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EnTICING Orange Pistachio Olive Oil Cupcakes

I’m not a cupcake decorator. In fact, I’m not really a cupcake baker either.  I think I can count on both hands the amount of times I’ve baked cupcakes.  I don’t know why, because they’re so simple, yummy and cute.  I just never got that cupcake fire burning inside of me, I guess.

It’s kind of sad, really.

I don’t eat them very often either. I guess you could say cupcakes and I are merely acquaintances, acquaintances meaning that I see them every so often in the bakery case when I pass over them for a slice of layer cake.  I think it has a lot to do with the frosting to cake ratio; tons of frosting on top, then all cake, whereas with a layer cake, it’s pretty even, so you get frosting and cake with each bite.  With a cupcake, sometimes you have to unhinge your jaw to get cake and frosting in one bite (frosting inevitably ending up on your nose) especially when it comes to the cupcakes with the really tall buttercream swirly tops.

However, there’s a new method to eating cupcakes, so maybe this might change my tune.

Orange Olive Oil Cupcakes using Ticings appliques!For these blue snowflake cupcakes, I used a regular sized ice cream scoop for the frosting, then pressed the scoop of frosting down, rounding the sides and flattening the tops with a small, offset spatula.

That being said, as far as elaborate cupcakes go, I always felt haute couture cupcake decorating was a whole lot of hoopla over two, three or four (depending on size of your mouth) bites, kind of  like an 8-hour amuse bouche preparation. So, when Lis , the co-founder of Daring Bakers/Kitchen, asked if I would review these icing cupcake appliques, I was initially at a loss.

If it involves some sort of incredible piping or transformation into hamburgers, lions, or cupcake cell phones that actually work (trust me, some amazing cupcake or baking blogger will figure it out) etc, I’m screwed. Also, if it involved anything crazy I’ve seen in some of those cupcake books, or some kind of special, sticky stuff that’s radioactive when exposed to heat, I wasn’t sure if I could test them properly in order to give a fair review.

Ticings edible cupcake appliques

See how easy?

When I received the samples in the mail, I let out a sigh, well, more like a small breath of relief. These were easy! All you had to do was frost your cupcake, peel the round icing sheet off the paper, and plop it on. A little smoothing and blending here and there, and that’s it. I opened up the samples, and the sweet scent of light buttercream hit me. Buttercream should be something you wear, like perfume; Eau de Buttercream! Actually, I think they do make buttercream scents for the humans. I know Jessica Simpson has a buttercream body mousse that you can eat. Darn, I was already thinking PATENT!

My nephew eating the edible ticings appliques off the cupcakes!

With that said, starting the testing was the hardest part.  I definitely needed to taste them first, so I recruited my two-year-old nephew, Zach, to help me out.  Well, It’s a good thing I know the definition of restraint when there needs to be restraint (although that’s not set in stone) because with the light taste of buttercream, and the way they melt on your tongue, it’s kind of hard to stop.

Before I knew it, my little packets of samples were diminishing. With Zach’s adorable toddler voice asking for “More, Isa”, his tiny, little hand reaching, and my own brain buzzing “MORE”, my big hand reaching, I knew I had to put them away until I had an actual frosted cupcake in front of me.

Orange Olive Oil Cupcakes using Ticings!

When I finally got to the task at hand, I could not believe how simple it was.  Ticings are for people like me, people who would love to present a pretty cupcake, but don’t always want to spend extra time piping frosting onto each cupcake, flawlessly, or turning it into something that doesn’t resemble a cupcake. However, I won’t deny it, I got caught up and found myself  haute coutering my cupcakes.  Some edible gold flakes here, a little airbrush there, and a decorative piping or ten. This is what using ticings did to me.

In fact, it was so incredibly easy, and looked so cute, that I wanted to keep adding to them!  I even trimmed a few of them (very gently, I might add) so I could fit several of the smaller ones together on one cupcake.  I really enjoyed combining the purses and shoes, well, uhhh, shoe.  I accidentally cut through the only other shoe, rendering it toeless.  Not something I felt would enhance my ‘material girl’ cupcake, below.

cupcake appliques

There are only two very tiny caveats for me.  One, you can’t pipe those mega swirly tops if you want to apply a ticings applique.  Well, you can, if you pipe the mega swirly then flatten and even out the top, since you need a flat surface to get a smooth cupcake ‘tattoo’.  But, there’s nothing wrong with a ring of swirly around a beautiful ticings icing decal! Two, you’re limited to white frosting and buttercream if you want it to blend in.  I think they should make chocolate ticings to satiate those who prefer chocolate frosting and buttercream.  Then again, chocolate shades vary, so that could be a little difficult.

Orange Olive Oil Thanksgiving Cupcakes using ticings!

I’ll tell you one thing, ticings are addictive! With them as my ‘muse’, I wanted to bake and decorate even more cupcakes! I literally couldn’t stop until I used up all the samples I had left.  So, I returned to Thanksgiving, threw in a birthday, and of course, couldn’t ignore the Christmas trees!

Orange and Olive Oil Christmas Cupcakes using ticings!

The First Giveaway

Here’s the best part of all of the above.  When I was asked to do this review, I contacted Mia of ticings and asked if she could send me a holiday set of ticings to give to away to one of my readers.  Well, she did, and I’m so excited! She sent me a set of the cutest penguins, designed by artist Kevin Gordon, and the blue snowflakes you see at the top of this entry.  All you have to do is leave a comment, and I’ll choose the winner randomly 1 week from today!

ticings edible cupcake appliques                   Photo courtesy ticings.com

While you’re all waiting, I urge you to go check out the ticings website.  They also offer custom cupcake icing sheets.  Just send them any design, saying, thought, your business or blog name..etc, and they can reproduce it on icing.  Plus, you should see all the other beautiful ticings they have to offer, some of them designed by well known artists!

And it gets even better!

They also have an array of sprinkles and sugars that are all natural and will make your cupcakes, cakes, or anything you want to sprinkle them on, that much more delicious and pleasing to the eyes. I especially love the idea of white chocolate sprinkles! OK,  I’ll take a breath.  I’m not NUTS, I’m just kind of NUTS for these ticings! I highly recommend these to just about everyone or anyone, whether you like to bake or not.

