When I looked ahead and saw that today is National Macaroon Day, I consulted my cookbooks and prepared Dorie Greenspan’s coconut patties, her variation on the classic. Delicious. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeihNtFWAAEx2dh.jpg This blogger and others on social media are posting the French macaron. Le sigh. A single letter is a world of difference. Returning to cupcakery, a… Continue reading To the letter
Month: May 2018
Well done
What’s on the menu for Memorial Day? How about hamburger-inspired cupcakes, as demonstrated in this video? https://www.facebook.com/DCcupcakes/videos/1047840018585158/ Additionally: https://www.instagram.com/p/BjTT0mVh458/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BjA3bMMgS4L Cheers to creativity that’s both well done and rare.
Red (wine) velvet
I baked the Bravetart red (wine) velvet cupcake for February’s National Drink Wine Day. Today is National Wine Day, so here’s what I previously posted to social media.
Devilish
It was delightful to honor National Devil’s Food Cake Day by #procrastibaking.
TIL
I’m always learning new acronyms from social media. Going meta, TIL this stands for today I learned. TIL a glorious new word: procrastibaking. It defines my life ever since I bought a stand mixer last fall. I’m an industrious procrastibaker. https://twitter.com/nytfood/status/996477793222496256 The graphic that accompanies the story places a cupcake at the center. It’s a… Continue reading TIL
Soul food
Hummus is soul food. In its perfect form, it has therapeutic power over mind, body, and spirit. If you let it, it will quiet all noise and offer momentary escape from life’s gravity. My deep dive into educational mode means I study cookbooks and try recipes. I bow to Zahav for a deceptively simple recipe… Continue reading Soul food
Picture this
It’s National Eat What You Want Day. I’ll have cupcakes, preferably by the dozen. Here are some of my favorite group shots through a decade of cupcakology. I’m obsessed with the luscious purity of the Sprinkles olive oil cupcake. A dozen cupcakes for a decade of operations: celebrating Georgetown Cupcake’s 10th birthday. Movin’ on up.… Continue reading Picture this
May there be cupcakes
I admit, unicorns are fantastically photogenic. Even so, there has been quite a bit of earthly cupcake news in the past six months. The most dramatic was the May 5 news of Magnolia Bakery’s stunning expansion, a seismic shift in the cupcake world order. Preceding events contextualize this pivotal news, telling a story of ongoing… Continue reading May there be cupcakes
Seismic
The landscape just shifted dramatically with news that “Magnolia Bakery Plans to Open Franchises Across the U.S.” https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/992760859381387266 A blog post is insufficient to put this in context. Somebody needs to write a book about it. Good thing I have a running start.
Drinking it in
A Mexican holiday becomes an excuse for revelry. Tequila flows every which way, even into cupcake recipes. Cheers to drinking in the good life, in whichever form that may appeal. https://www.instagram.com/p/BiPerTygRMS https://www.instagram.com/p/BiZuzWPALs5 https://www.instagram.com/p/BiNPkpOgo7I https://www.instagram.com/p/BiahA6sD_Ds/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BiYJy0OhR2E/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BiZbYAQhTw7/
Andrea Adleman | Cupcakologist 
