For some reason, I'm not a big fan of cake. I have probably made fewer than a dozen cakes in my life, all of them from boxed mixes. I was thinking about baking some sort of dessert today and it came over me strangely that I wanted cupcakes.
I was going to use a Jiffy yellow cake mix I thought was in the pantry, but it wasn't there, and I vaguely remember it being used for cupcakes a while back. There was one cake mix on hand, but it would make 24 cupcakes, and I thought 12 was enough. I toyed with the idea of running to the store, but I wasn't that serious about it. Then it occurred to me that nearly everything I bake -- brownies and lemon bars and all my famous cookies -- are made from scratch. So why couldn't I make a cake from scratch?
I found a recipe on foodnetwork.com for classic yellow cupcakes. Sounded perfect, and I had every ingredient called for, even unsalted butter. I filled a couple of the little papers too full, but otherwise, things went smoothly. I made a buttercream frosting, also from scratch and also from foodnetwork.com. I colored it blue just for fun.
I'm ready for Cupcake Wars.
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