Published May 21, 2010

WBUR’s Sarah Knight writes about my second favorite[1] culinary[2] topic, cupcakes, on Public Radio Kitchen.[3]

Boston cream pie cupcakes (Sarah Knight/WBUR)

There is something in Boston called Cupcake Camp, “an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and eat cupcakes in an open environment.”

Sarah attended. Her dispatch:

Over the last few years I’ve become an amateur cupcake connoisseur, if there is such a thing. I try to find cupcake shops in the cities I visit. I invent occasions to stop by the local shops. I can sometimes be persuaded to bake my own, as in chocolate-Guinness cupcakes with cream cheese frosting for St. Patrick’s Day. All of this could not prepare me, however, for that which was Cupcake Camp the night of April 15th. When I arrived at 7pm, the line was queued pretty far down Somerville Ave. I entered before general admittance and was still overwhelmed. Tables lined up against the walls of the room teemed with cupcakes. Big ones and small ones of all colors and flavors, some of them tended by their talented makers, some left in open boxes to speak for themselves.

Best cupcakes in town? Party Favors in Brookline.

Footnotes:

[1] My favorite culinary topic is bacon.

[1a] I once ate a bacon cupcake.

[2] I pronounce culinary “CYOO-lin-ayr-ee.”

[3] I actually interviewed somebody about cupcakes on the radio in a previous life.