Feel the need to piss off a feminist? Make some cupcakes preferably with pink frosting and blog about it! For some reason cup cakes seem to have become the nemeses of feminists.
I only recently started calling myself a feminist. I have always wanted to stay away from that title because I think many of the high profiled feminists are too narrow minded. As with any other political view or religion it tends to get out of hand. It all starts with a person with good intentions. They simply want to make the world a better place. Then it always ends up with those same people trying to shoehorn people into a certain way of living (their way of living).
To me feminism is all about women having equal opportunity to do whatever they want. What they choose to do shouldn’t be anyone’s business.
There are plenty of issues that need to be sorted out. Women should be able to speak out in public without risking harassment, they should have equal opportunity in the work place and equal pay for equal work. Women shouldn’t be objectified and evaluated on their appearance. The list goes on and on.
There are numerous articles in media on how you should accomplish equality. They tend to focus on how women have to stop doing housework and stop making food from scratch. It has gotten to a point that people brag about forgetting their kid’s birthday. A true feminist definitely forgets some Kindergarten events and buys something ready made for the ones she remembers. You go straight to feminist hell if you dare to take two extra minutes to cut out animal shaped piece of ham for your kids lunch box.
Here I think it has gone all wrong. If someone gets pleasure out of making cup cakes then let them. Is that really a worse hobby than training for a bike race, fishing, hanging out at cafés or posting feminist articles on Facebook? Life is all about choice and priorities and should be up to the individual. A pink cup cake is not gonna be the deal breaker in achieving equality. It is not a sign that women are wanting to go back to being housewives. It is simply a hobby for some.
All that being said, I find it a bit sad that cupcakes are getting this unfairly bad reputation. They are really the easiest cakes to make and if you are a busy career women and want to make something they are probably your quickest and best bet. Unless you live right next to a store it might even be quicker to bake some than making an emergency last minute trip to the store.
I have been making these regularly for few years now when I need something quick. I am not really the baking type so these work wonders for every occasion. They can also be easily be decorated in numerous ways to fit the occasion.
Vanilla Cupcakes
110 grams butter, at room temperature
180 grams golden cane sugar (or regular white)
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
220 g flour
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
60 ml milk
Preheat the oven to 180 C.
Put butter and sugar in a bowl and beat them with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and beat them into the mix. Make sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl inbetween each egg. Add the vanilla extract and mix it in.
Mix together the flour, baking powers and salt in a separate bowl. Add one third of the flour mixture and one third of the milk into the batter and beat it with the mixer on low speed. Add the second third of flour mixture and milk and beat. Then the rest and beat.
Line a muffin tin with 12 paper muffin liners. Fill the muffins cups evenly with the batter.
Bake for 20-22 minutes. Test with a tooth pick that it is baked through. Cool and decorate with Vanilla Buttercream frosting.
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Adapted from Annie’s Eats
140 grams butter, softened
200 g confectioners’ sugar
1/16 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tbsp. heavy cream
Beat butter with an electrical mixer until smooth. Add the confectioner’s sugar and salt and beat at a medium speed until everything is mixed. Add the vanilla and cream and beat well until everything is smooth and fluffy.
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