Last week I lost my mind and made actual yellow cake cupcakes with chocolate ganache glaze. With actual white sugar. And actual white flour. I plead a few mitigating circumstances. 1) I had been cleaning out my cupboards and found a container of white flour and another of white sugar wedged in the back. God knows how old. 2) I was watching TV and someone was eating cupcakes. How could I resist? 3) I had the house to myself. 4) I was hungry.

My husband thought it was a trick. "Are those corn muffins?he asked. "Miso topping, maybe?"

The cupcakes did not last long.