Miss A also joined in for a few photos. I can see these 2 playing together in the near future!
Friday, July 31, 2009
A New Prop
As I've slowly been starting up EKC Photography, I've been acquiring props here & there for photo shoots. I did a quick shoot with Miss M and I can easily see this becoming one of my favorite items to use during a shoot! Can you tell what the prop is?
Miss A also joined in for a few photos. I can see these 2 playing together in the near future!
Miss A also joined in for a few photos. I can see these 2 playing together in the near future!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Buttermilk Cupcakes with Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Last weekend I felt the urge to bake again so I pulled out a new cupcake book to try a recipe. I recently picked up Martha Stewart's Cupcakes - It's a great cookbook with tons of photos and creative design ideas for cupcakes! The first recipe I decided to try was for Buttermilk cupcakes - a fairly basic cake, but I already had buttermilk in the fridge that I didn't want to waste so this was a perfect use for it.
One downside to the recipes in the Cupcakes is they are written for 36 cupcakes - too many for this household! Because the quantities in the recipe aren't easily spilt, I had to slightly modify the recipe to only make 16.
1.5 cups cake flour
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/8 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/8 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon coarse salt
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/8 cup sugar
2 whole eggs, plus 2 yolks, room temperature
1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven to 350. Sift together flours, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
2. On medium-high speed, cream butter & sugar until pale & fluffy. Reduce speed to medium. Add whole eggs, one at a time, beating until eggs are incorporated. Add yolks, and beat until thoroughly combined. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with buttermilk, and beating until combined after each. Beat in vanilla.
3. Divide batter among cups - filling each 3/4 full. Bake for 20 minutes.
Top the finished cupcake with whatever frosting you'd like - the joy of buttermilk cupcakes is that it's a great base to be creative with! I opted to use a chocolate swiss meringue and also to fill half the cupcakes with melted chocolate.
Enjoy!!
One downside to the recipes in the Cupcakes is they are written for 36 cupcakes - too many for this household! Because the quantities in the recipe aren't easily spilt, I had to slightly modify the recipe to only make 16.
1.5 cups cake flour
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/8 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/8 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon coarse salt
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 1/8 cup sugar
2 whole eggs, plus 2 yolks, room temperature
1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven to 350. Sift together flours, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
2. On medium-high speed, cream butter & sugar until pale & fluffy. Reduce speed to medium. Add whole eggs, one at a time, beating until eggs are incorporated. Add yolks, and beat until thoroughly combined. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with buttermilk, and beating until combined after each. Beat in vanilla.
3. Divide batter among cups - filling each 3/4 full. Bake for 20 minutes.
Top the finished cupcake with whatever frosting you'd like - the joy of buttermilk cupcakes is that it's a great base to be creative with! I opted to use a chocolate swiss meringue and also to fill half the cupcakes with melted chocolate.
Enjoy!!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Rubber Ducky Revisited
About 18 months ago I took a series of photos of Miss A with her rubber ducky.
Since I had some time with just Miss M today and because she recently learned how to sit up, I decided it was time for a similar photo shoot.
But the best photo of the night did not feature the duck at all...
This photo has kept me laughing all night and I hope it does the same for you!
Since I had some time with just Miss M today and because she recently learned how to sit up, I decided it was time for a similar photo shoot.
But the best photo of the night did not feature the duck at all...
This photo has kept me laughing all night and I hope it does the same for you!
Friday, July 17, 2009
Little Toes
Today I had the opportunity to photograph teeny-tiny Baby I who was born only 10 short days ago! I couldn't wait to edit some of the photos from the session, so I thought I would post a sneak peak for her Mom & Dad to see! :)
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Summer Fun
We spent a lot of time during June traveling across the country from Boston to Texas. Not only did we cover A LOT of miles in the car, we got to see many family & friends and the girls had a blast! I'm still working on editing photos from our trips, but here are just a few.
Anna had to wear her hat for most of our time in Texas due to the intense heat & strong texas sun! The high temp on the saturday was 105, to be followed by a "cool snap" of only 95 on sunday!
This was actually taken here in Dayton during a promotion party for 2 guys in Carlos's squadron. Maya spent most of the afternoon relaxing on her new blanket.
And finally, I grabbed this photo during one of the only 2 sunny days in Boston when Anna was able to play in the paddling pool that my mum picked up for her. Anna had a blast in the water... now if only that would translate to a regular pool!
Anna had to wear her hat for most of our time in Texas due to the intense heat & strong texas sun! The high temp on the saturday was 105, to be followed by a "cool snap" of only 95 on sunday!
This was actually taken here in Dayton during a promotion party for 2 guys in Carlos's squadron. Maya spent most of the afternoon relaxing on her new blanket.
And finally, I grabbed this photo during one of the only 2 sunny days in Boston when Anna was able to play in the paddling pool that my mum picked up for her. Anna had a blast in the water... now if only that would translate to a regular pool!
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