Guest blogger: How to Eat a Cupcake

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Guest blogger: Stef from Cupcake Project

Today's guest blogger is Stef of Cupcake Project, a site many of you know well, and she also runs Food Interviews. I hate to admit it, but when I first stumbled upon Cupcakes Take the Cake, I thought it was silly. What good is a blog about cupcakes with no recipes? Boy, was I wrong!! CTTC is wrappers down one of the best cupcake blogs on the web, and I was so honored to be asked to write a guest post here. Me in my acting phase. I'm the one in the red bonnet. Clearly this is an 80's photo taken long before I met my photographer husband. I've gone through a bunch of different hobbies in my life: · There was the acting phase. I was determined to be an actress, despite lack of skill and crooked teeth. Acting classes and braces sadly did not help. [lien] [EN]

Guest bloggers: Blondie and Brownie

Blondie and Brownie burst onto the New York City foodblogging scene and have been seemingly everywhere all at once. Their blog always makes me hungry and every time I talk to them them seem to know all about obscure food joints and are whipping up deliciousness. Like Brownie's insanely delicious bacon-topped Elvis cupcakes (get her recipe here), which you can have for free, tonight from 6-9 pm at our party! White Rabbit, 145 East Houston Street, NYC. To the person who asked about the 21+ part, it's at a bar. You'll have to ask them if kids are allowed. Also, I covet their food photography skills. Looking forward to many more cupcake adventures and posts from them. And now I present you with Blondie and Brownie: Happy Birthday Cupcakes Take the Cake! We've both been big fans of CTTC for a long time and we are super excited to celebrate with you tonight and to guest blog on your awesome site. [lien] [EN]

New poll: How often do you eat cupcakes?

We've added a new poll at right, asking "How Often Do You Eat Cupcakes?" Let us know! And as you can see at right, we're now part of the online food community Foodbuzz, so do check them out. And if there's something you want to see us cover, drop us a line and we'll see what we can do. Please keep in mind that we cannot respond to every query immediately, but we do our best, and if you have photos to share, the best way to do so is by adding them to our Flickr pool of cupcakes photos. Just join Flickr, become a member of our group (we've got 3,481 members, woo-hoo!) and then once you've uploaded your photo, click "Send to group" and select Cupcakes Take the Cake. And voila! (We select from the Flickr pool but cannot post every photo there, so please do email us if you have something extra special we've skipped over. [lien] [EN]

3 kids on how to eat cupcakes

The parenting blog An Invisible Thread shares how their 3 kids eat cupcakes, click through to see all 3: Madelyn, this is how to eat cupcakes... 1. Put your hands on top of the cupcake and get as much icing on your hands as possible. 2. Take those icing covered hands and place them on the windows to make beautiful handprints 3. Go back to cupcake and bend over towards the plate and bite into cupcake. 4. Put your hands on your clothes so the icing doesn't get on anything else. 5. After you've had enough let your brother eat the rest. [lien] [EN]

Julia Allison eats cupcakes at Betsey Johnson's 30th anniversary party

Writer, blogger, cupcake fan and lifecaster Julia Allison indulges in the cupcakes at Betsey Johnson's 30th anniversary party. (via Guest of a Guest) Cupcakes were a highly appropriate choice, because Johnson sells a cupcake-festooned handbag and had a fashion show called Babycakes featuring cupcakes on display. Congratulations Betsey on 30 years of super-fun, cupcake-inspired fashion! I'll put this out there to the powers that be in case any Betsey employees are reading- we would love to interview Betsey about cupcakes! cupcakestakethecake at yahoo.com [lien] [EN]

Guest blogger: Sandy Ploy, Milwaukee Cupcake Queen of No One Puts Cupcake in a Corner

This one is from Sandy Ploy, aka the Milwaukee Cupcake Queen of the blog No One Puts Cupcake in the Corner (as with Jessie, I'm hoping to get out to Milwaukee in 2009 so she can give me the guided cupcake tour) Also, from now on there will be one guest blog post a day. It was my fault for not getting Jessie's up in time. Hello to the readers of Cupcakes Take the Cake! It is an honor to be guest blogging on the site that I often refer to as "the mothership" of the cupcake blog world. I was fortunate to get to meet Nichelle and Rachael earlier this year and now I get to meet more of their readers as well! I have been wracking my brain trying to decide what to talk about. How about a little about me and a lot more about those that inspire me. [lien] [EN]

Guest bloggers for our blogiversary month!

As you hopefully know by now, we are celebrating four years of cupcake blogging this month! To help us celebrate, we've invited some of our favorite cupcake and food bloggers to join us and will be posting their guest posts and links to their blogs (many of which I hope you are already regular readers of) this month and will do a roundup at the end, starting today. We'll still be posting our regular cupcake-y goodness too. [lien] [EN]

How do YOU eat a Cupcake?

