it was wednesday, april 11, when the great brooklyn cupcake battle went down…by the end, there was frosting everywhere, smeared on peoples faces and hands and the floor. and the crumbs! oh, the humanity!…seriously, though, i participated in a cupcake cookoff at the brooklyn kitchen in williamsburg, and it was one heated pastry battle…the judges had to eat about a thousand cupcakes (actually about 20, which probably feels like a thousand), and the audience was so hyped up on sugar that i think people were actually squealing by the end. it was FUN! and i WON (in my category)! click here for my  recipe, which is adaptation of a birthday cake that i made for my mom for about a decade. a friend was considering making lemon cupcakes using the same procedure (and schmancy lemon marmalade), and i think that’s an excellent idea…