<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/2524207089_81b893d59a_m.jpg" alt="Lime tart cupcake" />     <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2411568485_17c15fb974_m.jpg" alt="Wasabi White Chocolate Cupcakes with Plum Sake Filling" />
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One thing that really tickled me when I started working in NY was how much office workers LOVED cupcakes. To be honest, I found the fascination a little ....weird. Mostly because I always associated cupcakes with being a young child learning to bake for the first time. Buying those rainbow coloured cupcake sleeves, icing powder, and 'hundreds of thousands' , (thats 'sprinkles' to my American friends..), for the topping. Making cupcakes was ones first entry into culinary independance. And boy did I LOVE it.

But grown ups? Eating Cupcakes?? Insanity! However, once I tasted the likes of <a href="http://www.magnoliacupcakes.com/">Magnolia Bakery</a> I understood completely.

Which is why a site like <a href="http://cupcakeblog.com/index.php">Cupcake Bakeshop</a> should come as no surprise. Not only do these flavours sound to die for - Lime Tart, chocolate ganache and frosted with chocolate glaze and buttercream and Wasabi White Chocolate Cupcakes with Plum Sake Filling to name a few, but they look to DIE for. Seriously. I took a look at one and prepared for the end.

Check out the recipies and pictures if you are in the mood for some gastroporn.