Happy Halloween -- Fun Candy Corn Cupcake Recipe

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Happy Halloween! Let me tell you why I'm so excited about Halloween this year....I finally have a reason to celebrate it: my little 11-month old baby! And let me tell you how adorable he looks in his costume.

Any holiday is a good excuse to bake cupcakes, so here's another great recipe from Love From the Oven. The recipe is actually one that's modified from McCormick, with cake pops added on top.

Have a fun and safe Halloween! And make sure you "test" all of your kids candy.

Halloween Cupcakes 2011

Halloween is just around the corner! I knew time would fly when the holidays got here. Today marks 6 weeks that I have left until my bundle of joy arrives. I can't believe I'm coming down the home stretch.

Halloween is one of the best times of year to be creative in your cupcake decorating. I've come across lots of great Halloween cupcake ideas. Enjoy these ones from this year, as well as the cupcakes I've found in previous years.

Photo: Love From the Oven

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Halloween Cupcakes 2008

More Halloween Cupcakes 2008

Halloween Cupcakes 2009

More Halloween Cupcakes 2009

Halloween Cupcakes 2010

Halloween Treats from Love from the Oven

Halloween is such a fun holiday to make treats for! Love from the Oven has some great ideas. I especially love these Halloween Push Pop Peeps.

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Chocolate Covered Oreo Pops

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Halloween Cupcake Cake Pops

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SusieCakes October Specials

I love fall because it's the start of holiday baking! SusieCakes is offering some delicious treats during the month of October.

Pumpkin Maple Cupcakes
Apple Crumble Pie
Caramel Apple Cake
Frosted Sugar Cookies (Candy Corn, Ghosts, Spider Webs, Pumpkins)
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Rice Crispy Treats
Praline Sweet Pie
Pumpkin Pie

SusieCakes also has a few other announcements. First, they now offer online ordering for store pick-up or local delivery.

Second, you can send free cupcakes to four friends by becoming a Facebook fan. I'm never used the OnMe program before, but it's telling me that each of my four friends can bring in the coupon to redeem for 3 free cupcakes. Pretty awesome!

Last, SusieCakes is offering fall baking classes at each of their six locations. Learn pie baking basics for $75.

Happy Halloween!

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Happy Halloween! Have a fun and safe Halloween weekend!

Need some last minute Halloween cupcake idea? Check out my Halloween cupcake posts.

Halloween Cupcakes 2010
Halloween Cupcakes 2009
More Halloween Cupcakes 2009
Halloween Cupcakes 2008
More Halloween Cupcakes 2008

Black Velvet Cupcakes

Photo: Java Cupcake

I've seen Green Velvet Cupcakes for St. Patrick's Day, so why not Black Velvet Cupcake for Halloween?! Java Cupcake posted a recipe Black Velvet Cupcakes. and a tutorial for decorating cupcakes as Pumpkins. Check both out here.

Meringue Bake Shop to Sell Cupcakes at Great Park

Have you heard about the new Farmers Market that will take place at the Great Park in Irvine on Sundays? I hadn't either. But even more exciting is that you will find cupcakes from Meringue Bake Shop sold there!!

The Farmers Market will happen every Sunday from 10am-2pm, rain or shine. It will start on October 31, aka Halloween.

Meringue Bake Shop will be selling her cupcakes at the Farmers Market. You can buy individual cupcakes or packs at a discount. Future plans include the introduction of pies, cookies, biscotti, and more!




Since the first Farmers Market takes place on Halloween, Meringue Bake Shop is taking advance orders for dozen assorted decorated cupcake packs that can be picked up at the market. Send her an email and let her know how many dozen you want (one dozen minimum).

If you haven't tried cupcakes from Meringue Bake Shop, you are in for a treat! Her flavors are so amazing! Stop by and see her at the Farmers Market on Halloween!

Meringue Bake Shop
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Halloween Cupcakes 2010

September just ended, so onto Halloween season. And before we know it, Christmas will be here. Ahhh! Let's take one step at a time.

