Sometimes I eat savory food. Among my favorites are the foci of today’s food holidays. For breakfast, I honored National Bagel and Lox Day with research in triplicate, accompanied by a generous serving of nostalgia. I had the classic bagel and lox from Bullfrog Bagels, Baked by Yael, and Bethesda Bagels. The most visible… Continue reading Fishy, savory, doughy
Author: Andrea Adleman
That hazelnut spread
It’s World Nutella Day. May it be peaceful and riot-free. May it grace cupcakes with its nuttiness.
Rooting for carrot cake
Carrot cake is my favorite. In my book, there are many carrot cake days, but today is the capitalized National Carrot Cake Day.
A decade of cake pops
It’s the 10-year anniversary of the curious cake pop invention. Bakerella is widely considered the inventor of these two-bite fusions of cake and frosting on a stick. Two years ago, Baked by Yael opened the first D.C. storefront dedicated to them. Having written about the latter, I’m invested. Therefore, duty calls and field research is… Continue reading A decade of cake pops
Creative croissants
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.
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. ✈️
Holiday in hand
I researched chocolate peppermint and gingerbread cupcakes this month. December is National Egg Nog Month, so I celebrated in my preferred handheld form, seeking out egg nog cupcakes. I tasted a chocolate egg nog cupcake and was unimpressed. As I previously confessed, I’m not crazy about chocolate, so I felt the chocolate dominated any… Continue reading Holiday in hand
Muffins, cupcakes, and identity
Today’s National Oatmeal Muffin Day calls to mind two things. The first is how much I truly like oatmeal muffins. I tried to bake some for this occasion, but the experiment was less than photogenically successful. Mixing the batter gave rise to all sorts of nostalgic aromas I haven’t smelled in decades. Instead of a… Continue reading Muffins, cupcakes, and identity
A December surprise for National Cupcake Day
Never say never. I never thought I’d be enthusiastic about a packaged cupcake. Then I met Bob Goodman. Destiny must have drawn me to the Goodman Gluten-Free booth at the MetroCooking D.C. show the other weekend. Wandering aimlessly, I came to a booth sampling cookies and cupcakes, so I instinctively stopped to beg like a… Continue reading A December surprise for National Cupcake Day
Blissful discoveries for National Pastry Day
For today’s National Pastry Day, I happily shifted my focus to said species of baked good and traversed the city to examine some research specimens. I’m still entranced by this first pastry, product of a new and most noteworthy bakery called Seylou. For days since tasting its whole-wheat croissant, I’ve been struggling for words other… Continue reading Blissful discoveries for National Pastry Day
A savory, buttery National Cookie Day
On this National Cookie Day, I present my homebaked scourtins, olive biscuits from the south of France. The recipe is from Joan Nathan’s King Solomon’s Table, topic of my first Olive Oil Times story.
Working on National Cake Day
If the calendar says it’s National Cake Day, I obviously have a job to do. My liberal interpretation of cake extends to cake doughnuts. Research is such a chore.
Thankful to learn
I’m thankful to be dedicated to cupcakology. Having made this my full-time profession, I’ve been following news, reading books and getting to know experts all year. I’m unspeakably grateful to be conducting doctoral-level research. While my studies are mostly academic, I recently got the itch to try my hand at baking. I blended theory, practice… Continue reading Thankful to learn
Thinking about everything
A multiyear aggregation of doughnuts, croissants, baked goods, ice cream, and more made with everything bagel seasoning.
Andrea Adleman | Cupcakologist 