Taking inspiration for the Cupcakes Take the Cake blog I’ve been doing a bit of research. First, taking a look at the blog’s top 15 cupcake spots in NYC and checking out my interpretation of the rankings. This became the birthday present to myself that I was really looking forward to. So the goal was to visit four different cupcake places in NYC and share cupcakes among friends. Ranking them as I went. This one day event turned into a full week of cupcake fever! Starting with Crumbs, Sweet Revenge, Butter Lane, Cupcake Cafe, Carlo’s, Sweet, Magnolia and lastly, Tony’s Mini Cupcakes. $40.o0 I felt that I actually knew something about the fairy cakes (what the British call cupcakes!) that I had come to love.

First let me split cupcakes up into two distinct categories that may sound familiar: the girl next door cupcake and the woman in the red dress cupcake. I know, sex and sweets just go together but there’s no reason to objectify women. This just happens to be the best comparison I can come up with.

Now your girl next door approach are cupcake places that market basic cupcakes: chocolate, vanilla, red velvet etc. They do the basics and they do them well. The woman in the red dress cupcakes are like gourmet dishes and combinations of flavor. My favorite example is the gingerbread cupcake with lemon icing and crystallized ginger pieces featured in the Vegan Cupcakes cookbook. So in ranking cupcakes, its incredibly difficult to compare a red dress vixen to a tom boy neighbor kid. Rather impossible I might suggest. So I’ve been thinking about cupcakes within these categories and how they rank comparatively. I can’t give you definitive numbers here. But what I can give you is a description of experience from which to draw your own conclusions. I tend to look at presentation, combination of flavors, the balance of the cupcake and the taste of the icing/frosting and cake parts to the cupcake.

Crumbs: Crumbs can be overwhelming. There are so many varieties of cupcakes to chose from! Your basic cupcake line to the more complex flavors of Twinkies or Hostess or Oreo cookie. They look great especially because they’re twice the size of regular cupcakes. The bigger the better is the appeal here. In biting into the cupcake you are excited by the frosting to cake ratio. Some of the cupcakes have frosting dollops inside which are also yummy! Presentation is a huge success. The cupcakes and their flavor combinations are clever. My main issue is that though these huge cupcakes look amazing and are offered in 30 flavors or more at the counter, it tastes like a lot of recycling. I mean this to say that the cake batter isn’t specialized to the cupcake and that the frosting is what dictates the cupcake variety. The cake taste itself isn’t quite developed or unique. This cupcake venue hopes to over power distinct gourmet taste by offering a mind boggling number of creative varieties that are visually tasty.

Sweet Revenge: Named the best cupcake venue in Time Out Magazine 2009, I am a full fan. These gourmet cupcakes are the epitome of the woman in the red dress. Paired with beer or wine, you are not chugging down a glass of milk with your cupcake choice. This is a linen table cloth, fork and knife dining experience. Your cupcake doesn’t even have a traditional cupcake wrapper. It has parchment paper. It also doesn’t have typical cupcake names. The cupcakes have sexy porn star names, okay not exactly, but close! These cupcakes are visually mouthwatering until you bite into one and find out that that food-orgasm can reach a whole new level. I know this is getting “dirty” but really, order “dirty” on the menu and you’ll find out for yourself. Presentation is gorgeous, both the cupcake and the frosting are in perfect balance and absolutely delicious independent of each other. This is a cupcake that has been highly thought about and perfected.

Butter Lane: This is the hole in the wall cupcake stand that could have been a grown up adventure of your one time girl next door crush who was peddling lemonade across the street. These cupcakes have their own niche in butter-cream. French or American, might one question? Well, both of course! Here, as the sign suggests, don’t expect any shortening. This is Butter Lane and it lives up to its name. The cupcakes are your basic flavors. You pick a cupcake cake flavor and then an icing to go with it. Pairings are suggested by not enforced. With a banana or a vanilla you won’t be disappointed. The frostings are hardcore and the key lime was eye-rolling. These can’t compare to Sweet Revenge because they are simply a different form of cupcake. These are take your cupcake to the park and eat on the grass (which I did). These are eat quickly because the butter melts in the summer heat. They may not look like much, but the taste is amazing. The presentation is your basic cupcake but both the flavor of the butter-cream, cake and the cupcake as a whole is just great!

