CUPCAKES
It's not enough to have one gourmet cupcake joint in town, Cupcake Royale, whose lemon and lavendar cakes are to die for--now we've got Trophy Cupcakes as well (which Jess Thomson reported on in January). I feel this picture accurately represents the current utter hysteria over cupcakes. What, you haven't heard about how people are flipping out over mini-cakes not just here but nationwide? How every city seems to have a cupcake scene, as in "What was the cupcake scene in Atlanta like before you arrived?" which is an actual question asked in an interview on the blog Cupcakes Take the Cake (since 2004).
Here's an excerpt from another interview on that page (one of many), with the self-described pro-blogger and femmebot Violet Blue, who blogs about cupcakes and sex on Metroblogging SF.
You write primarily about sex in various permutations, and are often found being photographed with cupcakes. Is there a connection for you between sex and cupcakes?
Absolutely. I'm not much of a sweet lover: I tend to prefer foods that are savory, I hardly ever order dessert in a restaurant and I never eat candy. But cupcakes are transcendent in every way. They combine rich textures with complex flavors, and when you take that in with the purely physical act of eating a fastidious little cake so lovely, delicate, intense and lick-your-fingers-sensual, I think you have one of the sexiest foods on earth.
I'll buy that. A quick google search for 'cupcake blog' yields a multitude of them, including Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, 52 Cupcakes, Portland's Saint Cupcake bakery blog, the Mom-approved Cupcake Creations, which includes sensible and tasty recipes for versions in gingerbread, coconut, and chocolate orange. Not so Cupcake Bake Shop, where you can learn to make peruvian caramel-filled lemon cupcakes with raspberry buttercream and coconut. Or chocolate with chestnut-fromage blanc frosting and madeira wine glaze.
Give me a freaking break! How precious is this going to get? Pearls on the cupcake? Been there. Graceful plastic deer from the 1940s holding up your candle? Done that. Cuba libre cupcakes? Well, if you need a taste-tester...
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