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Cupcake of the Week: Easter Nests
This week's cupcake of the week comes from Steph at the Frosted Garden. These adorable Easter Nests are delightfully festive and oh so cute. I hope she inspires you to make your own batch for Sunday!
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Kiddie Soiree: Cupcake Sleeves
Crank the cuteness factor up a notch next time you serve up a batch of cupcakes with Roundabout Cupcake Sleeves. The decorative, non-toxic, self-adhesive sleeves ($9 for 12) come in a variety of designs to tie in to your next party's theme. From Easter Bunny and basket images to treasure chests and gumball machines, the sleeves are easily applied to the base of the cupcake and the company's site offers clever design tricks for creating the masterpieces, such as using Milano cookies to serve as a bunny's ears and placing marshmallows on top of cupcakes to replicate popcorn in a movie theater bucket.
Last Chance to Win: The Ultimate Easter Baking Giveaway Ends Today!
Looks like the cupcake craze isn't over yet: we were so excited about the overwhelming response to our last giveaway, we decided to offer another lucky reader the chance to win the ultimate baking package. This time, we've partnered with Williams-Sonoma to provide everything you'll need for an Easter baking extravaganza. We're giving away a KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer and all of the necessary tools for baking the best cupcakes.
52 Weeks of Baking: Springtime Lemonade Cupcakes
The other day I read about Julia's Easter Cake Bake challenge and decided that it would be a great theme for this week's baking project. I'd also been thinking about making a lemon cake using lemonade concentrate (like these cookies that PartySugar made a few weeks ago) and thought that lemonade and Easter seemed like a good match. So I headed to my kitchen and started brainstorming - I took a bunch of different cake recipes (along with some tips I've picked up along the way) and came up with a pretty decent lemonade cupcake (Julia's challenge originally said cake, but something about the bite size cupcakes seemed more fun).
A Round of Applause For. . .
YumSugar reader daddio49! She is the lucky winner of our Ultimate Easter Baking giveaway. Our friends at Williams-Sonoma are sending her everything she needs to go cupcake crazy.
Must-Read: Field Guide to Cookies
If you're completely over the cupcake craze but looking for other sweet entertaining ideas for Spring, consider the Field Guide to Cookies: How to Identify and Bake Virtually Every Cookie Imaginable ($10.87). Authored by Bay Area pastry veteran Anita Chu, the guide packs an impressive amount of information on the world's cookies into a rather teensy tome. Find out if this book would be a good match for you when you read more
Yummy Links: From Candy Bars to Candy Eggs
- This candy bar identification quiz was one of my favorite things all week. — AOL Food
- Amazon is entering the wine market. — GeekSugar
- Go behind the scenes at artisanal candy shop, Papabubble.
What's Yummy This Week
- This week we switched over from Passover planning (be sure to check out the pics) and headed into Easter mode. We even had ideas for both an Easter brunch or dinner. Oh and let us know what your favorite Easter candy is.
- Food & Wine magazine announced their Best New Chefs of 2007 and held a big party to celebrate.
Are We Breeding Brats?
Like most moms, I spoil my babe every now and then. By that, I mean I buy her a pretty dress for Easter, she has stacks of books up to her eyeballs and likes a swipe of frosting from a cupcake.
But, I see it more and more where moms dress their kids like lil Paris Hiltons and treat them like queens.
Speak Up: What Good Choice Did You Make Today?
I was bummed this morning while I contemplating what to eat for breakfast because my workout got squeezed out of my schedule. While I thinking about about a missed workout, I was also literally one bite away from eating some leftover Easter cupcakes. What a slippery slope.
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