My first day cooking started late last night. Faced with the time old question: ‘what is the difference between muffins and cupcakes?’ Ms Mexicali and I rocked out to the Pixies, suckering passerby’s into our taste testing adventure. Several cups of cocoa powder into our first batch of fifty we began to discern a distinction. Weighing in on the conversation, we had several people pucker their faces at the idea of so much sugar in the morning, others weighed in with excitement about the idea of desert for breakfast.
In folly, looking to morning the recipe, we halved the honey in the recipe and added molasses. Overpowering in taste, the molasses turned our delicately balanced baked goods into leathery shoes, wanting of icing to mask the strong flavor. Defeated, we began our second batch at midnight.
As I sit in the farm center at 6:30, people stumble in searching for caffeine. The sun shines low through the south-facing window and as he approaches the breakfast table, our Irish apprentice looks at the dozens of baked goods placed out before him and poses the question- ‘what is the difference between muffins and cupcakes’. I sit back and smile.
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