tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81842354239630873352023-11-16T07:28:37.506-08:00Random Letters to the PublicRandomness and cupcake om nom nom chronicles from your fave friend, NOTORIOUS P.I.G.Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-43430302700594339162015-02-14T20:25:00.000-08:002015-04-06T20:01:31.124-07:00In the land of healthy people, you can diet and exercise, but don't
deny yourself Sprinkles Ice Cream shop!As I had gone on a quest to get in better shape the past year or so - 3 things happened: I lost weight, my cupcake nomming activities had dipped significantly and the cupcake industry went a bit South - we aren't in "Cupcake Oz" anymore, Toto! (The dog, not the 80's band)<br>
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For someone with such a major sweet tooth, this was hard and I can only think the downfall of some of the better DMV cupcake joints suffered in business due to my lack cupcake nomming. (I'm so sorrrrrrrrry!) One of fave old standbys, Frosting the Cupcakery, closed and a bunch of sub par looking cupcake joints tried to jump on the cupcake bandwagon in the already crowded the industry. Thankfully, Georgetown Cupcakes and Spinkles are still up and running. And Crumbs went bankrupt, closed and resurrected from the ashes again. So some cupcake harmony remains in this world.</div>
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My cupcake diet was re-ignited away from home (what happens in *insert city here * stays in *inserted city here*) when I went to visit my Gay Bacon Bud (GBB) Amanda in LA and I was able to go to Spinkles Ice Cream Beverly Hills shop and have a come to Baby Jebus moment. I strolled around posh Beverly Hills, where I walked past couture clothing boutiques, gluten free yuppie cafes, designer eyebrow waxing studios, and uber posh restaurants. </div>
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But I scurried past it all, I entered, studied the vast menu and decided to spew my order in in 6 simple words: Red Velvet Cupcake Ice Cream Sundae! Check it out: a regular Spinkles Red Velvet cupcake gets sliced in half and then you choose your ice cream du jour a la mode. Hm, a free boat ride for three! I'll take you, T-pain and the red velvet cupcake ice cream with my Red Velvet Ice cream sundae...sounds redundant? Well, duh. But I wanna roll O.G. cause I'm cool like that and red velvet like that. (A direct line from the Digable Planets song, me thinks?) So my O.G. self went red velvet old skool to sandwich in my red velvet cupcake cheeks around red velvet ice cream made of "sweet cream ice cream layered with bites of sprinklescupcake iconic red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting." What red velvet in red velvet? I think my brain will explode? Ermahgerd! It was a amazeballs. I even shared my sundae with my GBB. </div>
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I wanna pray for them to send over a Sprinkles ice cream store to DC. Paaaaaaaaareeeese, Spinkles lady Candace! I've been a fan since Day 1 in DC! I swear, you can check out my old post! But can you like make diet cupcakes and diet cupcake sundaes? Ok, love you, and thanks! Xoxo.</div>
Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-69950406056888639192014-07-08T08:10:00.000-07:002014-07-08T10:50:36.846-07:00R.I.P. to Cupcakes?Well news has come fast that the fluffy and sprinkled filled world of cupcakes are in a tailspin. With the sudden closing of Crumbs Bakeshop and the downfall of one of my old local haunts, Frosting in Washington, DC - it seems that people are moving on or maybe just tired of cupcakes?<br />
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Seeing that my last serious post of cupcake-ness was in 2011, perhaps my sugar rush to my head had waned. Long gone is the excitement leading up to going into a cupcake shop and smelling the delicious scent of baked goodness and creamy frosting (or as my good friend and former cupcake reviewer Sean would say, "the smell of farts made the Pillsbury Dough Boy") and then smudging your face against the sneeze-guard glass wall admiring all the different concoctions and flavors of the day - all this while waiting in a long line about 20 people deep AND that was on a non-busy day/time!<br />
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For me, I think it was the flavors and my love of cake - but the cupcake market got saturated fast - unfortunately not of all them had delicious cupcakes (HEY, HAVE YOU READ ANY OF MY OLD POSTS?) and even places that weren't supposed to have cupcakes for sale were selling them. I mean I was at a place that sold pieces of soaps and lotions AND THEY were even selling cupcakes! It's sad to see all of these places go, but it is economics my friends - all about supply and demand. If you want you can add a couple of econ graphs here - that equilibrium point goes waaaaaay down and I'll stop there because I had to re-take econ a number of times - PRO TIP: this kids is where you should learn that attending class in college is a good idea in order to pass most of your courses! </div>
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So what is the next craze? It must be the macaron. It might have a bit more staying power (just a tad), cause those things are hard as shit to make yourself! What ever it is, I'm ready to om nom nom, that is in moderation of course - making good food choices here!</div>
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Until next time......I guess this is where I should introduce my new food of choice to review. You will find out when I tell you. (Secretly I have no idea what it will be!) Stay tuned!<br />
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Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-87980623275837049992011-08-25T18:58:00.000-07:002013-12-19T15:43:06.566-08:00Crumbs - *This Blog Sponsored By Davy*<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So let's start with the Choco-vanilla-caramel cupcake. Pretty decent, although this cupcake is rather pedestrian as in I can totally make this with box mix (hmm...good idea there!) The cake was a marble choco-yellow cake, similar to one that you would find in sliced loaf form at Starbucks, the cake was topped with a Duncan Hines-esque rich choco frosting and topped with somethat that looked like a slice of a candy bar that had caramel in it. My brain is having a hard time to figure out which candy bar it really was! Overall as the elements together were really good, IMO I think it was just average since I feel like it is something that could be easily duped from my local grocery aisle and some Better Crocker mixing and baking.</span></div>
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But as I research the real undertones of the cupcake - on the website the Cosmo is really vanilla cake tinted pink filled with strawberry buttercream frosting and topped with a lime cream cheese frosting edged in pink sugar. Okay so from what I can taste - vanilla cake tinted pink(check), pink sanding sugar(check), but that is it. For all I knew that the strawberry buttercream and lime cream cheese frosting were just colored frostings, and I came away disappointed that it was not more Cosmo-y, as if I know what a Cosmo cupcake should taste like! Anyways, again a tasty cupcake- cake was a good texture and presentation was fun, but I would give a thumbs down on overall execution since this was not the flavor as presented. Don't get me wrong this won't deter me from returning, this will be my go to when I just want a good regular cupcake.<br />
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Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-22048846180793819422011-08-25T17:35:00.000-07:002011-08-25T17:35:44.203-07:00Lavender Moon Cupcakery - An Om Nom Nom Review<br />
