Super delicious birthday cookies

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.

In my opinion this press release went a little overboard with the trademark symbols, but I'm always happy to share news about free cupcake giveaways!

From PR Web:

Cupcake Lounge™ is making its first appearance in Westhampton, NY for Cuptail™ Hour. Cupcake Lounge™ is the latest cupcakery throwing its cuptails™ into the mix. Cuptails™ combine cocktails with cupcakes, resulting in a thirst-quenching snack for adults. Committed to a healthful method of baking, Cupcake Lounge™ uses substitutions for fat and sugar, lowering the overall calorie count.

The offering includes such cuptails™ as Banana Foster, The Bourbon Pub, and Piña Cupolada. Both frosting and cupcake are infused with alcohol. Also available are favorites such as Red Velvet and Carrot Cake. Cupcake Lounge™ will be hosting a tasting on February 12th, from 3-6pm at Hamptons Wine Shoppe, 62 Sunset Avenue, Westhampton, NY.

Cupcake Lounge™ was launched in December 2010. Their cuptails™ and cupcakes are available online. All cupcakes are made to order from scratch. Shipping is available within the United States. Cupcake Lounge™ and cuptail™ are trademarks belonging to Cynthia Sachs.

And more info is available at the official
Cupcake Lounge™ site, where it also says their cream cheese frosting is low-fat and contains 50% less sugar than typical frosting. Flavors include The Bourbon Pub (chocolate cupcake with pecans and a shot of whiskey topped with a nightcap of smooth Bailey's cream cheese frosting), Cupjito (vanilla cupcake mixed with the island flavors of fresh mint and rum topped with a hip-shaking vanilla rum cream cheese frosting), Frankie + Hazel (chocolate espresso cupcake mixed with Frangelico, toasted hazelnuts, and chocolate chips topped with a light and silky Frangelico cream cheese frosting.), Mocha Buca (chocolate espresso cupcake stirred with kahlua topped with Sambuca cream cheese frosting and a chocolate covered espresso bean), Cupcake Royale (vanilla cupcake kissed with pink champagne and a berry surprise topped with Chambord cream cheese frosting and pearls) and others. You can see photos and learn more on their Facebook page.



Cupcake Lounge™
phone 631-517-0343
fax 360-248-6608
contactcupcakelounge at gmail.com