I share two remarkable discoveries for today’s National Croissant Day. The most astonishing is the Seylou whole-wheat croissant that just leaves me speechless. In San Francisco, I found an addition to my everything bagel croissant collection at Neighbor Bakehouse.
Month: January 2018
Pancake as cupcake
Today is National Blueberry Pancake Day. How is that applicable to cupcakes, one may wonder? Enter the Georgetown Cupcake bacon blueberry pancake cupcake from The Cupcake Diaries. Thus proving that whatever the question, the answer is always a cupcake. Footnote: yesterday was National Chocolate Cake Day. For that I refer back to my National Chocolate… Continue reading Pancake as cupcake
Nuttiness
I’m celebrating today's National Peanut Butter Day in the Bay Area with two variations on the theme. Nancy Silverton exhibited her gelato at the Winter Fancy Food Show. Here she illustrates lusty affection for her salted peanut butter gelato. And a cupcake straight outta Berkeley.
Coffee cupcakes that awaken
It’s National Gourmet Coffee Day. I’m celebrating in the Bay Area, birthplace of gourmet coffee at Peet’s. This is the predecessor to Starbucks and premium coffee as we know it. Now, back to cupcakes. I’ve previously observed National Coffee Day with a Sprinkles tribute. Adding two coffee cupcakes here to make it a triple shot.
2018 tour: Cupcakes and Blue Sky
Welcome to 2018, year of Cupcakes and Blue Sky. I’m your host, Andrea the Cupcakologist. I’m a journalist specializing in the study of cupcakes – how and why Americans like them so much. After years of fieldwork to observe cupcakeries and their customers, I’m now sitting down and talking to people about our love for… Continue reading 2018 tour: Cupcakes and Blue Sky
Cupcake > candy
Toffee crunch from Georgetown Cupcake is my celebratory medium for today’s National Toffee Day. What a time to be alive.
Cupcakes and blue sky
It’s frigid in D.C. Light snow on the ground. Viciously cold wind blowing like the apocalypse. Headed to single digits tonight with negative windchill. My agenda is oblivious. Today I’m launching a yearlong quest to find #cupcakesandbluesky. Details to come.
Time to resolve
I resolve to eat cupcakes on other continents in 2018. It has been two decades since I've had a year like this. It's time. It's my time. ✈️
Andrea Adleman | Cupcakologist 