Leafing through The Cake Mix Doctor Returns (have you entered the giveaway, by the way?), the first recipe to catch my eye was for Houdini Bars. What's a Houdini bar? Named for the magician because because they're "so r…

Growing up, there were a few things that were forbidden in our house, for various moral or health reasons: Doritos, the show Full House, and cake mix. As a result, I grew up harboring a secret and dark love for all of…

A week or so ago, somewhere in the Midwest, I think I entered a bakery twilight zone. Let me tell you my story. On my recent pastry road trip to Chicago, I had a route which included stopping in Bozeman, Montana on my…

When I recently passed through Madison, Wisconsin, I hadn't intended on stopping by Ella's Deli. Full disclosure? I didn't even know it existed. But the moment I drove by and witnessed its awesomeness firsthand--there'…

Everyone's buzzing about cupcakes and globalization this week--what better way to feed your interest than an interview with Rita Halkias, proprietress of Simply Rita, an Athens, Greece-based cupcake business? If you're…

CakeSpy Note: This is a guest blog post from Betsy of Java Cupcake. To get the scoop on what sweet stuff she's been sampling, be sure to visit her site, and keep updated with her twitter feed! When I spent last week in…

I'm so excited about these new Cuppie ornaments that I can't even come up with a dessert-related pun! This is a sweet ornament version of Cuppie the Cupcake! This felt puffy ornament is made of layered pink, grey and r…

This week's Illustration Friday theme is "Infinite", and it got me thinking about how variations on a theme can really be quite infinite. Case in point: Cuppie the Cupcake. How many places has this little cupcake been?…

So, I recently received a very large parcel of boxes of cereal from General Mills with which to try out some recipes for consideration for the Betty Crocker Halloween recipes section of their site. Naturally, I immediat…

CakeSpy Note: This month I drove to and from Chicago on a Pastry Road Trip: here's the beginning of several installments detailing the deliciousness I discovered! A highway rest area isn't generally a spot where one ca…

CakeSpy Note: Since it had been a while since I sampled the cupcakes from Common Ground, I was delighted to see a new review on their current offerings via this guest blog post from Cake Gumshoe Roxanne Cooke. Check out…

a sweet dispatch by Cake Gumshoe Shannon Connell If you’ve never found yourself ordering a scoop of gelato with the phrase, “Shaken, not stirred,” then think twice. Sugarland, a Chapel Hill-based bakery that’s been f…

When Kristina of Svedala Bakery sent a message saying she'd recently made a batch of Princess cake and invited me to try some, the response was swift and without hesitation: Y.E.S. And so a sojourn was made to Svedala'…

Nanaimo bars are, simply put, heaven on a plate: rich little nuggets consisting of three layers of awesomeness: a thick, cocoa and coconut crust anchors a dense slab of custardy buttercream, all topped off with a substa…

Booyea! You know what this month marks?  CakeSpy is celebrating one year of collaboration with with Taylored Expressions, a rubber stamp company! Cuppie has taken part in many rubber stamp adventures this year from a tr…

You know what all of the recent cupcake backlash made me want to do? Eat a cupcake, that's what. So I was particularly excited when I happened to discover a new-ish custom cupcake business based in Kirland, WA called…

Every so often we receive product samples, and a parcel of chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies from HomeFree Baking was intriguing, not because of what was in them...but what they were without. Made in a dedicated aller…

Let's talk about cookies. More specifically, let's talk about cookie swaps, a tradition big in the 60's--and one that Julia M. Usher, author of Cookie Swap: Creative Treats to Share Throughout the Year, says is making a…

This is a sweet find from Cake Gumshoe Matt: a Rolling Lego Cookie Cutter! This is not something I want--this is something I need. Get the full scoop on cnet.com; to purchase, visit the Lego Online Store. Read original…

What's new at Trophy Cupcakes in September? Here's the scoop on their newest flavor: Blueberry Pie! Our Vanilla Buttercake with a buttery pie crust on the bottom...then filled with housemade organic blueberry pie fillin…

September is certainly off to a sweet start: just check out the new flavor of the month at Cupcake Royale! Here's the 411: We teamed up with the good people over at Foraged & Found to bring you a cupcake bursting w…