Happy Birthday Elvis (Cupcakes)!

Happy Birthday, Elvis!

Yes this picture is quite the throwback, but I like to remember him in his more attractive days! In honor of The King’s would-be 74th Birthday, I thought you should know of the two places you can pick up an Elvis cupcake in the DC/Metro area!

Hello Cupcake
Velvet Elvis – Banana Cake topped with Peanut Butter Frosting

(This flavor is on Thursday’s menu, so go pick one up!) $3.00

Hello Cupcake Velvet Elvis Cupcakes, photograph from PanacheNosh.com

Edibles Incredible
Elvis – Banana Cake with Peanut Butter Filling, Peanut Butter Frosting, and Peanuts on top! $3.95

Edibles Incredible Elvis Cupcakes, Photograph from their website.

And I wanted to give a shout out to one of my favorite out-of-towner cupcakes (Indianapolis):

The Flying Cupcake

Red Velvet Elvis - Red velvet cupcake loaded with chocolate chunks and topped with cream cheese icing.

Flying Cupcake(s)! Red Velvet Elvis is on the left

If you plan on picking up an Elvis cupcake from Hello or Edibles, remember, always call ahead to make sure they haven’t sold out!

Edibles Incredible Cupcake Flavors

Did Edibles Incredible just revamp their site? I was visiting their page and found tonsss of cupcake photos that I don't recall being there before. Check out some of these awesome flavors:

Fudgiliscious

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Van-freakin' Beautiful

Butterscotch Baby

Pina Colada & I Colide

And that's only 5 of them! I checked out all their cupcake categories and compiled one big list (37 flavors!) for you guys:

Almond N Joy
Banana Cream Pie
Banana Split Cupcake
Butterscotch Baby
Carrot Love Cupcake
Cherry Va Va Va Voom
Choco Buzz
Chocolate Caramel Treasure
Chocolate Madness
Chocolate Oreo Lover’s
Chocolate Wow
Coconut
Creamsickle Cupcake
Elvis
Fluff-R Nut-R
Fudgiliscious
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Happy Days
Here Comes The Sun
Luscious Lemon
Minty Dream
More S’Mores
Neopolitan Cupcake
Peachy Pleasure
Peanut Butter Cup
Penelope Pineapple
Pina Colada & I Collide
Razzmateaser
Red Velvet Wonder
Rocky Road Cupcake
Snowball Heaven
Strawberry Shortcake
Sunny Side Up
Van-freakin’ Beautiful
Vanilla Cow
Vanilla Rose
Yellow Jersey Moo

Edibles Incredible is located in the Reston Town Center in Reston, Virginia, at 11919-A Freedom Drive. They also ship nationwide, and you can order on their website! I'm hoping for the DC/Metro Cupcake Group to get out there one day for a meetup.

5th Annual Cupcakes for a Cause

This week is the 5th Annual Cupcakes for a Cause week! How can you take part? All you have to do is visit a participating bakery from October 20th through 26th and purchase one of their special CancerCare for Kids Cupcakes and you will be helping save a child's life. Participating bakeries in Maryland, DC, and Virginia include:

Georgetown Cupcake
1209 Potomac Street NW
Washington DC 20007

CakeLove
935 Ellsworth Drive
Silver Spring MD 20910

Couture Cupcakes
Potomac MD 20854

The Baltimore Cupcake Company
1433 East Fort Avenue
Baltimore MD 21230

Blackbird Bakery
56 Piedmont Avenue
Bristol VA 24201

Edibles Incredible Desserts
11917 Freedom Drive
Reston VA 20190

Edibles Incredible Desserts
22855 Brambleton Plaza, 103
Brambleton VA 20148

Reese's Cupcakes
14420 Rosebud Road
Chesterfield VA 23838

Roxie's Cupcakes
5521 Forestview Drive
Virginia Beach VA 23455

Don't have time to make it into a bakery this week? Then try to find a minute to hop over to the Cupcakes for a Cause website and send a friend an ecupcake! $1 will be donated for each ecupcake that is sent (up to $10,000). Right now only 947 ecupcakes have been sent, so we have a ways to go! Click here to get started creating your own ecupcake, or selecting a premade one!

If you're a bakery who would like to participate in Cupcakes for a Cause but haven't had a chance to sign up yet, click here to get yourself on the list.

So if you were looking for an excuse to eat some cupcakes, now you've got it! Get out and get yourself a CancerCare for Kids Cupcake!