Drive by cupcaking!

I am a lover of food shows, especially the reality ones where people duke it out with their baking and cooking skills to be the next top/great baker, chef, or…whatever. I also love how when I watch them I’m suddenly transformed into some kind of food expert. I begin to say things like… “Seriously!? Oh my gosh, I can’t believe she/he would even think that truffles would taste good with that! Pfft!” When, honestly, up until I started watching the show I only knew truffles as a delicious chocolate treat. (And to be quite honest I’m still a little confused as to what these other truffle imposters really are) My knowledge of different ingredients is limited to what is on my spice rack, and I honestly can’t imagine using half of them on a regular basis. I fancy myself knowledgeable in different foods because I’ve had sushi…and that’s really about as adventurous as I’ve ever been.
 
Anyway, point is…I got sucked into the season finale of The Next Great Baker this week which left me totally jazzed about cupcakes and cookies with no where to go. That is, until Colin decided that it would be a good time to tell me that the runner-up on the show, Megan, (who should have won) actually has a bakery (Legacy Cakes) right on main street! Unable to wait another day I decided that an impromptu drive by cupcaking was in order. I got my mom involved and told Colin to meet us there. Suddenly I was on high alert at work. I was pumping out paperwork like nobodies business. In all of my anxious excitement I felt like the kid from Despicable Me yelling “IT’S SO FLUFFY I’M GONNA DIE!”
 
When my mom picked me up at lunch I hurdled toward the car, jumped in and yelled HIT IT! Let me just say, that lunch hour was probably the most exhilarating hour of my life. I had to have burned off the calories for 4 cupcakes just from all the jumping I did. I was so pumped the whole way I couldn’t stop jabbering and when we got to the shop I literally hopped/jogged/sprinted to the door. I bought a dozen of the most delicious cupcakes I’ve ever had. I mean…I’ve never had a lemon cupcake with frosting that tasted every so slightly of lemon. It was perfect and I’m probably going back after work and tomorrow….and maybe next week, and the week after that….
 
I wonder if I could work there for cupcakes….
 
I think Colin described the cupcakes perfectly when he said, “My mouth is in a sensory overload. I feel like there’s a party inside a party inside a party in my mouth.”
 
Props Megan Rountree; your cupcakes rock my taste buds!