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The flavors offered were a bit limited but were plenty different than most. Aside from the regular choco and vanilla varieties, it seemed that Lavender Moon incorporated some different flavors that incorporated fruit. And thinking back most of the cupcakes that did have fruit were cream cheese based, which make me wonder if all of their frostings are cream cheese. (boring) Since we ate this last month and they don't have a website (WTH, I can't website stalk their flavors! How odd). I'm going to guess-remember what we had.<br />
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Deanna's clear choice was the Peanut Butter Choco - Choco cake, peanut butter cream cheese frosting and a magic shell like choco topping, as not a PB whore like Sean I was sorta out of my element. I ended up really liking it! (WHAAA?) The PB mixed with the cream cheese really kept the pb to the side, but gave it a tang that was complemented by the likes of the choco magic shell! It wasn't overly choco and PB, it was a good balance!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Eager to get my hands on one, I found (like a couple months ago and since I have a lazy b.. b=blogger....WTH what were you thinking? I'm super behind) bacon cupcakes as the monthly special at Hello Cupcake in Dupont Circle. Seeing that I have had a pretty good track record of enjoying Hello Cupcake's Cupcake du jour, I jumped at the chance to try it. Was it as good as it sounded or looked on the Food Network? Let me do some 'splainin. (These are based in my handy dandy cupcake ratings diary..yes I have one! Don't you?)</div><br />
First, Hello Cupcake's bacon cupcake was paired with maple and pecan, so formally it was a Maple Bacon Pecan cupcake and further described as "moist maple cake made with pure, real maple syrup topped with browned butter frosting, candied pecans and bacon."<br />
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Second, wording problemo: "moist" - my cake was not very moist as the description inferred, in fact my cupcake was a bit crusty the clown on the outside, which I think suited the cupcake better since you can pretend it was wafflely (that's totally a word...Imma going to try it on my next opp on Words with Friends...watch out for that Sean...WAFFLELY...right in the dangeah zonage) or even french toasty - something needed to be crispy in the cupcake...since the bacon was not crispy (refer my fif point below).<br />
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Turd, toppings problemo: "canded pecans and bacon". HEY! I thought this was the bacon show, not the pecan and bacon show! While I do enjoy my candied pecans, the mixture sorta felt like filler.<br />
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Overall a bit of disappointment. I'm super bummed. But the light at the end of the tunnel was that I can now say, I Kissed Bacon Cupcake and I didn't like it.Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-30481855379198213712011-08-22T18:30:00.000-07:002011-08-25T19:07:30.159-07:00Sprinkles Cupcakes - An Om Nom Nom Review<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieBmhEn9fTlbrbpFVQ02cQ3NXMdg3Is__AQMTohlv4WOnyrJybhwRm6_7eaXX78ZeDGufezzXMp9oRRyyPvG22jTiGxq3j-PDMEWvrwuaTKqi8dWd4_hfZ7f8M3t4V0c5zof-tvWPJ11E1/s1600/DSC_1296.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieBmhEn9fTlbrbpFVQ02cQ3NXMdg3Is__AQMTohlv4WOnyrJybhwRm6_7eaXX78ZeDGufezzXMp9oRRyyPvG22jTiGxq3j-PDMEWvrwuaTKqi8dWd4_hfZ7f8M3t4V0c5zof-tvWPJ11E1/s400/DSC_1296.JPG" width="400" /></span></a><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So after hearing that Sprinkles Cupcakes was opening up shop on the other end of Georgetown from GTC, I was excited to try Sprinkles without have to move coasts. (I have no budgeted for airfare for this blog yet) So in my usual fashion, I basically stalked the crap out of the opening of Sprinkles on their facebook page and signed up to attend the opening "sneak peek" of the DC store. So on a chilly day in February, my guests and I attended the opening, the line was short but still overlapping on the sidewalk to the dismay of the neighbors, but we all were able to go go inside in an orderly fashion since we were the Sprinkles DC cupcake chosen ones (nah nanny nah nah!)</span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another characteristics of Sprinkles is that the frosting has sharp edges of frosting. It sorta has the same esthetic where my brother's hair was cut from under a bowl on top of his head - you know the nice Asian kid bowl haircut. Aside from that I want to say that Sprinkles is big on cake with their more sugary frosting-nage than the other places IMHO since most seem to lean towards using more whipped and fluffy cream cheesey frostings. Kudos to Sprinkles!</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After ordering, we turned around to see why this lady was talking in a really high pitched voice and noiced that she was gushing over the owner Candace Nelson, which I know from watching Cupcake Wars religiously. She greeted us and was super nice (insert gratuitous picture here...Deanna took it for me and I guess this would be my cue to ask her for the picture). But then again if you made millions of dollars on cupcakes I would be super happy too!!! So as this was a sneak peek opening, Sprinkles limited us to two cupcakes - bummer! But they were free! And after studying my list I ended up getting my control usual - Red Velvet and my palette cleanser - Lemon. And as Deanna was my guest we made sure to be able to share the love and she ended up getting Peanut Butter Chip and Cinnamon Sugar! Overall, a very traditional selection of flavors, but still very exciting! =) </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><tbody>
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</div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><img height="64" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoFaVXWz9cEBp8PdZrzvX4orotFSjrydWfja7dS31lGrYb-KqBIBs3IUFmsoXLzy8IjjgIbAZgVa6clKW45Wangb_lu3kYC-R2j6o8ffBGWcW2QMV2QX9amqLth25qmvZb59KLJUz-jsUh/s320/DSC_1321.JPG" style="filter: alpha(opacity=30); left: 595px; mozopacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; position: absolute; top: 1602px; visibility: hidden;" width="96" />Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-3253677579091669252011-03-06T17:01:00.000-08:002011-03-06T18:59:16.447-08:00Lilly Magilly's - An Om Nom Nom Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAMY_djyt0Hz0rfJpqQV2LjADMoN2Kqu0vppEpkotLB01g_fg5oWSwkcXg_qAdoakSIxssCw7KWqxeFt50Dt8WXdcXvmjt2bE29ljYlpWU5QL86iy4kkMCa_PADmr9EjXjOdonbIYLasz9/s1600/photo+1-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAMY_djyt0Hz0rfJpqQV2LjADMoN2Kqu0vppEpkotLB01g_fg5oWSwkcXg_qAdoakSIxssCw7KWqxeFt50Dt8WXdcXvmjt2bE29ljYlpWU5QL86iy4kkMCa_PADmr9EjXjOdonbIYLasz9/s320/photo+1-1.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>So another cupcakery has entered my neighborhood, mind you I always stalk out cupcakeries that enter my neighborhood immediately, but as you can see I have been so lazy to post! Lilly Magilly is located in the RIO Washingtonian center in Gaithersburg, MD.<br />
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For the record, I have no idea who or what is a Lilly Magilly. First it sounds like a cartoon or book character, but I'm just guessing it is a name that has meaning and then it was punctuated with a catchy last name to sound cute. Upon doing any research, I cannot find any information on the name, but I just I'll just have to not wonder and move on to eating some cupcakes!<br />
