kthread cooks: work that cupcake
To paraphrase Mary J. Blige, there are so many people I hear have been running from the beautiful cooks they could be becoming.
And so I offer my new vlog, kthread cooks, where I plan to make groovy food for the hungry, hungry interwebs in my vintage kitchen.
We begin with a royal recipe, ChockyLit’s wonderful lemon cupcakes with toasted meringue frosting, removing the bitters and sorrel syrup—for another time—and adding dulce de leche, blackberries, and mint leaves to create queenly cupcakes in the colors of Mardi Gras.
The traditional Mardi Gras dessert is a king cake (gâteau des Rois) baked with an embedded bibelot (often a plastic baby figurine) that promises the finder special privileges and luck for the year. With these baby cakes, the surprise is a soft meringue over a layer of dulce de leche.*
It’s okay to show yourself some cupcake love:
ChockyLit lemon cupcake recipe
this episode on vimeo (in HD) or blip.tv
queen cupcake wallpaper on Flickr
drink pairing: champagne in a can
Thoughts on the show? What are your favorite kinds of cupcakes?
*For those insistent upon burying something, the blackberry can be hidden within the meringue rather than on top.
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January 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Congratulations on the vlog, it’s beautiful! I love a fruity cupcake. My roomate makes these chocolate Better than Sex cupcakes which, I will atest, live up to their name.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Love the closeup of the soft peak stage and the extreme blending footage that follows.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Nice editing and attention to the champagne pairing - an excellent suggestion. Continuing on the Madri Gras theme perhaps you’ll do a daubache or king cake next?
January 16th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
@Miss Modular, thank you so much—btw, that sounds like a cupcake recipe the world needs to know about–
@John, that’s so helpful; I will plan to do more close shots and regularly incorporate the usual kthread time-shifting—
January 16th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
@Cameron daubache, what a good idea. Missing summer, I made strawberry jam this weekend for a brunch; what’s the usual garnish for this cake? Jam on top?
January 16th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Just the other day I realized that I’ve come associate seeing you in your kitchen with a feeling of absolute contentment. All is right with the world when K is cooking! And now I have a video to remind me of that feeling when you’re off to distant lands.
Great job!!
January 16th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
@Dana how lovely, thank you—I’m taking the show on the road, but I entrust you with my kitchen torch while I’m away (the home fires burning, etc.)—
January 16th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
That was so fun to watch. I bake cupcakes ALL the time, but I’ve actaully never watched anyone else bake them. I can’t believe how neat you kept your kitchen. Do you edit out messes? Anyway, the cupcakes look great and I love the show! I may have to try a video format some time.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
@Stef thanks, the video was silly fun to make. I think a Cupcake Project vlog would be great; your recent pumpkin chili cupcake recipe is inspired and would be a perfect candidate—
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 am
Kristen: The video was darling but your outfit was even better.
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
@ally–thank you, this is the year of yellow, I’m told. Let’s plan for a vintage run soon—
January 24th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Excellent! I particularly enjoy the torch. Will this be cupcake-a-week on Vimeo? Funny how the video compression makes you look, at times, like a hologram: “Help me, dulce de leche; you’re my only hope.”