The Wedding Cupcake.

Ahh...as I fought back the urge to sleep while sitting at the airport stoplight after dropping off the newlyweds at the lovely hour of 4:30ish AM, I smiled.

I am beyond happy for these two.

And I want to tell both Paige and Brian thank you for trusting me with your wedding cakes.  I know the importance of the wedding cake and I was beyond nervous at first but after months and months of testing new recipes, developing my own buttercream and frosting, designing and redesigning the cake, and numerous visits to AC Moore and Michaels...I finally found myself in a powdered sugar covered kitchen triumphantly with my creations. 

The tasting of three different white cupcake flavors

The flavors they decided on were Chocolate Fudge and Vanilla Almond Champagne for the cupcakes and then Strawberry with Italian buttercream for their wedding cake. 
All together this was one the most fun I've ever had on a random project...so enjoyable in fact that it has set my mind in a totally different direction career and life goal wise than it was before.  (Thus The Cupcake Pub)


The final product was 100 cupcakes and one 6-inch 3 layer cake covered in fondant.  And my perfectionist side of course kicked in as Ashley and my mother watched me inspect every single cupcake as we packed them into bakery boxes.  The perfectionism really showed the night before the wedding when I stopped piping the cake and ripped off the fondant because I felt (and knew) I could do better than what I had done.  So after making a fresh new batch of fondant I turned up my Eminem playlist as loud as possible and went back to work.  And it turned out perfectly :)

The amazing couple with their cakes

And if you're wondering if they shoved it in each other faces....

They did.

So to the lovely couple, I raise my buttercream icing bag to you.

To see all the cupcake pictures click here

Hello and goodbye....wedding cupcakes

Hello....if you don't know, I'm starting up my own business and my first huge adventure is this weekend, that being Paige's Wedding.

So that means I will be locked in a kitchen until Saturday afternoon and covered in powdered sugar and icing.  And Saturday night will be spent dancing with the new Mrs. Moreno and Sunday will be spent cleaning the kitchen and preparing for my next order...maybe resting at some point.  So no posting until next week.

So I leave you with a picture of one of Paige's cupcakes for the wedding

I'm just kidding.



Maybe not.

Bachelorette Party....oh. excuse me: partay ;)

They are epic within our culture.  It's the one night where you can get away with anything.

Anything.

You'll also end up with photos like this.  I have no idea what's happening.

As in at the end of the night a pair of boxers is found in your purse with someone's signature on them with no idea how they got there.

Anything can...and will...happen at a bachelorette party.  And it will never be discussed outside the circle.

I came across this blog, What White Chicks Cherish: Bachelorette Parties, and realized that my own recent bachelorette party excursion is not so different from the typical night of drinks, yelling, and dancing.

The words "She's getting married!!! It's a bachelorette party!"  will make every guy you run into blush and melt like candy in your hands.  I have no idea why, but you can easily get them to do anything.  Maybe it's the oh so alluring bride-to-be sash with all of our matching buttons or maybe they just want to be part of the night that will get talked about over cups of coffee for the rest of our lives--they want to be the guy who gave you his boxers or let you write on his chest.  A moment of immortality, forever remembered in the phrase "I went to a bachelorette party once where this crazy guy..."

 

Paige apparently believes I'm frisky according to the button she gave me.  But hey, like the TSA, I'm just concerned for our national security.  

For some reason this night becomes a night with no limits, an exception to the rule, a moment in history.  So I toast to one of my best friends, I girl I've known since kindergarten, a girl who gets married in a few days.

Our lovely bride to be

The Engagement Cake

I bake.  For Paige and Brian's Engagement cake they requested Red Velvet and I used my creative license from there :)

Dirty Icing: Buttercream

Covered in my own fondant...tastes a lot better than traditional fondant

First layer of piping

Making sugar roses

Top of the finished cake

Finished cake

I do take cake orders by the way :)  We call ourselves the CupPub...short for The Cupcake Pub