                   Photo courtesy ticings.com

The Second Giveaway

Speaking of nuts, Sam Feferkorn of OhNuts.com offered me a $25.00 gift certificate to give away to one of my readers,  Is this not perfect for your holiday baking?  Nuts, dried fruits, chocolates – ad yummy infinitum!  To take part in this giveaway, follow the instructions below, but remember, I’ll be choosing the winners at random from the comments left here.  With one comment, you can win either of the giveaways.  Don’t forget to mention the ticings giveaway in your tweets!!

1. Go to the Oh Nuts Christmas gift baskets page. Choose your favorite Christmas Gift and leave a comment on my blog post with the name and url of the gift you like the most.

Go to the Oh Nuts Hanukkah gifts page. Choose your favorite Hanukkah Gift and leave a comment on my blog post with the name and url of the gift tyou like the most.

2. Go to the Oh Nuts facebook page and post on the wall the url and name of your favorite Hanukkah Gift OR Christmas Gift. You should also write “I am here via “Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives”

3. Follow @ohnuts on Twitter and Tweet:

“Win a free Hanukkah Gift from http://bit.ly/6nIsCi Follow @ohnuts & Retweet to enter.”

“Win a free Christmas Gift from http://bit.ly/dUpizt Follow @ohnuts & Retweet to enter.”

How about the actual cupcake under all that froo froo, Lisa?

Yes, the cupcake. I couldn’t just make a plain, vanilla or chocolate cupcake. I mean, if I’m going to make cupcakes, I want to take it up a level or two.  Olivari Olive Oil sent me a kit with a bottle of their Extra Virgin olive oil, a garlic press, and loads of coupons for free olive oils of all sorts, which would have been my third giveaway had the person I gave them to to hold on to had not lost them!

In any event, I have been extremely intrigued with olive oil cakes for a while, and wanted to try one out. Olive oil is good for you, so if you could substitute it for butter in a cake recipe, and it still tasted amazing, that’s a pretty good deal, right?.

Orange Pistachio Olive Oil Cupcakes with Whipped White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

So, I found a recipe for Lemon Olive Oil Cupcakes with Thyme on a cupcake blog and substituted orange zest and juice for the lemon zest and juice, omitted the thyme, and added finely chopped pistachios, courtesy of OhNuts.com.  Voila! Below is the recipe for Orange Pistachio Olive Oil Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting!

The olive oil is actually buttery in the cupcake, and it makes them incredibly moist! Oh, and the flavor is just..just..*insert finger kissing* delightful!  Also, the white chocolate cream cheese frosting does not contain butter, so that’s another plus calorie and health wise!

Speaking of olive oil cakes, a reader just sent me a recipe for Apricot & Almond Olive Oil Cake. I can’t wait to try it because I loooove apricots!

Orange Pistachio Olive Oil Cupcakes

Orange Pistachio Olive Oil Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
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Yield: 12 cupcakes
Orange Pistachio Olive Oil Cupcakes
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ teasoon salt
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ⅔ cup Olivari extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons orange zest
  • 3 large eggs
  • ½ cup orange juice
  • ¾ cup shelled pistachio nuts, finely chopped
White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
  • 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
  • 2 ounces good quality white chocolate, chopped, melted and slightly cooled
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 3 teaspoons milk or cream
  • Approximately 2-3 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted
Make the Cupcakes
  1. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. Set aside. Line a 12 well muffin or cupcake tin with cupcake liners or grease and flour each well.
  2. In a mixing bowl, combine sugar and orange zest and rub together with your fingers to extract the oil from the zest. Add olive oil to zest-sugar mixture and mix on high speed until completely combined. Use the whisk attachment to do this if you're using a stand mixture.
  3. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating until each egg is completely incorporated.
  4. Stir in ⅓ of the flour mixture set aside in step 1, and mix on low speed, then add in half of the orange juice, and continue mixing.
  5. Stir another ⅓ of the flour mixture, followed by the rest of the orange juice and the remaining flour mixture, beating until combined for each addition. Stir in the chopped pistachios.
  6. Fill cupcake liners ¾ full with batter and bake at 350 F for 25 minutes or until they bounce back when touched or a skewer inserted into a cupcake comes out clean. Let cool 5 minutes in pan, then release them onto a wire rack and let cool fully before frosting them.
Make the Frosting
  1. In a large mixing bowl, cream together cream cheese, and melted white chocolate.
  2. Beat in vanilla and milk or cream, then add in the confectioners’ sugar, gradually, until the frosting reaches your desired consistency. Make it a bit stiffer if you wish to pipe it onto the cupcakes instead of spreading it with a knife.
  3. Spread frosting onto cupcakes with an offset spatula or knife, or transfer to a pastry bag fitted with a wide tip and pipe onto cooled cupcakes.

Finally, since I have two giveaways for two readers, you can mention one or both of the giveaways in your comment, if you’d like.  I will be announcing both winners (as I mentioned above) exactly one week from today!

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62 Responses to EnTICING Orange Pistachio Olive Oil Cupcakes

  1. Rosa says:

    Lovely cupcakes! Really pretty and delicious looking.

  2. jen7714 says:

    They look amazing! I might even get some to use to decorate my cupcakes. I know my family isn’t that into a whole lot of frosting but scraping some on and plopping on of these gorgeous designs on them are sure to win them over. Thanks for sharing and great blog!

  3. Elle says:

    That material girl cupcake is totally cute…and so are the christmas trees, well, actually, all of them! Great idea for quick decor. I’m not a cupcake person either, but this would encourage me to make up a batch just to try out the ticings.

    For the nuts, I like http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/christmas-nuts-gifts-baskets/holiday-jovial-dot-pot-gift because we tend to snack a lot on Christmas day…as opposed to eating real meals…and these would be awesome!

    Happy Christmas Lisa! XO Elle

  4. Suz says:

    Gorgeous! I love the seasonal cupcakes & orange/pistachio cupcake sounds divine.

