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Posted by All Done on May 24, 2004, at 2:44:21
Tomorrow is one of my co-worker’s birthdays, so I decided I would make cupcakes to bring in for everyone. The cupcakes are devil’s food with fluffy white frosting and various colored sugar sprinkles. While baking them, several questions occurred to me.
1. Devil’s food. What’s up with this name? I don’t already feel guilty enough for eating cupcakes loaded with frosting? (Please, Dr. Bob, don’t redirect this to the faith board. Thanks.)
2. What is “fluffy white” frosting? This is not a flavor, if you ask me. Granted, I like it, but it bothers me that fluffy white is not a flavor such as chocolate or vanilla. How did fluffy white become a frosting? Were they afraid to call it sugar frosting for fear that everyone would figure out it’s bad for them? Was someone at the frosting company just too lazy and couldn’t come up with something better?
3. The cupcake liner cups. I purchased what I believed to be foil baking cups. When I got home and opened them, much to my surprise and dismay, they were half foil and half paper. Why did the packaging say foil if they are half foil and half paper? I *hate* paper cupcake liner cups. When I asked my cousin about this, she said she has often wondered the same thing. She suggested buying two and using only the foil ones. No way! I’m not giving in to cupcake liner cup companies’ rather obvious scam.
4. The sprinkles I bought are in a container that has six sections, each with a different color sprinkle. I made 36 cupcakes and had 6 different color sprinkles (one from each color of the rainbow). The accountant in me decided that this was perfect, 6 cupcakes for each color and I would do 3 of each cupcake with the sprinkles all over and 3 with the sprinkles clustered in the middle. Well, I finished 4 of the colors and found out that the purple doesn’t sprinkle properly. Apparently, humidity got the best of the purple sprinkles and they were all stuck together. After attempting to remove the entire lid, which did not seem to be an option, I was finally able to jam a toothpick in one of the holes and break the sprinkles apart. No question here, really.
5. I was looking forward to making these cupcakes all day long. Once I made them, I wasn’t so sure I even wanted one. Does this phenomenon happen to anyone else? Every time I bake, I find that I’m sick of what I’m making before I’m even done. Kind of sad but perhaps for the best.
All Done (thankfully, huh?)
Posted by partlycloudy on May 24, 2004, at 10:24:34
In reply to About cupcakes, posted by All Done on May 24, 2004, at 2:44:21
I get "tired" of what I'm cooking too. Especially if it's really time consuming and fussy. I try instead to concentrate on simple, easy yummy things so I don't resent the time they take to make. I don't mind chopping or measuring, but waiting for things to get to the right consistency drives me mad.
Is Devil's Food your favourite cake flavour? I really really love white cake. Frosted, iced, plain, I love it. Actually, I can't think of a cake I would ever turn away.
Cupcakes or full-size cakes, it's all good. As for the cupcake liners, my smarter older sister who bakes way more than I told me the paper liners are only there to separate the tin liners. Doesn't that seem excessive?
Posted by NikkiT2 on May 24, 2004, at 10:40:57
In reply to About cupcakes, posted by All Done on May 24, 2004, at 2:44:21
"I was looking forward to making these cupcakes all day long. Once I made them, I wasn’t so sure I even wanted one."
Yup!! I think its one of the reasons my husband loves me so much *lol* Mean he gets to eat all the cupcakes / cookies / muffins *l*
Nikki x
Posted by All Done on May 24, 2004, at 10:46:58
In reply to Re: About cupcakes » All Done, posted by partlycloudy on May 24, 2004, at 10:24:34
> Is Devil's Food your favourite cake flavour? I really really love white cake. Frosted, iced, plain, I love it. Actually, I can't think of a cake I would ever turn away.
Devil's Food is actually my third favorite cake flavor. For my own cupcakes (vs. ones I bring to work for others), I like to make chocolate chip with chocolate frosting. For a full-size cake, I prefer the Red Velvet flavor I once had when I was in Atlanta. Is this a Southern thing? I'm not sure. The fact that it isn't a real flavor also disturbs me (see my "fluffy white" frosting diatribe). But it was the yummiest cake I ever ate. Do you (or does anyone) know if this cake is supposed to be made with cream cheese frosting, vanilla, butter cream, or "fluffy white"? I think it might be cream cheese, but I just can't remember.
> Cupcakes or full-size cakes, it's all good. As for the cupcake liners, my smarter older sister who bakes way more than I told me the paper liners are only there to separate the tin liners. Doesn't that seem excessive?It is quite excessive. I wouldn't see a problem with separating the foil liners without the paper, but maybe the quality assurance people at the foil liner companies know better.
I think I prefer cupcakes to full-size cake most of the time. For me, it seems to be the perfect ratio of frosting to cake. Then again, sometimes I like to eat a piece of cake and leave the frosting. I'm not always in the mood for frosting.
I think I'm obsessing about cake...
Posted by partlycloudy on May 24, 2004, at 10:54:19
In reply to Re: About cupcakes » partlycloudy, posted by All Done on May 24, 2004, at 10:46:58
...it is a Southern thing. We can buy the cake mix here (Florida) yet when I brought some in to work for a birthday celebration, hardly anyone knew of it. I have seen recipes for it and a major ingredient is red food colouring. And I think an authentic RV cake frosting is made with cream cheese.
Uh oh, that got my mouth watering....
Are you old enough to remember Red Dye #2? I swear maraschino cherries haven't tasted the same since.
Posted by All Done on May 24, 2004, at 10:55:33
In reply to Re: About cupcakes » All Done, posted by NikkiT2 on May 24, 2004, at 10:40:57
> Yup!! I think its one of the reasons my husband loves me so much *lol* Mean he gets to eat all the cupcakes / cookies / muffins *l*
Nikki,
The way to a man's heart is through his belly! I get the same thing at my house, too. But is that all we really are to our dear hubbies - cupcakes, cookies, and muffins? ;)
All Done
Posted by NikkiT2 on May 24, 2004, at 10:59:52
In reply to Re: About cupcakes » NikkiT2, posted by All Done on May 24, 2004, at 10:55:33
Oh I'm much more than that..
I am roasted vegetable pasta.. I am quessidillas (or how ever they are spelt).. I'm also an ironed shirt.. and a kitchen counter of clean washing up
*giggling*
Oh is my hubby ever gonna get a shock when I get a new job and he has to do his share of it all!!!
Nikki x
Posted by octopusprime on May 24, 2004, at 11:34:51
In reply to About cupcakes, posted by All Done on May 24, 2004, at 2:44:21
"Every time I bake, I find that I’m sick of what I’m making before I’m even done."
all done, this happens to me! but then again, my oven is hyperactive and decides to aggressively burn any baked good and i'm forced to do a little cpr to revive it!
re: cupcakes: there is a fine store where i live that makes nothing but cupcakes. it has some fine flavours, like:
mint chocolate chip (with white underneath)
chocolate mocha (mmm)
lemon drop (with a little lemon candy on the top)
pistachio
double chocolate
and so many more ...and now i just buy the cupcakes! i love cupcakes!
Posted by kid47 on May 24, 2004, at 12:22:50
In reply to About cupcakes, posted by All Done on May 24, 2004, at 2:44:21
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