Writer Vincent Ware has a great essay called "How You Eat a Cupcake Says a Lot About You". He writes:
The proper way to eat a cupcake, according to my teen son, is to eat the frosting and throw away the rest of the cupcake. Throw away the cake? He acts like he doesn’t know that there are kids starving in Africa who would love to eat nice moist cake.
My daughter has more of a live and let live stance toward cupcake eating. But she prefers to peel the cupcake out of its wrapper, twist off (as level as possible) half of the bottom and eat it. Then she digs into the remaining cupcake, assuring she gets both cake and frosting in every bite. And if the cake and frosting are really good then she will eat crumbs and lick frosting off the wrapper.
Despite what seemed like a very thoughtful approach to eating cupcakes (I agree 100 percent with her wrapper technique), my son insisted that the actual cake part of cupcakes are horrible. Memo to wife: stop wasting your yummy cupcakes on that boy. You can, however,allow him to lick the bowl when you make frosting.
While I try to stay out of the petty disagreements of my children, this cupcake debate was clearly an instance that needed (no, screamed for) some parental intervention. So I slid next to my children and said, “Neither of you eat cupcakes correctly.”
Read the whole thing to find out what he calls the "right" way to eat a cupcake. What about you? I know many of you have different ways of eating according to which part of a cupcake you like best. Tell us in the comments!
Which is a perfect segue into the fact that the novel How to Eat a Cupcake is coming out in March! We'll have more about it, including an interview with the author, Meg Donohue. No it's not a how to book, but it is about cupcakes. You can follow her @megdonohue on Twitter and on Facebook.
Official description:
Funny, free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated, ambitious Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clair’s housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia’s San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond that only two little girls who know nothing of class differences and scholarships could—until a life-altering betrayal destroyed their friendship.
A decade later, Annie is now a talented, if underpaid, pastry chef who bakes to fill the void left in her heart by her mother’s death. Julia, a successful businesswoman, is tormented by a painful secret that could jeopardize her engagement to the man she loves. When a chance reunion prompts the unlikely duo to open a cupcakery, they must overcome past hurts and a mysterious saboteur or risk losing their fledgling business and any chance of healing their fractured friendship.
The proper way to eat a cupcake, according to my teen son, is to eat the frosting and throw away the rest of the cupcake. Throw away the cake? He acts like he doesn’t know that there are kids starving in Africa who would love to eat nice moist cake.
My daughter has more of a live and let live stance toward cupcake eating. But she prefers to peel the cupcake out of its wrapper, twist off (as level as possible) half of the bottom and eat it. Then she digs into the remaining cupcake, assuring she gets both cake and frosting in every bite. And if the cake and frosting are really good then she will eat crumbs and lick frosting off the wrapper.
Despite what seemed like a very thoughtful approach to eating cupcakes (I agree 100 percent with her wrapper technique), my son insisted that the actual cake part of cupcakes are horrible. Memo to wife: stop wasting your yummy cupcakes on that boy. You can, however,allow him to lick the bowl when you make frosting.
While I try to stay out of the petty disagreements of my children, this cupcake debate was clearly an instance that needed (no, screamed for) some parental intervention. So I slid next to my children and said, “Neither of you eat cupcakes correctly.”
Read the whole thing to find out what he calls the "right" way to eat a cupcake. What about you? I know many of you have different ways of eating according to which part of a cupcake you like best. Tell us in the comments!
Which is a perfect segue into the fact that the novel How to Eat a Cupcake is coming out in March! We'll have more about it, including an interview with the author, Meg Donohue. No it's not a how to book, but it is about cupcakes. You can follow her @megdonohue on Twitter and on Facebook.
Official description:
Funny, free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated, ambitious Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clair’s housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia’s San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond that only two little girls who know nothing of class differences and scholarships could—until a life-altering betrayal destroyed their friendship.
A decade later, Annie is now a talented, if underpaid, pastry chef who bakes to fill the void left in her heart by her mother’s death. Julia, a successful businesswoman, is tormented by a painful secret that could jeopardize her engagement to the man she loves. When a chance reunion prompts the unlikely duo to open a cupcakery, they must overcome past hurts and a mysterious saboteur or risk losing their fledgling business and any chance of healing their fractured friendship.
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