  5. Janice says:

    mmm, yummy cupcakes 🙂

  6. Sue says:

    The cupcake tattoos look like a lot of fun! The Christmas variety are my favorites!

  7. Evelyne says:

    I have yet to jump on the cupcake wagon too, only tried once and it was a fail. But those cute penguins make me want to try again. Loved your material girl one! I want some ticings lol!

  8. Evelyne says:

    I like the Holiday Heat & Serve Ceramic Basket best as you get a baking dish too http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/christmas-nuts-gifts-baskets/holiday-heat-serve-ceramic-basket

  9. Well the olive oil cupcake recipe is smashing I make an O.O. cake very similar so I know your cupcakes would of been so delicious and I love that photo of Zach. The stickers for the cupcakes are adorable I like the snowflake the most but the Christmas trees are really useful. Please don’t count me in the giveaways since I live in Australia. Great photos as always. Yours Audax in Sydney.

  10. Lisa Michele!!! Fantastic review… hilarious that the company makes these drop dead gorgeous ticings… that CANNOT be good for you (though they are small and completely irresistible – and apparently tasty, too!) and then they sell all natural sugars and sprinkles. That made me laugh. Really. But, what a fun fun fun product. I am definitely headed over to the website. I love chocolate tattoos and I could picture these on top of a little cookie that had icing on it.
    That, I love. I am not a cupcake gal, either… but petit fours and cookies – oooh yeah!

  11. It’s like stickers for cupcakes!

  12. Alyse says:

    What fun with the decals.

  13. Love the Dried Fruit Flower Arrangement from Oh Nuts 🙂

  14. Catalina says:

    As for the nut gifts I like this one the most: http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/christmas-nuts-gifts-baskets/holiday-jovial-dot-pot-gift because there are cashews (oh, i love them :)).
    I’ve never heard about ticing before but they do look wonderful on your cupcakes. However, I don’t bake them too often – guess in this thingie we’re on the same wave 🙂 but when somebody makes them for me I don’t refuse them, of course 😀

  15. Laura says:

    Those are really cute!

    Love the photo of your nephew!

  16. Leslie says:

    How cute are these?!? And finally, a cupcake recipe I want to make. Make sure you enter my giveaway ($100 Visa gift card)! You can find it at http://morelethallydelicious.blogspot.com/2010/11/double-chocolate-scones-100-visa-gift.html. The deadline is Dec. 15th.

  17. Melissa Barnes says:

    ohnuts gc would be beyond perfect for holiday baking, i love to put nuts in almost everything i bake anyway but especially during the holidays!

  18. Megan says:

    Ok those Ticings things are completely adorable, and I can’t believe I’ve never heard of that site before. I’m off to check it out right now. I’m pretty good at frosting cupcakes, but artsy decorating is not my strong point, so a set of those would be awesome!

  19. grace says:

    excellent giveaways! i’m liking the combination of nuts, chocolate and dried fruit:

  20. Ashlee says:

    I love the penguin cupcake toppers, SO cute and easy!

  21. Those decorations are so cute! And raspberry sugar sounds way delicious.

  22. Amanda says:

    This may be a little boring, but these assorted nuts http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/bulk-nuts-seeds/gift-baskets-platters-2/6-section-assorted-nut-platter are my favorite of the Christmas gifts!

  23. Adriana says:

    i’d love some of those fantastic penguin edible icing sheets! your cupcakes look so adorable! plus, pistachio and olive oil? hell yeah!

  24. SueZ says:

    Love those beaded divided trays full of goodies on OH Nuts. And the cupcakes…oh my, how adorable and EASY!

  25. Ginny Munroe says:

    The cupcakes look great. I’ve never seen a recipe for chocolate creamcheese frosting. I’m definitely going to file that one.

    Here’s the basket I like and oh nuts. It has chocolate in addition to the nuts. Can’t beat that combination!

  26. Bettina says:

    I’ve never tried an olive oil cupcake before but that recipe looks interesting! And those penguins are simply adorable!

  27. Helen says:

    I love the http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/christmas-nuts-gifts-baskets/holiday-gift-tower, it looks so beautiful! And the penguin cupcakes are adorable too!!

  28. Lynn says:

    What fun products! I’m terrible at dressing up my cupcakes, so I need these!

    The decorative tin set calls to me: http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/holiday-keepsake-tins-gift

  29. 5 Star Foodie says:

    The cupcake decorations look so cute! the olive oil cupcakes sound amazing with pistachios and orange flavor, excellent recipe!

  30. lama says:

    I love the XL Holiday nut and chocolate basket. It’s healthy and it has nuts, dried, chocolate-dipped fruits, Nuts and Chocolate what else can you ask for

  31. Laura says:

    I love that cupcake recipe–it sounds so go AND it is pareve. Excellent! Here is that url of the gift basket I liked:
    I love Oh Nuts . . .

  32. Shelley says:

    Pretty! I’m thinking about doing cupcakes instead of cake for my wedding next year, I really like the custom icing idea!

  33. Sue says:

    Ohh. My neice loves penquins and loves to bake. Penguin Ticings would be so perfect to give to her, but she would love any of them.

    Sugar is one of my favorite ingredients, so the “Gimme Some Sugar” mug loooked like the best gift for me to enjoy at Oh Nuts.

  34. Dan says:

    Not a big cupcake person myself but they look very creamy and decorated beautifully. I guess the Ticings really allow one to focus on creating many different cupcake themes. As for your cupcake under all that froo froo – very yummy.

  35. MandyM says:

    Oh very cute Lisa! The cupcakes too… (Your nephew is gorgeous!)

  36. Mary says:

    So cute, those ticings are! I’m not a cupcake baker either; I don’t even own a cupcake pan, in fact. But those decorations are adorable, and I could definitely put them to good use. Did they leave a tattoo on your tongue, I wonder…
    Oh, and why do you torture me with things that can’t be delivered to Canada? I’m nuts for nuts, but shipping drives me nuts!

  37. Jenni says:

    We are going to have to call you a cup cake master now! Those ticings are so cute!!

