Photo recklessly stolen from Creative Cupcake, which is a very nice design blog and website and quite the most creative use of Wordpress I have ever seen.I've never quite got to grips with the concept of cupcakes - the cake frosting balance seems all wrong. The couple I've had from Starbucks have been greasy and sickly, almost to the point of being nauseating. My preferred local supplier of cappuccino, Coffee Angel, does what is a very nice chocolate and beetroot cupcake but I suspect for the true cupcake lover this goes too far in the opposite direction - the sponge is quite dry and bouncy and there isn't much icing at all.
So it's rather odd that since going on this wretched healthy eating lark, I've been thinking obsessively about cupcakes (during the occasional moment that I haven't been thinking about toast. Toast > cupcakes).
Finally, I came to the conclusion that the only way to make this misbegotten project bearable would be to let it all hang out in a dietary sense at weekends, which would produce the added benefit of giving me something to look forward to at weekends, which are otherwise somewhat dull and lonely in these credit crunch times.
M&S has recently been making quite a fuss about its new cupcake range so last Faturday I availed myself of a 4 pack of their raspberry and white chocolate cupcakes (as seen above). And they were actually rather good, to the point that I scoffed two plus the icing off the other two (with a resulting weight gain equivalent to an entire week's misery and deprivation). I may well do the same again next Faturday.
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Having had one of those M&S cupcakes recently, (here's the somewhat blurry evidence) I can confirm they are astonishingly good.
Fortunately for my diet, my nearest M&S is ten miles away.
worth the detour Dave
It's what weekend's are for.
Have just remembered, I need to go into Norwich on Saturday. Hmmm...
Why don't you just start playing the "After a certain age one has to choose between one's face and one's figure" card? It's been my excuse for every lard-laden snack since turning 32.
I detest frosting and icing so hate cupcakes. You can have mine. :-)
I have this arrangement with myself whereby I can have an almond pain au chocolat on Saturdays (and Sundays) if I walk at least two miles to get it. It's worked very well for the past four years now.
Patroclus, don't you find your tastebuds getting confused with the almond/chocolate combo? One or the other's my preference. And warmed.
If god had wanted pains au chocolat to have almond in them, he would have called them 'pains au chocolat et aux amandes'. :-D
You lot are heathens. I'll have you know that the almond pain au chocolat is the lord of all the trans-manche buns.
I resisted temptation. Still, it gave me a blog-post.
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