Judith Lieber’s Strawberry Cupcake Minaudiere

For those of you wondering, a miniaudiere is “a small, sometimes jeweled case for a woman’s cosmetics or other personal objects, often carried as a handbag.”

Designed by Judith Leiber, this handcrafted Strawberry Cupcake Miniaudiere is fully beaded in rose and light pink Austrian crystals with gold-tone hardware. At a mere height and width of 4 1/4”x 3 1/2,” it sells for $4,295 at Neiman Marcus.

If used as a sling and lobbed at someone’s head, this cupcake could be lethal.