{"id":1583,"date":"2009-12-02T20:21:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T03:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2017-09-02T04:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T11:23:08","slug":"citizen-cake-cupcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/citizen-cake-cupcake\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Cake Cupcake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/citizen-cake-cupcake\/citizencupcake\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1584\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1584\" title=\"Citizen Cake Cupcake\" src=\"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/CitizenCupCake-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Citizen Cake Cupcake\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/CitizenCupCake-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/CitizenCupCake-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/CitizenCupCake-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/award-winning-chocolate-cake-recipe\/chocolatecake\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1217\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1217\" title=\"Chocolate Cake\" src=\"https:\/\/edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/chocolatecake-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Cake\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/chocolatecake-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.edelalon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/chocolatecake-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Food falls from the sky!\u00a0 Well, not really.\u00a0 One of my coworkers brought me a cup cake.\u00a0 I guess this is the start of the holiday season.\u00a0 Oh, I missed Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Anyways, I had a cupcake from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizencake.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizen Cake<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a very simple chocolate cupcake.\u00a0 The icing wasn&#8217;t too sweet and the cake part was a little on the dry side of things.\u00a0 Okay, maybe there wasn&#8217;t a sense of quality control by the time I got to it and I&#8217;m not really complaining.<\/p>\n<p>Why does this matter?\u00a0 My work is having the annual dessert contest soon next week and I have to enter and defend my title&#8230;Best Presentation (see <a title=\"Award Winning Chocolate Cake Recipe\" href=\"..\/2009\/08\/award-winning-chocolate-cake-recipe\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Award Winning Chocolate Cake Recipe<\/a>).\u00a0 Actually, my plan this year is to go for Best Taste. 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