Cups and Cakes
A person standing by the phone to deliver cupcakes at your beck and call? The emperor Caligula would have blushed at such decadence. And yet here's the number for the Cuppycakes Bakery in Franklin: (615) 569-8342. Sure enough, I call, and there's owner/baker Jessica Parsons, ready to bring me as few as a half-dozen all-butter cupcakes for $12 or $13.50. (The image above is swiped from her site.)
So far, I've only tried the coconut (excellent) and the black-raspberry chocolate (good, even if I wouldn't mourn the stomping of the world's last raspberry), and the menu offers dark chocolate, mocha, orange marmalade and strawberry among other flavors. The best part is Parsons' butter-cream frosting, dense as fudge and whorled atop each cupcake like sculpted roses of sugar. Want a lesson in futility? Try using butter-cream frosting in triple-digit heat. "It's been pretty rough," Parsons says, laughing, "but it's all right as long as the air conditioning holds out."
Parsons, the single mom of 2-year-old twins—they're the pixies pictured on the website with rings of frosting around their mouths—says she started the little bakery to work closer to her kids. Right now, she's using the production kitchen at Franklin's The Cocoa Tree, where her mother, Cathy Parsons, is chocolatier. She's available for everything from weddings to kids' birthday parties, and she uses organic produce and no dyes. Call 24 to 48 hours ahead of time, depending on the size of the order.
Comments
great source. i love the idea...
Posted 08/29/2007 at 09:43:27 AMI love butter-cream frosting. I've been treating myself to cupcakes at Dulce lately and the only problem is I can't wait long enough for the frosting to temper and get all soft and fluffy when the cupcakes come out of the fridge. Maybe this 100-degree heat is good for something after all.
Posted 08/29/2007 at 10:21:35 AMok - i just ordered 2 dozen - 4 kinds.... very exciting
Posted 08/29/2007 at 01:37:32 PMI've tried almost all of the flavors and they are all Dee-licious! And beautiful! 'Not your grocery store cupcakes!! If I had to pick a favorite, which is very difficult, I'd have to say it's the Carrot Cake: "18 karat." Give them a try!!
Posted 08/29/2007 at 05:21:41 PMI have had several of these cuppycakes and I am not a normal lover of the cupcake. I have to tell you that these transcend the normal idea of a cupcake into a bliss to which even the biggest skeptic would succumb. My personal favorite is the "peanut butter love"
Posted 08/29/2007 at 06:29:30 PMok - i tried 4. just pieces of each... don't go getting worried here. our #1 was the caramel coffee buttercream on chocolate cake, #2 was the lemon on lemon,#3 was the snickerdoodle and #4 the blackberry on chocolate. but really - they're all very good and the delivery thing - very cool. very new york! i love it!!!
Posted 08/29/2007 at 09:36:30 PMI wonder when the hot-cookie-delivery trend will hit Nashville. For now, I'm happy just to have cup(py)cakes. For now.
Posted 08/29/2007 at 09:45:06 PM