Bakeries Unable To Keep Up With Demand For Cupcakes Early In College Football Season

Bakeries around the country are finding themselves overloaded with orders for cupcakes early in the college football season. Marie's Bakery, who handles cupcake orders for several of the biggest schools such as FSU, Ohio State, and LSU, says orders for this year are almost exceeding capacity. "We are getting a ton of requests for cupcakes for first few weeks of the season in order for everyone to look really good, and it's hard to keep up," said Marie Kirkman, owner of the shop. "When everyone is ordering a few cupcake teams to start things off, it's very hard to find ones still available for them to play. We are having to dig very deep in the college football ranks to find recipes to cook up for these top tier programs." "We usually like to serve directional cupcakes for the big state schools to feast on early. We'll send them a Central Michigan or a Southern Nebraska. But once those run out we have to find even more obscure directional schools, such as "Southeastern Utah College In Western Colorado" and "You Know Groman Street? Turn Left On Groman, Make A Right On Franklin, Head Past The Wal-Mart, And It's There Across From The Starbucks, University." But there are only so many schools like YKGSTLOGMAROFHPTWAITAFTSU out there, and TV networks hate trying to fit that name on their scoreboard." It has gotten so bad, that many bakeries are now refusing to sell any new cupcakes for teams that may want to order some. Or for teams that thought they were actually good from years of cupcake gorging so they made the mistake of scheduling USC, and now have blown their shot at a third straight national title embarrassment game. But bakeries are now offering to give them puff pastry, lemon tart, and berry turnover teams instead. They are not quite the easy snack that cupcakes are, but one or two shouldn't blow their BCS Championship chances diet.