Two weeks ago, we posted a poll on this blog asking how do people eat cupcakes. Here are the results: A majority of you eat them the "traditional way", frosting and cake together. (56%) Some of you like to tear in half and the eat frosting first.(3%) On the flip side, some like to tear in half and eat cake first.(18%) Some eat a cupcake like a sandwich with frosting in the middle.(4%) Frosting lovers lick off all the frosting, then eat the cake. (9%) A few eat cupcakes daintily like they are having High Tea with a fork and knife. (2%) Lastly, some eat cupcakes kinda like Cookie Monster or a competitive eater, as fast as they can! (4%) Tell us how you a cupcake in the comments! [lien] [EN]

Eat cupcakes with us tomorrow! Little Cupcake, 2 pm, 2/16, Brooklyn

For those in New York, please join our Cupcakes Take the Cake Meetup tomorrow at 2 p.m. for cupcakes in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn at Little Cupcake Bakeshop, details below, and look out for an interview with the owner of green bakery Little Cupcake Bakeshop here soon. And even if Meetup says we're full, you can still join us - just stop by! For those not in New York, check out our Meetup Alliance to see where a cupcake meetup is happening near you. And if there's not one, you can start one! Email us at cupcakestakethecake at yahoo.com for details; we're especially looking for someone in San Francisco to head one up. Also see the Los Angeles Cupcake Meetup, which will be meeting March 15th at 1 p.m. at My Little Cupcake in Studio City. When Saturday. [lien] [EN]

Even Britney Spears eats cupcakes!

A reader sent us this photo that X17 Online snapped of Britney Spears holding a cupcake. Wonder where she got it from? [lien] [EN]

Eat cupcakes with us on Sunday!

Cupcakes from Martha's Country Bakery; photo by Flickr user Harris Graber Just a reminder that the NYC Cupcakes Take the Cake Meetup Group is meeting this Sunday, March 9th, in Astoria. Also, it's Daylight Savings Time, so we spring forward - don't forget to change your clocks! And yes, it says 60 people have RSVPed, but you can still show up (and there will probably be more like 20-30 people there based on our past meetups). Do join our group if you're in NYC, and if you're not, check out the Cupcake Alliance to find a cupcake group near you (or start your own!) - there's an LA cupcake meetup on March 15th and a San Francisco one March 29th. For March, Cupcakes Takes The Cake will be heading to Queens and meeting up at Martha's Country Bakery in Astoria. [lien] [EN]

Guest Bloggers Wanted for Tony Hung’s Blog

I’m a huge fan of Tony Hung’s Deep Jive Interests and thrilled that he’s opening his blog doors to guest bloggers, hoping to give them the necessary exposure many want. In a little over two years, Tony turned his blog into a high traffic site with his insightful and challenging thinking and writing. It lead to a gig on the Blog Herald which turned into an editor role which he left recently. He is also a doctor-in-training and now faces some long hours of study and work and he needs help to keep his blog active and going for the next couple of months. If you want your unique and passionate voice heard on an innovative and thought-provoking blog, and a chance to reach a new audience, this is the time. Go tell Tony you want to guest blog and maybe you will be one of the lucky ones. [lien] [EN]

A Tale of Two Recanters and their Friend, L.A. Times “Investigative” Reporter Chuck Philips: Part One [By Guest Blogger WLS]

[Posted by WLS] [This post is by guest blogger WLS, and not by Patterico. It concerns a topic which Patterico has alluded to previously but has expressed a reluctance to post about himself, for reasons mentioned below.] Here is the basic background as a setup here. In the mid-1990s there erupted a juvenile “feud” between East Coast and West Coast “Rappers,” with the two primary antagonists being Bad Boy Records (headed by Sean “Puffy” Combs), and Death Row Records (headed by Suge Knight). In November 1994, popular unaffiliated rapper Tupac Shakur was beaten and shot outside a recording studio in New York, supposedly because he was not showing sufficient respect to the East Coast group. This incident was the subject of a now discredited story published by L. [lien] [EN]

A Tale of Two Recanters — Part Two [Posted by Guest Blogger WLS]

[Posted by WLS] In case you missed it in the title and the first line above, this post is written by guest blogger WLS, and not by Patterico. Returning to the story of the sordid history of Chuck Philips and his reporting on the murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, aka “Biggie Smalls”, I mentioned at the end of this post that the recantation by Waymond Anderson was only the most recent episode where a witness recanted after having previously implicated Suge Knight and David Mack — and by implication the LAPD, Mack’s employer at the time. A few more facts to make the background of this post more understandable. Most of this is drawn from a lengthy Rolling Stone article by Randall Sullivan from 2005, which explains the full background for anyone interested. [lien] [EN]