Cupcake Currency

I've enlisted the help of a business strategy/planning/promotions/marketing guru for this here food blog, and I'm paying her in pie and other baked goods.

For our first business meeting, my retainer fees were paid in the form of a Devil's Food cupcake with a rum creme and a slightly caramelized pear and banana compote, all dusted with some organic cocoa powder.

While I would choose a slice of pie over a slice of cake 9 out of 10 times, Devil's Food cake is very hard to resist. Plus, check out how healthy that dessert is. All that fresh fruit that was definitely not cooked down in sugar and rum to make a syrup used to sweeten the whipped cream.

I ended up making three dozen cupcakes for a total of three people, which seems like an appropriate awesomeness to consumer ratio to me. 

I think the next time I have to pay the credit card bill, I'll just try sending some cupcakes in the mail. I'm sure that will be fine, just fine.


--Isaac