Happy National Vanilla Cupcake Day! In modern times, vanilla cupcakes are synonymous with New York. They were pictured on the front page of @nytimes.com this spring, illustrating a look back at 25 years of NYC dining. 1/3 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#ThrowbackThursday to #NationalNutDay last month. Alas, daily nuttiness is only a matter of degrees nowadays. Enter bookish baking therapy! #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky www.instagram.com/p/DQuuPqpkj_...

It's National Sandwich Day and #cupcakes accept the challenge. Twist off the bottom, place it atop the frosting, and enjoy your 🧁🥪. www.joriecakesllc.com/blog/2020/6/... #baking #bakingsky #foodsky 1/2

It's National Boston Cream Pie Day and there are #cupcakes for that. TIL there's a cupcake season hashtag. What gives? 🤔 When is it not 🧁 season?! #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/bost...

There should be no kings in this fair land. There should be abundant #cupcakes. An easy way to support democracy and 🧁 is to donate to @bakebackbetter.bsky.social. If we've been called to save democracy, let there be a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down. #nokings 1/2

If you are out of town or cutting sugar, we can deliver your cupcakes to to protesters! Donate to @fieldteam6.org https://loom.ly/pJ3ZPvk Hope everyone has a fun & safe No Kings protest day. #FlourPower #CupcakesforDemocracy #Voterizer

Happy National Dessert Day! The formula for stress relief is spelled out below. Consume this and more in my October newsletter. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky andreaadleman.substack.com/p/cupcake-ne...

It's #WorldMentalHealthDay and there are 🧁 for that. I once wrote about Depressed Cake Shop, a bake sale benefitting mental health care. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky drive.google.com/file/d/1SptC...

#TBT to the fluffernutter 🥪 of childhood. Given yesterday's #NationalFluffernutterDay, this calls for #cupcakes. Please enjoy this fluffernutter 🧁 created and 📷 by Allie's Cupcakery Cafe. www.facebook.com/share/1CDPsS... #ThrowbackThursday #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

So many showgirl #cupcakes out today. While most are orangey and glittery, these bakeries center the 🧁 themselves. 📷: Cupprimo, Bloomfield Bakeshop www.instagram.com/p/DPWu4_VDb8... #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

I, for one, ❤️ pumpkin spice everything, especially #cupcakes. This 🧁 represents #ThrowbackThursday and yesterday's #NationalPumpkinSpiceDay. 📷: Billy's Bakery www.facebook.com/share/p/17Dp... #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

Make sure there's evoo in your dinner to honor today's National Extra Virgin Olive Oil Day. Then have your olive oil cake and eat it, too. I'm fondly remembering these rosemary orange olive oil #cupcakes. #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

The 🌎 is 4.5b y/o and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as ☕🧁. This serving of #MondayMotivation = a most perky #NationalCoffeeDay. 📷: Designer Desserts Bakery #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

A little PSA to swallow the unpalatable 📰: today is National Bakery Day. If you opt for 🎂🧁, you can realize this literary quote: 📷: Cupcake Concept www.facebook.com/share/1Rtb3t... 1/2

If I were reading your 💭 ... Q: What should I eat for my next meal today? A: Simply follow the calendar and observe #nationalcheeseburgerday and #nationalredvelvetcakeday. #cupcakes #cake #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

#MondayMotivation is red velvet flavored. Get ready for National Red Velvet Cake Day on Sept. 18. In other news, read about 🧁 packaged like cake pops, 🧁 made with candy bars, and 🧁 enlarged into 20-person affairs. 1/2

Please celebrate today's two momentous holidays: National Black and White Cookie Day and National Cream-Filled Doughnut Day. The added incentive is that it'll put you in a food coma sure to numb any Sunday Scaries. www.instagram.com/p/DOmQ5Rskuw...

#nationalpeanutday reminds me of my first time at a Sprinkles bakery. I ordered peanut butter chocolate chip and red velvet #cupcakes. I love that the former is made with natural peanut butter, as per the SPRINKLES BAKING BOOK recipe. 📸: Sprinkles www.facebook.com/share/1Gmpg3...

This 🧁 isn't gratuitous, it's gratis. Edible Arrangements introduced #cupcakes in the spring. There's a one-day offer on 9/9, reportedly the most common birthday in the U.S. Birthday celebrants can show ID and say offer code CUPCAKE99 to receive a free cupcake. 📷: Edible Arrangements

Happy National Cheese Pizza Day! 🍕 meets 🧁 in this frozen creation. Bostonians can celebrate IRL at Boston Pizza Cupcakes. As the meme goes, the world is 4.5 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as pizza #cupcakes. 📷 : The Pizza Cupcake.

Some levity amidst madness: today is National Eat an Extra Dessert Day. Have your 🧁🧁 and eat them, too -- by two. 🙃 #cupcakes

#Cupcakes take National Skyscraper Day to a whole new level. 📷: Magnolia Bakery

Today's #WorldCoconutDay occasions a 🧁 history lesson. This 1999 Ina Garten recipe helped popularize 🧁 at the turn of the millennium. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky barefootcontessa.com/recipes/coco...

Chocolate chip cookies are an irrefutable cure for the Mondays. Some are intriguing writing prompts as well. How fortunate that today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. As #MondayMotivation, I went on an epic odyssey to the source. 1/3

Happy #nationalsprinkleday from the 🌍 of #cupcakes. May it be a writing prompt and/or a suggested dose of 🧁 therapy❣️ #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

July 🧁 news for your dining pleasure. From longform history to a little Labubu, you do you. Help yourself to some news bites. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky andreaadleman.substack.com/p/cupcake-ne...