  38. Schmidty says:

    The penguin toppers are great! And a nut giveaway!? Boy oh boy, yes! I cook with nuts like mad during the holidays, and this is my choice: http://www.ohnuts.com/buy.cfm/pistachio-burlap-sack-gift

  39. Josey says:

    I haven’t made cupcakes in forever, and this post made me want to go make some right now! And really, everything on Oh Nuts looks good!

  40. Jamie says:

    Snowflakes? Those are snowflakes? I was all excited because I thought they were Jewish stars! Yay! But I love them (they’ll be the perfect decoration for the Star of David cake I will make with the huge Nordicware Star of David cake mold my friend’s mother gave me. Now won’t that be a kick? And the penguins are way too cute. I must say you did one heck of a fab job decorating all of these cupcakes. Love the colors and the styles you created. Zach is one lucky nephew!

  41. Jamie says:

    This is too funny!

    And scrolling down all of their Hanukkah goodies brought back so many childhood Hanukkah memories of getting treats and dreidls like they have on that page. *sigh* Love it!

  42. Zita says:

    Oo… Lisa, I would love to get acquaintance with the beautiful ticing, btw what a huge effort you put on making the review, well done 🙂

  43. Sophie says:

    OOoh waw, your cupcakes look so cute, lovely & amazing too!

    I don’t love to eat frosting but others will love them! Good luck with your give aways!

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  45. Juliana says:

    Lisa these cupcakes are great and love the decorations…what a great idea! I’d love to try this Ticing…very creative!

  46. shaz says:

    Hi LIsa, those decorations look very en-ticing (boom, tish!) I probably live too far for either giveaway so good luck to the rest of you 🙂 Boy, the cupcakes sound good but the white chocolate cream cheese frosting…oh my!

  47. FOODESSA says:

    Lisa…I can certainly tell you what kind of cupcake baker I am. Counting on one single hand…I’ve made cupcakes zero times. LOL
    Sure, I’ve made my share of tasty muffins…and yet never took a shot at making an icon within the cupcake mania world…go figure!?! Knowing myself…I’m always out of trends and probably will want to make them when they’re less popular. Or, is that even possible? Well, especially not if bakers like yourself explore them in the way you did ;o)
    This was a very interesting review. For now, to be fair…I’ll give up my giveway place to someone that’s really into making them. Good luck to everyone 😉
    What I will certainly have to make is that orange pistachio cupcake recipe and enjoy them for the fantastic flavours they own ;o)

    Ciao for now,

  48. Valérie says:

    These are so adorable! I haven’t made cupcakes in forever, but this is definitely making me want to rediscover them. So cute!

  49. Those are so cute i like them plus your nephew! Cupcakes are handy and their always at my baking list specially this season where kids are everywhere. Glad you’ve shared this one! Enjoy the season!

  50. dee says:

    those are adorable! i would love to play with them!

  51. Teri says:

    Love the ticings! I am a huge cupcake fan and would love a set of those!

  52. Jen says:

    Yes..I’m a personal friend, and reallistically, I could just take those ticings cupcake thingies from your place and scamper away lmao! but i’ll be honest and do it the right way, altho I probably wont win! BY THE WAY, you still look gorgeous, even with your pink eye!

  53. Followed you over from Pioneer woman -great blog, and great giveaways!

  54. Lori says:

    Orange pistachio olive oil? What? That sounds really good!

    I love these appliques, especially the penguin and snowflake.

  55. Nana says:

    Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wished to say that I have really enjoyed browsing your blog posts. In any case I’ll be subscribing to your rss feed and I hope you write again very soon!

  56. Kelsey says:

    I made the orange olive oil cupcakes for my sister’s birthday and they were DIVINE. My new favorite citrus cupcake recipe! The cream cheese frosting is killer too! Thank you, Lisa!!

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You can get to the famous Cañón del Atuel through a non-paved road. The Cañón del Atuel has its full splendor in a place called “wax museum”, where the capricious rock formations known as “geoformas” (geoshapes) show its great magnificence. There you can see the famous Rivadavia’s Armchair, The Lizard, The Old People, The Monsters, The Charmed City, The Pauper, The Hanging Gardens, just to name a few.

Some of the options of adventure activities are: rafting, trekking, mountain bike, jet-ski, windsurf, kayak, paragliding and rappel. Some of the most traditional activities are fishing, diving and navigations in catamaran.

Apart from all these natural beauties, there are also many geologic and paleontology-related findings that are worthy of a specialized excursion.

El Nihuil Dam - Mendoza

We have to mention the wine cellars of the region in which most of the well-known varietal wines and sparkling wines of the region are produced.

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The following quiz questions were submitted by Perry Bartlett. Perry runs a quiz night at Floyd's Bar, Cerro Branco, Albufeira in Portugal every Saturday & Wednesday night at 10pm. Many thanks Perry.

1. Catherine Howard was confined to the tower of London today in 1542, awaiting execution, which of Henry VIII?s wives was she?

2. Nicknamed Shnozzola, which legendary American funnyman and actor was born today in 1893?

3. Alex Haley died today in 1992, but what was the name of his epic book detailing the struggle of his African American family, right back to the slave trade?

4. Who did Queen Victoria marry on this day in 1840?

5. 53 today (2008), what is golfer Greg Norman?s nickname?

6. Musician Larry Adler was born today in 1914, with which instrument do we associate him?

7. Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller premiered in New York today in 1949, but who did he marry in 1956?

8. How many gold medals did birthday boy Mark Spitz win at the 1972 Olympic games?

9. Who did James ?Buster? Douglas knock out to win the world heavyweight championship today in 1990?

10. How old is Robert Wagner today (2008)?

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What Are GMK Keycaps?

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April 30, 2021

As the demand for custom mechanical keyboards grows, newcomers to the hobby may be confused by some terms that constantly get thrown around. Spending 5 minutes on Reddit’s mechanical keyboard subreddit may leave you wondering, “What are these GMK keycaps everyone is talking about?” Below, we will give a brief overview of what GMK means, how their keycaps helped shape the hobby and the pros and cons of ordering them.

