The Beautiful Kind

Now that I’m going all femme, I have to tell you about this cupcake bar here in St. Louis. I’ve been meaning to check it out for a while, and finally did. We all know how I am about cupcakes.

(I snagged this pic from a cupcake blog that listed Jilly’s. I couldn’t get a pic from Jilly’s actual website because it’s a work in progress and sucks right now. Why do people balk at spending money on a decent website? I mean we spend money on some stupid shit - video games, designer handbags, a massage that only feels good for 10 minutes after it’s done…A website is like a pair of glasses - you don’t want to cut corners on something that is right there for people to look at everyday and is part of your identity.

I hate when people get a friend to build a website for them and then it looks like shit and you can’t read the text, or they pay some amateur $100 for a design and it looks like Frankenstein’s Monster. Just hire a professional to do it right and pay the $400+ and be a woman about it for chrissake, you get what you pay for.)

Speaking of paying, the cupcakes at Jilly’s cost $4+ a piece. But they’re huge and hedonistic - they are the LUSH version of baked goods. I mean, some of them have a piece of cheesecake in the center, or a chocolate covered strawberry. The s’mores cupcake has a perfectly toasted marshmallow on a stick, and the stick is a chocolate covered pretzel, and it’s next to a chocolate dipped graham cracker and the whole thing is drizzled with chocolate and it has a white gooey center. I’m getting turned on just thinking about it.

My favorite one was the bee sting - it was all lemony and honey and had a white chocolate honeycomb piece stuck on top, next to a delicate little bee made of sugar. Yep, I was freaked into heaven.