GIANT CUPCAKE LINK: Avenge The Cupcake Queens!!!!!!

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<wiping tears of laughter away>  Oh, YESSSS, we need this thread. 

_{Mrs. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Sugar....}   

Thank you to Ajas for moving our content over here!!

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Topic is locked ((Topic Unlocked now -- all done)  while I bring over the content of this entire thread.  *Some* of the links are now broken or not working . . . feel free to post in this thread when I'm done and add links for substitutes or additional funny interest.

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Thread starter 10/31/2007 by Guest "The Cupcake Mom Avenger"

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ajasfolks2

You Goddess, you.


NOT that I would ever use this for a school sanctioned event.
(Oh, but I will dream about it forever and ever, amen.)

I have even better uses for it.   

(Can you say _50th bday for dearest friend?)

mommabridget

AHA!!
There ARE advantages to "guest" postings.

McCobbre

Attack! Attack! Attack!
Get that Cupcake Queen!

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woudln't that be a site...me, my giant cupcake(that is allergen safe, no milk, no eggs, no nuts.......) 

"mine is bigger then yours" 

maeve

I love that.    I am actually thinking of getting that cake pan; I figure one giant cupcake is much easier to bake and frost than 4 dozen little cupcakes.

PinkPoodle

I almost bought that cupcake pan for DD's birthday party (not school---our private party), but had a heck of a time finding one.  I did find it at Linens-n-Things but it really isn't that big.  I was looking to make a cake to serve 16 kids and that one wouldn't have worked.  I thought it might be nice for smaller, family parties.  I like Chanda's idea of sending in "mine is bigger than yours".  I hate to be so obnoxious but sometimes I'm pushed into it   Chanda-I am seriously thinking about it if I feel pushed---how funny would that be....DD pulls out the ginormous cupcake.  Love the thought of the looks (the adults)--the kids looking makes me feel too horrible to actually follow through with this plan. 

JeannieLino

I just found this:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7555196

It looks as though she does other 'flavors'!

debbieq

I LOVE that!.
I like to see to it that if my child has to have a different snack because someone brought in cupcakes for a bday that he has a bigger and better one. This would sure make a statement!

PinkPoodle

I love the thought, too debbieq...I think I'm going to have to try the pan out and see if my egg-free cake recipes work well with the 3-D (sometimes they crumble easier).  I'll have to place a hidden video camera on DD's bag to see how it unfolds.  The look on the adult's faces would be worth the cost of the hidden video camera and cupcake pan  

ajasfolks2

I bought the pan.

I am going to try it out for TGiving.

Going to give thanks for all the Cupcake Queens, or something like that.

ajasfolks2  11/12/2007

Let us humbly bow down to the Cupcake Queen and honor her in a way only we can:

    $$  All Hail the Cupcake Queen  $$   
Your Royal Hiney-a**

The Cupcake Heads

The Rise and Fall of the Cupcake Queens

Civilization and Its Food Allergic Malcontents

For Whom the USDA Tolls....

Gone with the Cupcake

If There Be Cupcakes...

Forever Food Free

Competitive Junk Food Queens

The Cupcakes of Wrath

The Hand that Frosts the Cupcake

Children of the Cupcakes

Rosemary's Cupcake

All Quiet on the Cupcake Front

The 504 and the Fury

East of Eating

Baker Rudolph and the Year without a Cupcake.

A Passage to Cupcakes

The Invisible Shrinking Cupcake

A Canticle for Cupcake

Curious George and the 504 Violation

Madelines

Make Way for Dumplings

Oh say, Can you say COM-PE-TI-TIVE?
(by Dr. Seuss)

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, School Birthday Celebration

Bridge to Tapioca

The Lion, The Witch, and the Waldorf

____________ (your name, not Ramona) the Pest


The Velveteen Cake

Of Mousse and Meringue

A Clockwork Danish

The Never Ending Party

Icing Castles



Nice to see those.   

rebekahc

You musn't forget

9 1/2 Cupcakes   

arkadia

"Planet Cupcake"

ajasfolks2

Cupcakes and Cupcakeabilities

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ajasfolks2 11/13/2007

Tens of Thousands of Cupcakes Under the Sea

           

Ark

Dr. Bagel and Mr. Cupcake 

Ark

Crouching Hot Lunch Mom, Hidden Cupcake

The Cupcake Kid

Chicks with Cupcakes

Jet Li's Cupcake

mommabridget

Go ahead, make my cupcake!

Ok, so it's just a quote not a title, but still....

Ark

All About the Cupcakes

Fun with Gingerbread and Cupcakes

The Cupcake Job

The Whole Ten Cupcakes

Big Fat Cupcake

mommabridget

"To boldly go where no cupcake has gone before"...

Ark

"I'll show you my cupcakes if you show me yours."

katjam99

I Am Cupcake, and So Can You

Ark

Drumroll please.....




