DEFY MONDAY: Summer of Cupcakes

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Cupcakes are all the craze these days. From specialty boutiques to cupcake trucks popping up all over the city - cupcakes are being made for every occassion, birthdays and holidays, in lieu of big wedding cakes, even golf themed for father's day.

This DEFY MONDAY I am thinking about next Monday, our first Monday in our new house (sure to be in shambles) and a bank holiday to boot. I won't have to work, so what am I going to do - how are we going to make the fourth of July extra special on the 5th?

Cupcakes.

Always a fan of humor, I love those shark and beach cupcakes from Martha Stewart pictured above, and these ice cream cupcakes below.

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On the Martha Stewart site, you can see corn on the cob cupcakes, bug shaped cupcakes, flower cupcakes - you name it. I don't think you need Martha Stewart though, just a good standard cupcake recipe to start, and a big crazy wild imagination. Go crazy with that frosting! (G-G-Go crazy...)

Or keep it clean, simple and delicious.

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As for humor - check out Cake Wrecks, a blog dedicated to when "cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong."

There post for today? The cake pictured below, with a description that reads:

"that's baby Bigfoot on a BBQ, surrounded by beer bottles and a bonsai tree."

WTFudge?

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