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| - I've been working on this review for a few days now. It's hard for me to only give it 2 stars but I can't bring myself to say that it's "A-OK" because they weren't. I HAVE had better!
And, seriously, what is up with the frosting? As a baker myself (cupcakes no less), I'm baffled by this. It's a standard sized cupcake with a ridiculous amount of frosting. Apparently the cake-to-icing ratio rule doesn't apply here. And no wonder they are so expensive! I'm not sure why some cupcake stores feel the need to try and make their customers feel better for paying more for a cupcake by putting a ton of frosting on top. It actually makes it worse because it's hard to enjoy the cupcake when you're choking down copious amounts of buttercream or worse - scraping off most of the icing so you can eat the cupcake! Also? You shouldn't have to eat a cupcake with a fork and knife. Just saying.
So, we purchased 6 cupcakes. Well, our Living Social coupon purchased us 6 cupcakes. The flavors we picked were Birthday Surprise, Chocolate Salted Caramel, Grasshopper, White Chocolate Macadamia, Midnight Magic Chocolate Chip and Spumoni. The cake by itself was a little dry (we purchased ours later in the afternoon so it probably wasn't as fresh) and the icing by itself was ridiculously sweet. The combination of cake and icing was pretty good but it wasn't anything to write home about. Of the 6, I preferred the Grasshopper and the Spumoni.
In regards to service, the girl at the counter was pretty cool. She was helpful with the flavor selections and pleasant when I presented my coupon.
If I had to pay full price for these I would have been even more disappointed, but luckily I didn't. I probably won't go back, though - not unless they do some major make-overs on the cupcakes!
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