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| - 3.5 stars for me...kicking it up to 4 because I'm such a sucker for sweets!
I was craving the sweet stuff and decided to create my very own personal cupcake tasting. I strolled into Polka Dot and ordered four cupcakes, all of which I cut and tasted immediately when I got home. Before I get to the cupcakes themselves, the shop is pretty cute. It's a bit hidden off of the Park Rd. strip - so just be aware that it's inside that upscale strip mall off of Park & Woodlawn. The young lady who took my order was very friendly and offered some great suggestions. I also noticed they sell brownies, cookies and pull apart cupcake cakes.
When I was tooling around on their website, the pull apart cakes look pretty adorable. Prices are a bit higher than I was expecting, but hey, it's a specialty baked good! $2.50 per cupcake and there are discounts when you order one dozen. All the cupcakes were just so pretty!
Here's the rundown of my personal cupcake tasting...(keep in mind their flavors change daily!):
Red Velvet: 4.5/5 stars: This was my favorite cupcake, mostly because I'm a total sucker for cream cheese frosting. The cake was pretty moist and I loved the flavor combo. My only gripe - too much frosting! I had to scrape a bit off as it was taking over my cupcake.
Key Lime: 3/5: My least favorite of the bunch. It just didn't taste very key-limey to me except for a very, very small bit in the frosting. I like the actual cake part, though.
Pumpkin Turtle: 3.5/5: Besides the bit of caramel within the frosting, I didn't see where the turtle came in, but I really liked the cake part and the cream cheese frosting. It tasted like a great pumpkin bread with tasty frosting (albeit a bit too much for me).
Vanilla Bean: 3.5/5: I adored the actual cake part of this cupcake - it really is quite lovely with the vanilla bean. My ish? The frosting again! This buttercream almost gave me a cavity it was so sweet. I scraped off 80% of the frosting and then happily enjoyed my treat.
Will I be back to Polka Dot? Absolutely! It's an adorable and sweet edition to the SouthPark area.
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