The Anthony Bourdain thread

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.

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)

cupcakes are mini-cakes. people like mini-cakes when they don't want to eat (or buy) a whole cake.

i bet i just recognized southport bakery cupcakes on sight

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?

maybe there needs to be a cupcake thread?

i bet i just recognized southport bakery cupcakes on sight

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otm

okay the mojito cupcake is dumb, but WS all over a S'mores cupcake

cupcake bakery hate is definitely, 100% sublimated desire to physically harm women in colored tights

i've had the mojito cupcake, it's good!

maybe i like variety and can buy several different cupcakes, cut them up, and share them?

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.

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.

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!!'

women in colored tights

What, mods?

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.

it's 2009, there are no mods only hipsters

from the message board that brought you 700-post threads about tacos and 1500-post threads about pizza comes...

cupcakes: u r all gay

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.

no maybe you are gay, gay max

yeah remember when cupcakes were edgy?

Now there are ROVING VANS of cupcakes

TERRIFYING!

if i had been running into cupcakes as often as some of u people apparently do maybe i'd feel the same way.

it's 2009, there are no mods only hipsters

There is no Dana, only Zul.

there are no mods only hipsters

Not for this thread but you are so wrong.

pizza cupcake

imge #2 for "edgy cupcake":

http://www.wakinglifephoto.com/images/stories/blog/Cullens-Wedding-Reception-04.jpg

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.

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

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

i wonder what contenderizer and nabisco might have to say about cupcakes

there is this cupcake place in the village that does wine pairings w/ its cupcakes

Jordan I think it is your sworn duty to go to that cupcakery and punch everyone there in the gunt.

xxxp too much fuckin' chocolate

"Chocolate-Chocolate-Chocolate-Chocolate"

love cupcakes, hate cupcake names

"Caramel-Infused Chocolate Cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache Frosting and Caramel Drizzle"

I mean seriously wtf with this "name"

xxp Likewise max must savage all people found within 10' radius of that wine + cupcake place.

at least it's not "rimmed" with caramel "drizzle"

i think its called "sweet revenge" or some such

you would expect the whoopie pie to be the answer to the engineering problems inherent in the cupcake format while still maintaining the single serving size and cuteness factor but really the cake portion just ends up sticking to your fingers, or sticking to the wrapper in a way that is less familiar and more upsetting than what happens when you tear away the paper from a cupcake. i still think it might blow up at some point.

"rimmed with crusted chocolate"

whoopie pies > > >> > > cupcakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbCT5fXdhhc

oh god, please do not get me started on the beard-ruining travesty that is the whoopie pie

i had a ~$4.50 champagne-grape-brie cupcake a couple of weeks ago...that shit just happened

from this place lolz
From the twisted minds at More Cupcakes comes a wallet-baiting creation on par with a thousand-dollar pizza or i65 martini: the $75 white truffle cupcake. The savory creation is built on a base of white truffle-infused cake, topped with bacon frosting (of course) and crowned with a thorough snow of shaved fresh white truffles. If you set aside a mere five bucks a day, you'll have enough socked away by its debut in early October, at the start of white truffle season.

BURN THAT PLACE TO THE GROUND NOW

finally after all these millenia a good use for fire

what the sweet bejesus is a whoopie pie?

This has become the silliest food argument ever. I like that about it.

what the sweet bejesus is a whoopie pie?

Worst trend in porn so far.

whoopie pie is a northerner moon pie