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- Meatloaf Cupcakes With Mashed Potato Frosting
This should have been my entry to the Brooklyn Kitchen Cupcake Cookoff. I would have won for sure.
Triple-meat cupcakes are frosted with two types of mashed potato–beetroot-tinted and plain–and topped with green pepper sprinkles.
I’ll be flying to Iowa for a wedding at the end of this month, and these cupcakes are a preemptive step towards […]
- The Brooklyn Kitchen Cupcake Cookoff, In Which I Participated, But Did Not Win
Yesterday, at 2:45pm, my friend Raphael called with news of a cupcake cookoff at Williamsburg’s Union Pool.
“Omigod I love cookoffs! I mean, I don’t even like cupcakes, but I love to compete! I love to W-I-N! I’m so totally there!”
“Well, good luck–it’s in 3 hours.”
That certainly didn’t give me a whole lot of time to […]
- Cardamom-Pistachio Moguls; or, How Pastry Can Strain A Relationship
I call these cakelets, measuring an inch and a half in diametre, Little Moguls. Only slightly adapted from a cupcake recipe by Vanilla Garlic–by “adapted” you are to understand “ignored half of recipe and purchased rice pudding”–it’s denser than your average cupcake and closer to a madeleine. Why “mogul”? Substitute ground pistachios for almonds and […]
