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The ‘Little Black Dress’ of Cupcakes

by emma on April 14, 2009

chocolate stout cake mini-cupcakes

At the risk of incurring huge icing-swathed waves of wrath from all the cupcake fanatics out there, I have a confession:

I think froo-froo cupcakes are for the birds. Sure, those filled, tiered and stacked cupcake numbers are fabulous — if you’re six. But it’s a bit like mixing too many prints or wearing too many great accessories at once: more isn’t better. More is just more.

And while we all know there’s a fine line between understated and under-dressed, these chocolate stout cake cupcakes play that edge perfectly. They’re easy, elegant and need no extraneous adornment save a lovely creamy buttercream icing draped over the tops like a favorite cashmere sweater.

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