Sweet Hundred!

The every fun and informative Cakespy put this little list together. It's even more fun than the original! Fun for I'm also going to italicize all of the things I've made. Many of the things were tasted prior to my nut allergies kicking in. Oh how I miss nutty sweets...

"Recently, a website called Very Good Taste started something of an internet fire with a list called "The Omnivore's Hundred", which listed 100 foods which "every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life." We liked the idea, and inspired by the vegan variation on Hannah Kaminsky's site, we thought--why not make our own Sweet 100!? Like the original, our list includes "fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food"--but in our universe, it's all sweet! (In case any of them are foreign to you, links to pictures and recipes are included; also, for any vegans, feel free to go through the list assuming it's a vegan counterpart). How many have you tried? If you'd like, feel free to follow the same guidelines:"

1) Copy this list into your site, including the instructions!
2) Bold all of the sweets you've eaten!
3) Cross out any of them that you'd never ever eat.

4) Consider anything that is not bold or crossed out your "To Do" List.
5) Optional: Post a comment here linking to your results--or just post a comment letting us know how many you've tried, or what you're going to try next!

1. Red Velvet Cake
2. Princess Torte
   
3. Whoopie Pie
   
4. Apple Pie either topped or baked with sharp cheddar
   
5. Beignet
   
6. Baklava
   
7. Black and white cookie
   
8. Seven Layer Bar (also known as the Magic Bar or Hello Dolly bars)
   
9. Fried Fruit pie (sometimes called hand pies)
   
10. Kringle
    
11. Just-fried (still hot) doughnut
    
12. Scone with clotted cream
    
13. Betty, Grunt, Slump, Buckle or Pandowdy
    
14. Halvah
15. Macarons
    
16. Banana pudding with nilla wafers
    
17. Bubble tea (with tapioca "pearls")
    
18. Dixie Cup
19. Rice Krispie treats
    
20. Alfajores
    
21. Blondies
    
22. Croquembouche
    
23. Girl Scout cookies
    
24. Moon cake
    
25. Candy Apple
    
26. Baked Alaska
    
27. Brooklyn Egg Cream
    
28. Nanaimo bar
    
29. Baba au rhum
    
30. King Cake
    
31. Sachertorte
    
32. Pavlova
    
33. Tres Leches Cake
    
34. Trifle
    
35. Shoofly Pie
    
36. Key Lime Pie (made with real key lime)
    
37. Panna Cotta
    
38. New York Cheesecake
39. Napoleon / mille-fueille
    
40. Russian Tea Cake / Mexican Wedding Cake
    
41. Anzac biscuits
    
42. Pizzelle
    
43. Kolache
    
44. Buckeyes
    
45. Malasadas
    
46. Moon Pie
    
47. Dutch baby
    
48. Boston Cream Pie
49. Homemade chocolate chip cookies
50. Pralines
51. Gooey butter cake
52. Rusks
    
53. Daifuku
    
54. Green tea cake or cookies
    
55. Cupcakes from a cupcake shop
    
56. Crème brûlée
    
57. Some sort of deep fried fair food (twinkie, candy bar, cupcake)
58. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting
59. Jelly Roll
60. Pop Tarts
61. Charlotte Russe
    
62. An "upside down" dessert (Pineapple upside down cake or Tarte Tatin)
63. Hummingbird Cake
    
64. Jell-O from a mold
65. Black forest cake
    
66. Mock Apple Pie (Ritz Cracker Pie)
67. Kulfi
    
68. Linzer torte
    
69. Churro
70. Stollen
    
71. Angel Food Cake
72. Mincemeat pie
    
73. Concha
    
74. Opera Cake
75. Sfogliatelle / Lobster tail
    
76. Pain au chocolat
77. A piece of Gingerbread House
78. Cassata
    
79. Cannoli
    
80. Rainbow cookies
    
81. Religieuse
82. Petits fours
    
83. Chocolate Souffle
84. Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake)
    
85. Rugelach
    
86. Hamenstashen
87. Homemade marshmallows
    
88. Rigo Janci
89. Pie or cake made with candy bar flavors (Snickers pie, Reeses pie, etc)
    
90. Divinity
91. Coke or Cola cake
    
92. Gateau Basque
93. S'mores
94. Figgy Pudding
95. Bananas foster or other flaming dessert
96. Joe Froggers
97. Sables
98. Millionaire's Shortbread
99. Animal crackers
100. Basbousa

Free Cupcakes!

