It's National Cupcake Week! October 18th is the official National Cupcake Day, but we're celebrating all week around here! Here are the ones I made for dinner tonight:In honor of that perfect little culinary confection, we're having a giveaway! Just leave a comment and you're entered to win a new copy of my very favorite cupcake idea book: Hello, Cupcake!

Our Favorite Cake Mix Fixes (for fast and fabulous cupcakes!)
Fresh, Fruity, & Fun (this is our very favorite and the one I made today)
Ingredients:
1 pkg. Duncan Heinz cake mix---chocolate or yellow works best but you can use whatever.
¼ c. flour (for high altitudes only)
1 can mandarin oranges (about 11 oz.)
3 eggs
1/3 c. oil
Instructions:
Put oranges (juice and all) in blender and mix. Combine blended oranges and all other ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Put in cupcake pans with liners (or sprayed) and bake as directed on box.
Red Velvet Cupcakes from The Cake Mix Doctor
Ingredients:
1 package (18.25 ounces) plain German chocolate cake mix
1 package (3.4 ounces) vanilla instant pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 bottle (1 ounce) red food coloring--yep, the whole bottle!
3 large eggs
1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Place the cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, water, oil, food coloring, and eggs in a large mixing bowl. Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds, scrape sides and continue to mix until well-blen ded. Fold in the chocolate chips. Spoon into lined cupcake cups, filling it three quarters of the way full.
Bake the cupcakes until they spring back when lightly pressed with your finger, 18 to 20 minutes.
10/14/2008
Cupcakes-a-go-go & Giveaway
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201 comments:
These are so cute and look delicious!
I fancy myself a cook and have just recently tried my hand at baking. This book looks too cute
I recently found your blog and I think you have such great ideas! I can't wait to try the Red Velvet recipe...yummy!
So cute and yummy looking XD
ylin.0621[at]yahoo[dot]com
I'd love a chance to win this book! Thank you!
I LOVE CUPCAKES! (and your blog)
Great cupcakes! I am going to tryt he fruit one next week. Would love to win that adorable book.
Nothing like a giveaway to bring blurkers outta the closet!
I love your blog!
I discovered you through another woman in my ward and I hope you don't mind that I have you linked on mine (as This Woman Is SuperMom), so others can also discover how great you are! You are such a fun mom, and I love that you do such great activities with your kids. I have two picky eaters (seriously...how did I end up with TWO of them? not fair at all) and I love getting ideas from your blog to make food more fun!
-meg in Arkansas
http://aaronandmeg.blogspot.com
The spaghetti and meatballs is my fav!
I never knew cupcakes had such a huge following! My girls would love for me to have that book!
YUMMY!! Great blog!!
i love that book i've checked it out a few times! my LO's are getting a baking kit for christmas cuz we love to bake cupcakes together! i'd love a chance to win this very neat book!
I'm with banananutmeg, it took a contest to get me to delurk!!!! I just LOVE your blog. I have TONS of your ideas bookmarked and I'm making your eyeballs tonight and ghost pancakes tomorrow. You have very lucky kiddos!
I'd love to win the book. I'm a huge cupcake fan!!!
THX for sharing your wonderful ideas with us! I'll keep coming back and I'll even keep commenting too!
I had no idea the 18th was national cupcake day! Will definitely have to honor it this weekend!
i have looked at this book to purchase it several different times but have never committed to it. i would love to win it!!
Mmmm cupcakes - perfection in a paper wrapper. Yours, I have to say, look a might better than my little store-bought frosted ones. You have inspired me to put a little more effort into the cupcakes for my son's birthday this year. I'd love to see suggestions for children who love race cars.
Yummy cupcakes! You always amaze me with your baking abilities!
I would love to get some new cupcake ideas.
yum! i love ur chocolate transfers!
Just in time for me to figure out how to make adorable cupcakes for my daughter's 2nd birthday- I'd love to win this book! Thanks for the cute ideas. :)
Ooooh, I would love to win that! All of those are so totally adorable.
I've just recently bought some cupcake making supplies and made some baby cupcakes for a shower I threw. I'd love this book to try some new ones.
Those look wonderful!
I've been loving this cupcake cookbook for a long time and would love to win it but I'm very unlucky so instead, I'll shout a hooray for whoever DOES win it! I love the fruity take on a cake mix - I think I'll try it for my son's birthday next week.
those cupcakes look good! thanks for posting the recipe as well, I am sure wanting to try it soon!
please count me in!
micaela6955 at msn dot com
I'm so going to try the orange cupcakes tomorrow! What a great idea! :)
I would looooove a chance to win this book! I love nothing more than to be in the kitchen creating new cakes and cupcakes with my children, oh those moments are like stopping time just for a little while! Thanks for the chance to win a great book, found your blog through flickr and I will soooo be following it from now on, love it!
