Manly Cupcakes

Looks like someone has kicked it up a notch. One shop has come up with some new manly cupcakes and they are selling like, um, hotcakes. For the Love of Cake's 'mancakes' feature such ingredients as beer and bacon, with no pink sprinkles. The macho cupcakes are part of a new trend that's seeing the once dainty desserts reinvented for an audience that drinks milk straight from the carton.

These new style cupcakes have everything from bacon to beer. They are a tongue-in-cheek response to the apparently too-prissy offerings that dominate display cases. At Butch Bakery in New York, the 12 available flavors include Rum & Coke (rum-soaked Madagascar vanilla cake with cola Bavarian cream filling), Beer Run (chocolate beer cake with beer-infused buttercream, topped with crushed pretzels) and The Old-Fashioned (orange-soaked whiskey cake with lemon curd filling).