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And for your viewing pleasure ---- red velvet, and smores cupcakes.

We have new concept flavors for a cupcake. We start with fresh ideas for sweets. I bring you, My good friend James brain child- Bread Pudding cupcakes. These ones are chocolate bread pudding cupcakes, stuffed with black berries, topped with a pool of chocolate ganache, and a dollop of reduced blackberry puree (mostly seeded). Serve warm!

New Cupcake Kits. Most flavors available. Fun. Easy. Must. Have.

Finally, We have our other concept idea, which is an expansion into the world of savory cupcakes. It is a delish trip. This here is a mini, spicy tomato, and fresh basil cupcake, with basil and lemongrass cream cheese topping. Garnished with basil and cherry tomato. It is savory, and satisfying.

Chocolate Fantasy!!!! It was so much fun.












We are so thankful to be a part of something that helps so many people. It is good to give. So this is some of our display. I sadly did not have my trusty camera man:( BOOOOO!!!!! He is out of the country. So I made do with what was in the country.....


Here are some brief, very brief, and fun pictures from the night. Albeit my night was observed from my table. But it was a spectacular view!


This picture, does not do this little friend justice. I loved this. My mom came and pulled a super woman, and added touches, and details that were just perfect. I love you mom!

Sooooo many cupcakes. It was a labor of love. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. My compradre' Rhio, helped me with all my tasking. I guess you could call her my task master. She's kinda a big deal.
She helped me crank out the chocolate swirls, and did all of her grad work, at the same time. She decided to commit to me, and this event when finals were the next week. She is a good friend. You can be impressed, lol.


So the cupcakes were an inspiration, through my new allergy. They are flourless chocolate cupcakes. The texture is soft, and delicate, with a soft, fudgey brownie center. We added Blood Oranges to the chocolate batter, to brighten the flavor, and give continuity to the other flavors we were adding. We made a mango puree, which consisted of mango, jack fruit, and blood oranges. We added the mango puree as a filling to the cupcake. Topped the cupcake with mango infused whipping cream, a slice of mango, mango puree drizzle, and a drizzle of home made raspberry puree(for pop and surprise of flavor). This was all completed, and polished with the home made chocolate swirls. We won the best presentation award, or the bodaciously beautiful award, and it was well worth it. So much fun!

Fun stuff

I have been collecting some more of my favorite things. Here we have some stand alone liners. These bad boys can be in a cupcake pan or stand alone with out one!!! Not only are they super cool, but they are cute to boot. These come in a variety of patterns and colors for all occasions, as well as sizes. Putting your "vanilla" grocery store silver liners to shame. The only down side to these pretty bits, it is not your .99 cent "vanilla" price either. Depending on where you purchase your liners (which will generally be a speciality store, or online) will set you back 3.50-5.00 dollars for 40 liners, and 8-10 dollars for 80 liners. But in my opinion it is worth it. Boo silver liners. Bring the color.

Nonpareils are a bit of sweet media that I have been working with lately. Chocolate free forms and nonpareils as connect the dots. I love the many ways that you can create, and recreate, with the simplest of things. Nonpareils= big fun.

Also big fun, edible glitter. It comes in a rainbow of colors, and is a pop and wow of color every time. So these things are the center of my creative universe right now.

And lastly. I. Am. Gluten. Free.

I cannot eat gluten any more. Sad day no? So I will be doubling my efforts on my variety for my gluten free cupcakes:)

So all of my best will be transferred to the gluten free zone, and I will have all my delish standards available for purchase too. All of course will be on my web page- www.badcupcakes.com

And as always, big thanks to my photographer Forest Banks. He is awesome, and I have a crush on him;)

Chocolate Fantasy!!!

We are so Excited and Honored to be part of this years Corvallis Art Center-Chocolate Fantasy 2010! While this is a great opportunity for us to get Bad Cupcake some press:) This is a better opportunity for us to help our community. WOOT!

Corvallis Art Center helps in all sorts of amazing way to keep our community inspired, thriving, and heart whole. From community classes for our kids, to cancer work shops and healing through art. Corvallis Art Center is an important part of our community to support, and you can help by attending this fun event Saturday, February 27Th, Club Level @ Reser Stadium.

