"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
--Roger Ascham

9.25.2007

Let them eat cupcakes

I feel like I'm blogging to a brick wall (Hello? Anyone out there?), but I'll post regardless. So yeah, I'm going to type about cupcakes. I don't get them. Yes, I know what they are and they can be yum, but I'm not going to wait in a line that is full of tourists and wraps around the block for a cuppy cake. They aren't that incredible. The baked goods in question seem to be popular in this here metropolis. I stumbled upon one such purveyor and bought three cupcakes: two for a pal and one for myself. It was sweet but not too sweet, moist and fresh. I enjoyed the confection but will not be dreaming about it tonight or planning my next trip to that establishment. No cupcake addiction for me. When you think about it, cupcakes are messy and make waste because of that wrapper that you have to toss away and sometimes you get frosting on your fingers from picking it off. Giant cupcakes seem to be trendy too. When transporting cakes in a cup, you have to be careful so the frosting doesn't get all mussed and your friends don't think you're a klutzy spaz. And that is my cupcake manifesto.

2 comments:

parkerj said...

Cupcakes are the greatest. I will elucidate:
1. Easier to eat cake with your hands if it's in a wrapper.
2. Cupcakes are very forgiving when you're icing them.
3. Bakers get really creative when they only have to decorate a 3" circle. Hit me with the sprinkles.
4. Portion control.

PS- You're blogging for me and Gene, isn't that enough?

Inessa said...

OK, I will take you out for cupcakes when you visit me. No shortage of them here.

And yes, an audience of two is better than an audience of zero!