Cherry Merry Muffin and Me

Ever since Corporate the Giant opened its new cupcake shop and I was crowned The Cupcake Queen, I’ve be unintentionally thinking about cupcakes all the time.  I am surrounded by them, they’ve entered my subconscious, and I even dream cupcakes.   Frosting flavors, cake batters, and sprinkles dance through my head, and throughout these cupcake pontifications [...]

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“I have tinkered with the originals, however -so no one should use this novel for a cookbook”

I’ve been reading Kurt Vonnegut.  I’ve specifically been reading, Deadeye Dick, the satirical tale of Rudy Waltz, who, as a child, commits accidental manslaughter, the obliteration of a town by the detonation of a neutron bomb and the wry observations of the unrelenting allotment of life’s disasters.   
 
Amidst the social commentary and death and life [...]

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My Soul is a Deranged Cupcake

I embarked on my project by lining up hundreds of quarter-sized macaroon cookies. They were in fact a canvas of dormant little heads waiting to be actualized with wee eyes and wee mouths.  The blank cookie faces first received white, Lilliputian-worthy eyeballs.  The challenge here involved proper spacing and size.   A slight misstep of pressure [...]

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Ding Dong the Dough is Dead

As a wee one (and into my awkward middling stages), I played with sculpey clay.  For hours.  In the basement.  Even on bright summer days when I should have been frolicking in the sun.  I’d sit in my lair, molding bizarre little people with spaghetti looking legs, unidentifiable creatures or the deep, and even took [...]

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The Cupcake Coup

Cupcakes, cupcakes and more cupcakes.  To the terror of everyone involved, the launch of a new cupcake shop looms in the future of Corporate the Giant.  This means that each day, we conjure up bucket loads and bucket loads of cupcakes. In fact, mini-muffin cups and icing ooze from our pores as we sweat. 
Last week, [...]

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Candy Soup

I’ve been making soup.  It was trend first inspired by the stunning variety of colorful squash this time of year, which quickly transformed into a sort of self-imposed, internally competitive, frugal, spending game.  They are gargantuan, army-feeding pots of soup, on which I exist throughout the entire week.  There has been butternut squash soup, parsnip [...]

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“If I wanted to ride a horse, I would move to Wyoming and find a cowboy” or “But, I will have some cake.”

 
So. This thought is a month and several days delayed…Weddings and Wedding Cake.  
 
I love weddings when they’re about marriage.  I love love, man.  My brother and my sister-in-law got married in September and it was beautiful.  It was about love.  Everything about it.  The couple was beautiful.  The families and guests were beautiful.  The cake [...]

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Oh Henry…Exclamation!

 
Quick! What’s in an Oh Henry! Bar?!
 
It’s okay if you don’t know!  No one really does! Exclamation!
 
My noggin has been lingering over the Oh Henry! Bar, ever since I found it in a variety pack of classic miniatures, alongside Goobers, 100 Grand, and Raisinettes, for the upcoming Halloween festivities (I also know I probably shouldn’t [...]

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“I Didn’t Do It” or “The Mystery of the Exploding Oven”

Minding my own business, I removed my lovely chocolate cheesecakes from the 2nd deck of the lovely oven (Let me repeat. It was the 2nd deck.)  I loaded them onto the lovely baker’s rack and began rolling them into the lovely walk-in cooler.
 
With my back turned to the oven, a burst, or a sudden release [...]

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Confessions of a Chocoholic

I have vague memories of eating Hershey’s Kisses under the dining room table.  I recall the pile of wrappers accumulating around me, and watching peoples’ legs as they unknowingly passed me by.  Little did they know, they were walking past a crime scene. 
 
To this day, during the holiday season, Hershey’s Kisses sit nested on the [...]

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