Cupcake Almighty

mommabridget

Damn the cupcakes, full speed ahead...

Ark

The Avenging Cupcake

mommabridget

And cupcakes to go before I sleep, cupcakes to go before I sleep...

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Dirty Cupcaking

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You guys crack me up!!

Here are some children's classics 

Willy Wonka and the Cupcake Factory

The Wizard of PA.com

Dr. Seuss - How the PA Mom Stole Gingerbread Houses

Alice in Cupcake Land

Miracle on 504th Street

Charlotte's Cupcake

Cupcakerella

Snow White and the Seven Gingerbread Houses

lilpig99

When Cookie met Cupcake

Mrs. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Sugar

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe full of Junk Food

Children of the Corn Syrup

Barbie and the Magic of Frosted Horse Shaped Cookies

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11/14/2007
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For all the horror movies fans:

The Silence of the Cupcakes

28 Cupcakes Later

Night of the Living Cupcakes

Dawn of the Cupcakes

Day of the Cupcakes

Return of the Living Cupcakes

The Prince of Cupcakeness

The Texas Cupcake Massacre

An American Cupcake in London

PA Mom:  Portrait of a Cupcake Killer

Invasion of the Cupcake Snatchers

A Nightmare on Cupcake Street

The Cupcake Witch Project

Cupcakophobia

Cupcakeville Horror

Stephen King's "Cupcake Sematary"

Salem's Cupcake

War of the Cupcakes

I Know What You Did With My Cupcake

I STILL know What You Did With My Cupcake

McCobbre

I Am Cupcake, and So Can You

Bahahahahahahahah!

Oh, I am laughing so hard right now I'm crying. ;

McCobbre

Okay, I couldn't resist this. 

http://gonewengland.about.com/od/ctcasinos/ig/Mohegan-Sun-Holiday-Photos/Mohegan-Sun-Christmas-2.htm

Look at pics 2-5 I believe.  Entirely edible.

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Now THAT would make some jaws drop!!!! 

You are too funny!

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Just wanted to say I love this movie title thing we've got going here! It's very therapeutic!!!!!!!

McCobbre

A Separate Cupcake, by Knowles

And Then There were No Cupcakes, Agatha Cupcake (which in Greek means "good cupcake")

The Courage to Be Cupcakeless, Tillich

Popsiclestick, Vonnegut (my personal thing this week is popsicles at school)

The Scarlet Frosting, Hawthorne

Oh, I'm sorry my tea break is over.

Momcat

I eat two cupcakes in the morning.
I eat two cupcakes at night.
I eat two cupcakes in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright
I eat two cupcakes in time of peace ,  and two in time of war
I eat two cupcakes before I eat two cupcakes,
And then I eat two more.

Momcat

Cupcakes and Cupcakeabilities

Or maybe, Pride and Cupcakes ? 

Momcat

Tongue twister:

say: "Cupcake, cupcake, cupcake, cupcake, cupcake" as fast as you can!

ajasfolks2

I need to get these O.U.T. of my brain so I may use those brain bytes for more pressing issues this AM --

Apologies &/or gratitude to Dr. Seuss & other children's book authors:



Seuss --

Cupcake I am!

Horton Hears a Who-Brought-Those-Cupcakes?!

One Cake, Two Cake, Red Cake, Blue Cake

The Queen, The Mice, and the Cheesecake

New Tricks I Can Do with a Cupcake

Put Me in the Zoo (oh, wait, I'm already THERE!)



Others --

Kiss the Cupcake Cow!

Olivia . . .insists on cupcakes

Peter Cupcake Pan

The Three Cupcake Goats Gruff




So cathartic.      

ajasfolks2

And with the humblest of apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson whose Whole Duty of Children was burned on my brain at a tender age:




Excerpt from

A Child's Garden of Cupcakes

A Cupcake Queen should bake what's true
And frost when she's beholden to,
And behave dastardly at the school,
To hammer home Her 'Golden Rule.'




Have to go deal with a CQ or 2 today.

ajasfolks2

Since we're doing quotes & phrases too --


"ALL for food and never for one (at least not THAT one)."

lilpig99

Little Shop of Cupcakes





The Year Without a Cupcake

Frosty the Cupcake

Rudolph the Red-Frosted Reindeer

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like a Bakery

O Little Town of Pastry Goods

Decorate the Halls

hedgehog

Lilpig, now that's a theme I can get into this time of year (I'm already listening to Christmas music in my car).

Oh Little Cupcake of Bethlehem

Joy to the Cupcakes

Hark! The Herald Bakers Sing

The Little Cupcake Boy

Cupcakes Fidelis

Oh Cupcake Tree

The Cupcake Song (starts "Cupcakes baking on an open fire, frosting nipping at your nose"

I'm Mr. Cupcake Miser (from Lilpig's the Year without a Cupcake)

Oh Holy Cupcake

hedgehog

I forgot this one:
Cupcake Queens Are Coming to Town

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_{going for more coffee}   

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lilpig99  11/15/2007

So funny!!!  

