Word: buttercreams
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Then Freddy suggested that we sell our cupcakes to the local supermarkets. "I'm happy to be thinking big," he said. His plan involved transporting them on his bicycle, which I feared might smear some of the pretty designs I was planning for the buttercream frosting. But Freddy said he couldn't afford a car yet. He also needed cement to cover his dirt floor and major roof repairs. I decided I was more the flavor-idea...
This Can't Be Good. Magnolia Bakery, the beloved New York City cupcake creator has opened an outpost in Rockefeller Center - a five-minute walk from this travel reporter's desk. The bakery's famous pastel-colored buttercream-frosted cupcakes are made on premises, along with flourless chocolate cakes, brownies and muffins. This is a take-out joint, but you can eat your treats on a bench in Rock Center; if it's cold out, head down into the nearby Rockefeller Center concourse. There's an entrance in the building a few steps from Magnolia, at 1250 Sixth Avenue...
Jodie Hannaman grew up in Houston, a city as fond of formal weddings as of barbecues and rodeos. So it was saying something at Duschene Academy, her Roman Catholic girls' school, that Hannaman was chosen as Most Likely to Be Married First. But her teenage fantasies of buttercream frosting and silky bridesmaids dresses first began to crack with her high school sweetheart. He dated her for more than a decade before she finally got tired of waiting for a marriage proposal that was never going to come. There were other men after that, but it was Hannaman who repeatedly decided...
...dining room underwent one of the biggest?and fastest?makeovers. A floor-to-ceiling fireplace and handblown Italian chandeliers were added, and the dowdy pale-wood seating was updated with buttercream-colored leather banquettes?all in seven days. Meanwhile, the 52 rooms and 39 suites were being meticulously refurbished, with plush silk tones replacing swirly floral patterns that recalled the 1940s...
...update every facet, while preserving the classical elegance that is the Bel-Air's signature," he says. The dining room underwent one of the biggest - and fastest - makeovers. A floor-to-ceiling fireplace and handblown Italian chandeliers were added, and the dowdy pale-wood seating was updated with buttercream-colored leather banquettes - all in seven days. Meanwhile, the 52 rooms and 39 suites were being meticulously refurbished, with plush silk tones replacing swirly floral patterns that recalled the 1940s. One hallmark of the Bel-Air is that each room and suite is unique, and nearly 500 fabrics and 100 paint...