Ooh yum! Those look delicious, I can't wait to try them! We love cupcakes around here, as my name might indicate. :)
I'd love to be entered into the giveaway please! rehmy@juno.com
My daughter and I love anything cupcake. We have soap, shirts, pj's, purses. Would love this cupcake cookbook.
Love cupcakes! I'm looking for decorating ideas for my kiddo's birthday. I'll have to check this book out! (But I hopefully won't have to buy it, right? ;)
How adoreable! The book looks awesome!
I love your blog, and I love cupcakes!
I found your blog about two weeks ago and I just love it!! :) You're so creative and such a fun mom!
I've heard so much about this book! I would love it!!
-Jenna
I love love love your blog, it's amazing. I would like a cupcake book. Pick me please!!
Love your blog. You do such an awesome job.
Thanks for pointing out when National Cupcake Day is. It will be fun to make cupcakes with the kids with this in mind.
The Fun and fruity recipe that you have on your post sounds very yummy. I think will make it this week.
Thanks.
Hope I win the book as I am no chef, no baker and need all the help I can get! hehe.
Just found your site. I can't wait to try out some of your wonderful ideas!
I have become the unofficial cupcake maker for the parties in my daughter's kindergarden class and i could use lot of idea to make it through the whole year
This would be so much fun to do for my daughter's third birthday in a few weeks. The ones on the cover are adorable!!
I just found your blog a couple days ago and I love all the cool ideas you have.
cupcakes are amazing, aren't they? I can't wait to find out who wins!
Eating a cupcake is like eating happiness! Thanks for thinking of us with this book giveaway, and thanks for all the great ideas. My kids love it when I try your ideas!
i had no idea it was national cupcake week! i must be living under a rock. anyway, pick me, i would love to win the book :)
Love the letters on the cupcakes. Too cute!
Great cupcake ideas! And hooray for giveways!
krikenwalks at yahoo dot com
How fun! Happy Cupcake Week!
I am obsessed with your blog! I dont know how you continue to think up these amazing ideas! I love the cupcake book, how sweet of you to do a giveaway.
I love your blog and all the creative ideas you have and share with the rest of us. Count me in for the Cupcakes Giveaway.
My boys love cup cake. It would be nice to do something fun instead of my plain ones. I love all your ideas
Lovely 'cakes!
dakoehn at msn dot com
That book looks adorable! So much fun!
steffie100 at hotmail dot com
What a great blog! I've been looking at it for a while and so appreciate you sharing your ideas with us. I've made the ghosts today and was going to make the eyeballs later. I had a question that might be silly but do you not get sick from the raw egg whites? Thank you so much!
I'm obsessed with cupcakes! love your blog
Thanks for more great ideas!
This book looks so fun!!
girlygirlsboutique@gmail.com
I love cookbooks. This would be great to add to my collection!
I must say you are amazingly creative! Thank you for sharing with us!
thanks for the giveaway...I would love to win this book!
I love your blog! It's amazing!
I love your ideas. I always love new books.
I would love to have this cookbook of cupcakes. What fun
That book looks delightful! Love seeing your ideas, even if I never have time to try them. :)
I have been wanting to get that book for a while now. Fingers crossed!
I've totally been ogling this book, and now to stumble across a giveaway at a blog I already love? Absolute bliss :)
fun giveaway!
such a delightful give-away!
thanks!
I love cupcakes! Thank you SO much for sharing your wonderful ideas on your blog! We have already tried many of your recipes and my kids love every one! Thanks for a chance to win this totally cute book! Happy Cupcake Week!
What fun cupcakes!! They look fab!
I've been doing more cupcakes lately. The portion size is much better than trusting myself with a whole cake. I made your Magnolia Bakery Ones, and everybody loved them.
Jen
workinggreenmom.blogspot.com
I love your blog, I check everyday to see what you will come up with next for me and my kids to have fun in the kitchen. Thanks for sharing your creative cooking!
national cupcake day?! no way! i'm going to have to find a way to celebrate hehe :)
Just found your fun blog! You have the cutest ideas!
Seriously? The 18th is national cupcake day! That is perfect because that is the day I am throwing my daughter's cupcake-themed first birthday party! Doesn't that deserve to win???
I am also having a giveaway on my blog right now! Check it out! meandmyinsanity.blogspot.com
Wow I would so love to make cakes like the ones in this book! I have seen it on many blogs - but never in real life. I don't think it's even available here in Australia!