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Am in need of some "cupcake/gingerbread house" therapy.......

Taken from the list of Top 100 Shows of ALL-TIME!!!!

The Beavis and Cupcake-Head Show

Buffy the Cupcake Slayer

Homicide:  Life on the Cupcake

I Love Cupcake

King of the Cupcake

Leave It To Cupcake

Married......With Cupcakes

Monty Python's Flying Cupcake

My So-Called Cupcake

Pee Wee's Gingerbread House

Cupcake and The City

SpongeBob CupcakePants

ajasfolks2

Disney Movies (oh why not?!) -- forgive me, may be repeats. OH WELL!


Alice in CupcakeLand

Dumbo  (didn't feel the need to change that one)

Bimbo

101 CupcakeNations

Beauty and the Beastly Room Mother

The Cupcake of Notre Dame

Icing Age

The Incredible Edibles

Lady and the Tramp Who Insisted on Gingerbread Houses

Madagascar Cupcake Nascar

Monsters, Inc.  (um, didn't need to alter that either)

Over the Edge (you have pushed me)

Peter Cupcake Pan





Exhaling.


Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh.

lilpig99

Do You Hear What I Hear? ....she's bringing in cupcakes again

lilpig99

Over the Edge (you have pushed me)

that cracks me up!

Ark

Little Miss Cupcake

Napoleon Cupcake

The Devil's Cupcakes

The Last King Queen of Cupcake

PinkPoodle 11/20/2007

www.gymboree.com/shop/dept_category.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374306234529&bmUID=1195540196185

Something for all Cupcake Queen's Princesses to wear...


I think the collection is quite cute, but I wish they had the cupcake dress in adult sizes---I would have fun giving it to a couple of Queens for a holiday gift.  I bet they'd think it was cute and wear it.  I'm talking about the child's dress with cupcakes all over it--light pink.  Can't you just see one of the Queens walking into your school in that 

My link doesn't work   Take a look at www.gymboree.com and click on Baby Girls or Big Girls---follow the link the "Cute as a Cupcake"

becca

The English Cupcake
The Cupcake Identity
Cupcake Double(Warning, for adults only)
The Longest....Cupcake
Grease(d Muffin Pan)
Fatal Attraction to a Cupcake
The Bourne Cupcake
The Cupcakes of Madison County
Little Cupcakes on the Prairie
The Little Cupcake
Brokeback Cupcakes


All I can come up with at present.

CMdeux 11/26/2007

The Red Cupcake

The Cook, the Liar, her Room-mom, and those Cupcakes

The Wild Cupcakes of Telegraph Hill Elementary

Notorious  (hey-- that still works just fine!!)

A Night at the Bakery

Cupcake (party)Poopers

The Color of Cupcakes



And since I'm feeling 'literary' today...

Harold and the Purple Cupcake

Cupcakes for Breakfast

The Bonfire of the Cupcakes

The Pillars of the Cake

McCobbre

Just crossposting, because really, this one is so necessary.  And brilliant.

Enjoy ye avengers!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FW_wown30yo&feature=related

McCobbre  11/28/2007

These are courtesy of DH.  All of them.  He just sat, pen in hand, looking at our shelves . . . .

• A Cupcake Orange
  
  
• The Brothers KarvaKupkake  (ask me if you don't get it)
  
  
• Cupcake and Punishment
  
  
• So Long and Thanks for all the Cupcakes
  
  
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Cupcake: A History of the Cupcake Nazis
  
  
• The Cookie Monologues     (yes, this was my DH   )
  
  
• The Memory Keeper's Cupcake
  
  
• The Other Boleyn Cupcake
  
  
• CupcakeBound
  
  
• In Praise of the Stepcupcake
  
  
• Dress Your Family in Cupcakes and Denim
  
  
• Texas Cupcake University 1988, vol 74 (a yearbook)  (for you ~E--you know that's where they all came from)
  
  
  That's all folks!

ajasfolks2

• Texas Cupcake University 1988, vol 74 (a yearbook)  (for you ~E--you know that's where they all came from)
  

hee hee hee . . . were they all Kappas??!!   

I have a couple lists I did one night in a fit of venting.perimenopausal.madness (BE-ware ye butthead private school headmasters and ye snide CKQ's . . . )

just haven't posted them yet. 

McCobbre 11/29/2007

Kappas or Tri Delts. You read my mind--I was thinking of putting that in last night--but thought better of it. I'm glad you did,.t have the same moral quandry I did.

Disclaimer-no, we are not dissing ALL Kappas and Tri Delts. You just had to be there at the time. Cupcake Queen breeding ground, the Greek at this school was.

ajasfolks2

I just guessed Kappa because I'm pretty sure the very FIRST time I was asked what my Daddy did or what kind of car I drove, the question came out of a perfectly lipsticked Kappa mouth. . . won't comment on hair color from bottle when mine was natural . . . betting she'd be all over her kids' Cupcake Bill of Rights!

