Have your cupcakes got the X-Factor?

Lola's cupcakes do!

Why anyone would want something with the face of that evil leprechaun Louis on it bamboozles me (or the nasal noise that is Diana), but if you're a fan click here to order!

You can also sign up to Lola's Lovers Loyalty Scheme - but only if you work in a company with over 24 staff! I signed up my office as there's a chance of a freebie box of cupcakes each month!

Sprinkles Christmas cupcake extravaganza

In today's Inbox the Christmas/New Year cupcake round up!

The eggnog (top picture) has a fragrant spice cake with rich egg nog cream cheese frosting topped with holidays trees and stars.

The Joy (middle picture) box has chocolate peppermint, red velvet, coconut and vanilla peppermint cupcakes adorned with Sprinkles Joy sugar decorations.

And finally, the Peace box is on sale from December 31st, and includes dark chocolate, vanilla milk chocolate, black and white and vanilla cupcakes adorned with the Sprinkles blue peace sign.

They all make me wish I lived in the USA!!!

Hello...Kitty Cupcakes!

Sometimes Crumbs and Doilies cuteness is just too cute! These Hello Kitty cupcakes are just purrfect!*

*sorry couldn't help it!

Cupcakes are pants!

You can buy these fabulous stocking fillers from Accessorize for £4.90 - aren't they sweet!

Crumbs...Christmas flavour is....

Christmas!!

Yes that's right Crumbs and Doilies have made Christmas their cupcake flavour of the month!

They’re back! Our Christmas Cupcakes were one of our most popular flavours of the month last year, so it seemed only right to bring them back for Christmas. A light but festive sponge made with organic cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, muscovado sugar and golden syrup and topped with real brandy buttercream icing. It’s Christmas, in a cupcake!

Available to order via their website - or from Partridges market on a Saturday!

They sound fab (as usual!) and I shall definitely be heading down there before Christmas for a couple!

More cupcake kitchen goodies!!

Today's inbox included a link to Artyfarty Designs which is stuffed full of gorgeous cupcake goodies for your kitchen/house!

I'm seriously in love with all of the cupcake items however I don't think I have room for them all but I think I shall be buying a couple of my favourite pieces for my already cupcaketastic kitchen :)

Christmas shopping drives me to cupcakes

I know I don't need any excuse to have a cupcake but seriously Oxford Street on a Friday afternoon was enough to drive me straight to the nearest cupcake outlet - Lola's cupcakes at Selfridges (Which resembled hell on earth at lunchtime on Friday!)

After deciding not to buy the bacon chocolate I keep reading about as it was £5.99 and I'm not sure if it would be eaten - I headed to the Lola's counter and although the Thanksgiving cupcakes looked a little bit cute I wasn't willing to pay an extra 60p for a vanilla cupcake with a leaf on (haven't these people heard of the credit crunch..lol) so opted instead for a couple of red velvets and a strawberries and cream for me and an Oreo and cream for Manny.

My strawberry cupcake was one of the moistest, best cupcakes EVER...seriously it was so soft it melted in my mouth, and the combination of strawberry and white chocolate was just divine! And the fresh strawberry frosting was yum-tastic, oh and it was glittery too!

Manny very much enjoyed his Oreo cupcake - and it kept him quiet (except for a few hmmm's) for a good few minutes, and seemed to go a long way to cure his Saturday am hangover, and prepare him for a Saturday trip to Ikea!

The red velvets were absolutely gorgeous - the frosting was just right and the base was really soft and tasty - my only grumble was that it wasn't as red as I like it to be! I know the red colour adds nothing much really but I do like them to be v.red! Bring on the food colour!