Awesome Cupcakes

What’s better than a delicious cupcake? A machine that can crank out cupcakes for you on-demand, that’s what. Skeyntific shows off a robotic factory line he built that first pours dough for each cupcake, moves it into a modified microwave for cooking, then applies toppings using motorized caulking guns.

Celebrate your love for chocolate cupcakes with this playful knit beanie from Hostess. Its made from 100% acrylic yarn decorated with the snack maker’s iconic vanilla squiggle icing. Sweeten the look with a matching Cupcakes Knit Scarf.

From the Beverly Hills bakery that invented the 24-hour cupcake ATM, Sprinkles is shipping cupcakes from coast-to-coast. Sprinkle a little love with the flash-frozen Holiday Box: Four Red Velvet, Four Vanilla, and Four Chocolate Peppermint cupcakes decorated with green trees, gingerbread, snowmen, and sprinkles. Order by 12.14.20.

Pastry chef Claire Saffitz returns to the Bon Appetit kitchen to replicate another popular snack food with high quality ingredients. This time, she turns her attention to Hostess’ unnaturally colored, but yummy coconut, marshmallow, and chocolate Sno Balls.

Joel Fortunato’s Doughboy creates illustrations inspired by his obsession with monsters, pop culture, and baked goods. Best of all, his new line of numbered, limited-edition cotton t-shirts comes packed in an awesome vinyl cupcake toy.

It’s pretty tricky to eat a cupcake without getting frosting on your face or fingers. Foodbeast reveals a little trick that helps you eat a cupcake like a gentleman. (P.S. Works for the ladies, too.)

Those of us with hearty appetites should take note of the Colossal Cupcake from Crumbs Bake Shop; an impressive 6 1/2″ tall, it’ll feed you and 6 other friends, if you’re feeling generous. (Thanks Laura!)

Create the cupcake of your wildest dreams thanks to Baked by Melissa’s cupcake customizer. You’ll need to order at least 300 of the tasty cakes if you want some, but you’re hungry, right?

David Arrick’s Butch Bakery makes the manliest cupcakes in the world. Butch Cupcakes are made of all the things that men love, from bacon to beer. This needs to be available worldwide ASAP.

Piece of Cake Liqueurs has combined two of our fave things, cake and booze, into Chocolate Cake Liqueur, which can be paired with other spirits or taken The Awesomer way – one shot at time.

Craving some sugary sweets at your desk, and already filled up on mini donuts? Get your hands on this essential bit of cookery, and you’ll be popping tiny cupcakes in your mouth in 5 minutes flat.

Other than the fact that this is a waste of perfectly good cupcakes, this slo-mo video of people being pelted with the delicious pastries from a double-barreled pneumatic cannon is sheer awesomeness.