Oh I know I'd better apologize and disclaim right now and clarify and quantify.  This rouge witch just *happened* to be a Kappa.  There were a few "GDI" gals who would just have well fit this situation.  they just didn't ask the question first.   


I hate it when the word I'm trying to think of or use isn't right.  ROUGE.  ROGUE.  Dog-noggit. 

rebekahc  11/29/2007

I'm pretty sure at least half of all cupcake queens spawned from the Chi Cupcake Omegas at Baylor didn't they?  You really shouldn't give Texas Cupcake University all the credit...   

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McCobbre  11/30/2007

Well, as they say rebekahc, Go Frogs!

(okay--and with even the possibility we have of a bowl game I am saying it quite a bit).

But, noting some irony here.

{{  Moderator's note -- when McCobbre was posting in this thread in 2007, her siggy line was the following:
"Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic. They are potent forms of enchantment, rich with the power to hurt or heal." ~Albus Dumbledore   }}



McCobbre  3/16/2008

Ooh, I had to post this.  The perfect present for every Cupcake Queen we know:

http://secure.jamesavery.com/view_jewelry/search/searchResults.jsp?functionId=0&metal=H,U&filter=new

Note--right next to Star of Texas charm, which is right next to Lousiana charm.  Texas and Louisiana are not implicated--are innocent bystanders, in fact.

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Desparate Cupcakes

aggiedog

I so don't understand why anyone would want a cupcake charm.

Even the biggest cupcake queen in the world should have better fashion taste than that.

PinkPoodle  3/16/08

Tiffany's has a cupcake charm, as well.  I did think it was kind of cute

aggiedog

Sorry Pink. No offense meant to anyone, but that would just not fit into my personal style at all.

And I love James Avery. My wedding band is from him. 

guest  3/19/08

OH MY! 

http://news.theage.com.au/man-chokes-to-death-on-cupcakes/20080225-1unv.html#

Man chokes to death on cupcakes
February 25, 2008 - 7:32PM

A man choked to death after gorging on cupcakes at a nightclub party in South Wales.

Adam Deeley, 34, collapsed after he began choking when five cupcakes got stuck in his throat.

Fellow revellers and nightclub staff tried to revive him, but were unable to clear his airways.

Deeley and a group of friends decided to stage a cupcake eating competition at the end of a party on Friday after discovering leftover buffet food.

"Quite a spread had been laid on and when the party finished there was quite a lot left over," one guest told The Sun newspaper.

"Someone suggested seeing how quickly they could eat the mound of fairy cakes that were left. But suddenly someone started choking."

2008 AAP 

ajasfolks2  5/02/08

I sense the possible need to have this link re-raised as we head into the END-OF-THE-YEAR PARTY ORGY!

DO NOT PLAY THIS IF YOU HAVE CHILD SITTING NEXT TO YOU WHO IS NOT ALLOWED TO HEAR THE WORD DAM_IT.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/monk-e-mail/?mid=26962393

PS -- GO BACK and re-read this thread and all the funny posts.  It really is cathartic.   

ajasfolks2  5/02/08

Well, here are a few BALLETS for your enjoyment:




The Afternoon of a Frosted Cupcake

Billy the Kid who legally required cupcakes

Les Biches

Carmina Burana Cupcake-a YoMama

Cinderella CupcakeSella

Elite Syncopations and Petite Cupcake Nations

La Fille Mal Gardee by 504

The Four Temperaments (of a momma NOT allowed to bring cupcakes)

Graduation Ball and Cupcakes for All

Ivan the Terrible has nothing on the Gingerbread Lady

A Midsummer Night's Dream of Cupcakes and Cream

Le Sacre du Cupcakes

La Spectre de la "Special" child

Stars and Striped Confections

The Nutcracker    Nah.  TOO easy!      

maeve

I'd not seen the post with the cupcake charm earlier. The post spurred me to look at the classic-charms.com Web site, where I stumbled across a cupcake charm and listed right above it, a peanut charm.

ajasfolks2

MAEVE!

With the special sale price, that peanut charm is a better deal than 1 Epi-pen these days!  WOO HOO!   

ajasfolks2

Cupcake Day!


Video sing-along just for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaCCG7QkM_c&

PinkPoodle

I really need to purchase that giant cupcake pan for the end of the year.  DD missed out on class treats (I didn't know until after she came home) on Monday and Tuesday---gummy bears one day & ice cream the next day.  A couple of weeks ago (on a VERY hectic/chaotic/crazy--you get the picture) day I got an email around 10:00 AM that they were having cupcakes at Noon--a "surprise".  Or...the teacher would just tell Mrs. So-so (I like her a lot and our DDs are friends) that they couldn't hand them out (& in the St. Elmo's whisper the teacher would say..I just know she would..."because of you-know-who's-peanut-police-mommy").  I quickly whipped up a batch of cupcakes and frosting and raced up to the school.  I've let a lot slide this year because I'm trying to follow DD's lead.  Her teacher has been great in so many ways & I guess that has softened the other events/violations.

