Cupcakes Take The Cake

Lion cupcakes with whiskers by JannaBee’s, who are part of Monday’s CupcakeCamp Boston. See more adorable cupcake photos at Cupcakes Take the Cake.

Happy National Chocolate Chip Day! We’ve got 10 chocolate chip cupcakes, including ice cream cupcakes, ice cream cone cupcakes and a cupcake in a pretzel cone and a mint chocolate chip cupcake candle to help you celebrate. This one above with Teddy Grahamas and marshmallows in addition to chocolate chips is by Beautiful Cakes in Chicago.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves cake pops are our cake pops of the day! By The Cake Pop Princess.

Our new cake pop of the day feature! Today’s is by Madison, Wisconsin bakery Cupcakes-A-Go-Go, via their Facebook page.

A horse is a cupcake, of course, of course! by Cupcakes-a-Go-Go in Madison, Wisconsin from their Facebook page. You can get more info about their shop and their iPhone app at cupcakesagogo.com. Rachel says: “The horse cupcake was so incredibly adorable I kindof want to cradle it in my hand (I can’t help it, when a cupcake is super cute, my instinct is to admire rather than eat it).”

These adorable monster cupcakes make me wish they were in stuffed animal form too so I could hug them. Cute cute cute! They’re by The Chubby Bunny Cupcake & Cake Boutique, via Flickr and Facebook (various orders). Find out more atchubbybunny.ca and on their Facebook page. And the Cheshire Cat cake with matching cupcakes? Also adorable! 

Whatever size Easter bunny cupcake you want, The Clever Little Cupcake Companyhas it! Via Flickr. They’re located in Bury, UK, and you can find out more atcleverlittlecupcake.co.uk and their Facebook page. 

an Angry Birds bento box including rice Angry Birds in cupcake wrappers by My Mealbox! See 9 other Angry Birds cupcakes and Angry Birds cake pops and cupcake toppers at Cupcakes Take the Cake.

This cupcake spotlight could have been much, much longer, but I want to encourage you to check out Only in Bucks for a fun, brilliant, smile-inducing look at cupcake creativity in action. The press tends to focus on business and bakeries to the exclusion of the true heart of the cupcake revolution: cupcake lovers, at home, baking their hearts out. I love cupcake bakeries, of course, but the reason cupcakes are still as popular as ever (more, actually) is that they are something we can truly personalize in any and every way. Just look at how many high heel cupcakes have been created only in the past 2 months! Via @PinkeandBrowne on Twitter. This made my day! 

Mint chocolate Cthulhu cupcakes by Geek Sweets from Game Summit! See Cupcakes Take the Cake for our spotlight on their geeky game cupcakes, including Zelda, Carcassonne and chess.