Cupcake woe

[resonant]

This is why I hate it when things I like get popular.

Since cupcakes are all trendy now, has anyone noticed how everywhere you go, the world is now full of really, really horrible cupcakes? And I buy them, because when I see something that looks like a cupcake, I crave something that tastes like a cupcake -- but they don't.

The cupcakes at Barnes & Noble Cafe were probably pretty decent when they were fresh, but they've been sitting in the display case for lord only knows how long, looking more beautiful because they're unwrapped, so that when you buy one, the frosting is too hard to bite through. (The cheesecake suffers from a related problem. But I digress.) The cupcakes at Starbucks are just weird, man, I don't know; they taste like they were grown from crystals in a laboratory.

The cupcakes at Kroger are best not spoken of at all.

Looks like I'm going to be forced to make some.

Comments

[tevere]

I was back in Sydney in about mid-2008 (when the cupcake thing was in mid-swing? seems to be fading now) and was so excited to see entire shops devoted to cupcakes! But despite being absolutely beautiful, the insides were just bland sawdust that had no resemblance whatsoever to 'vanilla' and 'cupcake'. Sad.

I think I prefer muffins anyway. (Although muffins are going through their own strange phase-- when did they become as big as my head?)

[delurker]

I had the same experience in Sydney a few months back. (Although the little container/bag thing to carry your cupcakes in was adorable! Pity about the cupcake though.)

(Although muffins are going through their own strange phase-- when did they become as big as my head?)
Speaking of strange muffins, I did see a "muffin-top" pan in my supermarket yesterday: for cooking only the tops of muffins. 0.o

[resonant]

The trend is going strong here in Corntown, but maybe the big cities have already gotten bored and moved on to ... what? breadsticks? sorbet? radish roses?