so, i've gots a question.

do you ever read those eating in articles on DCist, written and cooked admirably by scott reitz? i tell you, the recipes always look fantastically delicious (though i've never gotten past my laziness to make one) and everybody loves them.

anyway, i was talking with kanishka and scott and they suggested that one day i should do a baking in, since i do love the baking. it took me a while to come up with a semi-well-known D.C. dessert, but then it came to me: i should take on the cupcakes from cakelove!

for those who don't know of cakelove, it's about a five year old enterprise. a lawyer quit his job to open a bakery, bought a store on U street, made great cakes and cupcakes, etc etc, and everybody raves over the baked goods. a few years back he was named one of the most fascinating entrepreneurs by inc.com.

so i went in there the other day to test these things out for myself. and don't get me wrong - they're pretty good. but they're also $3 a pop. for a $3 cupcake i better be getting, like, an eyebrow wax, silk pajamas and a puppy. additionally - i just tasted a cupcake again (the research is demanding), and it had been in the fridge, and the icing - the icing was literally like a slab of butter smeared on top of the chocolate. i can't necessarily say that this is a bad thing. but the cupcakes, for the money, i just don't know.

anyway, i've never made cupcakes outside of a mix box, so the attempt to make cakelove quality ones should be interesting. but i'm pretty sure that as long has i have several slabs of butter on hand, i should be okay.