i recall my first experience with the black bottom cupcake. it was at starbucks with my friend kim, and i while doing a little dance and singing “black bottom cupcakes you make the rockin world go round” (go ahead, try to get queen’s “fat bottom girls” out of your head), i tried to figure out what the name meant– they looked more like white middled cupcakes than black bottom cupcakes. while i havent done enough research to discover the origin, i had declared that i would make them myself. a year or two ago, i searched for a clone of the starbucks recipe, found one, and they turned out phenomenal! however (and you might be noticing a trend here) i did not make a note of which one i used.

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