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Aside from the really girly interior and their very fun pink, black and white theme inside it is quite the cheery place to be. My traveling cupcake companion, Deanna and I decided to partake in sharing two cupcakes AND THEN complimenting them with some awesome Shirley Temples! Super fun! =) We decided on a Snickerdoodle (the one with the Hershey Kiss on top pictured above) and the Strawberry (the cupcake with the Strawberry on top pictured below...and DUH). Overall, they were both pretty tasty. The flavors that they offer are quite ordinary, but they were executed well. The cake was very fluffy and moist and the frosting was just a touch sweet for my palette, but I think what just made me happy was the fact that we both got to sip on Shirley Temples as we ate....it's just hard not to be happy when you are sipping on a Shirley Temple!!! Overall the, Om Nom Nom ratings chronicle would put Lilly Magilly's at an overall ranking of 3.5 down the board for cake and frosting, a 2.5 for Flavah Flav Creativity, but get a 4.0 on TADA Factor based on letting me have a Shirley Temple with our cupcake nomming!Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-76927193155757038562011-03-06T16:43:00.000-08:002011-08-17T20:13:35.369-07:00Crumbs - An Om Nom Nom Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5xrnkqzn_qzy_8xBFvmVhYUcrVYC5AlGpGBB5R8jnsaUBUlKvY7U8z6poAcn8POVMVTzAD1gXD5Nw0HFjmBZj8FLiRSjSG2p6roShmOvYsyNfvdOik3u-_LzMOG0zBgVqT5b1RmyhemqI/s1600/photo+5-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5xrnkqzn_qzy_8xBFvmVhYUcrVYC5AlGpGBB5R8jnsaUBUlKvY7U8z6poAcn8POVMVTzAD1gXD5Nw0HFjmBZj8FLiRSjSG2p6roShmOvYsyNfvdOik3u-_LzMOG0zBgVqT5b1RmyhemqI/s320/photo+5-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>And now it is time for the invasion of non-DC cupcake stores! Crumbs Bake Shop comes from New York City and decided to plop themselves in hungry cupcake luvin' DC with two locations in DC (Union Station and 11th and F Street) and 1 in Arlington, VA (in Clarendon). As I was in the area in Arlington hanging with friends we ended up in the Clarendon location during their first week of being open. There was a long, long line inside - and it was good to see as it was probably taking business from the crappy other bakery that my friend Deanna and I went to previously that sucked big time (I mean when do we NOT finish cupcakes? That means it was REALLY bad!<br />
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</div>The cool thing about Crumbs that these are some massive cupcakes! They have 4 different sizes, from mini, to your average size cupcakes, to one that is the size of your fist, and then a colossal size which pretty much doubles as a regular cake. Most of the cupcakes in the case were about the size of a clenched fist and pretty filling. You basically can't go too crazy here or else you will be stuck with a lot of cupcakes, but if you want try a little something of a lot of flavors you can also get a mini cupcake pack, pictured below. I like this concept as they look cute, fancy, flavors I wanted to sample, and I got to try a little bit of everything!<br />
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All in all, I was able to take this to work and have some Seangie cupcake nomming time, but I must say it took awhile to tread through them, since it was overwhelming to eat them all in one or two sittings. (I know WTF is wrong with us)<br />
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So how do they rate on the OM NOM NOM ratings scale you ask? They are pretty up there, my two cupcakes I chose were the Cotton Candy and the Elvis. The Cotton Candy cupcake was a standout in Crumbs' display case as I think every 4 year old girl wanted the big pink cupcake. This is probably why Deanna and I both got the Cotton Candy cupcake!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7mdoasYeoevejdgvyRGpiPtNyw2Hi6kOLT-TSRTV35-rrw-NhKu_l2_-FkTxIKAnoGmUTmwIyAgRtp6Ux_9AVYAP07clXZYkoUYx4TMcmDPRTIIOEeqeTNHfgJX33DaYLibvl70FxnoK/s1600/photo+4-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf7mdoasYeoevejdgvyRGpiPtNyw2Hi6kOLT-TSRTV35-rrw-NhKu_l2_-FkTxIKAnoGmUTmwIyAgRtp6Ux_9AVYAP07clXZYkoUYx4TMcmDPRTIIOEeqeTNHfgJX33DaYLibvl70FxnoK/s320/photo+4-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>It can be spotted in kid eye level in the case, as you can see in the picture to the left of this text. How can you NOT miss it? So anyways, the cotton candy cupcake was a vanilla cake with a sweet cream filling and then topped with a sugary pink frosting and had itty bitty cotton candy bits on the side. This is where I think cotton candy manufacturers hit the jackpot...I mean what the heck do you do with cotton candy bits? All in all, the cupcake was awesome! The cake was moist, frosting wasn't too sweet as I feared and the cotton candy bit were nommy! Overall, a 4 rating down two of my nomming rating categories of cake, frosting, and a 4.5 rating down two of my nomming rating categories based on Flavah Flav Creativity and TADA factor....and it is all because of the itty bitty Cotton Candy bits! Take note other cupcakeries!<br />
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Overall, I am pretty happy with Crumbs, all they have to do is open one closer to me....or maybe I should just move closer to one! =)<br />
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Crumbs, I'll be seeing you and one of your Colossal Cupcakes around soon!!!!!!<br />
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The Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles (on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the nommy-est!)<br />
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TADA Factor: 3.5<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 3<br />
Frosting: 4<br />
Cake: 3.5<br />
NOTES: YUMMO! Caramel drizzle! I liked the brulee taste, but I wonder if that was intentional? Cake was vanilla and moist. But I think the cake was a bit too airy and a touch crumbly.<br />
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TADA Factor: 4<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.5<br />
Frosting: 4<br />
Cake: 4.5<br />
NOTES: Tasty, I'm always a big fan of fruit bread turned cupcake bottom, the fudge was similar to the texture of can frosting but the combo is a sure winner! I might try to make this at home!<br />
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TADA Factor: 3<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 3<br />
Frosting: 3<br />
Cake: 3<br />
NOTES: MEH. The cake wasn't super red, which was a new sight for me and the cupcake left oily cupcake footprints everywhere I placed it down. As my control, the cake was almost there - just needed more red and some more velvety-ness! The cream cheese frosting was a bit too whipped and had an odd after taste! <br />
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TADA Factor: 3<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5<br />
Cake: 3<br />
Frosting: 3.5<br />
NOTES: The raspberry in the frosting tasted really natural and was not overly sugary. <br />
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Overall, Cake Dreams was not horrible and not amazeballs. I found the cupcakes to be a touch on the oily side and frosting sometimes a little overwhipped. I don't think I'll be craving these cupcakes in particular, but I think these would be a good alternative if I was dying for cupcakes!Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-9861543720839157932011-01-19T05:51:00.000-08:002011-01-19T05:51:27.218-08:00Lazy = meSo I've been neglecting my DC Cupcakery Reviews for quite some time! But please don't think I've neglecting eating cupcakes! Um...because in all reality that part never stops!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">***First Stop *** </span><br />
<b><u>SWEET BITES MOBILE CAFE</u></b><br />
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</tbody></table>OMG! As Samuel Jackson would scream "It's cupcakes on a truck!" (technically it is more than cupcakes but you know that is MY main focus) To secure their foot in the latest food craze, mobile food truck-dom - Sweet Bites brings their heavenly treats to a street corner for you to come to. So that is what my friend and I did, we went to an Arts & Crafts Fest and then saw it was a huge bonus with the announcement that the Sweet Bites truck was going to be there. Let's just say we saw the big pink truck first and bought our cupcakes BEFORE going into the A&C Fest. The lady in the truck was super friendly and we took about 5 minutes figuring out what we want from the dozen of yummy goodies and their 9 cupcake flavors to choose from. We ended up settling for Red Velvet (natch, that is our control flavor) and Pina Colada.<br />
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RED VELVET: Shame on you if you don't know what this is by now.<br />