Cupcake Cafe: The first thing you’ll notice about a Cupcake Cafe cupcake is the flowers. Wow. I mean, incredibly accurate, delicate little flowers iced onto the cake. Its beautiful! And like a girl next door cupcake, these have your basic flavors. Nothing crazy, something appropriate for the kid’s bookstore surrounding. So you and friends are on your third cupcake place of the day and you take a bite of your maple walnut cupcake. It tastes great, good cake taste, good icing taste but something is just slightly off. Its the cake to frosting ratio! The frosting at Cupcake Cafe is really light. A nice whipped sugary sweetness. But the cake of the walnut cupcake is way too heavy for the frosting. Too bread like. It needs a thicker heavier denser sort of topping to really pull it off. So while, beautiful, the cupcake at cupcake cafe was the only one we didn’t fully finish off. I know. It was a sin, but I was slightly disappointed in the totality of the cupcake.

Carlo’s: Haven’t heard of Carlo’s? Are you truly a NYC cupcake fan? Well, this is because Hoboken is a generally ignored borough of the NYC area and Carlo’s is in Hoboken. You’ll be hearing a lot more about Carlo’s as they just landed a TLC show spot! Known for their gorgeous wedding cakes I’ve been salivating over their storefront window displays since arriving in Hoboken seven months ago. This is only the third time I’ve ventured a step inside and the first time I’ve been able to bring myself to make a purchase. They’re just so amazing, it takes a lot for me to feel that I deserve to order something. But I did… a recess cupcake! Here we had a delicious combination of flavors with the right consistency of heavier frosting covered with candy bits to the dense but slightly crumbling chocolate cake bottom. The cake was yummy but not great and the presentation was a little messy but in that messy hair that looks sexy sort of way (or maybe only I think messy hair looks sexy). The topping and frosting totally drew me in. YUM!

Sweet: Sweet is the main competitor to Carlo’s in the Hoboken area. A cupcakery, this adorable shop is located on the park near by my house. Again, its a place that I only dream of eating at because they’re so pretty. I purchased a mocha cupcake to take to the park (along with the recess from Carlo’s). There’s actually a site for Carlo’s vs Sweet as to who has the best cupcakes. Watch out because Crumbs is also opening a store in Hoboken. But getting back to Sweet! These cupcakes are pristine in their aesthetic. They have beautifully swirled tops that are proportional to their cupcakey bottoms. And both cupcake cake and cupcake frosting are amazing. The combination is mouth watering and I was a little jealous when I didn’t get to eat the chocolate covered coffee bean on top. These cupcakes look simple, like the girl next door. But put on a little lipstick and mascara and these cupcakes are your red dress wearing Hoboken hotties.

Magnolia: I hear a lot about Magnolia. I hear about the lines around the corner just trying to squeeze in to get your cupcake. Having eaten a lot of cupcakes lately I’m familiar with the squeeze into things… sadly. In any case, upon my visit to Magnolia (an unplanned random wish fulfillment visit) I picked out two to split: red velvet and chocolate with a butter-cream frosting tinted green. The cupcakes are on display in patron accessible cases. You grab your own. One little cupcake had been knocked over squishing frosting against the case. It looked so sad, making me a little sad. But then the counter person took notice of it and threw it out! Inside my heart was screaming “no!!!!!!!” with intense levels of disappointment that counter boy hadn’t just given me the unloved little bit. But no. The cupcake selection at Magnolia is much more your girl next door cake choice. You’ve got your basics covered. Nothing fancy. We do basic and we do it well could be their motto. And the butter-cream chocolate was delicious. It helped me get through financial accounting like no other sugary sweet thing has. The red velvet was not your hearty cream cheese based frosting and was a little light on the density of frosting to density of cake ratio. Overall, a good cupcake, but not the rave that I was expecting.

