March always seems to be one of those dull months of the year. The cold and snow have lost their appeal and become tiresome and yet spring seems as if it will never come. I am trying to appreciate the fact that the frozen tundra in front of my house provide me with a wide open space to snow shoe until my heart is content. But don't despair, while we are anxiously awaiting spring, March actually has some great excuses to celebrate with cupcakes!
Tuesday, March 8th is Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras! Megan's Cupcakes brings the New Orleans tradition of their King Cake to Cadillac with our King Cupcakes. Our King Cupcake is a Cinnamon Swirl Cream Cupcake topped with Butter Cream Frosting and garnished with purple, gold, and green sugar, and a surprise for good fortune. The start of the Mardi Gras season is actually January 6th, the twelfth day after Christmas, the day the 3 Kings visited the baby Jesus. The season continues until the day before Ash Wednesday. Since Ash Wednesday commences the Lenten season, or the 40 days prior to Easter, when fasting and restricting sweet and fatty foods usually occurs, then of course the last day of the Mardi Gras season has also been known as "fat Tuesday." Many families honor "fat Tuesday" with pancakes for dinner. Folks from Detroit eat Paczki (custard or jelly filled donuts), and our friends from New Orleans celebrate with a King Cake. The King Cake is more like a coffee cake drizzled with frosting and colored sugar. The sugar colors are purple representing justice, green representing faith, and gold representing power. A small plastic baby is placed in each King Cake to symbolize the baby Jesus. Custom holds that the person who is served the piece of cake with the baby will be rewarded with good luck that year, and also has to bring the King Cake to the next celebration. So just like the King Cake, in each dozen cupcakes we serve, one will have a "baby Jesus" tucked underneath the butter cream waiting to be discovered and grant you with good luck.
Thursday, March 17th is St. Patrick's Day!! Speaking of good luck, may the luck of the Irish be blessed upon you this St. Patrick's Day. Celebrate the day with our famous Chocolate Guinness Beer Cupcakes topped with Bailey's Irish Butter Cream, or our Chocolate Cupcake with Mint Butter Cream. Each will be garnished with a green fondant clover signifying more good luck!
If this note finds you craving a cupcake right now, then please by all means stop reading and drive to PBS Marathon on S. Mitchell and Granite or Thirsty's Elmrest of M-55 and S. Lake Mitchell Dr. where cupcakes are sold individually. Otherwise, I would love to deliver cupcakes to your home, school, or office.
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