Most adults remove most of the icing off a cupcake, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Some do, some don't, depending on how much frosting they like.

This. Who cares what people do OP? People will be ok with some extra sugar lol. I don't like cake and frosting in general (but could crush a bowl of Doritos) but this seems like such an odd post.

A fresh cupcake doesn’t need an inch or two or three of butter icing. It’s there for aesthetics, to look pretty and appealing in the case or in the box. I think most adults know it’s proper form to remove most of it before actual consumption.

No, it isn’t “proper form.” Good lord.

Proper form

Step 1: Cupcake is offered. Respond "I couldn't possibly! I had a huge lunch! Well, if you insist... just a small bite..."
Step 2: Dramatically request a knife so you can scrape off the frosting. Note how it has been many years since you've had one.
Step 3: Purse lips, make sure you are slow and methodical. You don't want anyone to think you're going to enjoy this.
Step 4: Acting as though you are about to gag, take a bite of the cupcake. Your bite should be less then 1/4 of a large cupcake or half of a mini cupcake.
Step 5: Exclaim "This is waaaaay too sweet!!! How do people even eat this!"
Step 6: Discard the remainder of a large cupcake into a napkin. It is acceptable to finish off a mini-cupcake with one more bite.
Step 7: Giggle about how you've been "sooooo bad" and vow to do an extra two hours in the gym to work it off.

If you are my mom: you send my dad to get one so you can have "one bite"--because she can not possibly be seen eating her own cupcake, or piece of cake.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, with my tongue.

Same. What are you even talking about, OP? The cake is the delivery device for the icing!

I sometimes throw away the cake and just eat the icing.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH sometimes asks me "What DC mad about today" regarding my DCUMAD reading habit. Often the answer is "nothing, really." Or they're mad about something normal to be mad about.

But this morning I was able to tell him there was a 7 page thread based on an OP who asserted all adults must scrap most of the frosting off a cupcake before consuming it, and then got to read him the choicest responses. Thanks, all -- this is the content that keeps my marriage fresh.

haha that's amazing. you should start a thread you update every day with what you tell your husband people are mad about here.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t buy store bought cupcakes. The homemade ones usually have delicious frosting (with actual butter) and not nearly as much as the piped store ones.

Related, I used to make great buttercream that was so light and delicious but the last several times I've made it, it's been dense and heavy and I can't figure out why. I am making it the same way as ever, same recipe. I start with softened butter, add the powdered sugar, then the cream and vanilla and salt. It will seem fine and then when I go to frost it will just feel heavier and stiffer than usual. And then it will wind up very dense once on. It is the weirdest thing. I thought it must have to do with the butter consistency, that I needed to soften it longer or whip it for longer before adding the powdered sugar, so I tried that and it made no difference. So then I did the opposite and that made it worse.

It's baffling because until about 3 years ago, I'd made buttercream dozens of times and never had this issue. Thinking it was a decline in butter quality, I tried making it with a higher quality butter. No dice.

Such a mystery. So until I can resolve my buttercream issues, I have been buying cupcakes at a bakery and they definitely make real buttercream and it's delicious.

Some powdered sugar has cornstarch in it. Maybe it’s that? Or that the butter has a different fat content.

The butter fat content was my thought too, perhaps since “ European style” butters are more common than they used to be?

But PP with the buttercream issue: try making Swiss meringue buttercream. It is so much better and so light and fluffy. It’s slightly more work, but not that much, and totally worth it.

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It depends if it’s good frosting or bad frosting. If it’s excessive frosting, I probably won’t eat all of it.

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The frosting is probably healthier than the cake.

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I eat it on a cupcake, but on a cake, I'll move the decoration icing to the side.

I rarely eat either though.

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Imagine someone who thinks they're too good for icing, yet thinks cupcakes are a legitimate adult good.

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I used to work at a place that celebrated office birthdays with cupcakes from a very good nearby baker in the conference room. So like once a month we'd have cupcakes. They were very decadent with tons of frosting so actually lots of people were not eating a whole cupcake. Often I'd eat half and then put the rest in a Tupperware to take home and share with my BF or have for dessert. But there was no pressure to eat the cupcakes and it was common for people to be like "oh just give me a piece of one, I'm too full from lunch" or whatever. Also fine to eat a whole one and enjoy it. A no judgment environment.

But then we had this one woman who was the worst. She'd come in late and when asked if she wanted a cupcake, would loudly explain that she "shouldn't" and then start talking about how refined sugar causes cancer. Like she'd wait until everyone else in the room was eating a cupcake and then be like "Oh I couldn't possibly -- they've found a link between refined sugars in foods like this and cancer-causing agents. Didn't you read that thing in the Times?"

It was so annoying. Just eat a cupcake or not but shut up about it.

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I have to say OP, I think most adults either decline the cupcake or eat it all. Rarely are cupcakes served with knives. It’s hardly the pinnacle of manners to be scrapping frosting blobs off a cupcake with a napkin or worse, inverting the cupcake and scraping on plate. Either eat it or don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I break off the bottom and make a little sandwich.

This is ingenious. Thank you.

Apparently we are the only ones who didn’t know this method! What else don’t we know???

I learned it from Anne Hathaway on some talk show.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine someone who thinks they're too good for icing, yet thinks cupcakes are a legitimate adult good.

Cupcakes from a good bakery, with butter or cream cheese frostings, are fantastic. Grocery store and low rung cupcake retailers are rubbish.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say OP, I think most adults either decline the cupcake or eat it all. Rarely are cupcakes served with knives. It’s hardly the pinnacle of manners to be scrapping frosting blobs off a cupcake with a napkin or worse, inverting the cupcake and scraping on plate. Either eat it or don’t.

Agreed

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say OP, I think most adults either decline the cupcake or eat it all. Rarely are cupcakes served with knives. It’s hardly the pinnacle of manners to be scrapping frosting blobs off a cupcake with a napkin or worse, inverting the cupcake and scraping on plate. Either eat it or don’t.

Some people like to make a spectacle. It's performance art.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine someone who thinks they're too good for icing, yet thinks cupcakes are a legitimate adult good.

Cupcakes from a good bakery, with butter or cream cheese frostings, are fantastic. Grocery store and low rung cupcake retailers are rubbish.

The ones baked by good home bakers are often the best of all.

In my experience, usually good cake and good frosting go together. So, if the cupcake is worth eating, then I eat the whole thing. If it's not, then I decline the whole thing. Deconstructing the food someone serves you is rude. I guess if you're home alone with the left overs from your kid's birthday you can do what you like.