macha cha-cha-cha

are you sick of hearing about my favorite teahouse? well, i just have to tell you about this delicious cupcake that i ate the last time i was there. i just finished re-listening to the audiobook eat cake by jeanne ray. it’s one of my very favorite audiobooks. the descriptions of the cakes the woman in the story bakes just make you want to go out and eat the fanciest, most awesome cakes in the world. and anything less than the best seems pointless. so imagine my hopeful delight when i saw this beauty in the bakery case at the macha teahouse. it looked pretty (and not too much frosting. so many of those cupcake shops in chicago looked like they had so much frosting and i’m more interested in a good cake than frosting.) so i took a chance and bought one. i bit into it and discovered, to my delight, that it was a carrot cake cupcake with cream cheese frosting. eat cake talks about carrot cake at least once and cream cheese frosting is about the only frosting that i actually really like to eat. the cake was moist and nutty and just delicious. i hope this one stays on the menu for a little bit.

and one more piece of exciting news–while i was at the teahouse, i checked my e-mail and happened to get a message from macha telling me that i won third place in their writing contest! my prize? a ninja launcher:

and a box of david bacco (i thinK) chocolates–filled with a bright green, green tea filling. yum!