So please surrender your Saturday to Chocolate Fantasy, food, wine, music and CHOCOLATE!!!! Help us celebrate Corvallis Art Center, and eat some Bad Cupcakes too! Check out the highlighted links, or the ad below, OR http://www.theartscenter.net/ for more info.

Love me Some pistachios

Here we have a Valentine cutie:) Vanilla, pistachio, and cherry cupcake.

This is full of fun green pistachios, and a cherry center, made with the best bourbon vanilla, and topped with a cherry cream cheese frosting. The cherry center is my favorite part. I made this out of urging from my youngest brother, who has a thing for cherrys and pistachios. So enjoy James, this is your Super Bowl snack!

New year, new blessings, etc.

I will refrain from the new year hocus pocus, and skip to glad tidings to you and yours in 2010! Time to get to work. We have a treat to share- Bad Cupcakes will officially have a retail store front (well be it an online one) that will be launching this week. We will have our regular fun selection of cupcakes, as well as alternating flavors. We will have an addition of some fun familiars as well, gournet rice crispy treats, cookies, brownies and fudge, with a Bad Cupcake twist.

Check us out, we will have our new logo, and website going, and I can't wait. It is going to be a fun week.

fixed, better, better than better!

I have not posted anything for a while, and there is a reason for that unfortunately. I have had a broken pointer finger, on my right hand, and I am right handed. So, I have had some forced time off due to a wood chopping accident. It sounds bad. It was. Thankfully I am on the mend, and back to work! Index finger intact, back to mixing batter, and squeezing frosting just as it should be.

Fun things we found while we were on the mend. 1)Chinese red food dye

for our red velvet cupcakes. The intensity and richness of the color is unreal. Loves it. 2)Cupcake stencils! They are so pretty. I will post some pics as soon as I can. 3) Christina Z. for our logo! We will be working with her in the near future, so excited!!!

I am still on the look out for the perfect cupcake liner, that is the perfect price. There are many good ones, but they are really expensive, or a hassle to get. Here's to bargain shopping!

New ideas brewed, Pistachio, pear, and whiskey cupcakes, Creme brule cupcakes, Chocolate, toffee, and bacon cupcakes, Fig, goat cheese, honey, and walnut cupcakes. Also I am thinking about adding to the Bad Cupcake brand, sweets treats and cool confections. Something like brownies, rice crispy treats, cookies, and bar cookies but with my cupcake flavor twist. We will go from there:)

Cheers and Happy Holidays!

People are neat

I am posting about the most awesome Andrew Jive productions. While not completely cupcake related, he eats cupcakes, and is generally cool, so it counts. Also check out his bodacious blog, he posted a nice what-not about us! Check out his awesome creativity in action, and check out some of his partners in crime. This is a group to watch. Cool kids roster on his page for starters; Eric Snyder, Christy Lee Zilka, Damien Coffey, more added as it grows. Their perspective puts a smile on my face.

You too can help cupcakes rule the world!

Hugs from Bad Cupcake.

Parts of a whole

First part, I took these pictures, so they are not as pretty as they should be. We miss our talented photographer.

Next is the butterfly wings. I will pull these off the wax paper and place them in the soft and gooey ganache. I melted white chocolate that was already sweetened, and added 100% cacao chocolate pieces, and melted and mix them together on a double boiler. I had to work fast! It is the hurry up and wait for the chocolate to cool, then it is get it in the piping bag before it hardens time:) I fancied the butterflies up with nonpareils, to make it more 3 dimensional.

It's gonna be So Good!

Then the Chocolate divine cupcake. We mix it, and bake it. Simple No?

Third part. Ganache. More double boiler. Fine chocolate, 70% cacao, heavy whipping cream, and baking sugar. I love this process. It is my favorite step, making a pool of chocolate goo. If only I could take a dip in it, but that job belongs to the cupcakes.

Which brings us to part four. Dip the cupcake in said cacao goo. This is repeated as many time as desired.

Final part. Pretty part. Bestest part ever! Garnish!!!!! Time to unleash the butterfly. Top those chocolate beauties with the butterfly, and enjoy your hard work.

Not too bad for a Bad Cupcake?

