We're back, and we've got more great cupcake ideas for Fall!
We are so glad to be home.
Karen and I both took short vacations and had a chance to get the creative cupcake juices flowing. Now we are back and have some great new ideas for fall.
Karen kicked off the season with a segment of the TODAY Show yesterday. You can take a look at the segment on the NBC web site by clicking on the image here.
CLICK THIS IMAGE TO SEE THE VIDEOShe made some great Back-To-School cupcakes with Kathie Lee and Hoda. Among the projects Karen showed were Van Gogh's masterpiece Starry Night painted out of frosting on cupcakes, Monarch butterflies with wings made from chocolate, bowling pins and a bowling balls, a great big beautiful American flag, and then she taught Kathie Lee and Hoda how to make wise owls with wide open eyes made from Oreos. But I think my favorite had to be the Apple Cupcakes made for teacher. We crafted them from doughnuts placed on top of cupcakes, and then covered them with red frosting and rolled the frosting in red sugar to make them look rich and glittery. We added a Tootsie Roll stem and gave some of them a bite filled with white frosting and candy coated sunflowers seeds to look like apple seeds. We experimented with this design for the nice folks at Ginny's out in Wisconsin and they actually used them for the adorable cover of their fall 2008 catalog. You can get the recipe for making the apples by going to the recipe page on their web site at
Just look how cute the apples looked on their recent cover. We even put a yellow worm made from a fruit chew in one of the apples just to make sure we got a laugh from the teacher.
I plan on getting the "Hello Cupcake" book very soon. I just heard about it a week or so ago.
Great article and loved the video.
Susie
Reply to this
How could you not love this?! I just happen to be planning a birthday party for my daughter at the local apple orchard. What could be better than these gorgeous apple cupcakes? Thanks for sharing.
Reply to this
Gorgeous! I can't wait to try out this idea for my daughter's class...Your creativity is truly amazing! Enjoyed taking your cupcake class earlier this year, and always look forward to checking in with your blog!
Reply to this
I love the apple cupcake (and all of the others you have made in recent blog posts/in your hello cupcake book. Any instructions on how you made the "bite mark" on the apple cupcake? Thanks!
janet e.
Reply to this
Funny you should ask. We checked to who had the best teeth for the bite and then... used the tines of a fork to break off a small section to look like a bite. We frosted the area inside the bite with white frosting and added the small candy coated sunflower seeds to look like aplle seeds. So glad you asked.
Keep on cupcaking!
Alan and Karen
Reply to this
I love, love, love the Fall ideas! The apples are too cute! In fact, your book is our absolute favorite and I'm giving away a copy of it on my blog for National Cupcake Day on Oct. 18th.
-Mandy
www.gourmetmomonthego.blogspot.com
Reply to this
I love, love, love the Fall ideas! The apples are too cute! In fact, your book is our absolute favorite and I'm giving away a copy of it on my blog for National Cupcake Day on Oct. 18th.
-Mandy
www.gourmetmomonthego.blogspot.com
Reply to this
Thanks Gourmet Mom,
It is so nice to hear from you. We always love checking out what you are doing on your blog.
Please keep all those clever ideas coming,
and...Keep on cupcaking!
Alan and Karen
Reply to this
Im naving probem with black icing and dont want paoples faces to turn that color while eating them . i have an order for 100 black and copper cupcakes simalar to your black and white ones
How do i achieve this?
Reply to this
It can be difficult to get frosting black enough without using a ton of coloring to tint it. We start with dark chocolate frosting so we don't have to use very much black to get a nice rich black color. Also sometime the color of dark chocolate is dark enough. It has a nice dark luster and looks almost like black just as it is.
Hope that helps,
Keep on cupcaking,
Alan and Karen
Reply to this
I'm looking for caramel jimmies, does anyone know where I can find them. Or even how to make them?
Thank you,
Maria
Reply to this
This is a little off subject, but would anyone happen to have any New Years cupcake ideas? =]
Reply to this
Those apple cupcakes are so creative!
Reply to this
Here is the website if anyone is still looking for caramel jimmies (this was hard to find). http://shop.mywebgrocer.com/shop.aspx?&sid=44459105&sid_guid=dff57c72-e3fc-4ecf-8a4e-7ab9cafa4522&strid=52B8654&shopurl=ProductDetail.aspx&pid=373389&clk_src=seopd&ns=1
Reply to this