Jezebel: Cupcakes

You'll Be Surprised to Find Out What Exactly Goes into Your Cupcake

Madeleine Davies — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:00:00 EST

These days, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting at least three cupcakeries (side note: stop swinging dead cats). You know the places — they have mismatched chairs and vintage wallpaper. They're staffed by cute girls with perfect bangs and all of the cupcakes have clever names like "The National Velvet." The cupcake trend, even with all this talk of the macaron and great donut revival, is still in full swing, but do you know what goes into the making of those charming little cakes? According to this infograph, it's a lot more than you'd think. More »

Company that Makes Twinkies Filing for Sweet, Delicious Bankruptcy

Erin Gloria Ryan — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:55:00 EST

Start stockpiling your cream and preservative filled snack cakes: Hostess is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Again. More »

TSA Insists Cupcake Icing Could Be Fatal

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:30:00 EST

In a blog post today the TSA defended its actions in "cupcakegate," saying that the icing in a cupcake in a jar is considered a gel, and could be a cleverly disguised explosive. The post continued: More »

New Year's Resolutions Lead To Cupcake Violence

Dana Zemack — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:45:00 EST

Dana Zemack has been making stick figure comics since she was 12. This week, she made one just for us. More »

TSA Confiscates Cupcake Due To Potentially Dangerous Icing

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:02:33 EST

If you're planning to fly this week, don't even think about packing a dessert to make the trip less hellish. Rebecca Hains says that last week a TSA agent at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas seized her red velvet cupcake, which was baked inside an 8 ounce jar. "He explained to me that the frosting constitutes a gel-like substance and part of the way that he had arrived at this decision apparently was that it was in a container in which it conformed to the container's shape," Hains said. "I offered to take it out and put it in a zip-lock bag on the spot and he said 'no I can't let you touch it.' So once he had identified it as a security threat it was no longer mine and I couldn't have it back." Hains says she wasn't traumatized by the loss of her baked good, but the "encroachment on civil liberties" and inconsistency — earlier, a TSA agent at Boston's Logan International Airport let her go through security with two of the cupcakes. Plus, if the agency is now letting people fly with weed, it's just cruel to deprive them of their snack foods. More »

Meat Now Available In Cupcake Format

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:20:00 EST

In the eternal struggle between pie and cake, many feel the former is cheating with the inclusion of the meat pie. Now a Chicago bakery has leveled the playing field by offering meat cupcakes. At Meatloaf Bakery, you can order eight varieties of the self-contained meal, including ground beef topped with mashed potato frosting and ground chicken and wing sauce covered with bleu cheese. We're giving the point to cake here, though it's unlikely that flavors like Alaskan salmon cake covered in wasabi mashed potato frosting will replace chocolate and vanilla as flavors at kids' birthday parties. More »

College Republicans Express White Men's Oppression Through Bake Sale

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:43:11 EDT

College Republicans at the University of California-Berkeley are making waves in the shape of a million eyes simultaneously rolled by charging customers at their bake sale based on their race and gender. More »

Make Your Own Vagina Cupcakes

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:30:00 EDT

Catholic School Bans Rainbows

Anna North — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:45:00 EDT

An Ontario Catholic school has gone one step further than Tennessee's idiotic "don't say gay" bill — they've banned rainbows. More »

Make A Cupcake Filled With Pumpkin Pie

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:25:00 EDT

Now even staunch Team Cake supporters can enjoy pumpkin pie with Food Beast's recipe for pie-filled cupcakes. We suggest you bring a batch to Thanksgiving dinner to prevent an ugly cake vs. pie family feud. More »

Sad Keanu Is Team Cupcake

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:01:00 EDT

[New York, September 22. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]

Pac-Man Cupcakes Are Made For Chomping

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:40:00 EDT

The eater has become the eaten. Bonus points if you can swallow them down as fast as Pac-Man. More »

Three Cheers For Dudes Secure Enough To Eat Cupcakes

Anna North — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:00:00 EDT

Genetics may explain part of why women like desserts more than men do — but it's pretty sweet when a man bucks this trend. More »

Naomi Campbell Wears Fur, Goes Bald; Tyra Banks Developing New Online Project

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:00:00 EDT

In the middle of a NY heatwave, onetime PETA spokeswoman Naomi Campbell spent the day outside modeling fur coats. She hobnobbed with Ellen Barkin and Mickey Rourke between shots. [P6]
Underneath her wig, however, Campbell appeared nearly bald. [Daily Mail]

We Have Crowned The Next "It" Carbohydrate!

Anna North — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:00:00 EDT

The results are in, and our "it" sweet poll has a surprising winner! More »

You Decide: What's The Next "It" Sweet?

Anna North — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Pie has beaten cake, but the arrival of (reportedly mobbed) urban pie shops can only mean the beginning of the end. And cupcakes are spawning backlash. A number of contenders have arisen, but what's the real next sweet treat trend? More »

Just Desserts

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:50:00 EDT

[Venice, CA; June 13. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]

How Sweet Little Cupcakes Can Spark Controversy

Anna North — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:00:00 EDT

A North Carolina cupcake shop has apologized for adopting the unfunny slogan "So Good It Makes Fat People Cry," and then for calling one critic a c-word that was definitely not "cupcake." More »

30 Delicious Cupcake Tattoos

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:20:00 EDT

Talk about just desserts! Warning: All this mouth-watering, frosting-laden, pink, sprinkle-covered ink might give you a toothache. [CityRag] More »

Mahnahmahnah! Muppet Cupcakes!

