Stopped in yesterday to get an assortment of cupcakes for David's birthday and may be stopping back again soon to get some cupcakes for Lauren's birthday.
This time I got 2 each of the following: BELLA LUCIA - a vanilla cake with Nutella center & topped w/ stracciatella buttercream; DURACELLE - a carrot and walnut cake topped w/cream cheese frosting and a dusting of cinnamon; FIONA - chocolate cake filled with a chocolate raspberry gananche and topped w/ raspberry buttercream; KIMBERLY - vanilla cake filled with a homemade lemon curd and topped w/ lemony cream cheese frosting. The cakes are moist and tasty and the icing is perfect.
As for the people who have written negative reviews, I think that they must have either gotten old cupcakes or had cupcakes that were not stored at proper temps prior to eating them. Everytime I have gone to the shop at Ballantyne Village to get cupcakes, they have been fresh and delish.
Now, you definititely cannot leave these things in the car while you're doing more shopping or running errands becasue of the heat and humidity around here. They definitely have to be kept at proper temps or the buttercream frosting is going to melt/separate/get slimy, or spoil in the case of the cream cheese.
Remember folks, these are not the typical "Commerical grade" bakery cupcakes -- they are not filled with preservatives or loaded with corn syrup like the ones you get at HT or Lowe's Foods...so a little more care must be taken with them.