Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!

Seeing as how tomorrow is Mother's Day, I wanted to make this an "Ode to You, MOM" weekend on my blog.

I am one of those lucky women who have an outstanding relationship with her mother. When I say that my mom and I are like BFFs, I am not exaggerating at all. We go shopping together, we have lunch together, we run errands together, and we average in about four phone calls a day to each other... and that's all with her living right down the street from my house.

I can't get enough of my mom, she's so much fun! She is the most caring, loving, intelligent and admirable woman in the world and I am the luckiest daughter to have someone like her that I can look up to.

So in honor of you, Mom, here's a special Mother-Daughter Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!



See? See what I did there? It's a "mom" cupcake next to a "daugther" cupcake hehe! :P I'm so proud of myself.

Come back tomorrow and check out a special "Here's to you, Mom!" post in honor of the Super Woman herself!

Are you all doing anything special for Mother's Day? Tell me about it in my comments or make your own Mother's Day post and link me back to it! :)

Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!

Oh cupcakes... cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes.

My husband and I are staring at the computer monitor and giggling like idiots because I just keep saying "cupcakes," and we're salivating like a pair of sugar addicted dogs in a sad, sad psychology experiment.

On with the show...

Yesterday, we had a man come out and give us an estimate on a sun room. Long story short, it's about $47,000... which is $45,400 MORE than we can afford and 1/3 of the cost of our entire house.

Soooooo, NO.

To make a long story only moderately lengthy, while this man was telling us what an awesome product he could install I began to get bored. Really, seriously bored. I have a short attention span, I can't help it. So when this HUGE yellow butterfly with black spots flew over his head, I was momentarily freed from my boredom as nature provided me with a spectacular 30 seconds of color and beauty... and then the butterfly was gone, and the sales pitch continued.

There is a point to all this, you know. Cupcakes are a lot like butterflies. They are beautiful, they can be a conversational piece, they can take a boring ass table and provide it with the Pièce de Résistance.

Here's the clincher: while both the butterfly and the cupcake are short lived beauties, with the butterfly you are only left with the memory of how pretty it looked when it was fluttering through your yard.


Cue the cupcake:


It is beautiful before you scarf it down... and then, in many cases, you are left with ANOTHER beautiful cupcake to scarf down, and then another, and then another. Until all you're left with is the fat on your ass.

My point: both are beautiful in moderation. Have ONE cupcake and pass the plate, people.

Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!

Happy Saturday, peoples! :)

Last night, the BFF and I were having our first Skype Shenanigan in weeks. It was SO much fun... if you don't have Skype and your best friend lives on the other side of the country, I would seriously recommend getting it. It's free... what more could you ask for?

While perusing through some of Colorado's beautiful wedding venues, we got to talking about a specific martini bar that she loves and their ginormous martinis. That led to more discussions about drinks, and within a minute or two, she had sent me this week's Sexy Cupcake:



Do I even need to elaborate on why these are sexy? Is there anything SEXIER than a freaking martini? I kind of doubt it.

Thanks to my BestestFriendForEVAR for sending me this awesome interwebinary image.

You can check out her ridiculously honest blog that's splattered with profanity by clicking here: If Only She'd Shut Up!
She's an elitist bitch with a crass sense of humor and her fiance says she's the meanest person in the world... and that's why I have loved her as my bestest friend for the last 14 years. It also doesn't hurt that the first sentence of her last blog post is "So, I’m pretty sure I’ve made this clear already, but I have a vagina." Ah, blogging at its finest.

Alright, enough with the shameless plugging.

:::::lifts a cupcake martini::::: Have a GREAT weekend, everyone!

Let's Bring Back an Old Fattening Friend... Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!

I know, I know... I haven't had a Sexy Cupcake Saturday post in AGES. It has bothered me too, but I think it'll be ok now. I finally feel like I can post a picture of a cupcake without flying out of my house (literally, on shoe wings like Hermes) and scarfing one down in Fez-Loves-Candy fashion.


That being said, I don't think I can bake a cupake for a while. It's not like I could look at the perfect balance of cake, frosting and art and allow it to go stale. Psh, sacrilege is what that would be.

Sooooo, I will be randomly picking pretty cupcakes I find on the internet that I deem to be sexy and showcasing them on Saturdays. That's right, my dearies, Sexy Cupcake Saturday is BACK!! That also means that if you bake and you want me to feature your cupcakes on my blog, you just need to email me at americantribal@gmail.com and I will be more than happy to check out your cupcake(s). Oh, that sounds sexual. Hawt.

This Saturday's Sexy Cupcake is an ICE CREAM CUPCAKE.

Holy crap, I think I might die of diabetes induced happiness.



This cupcake combines my intense love affair of two different evils: ice cream and cupcakes. That's right, EVILS.

I'm pretty sure that in Baker's Hell they have Circles, just like in Dante's Inferno.
Maybe this cupcake would hover somewhere between Circle 2 (where all the hookerish lustful cupcakes go) and Circle 3 (where the gluttonous cupcakes are held).

Wow... look at me, sticking baked goods in influential literature.

Makes me hungry.

Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!

*Note: Please excuse the absolutely horrific quality of my camera. It is blurry... very blurry. It's like looking at images through broken beer goggles. You know what I mean... when you have a few beers and things start to look *ok* but they're not totally hot, only sort of hot. So you *think* maybe if you have another beer they'll be even hotter, so you drink another one, and then you're sorely disappointed because, no, things are not only *not* hotter, they're even more blurry. Got it?
I'm getting a new camera some time next week, so hopefully my pictures will be better soon.

Who has two thumbs, wants to lose weight, and has an uhealthy obsession with cupcakes?
THIS GAL!!


I'm on a mission to lose some weight, and so are a lot of you.

It's *really* hard to do that when you're making delicious cupcakes with lots of fat and sugar. Last week, due to some unforseen circumstances, I was unable to post Sexy Cupcake Saturday and I... didn't... eat... a cupcake :::::GASP:::::.
This week, I wanted to eat a cupcake. I wanted to eat a cupcake SO BADLY.

A thought finally occured to me. "Why am I torturing myself?!" I looked in my kitchen and realized that I had 3 bananas and a bag of coconut I had to use pretty soon or they were going to go bad (I HATE wasting food, so I was determined to do *something*). Bananas are good for you, and the bag of coconut was unsweetened and specifically labeled as "coconut for baking," and that word (baking) is pretty much all my brain needs to register before that little voice in my head starts screaming "CUPCAKE!!!!!"

I did some research online and found a way to make vegan coconut cupcakes w/ vegan banana frosting.

Now, I normally hate the assumption that just because something is vegan it's healthier. Not true, people. All it means is that there are no animal products. You can have a cupcake with no animal products and enough sugar to kill a large rhino.

These babies have *a lot* less sugar (and most of it is brown sugar, SCORE) than your normal cupcake.

To my surprise, they actually came out REALLY GOOD. Maybe that's because I've been somewhat depriving myself of copious amounts of sugar, but I'd like to give myself *a little* credit for possibly doing something right in the kitchen.

I will say, they are not incredibly sexy, but sexiness is really in the eyes of the cupcake holder and these babies look sexy to ME because they are a lot healthier than a normal cupcake. I'm pretty sure that healthy + cupcake = TOTALLY sexy.

You can find the banana frosting recipe HERE.

Here is the recipe for the coconut cupcakes:
1 1/2 c ap flour
1 c white sugar
1/2 c flaked coconut
1 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
1 cup coconut milk
1/3 c canola oil
1 t vanilla extract
1 t white vinegar

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, coconut, baking soda, and salt. Add in the rest of the ingredients, adding the vinegar last. Stir until well combined.

2. Pour into cupcake liners and bake 30 minutes or until centers come clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool.

3. Frost with your favorite vegan buttercream frosting. Decorate with freshly toasted coconut.

Here are my Sexy (Vegan) Cupcakes!!



I hope you all have a great weekend!

Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!

I'm a busy, busy bee this morning and I have many things to do... exciting things... taking three dogs to the park with my husband things!!!!!

I'll make this edition of Sexy Cupcake Saturday short and sweet (like frosting, yum!).

Being that it is "Christmas Weekend" and all, I wanted to find a super sexy cupcake that was the epitome of what I felt was a Merry Wintery awesomeness (don't make fun of my wording... I'm in a good mood).

:::::sings::::: It knows when you are sleeping, it knows when you're awake, it knows if you've been bad or good so just quit singing and eat the damn cupcake :P.

Here's your sexy Christmas cupcake for the week!!


I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and that you have a wonderful New Year!

Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!

Here in North Carolina, we got our very first snow yesterday. It wasn't much, way less than an inch and it melted before it could really even make the landscaping look white. But it was exciting and beautiful anyways.

As I stared out my window with childlike wonder at the delicate white flakes fluttering to the ground, my first thought was: "coconuts." WHAT?! Isn't that weird? The snowflakes reminded me of coconuts. No one ever said I wasn't weird :P.

Weird or not, I wanted to find a lovely white cupcake with a Wintery feel and I wanted something with coconut.

After about an hour of intense searching through pictures of cupcakes that were really sub-par, I found this week's sexy cupcake via an article in Country Living. It really is, in my opinion, the best image I could find to pinpoint that wonderful feeling you get when you see the first snow of Winter.

Much thanks to Country Living for their contribution to this week's Sexy Cupcake Saturday!



Isn't it beautiful? Yum!

Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!

It's that time again!! Woohoo!!

My best friend (in the whole wide WORLD), Drea, over at If Only She'd Shut Up! found this week's Sexy Cupcake for me.

I'm not sure where she found it, but I can bet it was somewhere in Las Vegas. Yeah, somewhere on the strip in Las Vegas. Drea used to live there and she knows Vegas like the back of her hand. She's probably got seedy cupcakes all over that town!

There are very few things in life that make me happier than cupcakes. Hmmmm, let's see... there's my husband, my friends, family, money... DIAMONDS.

