Hey Brooklyn [Episode 49: Robicelli's Cupcakes]

You bitches have this whole blog reading thing down pretty well now, but don't you think its time you expanded your horizons!? Like with a podcast? Like with the Hey Brooklyn PODCAST!? Each week, we'll tell you about the creative BK mofo that our buds over at Hey Brooklyn feature. On deck this week: Matt-n-Allison Robicelli from Robicelli's Cupcakes.

As you all know, we're big ass Robicelli fans around these parts. Dating back to cupcakegate 2k10 (which they discuss at length during the podcast), we've known that these folks are the real deal. These guys make dee-licious, quirky cupcakes (if you haven't tried them, I suggest you head out to Blue Apron on Union Street RIGHT NOW), and sometimes they even fry them! If you listen all the way through the podcast, there is even a bonus track where they talk about their wedding...at WHITE CASTLE!?

Listen to the whole podcast HERE (and subscribe to Hey Brooklyn in itunes).

[GUEST POST] ST. PATTY’S 2K10: BOMBED ON ROBICELLI’S FRIED IRISH CAR BOMBS

When I first read FIPS’ 40,000 posts about fried Robicelli's cupcakes, I thought, “This blog must have so many readers that they can spare a few, because Erica and Meredith are trying to kill my ass.” I mean, FRIED CUPCAKES. Really?

Yes, really.

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GET DRUNK ON CUPCAKES: DEEP FRIED REDUX

St. Pat knows his fucking cupcakes. (Cupcake photo: Amber)

Unless you're totally illiterate actually blind, by now, you know that the FIPS staff basically come at the mere mention of Robicelli's deep fried cupcakes.  Lest you forget, they're like sex.  Or drugs.  Probably both at once.

Since you're already all going to be smashed to smitherines, drunk as fuck, or whatever collegeate-derived substitute you use to describe your incapacitated, alcoholic selves on St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, why not visit cupcake nirvana, too?  ESPECIALLY if you missed Part I at Union Hall.

Robicelli's will be instating the return of the deep fried cupcake at The Double Windsor tomorrow night, frying up Car Bomb cupcakes (chocolate Guinness cake with Jameson whiskey ganache and Bailey's buttercream, yes pul-leaze) from 6 p.m. until the cupcakes run out, or everyone at the bar is too gone to work a deep fryer.  Or stand.  Whichever comes first.

I'm not sure who else from the FIPS crew will be there, but this shit's right around the corner from my place, so I'll see you all there.  I'm boring and sober, but hand me your cameras, and I promise I'll document all of the things you don't want to remember on Thursday morning.  And I can tell you who won't be there - motherfucking babies.

FRIED ROBICELLI'S CUPCAKES: EVERYTHING I DREAMED OF AND MORE

photo: The Amber Show

Honestly, y'all: if you were not able to make it to Union Hall last Friday for our Cupcakegate 2K10 Resolution event with Robicelli's, I feel really, really, REALLY bad for you (sidenote: there were SIX FRIGGIN babies there when I arrived at 6pm).

I gotta admit, after all of this friggin build-up, even I was wondering if all this fried cupcake bullshit was gonna turn out to be all that-n-a-bag'o chips, but HOLY MOTHER OF CHRIST was that shit goooooood.

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Cupcakegate 2K10: Just The Facts

I trust you're ALL going to be at our FIPS sponsored fried Robicelli cupcake event at Union Hall?

OK, good! Here's some scoop:

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BREAKING: Fried Cupcakes Are Good For You!!!

As just reported by the Food and Drug Administration in their latest investigative report: fried cupcakes are good for you! I couldn't find a link to the actual report itself, but trust me, it's totally true! Yay!

Luckily for us, the cupcake artistes at Robicelli's (see Allison Robicelli lookin all cute-n-shit above) have agreed to make all of your fried cupcake dreams come true, and this is all goin down tomorrow night at Union Hall: Cupcakegate 2K10: The Resolution.

After the crushing disappointment we all felt the last time around when the Chip Shop hung us all out to dry, depriving our fine neighborhood of the fried cupcake-age we all richly wanted AND deserved, FIPS is thrilled to be a part of this majestic celebration of cupcakes, frosting, and delicious, delectable saturated fat.

The most DEDICATED members of the FIPS team will all be in attendance (you know, the ones who aren't galavanting in Napa or eat! drink! snack!-ing out on their own), so look out for me, Greg, Meredith and FIPS Allison (who yes, already non-ironically asked if she could bring her kids). We *MIGHT* walk Oliver's ass down there to say hi to everyone, though I'm concerned that:

• No one really gives a shit, except for Allison's husband Matt (the one with the rad bacon tattoo) who really, really, really wants to meet him.
• It's going to be a pain in the ass since he's not actually allowed in Union Hall (THAT'S AGAINST THE LAW, PEEEEEEOPLE!!!).
• I'm going to be standing out front with my dumb dog, while you're all busy stuffing your faces with fried cupcake deliciousness.

So, yeah...we'll see.

RSVP on Facebook, or drop us a comment below so we know which of you bitches we should look out for to say hi.

First one to have a heart attack wins.

Cupcakegate 2k10: The Resolution
Friday, March 5, 2010
Union Hall (upstairs)
702 Union Street (@5th Ave)
5-9pm
Free to hang
regular cupcakes $3/each fried cupcakes $4/each

Fried Robicelli's Cupcakes...In Your MOUTHS [Cupcakegate 2K10: The Resolution]

photo: Brooklyn Paper

Remember a few weeks back when we all got excited as hell to go eat fried Robicelli cupcakes at the Chip Shop? And then we all went to the Chip Shop and they were like "huh??" And then we blogged about it, and instead of saying they were the sorry, the Chip Shop kinda lied and said "we have no idea what you are talking about, so this was probably some publicity stunt." And then we went back to hating the shit out of the "predatory" Chip Shop again, and suggesting you do the same?

Yeah, well none of that changes the fact that Park Slope STILL has not had their chance to try DELICIOUS, DEEP FRIED ROBICELLI CUPCAKES!

But on Friday, March 5, all that changes!

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