I just want to have practiced to perfection making the Giant Cupcake for any last minutes "surprises".

I saw cute cupcake candles at the pharmacy today---I think of all of you every time I see cupcakes           

ajasfolks2

Just a word of advice, I've got the huge cupcake pan and it is kind of tricky.

I suppose I should start a thread in COOKING so we can deal with our triumphs and failures with that pan!  Not *quite* as easy as it looks to get both halves cooked all the way to the center without having the outside dry as a bone . . . if you see the pan in the flesh, you'll see what part of the problem is so far as pan design.


PP -- meanwhile, you can always get three small tiered pans (Wilton) and make a mini-wedding-like-cake instead.      Could probably even carve it in such a way to appear to be a giant cupcake.  AND look at the muffin pans around right now -- there are some that are oversized and nearly twice the size of a standard storebought cupcake or the regular muffin/cupcake tin/cup.  DOuble-    

McCobbre

Well, here are a few BALLETS for your enjoyment:

The Afternoon of a Frosted Cupcake
Billy the Kid who legally required cupcakes
Les Biches
Carmina Burana Cupcake-a YoMama
Cinderella CupcakeSella
Elite Syncopations and Petite Cupcake Nations
La Fille Mal Gardee by 504
The Four Temperaments (of a momma NOT allowed to bring cupcakes)
Graduation Ball and Cupcakes for All
Ivan the Terrible has nothing on the Gingerbread Lady
A Midsummer Night's Dream of Cupcakes and Cream
Le Sacre du Cupcakes
La Spectre de la "Special" Child
Stars and Striped Confections
The Nutcracker    Nah.  TOO easy!   

Oh, thank you.

And you just knew I'd like the Carmina Burana one, didn't you?

A few of my own:

• Peter and the Cupcake
  
• Coppcakia  or Cupelia
  
• Sleeping Cupcake
  
  And now for ones my DS has not performed in:
  
• Swan Cupcake
  
• Cupcakerella
  
• Appalachian Cupcake (this one is for my part of the world)
  
• La Boutique of Cupakes
  

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McCobbre  5/3/2008

  AND look at the muffin pans around right now -- there are some that are oversized and nearly twice the size of a standard storebought cupcake or the regular muffin/cupcake tin/cup.  DOuble-    

There is a picture of one MB made in OT--The Party's Over thread. 

CMdeux

I'd not seen the post with the cupcake charm earlier. The post spurred me to look at the classic-charms.com Web site, where I stumbled across a cupcake charm and listed right above it, a peanut charm.

Perfect for anyone looking for a great end -of-year teacher's gift, huh?


I mean, at least for some teachers.    More like a 'good-riddance' gift, but  hey.

PinkPoodle

Just a word of advice, I've got the huge cupcake pan and it is kind of tricky.

I suppose I should start a thread in COOKING so we can deal with our triumphs and failures with that pan!  Not *quite* as easy as it looks to get both halves cooked all the way to the center without having the outside dry as a bone . . . if you see the pan in the flesh, you'll see what part of the problem is so far as pan design.

I thought the cake would be hard to make after I saw the pan.  Especially because I have to make egg-free cakes and the consistency is 'different'.  I made the baseball cake (the 3-D ball pan) and I had to make about 3 cakes before I could get one cooked all the way through without being burned.  I suspect the same problems would happen with the Giant Cupcake Pan and it would be difficult for DD to take in her bag.  I'd have to go in with it and then it wouldn't have the same desired effect I would want    

PinkPoodle

The jumbo cupcake pans that MB is now using look like a perfect alternative.  Perfect

GingerPye  5/4/2008

I've just read through this thread for the first time . . . . too, too funny!! 
What I'm wondering about with the giant cupcake is how you would cut it into serving pieces.  With our eggless cakes, I don't think I could get it out of the pan. 

This thread reminds me of one Valentine's Day party at my son's preschool.  The teachers told me they would have the kids decorate heart cookies. 
I didn't have a heart cookie cutter, so had DH run to Walmart for one.  All he could find was a very large heart-shaped cutter. 
I used it and it made HUGE heart cookies!! 
DS took the humongous heart cookie to preschool to decorate and it was sooo funny.  I have pictures of DS' heart cookie sitting in front of him and the other kids' tiny little heart cookies.  The kids were so jealous of DS' big big heart cookie --- tee hee    

jw

I would think a generous spray of cooking spray would work. Someone else may know a better alternative for you if all of them contain soy. I know the one we use does, but it's not one of our allergens so I haven't compared the competition.

