Sunday, January 28, 2007

Cupcakes for Eli

The KitchenAid is awesome--it's quick and efficient and makes a cute whirring noise as it cheerfully does my bidding. I chose to make buttermilk cupcakes as my first baking project. I promised they would be fluffy and sweet, and they were...

What failed me this time was not the KitchenAid. Nope, it was my inability to read labels. I mistakenly bought whole grain pastry flour instead of normal processed white cake flour. To be fair, Whole Foods chose not to carry any cake flour because they hate freedom, so what I got instead of tender, fluffy cupcakes was tender, fluffy cupcakes with some residual grain particles to chew on at the end. Oh, and colon health, because I really care about that at the age of 24.


There are ten whole cupcakes left. Eli's got his work cut out for him this week (I don't think these are suitable for bringing to work; it would just make me sad). But there will be many more baking projects to follow--Eli recently started studying for CFA Level II, and I'm always happy to whip up some extra brain food.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

whole foods, rather than iran (or persia as some call it), belongs in the axis of evil

Eli said...

Axis or no axis, these are some good 'cakes.