Tonny’s Mini-Cupcakes: I’ve been to Tony’s before, but not for the purposes of taste testing. Its a difference experience if you are eating a cupcake vs evaluating a cupcake. There is bit more analytical savoring in the later. A bit more indifferent conversation in the prior. Tony’s sports some unusual flavors but nothing borderline on gourmet. However, they do have the best deal in town with a student price of 6.50 for 4 cupcakes. Its my regular downfall on the cupcake level. Allowing me to mix and match encouraged by Tony’s tasteful marketing. I love a good carrot cake so I picked out one of those and a double chocolate as well. I have high standards with carrot cake and cream cheese frosting as it is simply my favorite cake. (I only make it twice a year because I need to earn up to its amazingness) So I was surprised when this one came through on both the quality of frosting and the fact that the carrot cake did not contain raisins. I’m an anti-raisins and anti-nut person. Those these carrot tops had some nuts going on, it was still a good non-home made pick. The chocolate was a bit of a mess as the frosting was coming off of the cupcake. They frost on the spot so it was more like eating cake and then eating fudge. I’m all for this, but as a cupcake, I want more cohesiveness. Yummy fudge frosting though!

Now, I’ve been to several other cupcake places within my last few months in the city, but not to evaluate their goods. So, have had good experiences at BabyCakes, Sugar Sweet Sunshine and Billy’s but haven’t put the thought in it to review just yet. Expect those reviews soon! But in taking a bit of a break from the baked good, a frozen yogurt tour is next in order and then maybe sushi. Already have picked out some top recommend places for both! So expect the details soon!

Wow, you’ve solved my problems!

Thanks!

Invisible-Exports on Orchard St. on the Lower East Side is currently showing (maybe not the best word) Lisa Kirk’s House of Cards. Okay okay, let me get straight to the point. Lisa Kirk has built a shanty inside Invisible-Exports and is selling it as vacation house by the week for $200.00! And if you upgrade to the $600.oo price you get a piece of the shanty when its done being used as a vacation house. Yeah. I really didn’t know how to break it to you any better than that.

I had actually heard about this show from a girl in my art class who was slightly disdainful in her amusement. I’m total amusement on this one. I really should put out the $200.00 and buy a week vacation in the shanty. I want to know how rain-proof it is first and second where this naval base is that it’ll be reconstructed at. However, with those questions out of the way, I’m totally in. And for only $400.00 more I get my own piece of shanty life to take home with me after everyone else is done using it, I want that table! I’d put that my house! 1 week vacation plus art, this is the best deal yet.

But truly, I’m not even attempting to be sarcastic here. I’ m actually really buying in to this idea. Its creative fun way to get out a really meaningful message about the state of life we don’t see to want to recognize the rest of the world may live in. Great in intention, great in design. Absolutely fun experience, check it out!

Fancy a Shanty?

Now imagine that you’re on your regular NYC walkabout, scouting for art, getting lost in the mix of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. You finally find a street with some small galleries. So you walk into one, mainly because there are pages of paper plastering the wall. (So many p’s in that sentence! Perfection!) Okay. Pages of plastered paper is a total attention grabber. So you look at the artwork that has been hung on the page covered wall and its relatively interesting. The best bits are the newspaper magazine collages of the page number 13. Its always 13 but I didn’t ask why. I’, sure you could though because the gallery owner and attendant is an absolute sweetheart. So in any case, as a library loving book reader, I just have to read what the pages say. I hold off until the third artwork into this massive ‘paragragh” of the pages. Then I can’t help it anymore but give in to the absolutely compelling desire that wants me to read those words. I only have to read four words of the sentence and I knew it all. Winston. Ministry of Peace. It was 1984 and it was all over the wall and excitement certainly can’t be contained when that happens. Don’t try, you’ll explode.

So I was ecstatically happy, so much so that the gallery owner ended up talking with me at length about it. This being why I think she’s sweet. And the artist, Gary Rough, collects the book 1984 (duh!) but less duh! he’s only able to receive them, he can’t actually buy them and he wants to collect 1,984 copies! I’m so in love with this man’s thought process, his apparent love for 1984 that if I had $4,500 to buy an installation of four copies of 1984 installed on my walls, I would do it! So here are the details if you want to experience that sort of page plastering pleasure for yourself.

Gary Rough, “I want to tell you” at Number 35 – for more info see: www.numberthirtyfive.com

in comparison

the other day i was walking from my internship to the path train. i needed to make a quick stop to exchange a metric scale ruler for a standard scale ruler. i was staring downward, probably talking to myself, and all of the sudden: “roz?!” and standing in front of me looking just like he always looked, hat and all was dave.  i didn’t even know dave was down here but there he was.

from one experience to another, quite a big change.

