Cupcakes

Recently both inside and outside of school, cupcakes have been very relevant. We just had the cupcake wars in culinary class a few weeks ago (which was won by the dream team table 12), and so our groups had to find creative cupcake recipes to use. It was fun picking out flavors of cakes and frosting and deciding how to present them in a decorative way on the plate.  We got to try different flavors than you might normally expect, like smores cupcakes with graham cracker crust as the cup's shell and whipped frosting that tasted like marshmallows. Testing out different combinations of flavors was interesting and we got to experiment. Coincidentally right around the time of cupcake wars, the new cupcake shop in town just opened, called Cherries Cupcakes. I went on the opening day last week for an after-lacrosse snack with some teammates. I tried two cupcakes that day: the Oreo cupcake and a chocolate cupcake with chocolate ganache and some type of frosting. They both tasted great, but the Oreo cupcake was better than I could have expected. There was a perfect amount of frosting and a piece of an Oreo cookie on top. Oreos are one of my favorite things by themselves, but the Oreo flavor in the cupcake was much better than regular Oreos alone. Another day that I went to the shop, I tried a "vanilla fudge sundae" cupcake with chocolate cake, vanilla frosting, sprinkles, and a cherry, and an apple crumb cupcake which was surprisingly one of the best cupcakes I think I've ever had. It's definitely a plus having a good cupcake store in town, and I'm going to keep going back to try all of the flavors offered there.

- Hayley D