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It's STILL cake!

Over the past couple of years I've noticed "cupcakeries" popping up all over our metropolitan locales.  Yes, you read that correctly ... "Cup-Cake-er-y".  I've seen it on store signage...


Why the surge in popularity?  I mean geez, cupcakes have been around since 1796 when it showed up in "American Cookery".  I think the first time "cupcake" was used as a reference to  "a cake to be baked in small cups" was 1828 from a cookbook written by Eliza Leslie called "Receipts".  So it seems in truth, cupcakes aren't a "new" thing.  

How do you feel when you eat a cupcake?  Full? Satisfied? Happy? Wanting another one?  Yes.  That's it! You want another one because they're so small and it's not like eating an ENTIRE piece of cake now is it?  You'd never find yourself having TWO pieces of cake? Hell no!  But two CUPCAKES?  Why of course you would!  They're only cupcakes, right?



Do I make cupcakes? Sure I do, but only if I have left over cake batter.  I'm more of a brownie maker.  The Super Wicked Chocolate Brownie to be exact (recipe to follow).  When the mood hits me, I whip up one of the 13 flavors of brownie that I've been making for the past 17 years.  

Super Wicked Chocolate Brownie
Super Wicked Caramel Brownie
Super Wicked Walnut Brownie
Super Wicked Cheesecake Brownie
Super Wicked Orange Brownie
Super Wicked Peanut Butter Brownie
Super Wicked Blond Brownie
Super Wicked Hawaiian Brownie
Super Wicked Candy Cane Brownie
Super Wicked Double Fudge Brownie
Super Wicked Drunk Brownie
Super Wicked Campfire Marshmallow Brownie
Super Wicked Volcano Brownie



See!  Go big or go home.  Have a brownie!  Have two!  Have six!  No one is looking!  I will now share the Infamous Super Wicked Brownie recipe with you from my online cookbook, "Flour On My Nose" :



Let me know how your brownies turn out.  Let me know if you come up with more things to add or if you added some ingredients and it didn't taste the way you were hoping.  Either way, experiment and have delicious fun!  After all, when it gets right down to it, it's still just cake!



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