I just discovered the archives of Savannah, Georgia's Back in the Day Bakery. I love reading bakery blogs because you get a behind the scenes look at what the day to day life of a baker is like, what decisions go into making their cupcakes and products, their way of doing business, all of it. I found this old but still applicable post. What do you prefer - plain or fancy cupcakes? Or both?
I have been looking at menus and seeing a strange
trend of flavors for cupcakes lately. There are cupcakes with reeces
pieces, oreos, gummy bears, whoppers and I even found one for top
shelf margarita. "Lets plop some odd ingredient on top and call it
fantastic.....It makes me wonder what they are hiding under
all of that stuff. Why would you want to cover up the classic
taste of a cupcake? It's like going to a bad ice cream shop
with dozens of anything under the sun on it...ick.
I am still very old fashioned when it comes to cupcakes. Sure
I love to try new flavors, but mostly I like the nostalgia of
eating a cupcake. I want to be reminded of my sweet childhood
memories of my Mom popping one in my lunch box, birthday
parties and all that.
What I really want is a classic moist delicious cupcake with
chocolate or vanilla buttercream, sometimes cream filled.
I love sprinkles & non pareils, ganache frosting of course,
mocha-licious, and of course coconut topping - yup.
Carrot cupcakes are yum, lemon sure, but top shelf margarita
(are we even still talking about cupcakes???)
Well, Griff and I were thinking, How far is this cupcake flavor
blending trend going to continue? We joked, why not put little
bottles of booze on top. "is this a marketing ploy
that we should try? There could be a cupcake happy hour,
open mic night and cupcake cocktail parties? But, then we
realized, all you need is a delicious cupcake to make your
day.
I like my cupcakes straight up thank you. No ice for me.
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