Over at The Awl a few weeks ago, Jolie Kerr told us how to make margarita cupcakes with tequila shooter toppers! Those are pictured below, and apparently, very popular. She writes:
The recipe for margarita cupcakes is built around a white cake mix with a whole bunch of add-ins. Normally I wouldn’t advocate for the use of boxed cake mixes because, really, how hard is it to mix together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt? That’s pretty much what a cake mix is, but also are you really going to trust that the fine folks at Betty Crocker aren’t cutting their cake mixes with laxatives and baby powder? Right, do it yourself, if only to ensure that your cake mix is as pure as possible and the DEA isn’t going to bang down your door to confiscate your Sachertorte.
For the sake of this recipe though, it’s fine to use a boxed mix and here’s why: This is not the simplest cake to make. It's not hard, it's just got a number of steps and also? We’re hardly talking about fine pastry here. We’re going to shoot tequila off the tops of these cupcakes, so I think we can all agree to relax our standards a bit.
And Village Voice food blog Fork in the Road lets us know about a New York margarita cupcake coming up from Robicelli's:
Robicelli's will be hawking its latest cocktail cupcake -- or caketail -- creations at Joe the Art of Coffee locations February 21 and 22 in honor of National Margarita Day.
Robicelli's Partida Margarita Cupcake is a lime cake infused with Partida Blanco tequila and lime butter cream, and garnished with candied lime zest and Maldon flake sea salt. The Angry Mango Cupcake is made with chili-spiked Partida Reposado tequila and topped with mango butter cream and a sweet-salty jalapeño slice.
See robicellis.com for more information and to keep up with their innovative new flavors.
Margarita cupcake recipe and Robicelli's NYC margarita cupcakes for Margarita Day
The 1,090 calorie blackbottom cheesecake brownie cupcake at Crumbs
I stopped by the Wall Street area Crumbs Bakeshop today, which was overrun by customers. They were out of red velvet and also most Valentine's Day cupcakes. I tried the top of an Almond Joy cupcake that was delicious but gave the rest to a friend.
But what really struck me was seeing the calorie count on their new blackbottom cheesecake brownie cupcake:
1,090 calories in one cupcake? WOW.
That's all I can see. Check out Crumbs.com to find a location near you.
Mini heart cookies on raspberry Valentine's Day cupcake at Spot Dessert Bar
I stopped by Spot Dessert Bar in New York's East Village yesterday and got their special Valentine's Day raspberry cupcake, with two cute little heart cookies on top, and their vanilla lemon yuzu cupcake. Both were delicious, and I couldn't get enough of the yuzu lemon-filled cake, or the glitter on the raspberry one. They've got cupcakes packaged specially for Valentine's Day (see below) and a festive atmosphere and I have to say, it smelled divine in there - more buttery and cozy than I can ever remember. See more in this Flickr set. Spot is part of Seamless Web and Delivery.com, and can be reached via spotdessertbar.com or at 212-677-5670.
Meetup Recap at Everything Frosted
Last Thursday, we had a meetup at Everything Frosted in Chinatown (105 1/2 Mosco). To celebrate Chinese (Lunar) New Year, there were special flavors including green tea, taro, black sesame and red bean. Chef/Owner John Wu studied under White House Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses. He was kind enough to save some cupcakes for us and take a picture with the group.
Everything Frosted doesn't have any seating but it is right across the street from Columbus Park in Chinatown, which is perfect for a spring day. Check out the Facebook Page for Everything Frosted.
