Halloween Cupcakes 2009 (Vegan)

Wuttt. I think last years cupcakes have nothing on this year's cupcakes! Why? because these fucking cupcakes rule. Last night was such a long night but worth every second I put into making these bad boys look super cute and rad. I'm not good at updating sooner in the day. My days have been super busy this week. So, please understand. I wish I could post when its still light out, but oh well shit happens. I don't even think I have to write about these cupcakes I mean really? just look at them... they speak for themselves. soo cute. Today (Thursday) I also baked four dozen cupcake orders. Wutt? I know I'm working hard. Tonight(Friday) I will also be working just as hard. I think I got about four more dozens to go as well. One special dozen for the show in Berkeley...we'll see what happens if anything does. Well, I'm tired. Tomorrow I'm carving another pumpkin, it should be fun. I know its not cupcake related but still maybe you might care? if you read this. I don't know. I'm just going off subject because I'm tired.




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Decorate your pants, purse, pillow, hoodie, cat, room, backpack, helment or hat..

With one of these fancy Stay Sweet Cupcakes patches! Yes, I'm proud to announce I have patches! But please don't worry if its a shirt you want be my guest! xoxo. There are still some available (shirts). You can be the cool cat with the shirt first & then everyone will see how cute you look in it and want one of their own, trust me. :) If you are more into patches then holla. Email: staysweetcupcakes@gmail.com These will go for $2 bucks, unless you live far and I have no way of getting it to you personally we then will talk via email/aim/text. Anyways, seriously how fucking rad are these? You know you want one. Even if you won't wear it, just knowing you have it will make you proud. Its a buy you won't regret. Today I did baked some Halloween cupcakes, if you are a follower of my blog you will remember when I was ranting about how I need to make my little sisters cupcakes better than last years. Well, I did. That will be in tomorrows blog. Today I just had to blog about these sweet patches. Two more days until Halloween! I still don't know what I'm going to be. I don't think it would matter 'cause I'll be at a show anyways in lovely Berkeley, Ca! Jealous much? :] Alright I can't think of anything else to write about and I'm falling asleep as I type. Thanks for reading this blog <3 it means the world.



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Stay Sweet Cupcakes Shirts pt. 2(Update)

So, todays blog isn't a baked good. But its about cupcakes & my future company. I decided I will call my cupcakery Stay Sweet Cupcakes (if it wasn't obvious), these are the first ever Stay Sweet Cupcakes printed shirts. The fact that I keep doing what I do is because of the support I get from family, friends, & even strangers. Plus, its because I love baking (cupcakes)! The fact that I am good at something makes me proud of myself. I love the compliments I receive when I sell a cupcake or five. It feels good. And knowing I will be doing this the rest of my life (if everything works out) doesn't bum me out. So, back to why this blog isn't about an actual cupcake but a shirt & not me going off subject.
My lovely friend Brittney was kind enough to send me pictures of the finished shirts. I am beyond stoked about getting to sell these as soon as next weekend. As I said before they are very limited. I asked her to send me a picture of what I have, to show the readers of this blog, how very little I have & the different color of shirts. She was also kind enough to give me the exact sizes & number of shirts. 1 xlarge, 2 mediums, 3 youth large, 1 large 2 smalls. Plus, we made a very limited black on black (which I believe is a YL). Will it be on your body? You tell me. Again, if you ever had one of my cupcakes/want to spread the word about me and my cupcakes or just want it because its an awesome shirt design and could careless what I do? Get at me before they are gone. I don't think I will do a second pressing. So act fast!

Email: staysweetcupcakes@gmail.com

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Chocolate Orange Cupcakes (vegan)

What to say. If you enjoy a nice juicy orange well your not going to get any juice from these cupcakes. you might get that sweet same taste of an orange, well because they do contain orange, so it will be as yummy as an orange, but its not. Weird? I know. But thats the life of a cupcake. It may look like a plain cupcake getting ready for Halloween, which by the way is a week away. But its not. This explodes with a taste of ORANGE. FTW. Seriously. These Chocolate Orange Cupcakes are going with me tonight to a show. The Skin Like Iron, Streetwalkers, Crucial, & others show @ the CYC. I'm stoked. I hope I sell out and so I can blog about it later. We'll see what happens.


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So, the show was rad! Cupcakes sold out. Such a good night. The vibe was awesome. If you haven't check out Streetwalkers! www.myspace.com/streetwalkersoneword
soo good!They definitely brought the party. I swear if all the kids in the cyc circle pit it would of been a blast. Skin Like Iron was pretty sweet. These Orange/Chocolate Cupcakes were a hit.



