Thanksgiving Cupcakes and The Tale of a Cupcake Thief

I have a tale to tell you tonight… about my Thanksgiving cupcakes and my little cupcake thief.

This story really started a few weeks ago one of my customers asked me on Facebook if I’d be doing Thanksgiving cupcakes this year.    And since I did them last year, I thought, “Why not?” – that seemed like a great idea!

BUT, I didn’t have any good pics of Thanksgiving-y cupcakes…  so of course, I had to make some to photograph.

I used some extra chocolate cake batter from an order I already had and baked up a dozen chocolate cupcakes.

To keep them simple, I just topped them with vanilla buttercream, a touch of orange sanding sugar, and some homemade marshmallow fondant leaves (cut with these Wilton Leaves & Acorns cutters).

Anywho… then it was time to take pictures, but I had let the day get away from me and it was dark out.  Add to that that my living room is a disaster because we’re painting.

So I had to set up my Ego lights (that I got for FREE with Swagbucks!) and made me a little mini photo booth… on the floor (the table I use is not where it normally is due to the painting).

Well, the cupcakes don’t look that great in the funky light and I think the tablecloth I used was the wrong color… and well, I’m not in love with the photos.

But I am in love with what happened next.

I’m standing directly over my cupcakes looking down through my camera lens when I see this….

then this….

so I decide to just grab some fun shots of my little Asher and see what happened.

I’m so glad I did!  It’s moments (and photos) like these that I can treasure for life…. he first just puts his other hand down between his knees and just looks up and me and grins.

Then he took a BIG bite!

And licked his fingers!!  At this point, he thought about giving it back to me…

But when I didn’t take it, he sat down and took a rest…

Then had another big bite of frosting (I missed that shot).

Yep – he was done.

And he put the cupcake back.   The end.

Okay – so maybe that was anti-climatic… but I just had to share!    Isn’t he just the most yummy, gorgeous baby ever?  Well, of course along with my other 5 babies!  hehe.

If you are local (here in tiny town Mississippi), you can check out my post on Facebook to order some of these Thanksgiving cupcakes.  If not, you can find the recipes I use below.

xo.

Rose

Here are the recipes I mentioned:

Chocolate Cake Recipe

Vanilla Cake Recipe

Pumpkin Spice Cupcake Recipe

Vanilla Buttercream Recipe

Homemade Marshmallow Fondant

Other Fall Cakes, Cupcakes & Recipes

Do you have any questions about these cupcakes?  Please leave them in the comments and I’ll do my best to answer and help out!

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