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

[monanotlisa]

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.

YES! Or, I mean, in my case, it's muffins - they used to be practically unknown in Germany, and when you saw them, they were generally wonderful: made from scratch, by private bakers with decent ingredients and LOVE (which clearly is the most decent ingredient of them all).

Now? I ate a blueberry one at Starbucks at the airport at 6am, and it was so nasty I left it half-uneaten. This has happened in other places too, even private ones - they use pre-packaged cake mix, and blrgh...

[resonant]

No, it's true; there are more awful muffins than you can possibly imagine. Plus they're getting huger, too.

I'd add muffins to really good tomatoes and chocolate cake in the category of things that you can only get in two ways: you do the work yourself, or somebody loves you.