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The day we never thought would arrive is here: DailyCandy has pronounced the death of the cupcake. Yes, after years of keeping it real (ca. 2000) and validating every Sex And The City obsessed Carrie Bradshaw-clone with talk of icing, sprinkles and the perfect moist little morsels, even they seem to think the baked good is out now. By this logic (since DailyCandy, is like the online version of the NY Times "Sunday Styles" section with regards to "trends", if DailyCandy says cupcakes are out, that might actually mean that they're in. Ugh. Now our heads hurt. And, uh, we kind want sugar. Anyway, how cupcakes are out (and yogurt is in!) after the jump.
DailyCandy Everywhere reminds us of that time we totally assured our best friend that the flower on her dinner plate was edible. Even though we weren't so sure. And then she got a stomach ache.
DailyCandy Atlanta is on crack if they think we want to vacation in Perry, GA. Some of us here are from Georgia. We can't be fooled. Lunch at the local Mrs. Winner's chicken and avoiding the Klan do not a vacation make.
DailyCandy Chicagoeditors are so weirdly plagued with I-Want-A-Baby Fever that they've turned a plug for greeting cards into an admission of their own baby-lust.
DailyCandy Los Angeles announces the death of the cupcake.
DailyCandy Miami wants us to eat candy instead. Is candy the new cupcakes? Or rather, was candy the new cupcakes 5 years ago?
DailyCandy New York suggests we replace cupcakes with yogurt.
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Daily Crabby Seattle pronounces the cupcake alive and well at Trophy Cupcake on 45th. Kickass red velvet cakes, though the servers are a little precious (read: skinny and snotty).
Tell that to Rachel Kramer Bussel of Cupcakes Take the Cake!
Cupcakes are eternally chic. Those wedding cakes made of donuts on the other hand...
Word.
@golddigger: Meant to say "Word. But now maybe we'll get away from cupcake affectations, and get back to the basics of Funfetti."
Yeah, that was worth logging in again.
That was quick. On just July 9th, they were touting the opening of Vanilla Bake Shop in Santa Monica, and have also tipped off Cupcakes Take the Cake to numerous other cupcake bakeries. We find through our readers and the sheer number of cupcake bakeries opening all over the country and world that cupcakes are in fact increasing in popularity.
No, no, no, no, NO. Cupcakes forever.
I don't eat cupcakes because they're in. I eat them because I'm a food addict. So THERE.
@JessicaLovejoy: I know. Cupcakes don't need a ridiculous trend in order for people to eat them. They just need to be delicious, and they mostly are.
Upon hearing the news that cupcakes were trendy and that upscale cupcakeries were springing up all over NYC; I, nestled in my little fly-over state, issued the first chortle of superiority I'd been allowed in a LONG TIME.
I like cupcakes cause they're small. I love small foods.
@WonderWoman: I like mini-cupcakes 'cuz they're compact. But I hate when people slap a pound of frosting on them. They deflate under pressure. :(
Today in Daily Candy Boston:
Buck Up, Buttercup
About a cupcake shop in Quincy. I half think they did that on purpose.
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