What Does GMK mean?

In 1992, Manfred Güntner and Wolfgang Kredler founded GMK electronic design GmbH in Wernberg-Köblitz, Germany. The company manufactured surface mounted diodes and other microcomputer components.

It was not until 2011, over 19 years later, that GMK began manufacturing double-shot ABS plastic keycaps. However, their method for creating keycaps is unique and a pretty polarizing topic in the community.

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What makes these ABS plastic keycaps unique?

Typically, ABS plastic is considered lower in quality than thicker, more durable PBT plastic. However, GMK has a unique trick up its sleeve: community engagement. You cannot simply purchase a GMK set from their website, and finding an in-stock set can be nearly impossible without shelling out quite a chunk of change. The reason for this is GMK relies on interest checks, group buys, and individual artists to create a set of their ABS keycaps.

Scrolling through r/MechanicalKeyboards, you will see some posts tagged with the [IC] designation. These posts mean they are hosting an interest check, gauging community interest in their keycap design and renders. If they garner enough buzz, this artist will approach a manufacturer of their choice to receive a quote.

After going through the quote process with GMK, the artist typically creates a group buy campaign to help fund the production of these caps. This process is not exclusive to just GMK sets, but they are the poster child for keyboard group buys. Once enough people buy into the keycap set, it can then be queued for manufacturing by GMK at its German facility.

Allowing members of the community to create their own sets makes GMK a popular choice. People have no problem sacrificing quality, settling for ABS plastic, if it means receiving a custom colorway that makes their board unique.

Inspirations for these designs include classic keyboards from the past, popular culture, or pretty much anything you can imagine. GMK keycaps allow owners to express themselves using their custom mechanical keyboard setups.

The two main downsides of GMK are the manufacturing wait time and their ABS plastic composition. It can be easy to get excited about a brand new set that will complement your setup perfectly, but it can come as a shock when you see an estimated delivery date of the following year.

None of GMK’s keycaps are in stock, and every new group buy requires manufacturing from scratch only after its completion. With dozens of GMK sets constantly being ordered, the queue can add up, leading to longer than average wait times.

As mentioned previously in this article, ABS plastic is thinner and less durable than PBT plastic. ABS can lead to your GMK keycaps “shining” over time, losing their textured surface and matte appearance. Additionally, their sound is less resonant than the deeper tones that thicker PBT plastic create.

For high-quality PBT keycap sets, check out our GPBT keycaps. Available in a wide variety of attractive colors, GPBT keycaps allow you to customize your board without waiting a year to receive them. Additionally, our sets cost $49.99, an objectively more affordable price than GMK’s $100+ price per set.

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Adobe Updates Photoshop Elements/Premiere Elements Bundle

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At a Glance
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and Adobe Premiere Elements 9

Adobe's consumer image- and video-editing applications--Photoshop Elements 9 and Premiere Elements 9--get minor makeovers in their latest versions. Both gain Facebook upload capability and, of course, additional editing capabilities, but each still relies on a separate, bloated organizer, so you'll have to run two (or even three) Adobe applications at once.

Nevertheless, the dual-app bundle represents a notable value: At $150 (price as of September 21, 2010), the Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements package knocks $50 off the cost of buying the two apps individually. The odds are good that you'll need both apps at some point--and if you do, you'll be glad you bought them as a bundled duo.

Photoshop Elements 9

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, the new version of Adobe's image editing and organizing application, adds a few interesting features, but nothing of an oh-wow nature--unless you're opting for the Macintosh version, which adds several features found in previous Windows versions. But whichever platform you're on, Elements 9 ($100, or $140 for the Plus version; prices are as of September 21, 2010) remains one of the better consumer-level image handling applications you can choose.

Of course, Photoshop Elements 9 adds new editing and enhancement features. In its Guided Editing mode (also known as the lead-me-by-the-nose mode), you'll find a new reflection effect, pop-art effects, and "Lomo" camera effects. If you had the know-how, you could probably pull these off without the step-by-step. Likewise, the new "Perfect Portrait" feature merely steps you through the use of various editing tools, such as the spot-healing brush and the red-eye removal tool, to improve your portraits. If you're familiar with the tools, you may not need the assistance, but if you aren't, the instructions provided in the sidebar could be helpful.

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Premiere Elements 9

With the exception of folks who haven't had their shots, just about everyone who has a video capture device is desperate to go "viral"--to have their video to become so wildly popular that everyone knows its title by name. Adobe's Premiere Elements 9 video editor ($100, $140 for Plus version; prices as of September 21, 2010) may not help your videos get a million views in a day, but it does have a few new features that might induce Mom and Dad to watch them, anyway.

The video-focused complement to Photoshop Elements 9, the new version of Adobe's image-editing application, Premiere Elements 9 lets you easily upload finished videos to Facebook (the program first acquired YouTube-upload capability in Premiere Elements 8).You can't send your freshly edited video directly from Premiere Elements to Facebook, however; instead, you must save it, return to the Elements organizer (a separate application), find the video, and then use commands in the organizer to upload the video. It's easy to do once you're in the organizer, and the process works very well, but I'd rather use a more consistent interface, so I wouldn't have to remember to use YouTube in the editor and Facebook in the organizer.

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At a Glance
  • Adobe's consumer image- and video-editing applications offer a good value. They receive minor yet useful makeovers in their latest versions, but they still rely on a separate, bloated organizer.

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Commercial Roofing: Are Walking Pads Going Away?

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Once upon a time, roofing membranes for commercial roofs not covered by ballast or rock required walkway pads around and in between all rooftop equipment. I’m happy to report these days are mostly behind us.

example of commercial roof walking pad by peak roofing and construction in dallasPurpose of walking pads

A decade ago, a typical commercial roof design included walking pads placed around the perimeter of rooftop equipment such as air conditioning units, exhaust fans, and condensers. Basically, any equipment that might require service. To reach the equipment, a defined walkway was created reaching from the roof hatch to the furthest piece of equipment. The purpose was to protect the roof membrane from damage caused by workers traversing it during maintenance or repairs. This was important during the hot Texas summer months when the membrane softens and in winter when colder temperatures make the membrane brittle.

