Butter Lane
A couple of posts back, I mentioned that we're very much macaron people. Well, turns out we're very much cupcake people as well. In fact, our ideal dessert would probably be a macaron-topped cupcake. Stand Mixer Over the summer (wow, it's fall already?!) we participated in a cupcake baking lesson at Butter Lane in the East Village. It was a school event, so we ended up paying $10 for something that would otherwise cost $60 or so. We arrived at the hole-in-the-wall bakery and its adjacent kitchen. An instructor split us into groups and introduced us to the things we'd be making: chocolate, vanilla, and banana cupcakes, and cream cheese, vanilla, and chocolate frosting. We settled down in front of these super-cool KitchenAid stand mixers and got to baking. Our group made banana cupcakes, which sounded like they'd be muffins. We sheepishly followed the instructions and dumped ingredients carefully into the mixer. A bunch of stirring, ...