Halloween. I've come to realize that this holiday is so much fun if you have kids. But not so much fun without kids, so I enjoy Halloween by baking lots of fun treats. With the hundreds of cupcake, baking, and food blogs I read, I come across lots of fun ideas for Halloween cupcakes. Enjoy!

Sweetest Kitchen

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Full Halloween

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Edible Crafts

The Swell Life

Homemaker's Habitat

You can also check out the Halloween cupcakes I've posted in previous years.

Halloween Cupcakes 2009

More Halloween Cupcakes

Skeleton Cupcakes

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Yeah! Another Halloween treat idea! cookies and cups has a great tutorial for making these adorable skeletons made out of cupcakes. You'll need cupcakes (of course), white chocolate-covered pretzels, large marshmallows, lollipop sticks, and a food writer (or black icing). Check out the tutorial here.

Little Hobgoblin Sundaes

Fall is here and I'm so happy!

Fall means the start of great holiday baking. Fun Halloween treats and pumpkin desserts are my favorite parts. I'll be featuring my favorite new desserts finds over the next few months (then it's onto Thanksgiving and Christmas!!).

Cheeky Kitchen posted photos, a recipe, and instructions for Little Hobgoblin Sundaes. They caught my eye because I thought they were cupcakes.

Photo: Cheeky Kitchen

These fun treats are made with chocolate chunk cookies, dipped in chocolate, dipped in green and yellow swirled Trix, topped with vanilla bean ice cream, drizzled with chocolate, and topped with a "goblin-covered cherry."

Photo: Cheeky Kitchen

You can find more photos and the recipe on Cheeky Kitchen's website. Happy early Halloween baking!

Cupcake Costume

Photo: Pottery Barn Kids

It seems like I was just in Hawaii setting off fireworks, yet there are signs everywhere of back-to-school, Halloween, and dare I say Christmas! Ahhhh! It really is true that sign flies the older you get.

Pottery Barn Kids has their Halloween costumes up on their website already and the Cupcake Costume is so adorable. Having a super adorable girl wearing the costume doesn't hurt the image either. The Cupcake Costume is $59 and available in sizes 2T-3T, 4-6, and 7-8. Don't forget the matching Cupcake Treat Bag!

Happy Halloween

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Happy Halloween readers! Have a safe and fun Halloween!

Need some last-minute cupcake ideas? Check out my Halloween cupcake posts:
Halloween Cupcakes 2009
More Halloween Cupcakes 2009
Halloween Cupcakes 2008
More Halloween Cupcakes 2008

SusieCakes' Spooktacular Halloween Treats!

I always look forward to a season change because that means new flavors of cupcakes at SusieCakes! And of course, I love Halloween and Thanksgiving time because that means pumpkin cupcakes. And you know how much I love pumpkin cupcakes!

Along with Pumpkin Cupcakes, SusieCakes is also offering:

• Frosted Sugar Cookies (pumpkins, spider webs, ghost, and candy corn)
• Seasonal Pies (apple crumble and pumpkin)
• Mini Sugar Cookies (ghosts, moons, bats, and cats) tied with satin ribbon
• Pumpkin Cheesecake (YUM!)
• Rice Krispie Treats (rolled in Halloween Spookins)
• Custom Halloween Cakes
• Susie's Pumpkin Patch (red velvet, chocolate, and vanilla cupcakes decorated to look like pumpkins)
  

Pumpkin Pie Bites

You remember Bakerella's cupcake bites that I love to make? Well, Bakerella is back with a new twist for autumn -- Pumpkin Pie Bites! Mini desserts are so perfect, especially when you don't feel like eating a whole slice of pie.


How to make these sweet holiday treats: Bakerella uses ready to roll refrigerated pie crust. Using pre-made pie crust makes this recipe so much easier to bake. The filling for these pies is found in her post. Bakerella bakes these mini pies in a mini cupcake baking tin.


You can decorate for Halloween (see Jack-o-lantern pumpkins above) or Thanksgiving (see mini pumpkin pies below). Can't wait to bake these for my family!