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| - I was so excited when Groupon had a an offer for a cupcakery that I had been wanting to try. The shop is a 30+ mile trek from home. I am willing to go the distance for baked goods!
I ordered my dozen of mixed flavors (2 each of 6 flavors), picked them up the next day, Wednesday. It was a cute little place and boy did the cupcakes looked pretty. They were on the larger side and they were baked in those pretty gold brown mini panettone freestanding liners.
When I got there the transaction was easy. The large pink box with the cupcakes came out. I had a cooler in my trunk with my ice packs ready for the cupcakes comfy ride home. The bottom of the box of cupcakes was really cold (weird like someone else mentioned, I'll chalk it up to the hot weather).
I was giddy to try them when I got home. I wanted to try them as fresh as possible. I decided on two flavors per hour. Because they were large, I decided I should cut them in half. As beautiful as the liners were, they are impossible to pull open to get to the cupcake so I had to use a sharp paring knife to zip them open in 4 places so the liners could be accessed, like petals of a flower.
I have a certain idea of what I like in my cupcakes since I am an avid baker. Sometimes, it is nice to have someone else bake and to have 15 or so flavors to choose from. I know I would not have that assortment on a given day.
Here's what I got and my take on the flavors:
Truffle - The chocolate cake was a little overdone, the cream filling was thick and really sweet, the buttercream was even sweeter it coated my mouth in not such a good way and the large sugar crystals that decorated the outer edges were pretty albeit teeth hurting crunchy.
So, I scraped the sugar off any other flavor that bore the crystals before tasting.
Marie's Cherry - this cake was also a little dry, the mousse was achingly sweet and seem over-beaten and the buttercream had that same over sweetened weird coating thing going for it.
At this point, I was not sure I wanted to even try any more. I was already going into sugar shock.
Boston Cream Pie - this one proved to be pretty decent compared to the first 2. The cream filling by itself was not all that, the ganache seem to have a layer of chocolate mousse under it and made it super sweet. So, I gently lifted the ganache from the mousse, scraped off the mousse and ate the ganache with the cake and cream filling.
Citrus Whiz - the cake was moist, the lemon cream was not very lemony but had citrus notes, the orange buttercream was overly sweet.
Mocha Madness - the chocolate cake was moist, the coffee ganache was so thick that when I got to it and put my fork in it , it mashed the rest of the cupcake - it did have a good flavor, again the buttercream was extremely sweet and left my mouth coated.
Better than Sex - this was the best out of my flavors. The cake was moist with the caramel, the the whipped cream filling was sweet but not like the others, the fudge topping was good and the toffee piece were softened by the topping (probably because it had been hours since I picked up the cupcakes) and best of all - no buttercream on this cupcake.
I could not taste every hour, it took me all day to try 1/4 of each flavor due to the sugar content. Goodness, I had no idea you could make sugar look like cupcakes. I really wanted to like them. Large, pretty and special flavors does not equate to flavorful. I did not finish the other 3/4 of the tasted cupcakes and gave the remaining 6 away. My search continues or I bake my own.
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