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| - I have a funny story to tell about Divine Cupcakes that will help you understand why their service impressed me.
I follow them on Twitter (@DivineCupcakes4U) and last Thursday, one of my fellow CLTTweeps mentioned that he got a job and wanted ice cream to celebrate. A few seconds later Divine Tweeted their menu. I noticed pumpkin froyo was on the menu and since I love almost anything pumpkin-flavored (one of my favorite things about fall), I tweeted to my friend that he should go check-out the pumpkin froyo at Divine. I also mused that I would love it if I could get a pumpkin cupcake, but there were none on their menu for the day.
I don't know whether my friend tried the pumpkin froyo, but within seconds of my musing about the pumpkin cupcakes, Divine sent me a Tweet that she would talk with the baker about getting me some pumpkin cupcakes the next day. And indeed she did. That's service!!!
So I drove 20 minutes to Dilworth from Ballantyne because I was so impressed that my random tweet resulted in someone special ordering pumpkin cupcakes for me. I decided to also get 2 "pupcakes" for my doggies so that I wouldn't feel so guilty about scarfing down this pumpkin cupcake.
I was given two varieties of pumpkin cupcake: a plain one with cream cheese frosting, and one that had a vanilla bean glaze with dark chocolate chips. It was so hard to drive the 20 minutes home without snarfing these down on the way, but I willed myself to just look at them periodically as I was stopped in traffic and not to touch them until I got home. I decided to hold out a little more and give the doggies the pupcakes first (ok, so I was trying to distract them so that I could snarf my cupcake down without a poodle jumping on my lap trying to take a bite out of it.)
My cupcakes - OMG - The first thought was "bless me father, for I have sinned" because these cupcakes were sinfully delicious! I agree with Nicole's review that the cream cheese icing did not have a strong cream cheese flavor, but to be honest, I liked that it had a subtle cream cheese flavor. I was worried that cream cheese icing would adulterate the pumpkin flavor that I love so much, but this subtle cream cheese icing gave me a flavor of cream cheese that was the perfect complement to the pumpkin. It worked for me and made me wish I had more!
The second cupcake was EVEN BETTER! I had it in the fridge overnight and ate it for breakfast the following morning. The chill really brought out the pumpkin flavor and provided a crunch to the dark chocolate chips. The vanilla bean glaze - wow! Again, pure vanilla flavor, but subtle enough to play nicely in the sandbox with the pumpkin and dark chocolate chip flavors.
Both cupcakes were moist and flavorful, and the toppings were just right for me. The cupcakes are on the small side as some others have said, but I think Divine is going for a healthy image, and these smaller sized cupcakes are correct serving sizes for an afternoon snack. We all have gotten used to huge cupcakes and muffins, but it really isn't healthy to eat such huge sized snacks, so these are "right-sized".
Is $3 too much to pay for a right-sized cupcake? I suppose it depends. For me, I got a unique flavored, sinfully delicious afternoon snack, so $3 for this indulgence was not too much to pay. It's not like I would eat them all the time (because that wouldn't be good for my waistline anyway), but for an indulgence that I would enjoy in moderation, the $3 price was well-worth the service and flavor I got.
Would I pay $36 for a dozen cupcakes? Probably not. If I needed a dozen cupcakes, I would probably bake them myself or go to Harris Teeter and pay whatever it is (maybe like $8) for a dozen. But for my own personal little sinful snack - this place is just right!
Final note on the pupcakes - they were $1.25 each and worth every penny just for the lovin' and entertainment value I received watching the doggies eat them. The beagle snarfed it down in seconds and then jumped on my lap and kissed my face profusely (very out of character for him!) The toy poodle carried it around the house like a trophy for a few minutes and then walked around and studied it. He then started licking the icing off and his little pom pom tail was wagging so furiously that I could have powered all of Charlotte for a week if I had him hooked up to the electric grid. He took delicate little bites and skipped over to me with a look of pure unadulterated love after each bite, before gleefully returning to get another.
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