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Eli Squarepants! Okay so I'm not really a Spongebob fan, I'm a little old for that one, but I do think the show is cute and my nieces and nephews love it. This cake is a masterpiece topped off with those little jellyfish, I'm smitten. It makes me want to watch the show just because someone was so masterful with fondant. Hey baker, are you being payed by Nickelodeon?

Bite off all the little chocolate stingers first, that way they can't get you when you aren't looking.

When presented with a selection of cupcakes such as this, how on earth do you make a choice?! That little red rose in the front is calling to me, it's voice is sugary, soothing, seductive. "I look like embossed wallpaper, my rose looks like a real flower, don't you want a little taste?"

I could see this framed and hanging on a wall as a remembrance of a birthday. The polka dots can be wallpaper right? Please don't tell me someone ate this.

Magic and fairytales and princesses never really get old. I mean really, if some matronly, supernatural fairy woman offered you a castle and a painless facelift and a really nice car and Ewan McGregor, would you say no? I didn't think so.

I'll admit it, I'm a grown woman with a not entirely ironic fondness for Twilight. I'm not a mom, I'm not living vicariously through my teenage daughters (because, ick). I'm just a person who sometimes loves reading really schlocky, badly-written novels with quickly moving plot lines. I wouldn't be ashamed of this cake showing up on my birthday, except that Edward looks a little sickly gray and moldy. Not a good look for a sparkly vampire.

Gallop your pretty self over here into my mouth!

There must be about 20 flowers packed on every cupcake! That's pretty amazing. And they're all so different and incredibly made. Are they crunchy? Soft? Do I spy some of my most favorite edible glitter hiding in there? I wish it weren't so cold because this calls for a tea party in the garden for sure!

Via: Girlybubble http://blog.girlybubble.com/2010/11/24/cupcake-of-the-day-flower-garden/?from=rss

Do your friends hate helping you move because you have nothing but incredibly heavy boxes of books? Maybe you can sweeten the deal by making them a book cake as a treat. Perhaps they'll come through with you if you're a good enough baker.

I guess once you're seven it's not so scary for a tiny mustachioed plumber to come bursting out of your birthday cake anymore. Right, Stan?

I might be able to handle a Big Mac if it's made itty bitty and crunchy. Sure I like a little grease now and then, but this is the perfect portion size.

Another Shark Week has left us all terrified and exhausted. Did you make it through with all your limbs intact?

Ladybugs are welcome at my picnic. Just as long as there are only a few of them. Ever seen an infestation of ladybugs? They're adorable on their own but thousands is incredibly disturbing.

Have you ever seen such smooth, shapely fondant? This giant cupcake is like an immaculate drawing come to life. So round, so curvy, such enticing sprinkles. If you'll excuse me, I have a cake to seduce.

Just this week I have noticed the fat bumblebees all over the flowers in my garden. I like the low droning buzz they make and their lazy, slow progress. It makes me want to lay in the grass and maybe eat a piece of cake with daisies on it.

The real genius of these little cuties is that there are wee marzipan potatoes studding the chocolate cake soil! The baker made these for her father who is a potato farmer! I might die of preciousness!