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Santa Cupcakes

Food Timeline shows history of the cupcake dating back as far as 1796. The ‘’American Frugal Housewife’’’ noted in 1833 that cupcakes were a more frugal sweet than the pound cake. HBO’s Sex and the City renewed popularity of the sweet snack food which is now featured in many blogs and decorated by many bakeries.http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcakes.html#cupcakes

updated 2010-12-16 00:47:08

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May Day Cupcakes

May Day is an ancient celebration of renewal and growth. It is associated with flowers, greenery and baskets of gifts and foodhttp://www.theholidayspot.com/mayday/customs.htm. The holiday was spent making garlands and baskets decorated with flowers and ribbons. Children would dance around the Maypole weaving patterns with long colorful ribbons and a May Queen was chosen to preside over the festivities.http://www.pretanicworld.com/Calendar.html

updated 2010-07-17 15:03:56

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National Vanilla Cupcake Day

A celebration of National Vanilla Cupcake Day, may begin at a local cupcake shop to enjoy a treat for the day. [how to make cupcakes|Vanilla cupcakes]] may be shared with a group such as co-workers, or in a classroom environment. Another celebration may include teaching children how to make vanilla cupcakes and making it a family activity to decorate them for the occasion. Cupcakes can be made in a mold or cooked and frosted like ice cream cones as shown in the featured video. Other cupcake decorations may be considered during this day of celebration.

updated 2010-10-17 00:35:15

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National Chocolate Cupcake Day

On National Chocolate Cupcake Day, why not learn how to make chocolate cupcakes? After you understand the basics, you can check out some of the delicious and unique chocolate cupcake recipes on the web. Some variations of chocolate cupcake recipes include a molten chocolate lava cupcake with a creamy chocolate center or black forest cupcakes with a liquid cherry center.http://www.cupcakeproject.com/2009/06/black-forest-cupcakes.htmlhttp://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes.aspx/molten-chocolate-cupcakes/8c33caa3-6e41-41d2-8b78-f5b0d1f3da02 For those that are health conscious, there are several low-fat chocolate cupcake recipes or low carb chocolate cupcake recipes that you can try. If you don't want to bake your own, stop by your local bakery on National Chocolate Cupcake Day and see what they have to offer.

updated 2010-08-22 08:44:16

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How to Make and Decorate Hanukkah Cupcakes

• With your Hanukkah cupcakes made, you might want to check out some of the other Hanukkah food pages such as How to Make Latkes, Beef Brisket, Hamantash, Gefilte Fish, Blintz and Hanukkah Gelt. You might also find the pages on the How to Spell Hanukkah, How to Light Hanukkah Candles, How to Play Dreidel and Dreidel Rules useful.

updated 2010-08-22 08:42:53

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Cupcakes

There are as many specialty pages on holiday style cupcakes in Mahalo as there are holidays. These pages have iboth simple and intricate ideas for holiday cupcakes and special decorating hints and tips to make the holiday more special. The holidays make such a unique opportunity to be creative and original and to help with that there are many ideas on the following Mahalo pages.

April Fools Cupcakes This page has alternative ideas to fool the diner in honor of the day.

Christmas Cupcakes This page is full of ideas to make the holiday a little more festive using cupcake ideas from Martha Stewart and other leading crafting sources.

Easter Cupcakes A page that has creative fun ideas like Bunny faces on the cupcakes.

Halloween Cupcakes Instructions on how to make the cupcakes look like they have been covered in spider webs and other creative spooky ideas.

Hanukkah Cupcakes Ideas such as making a Menorah out of a series of nine cupcakes.

St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes Creating green cupcakes and shamrock shaped cupcakes are all detailed in this page.

Thanksgiving Cupcakes A page filled with ideas from making a pumpkin cupcake to a turkey cupcake.

updated 2010-08-22 08:40:22

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Birthday Cupcakes

Did you know that the earliest mention of the cupcakes was around 1828? They quickly became a popular household treat due to how much simpler they were to make than regular cakes. Because of the number of ingredients that were used to make them, they were referred to early on as number cakes.All About Cupcakes: The History of the Cupcake Crazy About Cupcakes: Cupcake History

updated 2010-08-22 08:41:15

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Baby Shower Cupcakes

Some popular ideas for baby shower cupcakes include:

• Make flesh-colored frosting and use a fine-tipped cake gel to paint different faces on each cupcake.http://www.baby-shower-guide.com/baby-shower-cupcakes.html
• Candy accessories like baby feet and pacifiers can be used to decorate cupcakes.
• Popular decorating colors tend to be pastels like baby-blue, pink, mint-green and soft yellow.
• Noah's ark themes are popular for cupcakes and cakes alike.
• For Girls: flowers, bows, polka dots/stripes, hearts, and colors including pinks, creams, white, brown, yellow, purple, and teals.
• For Boys: animals, sports, polka dots/stripes, cars and trucks, and colors including blues, greens, creams, white, brown, and yellow.http://www.baby-shower.com/

updated 2010-08-22 08:42:36

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How to Decorate Christmas Cupcakes

To start, take your cupcake and apply white frosting to the top. To put two holly leaves on your icing, put two dabs of green frosting. After finishing the green frosting, use a piece of red candy to act as the holly berry. You can also spread green and red sprinkles around the top of the cupcake.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFG8NxfHKw4

updated 2011-02-05 00:13:24

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