War: It's Good For Cupcakes

It's been a while since I crossed a line off on my list of 30 Posts Where I Do Shameless Shit and it just so happens that a perfect storm has kicked up to knock one of them off.

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Number one on The List is "Declare your love for an uncool TV show".  This present a particular challenge for me because I didn't have television at my apartment so I didn't watch many shows, and the shows that I made the trek to my mother's to watch--Dexter and Game of Thrones--are fucking brilliant.  Now that I'm at my mother's full time though, I happen to hear my brother watching a flurry of shows in the other room.  I'm able to ignore the noise most of the time, but I needed a break one evening, so I plunked down on the couch and joined my brother in watching a show where four teams of two people were competing to create the best cupcakes.  OH MY GOD CUPCAKES!!!

Cooking shows fascinate me as it is, but to find one that focused entirely on the awesomeness that is cupcakes was kickass!  I watched as bakers created such miniature masterpieces as "Mango Coriander Pound Cake Cupcakes With Mango Chutney Filling and Sweetened Condensed Milk Whipped Cream" and "Cannoli Cupcakes", a light orange-scented cake, with ricotta filling, chocolate ganache and an almond topping.  What's so amazing though is that the contestants make these recipes up on the fly.  As someone who has managed to fuck up a box-mix cake, I find this to be nothing short of miraculous.

An orgasm in a tin foil.

You would think that it would be torture to watch a baker present his Banana Toffee Cupcake--a cup-sized piece of Heaven created with cinnamon-toffee batter, ripe banana puree and creamy buttermilk, dulce de leche filling and caramel cream cheese frosting--and be unable to partake in the tasting of it, but I'm honestly so impressed by the creativity of the bakers and the process to create a new cupcake that I don't even notice if my belly is growling.  It also helps that one of the judges is French so naturally every time he has something negative to say I find it hilarious since it sounds so snotty and almost expect him to add a "fook yoo" after he has finished his critique.

And so it is with a tiny bit of something that almost resembles the closest that I come to shame, that I declare that I love Cupcake Wars.

(You won't get me to call it "uncool" as The Shameless List requires though because I don't care what anyone says, that show is cool as hell.)

PS-My brother would like to add that the show would be better if the contestants trash-talked at each other as they baked, like, "Oh a peach cobbler cupcake? That just so original...bitch".  Duly noted, Gator.


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