Sadie Stein — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:20:00 EDT

Look, no one's questioning the artistry of these Muppet cupcakes. But if you can find it in you to take a bite of that happily smiling Piggy, or Kermit looking up at you so hopefully, well, that's cake commitment. [BuzzFeed] More »

All Hail The Babycakes Cupcake Maker

Hortense Smith — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:35:00 EDT

I'm pretty sure dreams can come true, if only because the Babycakes cupcake maker, which claims to bake a batch of mini cupcakes in roughly 5-8 minutes, looks like the grown-up Easy Bake oven we've all been waiting for. [InventorSpot] More »

Lost Star Demonstrates The Best Way To Eat A Cupcake

Jessica Coen — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:40:12 EDT

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On his personal blog, Lost star Jorge Garcia demonstrates the exact process for creating our beloved Cupcake Sandwich. With his helpful step-by-step photos, you will master this carbohydrate-consumption method on the first try. [Dispatches From The Island] More »

Macarons Are The New Cupcakes

Hortense Smith — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:50:00 EDT

Move over, cupcakes: according to the Times of London, macarons are "what the fashionista is eating this season." Important Dessert Update: That's "macarons," not "macaroons." Okay?! And now my Ibsen joke is ruined, crew. Whatever, cake is still better. [TimesOnline] More »

Bakery Backlash: It's A Cupcake, Not A Puppy

Hortense Smith — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:30:00 EDT

Laura Atkinson of the Times of London is really, really sick of cupcakes: "No fashionable farmer's market is complete without its home-made cupcake stall, staffed by fragrant women who are happy to charge £5 for each sickly creation." Oh, snap! More »

The Butch Bakery: "Manly Cupcakes For Manly Men"

Hortense Smith — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:30:00 EST

Personally, I was not aware that cupcakes were an inherently feminine snack food, but Butch Bakery apparently disagrees, and has launched its own line of "manly cupcakes," which "combine a masculine aesthetic to a traditionally cute product." [Butch Bakery] More »

Love Don't Cost A Thing: Valentine's Day At Dean & Deluca

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:00:00 EST

How do I love thee? Let me get my wallet and count the ways. I mean, bills. Shopping at Dean & Deluca is all about the Hamiltons. Still: Let's drool over rich chocolate, melt-in-your-mouth cupcakes and mothertrucking goat cheese. More »

Pac-Man, Go, Simon & Dominoes

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:50:00 EST

And a bunch of other games… represented by cupcakes. Don't ask why. [Buzzfeed] More »

Cute And Inevitable

Sadie Stein — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:20:00 EST

Behold: The Periodic Table of Cupcakes. [BuzzFeed] More »

Worst Holiday Ever: National Pro-Life Cupcake Day

Anna North — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:30:00 EDT

Hey kids, today is National Pro-Life Cupcake Day, a day to hand out yummy baked goods that "represent the 50,000,000 children who weren't allowed to be born, who never had a birthday." More »

Cupcake Diplomacy

Sadie Stein — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:30:00 EDT

America's sweetest ambassador has hit the Middle East: Sugar Daddy's cupcake bakery now has three locations. Specialty flavors include "Blind Date, a sticky date cupcake with cream cheese frosting, and Ramadan cupcakes in flavors like pistachio with orange-blossom frosting." [NYT] More »

The Cupcake Index

Sadie Stein — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:20:00 EDT

For a while, prognosticators were declaring the cupcake "recession-proof." But today, Slate predicts the end of the cupcake bubble! All we know is: we're short on cupcakes right about now. [Slate] More »

All Hail The World's Largest Cupcake

Hortense Smith — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:30:00 EDT

A cupcake weighing 151 pounds was deemed the "World's Largest Cupcake" by the Guinness Book of Records yesterday at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. The cupcake, created by Cakes.com, had a SpongeBob theme in honor of SpongeBob's 10th anniversary. More »

Rom-Nom

Sadie Stein — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:40:00 EDT

Nora Roberts: "Sex is important in the books because, without it, it would be like eating a rice cake instead of a cupcake." [New Yorker] More »

Designer Desserts

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:30:00 EDT

Check out the limited edition Chanel and Louis Vuitton cupcakes made by photographer Therese Aldgard and stylist Lisa Edsalv! Question: Do you get a glass of Gucci milk to wash 'em down with? [Fashion Week Daily] More »

"What's The Best Way To Covertly Scratch Your Vadge?"

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:00:00 EDT

It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the biweekly "advice" column in which we attempt to solve everyone's problems with an herbal remedy. More »

How Cupcakes Explain The World

Sadie Stein — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:30:00 EDT

Cupcakes are the trend that just won't die. A delicious, delicious trend. More »

Milky Way

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:20:00 EST

In response to PETA's request that Ben & Jerry's start using breast milk for their ice cream, Vice Magazine bloggers decided to taste test some breast milk cupcakes (NSFW). The results? Apparently, delicious! [Vice] More »

Sunday Night: Pretty Sweet

Hortense Smith — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:00:00 EST

[Image via CuteOverload.]

Cupcake designers Nick and Danielle Bilton...

Hortense Smith — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Cupcake designers Nick and Danielle Bilton recently took first prize in the NYC Cupcake Decorating Championships with their super rad I-Phone cupcake design. Colorful, fun, and current, the couple's design beat out some tough competition, including a Starship Enterprise cupcake, to claim the top spot. The best part of all? The cupcakes aren't just made to be looked at: they're made to be eaten, as well. Danielle describes her work as being "made of a tasty chocolate cake with a grey butter cream and fondant iPhone applications: 100% edible and whole lotta’ tasty sugar." Pretty sweet, indeed. [Danielle Bilton via Neatorama] More »

Joan Rivers Wants You To Taste Her Cupcakes

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:10:00 EDT