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Chocolate Cherry Creme Cupcakes (vegan)

Am I describing a cupcake or a pie? jeezie louizee. Its a cupcake. Don't worry. Cupcake blog = cupcake talk. Chocolate Cherry Creme Cupcakes, FTW. This cupcake completes life. I mean really what CAN'T cupcakes complete? Tell me. Today I was invited to a vegan potluck. I decided these cupcakes would be perfect for the gathering. They were a hit (like always), ha ha. Cupcake description: chocolate cake- very moist & yummy. Buttercream- Basic Vanilla. Chocolate Ganache, chocolate sprinkles, & duh, Cherries. Wanna get serious? I can totally get serious when it comes to making simple cupcakes look complicated. I'm pretty serious. It wasn't too hard to make it look all fancy. It was all fun, clean and easy. This cupcake definitely looks like it means business. Don't cha think?


P.s I also made a dozen of Peanut Butter Bombs, I mastered another skill, dipping stylin' 'em cupcakes. I think I'm pro level. Which one do you like?


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Old School Cupcakes (Vegan)

Or whatever you want to call them. I think old school gives it a touch a little BAM! don't you think? Well, if you don't then whatever I don't care. I like the name Old School Cupcakes. Remember these cupcakes? like chuck taylors they come in pairs. They ruled whenever I had one as a kid. I haven't had, I guess you can say, the "real" store cupcake in years. I seen them at stores with their pretty in orange, yellow & whatever else color they come in. But I just never really cared to buy one. I mean seriously why buy some that contain beef fat or some other crazy distinguishing shit when I can just make my own. Vegan Style. Plus, homemade is always better in cupcakes, gifts, food, Mixtapes, Mix cds, friendship bracelets & baked goods form. C'mon you know its true. So, before I start going off subject like always These cupcakes had everything from what I remember the real ones have. You got your chocolate cake, Creme filling, chocolate ganache & that sweet little cool swirl on top. I know mine suck, but give me a damn break it was my first time ever trying this recipe out. I think it was a success! I took this dozen along with a dozen of funfetti (my favorite) to a show that happened a couple of hours ago. Sold them all! Wuttt. Nights like these rule. You know what else rules? Babes. I think this cupcake really brought the old school tonight. I went to a show and felt like I was 14 again the different vibe, people, smell and company made it all feel that way. I seen a really old friend I haven't seen in literally years. I also seen a few old faces I haven't seen in years as well, not friends just faces. These cupcakes really do bring back the old times. Crazy. Anyways, these were a hit. I think these might be the next Peanut Butter bombs everyone gets crazy about? I don't know. You tell me. I left home with two dozens of cupcakes and came back home with two. These were everything you expect from a cupcake: Moist, Super Cute, fun to look at & Yummy, duh!p.s I had camera all along? I mean really did I forget? nah, I was just too lazy to care to look for it. Aren't these pictures fancy?


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Blueberry Lemon Creme Cupcakes (vegan)

So, another sunny day which wasn't bad. But, made me think of Summer and when I think of Summer I think of a good cupcake recipe to try out. Plus, we kind of had blueberries in the freezer. I wanted to use them before they went bad, like most food we have in there.ha ha. Speaking of Summer, I had the best Summer this year, well all my Summers are pretty sweet, but this one might have topped most of them. No job, moving back to Fresno, & catching up with old friends & meeting new friends. From as far as I remember every time I laughed until it hurt more than once was during Summer. This cupcake made me think back to past Summers I had, it made me think of past friends I shared them with, some I miss and some I could care less where they are at now. But most of all it was Summer. This cupcake recipe rules 'nough said. Lemon, berries & summertime feeling. It also reminds me of the kool-aid flavor ice blue raspberry lemonade, yeah I know not blueberries, but close enough. Still I love that flavor. Anyways back to the damn cupcake. It was everything you want from a cupcake. It looks awesome, its considered a tall cake, it made me want more than just one, the berries & lemon were really fresh and the cake was moist and delicious. C'mon you know your mouth is watering.





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Carrot Cake Cupcake (Vegan)

First of all, how are you suppose to decorate a carrot cake cupcake? I don't know. So, if I did it wrong then that sucks for you to see. I seen a couple of decorated carrot cakes in my time but really is putting a butter cream carrot on a carrot cake really original? I'm all about being original, creative & unique. So, I said Fuck the butter cream I'm going to put some real carrot shavings along with a cream cheese topping. I like the way these came out they look absolutely cute. Aside from looking cute they are greatly pleasing, they have a rich flavorful taste. I didn't know walnuts & raisins were in carrot cake. shoot me. So, I was afraid I wasn't going to like it at all. But I did. I am fully satisfied with the outcome of these cupcakes. They rule. Don't read me all wrong now I love walnuts & raisins I just didn't know I was going to love them in carrot cake. The funny thing about this recipe is you can totally switch up the vegetables used in it & get zucchini, banana, or some other vegetable cake out there. So, that's another reason why it rules. But for now we are talking carrot cake cupcakes. I haven't had Carrot cake in forever and a day. Today I decided it was carrot cake cupcake day. I did it. Even though I had a long & stressful day and I still have homework I forgot to finish due tomorrow morning. I still make time to bake. Any excuse to bake cupcakes is a perfect excuse, duh.




