50% of the chocolate, 100% delicious

Just because Thanksgiving Break is over and you’ve left the bottomless bounty of free family cooking behind doesn’t mean you can’t be provided with any more sweets gratis. Ambulate to Lerner 555 tonight at 7:30 pm to find red velvet cupcakes and a bunch of free swag (t-shirts, buttons, and stickers, we hear) at the World AIDS Week & Columbia Debate Kick-Off event. It lasts until 9 pm, and then you can get back to all that work you put off over break.

Temptation via Wikimedia

We hear he's partial to the milkshake cupcake

Bwog’s coming at ya with an early morning news flash: the new Crumbs location on 109th and Broadway will be giving out 1,000 (yes, as in a thousand) free cupcakes tomorrow (today?). But you best be off to sleep soon if you’re looking to nab one; they open at the inconceivably early hour of 7 am(!). Our recommendation: grab one whilst still in pj’s, then scoot back to bed for a nap before your 9 am. You deserve it.

Update, 8:00 am: The lovely people at Crumbs told an early rising Bwogger that they’ve only distributed 20- 30 cupcakes in the last hour, so there are still over 950 free cupcakes left for the taking. You can choose any cupcake you want for free, no matter the price. “Pick the most expensive one you can,” the cashier advised. And there’s no line!

Update, 1:05 pm: Still 200 cupcakes left.

Update, 3:11 pm: And they’re gone! Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

A sneak peak of the map

The good people at West Side Rag compiled an interactive map of the 32 openings and closings that have gone down in the Upper West Side over the course of the last month. Sadly, the only two newcomers this map cuts off above 96th street, thus the only two newcomers listed within 20 blocks of the 116th gates are Citibank and H&R Block. But the weather is dandy and now is the time for southbound strolling! Bwog recommends heading down to Crumbs on 92nd and Broadway (or the more convenient 108th and Broadway) or checking out Momofuku Milk Bar on 87th and Columbus after it opens on September 20th.

Update 10:20 PM: Apparently there is a store opening near us. Crumbs will be opening a location on 108th and Broadway. The West Side Rag map only lists things below 96th street.

Help us (via tips) find out how to lead you to these!

According to @ColumbiaFoodPod—a twitter account that keeps CU students up-to-date on daily food truck prevalence whereabouts in Morningside Heights—we should expect two dessert trucks today. Both Cupcake Stop and Sweetery NYC will be parked on Amsterdam between 117th and 120ths streets.

No word yet on times, but tip us or write below in the comments if you see the trucks!

Update: @ColumbiaFoodPod has announced that the trucks will be around campus from 12 until 3 pm. Joining the sweet food trucks will be EddiesPizzaNY, TaimMobile, BistroTruck, and Mexicue. Talk about competition!

Unrealistic expectations via Wikimedia Commons.

Eliza Shapiro, who knows the culinary landscape of Morningside Heights like no other, was quick to alert us to the very important development of a new Crumbs Bake Shop at 108th and Broadway. It will take up residence in the shopfront which formerly housed Crystal Gourmet. We hope this won’t be accompanied by gang violence. Although Crumbs is the country’s largest cupcake chain (which went public in a $66 million merger in January), the shop originated on the UWS. They have seasonal collections, like in clothing catalogs, but for cupcakes.

Cupcakes cost $4.50, and include the Half and Half: a 590-calorie cupcake that Crumbs describes on its website as “marble cake filled with white butter cream, topped with half vanilla cream cheese frosting mixed with chocolate chip cookie crumbs and half chocolate fudge mixed with brownie pieces and covered with chocolate chip cookie and brownie pieces.” It will be interesting to observe how the corporate cake squares off against Robicelli’s, the foodblogs’ indie darlings on sale at Joe.

No word yet on the official opening date

d(free cupcakes)/dx = delicious

ESC invites the mathematically-inclined folk to enjoy some free food from 11:30 am til’ 2 pm today in Lerner Piano Lounge (no word on whether or not it’s strictly SEAS-only). The event, a celebration of SEAS-pride, boasts Mel’s Burgers, cupcakes, T-Shirts, and water bottles. And probably also a handful of R.I.P. Gateway jokes.

Accompanying image to humanities major’s idea of a math joke via Wikimedia Commons.

Bwog has been hanging around Joe quite a bit for the past few weeks. We’ve reviewed the vittles, invited you inside of our brain, and learned the true meaning of cupping. Below, Delicious Dessert Correspondent Diana Clarke reports on Joe’s newest addition, Robicelli’s cupcakes. Today’s flavors, Partida Tequila and Abuelita:

I almost missed National Tequila Day. Did anybody even know that was a thing? Robicelli’s, the greatest homeless cupcake bakery in the city of New York, realized it was definitely a thing when the Partida Tequila people told them. So naturally, Robicelli’s decided to make limited edition Partida Tequila cupcakes. Then everyone’s favorite new campus espresso bar Joe decided to start carrying Robicelli’s cupcakes. And that is how I came to eat a tequila cupcake yesterday in the Northwest Corner Science Building.

