i have had all kinds of fancy-ass OTT cupcakes around chicago but these are still my favorites:
http://www.chicagomag.com/images/2005/12%20December%202005/0512Arena_Cupcake9.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Shave or carry wet naps.
fuck that noise, imo
wet naps are for babies and gurls and I am neither, I am a MAN
a MAN who eats CUPCAKES
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.southportgrocery.com/imgs/photogallery/Cupcakes-on-White.jpg
Some of you anti-cupcakists are clearly having inferior cupcakes.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
there are way too many fucking cupcakes in seattle.
― tehresa, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i like cupcake from time to time but gosh ppl, make something more interesting once in a while!
well that was kind of the root of the argument, wasn't it? ie, cupcakes are harder to do than people think they are, so a bunch of them end up being kind of shitty and overpriced...?
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
the little bakery by my house does a great hostess cupcake imitation that is so good.
― Gucci Manatee (carne asada), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate the idea that a good cupcake is some kind of artful masterpiece. i will eat a good cupcake but it's not like the be all end all.
yes, tza
― omar little, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
n/a's cupcake has perfect frosting to cake ratio
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ie, cupcakes are harder to do than people think they are, so a bunch of them end up being kind of shitty and overpriced...?
What is this NOT true of, though? Trying to think of anything that is amazing 90% of the time and drawing a blank.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Where are those from, n/a?
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
too many of these cupcakes i'm having lately are pretty weak too. i had some the other night from a place in long beach that were purportedly EPIC but they tasted like something you'd pick up for $3.99 for a half dozen at ralph's instead of $5 apiece.
― omar little, Monday, October 12, 2009 2:47 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
$5 apiece! should have been one gd hell of a cupcake for that.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
oh btw I was wrong about that upper-right cupcake, that's essentially molten chocolate cake with ganache stuck in it
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The existence of cupcakes at all is slightly questionable, though not offensive. Why do people need to eat pure sugar and flour in this form, in a world where actual cake exists? If you think you need a big sugar rush on-the-go, you are wrong about that.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.kickasscupcakes.com/include/Menu_2009_09.pdf
here's the menu for Kickass Cupcakes, some of them are really ludicrous
(also on the website they have a pic of their s'more cupcake which is pretty much the most lolsome thing ever)
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
cupcakes are mini-cakes. people like mini-cakes when they don't want to eat (or buy) a whole cake.
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i bet i just recognized southport bakery cupcakes on sight
― A B C, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxp uhhh maybe i don't want an entire cake?
maybe i like variety and can buy several different cupcakes, cut them up, and share them?
maybe i only feel like cake or a cupcake very rarely and am happy to just buy a cupcake and get on w/my life?
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe there needs to be a cupcake thread?
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― A B C, Monday, October 12, 2009 1:54 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
otm
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
okay the mojito cupcake is dumb, but WS all over a S'mores cupcake
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
cupcake bakery hate is definitely, 100% sublimated desire to physically harm women in colored tights
― A B C, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i've had the mojito cupcake, it's good!
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
But none of them will be anywhere near as good as an actual cake, for the reasons Laurel mentions. It's not an optimal way to bake cake. Muffin pans are for muffins. I don't fully understand it, but there is chemistry involved.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm impressed by anyone who makes anything tasty.
Easily impressed. Give a monkey some combination of sugar, cream, butter, chocolate and you will be in awe.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
btw i am kind of glad the bourdain thread is getting cluttered with cupcake talk. i am imagining him and david chang reading it and being all like "what a bunch of STUPID motherfuckers!!'
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
women in colored tights
What, mods?
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
But none of them will be anywhere near as good as an actual cake, for the reasons Laurel mentions. It's not an optimal way to bake cake.
i mean if this had any relation to what i have experienced in my life i'd be totally on board.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
it's 2009, there are no mods only hipsters
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 October 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
from the message board that brought you 700-post threads about tacos and 1500-post threads about pizza comes...
cupcakes: u r all gay
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm with Laurel on cupcake craze = meh. Cupcakes USED to be this kind of oddity, where once a year some person would randomly bring in a bunch of homemade cupcakes...or some whimsical person would go on a 'childhood' flight of fancy. I was okay with them in that context. Now there are ROVING VANS of cupcakes, and bakeries of cupcakes, and there are cupcake wedding cakes and cupcake birthday cakes and they're really not that big of a deal. There's too many of them. Period. Cake pwns cupcake. End of story.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
no maybe you are gay, gay max
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah remember when cupcakes were edgy?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Now there are ROVING VANS of cupcakes
TERRIFYING!
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
if i had been running into cupcakes as often as some of u people apparently do maybe i'd feel the same way.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
There is no Dana, only Zul.
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
there are no mods only hipsters
Not for this thread but you are so wrong.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
pizza cupcake
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
imge #2 for "edgy cupcake":
http://www.wakinglifephoto.com/images/stories/blog/Cullens-Wedding-Reception-04.jpg
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda want the martha stewart cupcake book but that's more about martha than cupcakes and probably moot anyway since i steer away from wheat as much as possible these days.
― tehresa, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
we've been posting about cupcakes on the anthony bourdain thread, i think a digression into mods vs. hipsters is not only appropriate but also necessary
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
from the newest local cupcakery's site:
Now serving deluxe cupcakes daily--including the favorite "Chocolate-Chocolate-Chocolate-Chocolate" every day, and a constantly rotating selection of flavors like "Caramel-Infused Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache Frosting and Caramel Drizzle" and "Chocolate-Coconut Cake with Coconut Creme Filling and Chocolate Ganache Frosting Rimmed in Toasted Coconut."
Cupcakes sold since May 18, 2009: 32,624
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder what contenderizer and nabisco might have to say about cupcakes
― omar little, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
there is this cupcake place in the village that does wine pairings w/ its cupcakes
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Jordan I think it is your sworn duty to go to that cupcakery and punch everyone there in the gunt.
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxp too much fuckin' chocolate
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"Chocolate-Chocolate-Chocolate-Chocolate"
love cupcakes, hate cupcake names
― chemical ali v. chemical frazier (m bison), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"Caramel-Infused Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache Frosting and Caramel Drizzle"
I mean seriously wtf with this "name"
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link