Cupcake Craze
The new it places everywhere are oh-so-stylish cupcakeries popping up across the country. From New York to Hollywood and everywhere in between hip new pastry chefs are putting they're own spin on the age old cupcake...
The gourmet gemcake trend really took off back in the late '90s when HBO's Sex and the City series name-checked New York's Magnolia Bakery as a favorite spot for lead character Carrie Bradshaw. Here's a small list of unique cupcakeries around the U.S.
Hostess never imagined anything like this before!
Cake Fetish – Known for their “half baked” cakes
Albuquerque , New Mexico
Cupcake – Featuring a Black bottom cupcake (chocolate cake with chocolate chip cheesecake baked in, topped with cream cheese frosting...Mercy.)
Charleston, Columbia, and Mt. Pleasant ,SC
Molly's Cupcakes – Try a specialty or Vegan cupcake, homemade ice cream, eclairs and more.
A portion of all profits are donated to schools in the Chicago community.
Chicago, Illinois
Cupcake Royale – This month, featuring the “RED HOT” (Peppery cinnamon Theo Ghost chile frosting on chocolate cake royale.
Seattle, Washington
Crushcakes and Cafe – Make Cupcakes not War with their cool vanilla bean cake topped with wild tie-dye frosting and a chocolate peace sign.
Santa Barbara, California
Bettie's Cakes – Come check out Bettie's double decker cupcake bus and some amazing cupcakes too!
Saratoga Springs, New York
FYI:
In the beginning, cupcakes were sometimes called "number" cakes, because they were easy to remember by the measurements of ingredients it took to create them: One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs, one cup of milk, and one spoonful of soda.
The first mention of the cupcake can be traced as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation of “a cake to be baked in small cups” was written in “American Cookery” by Amelia Simms. The earliest documentation of the term “cupcake” was in “Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats” in 1828 in Eliza Leslie's Receipts cookbook.
Paper liners were not used until shortly after World War I when the James River Corporation manufactured cupcake liners on machines that just a few years before were churning out artillery shells.
And just for a little fun, try the latest iPhone app...Cupcakes!
And just for a little fun, try the latest iPhone app...Cupcakes!
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