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| - This is a tough review to write. If you follow me, you know that I patronize the independents. I grew up in the restaurant business and know how tough to please every customer. You can't. It is impossible. But - if you provide good quality at a decent price, you can at least keep that business going.
I live close enough to the bakery to walk. I stopped in once after we moved here and it was late day - and there was virtually nothing left. So I decided when I saw the Groupon that I would make an effort to get there early one day and pick up cupcakes and treat both my family and a small women's group that I belong to. I got there early Saturday morning ready for my dozen.
The variety was nice - nothing terribly exciting. Chocolate on white, white on chocolate, red velvet. Cupcake wars, this isn't. But I figured there is nothing better than a good white batter - light, with a nice crumb. So I got a variety of cupcakes - including the more exotic lemon and salted caramel, but focusing on the whites.
I am not sure whether it was a bad day for them or the cupcakes had been made earlier in the week. I won't say they were dry. They were worse than dry. They were coarse almost with the consistency of a popoverand not delicate at all. To say they were disappointing - well, it was embarrassing. I had bragged about the wonderful dessert I was going to serve - and my guests were less than impressed. Even my DS and DH, both of whom never met a baked good they didn't scarf down, were hard pressed to finish the ones they picked.
Basically, the white batters were either stale or overbeat or overbaked or a combination of all three. The dark chocolate on the salted caramel was moister and the red velvet was somewhat moister but neither one was the quality I would have expected. The chocolate on the chocolate/chocolate was as bad as the white.
The icing did not excite me as well. I prefer frosting over icing but this icing was so hard - it had more of a fondant consistency. The sales person had recommended that for overnight storage, I should put them in a Tupperware and refrigerate. So even though we were serving them that day, I put them in anyway. I let them sit out for an hour before serving them just to warm them up. The icing was still hard - the chocolate ones had piroulines in the frosting. So after an hour of sitting out, the first guest attempted to pull out the pirouline and the entire icing came off, sort of like taking the lid off a top. Even after an hour, you could slice that icing and break it into pieces. We laughed, but i was nevertheless embarrassed.
At $36/dozen w/ tax, I don't think I will be going back there again. The cupcakes are pretty. They are, as another reviewer indicated, a tad small for the price but if the quality was there, I would certainly pay the price. Maybe it was a bad day but as a result, Top It lost me and the women in my group as potential customers.
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