I am certain many of you out there have pondered the frosting of bakery items. No, this little question does not keep you awake at night, but I am positive it comes up more than once a year for those of us with children. I find myself questioning the great mystery every time I force myself to take a bite of a grocery store cupcake with frosting I am sure has a Geiger counter reading. Usually there is more frosting than actual cake. Furthermore, most kids eat about half the icing then peel it off to find the pitiful cupcake underneath. Ring any bells? Why do people buy these things? Why do they frost them so much? I have the answer!!
My husband and I had lunch with our daughter at school and provided cupcakes for the children to celebrate her birthday. Since I have a deep seated disgust for grocery store cupcakes, I set out to find a bakery. I had to find one that would provide a ingredient and nutrition label for the school. Wow, this was difficult, but I did it.
Anyway, we handed out the mini cupcakes. They had an inch of frosting and an inch of cake. Every single cupcake disappeared entirely. These cupcakes TASTED GOOD from from top to bottom.
The kids held the cakes like a huge lollipop and licked the frosting off. How ingenious. The frosting tasted like fudge and was downright delicious.
So the theory is that grocery stores think we like the taste of radioactive sugar. NO way. You're supposed to slowly savor the frosting like an ice cream. My husband and I were dumbfounded. This was an expensive cupcake bakery, but it was principle for me, and learning this truth has been a bonus.
Why won't anyone tell them the frosting in grocery stores tastes horrible? Because they still sell. Anyway, mystery solved.
I have so much more to blog about, but I'm still in birthday weekend and will get to it soon.
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