I know the cupcake fad has come and gone, but I am still right in the thick of it. I love cupcakes. I have posted pictures of all kinds of cupcakes to my personal Facebook page recently, leaving friends drooling on their keyboards. But what is so great about them?
I love, love, love individual desserts for so many reasons, not the least of which being because I can eat the whole thing. It started with making mini cheesecakes (I have everything from the 4″ springform – not really single serving – to the tiny inch and a half cheesecake pan with a dowel to get the tiny things out). Really, with the little desserts, you are actually supposed to eat the whole thing. It’s the end of meal miracle. I have made mini chocolate cheesecakes, key lime cheesecakes and more. I have made tiny chocolate tarts in the puniest pans you have ever seen (I have about 20 of them).
Then I realized that cupcakes come in paper wrappers, which means (a) I can buy fancy paper cups so they look awesome and (b) minimizes cleanup and (c) everybody in their right mind loves cupcakes. I’m not sure I would trust someone who doesn’t like cupcakes.
So, in the past several weeks I have been making chocolate cupcakes and working on perfecting the buttercream. Check out some shining examples:
4 thoughts on “My Cupcake Obsession”
I would suggest one thing: the cupcake craze has NOT gone, yet, judging by the fact that Cupcake Wars is still airing new episodes!
BTW, do you make any that use Spenda rather than sugar, or any that are gluten free? Just wondering. . .
– Uncle Bob
oops! Missed a key – that should have read “Splenda.”
I actually don’t use Splenda since (a) I am not a fan of chemicals and (b) I really don’t like the way it tastes. That being said, for diabetics, it is a good choice and easy to substitute cup for cup for sugar. I mostly make things less healthy (adding booze or whatever) 🙂 rather than more healthy (like less sugar!) It is bound to catch up with me eventually…
As a consumer of Florida Keys Girl’s cupcakes, butter and sugar should be illegal, but if they get any more perfect they will be absolutely illegal. Just looking at these photos tempts me to lick my computer screen…Hahaha!