Missing Ingredient

Unfornutely I still haven't been unable to locate the most important ingredient for the Mexican Hot Chocolate cupcakes, the actual Mexican chocolate! The stores right by my house have failed me and for some reason do not carry it. I plan to pick some up hopefully today but doubt I will bake tonight. I tried a make shift version last night since we had a cupcake craving. Instead of the original chocolate I had in mind I used Lindt Chili Chocolate. It was very mild and did not have the results I was looking for. Since it was a bust I did not spend the time photographing it in the tent. I did manage to take a photo of it just chillen on the table which I might post when I get back to my house. Perhaps tomorrow night I'll get back to baking. If not I'll wait 'til next weekend.

UPDATE 8:00PM :: here is the photo of last nights attempt
Cinnamon chocolate cake covered in a chili chocolate ganache topped with whipped cream and chili chocolate drizzle.

<3 Ashley

Chai Latte

Well after much hard work I bring you the Chai Latte cupcake.
Chai Latte Cupcake: A cinnamon spiced Chai tea flavored cake topped with a cinnamon vanilla buttercream.

Unfortunately for Angela, she got sick and was unable to participate in the experience of creating and photographing the new cupcake.

I starting off by creating the lighting tent, which was pretty simple. Buuuuut the lighting wasn't as bright as I needed but thanks to the wonders of Photoshop I was able to brighten thing up.

After the tent, or box rather, was ready to go I got a shot of the ingredients!

This was everything minus the egg and milk.

Unfortunately since I was riding solo on this adventure I didn't have the time to capture all my steps in putting it together but the end result was a pleasant surprise! I use a couple different backgrounds because I could not decide which on I liked best. I think I'm partial to the plain white though. What do you think?



<3 Ashley



Everybody's Workin For The Weekend!!

Sooo we are in the works to prepare a Vanilla Chai cupcake and a Mexican Hot Chocolate cupcake this weekend! We are both super excited! We have also begun to collect the items to create our own little photo studio to properly photograph our lovely creations. We will hopefully have all the photos up by Sunday night. So check back!

Welcome =)

Welcome to the Epicupcakes blog! I thought it might be a great idea to blog and document each detail about starting the business. Since Ang and I are still in the early process of getting together the website I wanted to make sure we remember and share every detail as we go.
So each cupcake we create we will share photos of the process and the final product and those photos will then be used to help create our "bakery" website.

Watch us grow. . .