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How To: WOW! Use a Plastic Bag to Decorate Cupcakes with Buttercream Roses

This method is quick, easy, looks beautiful and does not require any equipment beyond a plastic bag and a pair of scissors.

News: Giant Balloon Birthday Cake Delivery

With all the great cakes on the site, I thought I'd share one from my collection. Straight from the Make Balloon Animals World, I wanted to share this giant balloon birthday cake. This gentleman got his wish for his birthday... A giant cake AND the girl of his dreams.

News: Sweetheart Cake

This is such a fantastic idea! What a wonderful surprise this would be when cutting into your wedding cake!

News: Coke Can or Cake?

Wow this fooled me. I couldn't tell at first this was cake, red velvet my favorite.

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News: Star Wars R2D2 Dagobah Swamp Cake.

This awesome Star Wars cake was made by Mannuli on Flickr

News: Make arak-spiked chocolate cake

Taste of Beirut is one of my new favorite food blogs. Joumana grew up in Beirut during the sixties and seventies and her blog is a tribute to her national food. I saw this recipe for arak-spiked chocolate cake and thought it looked delicious!

News: genius idea - hot chocolate cupcake

Via This Isn't Happiness.

News: Strawberry Pie Cake

Strawberry Pie Cake, looks like a pie--tastes like a cake! Read more {here}

News: Racist/Blackface Cupcake Ad From Duncan Hines

Huh...I kind of have to wonder who the ad people were who saw this ad and were like..."YEAH THAT'S AWESOME!"

News: Android Wedding Cake

How devoted are you to your gadgets? This couple love their Androids so much they had a cake designed in the shape of the Android mascots. Too cute!

News: National Cake Day!

Apparently it's National Cake Day today.

News: Free cake alert! Valid Nov 16 only from Coldstone!

Via Coldstone Twitter: Did you know that today only, from 5-8pm, you can get a sample of their latest product? It's the 8-layer cake! Don't those flavors look yummy?

News: Keep Watch Cake

By Mishka.

News: The Art of the Pastry

Beautiful images from Paris Pâtisseries displaying translucency in pastries.

News: Wedding Favours

Hi All, These little flowers took ages to make, but was well worth it

RECIPE: Chinese Pandan Spiral Moon Cakes

House of Annie has full instructions for making these flaky, light spiral pastries called Pandan Spiral Moon Cakes (also known as Teochew Mooncakes).

News: Beautiful Sea Turtle Cake

Really nicely done sea turtle cake by Louise at Love to Cake.

RECIPE: Clone the Hostess Cupcake

No processed food for you? Then try this recipe for cloning the classic Hostess Cupcake:

RECIPE: Hello Kitty Mini Fondant Red Velvet Cakes

Bake Greek share full instructions for making these adorable Hello Kitty mini red velvet cakes.

RECIPE: Indian Spiced Upside Down Peach Cake

YUM!

RECIPE: Rainbow M&M Cake With Fluffy White Clouds

For Sale: JFK's Crusty, 48-Year-Old Birthday Cake

Up for auction at Heritage, JFK's crusty old birthday cake, presented to him at his 45th birthday party in Madison Square Garden back in 1962. Marilyn Monroe performed her legendary “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” at this very event.

News: Pac Man Cake

Super cute Pac-Man Cake by Nichole Horvath.

News: CAKES! CAKES! CAKES! Is Up For Grabs- Admin Wanted

CAKES! CAKES! CAKES! needs a new top admin to take over. Build upon the existing site and community: compile awesome recipes, tutorials and images to share with all fellow cake lovers. If you have something to share and are interested in connecting with other cake decorators, CAKES! CAKES! CAKES! is currently up for grabs to use as a launching platform.

News: Thanksgiving Turkey Cake, Anyone?

Words fail me. Good lord, there's a SWEET POTATO LAYER. And MARSHMALLOWS on top.

News: Princess Zelda & Link baby shower cake

My mother-in-law threw me a baby shower yesterday, and many many people came. My sister came, and she also brought a cake her friend made. The above is a vanilla sponge cake with strawberry buttercream filling, and the decoration's made with fondant. She asked her friend to make a Zelda cake because it was our wedding cake topper. As you can see, it started going pretty fast.

News: Would you eat this? Broccoli cupcakes

I don't know if this works. It looks more like cornbread with broccoli in it. Hmm...

News: Would you eat this? Kim chi ice cream

Unfortunately there is no picture of the weirdly-flavored ice cream. But Scoops is practically an institution in Los Angeles. If anybody could make it work, they could. They're known for their unusual flavors, and they have vegan options. Hmm...

News: Happy Birthday Cake Postcards

Etsy seller TangBaby has faux happy birthday cake postcards for sale. Each postcard is made to order and has that deliciously satisfying plastic toy food texture (and smell, I'm hoping).

News: Variation on carrot cake - zucchini cake with cream cheese frosting

My mom grows giant zucchinis. I'm not kidding when I tell you that one of them is about the size of one of my thighs. My sister came to visit, and dropped off a boatload of food, including two giant zucchinis. We grilled one up, but I've been pondering what to do with the other one. This zucchini cake looks perfect to me!

News: Would You Eat This? Red Velvet Fried Chicken

Ok...so I have decided to start a new tag called "would you eat this". Seriously, would you? I love me a good red velvet cake and my husband can tell you how much I love fried chicken, but would you bring these two great flavors together? The chicken is fried in a red velvet batter, AND it's served with cream-cheesed infused mashed potatoes.