Cover of Post Punk Cupcakes: 100 Eye-Popping, Mouth-Watering Recipes that Reinvent the Cupcake by Michelle Garcia and Valentin Garcia (co-owners of Chicago's The Bleeding Heart Bakery). We have to wait until February 2010 for Ulysses Press to publish it, but in the meantime, we can ogle The Bleeding Heart Bakery's Flickr account, which is frequently updated and always stunning.
They've just posted on Flickr their August 2009 cupcake flavors and wow oh wow are they amazing. Like, I might have to make that trip to Chicago in August just to try them amazing.
I'm having trouble grabbing the code to post, so do check them out because they make me salivate.
Organic Vanilla cupcake w/ bluberries from Growing Power and Basil from Nichols Farm.
Here's what they are:
August 2009 Cupcake Menu
Plain Jane $2.75 :
Red Velvet
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Chocolate and Vanilla Slash (v)
Chocolate Peanut Butter (v)
Chocolate Raspberry (v)
Fancy Schmancy $3.25 :
Candied White Bean with Grapefruit- Candied White Bean with Grapefruit Grape Fruit Cake with Candied white beans sprinkled inside, Grapefruit curd and frosting
Rosewater with Champagne Ganache- vanilla bean cake with rosewater and fresh rosepetals, Champagne ganache frosting
Tres Leche
Lemon Rosemary- lemon cupcake with rosemary from Smits Farms
Blueberry Basil- vanilla cupcake with blueberries from Growing Power, Basil from Nichols Farm
Caramel Mocha- coffee flavor cupcake, caramel inside, chocolate frosting
The Endangered Species- using the endangered species chocolate to make a ganache filling and frosting
Comments
At first glance I thought Isa Chandra Moskowitz made a sequel to her previous cupcake book.
I mean the phrase post punk is used outside of the culinary realm.
In any event, whatever the reason, it's confusing, and I would think all the authors involved would want to avoid that!
Even the artwork both on this blog and the book itself are of a suspiciously similar aesthetic.
There are a million and half names related to music that one could name this book, but they instead are choosing to cash in on a top selling line of Vegan cookbooks, and arguably one of the more famous baking books in the last 5 or so years.
There is simply no way to even defend this as purely coincidence, as at least one commenter has suggested, maybe if the term Post Punk had permated the baking world to a significant extent, but at this point, it absolutely has no.
I hope that the cupcakes in this book, if it is ever to be published, are at least a bit more creative than the title of this book.
go cupcakes!
We respect the Post Punk Kitchen very much and have had absolutely no intention on insulting anyone or ripping anyone off as we were commissioned to write recipes for a book which had already been established. We are "filling in the blanks".
I would have no problem with any of it changing and I would email the publishers if you feel the same way.
Again, we are really sorry. There was no malice intended.
Obviously I did not sign my recipes and obvious livihood away without knowing something about it. However, it was a working title and to your comment about Post Punk Kitchens, you are right, they probably are angry. That was my point in posting. I also emailed them personally to apologize, even though I did not know anything about the release of the book so early and thought it was still a work in progress as I am still writing it.
Calling me "new" punk would insue that I was young. I haven't been called young or "new" in about 15 years (so its sort of flattering) and I didn't realize I had t prove my "punkness" to anyone at this point in my life.
I would encourage you to actully learn something about me and who I am before you attack my "punk" integrity.
I really love your site. I think you should do something big! I know that with a family it is harder and hats off to you for being a super mom!
Good luck with your work!
1. The book had a working title when the publishers approached each of us INDEPENDANTLEY. Neither of us knew of the others affiliation until I was already writing the book. A working title is given to something "in the mean time" until they decide on the actual title. The name of the book when it actually does come out will not be called post punk cupcakes, the cover was released pre-maturely and my publisher will be publicly apologizing for that.
2. Natalie and I are working on a show TOGETHER which Planet Green called Bake and Destroy without speaking to either Natalie or I. I contacted both the producers and Natalie when I saw the press release and we demanded that it got changed, which is happening as that, as well, is a working title (it even sais working title next to it in the press release).
3. I am sitting in 1 of 2 bakeries opened by with my husband 6 years ago surrounded by over 400 unique pastries I wrote the recipes for on my own. I make upwards of 10 wedding cakes a week which get designed by me and I am wearing a t-shirt designed by my husband in a room designed by my husband. I'm pretty sure we have enough ideas on our own to get by just fine. Again, you should do some research before publicly attacking someone you know nothing about.
4. It is really sad that you think it is all about the money. Maybe that is how you live your life. Personally, I do not pay myself for any of my work. Pastry makes me happy, not money. I donate our profits beyond what we need to pay bills and we work with several different charities. I will not be making a dime off the book as I have already committed to donating that as well.
I really hope that you can see reality through your anger. I wish you all the best.