Case Study 87: "The Great Hollow Beach Cupcake"

"The time must come when this coast will be a place of resort for those New-Englanders who really wish to visit the sea-side.

 

At present it is wholly unknown to the fashionable world, and probably it will never be agreeable to them. If it is merely a ten-pin alley, or a circular railway, or an ocean of mint-julep, that the visitor is in search of, — if he thinks more of the wine than the brine, as I suspect some do at Newport, — I trust that for a long time he will be disappointed here.

But this shore will never be more attractive than it is now. Such beaches as are fashionable are here made and unmade in a day, I may almost say, by the sea shifting its sands. Lynn and Nantasket! this bare and bended arm it is that makes the bay in which they lie so snugly.  

 

What are springs and waterfalls? Here is the spring of springs, the waterfall of waterfalls. A storm in the fall or winter is the time to visit it; a light-house or a fisherman's hut the true hotel. A man may stand there and put all America behind him."

- Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod 

 

  

 Out to sea with banana walnut cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream, sandy crumble and homemade candy seashells.  

 Happy Summer.