Cupcakes and Asphalt or My Thursday Morning

So I decided to bake cupcakes for my coworkers...they were quite festive with red and blue jimmies inside the yellow cupcake for a patrioti effect. Then I used vanilla frosting which came with more jimmies and little red and blue stars. I went to bake them and realized that I had a miniscule amount of vegetable oil. Ding ding ding....what's a perfect substitute? Applesauce and I'll keep my coworkers healthier. I open the applesauce to see some weird powdery stuff coating the top...expiration date.. December 2007. Ok, guessing I'm going to the store.

The actual baking of the cupcakes was fine and I had this brilliant idea to transfer the cupcakes to cake pan that has a cover with a handle to make my commute easier. Get to Harvard Square, bypass my usual coffee so that I have at least one hand to hold on on my subway ride. Look at that! There's actually a seat! I sit down, the woman next to me tells my cupcakes are beautiful and admires my carrying case.

I get off at my stop and start walking and just as I'm passing the Liberty Hotel, my case let go o the pan leaving my holding only the handle and the cover,the pan is now one the sidewalk. Luckily, the pan landed face up so there was no asphalt interference with the cupcakes (as my title would have you believe). The cupcakes jumbled onto each other so one or two had a serious lack of frosting but aside from that they were fine. They were tasty despite their battle wounds.