Cupcakes Anonymous

[Aquagal]

Hahaha!



Sometimes good sex is almost better than a cupcake.



I'll ask her when she comes back from her trip away. She left today. School holidays.

Dry pudding? Oh, do you mean like instant pudding? Wow, I haven't had that in years. I forgot all about it actually. I wonder if they still sell it. Thank you!

Yeah, I'm not a fan of super sweet icing. Hers is dark also, but sweet enough to curb that bitter taste you'd normally experience with dark chocolate. It really compliments the cake nicely. Lots of butter and a tiny bit of milk gives it a velvety texture. The smell. Divine.

Yes, a package of instant pudding. You add it to the cake mix and follow the cake recipe like normal. white cake is big here so I usually add vanilla pudding.

You'll be on cupcake hiatus while she's on holiday!

 

[Conager]

Loved the story; you've a gift for storytelling.

 

[pete]

I read him like William Shatner.

i read him as shatner, too.
both in rhythm and gravity

 

[pete]

I've never really been a sweets kind of person until just recently. When I rediscovered cupcakes.

My daughter loves to bake. Absolutely loves it. Comes home from school and whips up a batch of something or another. Makes herself a smoothie and what have you. Plonks herself in front of the telly and waits for her little timer to bing.

She bakes cakes and brownies and biscuits and scones and banana loaf and all sorts of yummy desserts and treats that I don't really eat. Until now.

I got her all the kitchen stuff. Muffin trays and different size bowls and tins and all sorts of fun kitchen stuff. Aprons and a oven mitts and even a brand spanking new Kitchen Aid mixer from Costco.

So anyway, she's been baking now for a couple of years.

One day she wants to make chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing. We get all the stuff from Woolies and off she goes into the kitchen. About an hour later she says, "Here mum." Gives me a cupcake. I'm like "Thank you my baby. Are they yummy?"
"Yeah."

And I swear. I bite into this chocolate cupcake..

She makes -THE BEST- goddamn cupcakes I've ever had in my life. It's so good I want to cry. The cake is tasty and deliciously moist and yum. The icing is velvety smooth and buttery and not too sweet. When you put it in your mouth you say "Motherfucker". That's how good they are.

And I can't stop eating them. I can't get enough of them. I lie awake at night thinking about them. When I have a cup of tea in the morning I think to myself "A cupcake would be nice with this". The other morning I had cupcakes for breakfast. BREAKFAST.

Before I go to bed I have to have a cupcake.
When I feel sad a cupcake makes me feel better inside.
When friends come over I offer them cupcakes. Last time the girls came around my bestie pulled me to the side and asked me if everything was alright.

Does anyone out there have an addiction to cupcakes like this, or any other sort of food they've never particularly ever liked before? Or any addiction at all really so that I feel better about not being the only one?

loved reading this

 

[removed9556]

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Pookie]

I've never really been a sweets kind of person until just recently. When I rediscovered cupcakes.

My daughter loves to bake. Absolutely loves it. Comes home from school and whips up a batch of something or another. Makes herself a smoothie and what have you. Plonks herself in front of the telly and waits for her little timer to bing.

She bakes cakes and brownies and biscuits and scones and banana loaf and all sorts of yummy desserts and treats that I don't really eat. Until now.

I got her all the kitchen stuff. Muffin trays and different size bowls and tins and all sorts of fun kitchen stuff. Aprons and a oven mitts and even a brand spanking new Kitchen Aid mixer from Costco.

So anyway, she's been baking now for a couple of years.

One day she wants to make chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing. We get all the stuff from Woolies and off she goes into the kitchen. About an hour later she says, "Here mum." Gives me a cupcake. I'm like "Thank you my baby. Are they yummy?"
"Yeah."

And I swear. I bite into this chocolate cupcake..

She makes -THE BEST- goddamn cupcakes I've ever had in my life. It's so good I want to cry. The cake is tasty and deliciously moist and yum. The icing is velvety smooth and buttery and not too sweet. When you put it in your mouth you say "Motherfucker". That's how good they are.

And I can't stop eating them. I can't get enough of them. I lie awake at night thinking about them. When I have a cup of tea in the morning I think to myself "A cupcake would be nice with this". The other morning I had cupcakes for breakfast. BREAKFAST.

Before I go to bed I have to have a cupcake.
When I feel sad a cupcake makes me feel better inside.
When friends come over I offer them cupcakes. Last time the girls came around my bestie pulled me to the side and asked me if everything was alright.

Does anyone out there have an addiction to cupcakes like this, or any other sort of food they've never particularly ever liked before? Or any addiction at all really so that I feel better about not being the only one?

