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| - Another fancy cupcake shop and another meh. Like Gigi's, I can't find a cupcake that really justifies the higher-than-grocery-store prices of the cupcakes. Located at the Blakeney Crossing shopping center, which is across Rea Rd from the larger Blakeney shopping center, it is a cute little shop.
The have several flavors that they serve all of the time, and then special daily flavors. On a Thursday evening after a lovely dinner at Salsarita's, which is right next door, I stopped in and got a vanilla/vanilla, a chocolate chip, a raspberry bliss and a white chocolate pretzel. The frosting on all is kind of grainy, but not overly sweet. The cupcakes were moist, but I didn't think were super delicious. The chocolate chip seemed to have a good quality chocolate chip, in the plain vanilla cupcake. Raspberry bliss was a vanilla cupcake with a small squirt of raspberry jam in it. White chocolate pretzel was... bleh - I didn't like it. And though I got 4 different varieties, they all really tasted the same. Too much frosting.
Once your cupcakes are purchased, they also have a candy bar where you can add toppings to your cupcake. The store has some gift shoppish items such as wine glasses and small recipe books for cupcakes and cocktails.
Cupcakes are $3.25 apiece. If you buy 4, it's $12 and they put them in a box for you. Otherwise, they get put in a bag. That's right, cupcakes in a bag - that's not going to make a mess, eh?
It is a nice little store, and the cupcakes would be a cute treat for a special occasion, but like Gigi's, I was left with a *shrug* kind of ambivalence about the cupcakes.
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