McCobbre

I've just read through this thread for the first time . . . . too, too funny!! 
What I'm wondering about with the giant cupcake is how you would cut it into serving pieces.  With our eggless cakes, I don't think I could get it out of the pan. 

You don't cut it. 

Your child gets to eat the whole thing because he or she has missed out on so much.  This is after whipping out "my safe {giant} cupcake." 

The look she or he hopes to see is the jaw of every kid and adult in the room dropping, kids drooling with envy, etc. 

   

PinkPoodle

It is just a 'cupcake'    Not meant for sharing.      

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If your cupcake doesn't get done in the middle, scoop out the gooey part and fill it with frosting or candies. Even more scrumptious!

hedgehog

Ooooh! That sounds yummy. Maybe a nice gooey pudding filling. Mmmmmmmmm

McCobbre

Just thinking of "cupcake" and alliteration here.  Assonance, I believe it is. I really can't get more specific than that.

Momcat

McC!  I'm shocked!  Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?   

CMdeux

I think this may mean she's seen.... the, umm.... 'light.'   

(Which more often than not really is that darned on-coming TRAIN.) 


{{hugs}} everyone-- we're in the home stretch of the school year.


   Time to batten down the hatches, it is.   

Mfamom  5/8/2008

I thought this would fit in this thread nicely.  Ad in local magazine.  I couldn't scan text and pic, so I retyped text and added image: 


LET THEM EAT CUPCAKES!

Our calendars runneth over with celebrations this time of year.  Since none would be complete without the requisite cake to mark the occasion, you'll have plenty of opportunities to try a new alternative:  CUPCAKE CUTIE.  These double decker delights are the creation of baker Nancy Dreszler.  You;ll have lots to chose from, including carrot, coconut, red velvet and even banana batter.  The frostings are just as varied.  Try mocha for a more sophisticated crowd or strawberry for that little birthday princess on your list.  Each cutie is topped with a handmade candy decoration, customized to suit your theme.  You can even order them individually boxed for a unique favor. 
www.cupcakecutieonline.com
This cupcake queen gets even better...click on the link, go to flavors.  If that doesn't get you, "Our Cupcakes" will.

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Member in Hiding  5/8/2008

I think I'm gonna puke   

hedgehog

The cupcakes themselves are a cute idea. I may steal that design to make my own. And I don't see the fact that they not safe as being any worse than the local bakery.
BUT I really don't like the wording of the ad. Makes it sound like kids MUST have cupcakes. Like any child without one is being unfairly deprived.

Mommabear

If your cupcake doesn't get done in the middle, scoop out the gooey part and fill it with frosting or candies. Even more scrumptious!

Ooooh!  That sounds yummy.  Maybe a nice gooey pudding filling.  Mmmmmmmmm

so far, I haven't had a single issue with "undone centers". The cupcakes have actually been more evenly cooked than the smaller ones I've cooked before. I mean, a cake cooks more evenly than cupcakes.  But these have been succulent and moist.  I don't even scoop them out, I just get a long thin pastry bag attachment (I use a ziplock with a teeny snip off one corner) insert the nozzle and fill... I was trying to figure out a way to fill them with cheese cake filling.

Chocolate cheesecake filling.

Of course, with filling, I refrigerate.

ajasfolks2  5/12/2008

Someone please give this woman a tiara.

Covered in frosting.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=PLj-rnjATXQ


Maybe an "in reply" video could be done with the Life Threatening Food Allergies "ABC's"

lilpig99

She reminds me of a 'valley girl'.

hedgehog  5/13/08

I just watched this episode of Good Eats:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ea/episode/0,,FOOD_9956_56368,00.html

It starts with Alton looking in the window of a snooty upscale cupcake bakery (Chez Gateau de Cup), then being told he needs a reservation, and can't have one until next week.  He gets angry with those who have made the simple cupcake into some cloying cups of condescention (or something like that).  Very funny.

From the tidbits that are printed on the screen:

A cupcake by any other name:
France= petit gateau
Spain= pastel
Germany= kleiner kuchen
Netherlands= het cakeje

In 2005, the Texas Legislature passed a "Safe Cupcake Amendment" making it ok for kids to bring cupcakes to school
(I'm sure many here remember that)

Very good episode, though.  Funny, as usual, and making fun of fancy-schmancy cupcakes, which is better.

lilpig99  5/18/08

DESCRIPTIVE SENSORY ANALYSIS OF YELLOW CUPCAKES PREPARED WITH NUTRITIVE AND HIGH INTENSITY SWEETENERS.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=178083

juicy tidbit from this great read:  "Control cupcakes exhibited low to moderate springiness, stickiness, denseness, moistness, and rate of dissolving."



