I was reading the weekly city paper last week and learned that two delicious local cupcake bakeries that I’ve been anxiously looking forward to trying (some day) were both closing, for good, on Christmas Eve! One was the winner of Cupcake Wars and is moving on to a lucrative book deal and her own delicious, all natural, and gluten-free frosting making business, and the other is family-owned, has two locations, and is closing the nearby one in my city to focus on the baked-fresh-daily works of art in the larger of the two establishments.
And suddenly I realized I needed to make “some day” for these two gourmet cupcakeries happen now.
Challenge accepted!
Fortunately, it didn’t take much convincing for me to inhale as many cupcakes as humanely possibly in three days. I also had quite the large stack of excellent scripts to read for work (I love the season planning time of year!), all featuring characters you can really sink your teeth into and stories that grab onto your very soul and don’t let go. I don’t know about you, but settling in for an evening or two of gourmet cupcake tasting and script reading is pretty much my ideal case scenario.
And the cupcakes? So delicious! Each of these puppies below is filled with a creamy, savory filling (like salted caramel creme) and topped with flavorful frosting and other goodies. Why do I even bother trying places that will no longer exist in a week’s time when I have a desperate craving for something rich and decadent? Fortunately, I can still get these babies, I just have to drive a little farther for them….this is probably a good thing, as it may serve as a deterrent from type 2 diabetes, obesity, and severe empty wallet syndrome.
Sugar Mountain Bake Shoppe: (from bottom L) vanilla chai, twixie, Roc city crunch, and red velvet
Juicy scripts, ripe for the devouring, right at my fingertips!
And the combination?
Heaven.
Dallop Gourmet Cupcake Creations: (from bottom L) mint chocolate chip, red velvet with cream cheese, vanilla with lemon creme filling and toasted coconut, and chocolate with caramel filling and frosting topped with snickers
Now, with this place the frosting (and create-your-own cupcake bar concept) is the clear star! You pick your cake flavor (the day I went there were 4 to choose from), choose a filling flavor (5 tasty choices), choose a frosting flavor (6 festive flavors), and choose your toppings ranging from candy to toasted coconut to animal crackers! The combinations you can create are pretty killer! While the cupcakes may no longer be available at my fingertips (sad!), the book will be out sometime in the future, and you can order her frostings online.
No, I did not, in fact, eat all of these by myself…only half.
Clearly I have a problem but, scripts and cupcakes, it’s a good problem to have!
What have you indulged in lately?