TADA Factor: 3.0<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5<br />
Frosting: 2.5<br />
Cake: 3.5<br />
NOTES: The frosting was really whipped and fluffy, something that you would not expect on you red velvet cupcake since we both were expecting a nice cream cheese punch. The cake was super moist and tasty, but we have had better. You know we compared it to Mecca, aka GTC.<br />
PINA COLADA: Pineapple and coconut cake with Malibu rum cream cheese frosting<br />
TADA Factor: 3.0<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.5<br />
Frosting: 4.0<br />
Cake: 4.5<br />
Notes: AMAZEBALLS! Now this is what I was looking for. Team Deangie or Anganna were super psyched over this cupcake. Not only did it deliver, it was good to see that someone was able to bake a fine cupcake with pineapple and coconut IN the cake rather than plopping it into their frosting. We loved this cupcake and was about to go buy another, but we were being good since we knew we were headed to more cupcake-ness in the next couple of hours.<br />
OVERALL: Color me impressed. I would like to stalk this truck on a regular basis, I only wish it didn't stay downtown so much. Show me and my friends some NW DC love please! =) Van Ness in particular!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">***Next Stop***</span><br />
<b><u>BAKE SHOP</u></b><br />
This was our next stop, deeper into Arlington in Clarendon. This nugget of a place I discovered when I was condo shopping, and this is the cupcakery across from the building I have been looking at. Super excited and scared that there was a cupcakery across the street from the condo building, I didn't know what to think - excitement for cupcakes being so close? or scared that I would probably hand over my home owners association fee on a monthly basis to a cupcake shop? Ah, it is mos def like that time Jesse Spano took those caffiene pills, "I'm soooo excited, I'm soooo excited.....I'm...so...scared..." Let's just say, after we went - I left really, really scared and then missed my performance as part of the Hot Sundaes singing group with Kelly and Lisa. Buttscratchers!<br />
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These Om Nom Nom Chronicles for the Bake Shop were pretty much the same for all three flavors we chose: Strawberry Shortcake, Toffee and Red Velvet. Let's just say, my friend and I had one bite of each and decided to use our caloric intake at the chocolate shop next door.<br />
TADA Factor: 2.0<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5<br />
Frosting: 2.5<br />
Cake: 1.5<br />
NOTES: How disappointing! This is an all time low for cupcake rating in my Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles. The cake crumbled all over our clothes right as we bit into the cupcakes or if we inhaled too hard it would go up your nose (you know that beignet demise.) As we both hoped it was only the fate of the toffee cupcake that we sampled first (which I drooled over in the display) it was in fact the fate of all the cupcakes. We did have hope for the frosting, but it didn't do anything for us. And in the end just a major disappointment for Deanna and I, good location - meh cupcakes. We ended up just one biting each cupcake and throwing the rest away. How sad, to waste cupcakes - that is mos def not a Deanna and Angie thing, but we had to - they sucked! So much for a cupcakery neighbor, but let's just say it would all go to the chocolate store next door! <br />
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<b><u>CUPCAKES ACTUALLY</u></b><br />
Here is the far, far away. Fairfax Corner. Desperate to get the last cupcake fiasco behind us, it was time to find some more cupcakes and cross out fingers that they were nommy. The advise of these cupcakes came from my friend Anna which she claimed were da bomb shiznit. Alright, let's give it a whirl. Let's just say, Cupcakes Actually did not disappoint and even on full tums-tums Deanna and I were able to make room and to scarf them down. As we checked out the landscape of cupcakes Deanna and I settled on Simply Red (Red Velvet) and Cherries Jubilee.<br />
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TADA Factor: 3.5<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5<br />
Frosting: 4.0<br />
Cake: 4.0<br />
NOTES: Not your momma's Red Velvet cake! It was so good to meet another red velvet cupcake with proper cream cheese frosting. The frosting was still pretty whipped, but really smooth and tasted perfect with the nommy moist and properly color red velvet cake. In addition, the cake had the touch of choco goodness that some of DMV cupcakeries have missed often. Let's just say our eye widened at first bite of this cupcake. NOMMY! I also like to say that this cupcake is good contender in my world of red velvet cupcakes as it could be considered a close second to GTC's red velvet cupcake. And best of all, the heart that adorn the top was chocolate! No cheesey fondant or hard necco wafer candy and nice smooth piece of red choco! Double rainbows!<br />
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TADA Factor: 3.5<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 4.0<br />
Frosting: 3.5<br />
Cake: 4.5<br />
NOTES: Um. NOMMY! Cake was AMAZEBALLS! It was the perfect amount of tart cherries that were countered by the subtle lightly sweetened and fluffy buttercream. This cupcake brought smiles to our faces and was the perfect finale to our Virginia Cupcake Tour.<br />
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Cupcakes Actually we'll be back!!!!Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-9179118072256743752010-09-07T17:42:00.000-07:002010-09-07T17:45:06.502-07:00Frosting A Cupcakery - An Om Nom Nom Review (Part Tres)<div>Annnnnnndddd....we're back to the Frosting Cupcakery! And so our little Stevie the Wonder Intern has left us and now there are just Team Seangie having to eat these little delicious morsels of nommyness.<br />
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With so many flavors and so little time we have to at least try to eat as many cupcakes as we can right? If you haven't noticed I try to hit all the cupcakeries on days that I haven't tried the scheduled flavors of the day! Which means that I have to visit these places everyday of the week to keep up! WHEW! This is quite exhausting! =) But it is all for science right? Riiiiiiiiiight!<br />
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The Seangie Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles (one a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the nommy-est!)<br />
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BLEUBELLE: blueberry bottom with streusel crumble top and almond glaze.<br />
TADA Factor: 3.0<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.5<br />
Frosting: 3.25<br />
Cake: 3.75<br />
NOTES: This is one of Frosting's nommy breakfast cupcakes. And from our past experience in Frosting's morning menu we were (mainly ME- cause I'm not a scurddy cat like the other half of the Seangie Team) excited to try on this new cupcake. Overall, we were pretty content with this cupcake, but we mos def would of enjoyed some extra almond glaze on the side as we really enjoyed the almond essence of the glaze. To compliment the glaze, we enjoyed the off the beaten cupcake path crumbles that had a granola-y texture which were interesting to the palette. Overall, it was pretty NOMMY!<br />
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EDELWEISS: almond bottom with almond buttercream top.<br />
TADA Factor: 2.5<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5<br />
Frosting: 2.5<br />
Cake: 4.0<br />
NOTES: "What the heck is edelweiss?" was the Seangie question of the day? As we checked Wikipedia we remembered the Edelweiss was a song in the Sound of Music and is a white flower found in the alps. Ah, so the tiny flower on the top is not just for fancy schmancy decoration! Cuuuuute! As for taste - we didn't know what to expect, but overall we were pleasantly surprised of the almond cake - it was moist and nommy! As for the frosting it was on the sweet side, it did have a nice almond taste, but was overpowered by too much sugary goodness. (Even for Sean!) But on the flip side this cupcake was awarded with a SEANGIE COMPLETE OM NOM NOM RATING AWARD! (aka we ranked all four grades the same....and we all know that RARELY happens!)<br />
