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| - i realize most of my review is hearsay and conjecture, but i was so impressed i had to share.
1. I tried and heard of Wicked for the first time when a coworker brought them in for a potluck. She also brought in a funny story. She emailed her order ahead, saying she wanted a dozen of the following cupcakes, and proceeded to list the flavors she wanted to make up the dozen. However, when she arrived to pick them up later that week, they read the email as she wanted a dozen EACH of the flavors she listed! She felt terrible and offered to pay for all, but they were cool as could be and understood the miscommunication and let her off with buying only like a third of the order (that's still a lot of damn cupcakes). anyway, due to her misfortune i was able to sample the red velvet (YUM YUM, my favorite), the peanut butter/chocolate and an intense chocolate w/chocolate frosting and chocolate goo in the middle.
** i am not really a cupcake person, nor a chocolate person, but these were amazing!
2. At the potluck the subject of cupcakes in general came up, in particular how popular they have become. this is news to me, but i guess it's super cool and trendy (esp. in NY) to have a cupcake specialty store. i mentioned that was funny bc my best friend had just decided to have cupcakes instead of a wedding cake simply because she loves them so much. ... so, in her hunt for the bakery to provide the special cakes for her big day, she tried three or four bakeries that she just hated. she reported: most were owned by barbie blonde "i-married-for-money-but-i-suck-at-designing-handbags-so-ill-open-a-bakery" women who's product, for lack of a better word, sucks. she was blown away with how much they were charging and how gross the cupcakes were! also, they charged her to sample their cakes (odd, when your'e faced with a potentially huge sale, not to mention exposure by doing a wedding).
anyway, she just about lost hope by the time she went to Wicked. i swear these are her words that the owner was the coolest, nicest, most helpful person. some interesting things she noted: for special occassions like weddings, they come and set up their product (the other bakeries would not, you just have to come pick them up and do it yourself - not really something you want to add to your "to do" list on your wedding day, people) and when she questioned whether the frosting would hold up to the late May heat - he assured her that they will have switched to their *summer recipe* for frosting, which is lighter and will not turn to mush before they can be gobbled up.
now that, my friends, is impressive. i need an excuse to buy cupcakes now for myself....
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