The ability to walk anywhere on a roof for maintenance or repair makes it easier on crews previously limited to predefined routes. Peak Roofing & Construction recently finished a project where we eliminated walking paths but kept the pads around the equipment to protect against dropped tools or instruments. The owner could not stop commenting about what a difference it made to freely walk wherever he wanted.

New materials offer durability

Thankfully, technology, once again, came to the rescue. The advent of TPO (thermoplastic polyolefin), and later PVC (polyvinyl chloride), membranes provided the flexibility and durability needed to withstand the weight and abrasion resistance from people walking on the roofs. This may sound like a small change but eliminating the walkway pads also reduces the cost of a roof by up to 5%. As one of the most trusted commercial roofers in Dallas-Fort Worth, providing our customers a superior roof and a fair price is what we’re all about.

Is your commercial building in need or reroofing or overdue for an inspection? Our team of professionals is ready to assist. Call us or fill out our online form.

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Bayview Mortgage Capital Files for IPO

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bayview Mortgage Capital Inc, a newly formed company with links to Blackstone Group, on Monday filed to raise up to $500 million in an initial public offering, aiming to use the money to buy distressed real estate loans from banks and other lenders and investors.

The company — whose parent is Bayview Asset Management, which is partly owned by private equity firm Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) — is just the latest of a series of initial public offerings backed by big investment firms looking to take advantage of troubled mortgages and souring investments in residential and commercial real estates.

The planned IPOs include units of such firms as Apollo Management [APOLO.UL], Alliance Bernstein Holding LP, Starwood Capital Group and Colony Capital LLC.

According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the new company plans to use the real estate investment trust (REIT) tax structure, which will allow it to bypass most corporate-level income taxes by distributing at least 90 percent of its taxable income directly to shareholders.

The company plans to buy and manage residential and commercial mortgage loans, mortgage-backed securities, real estate-related securities, real estate, and various other forms of real estate investment it believes are undervalued.

“We believe that the decline in the prices of mortgage loans during the current economic downturn is, in large part, due to increasing default rates and declining values of real estate collateral,” the company said in its filing.

As of Dec. 31, 2008, there were more than $4 trillion in U.S. residential mortgage whole loans outstanding, mostly held by depository institutions.

Bayview Mortgage Capital will be managed by Bayview Fund Management LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayview Asset Management LLC, which is 46 percent owned by Blackstone affiliates.

Bayview Fund Management manages several funds including BOF-I, which had $1.98 billion in capital commitments as of May 31, and an investment strategy similar to the new company. Funds managed by Blackstone are the majority investors in BOF-I.

Bayview is a Coral Gables, Florida-based full-service real estate investment and mortgage finance firm with 800 employees. It buys, services and manages residential and commercial mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities.

Bayview’s mortgage team, led by David Ertel, has purchased more than $17 billion of primarily residential mortgage loans in the secondary market involving more than 2,000 counter parties and more than 9,000 transactions.

Bayview historically has played in the “scratch and dent” market — buying performing, sub-performing and nonperforming loans, primarily at a discount to par value.

The new company plans to sell $20 million of shares of its common stock to David Ertel, Bayview Asset Management’s chairman and chief executive officer.

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Let's continue to explore the worst-case scenarios for first overall. This is a Toronto Maple Leafs blog, after all.

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Here's the second and final part of my series on draft busts.  Part I is here, and you should read it if you really want to feel an inexpressible despair.  I promise the end of this will be slightly more cheerful!  But first, more despair.

Three More Busts

Brian Lawton

Left Wing; Drafted 1OA by Minnesota in 1983

Brian Lawton was actually not all that big (6'0, 178 lbs, meaning I am basically the same size as Brian Lawton.  I am planning to declare for the draft this summer.)  He crushed at the high school level, scoring a patently absurd 83 points in 23 games in his senior year.  He was drafted 1OA three weeks before his 18th birthday.  You may wonder, as I did, whether the Rhode Island High School league was the best place to scout for the top pick, but NHL Central Scouting had him viewed as the #1 prospect in the draft.  Mt. St. Charles, from whence Lawton came, has had a longstanding and strong hockey program; Bryan Berard, Mathieu Schneider, and Garth Snow all also attended the school.  It was a bold pick, but not a crazy one.

Lawton joined the NHL that fall and had a few not-terrible seasons in his youth, clearing 40 points three times at the NHL level.  But he never lived up to his draft position.  Once Minnesota lost patience with him and demoted him to the AHL--leading to an ugly situation where Lawton refused to report--he was traded around repeatedly and led an itinerant existence from 1988 to 1993, crisscrossing the continent and three professional leagues before retiring young at age 27.

Now that we've had a few go-rounds in looking at draft busts, I would like to take a slightly different tack and look at how people talk about them after they're done.  This list ranks him as the tenth-worst top-five bust of all time, noting he was picked ahead of Steve Yzerman, Pat Lafontaine, and others.  This one ranks him as the second-worst draft bust ever, and suggests his failure contributed to the subsequent relocation of the North Stars to Dallas (which may be true.)  This article has several amusing one-liners, noting that Brian Lawton was the only NHLer brave enough to wear #98 and invite the unflattering Gretzky comparisons; it also blames his failures on being from New Jersey.  Here's a THW list, putting Lawton as the fourth-biggest 1OA bust, again noting that he went ahead of Yzerman and others.  The always-reliable folks at Wikipedia have a general overview of Lawton's playing, agent, and executive careers; they also have several fascinating, sourced quotes, noting North Stars GM expressed regret he didn't draft Tom Barrasso instead and that Lawton disliked having to move so often in his final five seasons.

Here is Brian Lawton's entry on the excellent site Hockey Draft Central, which I have grown to love despite their overuse of ellipses.  I would like to make an extensive, lightly-edited quote from it.

