The Associated Press reports on what may be the most off-putting new food trend of the 2008 season: frosting shots.
Rather than Jim Beam or even Dirty Girl Scouts, people are—at least according to this article—slamming cake frosting, straight up.
For a small fee, customers get a dollop of their favorite frosting in a paper or plastic cup, about the size of a frozen yogurt sample.
BabyCakes NYC in Manhattan seems to have taken the trend to its classiest possible apex: $1.50 frosting shots served in vintage shot glasses.
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No, please, say it isn’t so! WHY? WHY would you want to do this?
Kinda makes me want to barf just thinking about it…
Why is this any worse than eating a piece of candy or fudge? It is sugar, butter and flavor.
Is the frosting shot just for people who want extra frosting for the cupcake? or is really for eating on it’s own?
I just think the stuff is so nastily sweet, all on its own. Whatever pops your top I guess.
I think a lot of my personal horror at this development stems from a wedding I attended in south New Jersey, near Pennsylvania — actually a really beautiful part of the state. In lieu of a cake, the happy couple had brought a wrought-iron cupcake stand filled with cupcakes from some upscale NYC cupcakery — some offshoot of Magnolia, if memory serves. To make a long story short, the frosting on my cupcake was so sweet and intense that I felt like I was having a seizure before I was even half done with it. I should additionally contextualize this by saying that I used to eat straight sugar as a kid, and could (and did) regularly eat a pound of candy at a sitting. I LOVE sugar. This stuff was beyond the pale.