snacks that look like plastic

i love whole foods.  i really do.  the colorful produce, the twenty varieties of flour, and the cheese, dear god, the cheese…it’s a beautiful place.  if i were super rich, i’d do all my shopping there.  but the fact that I am not super rich coupled with the fact that i grew up in the midwest and have anti-california cravings, means that whole foods cannot meet all my snacking needs.  and every october this fact is driven home when I bake…wait for it…funfetti cupcakes!  my soon-to-be-husband loves funfetti cupcakes.  so for his birthday each year i disregard one of my personal rules: do not eat food that looks like plastic.  funfetti cupcakes look more like a toy than a snack.  they are decorated with not one, but four colors not found in nature.  the tiny little candies in the batter and icing can only be described as the love child of playdoh and a beebee gun.  despite their festive nature and resemblance to the rainbow, you can’t find funfetti very easily in san francisco.  after 3 years of having my sister ship me boxes of betty crocker from missouri, i did find a remote grocery store that carries it (most of the time).  one year i tried to make homemade funfetti.  does.  not.  work.  funfetti can only be created from the box, otherwise its just white cake with sprinkles.  but it’s totally worth searching for.  they taste like birthday.  mostly, it’s a happy thing to watch my man eat 3 cupcakes at a time with the expression i can only guess reflects his 6 year-old self.  are there any snacks you love that resemble plastic? 

snack shared:  funfetti cupcakes

put the fun in funfetti