Deprived of Cupcakes 
I have had the strangest craving for cupcakes recently, and I do believe the result will be some experimentation in decorating. :yum:
Throughout my life, I can say I’ve never been the biggest fan of cupcakes. However, after reading through some of Robyn’s fooding adventures involving cupcakes, I’ve developed a desire to have cupcakes, and I’m going to attribute it to the fact that I have clearly been on lifelong deprivation of really good cupcakes. I can honestly say I’ve never had a cupcake that wasn’t made from supermarket cake mix and meagerly frosted with supermarket canned frosting.
Clearly, I am in dire need of enlightenment.
So I think that as soon as I can find the time (i.e. after the Ballroom Dance Team’s Masquerade Ball and competition at UConn, and after my art history midterms and papers are due XP), I am going to have to make some cupcakes and frost and decorate them myself. I might even turn it into a serious practice session for cake-decorating and attempt to create bejeweled cakelets in honor of my new job with Whitehall Jewellers. :) Lord knows that judging from the results of my birthday cake-creation, I can definitely use some practice in the creating-art-with-icing department. :P
On that note, I’d love for suggestions from any readers on what sort of cupcakes to bake and how to make my first from-scratch cupcake experience Teh Best Evar, OMG! :D
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Robyn on 29 Oct 2005 at 11:49 am #
Ooh noo, what have I done? ;D I was presented with the chance to eat an Amy’s Bread cupcake yesterday but I wasn’t hungry enough to eat it. Doh! Sounds like you need an enlightening cupcake eating experience. I have no cupcake baking experience so I can’t be much help with that, but I like the regular vanilla cake with super-sweet icing, a la Magnolia Bakery. I don’t have a favorite cupcake but theirs is very sweet. ;)
Melody on 29 Oct 2005 at 8:34 pm #
*AGHAST* You, passing up a cupcake?? :o ;) I do definitely need to have a Real Cupcake Event (or RCE, I guess, hehe)–and thanks to all your baked goods reports, I’ve determined that I simply must visit Sugar Sweet Sunshine the next time I’m in the City–which won’t be too far in the future, as I have to make several trips each semester to visit museums for my art classes. :)
I was thinking of starting off simple with my RCE and going with a basic yellow or white cake with plenty of super-yummy buttercream frosting. This way I can find out just how different an RCE is from my current cupcake experience without various flavors and add-ins complicating things. I mean, if you met someone who’d never tried a chocolate-chip cookie before, you wouldn’t feed them an Everything But the Kitchen Sink one, would you? No, you’d find the best, simple chocolate-chip cookie first and then expand their realm of cookie-tasting. :)
Robyn on 30 Oct 2005 at 12:41 pm #
Oo, next time you come here you should hit up a few cupcake bakeries! Make a whole event out of it. :D Without getting sick at least.
TAKE ME WITH YOU! HAHAHA!…okay, maybe not such a good idea.
Mm, Everything But the Kitchen Sink cookie sounds good. But yes, gotta start off simple first!
Melody on 30 Oct 2005 at 3:51 pm #
It would be more like YOU should take ME, since I’m the ignorant one when it comes to cupcaking in NYC! And I think you would be a fantastic host. Plus, you’d have someone to share things with, like you’re looking to do so you don’t eat everything on your own, hee.
I actually had a recipe in mind when I said Everything But the Kitchen Sink cookies–apparently it’s really called “Kitchen Sink” Chocolate Chunk Cookies, though. And I think the recipe would be improved with the addition of some nuts. Can’t ever go wrong with nuts in cookies, yum! :yum: