Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Still crawling
I knew I was taking a chance w/ UWS's Silver Moon Bakery. After all, who's ever heard of them? They're certainly not written up in any of the gazillion cupcake critique stories out there. Accordingly, I have only myself to blame for the utter blahness I experienced when I took that first tentative bite. Let's just say that what you see above is now in the trash can at my feet. The 'tails: The cake tasted like sandwich bread--hardly sweet, at least not in the way a cupcake should be. Even worse, it tasted like stale sandwich bread. Apparently they try and counteract this w/ supersweet frosting, which also misses the mark. Irrefutably over-the-top, and overall cheap-tasting. Clearly, the only redeeming quality is that lovely lavendar rosette--but only for its looks. (I'd rather eat a real one.) You know the old adage: "A cupcake can't get by on good looks alone." Touche.
Get outta town. How can you possibly be so good, you of Yura & Company origin. You w/ your fussy little carrier (given your UES zipcode, I guess it's no wonder), your partytime sprinkles, elegant white swirl... You're too much! Well, too much for some--but not for me. I loved every last bite of you--from your pleasantly sweet, light-as-a-cloud frosting to the perfect springiness of your vanilla cake to the way your wrapper peeled effortlessly from your perimeter. Who created you? I'm looking for a god to worship.
Shoot though. Since I digested you last week, I don't suppose you'll be responding to my questions anytime soon. That is, unless your Creator is the kind that... Say, could you be floating around somewhere up there? Maybe it's time to whip out that Ouija board.
Thank god it was so small. It tasted like a rock. Nice website, anyway.
Oh K, oh K... To what do I owe such culinary kindness? You must have known I wasn't 100 percent--even 75 percent--taken w/ the earlier rendition, thus you took another stab. You used magic dust, right? Or at least special flour. Whatever--the result was smashing. Cake far from dry, frosting bountiful yet subtle (no bald spots here! more like the best kind of toupee), a single delicate candle... It's true what they say: The classier the lady, the classier the cupcake. I hope I can live up the gesture in this 29th year of living.
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Yura & co. is the place that had the best sugarless fruit muffins I've EVER had. Try them! They are stuffed with fruit, and worth traveling cross-country for. MM