Conan O'Brien Team Coco cupcakes

Swirlz Cupcakes in Chicago made these Conan O'Brien Team Coco cupcakes earlier this week to celebrate Conan's appearance at The Chicago Theater! What a tribute: your face on a cupcake. Via Swirlz on Facebook. See swirlzcupcakes.com for more information.

One Direction Cupcakes

Image Courtesy of Little Cherry Cake Company

The obsession with One Direction has finally reached the cupcake world! How cute are these cupcakes of the boys?! These were crafted by the Little Cherry Cake Company in the UK!

(Bill) Clinton the Musical cupcake cake

Clinton the Musical will be performed August 1-27 at Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and @clintonmusical Tweeted this cupcake cake featuring their logo of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, last seen on this blog at a table with Georgetown Cupcake cupcakes. Find out more about the musical at clintonthemusical.co.uk/.

Happy Birthday, Prince, Purple Rain cake and cupcakes!

Today is singer Prince's 54th birthday, and here are some very special Prince Purple Rain cupcakes and a guitar cake with purple roses by Atlanta, Georgia's Made FRESH Daily Cakes, who you can reach at info at madefreshdailycakes.com! The birthday girl, Sabrina, even had Prince personalized M&Ms made! I could totally see them on cupcakes for ultra-personalization.

British royalty on cupcake toppers for Diamond Jubilee cupcakes

How many of the British monarchy can you identify? Fun Diamond Jubilee cupcakes by @ABCTV (ABC TV Australia).

Marilyn Monroe made of 2,000+ cupcakes at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum

Mini cupcake company Baked by Melissa made this cupcake cake in the shape of Marilyn Monroe at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in New York using over 2,000 cupcakes! Very cool. Via @NYCWax. June 1st would have been Marilyn's 86th birthday.

Marilyn Monroe estate teams up with Johnny Cupcakes for exclusive, limited edition Marilyn plus cupcake t-shirt

From today through June 5th, you can pre-order this special limited edition Johnny Cupcakes Marilyn Monroe t-shirt from their online store (also available in a men's design).



From their blog: "For the second incarnation of the Johnny Cupcakes x Marilyn Monroe collaboration, the Estate of Marilyn Monroe invited us to celebrate the Icon’s birthday. We’re beyond excited to bring this special design to everyone." Also of interest are the previous incarnations of Johnny/Marilyn t-shirts, and their history, which you can read here (the pink one was unauthorized, the one with "To Johnny" was).

Amy Winehouse cupcakes with an extra cupcake for her big hair

Amy Winehouse cupcake set by custom cupcake company Little Sweeties Cupcakes in Los Angeles, via Flickr. Now who's going to make some Beastie Boys cupcakes? If you do, please email your photos to us at cupcakestakethecake at gmail.com with "Beastie Boys" in the subject. Celebrity deaths are always sad, but the outpouring of love and respect and remembrance from fans is something we can all share, in cupcake form or not. Get more info on Little Sweeties on their Facebook page.

Tori Spelling's red velvet cupcake recipe, game night domino cupcakes and party planning tips galore in her new book celebraTORI

Tori Spelling has a new book out called celebraTORI: Unleashing Your Inner Party Planner to Entertain Friends and Family. It's not about cupcakes per se, but there are cupcakes on the cover and scattered throughout the book, including the personalized ones below, and she walks you through every step of party planning, from where to host it, how to do your invitations (she is not a fan of Evite), to planning the atmosphere, theme, food, drinks, games, party favors, and beyond. Tori shares her own highs and lows and tips for all kinds of parties on a budget. It's a beautiful book and I will be sharing more tomorrow; I'm going to a book party for celebraTORI and, if you'll allow me a fangirl moment, I'm very excited to get to meet her! Tori's site, ediTORIali, also regularly features cupcakes like these red velvet cupcakes (click through for the recipe!). You can follow her on Twitter @torianddean.





For a game night party, Tori writes this about the dessert table:

Surrounding the vintage ephemera were the desserts. There were cupcakes, of course, each one with a different scrabble tile cookie. Balanced against the real dominos were cookies decorated to look like dominos. And near the Bingo spinner were white Bingo ball cake lollipops and sugar cookies iced to look like Bingo cards. To fill out the table, I made mini cupcakes--chocolate with white icing an red candy on top.

Tori's red velvet cupcakes