{"id":81,"date":"2008-08-07T17:31:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T23:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2008-08-07T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T23:31:54","slug":"im-a-little-cupcake-plump-and-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2008\/08\/07\/im-a-little-cupcake-plump-and-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a little cupcake, plump and sweet\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you notice there is a counter on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacountyfair.com\/2008\/index.asp\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">LA County Fair <\/span><\/a>homepage? Does it really say 29 days? When I left a week ago to go on a brief trip, I thought we still had plenty of time. Not! Once D-day gets under a month\u2019s time, well that\u2019s serious! So stop! I\u2019m not going to think about how many days left &#8220;until&#8221;\u2026right now. Let\u2019s continue on the food theme. Let me tell you about another new food item we\u2019ll have at the Fair in, gulp, another 29 days.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/stand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82 alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"stand\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/stand-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbscupcakes.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CBS Cup Cakes <\/span><\/a>will make its LA County Fair debut.\u00a0 The dreamchild of Gary and Connie Barham, Sara Houk and Bridget Morris (the Barhams own the Hot Dog on a Sticks on the fairgrounds and Sara and Bridget worked for HDOS), CBS Cup Cakes will offer muffin-sized cup cakes in three flavors with a choice of frosting and toppings (they\u2019ll also be selling mini-cup cakes). I love the opening of their press release:<br \/>\n\u201cOnce upon a time, at a Fair not too far from here, 3 girls dreamed of serving sweet treats to all the land. They worked day and night to bring their unique creations to you. With love and laughter, frosting and fun, the sweetness of Cup Cakes it has become! And they frosted happily ever after\u2026\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mini-cupcake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-83 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"mini-cupcake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mini-cupcake-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThey\u2019ve created a very cute white, black and pink trailer \u2013 chandelier and rotating cup cake included. The cup cake flavors include Red Velvet, chocolate and vanilla with a choice of chocolate, vanilla or cream cheese frosting. Toppings to choose from are graham crackers, Oreos, chocolate sprinkles, rainbow sprinkles, pink sugar crystals, M&amp;M&#8217;s, gummy bears and sugar shapes (like crowns and sand pails). New for the LA County Fair will be the Cotton Candy cup cake \u2013 a cup cake topped with five inches of cotton candy! Sssssweet!<br \/>\nAccording to Connie, all cup cakes are frosted to order \u2013 fresh and to your liking! And she said the great thing about cup cakes is they cross all demographics. Whether you are young, old, short, tall \u2013 cup cakes appeal to everyone. I agree. So, girls, I\u2019ll have a chocolate cup cake with vanilla butter cream frosting topped with M&amp;M\u2019s \u2013 just like Mom used to make me!<br \/>\nSwee<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/cupcake.jpg\"><\/a>t dreams!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84\" title=\"cupcake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/cupcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you notice there is a counter on the LA County Fair homepage? Does it really say 29 days? When I left a week ago to go on a brief trip, I thought we still had plenty of time. Not! Once D-day gets under a month\u2019s time, well that\u2019s serious! So stop! I\u2019m not going&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funatthefair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}