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HAPPY! : Vanilla bottom with choco fudge top AND covered with rainbow sprinkles! (WHOA AAAAAA RAINBOW! WHAT DOES IT MEAN?)<br />
TADA Factor: 3.5<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.0<br />
Frosting: 3.75<br />
Cake: 3.75<br />
NOTES: THIS MADE US HAPPEEEEE! =) I mean this is the cupcake that reminds you of your childhood sans all the kids screaming in the background. The fudge frosting was nommy!!! <br />
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Overall another great day at Frostings!<br />
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It's Georgetown Cupcake Time! (What? again?) So okay, I make new excuses to head to Bethesda, but really needed to make a BIG excuse to head to GTC on a MONDAY. Why? Cos, it is the only day of the week that I haven't been to GTC and there were flavors that were BEGGING for me to eat and enjoy them. I mean really? It is truly those specific cupcake's honor to be rated in the Seangie Om Nom Nom Cupcake review! (Left to right in the picture, Cherry Cheesecake, Toffee, Ginger Peach, Cinnamon and Honey Banana) NOM!<br />
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The Seangie Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles (on a grade from 1 to 5, with 5 being the nommyest!)<br />
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HONEY BANANA: Fresh banana cupcake topped with vanilla cream cheese frosting and a fondant frosting.<br />
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Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.75<br />
Frosting: 4.0<br />
Cake: 4.25<br />
NOTES: OMG! The cake was AMAZEBALLS! We can taste the banana and honey goodness in the small little package. Me being the lover of the bready bases with fruits and veg this rang a nice 5 alarm nommyest on my tastebuds. Sean had to admit this cupcake was damn good!<br />
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CHERRY CHEESECAKE: Fresh cherry and mascarpone cheesecake topped with vanilla icing and a fondant flower.<br />
TADA Factor: 3.75<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 4.25<br />
Frosting: 4.75<br />
Cake: 5<br />
NOTES: OMG, OMG, OMG. I think I screamed "fuck yeah!" midbite out loud after tasting this cupcake. It was cheesecake at it's finest. This is what all the little cheescakes dream about when they are in cheesecake school. Screw being a cheesecake doctor or a cheesecake famous movie actor. They want to be put in this GTC monthly flavor! The only neg was that it was a bit messy, but in the end it doesn't matter cause Team Seangie were liking our own fingers anyways. I mean really. I'm so sad that August is ending soon. I will miss you Cherry Cheesecake Cupcake! WANH!<br />
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TADA Factor: 3.0<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5<br />
Frosting: 4.0<br />
Cake: 4.5<br />
NOTES: Cinnamon on cinnamon lurve. The cake was amazing, it reminded me of a bundt cake with a cinnamon swirl through the cake. How creative and classic! The buttercream topped off the cupcake VERY NICE! (Borat style! But not nekkid running around the conference room kind of VERY NICE!)<br />
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TOFFEE CRUNCH: Toffee cupcake with a toffee infused vanilla frosting topped with crushed Heath Bar.<br />
TADA Factor: 3.25<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.5<br />
Frosting: 4.5<br />
Cake: 5.0<br />
NOTES: It is toffee on toffee on toffee manage a trois. UM AMAZEBALLS! Do you see in my picture there are toffee bits in the cake? Yeah that's right, baked in toffee bits!!!! And then more toffee in the frosting and then MORE toffee bits? Today was a good day. We mos def felt that feeling. LA'CHAIM! (Okay will be my ONLY Black Eye Peas music reference on here....EVER!)<br />
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GINGER PEACH: Classic madagascar bourbon vanilla cupcake baked with fresh peaches and topped with a ginger-infused vanilla frosting and a fondant flower.<br />
TADA Factor: 3.5<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.75<br />
Frosting: 4.0<br />
Cake: 3.5<br />
NOTES: Another month of August specialty, but did not live up as high to it's other month counterpart, Cherry Cheesecake. I mean this sound good, but I really felt like I tasted peaches in the frosting. I know confusing right? I didn't taste peach in the cake and really didn't taste and ginger in the frosting. A fail? Not really. I mean the cake was still decent and the frosting was really good! Whatever it was supposed to be.....<br />
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AND ON TO THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER CUPCAKES!!!! CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">I'm back to Herrow Cupcake again! =) I wonder if they missed me? Doubtful. =) </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Century gothic', Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">NOTES: Aw man! Super disappointing! The presentation and creativity were great, but the final execution was so-so. My big issue was the flavor and texture of the cake. The flavor of the cake had a weird before, during and aftertaste. I mean it had a root beer-esque spice, but didn't ring root beer on my palette. Also, the texture of the cake was super super dry. Sad panda. =( The frosting was okay. The best part in my opinion of the choco straw! WAAAAAAANH!</span></span></span><br />
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What's that? Back so soon to Frosting A Cupcakery? Well we lurves cupcakes and they lurves us! (So we like to think, but it is definitely in a friends with benefits sorta relationship - and the cupcakes are really taking advantage of us!) So Team Seangie (sans Stevie the Wonder Intern since we sent him to do some work) got our haffa doz to get our nommy on to make sure this Frosting place is legit on the nommy factor. (In that 2 Legit 2 Quit manner, with all the hand signing and all ala MC Hammer.)</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: right;"></div><div style="margin: 0px;">'NILLA ' NILLA: vanilla bottom with vanilla buttercream top (the cupcake in the picture above with the blue fondant 'f')</div><div style="margin: 0px;">TADA Factor: 3.5</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.0</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Frosting: 4.5</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Cake: 4.0</div><div style="margin: 0px;">NOTES: This was a Seangie palette starter. In fact I would like this to make this our traditional palette starter from now on. We were pretty wow'ed with how well executed this simple cupcake was. It is often that most cupcakeries that we have frequented in the past just don't put any effort into the most simple cupcake as they are too busy with all the other fancy schmancy flavors they need to work on, but we were really happy at our delightful 'sewprise' that the simple cupcake wasn't the ugly red-headed step-child. Kudos to you Frosting.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
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BABA'S BABY: carrot bottom with vanilla cream cheese buttercream top.<br />
<div style="margin: 0px;">TADA Factor: 3.5</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Frosting: 4.0</div><div style="margin: 0px;">Cake: 4.25</div><div style="margin: 0px;">NOTES: YUM! Carrot cake! And it has veggies! Say Whaaaaaat? Sean was scared of this cupcake and I have no idea why, and again let's just say he is a veggie bread virgin. But after tasting this I think he realized what he was missing out on! Another great execution on a classic, and I think I could really eat a whole doz of these things. And I think Team Seangie could eat 2 dozzies!</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
