Confession: I don't like cupcakes. In fact, I don't like cake (except for flourless chocolate). Its not that I find it disgusting, but I just don't know what people get so wound up about. And yes, I realize that I am living in the cupcake capital of the world, but come on - I could think of million better sweet things. Like ice cream - hello! There is really no better way to describe how I feel about a cupcake than in David Radkoff's
Half Empty
when he says, "...is there anything more blandly sweet, less evocative of this great city, and more
goyish than any other baked good with the possible exception of Eucharist wafers than the cupcake?" That said, I made a batch last week from the
Clinton St. Baking Company Cookbook
for my mom's birthday, and I let her blow out the candle through Google video chat. I did nibble on the cake part, but could not bare to eat the frosting after realizing how much butter and shortening was involved. So baked them, frosted them, and packed them up for friend's school. So obviously I can't judge whether these cupcakes were that great, but my friend did receive a text from his principal that said, "This is the best cupcake I have ever had!" I will say that I prefer Martha's
buttercream frosting over Clinton Street's, because it was easier to spread more smoothly, but all in all I would make this recipe again :)
