False intelligence of the cupcake kind
By The Cupcake Faerie on Friday, June 10th, 2011
Mojito Cupcake
By now, you have probably all seen or read the news that two cupcake “recipes” were used in an MI6 British Secret Intelligence cyberattack of an al-Qaeda e-zine. What I read several days ago and took as a bit of humor in The Guardian, a British newspaper, has now become worldwide news.
So I thought: what recipes?
According to United Press International, the two recipes used were from Main Street Cupcakes (Hudson, OH).
Wrong. The two, specific cupakes used in the cyberattack were the “mojito cupcake” and the “rocky road cupcake.” Yes, the mojito is from Main Street Cupakes and it’s a “white rum cake with hints of mint and lime covered in vanilla buttercream with a Mojito buttercream garnish.” But, the “rocky road cupcake” is from Cupcake (Charleston, SC), and it’s “dark chocolate cake plus chocolate icing with toasted almonds.” This I found out by locating the original .pdf from the Ellen Degeneres show parodied by MI6.
What I did not find were “recipes.”
We may have to file this report of recipes from “The Best Cupcakes in America” entering the public domain under “false intelligence.”