Owl-O-Ween Cupcakes

Chocolate! Lots and lots of chocolate! Visit this how to on Ezra Pound Cake to make these cute cuppies! Whoo! Whoo!

Flower Cupcake

There is a great tutorial on how to perfect this lovely flower pedal look for your cupcake over at My Sweet and Saucy There are some GREAT photos too!

Ice Cream Cupcake

I am stuck right in the middle of a heatwave as I write this. It is time to think of ways to keep cool but kind of spoil yourself at the same time. Lo and behold!



I just discovered this today, but a couple of weeks back, Joy The Baker posted a great recipe for Ice Cream Cupcakes but remember, it's Summer so they're melt quick, eat up!

The Zen Art of Baking

I'm sure there is a trademark infringement on this entry title but I don't care! I wanted to pop-in and direct you over to Bake & Destroy. Natalie had a yoga final for school and she wanted to tie in something she loves (baking) with yoga. She came to me for some advise which she shares so make sure you check it out.

Oh yeah, the final result turned out to be "Vegan Carrot Raisin Muffins"! not quite cupcakes but close enough

Neat finds

It is not often I can tie in a cupcake AND yoga entry together but today I can! Sometimes Craftzine.com shows us the neatest things, for starters...

Courtesy of Bakerella

Up next, how to make a Yoga Mat Bag

From Bored & Crafty

And what did I do? I messed up my lower back....AGAIN! When will I ever learn. Can I go the rest of my life not doing backbends? I mean seriously, we don't need to do those do we?

Cupcake Dance

It has been TOO long since my last post. I haven't neglected this site, there are just periods where it takes a backseat to other things going on but I thought I would pop in and say a quick hello and share a video someone sent me, it's called the Cupcake Waltz...



How sweet?

Happy St. Patrick's Day

It's time to lick some GREEN frosting!!!!

Cupcake Bling!

Oh no she didn't!



She being Melissa Cohen of Metal Sugar. She also has an Etsy shop you can purchase from. Love this!!

Feeling Dirty?

We interrupt your web browsing to bring you a special news bulletin...

CUPCAKE SOAP

This is by far the most realistic cupcake item I have seen. I have to eat it, I don't care if it's soap.

I promise a yoga-related entry is coming soon! I've been busy with the Etsy shop and my other blog but a book review IS coming soon!

New Cupcake Love

I am a Cupcake Whore, I confess. I profess my love for The Cupcake Cafe and swear by it...until yesterday.

Today is my father's birthday but I won't be able to see him so I went to my parent's yesterday to pay a visit (and crash). I did skip yoga so I headed down to Chelsea. Walking down 6th Avenue I begin to smell something. Something evil yet tempting. Like the devil tempting Jesus in the desert only he's tempting me with a sweet scent. I follow it and discover Billy's Bakery. I'm going in! After a bit of a wait, I leave with three vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting...



I brought them back to my folks and they loved it. I REALLY loved it. The smell of the icing, oh the smell. It's like butter, really it smelled like butter! I'm embarrassed to admit this but I had the cupcake wrapper in my mouth trying to chew every last crumb and drop of icing. I was tempted to swallow it, it's only paper right? What harm can it do???

Billy is my new love. What we had, Cupcake Cafe, was special with your moist cornmuffin like cupcakes but Billy's frosting is just too much to resist!

Cupcakes for the holidays

The interweb is just TOO big for me to look for a decent cupcake recipe specifically for the Holidays so I turn to anyone who comes across this...

HELP ME!!!!

You can leave a comment posting a link or your own tips. Nothing too over the top. I'm not Martha Stewart and I don't have a huge state of the art kitchen. The only equipment I have to work with is a blender, electric egg beater, and my mighty yoga strength. No electric mixers here!

I came across this lovely entry on Maple and cocoa tea cakes with pomegranate cream icing and oh how I would love to try this but I can see this attempt turning into an episode of I Love Lucy real fast.

It's a cupcake doing yoga!!!!

God bless Flickr and the wonderful things I can find on there. This is TOO CUTE! Click the image to view a larger version.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Lip Balm

Fred Flare has turned 1 years old today and they are offering a free piece of cake with every purchase...not a real cake, its a Cake Pouch. So if you're gonna purchase something, let it be this: Petit Four Lip Balm Set! Can you say C-U-T-E?????

Ok, so a quick yoga mention, while my right hip has not flared up in quite a while, standing forward bends with my right leg extended forward has been feeling funky. Is this gonna be a regular thing for me now? Hmmm...

Time for sweets!

It is a lazy Sunday and it has been almost a month since my last cupcake entry and you deserve one since you have been soooo sweet to me in my occasional emotional breakdowns I have on here.

First, I discovered a new cupcake blog!



Sweet Avenue Bake Shop in New Jersey.

Also on the blog front, one of my new FAVORITE blogs has posted a Carrot Cupcake recipe. I love Girl Wanders, she inspires me to cook more if only I can kick my boyfriend out of the kitchen. He doesn't trust me near a stove or with knives.

karate kids

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Originally uploaded by pipingrock76

A big THANK YOU to everyone who responded to my last entry. It is an interesting that topic that will always surface no matter how secular and commercial Yoga may get.

So with that, here is a treat. Karate Kid cupcakes! Hiiieeee-ya!!!

cheeky cupcakes 2

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Originally uploaded by Choc-a-holic

I saw this and could not resist, how funny! I like the one with the sunburnt cheeks.

I wanna thank everyone who left kind comments in my last entry. I've been hesitant to post pictures of myself but I went for it and I'm glad I did.

Unless my sister-in-law has her baby tonight, I plan to take a class taught by Shri from Paper or Dysplastic. She just started teaching again since her surgery. She was trained at Jivamukti so I'm in the mood to move dammit! Talk about adjustments, Shri's adjustments are very, very good. She can put her hands on me all she wants. :)

Tonight's class

Soooooooooo good! Just what I needed. It was one of those classes where I felt so in tuned with my mind and body. I so desperately needed this. I was constantly reminding myself of the gift I was given to have the chance to practice today. Honestly though, I'm too tired to come up with any substance of entry, so here is an elephant on a cupcake.

Cup Bear

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Originally uploaded by Sandra (socake)

I'm performing my civic duty and got stuck with Jury Duty this week. I don't know how much yoga I'll be able to get in. I hope I'm done quickly so I can get back to my regular routine. Sure I'm a little pissy about it, I don't wanna go but I won't whine about it. How can I be upset when I saw this adorable little bear on a cupcake????

So what's new with you?

Cupcake Speakers!

How wonderful would Krishna Das or Ram Dass sound coming out of these speakers???

From Semk, these treats can plug into any media player or computer. A friend on Myspace posted this, apparently it's brand spankin' new. You can find more info about it here.

Yesterday evening I think I stood longer on my head than ever before. My upper back is kind of feeling it today. Ooof! Still taking a class later. It is pouring rain outside. I hope it's still like this when I take class later. Something about the sound of rain, aaaah!