April Fool's Day TV dinner cupcakes

Some fun April Fool's Day TV dinner cupcakes by Winona, Minnesota custom cupcake company Mon Petit Cupcakes, via their Facebook page. I'll have more on them tomorrow but wanted to share this timely photo. For ordering information, contact owner Jennifer Rogers at monpetitcupcake at yahoo.com or 507-358-8504 and you can also follow @monpetitecupcake on Twitter.

Gary Vaynerchuk custom Crush It! cupcakes

Rutherford, New Jersey bakery Sweet Avenue Bake Shop is famous for putting images on cupcakes, such as the stars of Twilight. Recently, they did cupcakes for WineLibraryTV video blogger Gary Vaynerchuk, author of Crush It! Why NOW Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, for a book signing he did. I'm going to see if Gary will give us a little insight into the increasingly popular cupcake and wine pairings.

You can read more about the book at publisher HarperStudio and buy it from Amazon. I haven't read it so can't speak to the book but I imagine it has some helpful advice for anyone looking to pursue a business in cupcakes, or anything entrepreneurial.


photo via @winelibrary at Yfrog


photo of Gary Vaynerchuk with Crush It! cupcake by Anthony Quintano



Visit www.sweetavenuebakeshop.com or call 201-935-BAKE (2253) or email info at sweetavenuebakeshop.com to get your own custom photo cupcakes. You can also follow them on Twitter, Facebook, and their blog.

Below is their banana cream pie cupcake...looks delicious! Available Tuesdays and Thursdays in April.

Strawberry mania and color-coordinated Peeps cupcakes at Wink Cupcakes, Seattle

These strawberry cupcakes and Peeps cupcakes are by Seattle's Wink Cupcakes, via their Facebook page. They did not have either of these when I visited their bakery, but they did have adorable ice cream cone cupcakes, which is something I rarely see. My phone battery died just as I was eating their ice cream cupcake, so I couldn't properly capture my surprise, or the frosting on my nose, when I found out there was frosting under the cake. I'm using a photo from their site to illustrate the inside - it was quite something.


inside the Wink Cupcakes ice cream cone cupcake

The strawberry cupcakes are available by special order until they're fully in season, according to their blog.



I love how the Peep and frosting colors match!



The ones below were for a media appearance - how cute is the chick hatching?





Wink Cupcakes
1817 Queen Anne Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
206-856-1600