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Shebee’s birthday is coming up and she ordered cupcakes for her picnic celebration.
She ordered her favourite strawberry with cream cheese icing cupcakes, vanilla cupcakes with my signature soft serve icing, and chocolate cupcakes with nougat secret centres and chocolate butter icing.
Margarita cupcakes – with real tequila in! B)
Chocolate with caramel secret centres, chocolate with strawberry secret centres and “plain” chocolate all topped with chocolate butter icing and decorated with all sorts of things to compliment the chocolate!
I made strawberry cupcakes with cream cheese icing, chocolate cupcakes with a creme-caramel secret centre topped with chocolate butter icing and chocolate discs and rolls, and I made vanilla cakes- some with secret centres- topped with white vanilla butter icing, red fondant hearts and black fondant music notes and symbols.
I had special cupcake wrappers made with a red and white paisley theme and our monogram in purple on the front. They looked spectacular!
My mom and sisters helped me ice and decorate them the night before the wedding, and we had great fun in my kitchen.
The following photographs were taken by many different people- myself, our official wedding photographer Jeanette Verster, my sister Candy, my daddy darling and my friend Wenchy! They’re in no particular order, but I think you’ll enjoy them.
Instead of cutting a cake, we only had my cupcakes and we fed one to each other after the ceremony!
Two weeks after the wedding, we had a Trash-The-Dress shoot, and we started in my kitchen where I was “baking” cupcakes! You can see some of those photos here!
Vanilla cupcakes, cored and filled with caramel, and topped with chocolate butter icing and sprinkles.
Chocolate cupcakes, cored and stuffed with fresh pitted cherries, topped with cream cheese icing and sprinkles.
Vanilla cupcakes, cored and stuffed with strawberry jam, topped with lemon butter icing and fresh gooseberries.
I didn’t take part as a wedding planner, but I dropped off 6 dozen cupcakes of all kinds for the attendees to taste test!
There were coffee flavoured cupcakes with mini koeksister secret centres, chocolate cupcakes with strawberry secret centres. There were strawberry cupcakes, vanilla cupcakes with creme-caramel secret centres and red velvet cupcakes. I did vanilla butter icing, cream cheese icing and chocolate butter icing. And I used all sorts of different decorations including fondant flowers, fresh raspberries and cherries.
I’m hoping the brides and wedding planners who are taking part in the speed-date-a-wedding-planner day will all be future customers!