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All in all, another nommy time at Frosting A Cupcakery. One or two hit or misses, but still lots of nommy-ness! HOLLA!</div></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
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<div style="margin: 0px;"></div>Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-39661485879910296792010-07-18T14:10:00.000-07:002010-07-19T06:29:34.252-07:00Bonafide Cupcakes - NO Om Nom Nom ReviewSo after trying to contact my Groupon vendor Bonafide Cupcakes on multiple occasions for some cupcakes (if you cannot tell I lurves cupcakes), I have decided to wave my cupcake white flag and ask for a refund from Groupon. I purchased my Groupons (2 dozen) in April and was hoping to use it rather quickly or even now, but to no success. I have been calling Bonafide Cupcakes on their phone number for the past 2 weeks straight and nobody picks up the phone. WTF!<br /><br />So awhile back in the end of May, Groupon sent me this:<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">"Thank you for purchasing the BonaFide Cupcakes Groupon! Due to the great response, BonaFide Cupcakes will be remodeling their kitchen between May 24th and June 7th to accommodate the large number of incoming orders and will not be able to take new orders during this time. They will be able to take orders again after this time up until the expiration of April 23, 2011."</span><br /><br />It is now July and their website is non-existent. The home page just has a list of cupcake flavors, THAT APPARENTLY I CANNOT GET. And a phone number, THAT APPARENTLY I CANNOT GET A HOLD OF. It is probably up to tease the poor Grouponers on their dissatisfaction that there are no cupcakes! I must say their flavors look nommy, but how can I confirm their nomminess, IF THERE ARE NO CUPCAKES? How disappointing! =( <br /><br />What finally made me decide to request a refund was after reading the Groupon discussion board about Bonafide Cupcakes. And I found out that not only after their "remodeling of their kitchen and their upgrade of their website" Bonafide Cupcakes have been MIA, not answering phones and/or missing deliveries that were confirmed. (HOW DID THOSE PEOPLE GET A HOLD OF ANYONE ANYWAYS?) I understand that the demand was quite overwhelming for the company, but they should of at least put a cap on how many Groupons to give out or figured out a sustainable distribution and/or order system PRIOR to their Groupon release! What happened to making business plans? I'm a fan of them, use them!<br /><br />When the Groupon closed there were about 2800 Groupons purchased. But when I return to the Bonafide Cupcake Groupon site now, it states 2100. So hey, 700 of us were smart enough to ask for refunds - I think the 2100 so do the same.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">NO CUPCAKES = CUPCAKE FAIL! </span>Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-63959625817339554612010-07-15T16:08:00.000-07:002011-08-17T20:21:42.886-07:00Frosting A Cupcakery - An Om Nom Nom Review<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHZe0ck5-9dQ9ZBmw3NsNf2A6HAzaWuo9RGsB7xp3RA_rZm28o9RmQpPh7fPzyr_YHJFymGDOwOUQUQ7bqGWka1YYxVTaJd-S8p50rffMDS4Y8CvXt8LdwzGpUCkTKdcSSAkaNhMgTtus/s1600/DSC_0870.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494280585817806578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlHZe0ck5-9dQ9ZBmw3NsNf2A6HAzaWuo9RGsB7xp3RA_rZm28o9RmQpPh7fPzyr_YHJFymGDOwOUQUQ7bqGWka1YYxVTaJd-S8p50rffMDS4Y8CvXt8LdwzGpUCkTKdcSSAkaNhMgTtus/s400/DSC_0870.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 268px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a>So another Groupon cupcake ad came into my inbox. And no, it was not a delivery cupcake place that fell off the face of the earth after the Groupon buying time was over. (I STILL HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO ORDER MY CUPCKAKES FROM BONAFIDE CUPCAKES, BTW!) I was hesitant at first to purchase this Groupon since I haven't been able to redeem my last one, but since it was close to work I decided to take a leap of faith on Frosting A Cupcakery (A Boutique Bakeshop & Coffeehouse) located in Chevy Chase, MD. So my first impressions, was frustrating - the first time I went to redeem my cupcakes I went on July 4th, where their website stated that their hours were from 10 AM - 6 PM. So I drive to the bakeshop desperate for some cupcake goodness to share with my friends on July 4th. I drive up. BAD NEWS, they were closed. CRAP! How depressing! My next visit was more successful (since I got freaking cupcakes!), but the whole parking situation was quite odd, I had to choose to either enter the open parking lot area behind the cupcakery or go into the depths of a parking garage, I took a dare and went to the open parking behind the building, thinking there would be some convenient trail for people to go through to get to the other side. No such luck! So I walked around the building and then some to get to the cupcake place on the corner. I'm okay with walking for my cupcakes, as I could very use the exercise and circulation in my legs, but it was a bit aggravating on a day that was humid and rainy (and umbrella-less). =(<br />
I walk into Frosting and it was a really cute shop. Not in a cute, GTC or Herrow (it is really Hello, but I'm adding my Asian spin) Cupcake baby pink all over the place way, but it was more masculine with their modern brown, blue and cream decor. It was like a MR. GTC or a MR. Herrow Cupcake store. It felt like more like what my living room would look like. I guess they took their cues from a Starbucks and GTC together, pretty savvy! (Sorry no photos of the store! I left my iPhone and camera at work!)<br />
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So I grabbed my eight cupcakes and headed back. And made my long humid and drizzly walk to my car, splashing gravel-ly water that pooled into the ridges of my flip flops and made it an even more interesting stroll. As I weaved in the parking lot I was being stalked by multiple luxury cars. (What no valet?) I get back to work, and it is TIME FOR SOME CUPCAKE BIS-NASTY! Or shall I say, cupcake BIS-NOMMY?<br />
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The Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles (on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest!) Ratings are averaged between Team Seangie and Stevie the Wonder Intern (Yes, Team Seangie has hired an intern to eat cupcakes with us...FYI, we will be taking intern applications for next summer starting in Feb 2011)<br />
FLUFFER NUTTER: vanilla bottom filled with marshmallow with peanut butter buttercream and topped with a honey drizzle.<br />
TADA Factor: 4.5<br />
Flavh Flav Creativity: 5.0<br />
Frosting: 5.0<br />
Cake: 3.5<br />
NOTE: This was the reason for me getting to the store on this day. UM. FLUFFER NUTTER? Nuff said! First observations, was the cake was more crumbly than other cupcakeries, the frosting was piled high on top of the cake (you practically have to unhinge your mouth to eat from top to bottom) and the cupcake were a bit more petite than other cupcakeries (but as they were priced at $2.75 I didn't feel robbed like other cupcakeries around town). Anywho, the frosting was AMAZEBALLS, and being the non PB slut of Team Seangie, I was really impressed! And most of all it TASTED LIKE NUTTER BUTTER!<br />
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JOE 'n DOUGH: coffee cake doughut bottom with mocha fudge buttercream top with a choco covered coffee bean<br />
TADA Factor: 4.5<br />
Creativity: 4.75<br />
Frosting: 4.0<br />
Cake:4.75<br />
NOTES: Okay, this cupcake had me at doughnut-tyness goodness. The cake was the texture of a beignet but still was a touch cake like and had a sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar on top. AND the buttercream was awesome! Even Sean, the non-Mocha buttercream slut enjoyed this combo! The thing that both of us commented on, was the fact that the buttercream at Frosting was amazing, light, not grainy, not too sweet and tasted like what it was advertised. Hey Frosting -color us impressed. <br />
