"sprinkles cupcakes" news and stories

The way I am coming across cupcakes around the internet these days, you'd never think that the cupcake craze was on its wane. In fact, while I know that cupcakes started in the home kitchen, they gained popularity as little luxuries in bakeries, but now, I believe the fad has nutated back into the home kitchen.

Not content to losing business to amateur bakers, Sprinkles Cupcakes has come out with a cupcake mix. It's expensive at $14, but for a dozen cupcakes, that's still cheaper than buying 12 cupcakes from Sprinkles' case.

Food blogger Triple Creme bought a canister as gift, and reports that the canister contains the mix, the retro/modern decorations (little dots), and a recipe for frosting (which she posts). Bree tried making the frosting first and says that it was good, then later tried making the cupcakes. She says, "They were very good, and easy to make," but were "not any better than other chocolate cake recipes I have tried."