Mmmmmmmmm ... cupcakes. *drools like an idiot*

 

[removed9556]

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[barefootgirl69]

I've never really been a sweets kind of person until just recently. When I rediscovered cupcakes.

My daughter loves to bake. Absolutely loves it. (snip)

I got her all the kitchen stuff. (snip)

Does anyone out there have an addiction to cupcakes like this, or any other sort of food they've never particularly ever liked before? Or any addiction at all really so that I feel better about not being the only one?

You're a great mom! I love that you are helping her follow her interests and encouraging her passion!

I'm not particularly sold on sweets, but I've discovered that I love Pico de Gallo - I never eat tomatoes or onions unless they are cooked, so this is new and strange, but so delicious with chicken or beef tacos, chips, quesadillas.... *visions of steak tacos* Anyway, enjoy and keep encouraging your daughter to follow her dreams!

In the 1980s and 1990s, in my experience, ordinary shops didn't even know what you meant by them. Muffins were always these, or similar, not these. Of course, one could always bake one's own, but I've never been much of a baker.

I think when Mr. Thomas left England, he brought them all over here and has been selling them ever since!

 

[doowdniw]

I like cupcakes without all the icing.

 

[Pookie]

This would be me with a cupcake right this moment ...


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[girlsmiley]

Loved the story; you've a gift for storytelling.

It's too bad I can't write for shit. Naww

 

[girlsmiley]

loved reading this

I enjoyed writing it.

 

[girlsmiley]

In England we had a version of cupcakes called fairy cakes which were smaller, dryish, and had just a dab of icing on top - hence the expression 'the icing on the cake' as meaning something nice but unnecessary. The American cupcake, by contrast, was vast, sweeter, stickier, and surmounted by an icingberg of sticky sugariness. It seemed to speak volumes about our two countries.

Nowadays one can buy a dozen varieties of cupcakes in the local supermarket, and fairy cakes no longer exist except in village fairs to raise money for the local church and the like. That, too, seems to speak volumes about our country.

Though one can buy proper English muffins again, at long last. That is something.

This has been one of a series of occasional broadcasts on behalf of the (Proper) Tea Party.

You had me at "icingberg"

Wonderful post as always.

The antipodean in me can't help but mention: fairy cakes aren't the only thing in England that's dry and small.

 

[removed9556]

 

[Saint Peter]

At least it will not continue to be dry.

 

[Conager]

It's too bad I can't write for shit. Naww

To borrow a line from the Coen Brothers "I sense that you, like I, have been endowed, With the Gift of Gab!"

I picture you telling these sort of stories all the time and having them go over well getting good feedback and so on. If what you mean is they don't seem to translate when you try to put pen-to-paper I would encourage you to get a little voice recorder record yourself telling one of these stories to a friend and then simply transcribe it.

I assume you've read Twain for example the celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?

It is really tough to explain what makes someone a good raconteur. I think Twain was one of the best. It has to do with what you leave in and what you take out of a story and I can't really explain it. I know when I've told the story well and it's usually because it's a story that I've told often. I don't really intend to winnow it down and improve it but over time it does get better.

I had a client a while back that was a probably nationally known artist and local illustrator, he gave me some of the above advice after I told a story. Of course having not taken that advice, I thought if I gave it to you maybe I'd rethink taking it

 

[Fata Morgana]

In England we had a version of cupcakes called fairy cakes which were smaller, dryish, and had just a dab of icing on top - hence the expression 'the icing on the cake' as meaning something nice but unnecessary. The American cupcake, by contrast, was vast, sweeter, stickier, and surmounted by an icingberg of sticky sugariness. It seemed to speak volumes about our two countries.

Nowadays one can buy a dozen varieties of cupcakes in the local supermarket, and fairy cakes no longer exist except in village fairs to raise money for the local church and the like. That, too, seems to speak volumes about our country.

Though one can buy proper English muffins again, at long last. That is something.

This has been one of a series of occasional broadcasts on behalf of the (Proper) Tea Party.

Aww. I still have a fondness for fairy cakes and jam tarts. Pure nostalgia.

 

[Conager]

Aww. I still have a fondness for fairy cakes and jam tarts. Pure nostalgia.

No idea about fairy cakes far too manly for that. But jam tarts from the name sounds like something my grandma used to make.

She would take a bit of pie crust dough, make a thumb impression sort of a little cup and put a dollop of jam in them and bake them

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Fata Morgana]

No idea about fairy cakes far too manly for that. But jam tarts from the name sounds like something my grandma used to make.

She would take a bit of pie crust dough, make a thumb impression sort of a little cup and put a dollop of jam in them and bake them

God yeah. Or with lemon curd.