Mountain Dew cupcakes with Mountain Dew frosting to help you get your geek on all night

We told you about the Mountain Dew and Doritos cupcakes, but now there's pure Mountain Dew/Mountain Dew cupcakes complete with Marvel toppers and wrappers, made by blogger The Geeky Hostess to help her stay up for a Marvel movie night and 3D midnight screening of The Avengers (via Geekologie). That's true cupcake dedication! Visit The Geeky Hostess for the recipe.

Cotton candy Pinnacle Vodka cucpakes at Cupcrazed

Let the cupcake happy hour begin! These cupcakes by Cupcrazed in Fort Mill, South Carolina, use a product I didn't even know existed: cotton candy vodka by Pinnacle Vodka (though I do know about their cake flavored vodka, used to make cupcake Jello shots. Interesting. Via @Cupcrazed on Twitter. Visit cupcrazed.com for more information.

Would you eat a "compost cupcake" made with coconut, coffee grounds, oats, chocolate chips and potato chips?

Compost is the cupcake flavor of the month at Seattle bakery Cupcake Royale. Here's how they describe it:

Our brilliant bakers have thrown in all the good stuff - tasty morsels of coconut, coffee, oats, chocolate chips, vanilla cake crumble and even Tim's Original potato chips into our already delectable chocolate cake.

We top it all off with a mound of chocolate frosting and roll it in a crumb topping of oats, dark chocolate, coffee grounds and more potato chips!

I do actually like all those items separately (okay, I've never had coffee grounds) so I think I'll like it. I'll be in Seattle this weekend so I will offer up a first-hand account. In the meantime, find out more about Cupcake Royale and their hours/locations as well as new vegan and gluten-free cupcake options at cupcakeroyale.com and on Facebook and @CupcakeRoyale on Twitter.

14 April Fool's Day cupcakes: lox, calzone, burgers, spaghetti and meatballs, mashed potatoes, lo mein and more!

Happy April Fool's Day! Do any of these cupcakes fool you? The bagel and lox one gave me a run for my money. For more inspiration, see the Karen Tack and Alan Richardson cookbook Hello, Cupcake!, which inspired many of these trick cupcakes, and they've got lots more examples on their site.


Bagel and lox cupcakes by Sugar High Baking




Calzone cupcakes by Cupcake Project


TV dinner cupcakes by Mon Petit Cupcakes


Mashed potato cupcakes by Bake at 350


Nuggets and fries cupcakes by Hoosier Homemade


Burger cupcakes by Bakerella


Burger cupcakes by Runs With Spatulas


Burger cupcakes by Cakes by Candace


Spaghetti and meatball cupcakes at Disney's Hollywood Studios


Spaghetti and meatball cupcakes by Rose Petals Cakery


Broccoli and lo mein cupcakes by I Sing In The Kitchen


Corn on the cob cupcakes by Gourmet Mom-on-the-Go, who has the recipe


Broken egg cupcakes by Cakes by Tiffany


And for dessert: snow cone cupcakes! by Hoosier Homemade