Mancakes :)
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Mancakes
Cupcakes designed especially for men.
The Montreal Gazette recently observed:
Containing everything from bacon to beer, so-called “manly cupcakes” are a tongue-in-cheek response to the apparently too-prissy offerings that dominate display cases. As a female observer wryly put it on the blog Jezebel: “Pink frosting and/or sprinkles cause testicular shrinkage. Men just can’t be too careful.”
Of course, nobody’s seriously suggesting baked goods are gendered. But by riffing on sexual stereotypes, business owners have uncovered a rich new market for cupcakes with cojones.
At Butch Bakery in New York, for example, the 12 available flavours include Rum & Coke (rum-soaked Madagascar vanilla cake with cola Bavarian cream filling), Beer Run (chocolate beer cake with beer-infused buttercream, topped with crushed pretzels) and The Old-Fashioned (orange-soaked whiskey cake with lemon curd filling). Each is topped with a streamlined chocolate disc patterned in either plaid, houndstooth, camouflage or driftwood. …
In Toronto, For the Love of Cake has seen a similar frenzy over its “mancakes,” whose four available flavours are in such high demand that the shop has to keep two in the daily cupcake rotation at all times.
“It’s been a great way of getting guys interested in cupcakes,” says cakemaster Genevieve Griffin, whose hyper-masculine creations evoke images of Betty Crocker with a lip full of Skoal. “Anything with bacon or beer goes over really well with men.”
I found two flavors especially for jules_perox :)))
Stout Spice - A moist spice cake flavoured with orange zest and Guinness topped with a stout glaze and a candied orange peel.
Guinness Chocolate - A chocolate cupcake flavoured with Guinness beer, filled with an Irish whiskey chocolate ganache and topped with cream cheese frosting and chocolate shavings.
Mancakes
Cupcakes designed especially for men.
The Montreal Gazette recently observed:
Containing everything from bacon to beer, so-called “manly cupcakes” are a tongue-in-cheek response to the apparently too-prissy offerings that dominate display cases. As a female observer wryly put it on the blog Jezebel: “Pink frosting and/or sprinkles cause testicular shrinkage. Men just can’t be too careful.”
Of course, nobody’s seriously suggesting baked goods are gendered. But by riffing on sexual stereotypes, business owners have uncovered a rich new market for cupcakes with cojones.
At Butch Bakery in New York, for example, the 12 available flavours include Rum & Coke (rum-soaked Madagascar vanilla cake with cola Bavarian cream filling), Beer Run (chocolate beer cake with beer-infused buttercream, topped with crushed pretzels) and The Old-Fashioned (orange-soaked whiskey cake with lemon curd filling). Each is topped with a streamlined chocolate disc patterned in either plaid, houndstooth, camouflage or driftwood. …
In Toronto, For the Love of Cake has seen a similar frenzy over its “mancakes,” whose four available flavours are in such high demand that the shop has to keep two in the daily cupcake rotation at all times.
“It’s been a great way of getting guys interested in cupcakes,” says cakemaster Genevieve Griffin, whose hyper-masculine creations evoke images of Betty Crocker with a lip full of Skoal. “Anything with bacon or beer goes over really well with men.”
I found two flavors especially for jules_perox :)))
Stout Spice - A moist spice cake flavoured with orange zest and Guinness topped with a stout glaze and a candied orange peel.
Guinness Chocolate - A chocolate cupcake flavoured with Guinness beer, filled with an Irish whiskey chocolate ganache and topped with cream cheese frosting and chocolate shavings.