People, They’re Just Cupcakes. Make Your Own!
Last weekend, during the Taste of Georgetown, I had marching orders (after, that is, passing out City Paper mouse pads, which I think people use to mop up coffee spills now) to pick up cupcakes for a party Carrie and I were hosting that evening. But when I got to Georgetown Cupcake, the line to get inside the tiny store was all the way down the block.
For chrissakes, I thought, you could make cupcakes in less time than it would take to wait in this line. Well, maybe not these Gourmet magazine cupcakes, but in the end, you'd be paying a lot less money per cupcake than those ones at Georgetown. C'mon, folks, give baking a chance!
10:06 pm
Hey, hey, I'm an avid baker and I still don't know what the hell Georgetown Cupcake puts in those things. They're like crack. Like, I've made lots of different cake recipes from different cookbooks, but there's something about their cake that's just better - like, it's fluffier and more flavorful than I can produce at home. Same thing with the frosting - their vanilla frosting has this slight tangy/sweet thing, but I'm not sure how they do it. A little bit of cream cheese? Sour cream?
Anyway, it's easy to say that people should just bake their own cupcakes, but I really think that G-Town cupcake produces a product that one can't easily replicate. And that's part of the reason why I go there and stand in that line - it really is better than what I can make at home. Well, yet. Better than what I can make at home yet.
5:40 pm
Hey, I am an avid baker myself ... with an unfortunate tendency to cheat :-}
But the Gourmet ones look definitely doable - the ingredients are mentioned, but I wonder how I can get a copy of the recipe on paper (without watch/pause/watch/pause on the video! Anyone know how to get the recipe? Wouldn't it be great to give Georgetown Cupcake some homemade competition??