So there was a groupon this week for Let Them Eat Cake and I decided to go give the place a whirl. It was easy to find and the at $3.25 a cupcake seemed about right for a lot of the upper end cupcakes on the market these days. I was excited to see that they had all the flavors I wanted to try which is contrary to their day of the week listing on their website. I wanted it to be fantastic I really did. Let me tell you about the 6 flavors I tried with my boyfriend:
Boston Cream Pie - This cake was unbelievable awesome. Delicious frosting, fluffy yummy cake, and a filling that was just perfect. We DEVOURED this nommy cupcake.
Cherry Bomb - I'm not too big a fan of most chocolate cake but the cake was very moist. The Cherry filling however, was only a single cherry in the middle. Not exactly what I was expected. Overall, not bad but not really to my taste.
Cosmos - This was horrible. We threw it out. Lemon and raspberry are normally a flavor combination I love but this was ugh. The cake was dry and flavorless. The icing was too sugary. The filling was that generic goo you purchase in bulk from bakery supply shops. Just horrid.
Marie's Cherry - The icing was quite yummy on this one. The cake however, was fairly boring. Tasted like a better crocker mix. There was a bare trace of filling. Not enough to really give a description.
Butter Rum - This tasted like one of those butterscotch toffee things. I was expecting something more along the lines of Italian rum cake. So, not what I expected but if you like those butterscotch toffee things you will love this cupcake.
Spumoni - This was a special flavor not on their normal menu. It consisted of the same ok chocolate cake that was in the cherry bomb. The frosting was yummier. I also liked the pistachio filling but there wasn't very much of it all. So a good cupcake but not a fantastic cupcake.
We ate the Boston Cream Pie first and that made us super excited to eat the others. This only made it more disappointing that there was such much disparity in the quality of the various flavors.
In the end it seemed the majority of it was equivalent to something I could make with a mix at home. They were hardly worth the price.
The only reason we gave this place 3 stars is because of the beyond out of this world Boston Cream Pie cupcake. That's something we may go back for.