The Luck of the Irish

With St. Patty's day quickly approaching we thought it might be a good idea to break out the alcohol. This week we were set on recreating the popular Irish Car Bomb drink in cupcake form. We had great success with these little morsels.

We started with a dark chocolate stout cake. We went with good ol' Guinness and it really complimented the dark chocolate and hint of cinnamon we added. To top it we did our signature chocolate ganash glaze with a couple teaspoons of Jamison Whiskey. It. was. awesome! And of course we had to top with a basic buttercream with added Baileys and we sprinkled them with a little cocoa powder. These are sure to be a year round favorite.
Once we finished these we had an idea to do a Lucky Charms cupcake. We thought we'd implant the little marshmallows inside the cupcake, unfortunately  it didn't work out. The mallows just made a big melted mess. We managed to get a few good minis out of our batch. Next time the marshmallows will only go on top to garnish.

This was just our velvet cake colored green for the holiday. We used vanilla buttercream frosting and then topped them with the famous marshmallows. Over all we had a really productive weekend turning out some more great flavors. We also released a discount coupon on our facebook page for all our great fans. If you haven't already, you should "like" us on facebook!
PS we are also really close to finishing out website so keep your eyes peeled for more updates.
PSS next week stay tuned for Mardi Gras cupcakes!!!!

<3 Ashley

Something Old and Something New

The London Fog

Last night we decided to bring back the London Fog for a well deserved photoshoot for our signature menu. The London Fog was actually the first cupcake we came up with and has sort of been the rock of epicupcakes. It sounds little strange but remains to be the favorite of many of our friends and family. It's all starts with Earl Grey Lavender Tea, steeped in milk and a little extra fine ground up loose tea for bolder flavor. We use :

This tea has such an awesome flavor that mixes beautifully with the honey and vanilla cream cheese frosting! It turned out magnificently. We are proud to add it our list of creations.

We also decided to try a new flavor we have been curious about trying for a long time now. It's definitely a perfect Spring/Summer party cupcake! Probably not one you would want to bring to a little kid's birthday party but definitely a must try. It was the Lemon Basil:

Lemon Basil

The cupcake was a simple light and airy lemon cake that was to die for! For the frosting we chose something equally as light and delicious, Basil whipped cream! Sounds funky right? Well let me tell you, I was a bit skeptical that it would work , but the combination was fabulous! It was soft and not over powering and just a hint of sweetness. It was the perfect balance with the lemon cupcake. It is now actually one of my very favorites!

<3 Ashley

Get a Glimpse

Last night Angela got some great work done on the website that has been in the works for sometime. We pretty much nailed down the concept months ago but have really been taking our time in building our photo collection of our cupcakes (which we are still working on). Now that we have a few good photos to work with, Angela has been toying with a couple different things. So far it's been going really well and I am really optimistic about getting it up and running in the next month or so. Here's a screenshot to give you a first look at what's to come:

Keep your eye out for more updates. I'll be posting fairly often in the coming weeks since this should start to move pretty fast. We are also planning on putting together a few new cupcakes soon so stay posted!
<3 Ashley

A Night of Mayhem

The Gentleman.

So last night Angela and I went to town putting together a few great cupcakes. Since I was able to find the missing ingredient for the Mexican hot chocolates we figured we would do it proper.

We used the Ibarra to do a chocolate ganache and it was everything I dreamed it could be. The cinnamon chocolate flavor was perfect and reminded us of our grandmas :)
For the cake we used a dark chocolate devils food with a hint of cayenne to give it a subtle spice.(not paprika, definitely not paprika) And of course to top it we made fresh whipped cream and drizzled more Mexican chocolate on top to give it that perfect look. The only thing better than how awesome it looked was how awesome it tasted!

After those were complete we created Cookies and Cream. We started off with a simple chocolate cupcake but buried inside we hide a whole Oreo!

The frosting was a vanilla buttercream with cookie crumbles. Yum! This was also a huge success!

After those were complete we photographed a couple different examples for Valentine's Day gift ideas. Everything we do is customizable but we thought we could showcase a few possibilities. Here they are:

If you are interested in ordering something special for that special someone shoot us an email at info@epicupcakes.com and tell us what you would like to do.

<3 Ashley