Today is my birthday. I celebrated with a day trip to New York two days ago. It was a great pleasure to visit the new storefront of the historic Cupcake Café. https://www.instagram.com/p/BjDz1S2FJ9Q I celebrated in Central Park with a six pack ... of mini cupcakes. https://twitter.com/Cupcakology/status/1003353855550255105 It’s also National Chocolate Macaroon Day. I opportunistically studied… Continue reading Taste of history
Author: Andrea Adleman
Cupcakes + doughnuts
It’s National Doughnut Day. At least one bakery is making a doughnut-cupcake combination and it’s evidently selling well. https://www.instagram.com/p/BjiiamyA3Fc It’s also National Hazelnut Cake Day. I found some applicable cupcakes for the previous World Nutella Day.
To the letter
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
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/
Change of perspective
So interesting to see places off the coasts ... for the first time ever. Broadening one’s horizons is so inspiring. Until this year, my airplane trips were infrequent and my destination was always the other coast. I was a wide-eyed tourist in the Twin Cities and Texas Gulf Coast this month, a refreshing change of… Continue reading Change of perspective
Look, vegetables!
For today’s National Zucchini Bread Day, I was thrilled to find this research specimen on my Texas Gulf Coast Cupcakes and Blue Sky tour stop. I couldn’t resist opening my cookbooks, where I found other temptations to try in the future.
Twin Cities = too cool
I’m still processing how amazingly cool it was to take my first trip to the Twin Cities. I ate cupcakes, interviewed people, spent time at an independent bookstore, and heard an inspirational speaker who systematically changes lives like it’s no big deal. Despite the mid-April snow on the ground, the spirit of Cupcakes and Blue… Continue reading Twin Cities = too cool
Reporting from Houston
These are the most illustrative pictures from the Cupcakes and Blue Sky tour stop in Houston. There were cupcakes and interviews at a neighborhood bakery -- textbook fieldwork. Next stop: ❄ ☔ in Minnesota.
Houston, we have lift-off
Rockets engaged. Destination: Houston. Cupcakes and Blue Sky is touching down this afternoon.
Chasing rainbows
https://twitter.com/GTownCupcake/status/973198941322924032 The spring Cupcakes and Blue Sky tour begins tomorrow. I’m as inquisitive as Kermit the Frog to see what lies at rainbow’s end. https://youtu.be/awhyiBv-oQc
Deep roots
Early February was National Carrot Cake Day and I was then rooted. With today’s International Carrot Day, I’m rooted even more deeply. Before I post the inevitable pictures of carrot cupcakes, let’s consider the essential ingredient. It was so satisfying to begin my home baking education last fall by experimenting with a carrot cake. I… Continue reading Deep roots
Sincero: ‘If you get … the last cookie, celebrate’
Today, Jen Sincero is a bestselling author and stunningly successful life coach. As she mentions several times in her You are a Badass at Making Money book, she was once an instructor in a businesswomen’s training program in Los Angeles. At the time, she was an overworked freelance writer in the process of reinventing and… Continue reading Sincero: ‘If you get … the last cookie, celebrate’
Andrea Adleman | Cupcakologist 