Frosted with pale green buttercream and topped with lime slice candied in agave, the cupcake smelled immediately of lime and butter. The frosting alone was rich and smooth but still light, and tasted of key lime pie. The cake, meanwhile, had a spongy moist crumb that didn’t fall apart, with a faint flavor of tequila. Chewy and sweet, the slice of lime offered a stronger tequila taste. Nobody got buzzed in the midafternoon, but one of my friends called the Parida Tequila “one of the best non-chocolate cupcakes I’ve had.” Read on for more tasty goodness

So many cupcakes...

Just when you thought Bwog couldn’t fawn over Joe any more, it turns out that The Best Cupcakes in NYC are arriving in NoCo on February 21st. Robicelli’s has no standing menu because they are constantly inventing new flavors, but here’s a sample of what one might expect:

Butterbeer: Vanilla cake soaked with homemade butterscotch, butterscotch buttercream, edible gold dust

Chicken n’Waffles: Vanilla “waffle” cake, vanilla buttercream, buttermilk soaked fried chicken dunked in pure Vermont maple syrup.

Car Bomb: Chocolate Guinness stout cake, Jameson whiskey ganache, Bailey’s Irish Cream buttercream

Deliciousness via wikimedia

Photo via Flickr“>The Hapa Club’s serving green tea cupcakes from 8PM-9PM in the Furnald lounge. YUM!!!

Photo via Flickr

Think this witch cupcake, but red!

At 8 PM in the Dodge Room of Earl Hall, you’ll find red velvet cupcakes and people doing good things. The Student Global AIDS Campaign is letting cupcake-eaters know how they can get involved with the campaign against HIV/AIDS. Bring your friends!

UPDATE (9:30) FeelGoodCU is grilling cheeses in the satow room in Lerner!

Photo from Wikimedia Commons.

This evening at 9 p.m. on Lerner Ramps, CPU brings us a divinely inspired study break: Magnolia cupcakes and Fresca. While you’re waiting, take the CPU Census and you’ll be eligible to win a free MetroCard. You can also pick up your copy of the newest CPU CPR while you’re there. Thanks, guys!

UPDATE, 8 PM: There’s also free ice cream in Hillel. Third floor lounge. Go get ‘em, tigers.

DOUBLE UPDATE, 9:07 PM: Students began assembling in Lerner at around 8:50 PM, jostling around a table on the ramps. But as the crowd grew, and failed to form a line, hysteria set in. The cupcakes were taken out, and it was revealed that they were Morton Williams Magnolia miniatures that many frenzied students mistook for Morton Williams minis. Hysteria quickly turned to pandemonium. Some students abided by the rules and dutifully sacrificed their UNIs to the CPU listserv. Others simply swarmed. Students elbowed their way out the crowd, holding their mini cupcakes aloft and complaining to each other. “The power of cupcakes,” noted one calm voice amidst the storm. “Who knew? And they’re not even that good!”

Barnard SGA is holding their own activities fair today starting at 11:00 AM on the Lehman Lawn in the James Room (4th floor of Barnard Hall).

The showcase of eighty, meticulously categorized organizations would be completely unremarkable were it not for their promise of free mini-cupcakes!

And remember, sugary sweets are part of a balanced breakfast. Just ask these guys.

Photo via Flickr.

CQA and company are sponsoring tonight’s midnight snack for you Butler-ites and friends.

The follow-up to last semester’s Queer Sushi is Queer Cupcakes, and it’s in the Satow Room at the strange time of 11:45 PM.

The tasty cakes in the CQA-sponsored picture look delicious.  Their real life counterparts are from the Buttercup Bake Shop.

Queer Cupcakes is partially geared towards this weekend’s Days on Campus groups that probably have little else to do so late at night.  Always the welcoming host, Bwog recommends that you get there before they do.

The semester just started, but summer internship application deadlines are fast approaching.

To that end, the Center for Career Education is helping sponsor an internship fair this afternoon at 5 o’clock in Earl Hall Auditorium designed to get you on track for your summer plans.

Expect a panel discussion by major city employers and a workshop on internship hunting led by career development author Lindsey Pollak. (Yeah, Bwog hasn’t heard of her either, but she does have Facebook.)

Even more importantly, the event has free food. “Especially cupcakes,” according to CCSC 2011 President Learned Foote.

Just grin and eBear it.

She has her cupcake and eats it, too.

Every cloud has a silver line of scrimmage.

You can lead a horse to Tokyo Pop, but you can’t make him drink.

Spec hops on the bandwagon.