<p>Awesome. Those two recipes together are my favorite way to make cupcakes right now.</p>
<p>I was in Georgetown for dinner last night with my daughter and an old friend. My daughter wanted a cupcake for desert. The line at Georgetown cupcake was over 2 blocks long at 830 at night and some people said it took them 2 hours to get their cupcake. I am sorry, but no cupcake is that good. We walked down a few blocks to Baked and Wired and waited less than 5 minutes. In my opinion, the cupcake was better there. My daughter still likes Georgetown upcake, but not if you have to wait for 2 hours.</p>
<p>We have a cupcake shop within 1/2 mile of my office. I went in there a grand total of 1 time. I spent $4.25 on a single cupcake and walked away disappointed. </p>
<p>I’d much rather go back to the mom and pop bakery, that’s been in my neighborhood longer than I’ve been alive, and pay them $0.80 for a cupcake. I think mom and pop’s cupcakes taste better, and at less than 20% of the cost, it’s pretty much a no-brainer. </p>
<p>I really don’t understand the gourmet cupcake shop craze. We’ve always been able to get great cupcakes and many other baked goods relatively inexpensively at the little bakeries around the corner. Has everyone just forgotten their hometown bakeries?</p>
<p>There aren’t many hometown bakeries left.</p>
<p>I didn’t even think about that since there are two hometown bakeries in my area. (Maybe more, but these are the ones I have tried.)</p>
<p>I do know that the bakery in the town where I grew up has closed, but so have most other businesses there, so I didn’t take that as anything specific to it being a bakery.</p>
<p>This is incredible - the gourmet cupcake fad blew over 3-5 years ago in NYC and CA…</p>