When Magnolia Bakery 🧁 appeared on Sex and the City, it triggered a 💥 that reverberates today. 7/9/25 is the 25th anniversary of the episode. andreaadleman.com/25-years-of-... #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

How to feed mind and body on this #nationalcupcakeloversday >> Eat 🧁 while reading my monthly newsletter. #cupcakeloversday #cupcakes #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky andreaadleman.substack.com/p/cupcake-ne...

Happy National Chocolate Chip Day! Permission to get nostalgic with 🧁🍪 -- or both combined. A pastry chef central to my cupcake studies crafted "Mrs. Fields-Inspired Chocolate Chip Cookie Cakes." Imagine that. 😋 See also www.instagram.com/sprinklescup... 📷: Little Miss Cupcape

April showers bring May 🧁💐. Aaaand, how much frosting should there be? #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky #cupcakes andreaadleman.substack.com/p/cupcake-ne...

Living cupcake history, childhood nostalgia, cookbooks, and memoir on the occasion of Barbra Streisand's birthday. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky andreaadleman.com/2025/04/24/a...

The Folger Library is celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday with a free daylong party tomorrow. There are cupcakes on the agenda! 1/3 #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky www.folger.edu/whats-on/sha...

The Hostess 🧁 "munchie mobile" is now serving free-spirited adult consumers. It's high time for my monthly newsletter. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky andreaadleman.substack.com/p/cupcake-ne...

#MondayMotivation is the simple pleasure of a classic pairing for #NationalCoffeeCakeDay. Read about this 147yo bakery in my forthcoming CUPCAKE NATION 📘. 📷: Holtermann's #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky #cupcakes

If the food calendar says it's International Carrot Day, cupcakes naturally get excited. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky 🥕🧁❣️ 📸 : Sugar Shack Bakery www.instagram.com/p/C5V9KHHuhDB/

Yesterday's #NationalPeanutButterAndJellyDay escaped me, but these #cupcakes are too clever not to post. 📷: Smallcakes of Fort Myers www.instagram.com/p/DFFqrTexWKS/ #NationalPBAndJDay

#AprilFoolsDay dinner is all #cupcakes at Nadia Cakes. Have spaghetti & meatballs, orange chicken, or lo mein. Add dropped ice cream. But then there are after-dinner chores. You have to clean the kitty litter and unicorn poop. Heaven forbid you find chewed bubblegum under the table. 📷: Nadia Cakes

Say👋 to the Carrie 🧁 and let it wish Sarah Jessica Parker a HBD. 🎉 for the cupcake-loving actress who's also a 📘 connoisseur turned publisher. 📷: Magnolia Bakery. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky #cupcakes

The sweetest way to celebrate today's #SpringEquinox is to recognize it's also #NationalMacaronDay. Wouldn't you know, there are #cupcakes for that. In the #ThrowbackThursday spirit, I'm thinking back to Sweet Lobby, the cupcakery that created these "MacTop" 🧁 10+ years ago (📷 credit to same.)

I went to Philadelphia for 📘 research. Lucky me, I visited the historic Termini Bros. Bakery, a 104-year-old community treasure that dressed its #cupcakes for #stpatricksday. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

This month's 🧁 news is bitter and sweet. Indie local bakeries are getting TV air time to showcase seasonal #cupcakes while the North American trade wars reach the pastry case. 1/? andreaadleman.substack.com/p/cupcake-ne...

In this dystopia, we take small joys where we can get them. There are free #cupcakes today (March 7) for #internationalwomensday. www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Cakesters say HBD on today's #NationalOreoDay. Oreos are proud New Yorkers, like the #cupcakes I study. See more here: andreaadleman.com/2025/03/06/n... #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky

Undecided for 🍽️? Have a 🧁 for #NationalStrawberryDay. Find a 😋 recipe in the SPRINKLES BAKING BOOK and also here on Martha Stewart. www.marthastewart.com/258957/sprin... #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky #cupcakes

Getting over #HumpDay is more palatable when you consider it's also #NationalPistachioDay. 📷: Ava J's Cupcakes www.instagram.com/p/C3Qw_w_vmwj/ #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky #cupcakes

Let's time travel on this #NationalMuffinDay. Image from the Condé Nast store. Doing book research, I came across a 1987 New York magazine article with the opposite dynamic. 1/3 #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

You need 🧁 therapy. It can be spicy and cheesy. It can be provocative, thanks to author Alex Elle's "unpopular opinion" about frosting. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting #writer #author #books #booksky #writesky #cupcakes #baking #bakingsky #foodsky andreaadleman.substack.com/p/cupcake-ne...

It's a merry Monday because the almighty food calendar indicates it's #NationalCarrotCakeDay. Baking is therapeutic escapism. I medicated over the weekend to create these homey carrot #cupcakes. #mondaymotivation #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

#cupcakes are dressed and ready for a happy #lunarnewyear. 📷: Hapa Bakery www.instagram.com/p/DFaxLewyMz3/ #lunarnewyear2025 #cny #cny2025 #chinesenewyear #chinesenewyear2025 #baking #bakingsky #foodsky

Happy National Chocolate Cake Day! I studied a chocolate marshmallow cupcake from Sprinkles, plus some slices. Research consisted of a chocolate stout cake with rosemary cream cheese frosting at From Lucie bakery plus Brooklyn blackout cake from Hani’s. #cupcakes #cake #baking #bakingsky #foodsky