OK I don't understand America's recent craze with cupcakes. The show cupcake wars and I have heard so many grand things about Sprinkles. I had today off and I decided I had to see what the whole cupcake buzz is about. When I walked in there was a line about 30 people deep. I was like OK have these people never had a cupcake before? Anyways, I walk in and I couldn't tell if I was in a pseudo bakery or a fashion show/salon setting? Nothing about this place reflects a bakery. So I ordered a red velvet cupcake and I guess waitress you would call it wrote up a ticket for it. OK, it is one cupcake, apparently the ticket is for tracking product, I don't know. Then I had to wait at least a solid 3 minutes before they gave it to me. I had the cash in my hand. Can't it be a grab and go? Apparently no!!
As for the cupcake itself, the structural integrity was totaled f*cked. It was so top heavy that the top was breaking off from the bottom. It was obvious that it wasn't freshly frosted because the frosting had the hard crust, like it was a done a day before and sat on a shelf for numerous hours. But I will say that the cream cheese frosting did taste good. As far as the cake, the taste was pleasant. Light and airy cake. Overall the cupcake was pretty darn good.
With all that being said I'm glad I tried one. Would I wait in line for 15 minutes again? Not unless I had an undying insatiable craze for one, which I don't see happening. Yes it is better than any supermarket cupcake that I have ever had, but I'm more than happy getting a Hostess cupcake at any convenience store for cheap than paying $3.81 for one single cupcake. Props to the lady who invented Sprinkles for the business that she created but after all, it's just a god damn cupcake!!