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| - Very rarely am I ever in Airdrie but there happen to be a Crossfit competition held at a gym located there this past weekend. I had a few friends competing so I drove down to watch. When I showed up, they were on a lunch break and I swear Alanna read my mind. She mentioned Avenue Bakery and my eyeballs almost popped out of my eye sockets because that's exactly what was on my mind and has been on my mind for quite some time. Six of us crammed into one car, google mapped the bakery and headed on over.
Apparently if you follow google maps, it doesn't take you exactly where the bakery is. We got a little confused with the area it was in but eventually sniffed our way to Avenue. Pulling up, I was shocked as the parking lot was empty but there was a lady coming out with a cake. I was debating whether I should jump her or just go into the bakery myself. I'm thankful I made the right decision to go into the bakery because I was amazed by how much goodies were on display. Places like Avenue get me sooOoOoOOO excited I can hardly contain myself - I love love little bake shoppes for all the sweet homemade goodness and wish they had more places like this in Calgary.
I think I admired the display for about 20 minutes. To the left there is a display of loaves, cinnamon buns, pies, cookies ETC. and the main display had all the cupcakes, STUFFED cupcakes, cheesecakes, squares, cake balls ETC. I knew I wanted to try the stuffed cupcakes because coworkers and friends have been really raving about them. I was going to order 5, 4 to go and eat one right there but there was some deal, I think buy 6 get one free - something of that sort. Anyway, I declined and just went with four, only because I knew I would eat them all..in one sitting. I ordered a chocolate cheesecake cup, stuffed oreo cupcake, german chocolate cake, and rolo cupcake. I also got a salty caramel bar so I could save the cupcakes til I got home to share. I actually wanted to buy everything on display but I know that would be bad bad news. Everyone else got some stuffed cupcakes as well.
The salty caramel bar was like a chocolate brownie with some salted caramel and some condensed milk glaze, it was ok - it was put in a little bag and it got all sticky, I should have eaten it right away. I really couldn't believe that I didn't touch any of the cupcakes till after I got home, it was really tough but I did it! The cupcakes had been sitting at room temperature for some time before I got to them. First, I cut the oreo cupcake in half, YUM. The chocolate cake was super moist and the filling was a light oreo cream. The german chocolate cake was wonderful, I really love the filling, nice light coconut flavor with a little crunch from the nuts. The chocolate cheesecake cup was heavenly. A layer of chocolate cake, then cheesecake, dolloped with chocolate cream covered with chocolate, it felt super light and airy and tasted great. My least favorite of the batch was the rolo. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed all of them but the icing on top of the rolo was rich and thick, it would have been great if it was as smooth as the oreo cream but the caramel filling was really good!
When I get cupcakes, I like getting a mix of chocolate cake and vanilla cake but I found that there were only a few flavors with vanilla cake and I wasn't feelin' fruity. My suggestion would be to make each flavor with the two different cakes, it could be a good thing! Oh! And I found that letting the cupcakes sit at room temperature as opposed to straight from the fridge is much better and moist.
Confession time: IMHO, these cupcakes are the best cupcakes, even better than Crave cupcakes =O okay okay I said it...Avenue bakery is AMAZEBALLS. I would definitely say that Avenue Bakery is worth the drive if you're in Calgary.
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