Missed parts of 1983-84 season with slightly separated shoulder, an injury suffered during Minnesota's Dec. 7, 1983, game vs. Detroit, and with stretched knee ligaments, an injury suffered during Minnesota's Jan. 27, 1984, game at St. Louis. He did not return from knee injury until Minnesota's Feb. 29, 1984, game vs. St. Louis. ... Missed part of Minnesota's 1984 training camp with shoulder injury, suffered in October 1984. ... ... Missed part of Minnesota's 1987 training camp with right knee injury, suffered at Team USA practice for Canada Cup on Aug. 26, 1987. The injury required arthroscopic surgery. ... Missed parts of 1987-88 season with broken thumb, an injury suffered in October 1987, and with bruised ribs, an injury suffered when he collided with teammate Frantisek Musil during Minnesota's Feb. 24, 1988, game at Toronto. ... ... Lost two teeth and suffered 12-stitch gash over left eye when he was hit by Perry Anderson's stick during Hartford's Jan. 27, 1989, game at New Jersey. ... Missed part of 1988-89 season with broken left wrist, an injury suffered when he was slashed by Robert Picard during Hartford's Jan. 28, 1989, game vs. Quebec. He did not return to action until Hartford's Feb. 9, 1989, game vs. Buffalo. ... Missed remainder of 1988-89 regular season and start of 1989 playoffs with sprained ankle, an injury suffered when he crashed into the boards during Hartford's March 25, 1989, game vs. St. Louis. ... Missed part of Hartford's 1989 training camp with cracked bone in left foot, an injury suffered in September 1989. ...Missed part of 1991-92 season with foot injury, suffered during San Jose's Oct. 4, 1991, season-opener at Vancouver -- the first game in San Jose Sharks history. ... Missed part of 1991-92 season with knee injury, suffered during San Jose's Nov. 26, 1991, game vs. Vancouver.

Brian Lawton played more than 66 NHL games in a season exactly twice--1987-88, when he played 74 games at age 22, and 75 in 1988-89 at age 23.  His best season by points per game was at age 21, and again, he retired at age 27.  Guess how many combined times those five links from a couple of paragraphs up mention injuries as a factor in him being a bust?

Zero.  Combined.

Why did it go wrong?

  1. Injuries: What a surprise to see a draft bust had a number of injuries early in his career, at critical points in his development!  I wonder if this is a trend.
  2. League Comparability: I do think there's something in the idea that Lawton's offensive numbers were not quite as impressive as they appeared given where he got them, but I don't want to overstate this.  As noted, some very good hockey players have come out of Mt. St. Charles High School.
I promise these will be the only bitter paragraphs in the piece, and then I'll go back to being wry and eventually optimistic.  But: draft bust articles -- and trust me, I've read quite a few of them doing this piece -- are almost invariably written from a perspective of either implicitly or explicitly laughing at failure, because that's the point of them (and to be fair, I've made several jokes in these pieces along the same lines.) They tend to do cute drive-by cut-ups -- look how good people thought this guy was, look how few goals he scored after, look how early he retired, and most of all, look who was drafted after him.  There's some mockery of the player for his general suckiness, maybe a ding on the GM for such an unforgivable error.  Sometimes they talk about injuries, often with a charmingly old school spin about how said injuries are probably a moral failing.  Mostly they want to gloss over them, though, because a talented player having his career destroyed before it got off the ground just isn't that funny.

Now, this is not to simply pin everything on injuries and wash our hands.  Of course the North Stars would have been better off drafting Steve Yzerman.  No, even if he were healthy, Brian Lawton would probably never have been point-a-game.  He was not a great first overall pick regardless of what happened to him subsequently; true first overall busts (by definition) involve teenage success that, with hindsight, we can find clear reasons to discount.  But when a player goes from impressive success to grim failure, there tends to be one big factor, and any real discussion of draft busts has to face it.

Alexandre Daigle

Centre; Drafted 1OA by Ottawa in 1993

Hahaha okay, I take back what I said, let's laugh at the Sens for a while.  Everyone was sure Daigle was a can't-miss superstar after he annihilated the QMJHL, putting up 137 points in 53 games (you might notice he did suffer an injury this year, though.)  Daigle had a decent rookie season -- 51 points in 84 games for the Sens (this was in that weird period where the NHL had 84-game seasons.)

Daigle did have some injury trouble -- he missed 30 games in 1995-96--although it never reached the Book-of-Revelations suffering of Jody or Kluzak.  Daigle seems like the rare case where maybe there actually was something to all the usual character-based chatter that surrounds many scoring players.  He underachieved considerably subsequent to his rookie year and drifted through the league after the Sens gave up on him in 1997-98, then left the league and hockey entirely in 2000.

He had a number of interests outside the game that he pursued with vigour.  He apparently gave an interview, when he washed out of the NHL (for the first time) at 25, in which he acknowledged he didn't really like playing hockey that much; he just stuck with it because he was so talented at it.  Daigle actually went on to have a decent comeback with the Minnesota Wild from 2003-2006 before going to Europe, where he played until 2010.

In addition to being the funniest draft bust (because again, bad things happening to Ottawa are hilarious and frequent), Daigle is probably the odd man out in our sample.  His injury history wasn't great, but it wasn't as obviously devastating in his early days as the worst busts.  He...well, his heart may just not have been in it.  To be fair, Ottawa was absolutely clown-shoes bad the first three seasons he played for them, so he was up against it in that regard.  But that's true to some extent of most 1OA picks, and subsequent high picks -- Yashin and Alfredsson -- surpassed him fairly quickly.  He was a guy with a lot of talent who people thought would be a franchise player, and he just didn't make it.

Why did it go wrong?

I won't bother with a list, because to be honest: I don't know for sure why Daigle flopped.  There's an unusual amount of evidence he just wasn't that emotionally invested in his hockey career.  It's hard to accept that a guy just didn't care enough to come close to his potential, but that's kind of the trend of the evidence we have, even discounting the streams of mockery you have to sift through when you Google his name.  I won't discount the possibility of early injuries playing some role, and you can repeat the old saw about how high-scoring the Q is and how plenty of guys don't produce in the NHL.