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Halloween

is close. 14 more days and the excitement begins. Well, I think it already started in my house and the excitement is just getting higher as time is going by and the days are counting down. Too stoked for Halloween, its my favorite. Every year I attempt to make sugar Halloween cookies but always fail. I think I'll stick to Cupcakes, its in my blood. These cupcakes were from last year for my little sisters classroom party. How fucking cool was she? taking these cute, delicious & vegan cupcakes to class. Dang, I wish I was as cool at nine years young as her. I wasn't, I still haven't even reached the line of cool. It happens. This years Halloween cupcakes have to top last years. I know I can come up with something amazing. This year for Halloween is crazy cupcake baking. I got a few orders in for parties. Whaaaaaaaat? I'm excited. :) Staring back at these pictures makes me more excited about getting to bake these orders. Plus, I get to add more blog entries to this site which is a bonus.





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Lemon Cupcakes (Vegan)

Even though it might be Fall, I think we are still living the Summer days. Yes, it might not reach 106 anymore but it still reaches the high 80's what kind of Fall does that? California Fall, duh. Well, not all of California I guess just the central valley. So, if you don't experience these hot Fall days, I'm jealous of you. Since the sun doesn't want to leave the central valley to let the rain, clouds and thunderstorms have their turn. I thought I would keep it summer time and bake these awesome lemon cupcakes. I mean really can you drink ice cold lemonade in winter? yeah, you can but for some reason Summer & lemons complement each other. Plus it just wouldn't feel right its like having hot coco on a cold winter day. Its better that way. You don't want to drink hot coco in 109 degrees weather, do you? Weirdo. So, since its still hot out I thought this lemon delight would go just right with these lacking Fall days. Its not like I'm selling out to Fall and making ice cold lemonade, yet. I mean C'mon they are just cupcakes. Deal with it. These cupcakes were soo yummy. Whenever I bake any I usually don't eat more than one, but I think lemon cake might be my new favorite to make and eat. Sorry Funfetti, I still love you.



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Apparently I rock cupcakes.

Whatever that means..I guess you have to be nine years old to understand it. The best gifts are homemade gifts. Especially if the gift is a drawing on a tissue with color gel pens. I have an awesome & cute baby sister. Everything I get from her involves cupcakes, she's soo cute. Ha ha. Tomorrow I will post a baked good. Tonight I'm neck deep with homework, I can't wait for this semester to be over. Ugh.

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Stay Sweet Cupcakes Shirts?!?!

Fuck yes! I'm am way excited to announce that I have finally printed out some shirts for Stay Sweet Cupcakes.
These rule so hard. Punk rock & Cupcakes. What more can you really ask for? Unless your some asshole who doesn't appreciate some good punk rock or some tasty cupcakes, then you might ask for something different. So get at these first very limited. Only $7. I will be doing a second shirt of a completely different design. Soon. After these sell out. If you read this blog and want to support what I do get at me: janxedge@gmail.com




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Brooklyn invades Brownie and ends up in Cupakes or Brooklyn brownie cupcakes (vegan)

Frosting these babies & you are just doing too much. I'm not about doing too much on rainy days. I'm pretty content with these brownie like cupcakes. Leaving them unfrosted wasn't a bad choice. I was going to mix it up with some pumpkin but I got lazy. Rain lzy dayz. These pictures don't do much justice to how these really look. They are cuter in real life trust me. I need to buy an actual camera and not my camera phone to take pictures. I'm sure I will get bank soon & start uploading better pictures for now suck it up, shut up and deal with it.

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Basic Cupcakes (Vegan)

Cupcakes can get as basic as your want them. Today I seen a lady at the store with tons of cupcake liners, decorating sprinkles and tons of cake box mix. I was only assuming she was going to go home to bake up some cupcakes for her kid(s) to take to school? Possibly a birthday party? or maybe she wanted to just have a damn cupcake. I have no memories of my mom ever baking me a cake for school/birthday parties. She wasn't into baking. She always had to work and I understand. I'm not complaining. Weird. I don't know how I got this crazy crave for baking and loving it. I don't bake from boxes, I do all my baking from scratch.(just so there is no confusion). So back to the lady at the store. I am pretty sure she wasn't going for just a basic cupcake with all those decorating supplies but who knows people are weird and go apeshit crazy at stores buy tons of useless bullshit and don't use anything they bought but instead use what already had. I've done it before I'm not going to type here and lie. Its true. See picture above. I went out bought a shit load of cute cupcake liners, sprinkles, and food coloring. I ended up making and using a chocolate cupcake recipe, chocolate butter cream, crushed cookies I stole from my roommate, sprinkles my little sisters had brought over once and never took home and sprinkles from Vday. It happens.