EFFECTS OF SUGAR AND/OR FAT REDUCTION ON THE STORABILITY OF OATMEAL AND CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=178088

take a gander at this exciting passage: "Storability influences consumer product selection. Staling, part of storability, is the progressive non-microbial deterioration of quality; fat, sugar and moisture levels are influential. "

   

McCobbre  5/22/08

Quickly before heading off to work (so late already):

You can order these from Johnny Cupcake:







But I like this one the best (not from Johnny Cupcake).  It's Da Bomb!


And a link for a possible bigger photo:
http://consumerist.com/consumer/evil/urban-outfitters-rips-designers-cupcake-tshirt-149095.php 

McCobbre  5/25/08

Just reraising, because I found this rather funny-and I was sooooo sure others would, too.

cya

I saw the Giant Cupcake Pan at Michaels today - it's IN STOCK if anyone needs it for end-of-year celebrations! 

becca 5/26/08

OMG. I so want to send that giant cupcake in for dd for her end of year party!!! I would love to have them tell me it was unfair to the other kids she had such a special treat!

ajasfolks2  6/2/2008

Won't leave this up long (if I remember)

Photo caption called this a

CRAPCAKE





Dedicated to all those who would rather our child just "sit in the corner."

{{Editor's Note.  LOL!  Guess it didn't matter that I left that one up.  Fitting.}}


Member Name Deleted 6/3/08

There's a new GIANT cupcake pan out at Williams Sonoma. 

hedgehog

Here's the link for the Williams-Sonoma one:

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/sku5521752/index.cfm?pkey=cbkwcakspt   

Guest The Cupcake Mom Avenger  6/4/2008

Here's the link for the Williams-Sonoma one:

http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/sku5521752/index.cfm?pkey=cbkwcakspt

I'm buying one of these for the next school year     

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Guest The Cupcake Mom Avenger   6/4/2008

More "cupcake" themed movies to the tune of Indiana Jones 

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Cupcake

Indiana Jones and the Cupcake of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Last Cupcake

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cupcake

The Cupcake Avenger Mom

For those of us that need to avenge the gingerbread moms:

http://kidscooking.about.com/od/cookbookskitchentools/fr/gingerbreadcake.htm 

McCobbre

'". . . Cupcake of Doom"

Now that is just too true and scary.

hedgehog  6/30/08

Found this in a gift shop on Cape Cod this weekend.  I had to take a picture to share.

Member name deleted

That clock is ALARMING.........LOL!!!      

Member name deleted  7/2008

Kung Fu Cupcake

 

notnutty 7/10/08

Just another link for a Colossal Cupcake Pan!

http://www.brylanehome.com/decor/Colossal-Cupcake-Pan.aspx?PfId=122653&DeptId=15547&ProductTypeId=1&PurchaseType=0 

member name deleted  7/10/08

Okay, one for the Beatles fans...

"Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 504?"   

lilpig99   7/26/08

Here's a pan that bakes 4 cupcakes....cupcakes that are definitely larger than the average, but not at an 'i hate all of you' size.  They are 3" wide and 4 1/2" tall. Definitely tall!!

Could prove veeerrrrry useful this year.   

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/detail.jsp?select=C1036&byCategory=C1037&id=5988

 

McCobbre

So lilpig--what are the four things in the middle? Do you bake a cupcake top there that you attach with frosting? Pondering the pancake puffer.

Totally would not fit in our cupacake holder.

I like!!!!

lilpig99

Yes, it's like baking the 4 bottoms, and 4 tops...then you assemble. The tops are also made entirely of cake as well. You really only need a little frosting to cover the coned top, unless you load up on the frosting and make it even bigger!!

I reeaaaaallllly like this pan.     

hedgehog 7/30/08

Nice.  A mix in that pan will make 6-8 cupcakes.  A mix in a regular size pan makes 24.  So these are about 4 times the size of a regular one.     

ajasfolks2  8/27/2008

They're Baaaaaaack!




Or, should I say,

WE're BACK!

ajasfolks2  8/27/08

Hello-Kitty-Cupcake-From-He11-Tattoo!

Guest 9/9/2008

Bumping this because I just got an email that tomorrow (day SEVEN of the school year) sonmeone is bringing in effing cupcakes. 

I am going to find a big cupcake pan tonight.   

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hedgehog  9/9/2008

On short notice, instead of buying one of those big cupcake pans, you can always cook in an actual cup. If you have custard cups or ramekins, those work well. If not, you can use a ceramic coffee cup. Any of those would be nice and big, but not so over-the-top it's obviously meant to serve many (like the really big cupcake pan).

Guest

I have a few mini loaf pans, I'm going to try that and hopefully not overcook it.

The teacher is awesome and is going to refuse the cupcake as well b/c the teacher is furious that this parent got the cupcakes in under the radar so to speak before the class party guidelines went out.

I am making a cupcake for the teacher too (or brownies, haven't decided yet).

