Cupcake Confession
I am known as a lover of cupcakes. Cupcakes are sweet, adorable, tiny, and often colorful. I cannot resist cuteness. I own cupcake erasers, necklaces, earrings, fabric, and other knickknacks. I even desperately want this painting. I have considered getting a cupcake tattoo. I love baking cupcakes and seeing other people enjoy them. So you see, I love cupcakes. That is why this is so hard for me to admit to the world. Hell, it was hard for me to admit to myself. I’ve realized that I don’t really like eating cupcakes. I’ve noticed it for about the past year but didn’t stop trying. I’m more excited at the prospect of eating cupcakes than actually eating them. I find it easy not to go for a second or not even finish the first one. What happened to me? Is this just getting older? I still love eating other sweets like candy, pastries, and pies, but not cupcakes. I don’t know if it’s the cake or the frosting or a combination of both. They taste good, yes, but I’m just not into eating them anymore. I don’t know how I can look at myself in the mirror again. Am I allowed to wear my cupcake necklace proudly? Could I possibly tattoo a food on myself that I don’t want to eat? This admission to myself has raised so many questions within me. Who am I?
Today I saw someone rip the bottom off a cupcake and stick the bottom onto the top, making a sort of frosting sandwich. I think I shall attempt this the next time I enjoy a cupcake.
You are a true adventurer!
I think that it is a matter of how it is eaten. How do you properly eat a cupcake? Pretty much any way you try to eat it will cause you to question the proper etiquette which will inevitably raise questions of concern and doubt and heighten your self-conscious.
Eating candy is easy. You can discreetly unwrap the confection and eat it at will while still being able to function in your regular capacity. A pastry is usually eaten as a breakfast item that can be consumed sitting at a table with utensils, much like a cake which has the same chemical blueprint as a cupcake. Even a muffin, which is a relative to the cupcake is easier to eat. Many pop the top and eat the muffin in two separate parts, taking away any self-conscious concern. Interestingly enough, is where the real meaning of the word muffin top delineates, but I digress.
A cupcake, on the other hand, in all its glorious awesomeness is in reality devious. It entices you with its colorful display of icing and even more dangerous are those with sprinkles. It is a portable pastry which cannot be eaten as such. While disguised as a muffin in cannot be dissected as a muffin due to its protective coating of icing and sprinkles. To eat it with a fork would be as awkward as eating a Snickers bar with a knife and fork, and that would only be after you successfully removed its wrapper. Diving in is out of the question although that is the implied intent due to portability and being supplied with its own little plate.
All that being said. It is understandable not wanting to eat cupcakes, even when one has such admiration and such a devotion to the creation of cupcakes. Part of the charm of cupcakes is watching others disregard their inhibitions and attempt to properly eat a cupcake, especially those who have high self-regard. Eating cupcakes has a way of putting everyone on the same deprecating level regardless of your social status. So, do not eat just create, provide and enjoy the show. Go ahead and get that tattoo. It shows your fervency to cupcakes as a whole not whether you do or do not eat them. Hope this helps
You are like a cupcake scientist! I love your in-depth analysis. It does help. I shall ferry on with my production of cupcakes. You are wise.
my favorite cupcake is red velvet from Sprinkles: http://www.sprinkles.com/