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Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes (vegan)

Phew. These cupcakes took forever to make. But they are worth every single second put into them. I never really messed around with trying to bake cinnamon rolls because it seemed so hard to do let alone looking at one of those fucking buns gives me the worst toothache ever. But I said what the hell I got time its Sunday I invited my mom over for dinner I might as well make an impression. So I made these. They had to rise two times before going into the oven. Finish product? Absolutely awesome and delicious. Worth it. While they baked I could smell them up in my room. It reminded me of the fair which happens to be in town as I type, I won't be attending this year just like last year. Oh well, it happens. My mom took a few home to show off to her coworkers at work the next day. :) Proud of myself.


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History of the Cupcake

The cupcake evolved in the United States in the 19th century, and it was revolutionary because of the amount of time it saved in the kitchen. There was a shift from weighing out ingredients when baking to measuring out ingredients. According to the Food Timeline Web, food historians have yet to pinpoint exactly where the name of the cupcake originated. There are two theories: one, the cakes were originally cooked in cups and two, the ingredients used to make the cupcakes were measured out by the cup.
In the beginning, cupcakes were sometimes called "number" cakes, because they were easy to remember by the measurements of ingredients it took to create them: One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs, one cup of milk, and one spoonful of soda. Clearly, cupcakes today have expanded to a wide variety of ingredients, measurements, shapes, and decorations - but this was one of the first recipes for making what we know today as cupcakes.
Cupcakes were convenient because they cooked much quicker than larger cakes. When baking was down in hearth ovens, it would take a long time to bake a cake, and the final product would often be burned. Muffin tins, also called gem pans, were popular around the turn of the 20th century, so people started created cupcakes in tins.
Since their creation, cupcakes have become a pop culture trend in the culinary world. They have spawned dozens of bakeries devoted entirely to them. While chocolate and vanilla remain classic favorites, fancy flavors such as raspberry meringue and espresso fudge can be found on menus.

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Rule they needed another blog. I shouldn't be doing this because I have an exam tomorrow morning. I should really be studying. Well, okay I won't take credit for any of this, it seems similar to what I was going to write about plus I really should just go ahead and study. :[
so here you go read and awe:
"Red velvet cake also known as the $100 dollar cake, $200 dollar cake, or Waldorph Astoria Cake is only a legend as is the Nieman Marcus cookies and all are examples of a legend that pits institutions against a consumer who feels he/she has been unfairly charged.The recipe is a grass roots recipe not an institutional one. Most all call for cake flour and buttermilk, baking soda and vinegar for the leaving process. The redness of the cake comes from red food color despite the chemical reaction of baking soda, vinegar , buttermilk and cocoa which cause a reddish brown color, not red in the cake. This cake is moist and red with a velvety texture and the flavor nondistinctive as is most red velvet cakes. Red Velvet cake is also cultural as recipes differ in community cookbooks accross America even as to the type of frosting for the cake. The moistest cake is one made with oil and cake flour.The amount of food color is up to you.Start with 2 teaspoons as a base."

Red Velvet Cupcakes (vegan)

Definitely a cake you must try. Vegan or not. Very very very delicious. Such an awesome cupcake. You will definitely fall in love with red velvet.

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Stay sweet.

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Rocky Road Cupcake

Definitely not vegan. Delicious it is! Its like a candy bar on top of a cake. Two rights make a right times two. Ever had the rocky road candy bar? Well, this is really similar to that candy bar. Its yummy as fuck.

Pineapple Right Side Up Cupcakes (vegan)

So this is a fun Summer time cupcake. Full of all that goodness and deliciousness. First time I made these I was a little scared of how they might turn out. I mean I never used tapioca flour in my life. and I was having friends over for poker/vegan potluck night and what if it came out horrible and it wasn't a good cupcake? but it was. This cupcake was awesome. Just think spice cake w/ pineapple. I don't remember the last time I had upside down cake so I forgot how in all it taste. So if that is how its suppose to taste then I rule. But these were a hit. I wish I had taken a better picture. A picture alone of just the pineapple right side up cupcake. but I didn't and in the end we all suffer not really. you get to see my awesome cupcake holder. This picture doesn't do much justice to how awesome the 'gooey' topping was or how moist the cake looked. The cherry on top was awesome. I think all the vegans were scared I used gelatin but I assured them I didn't.


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