I'm pretty sure that Drea, being my best friend (in the whole wide WORLD, duh) knows that I am obsessed with diamonds and pretty much anything else that's sparkly. I'm pretty sure she tricked me into this... because she knew I'd *have* to use this and that I'd give her credit.

Oh, Drea, you sly sly fox!!

It's not like I could turn down a sexy cupcake that is laced with freaking DIAMONDS!

If Marilyn Monroe were to get stuck in some machine that could magically morph her into a cupcake she'd probably come out looking something like this:



There she is, people! Bask in her sparkly glory (quick, before I try to sell her at the pawn shop)!

Thanks, Drea, for your contribution of cupcake sexiness!! :) I'm not sure if I mentioned this, but you are my best friend in the whole wild WORLD.

Have a great weekend, everyone! I'm off to Jacksonville to have our crazy annual Christmas get together with the family. There will be much drinking, smoking of the hookah pipe and belly dancing around the lit up palm tree.

**If you have a cupcake you'd like me to feature, please email me at americantribal@gmail.com**

Sexy Cupcake Saturday!!

OMG OMG! I have my first featured blogger for Sexy Cupcake Saturday, HOORAY!

Ok... is everyone here? Yes? Great! Pop a squat (ew, what a horrid way of saying "please sit")... er, have a seat if you would and let me show you something awesome.

As stated above, today is my first ever featured blogger for Sexy Cupcake Saturday. You may have noticed her button on the side of my blog.

I am a hookerjunkie (yes, dammit, an absolute hookerjunkie) for cupcakes and she provides me with a good dose of cupcake crack on a nice, consistent basis. Thank goodness, otherwise I might have withdrawals.

Our cupcake connoisseur this week is :::::drum roll please::::: MISS DOT'S CUPCAKE SPOT

She also has: SAVING THE WORLD ONE CUPCAKE AT A TIME

There are more than a few reasons why Miss Dot is one of the most awesome cupcake bloggers around. One, she's funny... very funny. Two, she makes awesome cupcakes. Three, she's funny and makes awesome cupcakes. Four, well... maybe I should stop.

The cupcakes we chose to feature today are very fitting, considering that this is Sexy Cupcake SATURDAY and the cupcakes pictured here are Saturday Morning Cupcakes.



These cupcakes are beautiful, chic, they combine all that is awesome in the color sphere. Pinks, browns, white, silver, yellow... as if we ever needed any other color! It's just too bad I can't reach into my screen and steal one.

Don't look at me like that! SO? I'd steal it. Does that make me so bad? At least I'm honest... It IS Saturday, and they ARE Saturday Morning Cupcakes. It makes sense. Der.

Mmmmmm, we just need a nice cup of coffee and we'll be ready to tackle the day!

Thanks, Miss Dot, for your awesome contribution of cupcake coolness!

Sexy Cupcake Saturday!! :)

That's right, lovelies! It's time for your weekly dose of sexy cupcake. Because it's Thanksgiving this Thursday I wanted to find a cupcake that was beautiful, elegant, delicate... and orange.

I searched high and low, near and far. I climbed mountains, sailed the seven seas, scaled cliff sides and ate some food that I probably shouldn't have.

It was only when I came home and plopped down at my office chair, exhausted from my travels, that I finally found her.

Oh, I found her alright. And do you want to know what the best part was?

She was with her friends.



Aren't they beautiful?!

But seriously... are you getting the message I'm trying to convey, my dears?

Sometimes, there is no need to go exploring the world. Sometimes what you're looking for, what you truly want, is right in front of you at home.

Be thankful for what you have, and have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Oh Happy Day!! It's...

This is becoming one of my favorite days of the week! :)

This Saturday's Sexy Cupcake is a real romantic. She loves long walks in the oven, her boyfriend, going to the opera, and hanging out with her girls for a nice glass of wine.

She also likes... pillow fights? Wow, that could have an ugly ending.

Just be gentle, this one wears her heart on her frosting for everyone to see.

Say hello to this week's sexy cupcake!!



It's ok, you can buy her flowers, she gets that a lot.

Do you know what time it is?

That's right!!

It's :::::drum roll please!:::::



Many of my fellow bloggers have specific days set aside where they deal with a particular subject. Some of my favorites are Wordless Wednesdays, Friday Confessions, Thankful Thursdays, and I'm sure there's more.

I've had a longstanding affair with cupcakes. Everything about them makes me... well, it just makes me happy, if that makes any sense. There's something in the way they're constructed, how they smell in the oven when they're baking, and how you can change them around to fit your mood that makes them so *neat*. You can have pink cupcakes with blue and yellow polka dot wrappers or black cupcakes with orange frosting and candy corn on top. You can have red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese topping when you're feeling a bit on the romantic side.

Am I getting my point across? I hope so... it's pretty obvious that cupcakes are one of the best inventions ever.

So, without further adieu, I hereby declare Saturdays on the Daily Tribal to be *SEXY CUPCAKE SATURDAYS!!*

I found this cupcake lounging by the pool. It's chocolate, classic, and looks absolutely delicious. Awesome.



I hope you enjoyed this week's sexy cupcake! Check in next Saturday for more viewing yumness!