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| - I've been perusing the shops and restaurants of Ballantyne Village all these years and have yet to make it into The Blushing Bakeshop until recently. Though I'm not the hugest fan of baked goods to the tune of cupcakes, cakes, cookies,...or really anything cake-y, for that matter, but I like this place. Here's why:
Sometimes, normal biz hours aren't within the constraint of my day's allowance and, thus, I typically don't get a chance to visit many places that close before 6pm. Luckily, these fine people are open until 7pm most weekdays, and we made it in just before then. The employee, can't remember her name, was very welcoming and invited us right on in. The hours on the door may say they close at 6pm, but their Yelp info is right! Huge win here. Otherwise, we would have just turned around.
The interior is quaint and riddled with pink, pink items, pink edibles, and other pinkable pinking pink-type things. Again, I'm not the biggest fan of cupcakes, but we happily obliged for the chocolate birthday cake and baker's choice for the day -- a white cake with chocolate frosting. Both were fine, but nothing to write home about. I think they had been sitting out for a while that day, but if the cake part had been fresh, I'm sure it would have been better. The buttercream on both were very, very well executed. Not stacked too high like some other places, which I greatly appreciate. As a mustache & beard holding gentleman, high frosting is a disaster. We also ordered a very, very, very good santa cookie. Dude, give me a glass of milk or cup of coffee with one of those jokers again and I'm a happy camper. Soft cookie, light frosting, sprinkles, and great vanilla flavor.
The cake decorating here is very clean, too. Where I can't comment on the cakes themselves, I will say that they are gorgeous.
Though I don't think the cupcakes are amazing by any constraint, those cookies, the service, and accessibility and variety, this place deserves 4 stars in my book.
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