Muffin Tops!
Shouldn’t Crumbs have segued into the emergent artisanal toast market?
Toast? Bah.
Gourmet peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are the next big thing. And they don’t need to be served warm, like the locovore grilled cheese sandwichs did.
Just how big are these supposed cupcakes?
The name cup - cake means a cake the size of a cup. I’d guess that the first ones were actually baked in cups. Anything bigger isn’t a cupcake.
And we can give the muffin stumps to homeless shelters…if they’ll take them.
Artisanal. There’s another word from which marketers have removed all meaning.
Maybe you just have bad cupcakes. I never have any trouble peeling the paper of the ones I get at the store, and eating them with a minimum of fuzz.
Besides, then you cake a cupcake all to yourself instead of a hacked of slice of a cake someone else has eaten half of, and is probably going stale on the inside since it’s been sitting in a display cake for half a day. Cupcakes don’t have that problem.
DOWN with the cupcakes!
I am not sure if they are going away, but these faddish cupcake bakeries do seem to be fading. While you may get a wide variety of flavors at these places, they just don’t seem THAT much better than grocery store-bought cupcakes, and certainly not worth the premium price. And certainly not better than what can be made at home.
Having had these “gourmet” cupcakes at company functions, I can say that once the frosting (which is usually the same size as the cake part) is mostly scraped-off (who needs that much frosting?), you are left with a pretty regular tasting cupcake.
IMHO, The next fad to start retracting will be the huge amount of burger joints that are expanding around the nation. Perhaps a few of the new chains will survive, but I expect a big shakeout in the next few years.
I’m probably making some stupid blunder here but help me out.
That says it has undergone a 25000 percent increase. But if it went from ten cents to fourteen dollars and seventy one cents, isn’t that a 14600 percent increase?
This article says four times the size of the ones sold at Georgetown Cupcakes (the bakery from the “DC Cupcakes” show on TLC).
Georgetown Cupcakes serves what I would characterize as normal size cupcakes, for what it’s worth.
Your subliminal preference for cake is showing…
What the cake are you talking about?
You might want to have a word with Siam Sam. See, there are these places in Bangkok…
Top o’ the muffin to ya!
I don’t understand cupcakes but I don’t understand cake either. Why can’t we get a pie store instead?
“When come back…” 
The only cupcake shop I know of is Cakelove and that’s just because they have a location around the corner from where I used to work. They also have full size cakes and baking classes.
Don’t know if they can help anyone with their runny green icing, though.
Cupcake fad? Never heard of it. Must have by-passed my little backwater of a world.
And I’m okay with that.
Yeah, it’s been going on a few years now, maybe 5-10. The cupcake places around here seem to be doing well. I’m not much for sweets, but I’ve tried the Chicago outpost of Molly’s, and was quite happy with it. I’m not much of a cake person, but I like the convenience of cupcakes: you don’t need a knife and fork to eat them. That said, there are plenty of cakes that only really work in cake form.
There was also talk about four years ago of macarons becoming the next fad see here for a 2010 NPR story, but I haven’t noticed that take hold around here.
The Crumbs cupcakes were really too big, too expensive, and not good enough. The places that do really good (or at least above-average) cupcakes for $3 or less still have a place, I think, especially if it’s a well managed business.
We have a pretty good place locally, but honestly, I miss the cupcake truck from when I worked in Hartford, CT. Simple, good cupcakes for $2, the idea was more “here’s a fun, yummy after lunch snack” and less “here’s an artistic gourmet dessert”. In possibly related news, that cupcake truck has been the guy’s full time business for several years now, and by all appearances he’s doing well for himself.
“I plead the fifth, Your Honor,” Tom said, caught with his pants down.