Real Party: Catherine Bell Baby Shower

Today’s real party is an adorable baby shower thrown in honor of Catherine Bell, star of Lifetime’s show Army Wives, who is expecting a baby boy in August. This intimate shower was hosted by Cottonelle and guess who was in attendance. The cuddly Cottonelle puppies! Babies and puppies – can it get any better than that

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Real Party: Catherine Bell Baby Shower

 Another gorgous fresh cupcake inking

This one was sent in by a reader and friend of the woman who sports the tat. Sent to us by Camber S., the tattoo is on Renee, who got it inked by Mark Stewart at Forever Tattoo Parlour in Cape Coral, FL.

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Another gorgous fresh cupcake inking

 Babycake Cupcake From B5 Media Party

Last Tuesday, I attended the B5 Media party on Tuesday night at Kingswood in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood to promote its three Web sites, Blisstree , Crushable , and The Gloss . There were cupcakes from Babycakes there.

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Babycake Cupcake From B5 Media Party

 Graduation cupcake pops, Elmo cupcake pops & much more by Lollicakes

I’ve been meaning to post about The Lollicake Bakeshop ‘s adorable cake pops for a while and will do a more extensive post at some point but couldn’t resist the adorableness of these graduation cupcake pops (via Flickr ). They’re in Denver, Colorado (with a satellite location in Boston), which I wish I’d known when I visited, though I will be back and will be sure to contact them.

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Graduation cupcake pops, Elmo cupcake pops & much more by Lollicakes

 Very colorful cupcakes

These are by Tangerina Cakes of Buenos Aires, Argentina via Flickr . You can find out more on their website and on Facebook . They can be reached at tangerinacakes at gmail.com or 1558480908 or 156716166

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Very colorful cupcakes

 Orange strawberry poppyseed mini cupcakes, $1 each, Hester Street Fair, NYC

I stopped by the Hester Street Fair today to visit Kumquat Cupcakery , one of our favorites, who is also selling this weekend at the Brooklyn Flea. Her mini cupcakes are $1 each and she had 5 flavors on offer. The orange strawberry poppyseed cupcakes, which were delicious and not too overpowering (I’m not a huge orange fan), a dark chocolate mini cupcake that was wonderful, as well as chocolate peanut butter, lemon lavender and red velvet.

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Orange strawberry poppyseed mini cupcakes, $1 each, Hester Street Fair, NYC

 Kids and Cupcakes: Elijah

Reader Kim (whom I suspect is a photographer) sent in this shot of her son Elijah enjoying his first-birthday cupcake. It might be hard to find a shot more adorable than this one. Elijah’s now four years old — I can’t wait to see his next birthday cupcake shot!

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Kids and Cupcakes: Elijah

 Reader-submitted cupcake tat!

Keep sending them in, people, I adore them all. This fresh inking is by Phat Joe’s Tattoo Parlour in Miami, Florida, and reader (and cupcake-enthusiast) Cristina is proud to sport it and two others. Rock on, Cristina!

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Reader-submitted cupcake tat!

 Buttercream frosting cupcakes at Cupcakeland

Buttercream frosting cupcakes at Cupcakeland Originally uploaded by Rachel from Cupcakes Take the Cake Cupcakeland in Williamsburg, Brooklyn now has buttercream frosting ($2.25) in addition to cream cheese frosting. Cool!

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Buttercream frosting cupcakes at Cupcakeland

 PattyCakes mini cupcake delivery from NJ

New Jersey cupcakery PattyCakes just sent me a box of bite-size do-it-yourself cupcakes to taste, photograph and review: I don’t recall it being marked perishable , but it did arrive two days after it was mailed (a Monday to Wednesday travel schedule). First thing I noticed was the cute packaging: The packing peanuts are made out of corn starch and dissolve in water. That was a BIG plus to me, as I detest Styrofoam and the wastefulness of most packing materials

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PattyCakes mini cupcake delivery from NJ

 Zebra cupcakes at Disney Food Blog

Over at The Disney Food Blog , AJ posted about these amazing-looking zebra cupcakes! It’s clearly the Disney dining equivalent of avant garde artwork — a representation of a zebra vs. an actual molded animal, as you find in the White Chocolate Elephant Cupcake, also sold at Kusafiri Bakery.

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Zebra cupcakes at Disney Food Blog

 Tie dye heart mini cupcakes with rum frosting!

One of the things I love about the cupcake world is that there is always something new, a new twist whether it’s design, shape, flavor or decoration. Case in point: these adorable tie-dyed mini cupcakes with rum frosting topped with hearts. They’re by Washington, DC custom cupcake company Pretty Please Cupcake , which specializes in mini cupcakes and does delivery and can be reached at prettypleasecupcake at gmail.com (via Flickr ).

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Tie dye heart mini cupcakes with rum frosting!

 Filled chocolate pomegranate cupcakes plus recipe

Our pal Shanna at A Cup Full of Cake made filled chocolate pomegranate cupcakes! She used POM Wonderful and she has the recipe plus step by step photo instructions.

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 Cake Pops By Bakerella Due Out This Fall

Rachel and I went to Book Expo today, so we haven’t been able to post. While at the Chronicle Books area, I spotted a mock-up of Bakerella’s Cake Pops book which will come out September 2010.

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Cake Pops By Bakerella Due Out This Fall

 Something New, Something Blue Cupcakes For Wedding Shower

Earlier this week, we got an email from Jacki who blogs about food at WKOW in Madison, Wisconsin. She made beautiful cupcake bouquets and a cupcake tower for her sister’s bridal shower. Up close picture of cupcake bouquet Jacki and her creations

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Something New, Something Blue Cupcakes For Wedding Shower

 Real Party: Bunny Baby Shower

Today’s real party is a simple yet sweet baby shower created by Whitney Smith, a talented photographer with a chic sense of style. Whitney created this shower based on the classic children’s book, Pat the Bunny. A soft pink color scheme creates the perfect setting for oodles of charming bunny details

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Real Party: Bunny Baby Shower

 Gumdrop rose cupcake tutorial

I’m working on a cupcake and candy post, but these gumdrop roses on top of red velvet cupcakes deserve their own post! See Saucy’s Sprinkles to find out how to make them. (via Flickr )

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Gumdrop rose cupcake tutorial

 Diner chocolate cupcake

Last night after a late dinner, my friend Twanna and I were on the Lower East Side around midnight, craving dessert. We settled on Remedy Diner , where we shared vanilla and chocolate ice cream and this cupcake: We ate it with spoons, combining frosting and cake, and ice cream and cake

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Diner chocolate cupcake

 Memorial Day Inspiration

This weekend, people across the country will gather with friends and family to celebrate Memorial Day. Typically these parties include a grill, lots of delicious food, cold drinks and patriotic decor. This year, celebrate in style with these great red, white and blue accessories that will take any Memorial Day BBQ up a notch

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Memorial Day Inspiration

 Fabulous Cake Friday: Cakelava

Today I’m reviving an old weekly tradition here on Half Baked. Back when I owned my cake shop in Dallas, I would feature one new cake design each week that stood out as my favorite. Even though I mainly write about cakes and parties now, I still fall in love with fabulous new cake designs, created by talented cake artists across the country.

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Fabulous Cake Friday: Cakelava