For the Love of Cute Cupcakes!

Welcome Dessert-Lovers of the World! Although my blog will be focused on cupcakes, I want you to know that I don't discriminate... I love all sweet treats equally. Ooo well, that's a lie. I am partial to things of the chocolate variety - the chocolate, white icing variety. YUM. I could go for a cupcake right now. Ah yes, now we've come full circle to my central blogging thesis: For the love of all that is cupcake!!

I live in a city where the gourmet cupcake trade began - selling pricey little cupcakes for $3.75 each - wtf?! So, I have made it my prerogative to see what all the fuss is about. I like to think of it as a science - you know, comparing quality, and sometimes visiting one place three times to see if the product is consistent. Science. Ok, my personal brand of dessert science ;-) My conclusions thus far? Everyone can make the cake part - that is pretty hard to blow unless they are stale or burned. It comes down to the consistency of the icing and the cuteness of the design. Time and time again, I've visited shops where the icing is stiff and the cuteness is sorely lacking. Well, it's time to spice it up a little, don't you think?

Cupcakin' It Up is a platform to share ideas, techniques, cute executions, and general love of all that is cupcakes! If you have any images you would like to be posted on CupcakinItUp, shoot me an email at cupcakinitup@gmail.com!

Here's some sugary sunshine that I created just last week for a "Good-bye California!" party we had for one of my friends. It's hard to tell from my camera phone, but that's vanilla icing dyed yellow and orange with Starbursts cut into halves diagonally to make rays. What better way to remember California than with these sweet treats?!