There is seriously a national cupcake day! Oh that is perfect reason to make one of my most favorite things ever :) Oh and I found your blog this morning through SITS. Love it!
I would love to win the book!! I recently found your blog and it's great!! Very cute ideas.
Nothing beats a good cupcake!!
I love reading your blog. Thanks for all the fun ideas. My kids would love the cup cake book.
I just came across your site. You have some fabulously fun ideas for having fun with your kids. The red velvet cupcakes sound divine.
I love your blog! I stumbled upon it recently and have been enjoying your creativity so much! I also have REALLY been wanting the "Hello, Cupcake" book, so I hope I win! :)
Thanks for sharing all your fun ideas w/us!
katrissa (at ) litewire (dot) net
I love your blog! I have shared it with all my friends on All Things Cupcake!
This is a must have cupcake cookbook...therefore I must have it!!! :)
Cool contest! I have been eyeing this book for awhile. I really like the projects and recipes on your blog. I was directed here from "All Things Cupcake." I have bookmarked that butter in a baby food jar project. I know I will use that someday.
Your fruity cupcakes look yummy. I love using a mix when I want cupcakes, but I'm too lazy to make them from scratch.
Thanks for a chance to win Hello, Cupcake! I've been eyeing that book for a while. :)
Have you seen a good recipe for cream cheese filled cupcakes? G & I were trying to recreate the Hostess cupcakes, but better.
Spud
I love your blog. You have great ideas. Whenever I try your ideas, everyone is so impressed. Thanks for the contest, and thanks for the great ideas. Keep the great ideas coming!
Cute cupcakes!
These look delicious!!!! Oh wow now I want a cupcake lol!!
I love this book and I still don't own it! I would love to win!
I love cupcakes and would LOVE to win that book!
I'm a cupcake fan!
I have 4 children who also love to help me bake and cook. They'd love to win this book, too. Your blog is great and I thoroughly enjoy reading it and getting new ideas.
My mother-in-law just sent a link to your blog.I have 3 boys who love to help me cook, but we have never made cupcakes. It just did not seem to me like something they would be interested in, but you have given me some ideas! Thanks.
Ilove cupcakes, this blog, and contests!
islandveggie@hotmail.om
Oh my word! I need Hello, Cupcake!!
I made cupcakes for bunko the other night.
TO DIE FOR.
Such perfect goodness in a perfect size!! Small enough to eat 3 or 4 at a time!
MUAHAHA!!!
I *heart* cupcakes!
Sweet goodness, that orange in a cupcake sounds delish! We'll be trying that one soon! I'd love to have a copy of hello cupcake...been eyeing it for the past several months and have it on reserve at the library, it's got quite the wait. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to win one of my very own. I love your blog and the ideas! Thanks!
OH heavenly day!! i just found your blog. where have you been all my mommy life?
adding you to my reader post haste!
Because of my daughter's nut allergy I bake cupcakes for every party we go to (she can't eat Bakery cakes for fear of trace nuts)so this book would be so helpful!
I just discovered your blog through Google Reader and immediately subscribed - what an adorable blog! I love cupcake creations and would love to be considered for your giveaway.
Looking forward to all your creations!
Cupcakes!! I love cupcakes !!! I've been thinking about buying that book.
It's currently 6am here, and I've been up since 5am, baking Triple Chocolate Cupcakes for the kids at school...
I'm also questioning my sanity...
love your blog - how cute are your spider pizzas, just in time for halloween! :) the book looks adorable!
What FUN ideas!!! I would LOVE to win that book!!! I have a children's food blog and would love to have more ideas!!!
littlenummies.wordpress.com
Cupcakes make me happy.
aqamarine at hotmail dot com
I just came across your blog through everything cupcakes. It's amazing. I can't wait to share the idea of spider web pizzas with my neices. They will LOVE it. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE me some cupcakes. And would love to get my sticky fingers on a copy of that cupcake book. By the way just love your name, as it is mine too. My parents are HUGE Barry Manillow fans. Gotta love it that there is a song about us.
Mandy :D
They are so cute. I love the idea.
I love you blog! I reference it all the time. My kids are grateful.
This would be great for my daughter's upcoming birthday cake.
I was eyeing this book at the kids' book fair last month. It got snatched up before I could get a copy!
Thanks for the chance to win one!
love your site!
I stumbled upon your blog about a month ago. Love it! I made your PB choc fudge cake for a stake cake buffet and it was a big hit! Thanks
I love your blog, you're so creative!
suzmh15 at aol dot com
I NEED that book. I love to make cupcakes, but they never turn out very good.
just found your blog today through tip junkie. SO FLIPPIN CUTE!