“On his return to London in 1689 Sloane set up a successful medical practice at his home in No. 3 Bloomsbury Place – coincidentally just along the street from the present Museum building. He had a good bedside manner and accumulated wealthy and aristocratic patients, among them Queen Anne and Kings George I and II, but also participated in charitable work.”

Okay, have to interrupt before I quote the next paragraph of this website with a big WHAT?  I mean lets think about our check list on what makes a good paragraph… three sentences long as taught in grade school… nope. Now sentences in a paragraph should also relate in some way, right? Nope. And, who starts a sentence on a museum website with “He had a good bedside manner” and ends that sentence with “but also participated in charitable work.” I mean, I went hysterical over this but it also helps that I’m living off sugar and tea at the moment. So hold your horses as we get to the next paragraph….

“An innovative doctor, Sloane promoted inoculation against smallpox, the use of quinine (a treatment for malaria) and the health-giving properties of drinking chocolate mixed with milk. He became President of the College of Physicians in 1719 and in 1727 succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society.”

Again, another example of how a paragraph should not be written. I just crack up every time, even when I know what its going to say all.  As a hot chocolate addict, I just love how the benefits of drinking chocolate mixed with milk can be considered on par with the use of quinine or small pox vaccinations! Then as if this weren’t enough, the juxtaposition of the two sentences into this one ridiculous paragraph suggests that these discoveries (including hot chocolate) justify his position as the President of the College of Physicians!

Wow. Those whole two paragraphs just took it right out of me. Over excited there. Its almost, but not quite as excitable as I get when I get to pass my favorite church sign on the way home to Ohio. This past weekend’s trip resulted in the following message: “Jesus is God’s valentine to you.” Can’t wait for Easter to see if it tops last year’s “The Easter Bunny didn’t rise from the dead.”

Now in financial accounting you have your assets and your liabilities and owner equity. Since its a double balance thing you record things like such. Say you want to buy a chicken. Don’t ask me why, you just do. So you spend $30 on a chicken of your assets but then add $30 worth of chicken to your inventory of chicken. Inventory also being an asset. However, if you wanted to buy a whole hell of a lot of chicken and you put it on a credit card in basic terms. You’d add + $ for chicken to your inventory and + $ for chicken to your liabilities, basically your bills. At the end of the day assets = liabilities + owner’s equity. Owner’s equity being if you decided to sell stock in your chicken. Oh god that was the worst unintentional pun ever! I may actually use it again just for the sake of the cringe that crept over me.

So had class today. But yesterday is when the important thing began. I was thinking about President’s day weekend as I was walking to the PATH and Benjamin Franklin (who was never a president but also goes with the bird theme as he suggested the turkey – relative of the chicken – to be our national bird) for that matter why do we have a national bird and no other national animals? Really animals, stand up for your rights!

But back to Ben. So Ben would keep a day planner. I remember reading about this in middle school in some terribly illustrated book in a class by a woman who I wasn’t so keen on. I would regularly fail our reading tests. So Ben would have this day planner and he’d keep track of where every one of his hours went. Or more like, how he spent them. He’d get up terribly early and utilize the daylight and such and work off into the night. So I began thinking about how I use my hours and where do they all go to. I figured that I spend at least 2-3 hours a day in just commuting! That adds up! I spend another 40 hours a week in going to work, my internship and classes.  Again, a lot of time. Then when you think about how much sleep you get and how much time that takes up! So you can imagine my mind is just reeling over how much time I spend where and doing what.

Now bring this back to Financial Accounting. Again, I was walking to the PATH. I do my best thinking when I’m walking as anyone who has seen me on a telephone or dictating something would be able to tell you. And here it is the art of financial accounting. How can I make a balance sheet of my day? So instead of assets = liabilities + owner equity, you’d end up with Enjoyment = Work + Extremities. I was counting sleep and eating under extremities. But then… bear with me as I take you through a train of thought that really belongs on a carnival tunnel…. how would I assign value to the numbers? Would I make the measurements units of time, units of experience, units of money, units of quality? Its just mind boggling! For instance, though I was considering sleeping and eating as extremities, things you just need to do, they can also totally be considered enjoyment. And in that case, how do I create my balance sheet?! Hence the concept of quality or for that matter experience. If I spend $2 on a cupcake and it make my entire day, how do I weigh that against the 4 hours of work I just did so I could buy the cupcake or feel that I emotionally deserved the cupcake enough to financially buy it!

