. Karen and I prepared a Big Top Circus Cupcake Party, a Lobster Cupcake Project, Popcorn Cupcakes, Corn on the Cob Cupcakes, Ant's Picnic Cupcakes, Fried Chicken Basket Cupcakes, a whole Whale Pod Cupcake project, Sandcastle Cupcakes, and finally a big Bouquet of Zinnias Cupcakes. We packed it all in Karen's station wagon and drove very carefully into Manhattan avoiding as many pot-holes as possible (we only lost one Zinnia and a couple of seagulls along the way) and delivered our Summer Blast Cupcake Party to the TODAY Show at Rockefeller Center. We worked with the set designers, the producer, the food stylists, the prop crew, and the camera crew to set up the table. The cupcakes on the table looked so fantastic and tempting that the crew put bright yellow caution tape all around the area to keep everybody safely out of arms reach and finally late Tuesday we called it a day and drove home to sleep for a few hours (Karen needed rest to look perky for her close-up camera shot on Wednesday!). Early Wednesday morning Karen crawled out of bed, decorated a few more clowns and elephants for the Big Top project and made her way back to the studios for the segment. And what a segment it was. The cupcakes looked great, Kathie Lee and Hoda were so sweet and loved everything, and they all had a blast making Zinnia cupcakes for the bouquet. The projects are all easy, they use simple candies and snacks for decorations, and there is something here to inspire everyone. So click on the link below, watch it yourself, and get started making your own Summer Blast Cupcakes. (The recipes for the Zinnias, the Corn on the Cob, and the Popcorn are on the TODAY Show web site at www.msnbc.msn.com)
Keep on cupcaking!
Alan and Karen
Posted by hellocupcakeblog at 5/29/2008 10:38 AM 
Categories: April Fool's Cupcakes, Cupcake Events, Animal Cupcakes, Flower Cupcakes
Categories: April Fool's Cupcakes, Cupcake Events, Animal Cupcakes, Flower Cupcakes
Saw your segment this morning, and appreciate the inspiration! We're having a Webkinz-themed birthday in 2 weeks for my 8 year old, and he wants animal cupcakes for his guests (like all the different varieties of plush Webkinz). I'm planning to pick up a copy of your book this evening, so I can start to plan our cupcake feast! I'll be sure to send pictures, too!
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I just watched this segment and all the cupcakes looked great! I really liked the "Sandcastle" cupcakes and was curious if I would be able to find that recipe somewhere. Thanks!
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We are working on that one. The TODAY Show was a test run and we are working out the details. Lok for the final version in our new book next April 2010 called What's New, Cupcake!
Thanks for writing and...
Keep on cupcaking!
Alan and Karen
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Do you have a photo of the lobster cupcake? That sounds adorable!
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I am sorry to say we came up with that for the TODAY show segment and didn't take a photo of it before we drove it down to the NBC Studios. What dunces we are. But we are planning to do it again and hope it will be in our next book titled What's New, Cupcake! coming out in April 2010.
Thanks for asking and Keep on cupcaking!
Alan and Karen
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Where can I get your book? ... I just found the site and I'm hook!!!
I will have a safari party very soon and will like to do some of these.
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A safari party sounds like lots of fun. Send us some photos when you do it.
You can get the book at your local book store. Or you can order it on line through AMAZON. If you go to our web site www.hellocupcakebook.com you will see a link for AMAZON that takes you directly to the page with the book. And usually at the best price. Thanks for asking and...
Keep on cupcaking!
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I just want to say.. how much I love your book.. I can't wait for April 2010!!!
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