Now that it's finally, officially, spring, I have to celebrate. I think these lavender vanilla bean cupcakes with lavender lemon buttercream icing do just the trick. Some say the cupcake is a passing fad, soon to be abandoned and forgotten, but I think it is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. If cupcakes are to be my personal anachronistic eccentricity, there are certainly more dire fates.
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