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This Book by Amy Sedaris is quite funny, but it's also pretty practical, a good guide for an amateur to learn how to cook to impress people. Not considering myself in this category, I hadn't opened it since getting it for xmas a few years ago. But I have become a cupcake convert recently, and Amy Sedaris has done for cupcakes what Starbucks did for coffee. Starbucks doesn't have the best coffee, but it had actual varieties of coffee and it was typically better than your standard diner fare. So yeah, now White People in cities pay $3 or more for gourmet cupcakes. These are not Betty Crocker cupcakes, and the best are almost worth $3.
Still, I was pretty sure I could do better. I started with the boxed cake mix, adding a few extra ingredients here and substituting there, and then I found this recipe for frosting. Initially I used salted butter - cos that's all I had - and it turned out fairly gross. Actually I couldn't get it to bind initially, my butter was too cold, but finally it warmed up enough to turn perfect. Friday Kell got me the unsalted butter I needed, and I added too much vanilla and cinnamon - in theory. In practice it tasted divine, like French Toast in icing form. I added some V&C likewise to the Betty Crocker mix, and voila, FRENCH TOAST IN CUPCAKE FORM.
Unfortunately I'm now out of cupcake papers, so I'm using Ms. Sedaris' recipe to just make a flat rectangular cake instead of cupcakes. (There's a flat cake recipe later in the book, but...)
Still, I was pretty sure I could do better. I started with the boxed cake mix, adding a few extra ingredients here and substituting there, and then I found this recipe for frosting. Initially I used salted butter - cos that's all I had - and it turned out fairly gross. Actually I couldn't get it to bind initially, my butter was too cold, but finally it warmed up enough to turn perfect. Friday Kell got me the unsalted butter I needed, and I added too much vanilla and cinnamon - in theory. In practice it tasted divine, like French Toast in icing form. I added some V&C likewise to the Betty Crocker mix, and voila, FRENCH TOAST IN CUPCAKE FORM.
Unfortunately I'm now out of cupcake papers, so I'm using Ms. Sedaris' recipe to just make a flat rectangular cake instead of cupcakes. (There's a flat cake recipe later in the book, but...)
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