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| - Sugar Daddy Cupcake might just be my go-to for cupcakes in Phoenix. Normally I'm a Euro-buttercream or bust kind of guy, but the frosting here is a really satisfying balance between sweetness and creaminess. Most days it'd be a touch too sweet for my tastes, but on nights like last night -- nights when I'm craving a bit of sugar -- these will do quite nicely.
The first thing I noticed was how cute the interior was. Bright pink, very cheery -- like being inside a strawberry Starburst. My friends and I arrived just a few minutes before closing, and so for about a minute we didn't see anyone at the register. Then an employee popped out, apologizing profusely about making us wait too long, even though we hadn't even decided which cupcakes we wanted yet. I ended up going with the s'more, Cory's Fox 10 Fantasy, the Pink Cadillac (thank you Yelp!), and the triple chocolate. Four cupcakes for $12 = $3.00 a cupcake. That might seem like a bit much, but these babies are larger than your average cupcake. Definitely worth the price in my book.
A couple of my friends got the red velvet, and after trying a piece I immediately regretted not ordering one of those. The cake was as perfect as I could ask for. Moist, delicate, smooth -- truly lives up the the latter part of its name. The cream cheese frosting was really nice, too. I love it when they deliver a touch more strongly on the cream cheese flavor than they do on sugar, and that was the case here.
Cory's Fox 10 Fantasy was basically a chocolate chip cookie remixed into a cupcake. Everything about it except the actual cookie on it was good. The s'more cupcake -- also tasty. The graham cracker layer on the bottom was an unexpected surprise. The Pink Cadillac -- wow. It's not necessarily inventive (strawberry buttercream, strawberry cake, vanilla buttercream filling), but it stands as a wonderful reminder that traditional -- when executed well -- is anything but boring.
This place is somewhere between a 4 and a 5 for me, but I'm rounding down only because they don't use the top tier ingredients that I crave. They're doing everything right, but a few premium components would make them even better. Throw in some high-fat European butter and some Valrhona chocolate into the mix, and this could potentially become my favorite cupcake place, period. For now, though, it'll just be my sinful escape every time I'm in the Phoenix area.
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