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| - This place is charming...from the pink and brown décor, to cutesy cupcake themed paintings on the wall it offers all of the ambience a quaint little independent shop should. It's the type of place I would meet my girlfriends at to grab a cinnamon roll and coffee or snag some cupcakes just because. Unfortunately, after sampling an array of their goods, I won't be doing any of the above.
The first thing I noticed was that everything in the cases didn't look fresh. I'm not sure how to explain it other than the pastries, cupcakes, cookies, etc looked dry, brittle and... not good. I was pleasantly surprised to find out they actually retrieve fresh goodies from the back and do not serve from the cases. I would think you'd want to put your best foot forward and show yummy, freshly made goods but apparently not.
So after asking for a selection of items the girl (who was very nice) ran to the back to get my treats. I paid, I left, I busted open the boxes in the car and took a swipe of the frosting from the vanilla-vanilla cupcake... First wave of disappointment hits me right there when I realize not only is this frosting entirely too sweet, but the cupcake to icing ratio is way off with just a little flower pattern of pink icing on top. Granted the icing was too sweet (and believe me, I love frosting, so if it's to sweet for me there's something wrong...) but if the icing hadn't been unbearable to eat I might have liked more than a tiny dollop with eat bite of cupcake. However, once I move on to actually eating the cupcake part I realize the whole cupcake is a tragic waste of ingredients. The flavor of the cupcake is not so terrible but I soon realize that they've obviously stored their cupcakes in the fridge in back and this cupcake is spongy. Like, it was dry and then was pulled from a fridge and started sweating leaving the cupcake sort of soggy. Extra sweet frosting + soggy cupcake + bad cupcake/icing ratio = NO THANKS.
I could go into as much detail on why the cookies didn't work out, too, but suffice it to say they were bland, dry and uneventful. If someone put one in front of me, I'd probably eat it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get it.
The one redeeming treat Sugar's offered was the Smoocharoo(?): A peanut butter and butterscotch crispy rice thing with chocolate ganache on top. This would be the only thing I returned for, but I think even this I could imitate or improve upon in my own kitchen.
This is the type of place that instead of focusing on a handful of things to make really well they've made numerous items mediocre. I wouldn't go out of my way to visit this bakery again, however, should someone show up with a mixed box of goods from there I probably wouldn't turn them down either but that's just because I have an insatiable sweet tooth.
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