Btw, this guest hates baking! 

ajasfolks2  9/15/08

Well, we could really have some fun with this, I'm thinking:

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/Cutest-Cupcake-Photo-Contest.html

 

Mfamom  9/21/08

for future cupcake queens...

http://slideshow.ivillage.com/parenting/hot_toys/hottest_toys_in_08/post_552.html   

ajasfolks2  2/23/09

Just in case anybody here might be feeling the need to vent or laugh or vomit or something

when it comes to cupcakes right about now.

   

MamaZu  2/23/09

Just in case anybody here might be feeling the need to vent or laugh or vomit or something

when it comes to cupcakes right about now.

Thanks!

wheres the vomit smily?

ajasfolks2

Feel free to copy & save to your own photobucket and post as needed.

McCobbre  2/27/09

Heard about this on public radio recently--had to find it.

"The Cupcake Song," by the Poodlebugs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSMqvHZfG6g   

CMdeux

<snicker>

ajasfolks2  3/9/2009

Needing special cupcake/cake pans for school celebration or special educational event?

Look no further than here.

Deluxe number cake pans provide all the options.



504 never looked so easy!!

Momcat  6/17/09

Martha = The Queen of all Cupcake Queens?

Momcat

Apparently, she has a new book out: Martha Stewart's Cupcakes

mama2aidan  6/20/09

I have been absent from the boards for a few months now just to pop in to check my PMs so I missed this thread....how funny I found the same cupcake when posting in McC's thread...i just googled, "giant cupcake".

hahaha. too funny.

McCobbre

Welcome to the darkside!

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Scout  7/6/2009

dd wants that Martha Stewart book, she picked it up at target.....

Well since we do make them all the time....but I told here we could find that stuff on recipe websites for free....


I just realized last night as I pulled her new summer PJ's out of the wash ---CUPCAKE on shirt......."cute as a cupcake"

oh well, she loves them and we all do bake them often.....    

YouKnowWho

I saw this informercial last night.....

https://www.bigtopcupcake.com/   

cya

Guiness Book of World Records Giant Cupcake weighs in at 150lbs:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090719/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_world_s_largest_cupcake

hedgehog

Ummm, if it is 150 pounds, how exactly does it qualify as a cupcake, rather than just a really big cake?

cya  7/20/09

Good point!! 

Mfamom

Yeah, 50 lbs of fudge inside too (or something crazy like that.

McCobbre  7/21/09

. . . becaaaaaaauuuuse it's made in a really big cup!!! 

You know--like giants use.   

ajasfolks2  2/2/2010

       


BUMP.

Whatever.


Die, you frigging gingerbread houses, die.

hopechapel  2/3/2010

I missed all this?

Eat Cupcakes, Pray for Cupcakes, Love cupcakes

The God of Small Cupcakes

Karma Kupcake

The Family of Cupcakes

If Life is a bowl of Cupcakes, What am I doing in the crumbs?

How to Make Cupcakes and influence Cupcake Queens

My Cupcake is OK, Your Cupcake is okay.

The Cupcake Diaries

Remembrance of Cupcakes Past

HELP!!!! I can't stop!!! Why isn't there a warning on this thread?

Millions and Millions of cupcakes
Anne of Green Cupcakes
Gone With the Cupcakes
Good Night Cupcake!

Susan

I believe for every drop of rain that falls...
a cupcake's baked!

In cupcake we trust

Is that a cupcake in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

:rotf:

OK, real quotes:
"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."

~ Gloria Steinem quotes

"Some of them were cupcake shots - they were moving out of the way or whatever you want to call it. Some of those 3s he was making were unbelievable, and when you've got it rolling like that, give him the ball, man, give him the ball."

~ Tracy McGrady quotes
Who's he? 

"There's so much focus now on obesity, but a lot of parents just don't see the harm in one cupcake. They don't see the magnitude of how much kids are really getting."

~ Kirsten Frandsen quotes

"We're encouraging them to bring healthy snacks, but when a parent comes up with a tray of sweets, I'm not going to turn them away. I don't want to be the cupcake killer."

~ John Young quotes

McCobbre

A gift:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW75cuwqXQQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwz_NatV_Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rnD6T-E1pM

Susan 2/4/2010

What happens to Cupcake Queens when they regress to their childhood?


The demise of the Cupcake Queen-burp!

Cupcake of Death!

ajasfolks2

Oh, McC!

That first video at 1:18 was priceless.

I haven't laughed in weeks.

Thank you!

CMdeux

It's the Kenny G soundtrack, isn't it?


Yeah... just makes it that much funnier.   

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OK -- I'll try to get the last 2 smallish pages of content over here in next couple of days.

Out of time today.

PLEASE feel free to post more into this thread -- photos, videos, links to products as joke . . .

Facing Halloween (and the school party crapola) and then quickly on to TGiving and December parties and and and





just choke me with a cupcake, will ya?         




For anyone coming to this party late (ahem), perhaps these links will also give some insight:

Food in Schools ~Working List Eyeopener

Food in Schools, Part Deux

[Macabre]

Thank you!  I am dying while laughing.