I know that I am delayed. My deepest apologies!!! I was having issues with the site as you may have read. My kick ass hubs figured out the problem and fixed it for me. (flash was not working with firefox, which is why some of you could post and some of you couldnt.) Anyhoo, here we are halfway through December. December is such a freaking busy month. I was late getting this up, so I decided we would hold a Holiday Edition. As long as you post or send in your entries by January 30th, you are good to go. This gives everyone plenty of time. No Christmas rush!!

I was lucky enough to score a prize for the Holiday edition as well. Shawn of Askinosie is kindly providing a very handsome prize pack to the winner….lets just say it starts with a kilo of dark chocolate.. Most of you know that I adore Askinosie cocoa. I looove it. Its the best of the best. I highly suggest you mozy over there and buy some, right now please. I swear to you that you will not regret it.

Okay, so.. onto the theme.

Our theme for the Holiday Edition is WHITE CHOCOLATE!

(apologies to Nik, the official white chocolate hater of the east.)

You guys know the rest. You can either post yourself on here or email your entry to cupcakeherostaff at gmail.com

White Chocolate must be in the cake, frosting, filling, or all of the above if you so choose. (again, sorry Nik)

All entries must be posted by January 30th to be consider for the killer prize pack by Askinosie. If you hurry, you may be able to snag a bar of Askinosies White Chocolate. They cant seem to keep it in stock, so seriously, if you want to give it a try, go now! NOW!

Thanks everyone and good luck!

xo~ laurie

I am having a few issues with posting right now. It wont allow me to post any pictures. I am looking into it right now. When it is fixed, CH will resume.

Thanks to everyone who baked for October. I will have a winner posted as soon as this glitch is fixed. (I will also have ALL the entried posted too.)

xo~ Laurie

I think I am “pumpkin”ed out with all these wonderful Fall pumpkin baking recipes. However, pumpkin is still my favorite squash and I was more than happy to bake these. The flavors are simple, but tasty.

I think you will enjoy them.

Check out the post right here for recipe and additional pictures!

Happy Fall everyone!

- Sugar Betty from Eat My Cupcake

I really did have a feeling that something like pumpkin or squash would be this month. But I entered my cupcakes from last month anyway. Le sigh. Oh, well. So this month I made Butternut Squash Cupcakes with Maple Buttercream. They had spice. They had maple. They had butter. Mmm. They were so good. And of course everyone in my house refused to eat them because they’d never had butternut squash. The only -pumpkin- thing my sisters will eat is pie. But yeah. These were quite good.

I love fall baking! Pumpkin is definitely a favorite flavor of mine. These cupcakes consist of some ingredients I had around the kitchen after having friends over one Saturday.

Check out Beantown Baker for details about this cupcake including the recipe.

When I think about baking with squash, I automatically think about all the warm comforting flavors of the fall: cinnamon, apple, nutmeg, ginger. The bold colors of squash made me think about India, and the spicy twist to this cupcake was born: madras curry and coconut  milk.  Head on over to I’ll Eat You to find out more.

It’s been a long while since I have participated in a Cupcake Hero challenge. I will confess that I was a little meh about the theme for this month - Squash but all it took was a meander around the fruit and vege shop and I was inspired.

The one, I guess you could call it drawback, about being in the other hemisphere is that we are total opposites in terms of season. It seems so bizarre to be featuring pumpkin in cupcakes in spring when pumpkin is typically a winter food.

Pop over to Couture Cupcakes to get the recipe for these Halloween candy like looking cupcakes.