Christmas Cupcakes Roundup!

There are so many great ideas out there on the web for Christmas treats. Yesterday I did a post on some of the fabulous cookie and candy ideas, and today I thought I'd concentrate on everyone's favorite -- The Cupcake! Most of these are do-able, even if you're not a baking-decorating-fondant kind of girl -- some are probably better left for the professional baker. I had to include those, too -- they're just so pretty! So here's the list..... I hope you've had breakfast already.....

Be still my beating heart, Bakerella! What a gorgeous cupcake you can make! The girl can do no wrong in my eyes.

And is this not the cutest thing you've ever seen?? Sugar Daze has created one fantastic cupcake with their Santa going down the chimney.

And so very simple, but oh so "charming" is this North Pole cupcake from One Charming Party . I might just have to make these for my son's kindergarten class.

The Cupcake Oven has a beautiful assortment of fondant cupcakes -- just look at that reindeer!


Hoosier Homemade has some adorable elf cupcakes. I think the kids would LOVE these! Maybe that silly little elf everyone has on their shelf could help you make a few of these.


Sweet Scarlet's Cakes and Cupcakes makes a simple but beautiful Christmas tree cupcake using lots of green tinted frosting and a fondant star topper.

Cupcakes Take the Cake features a sweet snowman cupcake from Dollop Gourmet that looks pretty easy, even for the kids. A little frosting, a few marshmallows, a orange gumdrop nose and some pretzel arms. Cute - cute!

Another favorite.... these Starlight Mint cupcakes from What's New, Cupcake? What talent that lady has!

Whipperberry is a favorite blog stop of mine as well. Just look at these gorgeous but simple cupcakes she featured from Sweet Street Cakes. Katie uses a molded chocolate snowflake as an adorable topper for her double chocolate fudge cupcakes.

Whew, That was alot of sugar! I hope you all enjoyed the round-up!

Letter to Santa.... FREEBIE!

The Christmas spirit is alive and well in our house this year. Decorations are going up, a little holiday music is in the air, and the advent calendar was a huge success! I surprised my kids with it yesterday morning... I hadn't mentioned it at all and didn't have it anywhere in sight. So it brought joy to my heart and a huge smile to my face when my little 5 year old boy came down the stairs yesterday screaming, "It's a MIRACLE! A Christmas Miracle!"

You can't do any better than that. It kinda makes all those crazy hours making it last year knee-deep in felt and glue and ribbon worth it. Kinda like pregnancy.

I digress. So back to Christmas and the whole Christmas spirit thing.... isn't it wonderful? Candy canes and hot chocolate, Christmas cartoons and favorite old movies, shopping and wrapping.... I love it all! So as happy as I am about the season, I thought I'd share a little FREEBIE with all of my Facebook Fans and blog Followers. How about a cute Letter to Santa with a sweet address label to the North Pole? And I'm throwing in a sweet note to Santa, too, for Christmas Eve -- you can put it right beside his cookies and milk.

The only thing I ask before you download is that you become a FAN of Shindig Parties TO GO on Facebook (just click the "Like" button) and a Follower on my blog (look on the left sidebar and click "Follow"). That way you can find out about other Freebies and special deals I'll be offering.

Want to take a peak at the Letter to Santa??



Here's the link to the DOWNLOAD . It's on Scribd so you'll have to be logged into Facebook to download it.

After you save the file to your computer, you can just print it, then cut it out and let the kids fill in their wishes. You can cut out the address label and glue it to the front of an envelope or you can print it onto sticker paper (mailing label paper) and apply it to the envelope that way.

I hope you enjoy it -- my kids were begging to fill theirs out last night and get it straight to the mailbox. Maybe with this economy they're a little worried and think they might better ask Santa early this year!

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