So you can see, its really difficult to account for yourself! I mean, then you get into the whole concept that accounting is just numbers and the number have no real meaning! Because there are plenty of things that aren’t considered in accounting that do contribute to the value of your company! For instance with all the big pharmaceutical companies, if they develop the Paten for the drug in house, they don’t have to put it on their balance sheet! Or if you bought a building 10 yrs ago and the real estate is now worth more, you still put the price of purchase on your balance sheet. So numbers mean absolutely nothing and I can’t even begin to consider how that will effect my personal accounting! I mean my mind just may explode by the time I figure it all out. And if then you take into consideration that TIME IS JUST A  HUMAN PERCEPTION! Thank you Data/Star Trek episode and the book Speed, then where are we to begin with? And isn’t time acutally a dimension, like the 4th dimension? Does the forth dimension not exist? Oh my gosh this is just amazingly crazy and I have no idea how I’m going to get this personal accounting thing to work. Then again, its just as likely or rather maybe more likely that I’ll have forgotten about this whole art project by next week. However, if there are any suggestions out there – send them my way!

Now, I will continue to believe in gift giving and certainly gift receiving and may for convention’s sake hand out gifts when socially deemed appropriate, but I’ve decided to come up with my own holiday system. There will be one holiday per month and those days will be determined by random chance as picked out of a hat. Hold on a sec….

March 7th, April 3rd, May 12th, June 1st, July 13th, August 10th, September 15th, October 22cd, November 19th, December 21st.

If you don’t believe that I just cut up an old calendar, threw it in a mix bowl, mixed and selected the dates above – then you are totally ignorant of my capabilities. So congratulations to the new holidays! I will have to write you down in my date book!

Now for the details – holidays do not include birthdays – which are separate in nature and new holidays are picked upon the day of the last selected holiday. Though I could have set it up so you select the next holiday on the holiday as a holiday ritual, one should know about the holidays in advance so that they can plan for and around them. Vacations and the like. So enjoy your holiday!

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And now back to your regular programming.

Its been quite the day. So I thought I would record it. Spent the morning cleaning house, making waffles, listening to music and catching up on three papers worth of art show suggestions. Still haven’t read the Saturday Times. But eventually, I compiled my list and decided to hit up the Soho/Lower East Side area. It seems to be the place I generally end up on my adventuring.

With rules for adventuring in mind, the goal was to get to Broken Kilometer (which I had read as broken barometer), the Earth Room, Artist Space and several for-profit venues before heading over to the Brooklyn Museum for their First Saturday jam party. Not as in jelly or preserves.

And of course, I did accomplish these things with the randomness of roz that usually occurs. Deitch projects was hosting a show of works by Ben Jones which encompassed a lot of video installations voiced in that Strong Bad voice of my adolescence. A good all out show and I believe I caught a glimpse of Mr. Deitch himself, which was especially exciting!

Artist Space was hosting a Works on Paper sort of show and I brought my friend Chris to see it. The curatorial statement was long and I just couldn’t read it. In fact I was just so distracted that I had a hard time getting into the show. It didn’t capture me or keep me there, although I spent a long time organizing square inch tiles on an art installation table in the back gallery with Chris. Mini-curating!

Broken Barometer makes more sense as Broken Kilometer, so when I asked the lady at the desk why it was titled this, she looked at me like I was a total idiot. Really woman its because I don’t read. But Broken Kilometer is an installation at the Dia Foundation of bronze poles each 2 meters long spread in an organized and well thought out order as a linear progression through the large warehouse space. Its one of those things you just have to see. All the 2 meters pieces add up to (tada!) one kilometer. Hence Broken Barometer. Do people even use Barometers these days?