~Extraordinaire Carottes~

Carrot and coconut cupcake. Simple warm fuzzies. Fresh grated nutmeg and crushed cardamom, orange zest, natural organic coconut flakes, organic carrots, fair trade crushed pineapple and it makes me happy! Topped off with a not too sweet cream cheese frosting, more pineapple with a bit of carrot added. Tastes like fall is here, and I am loving it!

S'more S'more

The Magnificent Smores Cupcake. Graham cracker crust, chocolate divine cupcake, home made marshmallow topping, sprinkled with graham cracker crumbles and a gooey chocolate ganache drizzle. YUM!

Feminist press

Auction time.

Yet another great cause to be a part of. CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women was begun in Corvallis in 1976, more than 100 years after feminist Abigail Scott Duniway began her Portland "human rights" weekly, the New Northwest. CALYX was the first West Coast literary journal with women editors publishing women's works.

We will be donating some delish cupcakes to these fine ladies this weekend. Caramel apple cupcakes, Guinness stout cupcakes and undecided cupcakes. Contenders are chocolate bacon cupcake and carrot coconut cupcake. But that could all change on a moments whim :)

Cheers ladies.

Update: All went grand! Thanks Becks for hooking us up. You, as always, rock. We went with a version of strawberry-wawa, as well as the stout cupcake, and caramel apple cupcake. They were fun and rewarding to do. CALYX is a great organization for women in literature. The ladies there were delightful, and Cynthia, the event coordinator, was warm and welcoming. Good times, good vibes. It is, as always, good to give. Here is our CALYX shout out. Whoot!
http://calyxpress.org/newsletter.html

Wow-sah!

Savory Saffron

I am working on a new cupcake. No name yet. Forest suggested Effing-good, but that is inappropriate.... Maybe saffron surprise, everything but the kitchen sink, Spanish saffron.... who knows. Suggestions??? Dreamy chocolate cupcake, peppercorns, cinnamon, fresh nutmeg, and a hint of coffee and vanilla, saffron spiced custard filling, spiced vanilla butter cream frosting, and finally strawberry puree on top. Words, are nothing. Just amazing. Thank you cupcake, I love you.

UPDATE! Alexis you are a genius. Savory Saffron it is.

I bleed frosting

Well not really.

I am very excited to not announce, and sit on exciting news, that I really want to share! There I said it, I am not telling. But it will come, and I can't wait to share. A big honor. Good things are meant to blossom, and not be plucked to early, or something. Hint- community, not just ours, delicious, sometimes nutritious, and always fantaboulous. So much preparation, and deliberation is coming. Good stuff.

Other news: We have been working in the art in the community as of late. I am thankful for Babs, Paige, and Berni (foxy fun ladies) for looking me up and giving me an opportunity to help give back.

Truly, it has been so cleansing for the soul, inspiring. What an amazing community we live in. Pegasus Art Gallery, Corvallis Art Center, ARTrageous are fantastic companies, with beautiful people at the helm. Such giving, selfless, inspired beings are all around us. We need only look.

We are rolling in the cupcakes, and it is a peaceful kinda thing. If only all life's solutions came in a cupcake liner.

So sented

Art Gallery time! Bad cupcakes on the tips of every ones tongues. Scented cupcakes. Fresh organic lavender, local honey, Guinness Stout, fall spices, all these things come together to make aromatic treats that can't be ignored. So Good! Thanks to everyone for enjoying the Pegasus Art Gallery open house cupcakes.

Spiced Stout Cupcake

Molasses, Guinness, orange zest, and warm fall spices, make this a true fall pleasure. Soft and moist, like ginger bread, topped with spiced whipped cream and orange zest. Hello Holidays!

Love Lavender

Local honey, organic fresh-picked lavender, crispy top and soft center make this sweet cake subtle and lite. Butter cream & honey frosting to top it off, with lavender buds to add a complex and lovely contrast of textures. Even better.

Epic Cupcakes

So We are beat! We just finished a bunch of small orders wrapped around the grand opening of

Epic Day Spa. Epic's opening was exactly that, EPIC!

