09.03.07
Cupcake Lessons
Today in the Cupcake Factory, we learned something important.
Namely, that when you take a recipe for a layer cake, and you decide to bake up the batter as cupcakes, you may get a whole lot more cupcakes than you were really shooting for.
In this instance, 45 cupcakes, when I was really thinking that 24 would be about right.
So, in the end…
I made 36 cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and glittery rainbow sugar for M to take to work tomorrow for his belated birthday treat to share with his coworkers.
And Malcolm ate one, as quality control, because I’m trying to keep concentrated doses of sugar out of my mouth for the most part because it tends to make me first hyper, then psycho, then feel somewhat ill.
What happened to the other 8?
I dolled them up with extra swirls of buttercream, since I had more than I needed, and sprinkled them with chocolate sprinkles, and took them down the street to my neighbor Erica, who is a single mom who runs her own housecleaning firm and has a toddler to run herd on. She was very happy to get them and demolished one in the time it took her to say thank you and chitchat for a few minutes. I am told that the buttercream is particularly good. I imagine that’s because of a) real butter, b) real vanilla, and c) a touch of almond extract for depth of flavor.
I’m not sure I ever thought I was going to grow up to be the kind of person to sorta randomly take plates of cupcakes down the street to the neighbor’s house, just because, but apparently I have done.
It’s not so bad.