I LOVE cupcakes and love making them. I have never seen this book but would love to have it! Love your blog also!!
Your creations are lively and make cooking fun - so this cupcake book sounds like it's a winner!
yummy and fun things to do with my girls!
I have wanted to get my hands on this book for a LONG time...maybe I'll get lucky.
How fun!!!!! I love giveaways!!! I never win but I thought that i would give it a try!!!!
This book looks awesome! I've just recently discovered the world of cupcakes and my kids are soooo proud when they take them into their classrooms (not the iced with sprinkles ones that their friends bring) hehehe!
This book looks great! I'd love the chance to win it!
I didn't know it was cupcake week - we are SO going to celebrate next week; thanks for the heads up!!
yea! i love cupcakes!
I love cupcakes. yummy!
I have no local cupcake shops so looking at them, especially the ones this book helps bakers produce, is the next best thing.
Thanks for the chance!
I thought I left a post but can't find it. :)
This giveaway is great. I have had that book on my wish list for some time.
Susie
susie@twcny.rr.com
I love cupcakes!!!They're so much fun.
This book looks wonderful! I'd love to win this - I adore cupcakes, but these are some GREAT cuppie-cakes.
Yours look better than mine :)
I am a cupcake addict so I like my cupcakes in many disguises. I would love and cherish this book forever.
Hopped over from SITS.
Oooooh! I want to win this book! Pick me! Pick me! Pick me!!
i have been wanting to buy this book- it would be great to win it!
Cupcakes! Cupcakes! Cupcakes! Hooray for cupcakes!
Found you on SITS. Saw free cupcakes and hustled on over.
Oh what a fantastic idea. I love the cupcakes you made... and I haven't had a Red Velvet cake in a long time... guess I'll have to try it.
I just found your blog I think through Picky Palate's blogroll...love it! Great giveaway!!
This is such a cute cookbook. I wish I had it...might buy it if I don't win it!
Amber
ber_982@yahoo.com
I heard the ladies on Cake Central talking about how great this book was! I would LOVE to have it!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE cupcakes! Those look delicious! Always love new ideas!
amyandjeffmartinez{at}yahoo{dot}com
Your little bird chocolate was so cute. I've seen Hello Cupcake everywhere, but I don't have one.
Oh my goodness...I've been drooling over this book ever since I saw the author on Martha Stewarts cupcake week. This book is so cute!! I'd love to be entered.
AWESOME giveaway! Thanks so much for doing this!
I have never heard of that book and I would love to try it out :)
Cupcakes are so yummy! Thanks
your cupcakes are dreamy! happy cupcake day!
My husband wants me to make orange cake....this looks yummy!
Fun Giveaway!! It looks like a GREAT book~!!!
Way cute!!
What a fun book! I've been doing a lot of baking with my 4 yr old son and making cupcakes would be so much fun to do with him!
Eileen
cupcakes are my all time favorite treat!! i love your blog and all of your fabulous recipes :)
Pick me, pick me! I NEVER WIN anything. And if I can't stop at just making margarita cupcakes...
So cute, fun, and sweet! Can't wait to try some!
I hate to bake, maybe this would inspire me? Please enter me! (As long as you'll ship to Canada!)
Holy buckets! Some stiff competition over here! I would love to win Hello, Cupcake! Your blog is SO beautiful. Thanks for sharing all the awesome ideas!
Stopping in from SITS...
i found your blog a little while ago and had to try the homemade donuts. my daughter and i had so much fun making them and we all had a great time eating them! thanks for the idea!
this giveaway is fanastic! thanks for doing this!
Who doesn't LOVE a good cupcake!!!!!!!!!
What a FUN blog!!
OMG I didnt know it was cupcake week either and I love cupcakes. I am so going to follow your fine example and TRY and do some to post on my blog this week too with a link back to you. Wow, you jsut whipped those up for dinner just like that? Amazing!!
I really want to get my hands on that book!! Your blog is amazing! Love it!
I just LOVE cupcakes. I saw your blog on tip-junkies and I am so happy. Your blog is amazing. Thanks for sharing all your ideas.
Elsa
wamu007@aol.com
Loved this book when I got it from the library. Would love to have my very own copy!
This book looks great!
Can never have too many cupcakes!
(Thanks for making it a worldwide comp too)
OH MY GOODNESS, what a yummo cupcakes, I love them!
Would love to enter to win a copy of the book.
Huhs from Marian
I come to your blog and do nothing but drool!! In a very good way though. I would love to drool all over that book too. :)
I just found your blog, thanks to tip junkie! I love it, and I want that book! I hope I'm not too late!
These cupcakes are beeyouteefull!
