The Ugly Cupcakes

through
unintentional experimentation
in our home kitchen, we concluded that
whole grain pastry flour
is an unacceptable substitute
for unbleached, white, cake flour.
In spite of using the classic Joy of Cooking
1950’s edition recipe for cupcakes, even
modified for high altitude baking,
the cupcakes likely were the worst
we had ever eaten, or for that matter,
ugliest we had ever seen.
The anticipation of coating our
tongues in chocolate and butterfat was
shattered by the reality of eating cupcakes
that tasted like bad cornbread, the
grit of stone ground wheat berries
scouring our disappointed tongues.
We will coat them in
icing for our Christmas party tomorrow,
and claim that one of our guests brought them.
How wicked of us!
Do we dare?