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CREMA DI CIOCCOLATO: Gluten-free, flourless choco bottom with cream cheese and fudge top<br />
TADA Factor: 4.0<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.75<br />
Frosting: 3.25<br />
Cake: 4.0<br />
NOTES: Sean lurved this cupcake. Me, not so much. It was flourless, gluten free, and "moistfull." (I know this a not a real word, but it really should be nominated next for Webster's dictionary) I mean the only thing I am allergic to is penicillin, so why am I to suffer? But I'm happy people that are allergic to OG cupcake ingredients can have a cupcake. Kudos to frosting. <br />
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CAMPFIRE: graham cracker bottom with milk choco ganache & marshmallow top (pictured above on the front left)<br />
TADA Factor: 4.0<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity:4.75<br />
Frosting: 3.25<br />
Cake: 3.75<br />
NOTES: This would of got a higher rating if this cupcake was put together better. The choco dallop needed to be bigger and the marshmallow could of used a touch of a little blow torch action. I must say that this single cupcake it is the most appealing looking cupcake we have ever set our eyes on, so I think we were a bit disappointed in the taste. More choco please!!!! And some toasty blow torch action please! Then talk to us again!<br />
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FRENCHIE:(or what I want to call FREEDOMIE-yeah I'm taking a page out of the freedom fries book) french toast bottom - oops I mean freedom toast bottom with maple buttercream top<br />
TADA Factor: 3.0<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 4.0<br />
Frosting: 3.75<br />
Cake: 4.25<br />
NOTES: It's mapley, it's frenchie, AND IT SURE TASTES LIKE FREEDOM! YUM!<br />
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SKINNIMINT: choco bottom with peppermint vanilla buttercream top with choco sprinkles<br />
TADA Factor: 4.5<br />
Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.5<br />
Frosting: 4.0<br />
Cake: 4.0<br />
NOTES: PALETTE CLEANSER FTW! So my question is, why is this called skinnimint? I get the mint part, but where does the skinni come from? Do they make these cupcakes when they are nekkid? Or do we get skinni when we eat them? Well, by the looks of what we have eaten so far, I think we could use a couple more of these cupcakes then, you know...for palette cleansing. I would like to say, that unlike my past experience with Herrow Cupcake's mint concoction this SURPASSED them by a landslide. (Insert Seangie happy yummy om nom nommy noises here)<br />
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DADDY'S JOY: choco bottom with almond coconut buttercream top (average scores come from Stevie the Wonder intern and I, since Sean left me)<br />
TADA Factor: 3.25<br />
Creativity: 3.75<br />
Frosting: 4.0<br />
Cake: 3.5<br />
NOTES: VERY interesting! It's like they married marzipan and a coconut macaroon together and then plopped it on top of a choco cupcake. I did really like their almond buttercream that is prevalent in their cupcake menu. So I am quite excited to try another cupcake with it! Not bad!<br />
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Overall, our impressions of Frosting a cupcakery were very positive. We enjoyed their creative flavors and their execution that some of the other cupcakeries cannot touch. I will mos def be back! Especially, since in my excitement of being in the presence of cupcakes I forgot to use the two Groupons that got me to the cupcakery! I think this ranks second highest on Sean's list of stoopid things that Angie did that benefits Sean. (first was when I melted a Coldstone Choco PB ice cream birthday cake for a co-worker in the trunk of my car in February thinking it would hold up, guess who ate it?) So Frosting, I'll see you soon - I still have 2 Groupons to burn!Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-85346226381710216012010-07-11T17:01:00.000-07:002010-07-19T06:38:42.271-07:00Herrow Cupcake (aka Hello Cupcake) - Part Deux - Deux (aka two day trial)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5RxR36XEiA32V4kMFyzbi8yAzxSngCGCXVNd3vNJXhpfTKk2weHuuG3nGKkIWPjjHb3s8vJaZqGAx4uxQQ0lmIwCLyVSe-KStOpmIw2Sra-T2gdudzcCjsu_29X1wf1gMEv7V4ImGQXJ/s1600/DSC_0799.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5RxR36XEiA32V4kMFyzbi8yAzxSngCGCXVNd3vNJXhpfTKk2weHuuG3nGKkIWPjjHb3s8vJaZqGAx4uxQQ0lmIwCLyVSe-KStOpmIw2Sra-T2gdudzcCjsu_29X1wf1gMEv7V4ImGQXJ/s400/DSC_0799.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492804414280047986" /></a>So being the cupcake princess that I am, I wanted to see what were the potential new cupcakes that all the local cupcakeries had to offer. And I ran across this magical sounding flavor on HERROW Cupcake (it is really called Hello, but I'm adding my cute Asian spin on things) called DREAMSICLE. Um, HERROW! After my experience with Herrow Cupcake's flavor du jour, Margarita in the month of May, I think I almost peed myself dreaming of this cupcake touching my lips. OM NOM NOMMY. So as Sean and I studied the cupcake flavors on Herrow Cupcake's menu, and we decided that we needed to go on a Thursday, well, to go get the PB (you know to give Sean his daily PB fix) and banana concoction called the Velvet Elvis!<br />So on the hot, hot Thursday I ventured to Dupont Circle and grabbed some cupcakes for Team Seangie and even for Stevie the Wonder Intern (because I felt guilty for teasing him my GTC cupcakes from last week) and decided to have a mini cupcake party! Okay a really big cupcake party, cause I bought 8 cupcakes. And THAT'S A PARTEEEEE! (really I swear!)<br /><br />****************************<br />Team Seangie (with guest Stevie the Wonder Intern, but we let he only partake in 2 of the cupcake reviews - you know he had real work to do...you know like take pictures of us eating nommy cupcakes) Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles (on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM5JGXgD2IJghW_cEZRGQargZ6Aml9S_6cMqnYm35f6MFOVLA0XiTVhVevhJ3xTAY3AlcG9v1ngWMPY-y5NvYVoSTIRgmC3ufUVf-X55NCxO9BitScC3EoMV0YJaNbi4SiCWHmjKWpfnV8/s1600/DSC_0793.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM5JGXgD2IJghW_cEZRGQargZ6Aml9S_6cMqnYm35f6MFOVLA0XiTVhVevhJ3xTAY3AlcG9v1ngWMPY-y5NvYVoSTIRgmC3ufUVf-X55NCxO9BitScC3EoMV0YJaNbi4SiCWHmjKWpfnV8/s200/DSC_0793.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492808538581645474" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bZtrtEP_N7gbvr_ObT-qRSiDWfrNKbxwMppxQPZYcyubUk8u-tMfiGMG7TEpaf2m7ZiDPCe_A7xRRZx76iJ3r0Tu-k8jmrK5DfAQfHa3sruyCiOAhsNW-XS2CCUYfCSFhSUstpV9wbzR/s1600/DSC_0789.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7bZtrtEP_N7gbvr_ObT-qRSiDWfrNKbxwMppxQPZYcyubUk8u-tMfiGMG7TEpaf2m7ZiDPCe_A7xRRZx76iJ3r0Tu-k8jmrK5DfAQfHa3sruyCiOAhsNW-XS2CCUYfCSFhSUstpV9wbzR/s200/DSC_0789.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492808528157214626" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgBnuJj989Lm38okQtukmEOW52QH6E6QTd2gvJrWGFbbn4e_G5PkWP54VkFjAcl_kK_Ff5gewaBJXx31Glj-c4VBPIISQY_MBjjrmZy3V69_jR9x943qFEePZlqrwWv_kIj4BZ3mCl5CR/s1600/DSC_0787.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirgBnuJj989Lm38okQtukmEOW52QH6E6QTd2gvJrWGFbbn4e_G5PkWP54VkFjAcl_kK_Ff5gewaBJXx31Glj-c4VBPIISQY_MBjjrmZy3V69_jR9x943qFEePZlqrwWv_kIj4BZ3mCl5CR/s200/DSC_0787.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492808519415859026" /></a> VELVET ELVIS: Elvis Presley's favorite sandwich - peanut butter and banana - IN A CUPCAKE! Moist fluffy banana cake made with real bananas, topped with Herrow Cupcake's sweet peanut butter frosting (that's the velvet part!)