I would love to win that book! If not, I may just go out and buy it:)
The world of cupcakes has just been opened to me!! Oh the possibilities!! So, how often do you make and eat cupcakes?
I would love this cookbook but my man would love it more :)
-Meg
What a cute book! Thanks for the recipes
We LOVE cupcakes at our house. I think the cupcakes in this book are adorable and I would LOVE to make them for my family! Thanks for the offer! Love your website!
I have been eyeing this book for awhile now!! Great giveaway!
I love your blog, thanks for the cute ideas and recipes
Great, now I'm hungry and nothing but cupcakes will do.
What a cute book.
My children would be thrilled with this book... thanks for the chance to win it!
Yum, I am all about cupcakes! :)
Yeah!! great blog, too.
Suzi @ http://pinkvanillacupcakes. blogspot.com
Great site. I decorate cakes but have never done cupcakes. I had no idea there was even a National Cupcake Day. Would love a chance to win your book
Who doesn't love cupcakes??? This is a great giveaway, count me in!
www.racheleng.com {use contact page to reach me}
Everybody-young and old-loves cupcakes!
I LOVE this book but every time I want to make something out if it, I have to run to the library (pray it's not checked out) and get it. I absolutely adore the corncob cakes - I made them for my son's 1st birthday party.
Oh this book is so fantastic, I'd love to...start my cookbook collection with it!
Love your blog!
Cupcakes are great aren't they!
Tracy
Super Duper Idea! I love your blog and ideas!
Ooh yum! I love cupcakes :)
love love love the sweets! nothing better than a great cupcake!
those are beautiful!
I love making cupcakes - my favorite thing to bake, by far.
Thanks for this giveaway!
fromwagstorichesATentemporeDOTcom
Oh, these are so awesome!!
Perhaps even I couldn't screw them up...? lol
Yummy! We love cup cakes in our house. I hate cooking but I do find baking a lot more fun. That looks like a great book.
Yours look so fun!! Makes me want to go get another cupcake tattoo!! Cheers from Sarah in Dallas,TX!
Who doesn't love cupcakes? It's like a mini cake all for yourself? My favorite is red velvet and I'd love to have a cupcake cookbook.
I have been eyeing this book forever now. Seriously. I really could just go buy it, but I'd rather dream about winning it. Or actually win it. Yeah, that's better.
this book is on the TOP of my christmas list...i have it on hold (yet again) at the library...i just cannot get enough of it and can't wait to try the alien cupcakes for halloween next week---i can hardly wait...and would LOVE to have this book for myself!
The red velvet cupcakes sound delightful!
What a cute fun book! Cupcakes are a blast to make and who doesn't need new ideas. Thanks for the giveaway.
My kids would love it if I won this book & did something with it :)
How adorable!
Mmmmmm - I've got to get my mouth to stop watering over your yummy cupcakes in this post. You are SO GOOD! If only I could win this book to feel like I'm almost as good as you. You amaze me! Thanks for the chance!
adorable!
cmh9092(at)sru.edu
Such cute cupcakes! I make cakes, but haven't done a lot in the cupcake realm....maybe I"ll have to try it out!
What fun. I think cupcake week is great. We just made cupcakes today. We haven't tried them yet, but are about to. My son added lots of green sprinkles to ours.
Oh, how cool, Cupcake Day! I just ordered a Stampin' Up! stamp set called Crazy for Cupcakes, and I can't wait to get it! Too bad it won't be here in time for cupcake week. Oh, well. I'd love a chance to win the book! Please enter me!
Blessings,
Carrie
http://amateurstamper.blogspot.com
My friend showed me this book when we were discussing my son's 4th birthday cake - and it looks amazing!!!
I'm 31 weeks pregnant ... is this why EVERY cupcake on this blog entry looks so tasty? Would LOVE to have this cupcake cookbook to have an excuse to make my husband and son-to-be cupcakes!
I love cupcakes...and I have been wanting this book for a while so I hope I win. Pick me, pick me, pick me.....(how selfish is that???!). Thanks for the chance and I love your web home.
Just discovered your blog. How fun!
OMG, this is adorable. I would love to try and make those with the puppy heads. Thank you so much for all your offers. :>)
What a fun looking book!
Thanks for sharing cake recipes!
I love baking neat cupcakes and cookies for my daughters for their birthday and other parties. This book sounds great!
Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
caroline at tcsaf dot com
I have this book! It's great, though my versions don't seem to look as appealing as yours do! Have you tried the Alien cupcakes yet? I think those look the funniest, they'd make an awesome blog post!
These are adorable and look so yummy! Thanks to SITS I found your blog!
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