Anniversary Kupacakes

On September 18, 2011 two very special people in love (still are) were married. This was also my first wedding order and my first wedding to photograph. As if that ain’t enough, I also was a big part in helping put this wedding together! It was simply lovely!

Here’s the posts I did about the wedding (includes the Kupacakes and some of my photography):

The Preparation

The Wedding

The Bride and Groom

It’s nearly a year later, and I’m still baking and photographing. O and the couple? Definitely still together and very much in love. The bride, Laurel, blogs about her life here. The groom, Michael, is working as a roughneck (on the oil fields) so he is adjusting and seems to be doing well. Tomorrow we are going to do an anniversary themed photo shoot. And tonight I baked some anniversary Kupacakes for them. Since Laurel LOVES pumpkin spice and Michael isn’t a huge sweet fan (and it is becoming fall), I thought that flavor was appropriate. Instead of a usual frosting, I did a butter-scotch/caramel based and it was delicious! Super-moist and they definitely wanted the recipe!

What flavor would you like to see next? Maybe another fall-themed or a drink based one?

High Heel Kupacakes

I was more than excited to finally do these cupcakes! Normally, I’m not a shoe fan. I have wide feet and most heels are not my friends. (I guess this can be a good thing because it saves me money on shoes.) But I love looking at them…

 Any who, I not only wanted to do these but I was able to photograph them for my studio final for a triptych. (A triptych is a series of 3 photographs that has a theme and can sometimes tell a story). So I did 3 pairs of heels: 1 red, 1 blue and 1 pink. They have different styles and the flavor was white champagne. I shot them by them selves then together.

The shoes are created with some frosting, decorating sugar, graham crackers covered in the almond bark for the sole, mini M&M’s for the jewels, Big Red gum for the bow and for the heels I used piroulines. They were very fragile but surprisingly easy to work with and move around. I love the overall turnout! What other designs would you like to see in these? Zebra print? Black and white swirls? Maybe green ones?