Creative Cupcakes

In the competitive cupcake market, it's important to have an edge. Yummy Cupcakes in California and Stuffed Cupcakes in Nutley, New Jersey, share their most innovative creations that keep the crowds coming back for more.

Chocolate Salty Caramel Cupcake

Tiffini Soforenko, the executive chef and creator of Yummy Cupcakes, has dreamed up over 300 innovative cupcake flavors. This favorite is a chocolate-caramel cake topped with chocolate buttercream, a drizzle of caramel, and a sprinkle of sea salt.

Red Velvet 1/2 and 1/2 Cupcake

For those that can't make up their minds, Yummy Cupcakes offers the Red Velvet 1/2 and 1/2. It's a traditional red velvet cake topped off with two different types of frosting: cream cheese and cocoa cream cheese.

Brown Sugar Cinnamon Cupcake

These vanilla bean cupcakes from Yummy Cupcakes are baked with a brown sugar/butter/cinnamon crumble, and topped with vanilla buttercream and a bit more crumble.

Cupcake Biscotti

For an innovative twist on a cupcake treat, Yummy Cupcakes twice-bakes slices of cupcakes to create cupcake biscotti. The treats are then double-dipped in chocolate and sprinked with assorted toppings.

Cupcake Frosting Bon Bons

Are you a frosting junkie? Check out Yummy Cupcakes' frosting bon bons. They're frozen buttercream dipped in chocolate, and then finished off with an extra swirl of chocolate on top.

Spicy Chocolate Bacon Cupcake

Spicy meets sweet in this Yummy Cupcakes treat. Cayenne pepper is mixed in to chocolate batter which is then studded with bits of caramelized bacon. It's covered in a rich chocolate buttercream and then topped off with even more caramelized bacon bits.

Apple Blue Cheese Cupcake

Yummy Cupcakes offers a break from all the sweet with their savory creations. Here, an apple-cinnamon cupcake is frosted with a blue cheese cream cheese, and gets finished off with even more crumbled blue cheese and chopped apples.

The Bada Bing

The Bada Bing, Stuffed Cupcakes ode to the hit series "Sopranos," is a chocolate cupcake filled with mascarpone and espresso custard, topped with amaretto whipped cream, and finished off with a bing cherry.

Raspberry Lollicake

Stuffed Cupcakes even offer their goods on a stick. Balls of cake are rolled in chocolate for a delicious, bite-sized snack to go.

Confused Cupcake

It's the best of both worlds from Stuffed Cupcakes: a half chocolate, half vanilla cupcake filled with your choice of vanilla or chocolate custard and then frosted with both vanilla and chocolate.

The Strawberry Alarm Clock

This vanilla cupcake from Stuffed Cupcakes is stuffed with strawberry custard and topped with strawberry whipped cream frosting. If you're a strawberry lover, this cupcake's for you.

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