August in Vancouver - raining cupcakes

Cupcake addiction? Let's not go there.

My girl Marina is getting married next weekend and, as one of the bridesmaids, my job this weekend was to send her off in a drunken, hedonistic fever. Obviously, to the Beckstar, this means a cupcakestravaganza.

For you, woeful readers... I document it all in a photo essay.


The all-important 'pretend the fructose is a huge pile of cocaine' stage.


The setup for candying edible flowers - lazy variation: use of feather in place of paintbrush. Hey - whatever works, right?


The beautiful end result of project flower candy.


Mixmaster Beckstar.


Tasting of batter is extremely important at regular intervals. This is all entirely standard, and should not be questioned.


Enjoying a fresh warm batch of cupcakes. Is there any finer pleasure?


My signature recipe - cheesecake cupcakes. Drooooooool.



Batch 2 - Pineapple Coconut Cream Cheese Cupcakes. Fuck yeah!


And the gorgeous vanilla sisters. Can I get an amen?

Cupcashimi time!!!

Who rules the cupcake kingdom? I do, and this is the evidence of my mega-dominance.







BOW BEFORE ME AND EAT DELICIOUS CUPCAKES!!!

Canada Day in the U.S.A!

No real story here. We went to Portland, we had good times.

These pictures are from a fantastic little diner in Olympia. Milkshake for the road? Yes!

Cupcake Porn!

Okay, so maybe that's a tad sensational. But what else can you call these photos of amazing, droolworthy, over-the-top creations, which could keep a girl up aaaall night?



And, check out these cupcakes, done by a girl from Seattle. Pretty much the best ever.



See more of her amazing stuff on her flickr site - including a Nintendo DS cake! She's everything I would like to be.

See more at:

Cupcakes Takes the Cake :: fantastic cupcake blog

Realising Nuala :: cupcake/bakery blog from Singapore

Cupcake Momma :: a flickr set of amazing cupcakes

Kylie Lambert :: another flickr set of - you guessed it - amazing cupcakes

You're welcome!

Who wants cake?

This is actually someone's wedding cake, made by a bakery in Minneapolis.

I swore it would never happen, but if someone makes this cake for me - I would actually get married. Fine print: only if their name was Luigi and they were a tall Italian plumber with a pet yoshi, living in a magical mushroom kingdom. Boo yah!