
Friday, March 6, 2009
Butterlane Cupcakes
I stopped getting excited about cupcakes after living across the street from Magnolia Bakery when Sex and the City was at it's peak. I relished the moment when, walking passed the bakery one day, a man screamed out the window of his cab to the throngs of people milling around the entrance, "it's just a f$%&@ing cupcake!" But after some special friends dropped off Butterlane Cupcakes a few days back, I have been secretly enjoying the handheld sweet treat once again. They brought me vanilla, chocolate chocolate, banana cream cheese, strawberry, blueberry, and peanut butter. After getting through a few bites of each of them (except the peanut butter, which I couldn't touch based on an experience in Madagascar that has left me with a severe peanut aversion), I was hooked. What makes these special is the frosting. Blueberry! Strawberry! Instead of the typical pastel dyed buttercream, these pros actual blend real fruit into their icing, making for a delicious (and nutritious?) topper. Garnished with a few bites of the actual fruit, biting into one gives a real blast of flavor. The banana cream cheese was also superb - nothing ground breaking, but instead, really perfecting a classic. The same goes for the chocolate and vanilla. The chocolate icing literally tastes like mousse and in the vanilla icing, flecks of vanilla bean are visible and frequent! This is not just a f@#*%ing cupcake!

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mmm... cupcakes finally made it out west... 3 years too late. That's how we roll. Super laid back about our trends. haha.
ReplyDeleteThe strawberry looks good. I am planning to make a strawberry cake with ginger cream cheese frosting in honor of my sister's birthday (who live sin london). Just a thinly vein excuse to make cake!
yum!
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