I'm making cupcakes this weekend, so I looked around the web for inspiration. Can someone remind me again: what did we do before the internet?
Hmm... I'm leaning toward making those little sea-anemone-looking buddies up there. You may be spiky, but you don't scare me, cupcakes. Maybe something in a devil's food cake with cream cheese frosting? Too rich? Not rich enough? I'm such a poor judge of these things, probably because I eat sticks of butter for breakfast.These are all from a Flickr user called chotda. Check out the other 38 images in his/her/its cupcake photostream.
"Cupcake photostream." There's a phrase I bet you couldn't have predicted ten years ago. These are, indeed, magnificent times in which we live.
10 comments:
Go for red velvet.
Just because it's red. But also pretty damn good.
And it could also look like someone impaled themselves on the frosting spikes.
Oh my god. Now I want a cupcake.
Unfortunately, mine tend to be rather slapdash affairs in which I just spread the frosting on top of the cupcake with a spatula. So sad.
altho i too dig the sea-anemone ones.
Beware of food colouring - it stains clothes. Let the kids decorate their own damn cupcakes. Give them frosting, popsicle sticks and a few marshmellows and jellybeans. It will be messy, but they will have fun.
The spikey ones are really terrific looking, but I have to go with doppelsis - kids love nothing more than sticking candy in icing.
You should visit the great cupcake bakery here in Berkeley. Here's the menu, if this helps to further inspire your baking:
http://www.loveatfirstbitebakery.com/menu.html
These are not helping my dieting plans. Oh frosting, why must you haunt me?
Er, Doppelsis? You realize these are two-year-olds? Give them access to frosting? Inside my house? Never have your insidious plans to make my life more difficult been so transparent. Perhaps I will give each child an individual marshmallow to hold. For five minutes. That'll be fun, right?
Anonymous, that looks like an awesome bakery. We have a similar one here in Vancouver, which I was tempted to order from rather than make my own, except that theirs are a buck apiece just for the minis. They're delicious and all, but I can eat a dozen mini cupcakes by myself, so I can't justify the budget.
also so good: http://cupcakeblog.com/
s'mores cupcakes!
My vote is for the Totoro... Where do we send our S.A.S.E.?
The Moosewood Dessert Book has the best cake recipes yet. I especially recommend the lemon chiffon cake and I only make cupcakes. They can be freezed in quart sized snap baggies. If you just sit the plate with the little cakes in the freeze for 5 five minutes than they don't get crushed in the bag. Haven't made any in a few years. All my friends are more and more nonsugar so my cakes get smaller and smaller.
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