Before and After

Long time no blog, huh? Well, fear not, citizens, for while I have not been good about updating the website, I have still been baking!! 

In March, I was asked to bake cupcakes for a couple's three-year anniversary. Now, as everyone knows*, the three-year anniversary is considered the "leather" anniversary, so of course I was asked to decorate them to look like leather. 

After a while of brainstorming with the wife and not knowing how to make normal cupcakes look like leather, we finally decided to go for a little before and after:

Maybe it is a little crass, but I'm okay with that.

Ignore the tissue paper. It's only there to take up space, since the couple only wanted 6 cupcakes.

Unfortunately, I'm terrible at photography (especially at phone photography), so the jackets don't really show well in the pictures. But believe you me, I think even the Fonz would have been tempted to wear these cupcakes. 


With the Three-year "leather" cupcakes behind me, I've started wondering how I'd do some of the other anniversary cupcakes. I mean, how would you even decorate a 10-year "tin" cupcake or a 14-year "ivory"? Ah well, I suppose I have some time to figure those out.

*To be clear, I had no idea the three-year anniversary was represented by leather until the couple told me. Even then, I didn't fully believe it and used Google to confirm.