September 27, 2009 – 8:52 pm | by admin

If you’ve been out of your house in the last year, than you’ve probably seen cupcake shops popping up all over the place. I don’t frequent them, but I do have a crush on cupcakes. They’re a sublime 6 bites of cake and icing. For some reason, annihilating multiple cupcakes isn’t accompanied with too much guilt, but eating a second piece of cake leads to an unforgivable world of making sure I get on the treadmill…. twice . I recently tested out David Lebovitz’s adapted recipe for Showgirl Cupcakes to take on a field trip with my daughter and her class. Nigella Lawson , from whom the recipe was adapted, has her version in her cookbook Nigella Bites. Both recipes are tasty, but I prefer a little less sugar than his, due to the peaks of frosting on top. I’m going to go somewhere in between his 2/3’s cup and her 7 Tbsp., compromising at 1/3 cup sugar and a touch of honey. These “compromised” cupcakes have no need for frosting to complete their summit. But then, isn’t that a muffin and not a cupcake? Oh no …no, no, we must make buttercream . Me, myself, and I didn’t seem to experience any altercations in eating them with AND without frosting. Honey-Vanilla Cupcakes…
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