Yes you heard right! Free cupcakes! A whole bunch of them!
Work has been a bit wild and crazy these last few days as we're gearing up for the annual Out and About in Rockridge Festival this Sunday. Our store hosts a Picnic in the Street at the festival every year, giving away tons of treats and talking to folks about food. This will be my first year working the event, and I'm excited to be manning the cupcake table. We're having a kids cupcake decorating station, and I'll be on hand to help them frost and sprinkle their own little cakes. And I'm pretty sure no one will turn you away if you're over 18 and want to have some fun too.
I made forty pounds worth of vanilla frosting yesterday! Good heavens it was impressive to look at. We're going to have 250 each vanilla and chocolate cakes, with both vanilla and chocolate frosting. It's the largest amount of cupcakes I've made in one go. I'm a little sad that I won't be getting there until the last few hours of the event (due to having to work my other job in the morning), but hopefully I'll still get to help lots of kids have fun. What could be better than helping them make cupcakes? I mean really...
So if you're in the Bay Area come on by. We're also giving away turnovers for the more savory folk. I'd recomend the chicken, its yummy. The spinach on the other hand.... just don't choose than unless you LOVE mint in your savory food.
I almost forgot, there is also a cookbook exchange! Bring a book, take a book. I'll be bringing a copy of Hello Cupcake!

Buttercream Poll

In a recent post on the site Cupcake Takes the Cake the swiss meringue buttercream frosting at the bay area Kara's Cupcakes recived a poor review. They thought the frosting too thin. I know I've heard other people complain about that style of frosting being too buttery, or not sweet enough.
I know many people (especially kids) prefer the more American style butter/powdered sugar mix for their cupcake frosting. But what do you, oh blog reading foodies, prefer?

A little swiss meringue action, made by me using the recipe on How To Eat A Cupcake

OrAmerican buttercream cupcakes from Teacake

Or do you prefer something entirely different?

Wedding Bliss

Well it's been a wild and crazy few weeks here in the Cake Queendom. I shall soon be posting all about the baking mayhem that preceded the wedding, but I'll have to wait until I get the pictures back.
The wedding, and all the food, went perfectly. I made Gingerlimeade, rhubarb juice, rhubarb meringue tartlettes, vanilla cupcakes, lemon cupcakes, and jalapeno cupcakes. The rest of the food was provided by friends and family. I made only a few of the jalapeno cupcakes thinking most people wouldn't be that brave, and they were by far the favorite item! Everyone loved them. Who knew?
I don't have much energy or brain power right now, so I'll just end with a photo of my favorite wedding gift :)

Omnivore's Hundred

How the Omnivore's 100 Works:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.

2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.

3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

4) Optional: Post a comment at Very Good Taste, linking to your results.

Sure, why not? The sad thing is, so many of the things I haven't tried we have at work. I was hoping I would have tried at least half the things on here, but oh well. I have time.


46/100 My Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison

2. Nettle tea

3. Huevos rancheros (yum!)

4. Steak tartare

5. Crocodile

6. Black pudding

7. Cheese fondue ( I can't believe it, but I've never had any fondue!)

8. Carp (I'm not 100% sure about this, but I've had so many kinds of fish I'm sure this was in there somewhere)

9. Borscht

10. Baba ghanoush

11. Calamari

12. Pho

13. PB&J sandwich (back in the day before nut allergies became a part of my life)aloo

14. Aloo gobi

15. Hot dog from a street cart (in mexico, and it was wrapped in bacon! Awesome and awful simultaneously)

16. Epoisses

17. Black truffle (I haven't tried it, but I've seen what $3,000 dollars worth of very nice truffles looks like)

18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes

19. Steamed pork buns

20. Pistachio ice cream

21. Heirloom tomatoes

22. Fresh wild berries

23. Foie gras

24. Rice and beans

25. Brawn or head cheese

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper

27. Dulce de leche

28. Oysters

29. Baklava (another love from the pre-nut allergy days)

30. Bagna cauda

31. Wasabi peas (I hate wasabi)

32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl

33. Salted lassi

34. Sauerkraut

35. Root beer float

36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I have tried both but not simultaneously)

37. Clotted Cream Tea

38. Vodka Jelly/Jell-O

39. Gumbo

40. Oxtail

41. Curried goat

42. Whole insects

43. Phaal

44. Goat's milk

45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more (not 100% sure of its worth, but I've had some pricey whisky)

46. Fugu

47. Chicken tikka masala

48. Eel

49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut

50. Sea urchin

51. Prickly pear

52. Umeboshi

53. Abalone

54. Paneer

55. McDonalds Big Mac Meal

56. Spaetzle

57. Dirty gin martini (not an olive fan)

58. Beer above 8% ABV

59. Poutine

60. Carob chips

61. S’mores

62. Sweetbreads

63. kaolin

64. Currywurst

65. Durian

66. Frogs’ legs

67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake

68. Haggis

69. Fried plantain

70. Chitterlings or andouillette

71. Gazpacho

72. Caviar and blini (not together at least)

73. Louche absinthe

74. Gjetost or brunost

75. Roadkill

76. Baijiu

77. Hostess Fruit Pie

78. Snail

79. Lapsang Souchong

80. Bellini

81. Tom Yum

82. Eggs Benedict (recently went through an eggs benedict craze in my house)

83. Pocky

84. 3 Michelin Star Tasting Menu

85. Kobe beef

86. Hare

87. Goulash

88. Flowers

89. Horse

90. Criollo chocolate

91. Spam

92. Soft shell crab

93. Rose harissa

94. Catfish

95. Mole poblano

96. Bagel and lox

97. Lobster Thermidor

98. Polenta

99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee

100. Snake