the salted caramel cupcake from little cupcakes is another beastie altogether: a fine-crumbed chocolate cake topped with a sculptural spiral of thick, sticky caramel. this one’s for the sort of person who would mainline dulce de leche if such a thing were possible. or, the kid. (i know it doesn’t look like it, but i really don’t feed her cupcakes every day.)
we ate these sitting on a step in the city one overcast afternoon, and i wish i’d had a cup of black tea handy to keep things in check; even the small, bite-sized version was enough to render me slightly delirious. it’s good though, knowing there’s a little place downtown where a lovingly hand-crafted sugar jolt can be had for a scrape over $2.
(my favourite city cupcake is probably still the pistachio cupcake from little cupcakes, which you might remember from this time last year.)
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dang, that is beautiful. someone gave me a chocolate cake box mix from vosges, which bound to be awesome, so i’ve been wanting to do something special. i was thinking of adapting heston blumenthal’s black forest gateau, but this looks infinitely easier. hm, decisions!!!
love the photo!!! and the glimpse of the front tooth gap! i always have a cup of black tea on hand when i have dessert – a dangerously effective way of squeezing in more sugar, but delirium is such an under-rated state of mind!
santos: hmm.. surely the caramel-topped cupcakes would be too easy. gaarn, go the black forest gateau. what a sense of accomplishment you will have when yer done. plus, everybody likes a black forest gateau. well, at least i do. 😉
helen: ha! she has lost a couple more teeth since the photo — if that’s not an indictment of sugar eating, i don’t know what is.
ps. oh yes, i do like a bit of delirium now and again, but it’s nice to know that you are in control of it, rather than the other way round!
Ooooh dearie me! Such a gorgeous array of cupcakes you’ve posted! And that wee salted caramel one looks mighty tempting.