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| - I actually watched the Food Network show Cupcake Wars, (Their team was memorable...and burned a pan of okra on the show, and set a small grease fire!) and didn't realize the winners, Cupcrazed was local, until they showed up at my workplace with a dozen mini cupcakes.
I nommed one, and was hooked. It was the most moist, buttery, flavorful cupcake I had ever eaten. MARGARITA in a cake? Brills! So today, my husband and I made the 25 minute trek to Fort Mill to try the real deal.
Some CCz'd diehards...please don't hurt me when I say some flavors were extremely dry, crumbly and impossible to pick up with a fork. We had the cookies and creme cupcake on a recommendation, and the flavor was DY-NO-MITE. It tasted just like an Oreo cookie sundae. The frosting, dead on for the Oreo filling. But the cake...oh dear.
We also got the 24 Karat, which is a carrot cake, but with coconut, walnuts and raisins. THIS CAKE IS TO DIE FOR. That moistness was back, and the flavor, bursting with each bite. There is a lot of frosting on this cupcake, but my husband ate the rest of what I didn't eat.
TIP: They sell cartons of milk and other drinks...very important to the cupcake experience!
CC #3: Butter Rum Toffee. The frosting is deliciously buttery and sweet, but again, the cake, was...not as dry as the cookies and cream, but it tasted as if the cake had been sitting out all day. We went at about 2:30pm, and it was the 2nd to last BRT cupcake in the case, so maybe it just fell victim to being out in the open too long?
CC#4: Vanilla on Vanilla. Same as BRT. Clear vanilla taste in the cake and frosting, but slightly dry. Have had better.
CC#5: Double Chocolate: Dense and super chocolaty-- this was moist and brownie-like, but still doesn't beat the 24 Karat!
Bottom Line: The setting is friendly and homey, with bright colored wooden tables and wooden chairs with wicker seats. Lots of kids around, lots of options. I'd get the cupcakes fresh as soon as they come out of the kitchen, or know which flavors are known for being moist.
When you get a good one, Cupcrazed knocks it outta the park.
TIP: Mini cupcakes (in egg cartons) are $15 a dozen (When we were there today, it was bacon maple, mmm.) and there was one lone giant cupcake, which was $5.
One day I will have to try a "push pop"-- which I'm told is like the old-school kids push pops (think, Flintstones sherbet!) but with cake and frosting layers in a clear tube!
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