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| - I'm a cupcake connoisseur. I truly believe they are one of the best treats one can have.
When I travel (which is often), I find myself compelled to look for the best cupcake that city has to offer. After scouring Yelp!, I found Tammie Coe. It looked promising, but I found it odd that two locations so relatively close to one another differed in ratings and reviews as drastically as they did. So, I decided it was my civic (and culinary) duty to try cupcakes at both.
This location has Red Velvet, Ooey Gooey and Coconut available. I opted against trying the latter because I'm just not a coconut fan.
Ooey Gooey -- One thing I enjoy about this cupcake is how jovial it is. It is pure joy in small cake form. They come covered in sugar crystals -- in a variety of colors! This cupcake looked better than it tasted, sadly. Now, it was good. But it wasn't amazing. The chocolate cake was a bit dry and the icing was somewhat pedestrian. Perhaps I've become too much of a cupcake snob, but I sincerely cannot tell a lie -- when it comes to cupcakes! Truth be told, I feel this cupcake suffered from being a tad too old -- and kept it far too cold of an environment.
Red Velvet -- This is the cupcake I use as my way to judge all bakers. This cupcake is a classic. Now, Tammie puts a spin on this classic that is extremely unique. Their red velvet is not made with traditional southern chocolate. It seems they use a vanilla based cake for their red velvet. While I'm not sure that constitutes this cupcake to be called a red velvet any longer, I will say -- WHO CARES! Their red velvet in a sweet, vanilla cake with a vanilla cream cheese frosting that is coated in red sugar crystals. It was moist, flavorful, not overly sweet. It is a very fine cupcake. Not the best I've had -- but it is up there and deserves praise.
One thing I'd like to point out is that unless you order ahead, you need to buy your cupcakes at La Grange Orange Grocery (or LGO as the locals call it). The service there was wonderful. They even let me pick whatever color ooey gooey I wanted. That being said, when we walked into Tammie Coe (not knowing we had to buy from LGO), we were treated fairly -- cold. The woman in the bakery looked at us as though we didn't get the memo. She spoke to us with great disdain and sent us packing. It really put me off -- but, I try to just judge the food. And since you don't need to deal with that bakery to eat their cupcakes, I'll just thank my lucky stars!
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