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?)
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