Imagethief has had a gnawing emptiness in his soul since homespun donut-maker Beijing Guilt packed it in a year or two ago. Our friend Maya brought a box of those donuts to us in the hospital when Zach was born, and I can taste them to this day. AmCare catered from Annie’s, which put its dining a notch above garden-variety hospital food, but you can’t beat the home-made sweets.
Since Guilt took down its shingle there has been plenty of institutional high end patisserie to be found, but not so much of the craft stuff. But this week I ordered cupcakes from Carol Chow’s CCSweets for a regional meeting I convened. They were awesome. She reduced the sugar a bit to make them more appealing to my Chinese colleagues, and she delivered them to our office which, if you read this blog regularly, you will recall is in the back-of-beyond’s back yard. If you need cakes, cupcakes or cookies for an event, give CCSweets a try. Everything you need to know is on the website.
Now the disclosures: First: Carol is the wife of a friend of mine whom you may know as ultra-high-value twitterer and blogger Niubi. I paid retail for these cupcakes and would cheerfully do it again. I don’t do many endorsements on this site, and I never do paid ones. But if you’re going to endorse something, seriously, why not cupcakes?
Second: I have a raving sweet tooth. I think it’s because my father is English.
Oh, mama!
