Dancing Spoon

Manly Cupcakes

Trends Food

by J. Michael Wheeler
Butch Bakery
Rum & Coke, Mojito, Beer Run, B-52, Driller, Jackhammer, Tailgate: Dude, muscle your way up to the counter and grab a cupcake?

Yeah, these ain’t your granny’s cute little fussy cupcakes, these are MANLY CUPCAKES made for MEN! The Butch Bakery in Manhattan has a mission:

Our objective is simple. We’re men. Men who love cupcakes. Not the Frilly Pink-Frosted-Sprinkles-and-Unicorns kind of cupcakes. We make MANLY CUPCAKES for MANLY MEN.

David Arrick, formerly an attorney for a major Wall Street law firm, felt it was time to combine a masculine aesthetic to a traditionally cute product: the cupcake. When a magazine article mentioned that cupcakes were a combination of everything "pink, sweet, cute, and magical,” he felt it was time to take action, and butch it up.  He decided to create a company where "Butch meets Buttercream.” No "golf tee" cupcakes, or "baseball" cupcakes, but products that guys would love.

  WE BUILD A BETTER CUPCAKE. See plans below.

Butch cupcakes are topped with a macho chocolate disk like the Woodland Camo, Wood Grain, Houndstooth, Plaid, Checkerboard, or Marble. They’ve got Dude-flavors like Beer Run, a chocolate beer cake with beer-infused buttercream topped with crushed pretzels, or the Driller, a maple cake loaded with milk-chocolate ganache and topped with, what else, crumbled bacon!

Butch Bakery cupcakes are made to order in New York City commercial kitchen, and delivered directly to homes or offices within Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn.  Butch Bakery plans to open a commercial bakery storefront by Spring, 2010.

Here Dude, have a Mojito (rum-soaked lime cake with mint white-chocolate ganache). Butch Bakery.

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Cooking with Photoshop

Beyond Above &

by J. Michael Wheeler
Boot Up the Oven
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m both a foodie and a bit of a geek. Cooking with Photoshop...I can virtually smell it now! Enjoy.

Adobe Photoshop Cook from Lait Noir on Vimeo.

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Kitchen Sink Cadillac

Beyond Way Above and

by J. Michael Wheeler
Kitchen Sink Cadillac

Must see slide show from the New York Times:

Built by General Motors for its 1956 Motorama show, a touring exhibition of extravagant dream cars and the latest automotive technology, this Cadillac was loaded with conveniences to serve that era's on-the-go potentate with a hearty appetite. The space once devoted to the front passenger seat is replaced by a raft of culinary gadgets, including a toaster, refrigerator, hot plate, cutlery holder and, yes, a kitchen sink.

See the Kitchen Sink Cadillac

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Chocolate (Postage) Stamps

Beyond Above and

by J. Michael Wheeler
Who Wants to Lick the Stamps?

Send your loved ones chocolate in the mail. Well, actually on the mail. In France, (where else?) food and postage are strangely blended as a .56€ first class postage stamp. These chocolate-scented postage stamps tell the story of chocolate from bean to bar in ten scented stamps.

At La Boutique Web du Timbre, the French Post Office online stamp store, the Bloc Le Chocolat is described:

Le chocolat est un aliment issu de la fève de cacao après fermentation et torréfaction. Le cacaoyer est originaire d’Amérique centrale et des forêts tropicales humides d’Amazonie. Monnaie d’échange, nourriture des Dieux, favoris des cours des grands rois, plaisir des enfants d’aujourd’hui, le chocolat est devenu un mythe dont l’histoire est retracée sur un bloc de 10 timbres traités de façon hyper réaliste. Le bloc est imprégné d’une senteur chocolat.

(Chocolate is a food derived from the cocoa bean after fermentation and roasting. The cacao tree is native to Central America and the rainforests of the Amazon. Currency exchange, food of the gods, favorite of the great kings, and joy for children of today, chocolate has become a myth whose history is traced on a block of 10 hyper realistic stamps. The block is impregnated with a chocolate scent.)

Your Bloc Le Chocolat is available at La Poste in France of course, but you can order a box, I mean a sheet, of chocolate-scented stamps online. La Boutique Web du Timbre. With stamps like these, snail mail may make a comeback: Viva la poste d'escargot!

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ArtJava Latte Artists: Coffee Art 3

by J. Michael Wheeler
In 2005 Caffé ArtJava opened in Montreal whose skilled baristas amaze with their creative Latte Art. Check out their Gallery. 

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From Russia with Latte: Coffee Art 2

by J. Michael Wheeler
First, we taste with our eyes. And what a canvas a cappuccino or a latte presents to baristas! Latte art is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. Here's a clip from Russia Today, a 24/7 English-language news channel highlighting a champion barista in Moscow. 

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Coffee Art Gallery 1

by J. Michael Wheeler
First, we taste with our eyes. And what a canvas a cappuccino or a latte presents to baristas! Latte art is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. Sample this gallery of coffee art...

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