The Earth Room. Yes, this is exactly what it says it is. Its a Soho loft space that has been transformed into a room of earth. I was discussing this with the desk guy because I wanted to know if I could touch it. Its 3,600 square feet of white walled, hard wooded loft space that has approximately 2 feet of topsoil spread across it. It was the most dirt I’ve seen since I got to Manhight! I mean, New York City. It was so exciting that I just wanted to touch it – which I did. Crumpling it in my hands and putting it up to my face to actually smell the dirt. Unfortunately it didn’t smell like dirt at all. Which is entirely appropriate for a dirt installation in NYC where dirt really fails to exist in its natural form.

Walking around I went through several other galleries, finding ones that I had seen mentioned in my Soho listing. Most of them were okay, nothing particularly striking and I have the worst time remembering names so I’ll just forego the idea of reporting about them. Nothing too terribly special. They’re all waiting to gear up for March’s art fair madness.

At this point, in an attempt to save money on my metro card and acting on impulse and desire, I suggested to Chris that we walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. (ah, I have yet to find a new name for Brooklyn! is BKLYN too lame? yes.) So we do that and actually its beautiful out. 45 degrees but feeling like 80 compared to the cold winteriness of the last few nights. And the bridge isn’t that long either. I decided that I could walk it back and forth 3 times without being tired but only 1.5 times without being bored.

On the other side, Chris tells me of this pizza place that is the Brooklyn Bridge crossing pizza place. Grimaldi’s. The wait to get in can be hours. Ours is just an hour. We’ve stood outside watching the cue grow with ice cream cones in hand from the cute lighthouse creamery near by. Its like a cute date except that Chris knows better. So we finally get in and its actually alright. I mean, probably not worth waiting again, but worth it for the experience.

After which we head to the Brooklyn Museum. Thankfully they’re open til 11pm, its 9 at this point. I’ve never been and poor Chris doesn’t have a clue. Its like a total dance party inside! I feel slightly underdressed and awkward for being one of the few people looking at the collection rather than jamming to the dj (who was great!). The Egyptian collection here is great. Its so incredible in its aesthetic design elements that I really didn’t look at one piece of  Egyptian artwork. This could be problematic as the design upstages the art, but I’m not sure if everyone looks at exhibitions the way I do. I hope not. But sheerly amazing in design. Then of course theres the music, the random period rooms. And what? Those Fort Drum photographs that I saw at Light Work last year? What are those doing here?

Highlights from the museum include Hannah Willke’s 1976 video “Through the Large Glass” of a video of a woman striping in front of Duchamp’s Large Glass (eventually I want to put together a show of Duchamp inspired work); Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” – oh Lennie you would love the vulva imagery in this show!!!!!! I was totally English style analyzing it!!!!! ; then of course you’ve got Edwina Sandy’s “Marriage Bed” that’s half a bed of roses and half a bed of nails and Valerie Hegarty’s “Fallen Bierstadt” which is a crumpling painting about to fall off the wall. Clever. All of the work listed is clever hence the listing.

In the mean time I’m carrying around a large bag with a single sheet of paper rolled in it which I’ve purchased earlier on the adventure. Within the last two day’s I’ve had two new art ideas and one new curatorial idea. I’m actually putting one of the art ideas in motion starting today. Mainly because I ran out of milk. We’ll see how it goes before I really bother describing it. So this light but bulky bag which I’m trying not to dent is also traveling on the adventure and I thought I should mention in for mental imagery’s sake. Cheers mental imagery!

11 hits and we’re kicked out of the museum, as is the rest of this amazingly diverse population of better dressed individuals who can actually breakdance. Breakdancing with paper roll did not occur but descriptions of the amazing yoga poses I got into the prior day did occur! Email me for the details on that one. So its early and with a three glasses of wine in me, I’m ready for some beer. Although with a half of pizza, I’ve got no idea where I’ll put it.

The Brooklyn Museum is located in Park Slope – my home away from Hobokena, so Chris and I do some wandering and get to the Tea Lounge – which has live blues/jazz going on! Wow! I just found out that my favorite Beatbox guy played there a few days ago! Love this Beatbox guy, go to the Bellydancing jam outs just for him. The guys there tonight were great though and of course their name isn’t listed on the website! (shaking head).

In any case – great adventure tonight. Highly recommend all of the above from Brooklyn Museum’s first Saturday nights to the Tea Lounge and walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. Its all about getting out there. Or as Lowell said when I ran into him today: Pounding the Pavement. Hell yeah.