They know how to throw a party. Good job girls. Your hostess abilities are amazing. The ladies were beaming and beautiful. The guests were happy and spoiled, and they cleaned out our 300+ cupcakes in less than 40 minutes. That just scratches the surface of what happened and was there for the guests. What a great opening, truly amazing.

Below are some of the cupcakes we did this week.

Enjoy.

Strawberry wa-wa

Moist, creamy, vanilla bean cupcake, with gads of strawberries mixed in, and strawberry whipped cream on top.

Cha-Cha Chili

Chocolate divine cupcake with Thai chilies mixed in, dipped in chocolate ganache, with milk chocolate butter cream frosting, and Thai chili on top. Cool on top, spicy on the bottom.

Coconut and lime

Coconut cupcake with fresh lime zest and juice through out, filled with a creamy lime filling, coconut meringue frosting, and coconut on top. Refreshing lime, cool coconut, dreamy flavor.

TurtleRich chocolate cupcake, double dipped in the finest chocolate ganache, toasted pecan, and homemade caramel drizzled on top. Gooey, sticky, GOOD!

Chaco-chaco

Our chocolate divine cupcake with cocoa frosting. Simple, perfect, divine.

The Yvonne

This vanilla cupcake is smothered in white chocolate butter cream and raspberry sauce, filled with raspberry preserves and topped off with a raspberry. Light, fluffy, a bit messy, and delish, enjoy!

Fluffernutter

Fluffernutter cupcake. Yum. Yum. Yum. In a mini.

Peanut butter cupcake, filled with marshmallow cream, and a peanut butter-marshmallow butter cream frosting and peanut on top. Gooey goodness at it's finest.

Short list of flavor combinations

1. Coconut and lime- Coconut cupcake with lime zest and lime curd filling, with a coconut butter cream and lime zest frosting.
2. Carmel and sea salt- Buttermilk rich cupcake with a caramel frosting and a touch of sea salt, and sea salt and turbinado sugar mix garnish.
3. Strawberry wa-wa- Vanilla bean cupcake, with fresh strawberries mixed in, strawberry whipped cream topping and a strawberry on top.
4. Chocolate covered roses- Chocolate divine cupcake with a twist of rose scented romance, a heady rose water gauche with a sugared rose petal on top.
5. Strawbasil- Buttermilk rich cupcake, fresh basil and strawberries mixed in with butter cream frosting and sugared basil on top.
6. Turtles- Our chocolate divine cupcake, with our chocolate gauche, topped with toasted pecans, and a drizzled with caramel.
7. Maple bacon- Brown butter cupcake, with maple bacon mixed in, with a salty maple frosting and turbinado sugar garnish.
8. Lavender tea time- Honey buttermilk rich cupcake with blue lavender, and a honey lavender glaze with white lavender garnish.
9. Shirley Temple- moist white cake with a twist, ginger ale added for a lighter more airy cake, grenadine and cherry surprise, with a glossy whipped marshmallow topping and and maraschino cherry on top.
10. Chocolate zinger- Chocolate divine cupcake with orange zest and juice, topped off with whipped cream, orange zest and chocolate shavings.
11. Stout cupcake- Ginger spiced cupcake with rich Guinness stout and a spiced whipped cream frosting.
12. The Yvonne- Vanilla bean cupcake, with raspberry-raspberry filling, white chocolate butter cream frosting and topped with a raspberry.
13. Pineapple upside down cupcake- Rich, creamy, dreamy yellow cake, with brown sugar and pineapple juice and slices mix together for a perfect moist and delish topping, and a cherry in the middle for the perfect comfort classic. (optional candied nuts and or whipped topping.)
14. Fluffernutter- Butter milk rich cupcake, with marshmallow filling, and a peanut butter marshmallow topping with graham cracker sprinkles.
15. Cha-cha Chili- Chocolate divine cupcake with Thai chili to spice up the heat, with a rich chocolate butter cream frosting and a pinch more chili, and red hots on top.
16. Extraordinary carrot cake- (carrot cake no blah) The finest fall spices and dense cake stuffed with organic carrot, coconut, and crushed pineapple, turbinado sugar, orange zest, fresh crushed cardamom, mixed with love, and topped with a pineapple cream cheese frosting.

So Good!