But Daigle should have been better.  The truth is, sometimes a perfectly reasonable pick -- and Daigle was extremely well thought of in 1993 -- just doesn't work, for whatever reason.  Should the Sens have been able to foresee that Daigle would be disengaged from hockey and more interested in nightlife?  Even if there were signs, they would have been easy to discount as the party-hard phase plenty of people and even more professional athletes have between seventeen and twenty-five.  Sometimes, things just don't work.

Can you believe, though, that the Sens settled their hopes on a different guy to be their franchise player, and it was Alexei Yashin? Hahahah

Patrik Stefan

Centre; Drafted 1OA by Atlanta in 1999

Stefan is the most recent bust.  There hasn't been a punchline at 1OA this millennium; he's the last.  Part of the impetus for this article was an Oilers fan comparing Matthews to Stefan.

Stefan, whose name has a little accent on the S that I can't be bothered to put up, played against men in the Czech league and then spent two seasons in the IHL before being drafted.  (The IHL, if you don't remember, was an NHL development league roughly on par with the AHL during the last half of the 20th century.  It folded in 2001.)  While his performance in the IHL was impressive for a teenager -- he did 35 points in 33 games in his final year in the IHL --  it seems a little odd he was valued so highly based on that sole, short successful Stefan season (me so alliterative.) Still, Stefan was big (6'2") and a centre, and well thought-of; he seems to have been widely thought the most talented guy in the draft (ahead of the Sedins; I can't help noting, though 1999 also turned out to be a very weak draft class outside of a couple of seventh-round diamonds.)  The larger problem, though, was the reason that last IHL year was so short: concussions.

This HFBoards thread (I know, but the ninth post down produces a number of good sourced quotes) references several articles from 1999 talking about Stefan's already-worrisome concussion history.  He apparently had three in his final year in the IHL, before being drafted, which is why he only played 33 games.  Stefan's career was devastated right at the very beginning.

Anyway, you know how things go by now.  Stefan was a talented young player ruined by injuries--concussions in his youth, but eventually a number of other things.  His 40-point year in 2003-04 was his only full NHL season; he was out of the league before his 27th birthday. THW, typically, handles his injuries in sensitive fashion in the following quote.

Stefan retired in 2007 when a hip injury had plagued him for far too long. One of the large reasons Stefan never turned out was that he seemingly always had nagging injuries holding him back.

How annoying.

Why did it go wrong?

  1. Concussions and Other Injuries: Stefan was damaged goods from the start, unfortunately, and he only became more so as time went on.  As with so many busts, he was too injured to play by his late 20s; he went to the Swiss league and only played three games before giving up.
  2. Questionable Pick: Stefan's track record wasn't really 1OA good, though there were some promising signs.  I think this is one of those picks that was probably bad on the day it was made, not just with hindsight.
Sigh.  Injuries are sad.  But are they so sad we can't laugh at that video of Stefan missing an empty net? I think not.

What Do We Take Away From All This?

I think these examples make a pretty strong case that first overall busts are usually devastated by injuries.  You may argue that this is partly a function of my sample, which picked players with fewer than 700 NHL games, but these six players (along with Rick DiPietro, who is an even more emphatic example of the injury point, and the pre-expansion flops) are almost invariably mentioned as the big 1OA busts.   I don't think any other example at the same draft spot comes close.  In some cases, there were also reasons to question the pre-draft performance of the players, who were oversized, overaged or both and whose advantages in dominating U-20 leagues were not adequately accounted for.  I don't want to go to far with this, though; hindsight is 2020, and it's very easy to say we should have known, say, Brian Lawton's youth hockey wasn't predictive when we know what happened after.

Of these six players, Daigle was the only one to play an NHL game after his thirtieth birthday, and Joly, Wickenheiser, Kluzak, Lawton and Stefan all suffered very severe injuries before age 25; some of them suffered them either in their draft year (Kluzak and Stefan) or shortly after being drafted (Joly and Lawton.)  Except possibly for Kluzak, I think even average health would have prevented these players from being bona fide busts, and would have kept them off lists like those quoted above (and out of this article.)  I also don't think any of them would have been Hall of Fame calibre.  But their careers would have been very different.

The truth is, while they make mistakes, NHL GMs and scouts are not generally stupid.  For a player to be in a position where he's considered 1OA, he has to have achieved impressively at lower levels and he has to have displayed meaningful talent.  No 1OA--again, except Kluzak--is indefensible on draft day.  So I suppose this is the scariest part: there's a chance it could happen to Matthews, and we can't reduce that chance to zero.

So How Does Matthews Look Right Now?

Let's start with the obvious: on the "is he good enough?" issue, Matthews looks really, really good.

I could link you to literally hundreds of things demonstrating how amazing Matthews is.  He was great for the US National Development Team and has gone on to be great as a teenager playing against men in this Swiss league.  But even putting aside my shameless love for the home team, our staff did a phenomenal bit covering him from several angles.  There is no plausible argument against Matthews' demonstrated talent level beyond "well, he hasn't done anything in the NHL yet."  No, it's true, he hasn't.  If only we could draft guys after they've played in the league for three years.  Alas.

So let's turn to the injury front.  The only injury I can verify regarding Matthews was a back injury he suffered last autumn, on October 23rd.  Matthews returned to action on November 25th and seemed to quickly regain his elite form.  There's not much about the injury; and of course, your back is kind of important.  It's possible to catastrophize and envision that Matthews actually has a spine made of taffy now.  There's no evidence that's the case, though, and there are no signs of any trouble remotely comparable to the beginning stages of a bust.

Plumbing the depths of our fears can be depressing, and some of these guys have had truly miserable luck post-draft.  But for the Leafs, I think the end result of this exercise is heartening.  The next time some asshole Oilers fan makes a snide Patrik Stefan reference, shrug and say, "Well, anything's possible.  But he looks pretty damn good."


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This smooth track combines two of my favorite things: great vocals and a tantalizing beat. Chandra Rhyme’s talent has captured the city, especially after her Sunstar Music Festival performance a few months ago. She released “Bullet” in April shortly after that performance, and it's been in heavy rotation in my apartment since.

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