<br />TADA Factor: 3.0<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 4.25<br />Frosting: 4.25<br />Cake: 4.25<br />NOTES: This was surprisingly tasty to me. As the non-PB slut (you know who that is of Team Seangie) I did not think I was ready for the deliciousness. I think I'm now in love with cupcake bottoms that are more of the "bread" variety, as I have approved of GTC and Baked and Wired "bread" cupcake bottoms! OM NOM NOM. Note that Team Seangie agreed that out of the three Elvis' that are pictured with his cupcake above, this was mos def the old fat Elvis' cupcake. (one in the middle MAMA!)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhykgeLLAJEL-yX0uIK0gVptw1zN22akeL9WJm3qUsl2NbbLEYzEs08xe8XVtqqF4-IVw9CdSl1R_EnCHipP2IWzb3Jg6APvkJ5dnwzxycCIsddLHqnOuh_-7dF28I_oOyuAlGBrWvPQ0Uw/s1600/DSC_0802.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhykgeLLAJEL-yX0uIK0gVptw1zN22akeL9WJm3qUsl2NbbLEYzEs08xe8XVtqqF4-IVw9CdSl1R_EnCHipP2IWzb3Jg6APvkJ5dnwzxycCIsddLHqnOuh_-7dF28I_oOyuAlGBrWvPQ0Uw/s400/DSC_0802.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492814618991117346" /></a><br />DREAMSICLE: A cool, creamy summer treat. Orange cake, vanilla bean cream filling, and orange buttercream with a sprinkling of orange sugar. This is Herrow Cupcake's July flavah of the month!<br />TADA Factor: 4.0<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 5.0<br />Frosting: 4.5<br />Cake: 5.0<br />NOTES: This cupcake was an extra 50 cents! Well I'm not chitty-chitty-bang-bang (well give me some red wine and well talk again), but when I was informed there would be an extra cost for the Dreamsicle cupcake, I then inquired why it was 50 cents extra and the guy behind the counter just said that 'it was the special flavor and they cost 50 cents extra.' Well gee, that sounds like a stoopid answer. So hypothetically if you were a prostitute, could you be like the hand job with my left hand is 50 cent extra? And when clients asked why a hand job with your left hand was an extra 50 cents it would be..well, it is just the other hand and it cost 50 cents extra. See? Doesn't make sense. Maybe it would of been better if he just justified it with the Chewbacca defense. So like he should of said, "This cupcake cost extra, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!" Then I think the answer would of sufficed. DONE. ANYWHO, after splitting the cupcake in half, Sean and I figured that the extra 50 cents was most likely for the little squirt of vanila bean cream filling in the middle of the cake. Okay mystery solved, thanks pesky kids. On a side note, this cupcake was AMAZEBALLS and I think that Sean and I would be able to clear a full dozen of these, that is as long as we also had the Velvet Elvis as a palette cleanser! OM NOM NOMMY!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEreXAGW-X6DW0Jdp-I3TjI3RZDITbBFQTvGdwOG984WZHGZuvFJrG0OGGrqlrTx94-38QWOCmX8XyDm5GhCLJFoYOtNUK5eOj0N_s2x13vMjlgwRsY1kKwv85GcdpXIDPy4X-5qth-Rn6/s1600/DSC_0804.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEreXAGW-X6DW0Jdp-I3TjI3RZDITbBFQTvGdwOG984WZHGZuvFJrG0OGGrqlrTx94-38QWOCmX8XyDm5GhCLJFoYOtNUK5eOj0N_s2x13vMjlgwRsY1kKwv85GcdpXIDPy4X-5qth-Rn6/s320/DSC_0804.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492820629714215442" /></a><br />PRINCESS: Hello Cupcake's vanilla cake with fresh strawberry buttercream frosting and a sprinkling of pink sugar. <br />TADA Factor: 3.0<br />Flava Flav Creativity: 2<br />Frosting: 1.75<br />Cake: 3<br />NOTE: Frosting was way TOOOO SWEET! I think it rotted my fillings out of my teeth. I didn't finish it. Sean being the trooper that he is, ate his and then ate my leftovers. And then something punched him in the face, (no not my fist) he then found out it was too sweet to. And that is where we had to end the cupcaking for the day, the Princess cupcake max'ed out our palette and it time to pass out on the floor from the sugar rush. (Also that is Peekles the Penguin checking on the Princess cupcake before it caused me to convulse on the floor!)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEginoOtG3dKc8AMU4BhzUVuMf9Urj8sEcgLtMkGxMWaD5owjowJQIrDA60TyK8Ceb17NtIwX3HYGWepFLQcjm63g71yNsYA3mAu01SgNsecB7LS37l7tlMSZ7w6yHHyhVlrNtfulZJKftSK/s1600/DSC_0807.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEginoOtG3dKc8AMU4BhzUVuMf9Urj8sEcgLtMkGxMWaD5owjowJQIrDA60TyK8Ceb17NtIwX3HYGWepFLQcjm63g71yNsYA3mAu01SgNsecB7LS37l7tlMSZ7w6yHHyhVlrNtfulZJKftSK/s320/DSC_0807.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492836654177644578" /></a>These Cupcakes are Frosting Heavy!!!!!!!!!<br />************<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Pxzc853ZpHUN8IMQWjPO_t2XSsyQn4mC3lT93Bq0WeDxhcI9rbg89GU_b1Mh-OeDJangOoM0Ks_q_tRr5UDuUR7DeRyWyJcw3r-N5Vrtws-vUjr-ukEO50OIkQeeiSEFl7WDEAcqixlr/s1600/DSC_0817.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Pxzc853ZpHUN8IMQWjPO_t2XSsyQn4mC3lT93Bq0WeDxhcI9rbg89GU_b1Mh-OeDJangOoM0Ks_q_tRr5UDuUR7DeRyWyJcw3r-N5Vrtws-vUjr-ukEO50OIkQeeiSEFl7WDEAcqixlr/s320/DSC_0817.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492838517447067954" /></a>Part Deux-Deux (aka Day 2)<br /><br />So after we recovered and let Superman guard the cupcakes, it was time for the last three cupcakes on our list. I must say after eating the strawberry frosting on the Princess cupcake last, I was scared and skeptical of all the rest of the cupcakes. I was bracing myself, but as I like to tell myself a girl must do it for science. =) Let the Om Nom Nomming (or the not so Om Nom Nomming) begin!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42cxWC3qD5dNEa-2QyR7C2AdnrtNwYKQ_lq50SOjT-siZQ50_h12gU8A0ZWyFmRQ2bkWvghC27fWME4NUUi4BULmV8K4bvZw4ukHoMX-7rp5QSaWafcZw9Xn6MEhO3yytpInPit5-wgvo/s1600/DSC_0820.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg42cxWC3qD5dNEa-2QyR7C2AdnrtNwYKQ_lq50SOjT-siZQ50_h12gU8A0ZWyFmRQ2bkWvghC27fWME4NUUi4BULmV8K4bvZw4ukHoMX-7rp5QSaWafcZw9Xn6MEhO3yytpInPit5-wgvo/s200/DSC_0820.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492842952407559106" /></a><br />RASPBERRY BERET: Choco cake with a sweet little cap of raspberry buttercream frosting and choco sprinkles.<br />TADA Factor: 3.25<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.25<br />Frosting: 3.75<br />Cake: 3.25<br />NOTES: To our surprise, it was actually pretty decent. The raspberry frosting tasted like raspberry sherbet! YUM! But I must say that the frosting was a little grainy to be called buttercream IMO. Let's just say I thought it was a Prince song in my mouth...not that one about Purple Rain or Doves Cry. it was more of a 1999 jam. You know, it happened and I have already forgotten about it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9W3FDZKML5rBLb8Zmdf_z0NpJMhtaBsVcIhPpdoSQ6imGXBQKNpf2RfunDOI0-8qo3MiExd9zE8QJixzj9qUYqXoAiIefa3Wv8D0XdnWkjE_fHV4Ow8ssxjQaugBA82AWF0aAkGOjqxRw/s1600/DSC_0822.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9W3FDZKML5rBLb8Zmdf_z0NpJMhtaBsVcIhPpdoSQ6imGXBQKNpf2RfunDOI0-8qo3MiExd9zE8QJixzj9qUYqXoAiIefa3Wv8D0XdnWkjE_fHV4Ow8ssxjQaugBA82AWF0aAkGOjqxRw/s200/DSC_0822.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492847419781677154" /></a><br />PEPPERMINT PENNY: Rich choco cake with peppermint buttercream and choco sprinkles. (aka known as a Seangie Palette cleanser)<br />TADA Factor: 2.75<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.0<br />Frosting: 2.0<br />Cake: 3.5<br />NOTES: OH DISAPPOINTMENT. PALETTE CLEANSER FAIL. You know when something has an after-taste? Well this had a before-taste! WTF! It was a bitter creme de menthe taste that ruined the cupcake. Sean thought it was a good idea in theory, but the execution was poor. But let's just say Sean liked it better than I did! BLEHHHHH!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_snH9OjPq61qj72mTt3zOJciEz6kEKzvNvFfAqqfjBBwegFBaqUJBxGuIEK3_H2Q3WBcLdNSwZzR8ww2tUt-JpUo06eWcYF9TidHgh9GD53Zfy7RhZ6gsdD6wOTrjiBQV6wS64K3kZyDQ/s1600/DSC_0825.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_snH9OjPq61qj72mTt3zOJciEz6kEKzvNvFfAqqfjBBwegFBaqUJBxGuIEK3_H2Q3WBcLdNSwZzR8ww2tUt-JpUo06eWcYF9TidHgh9GD53Zfy7RhZ6gsdD6wOTrjiBQV6wS64K3kZyDQ/s200/DSC_0825.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492849302065736514" /></a><br />COOKIES-n-CREAM: moist vanilla cake studded with chunks of choco cream cookies topped with a cookies n cream frosting and adorable mini cookie.<br />TADA Factor: 4.0<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 3.0<br />Frosting: 2.5<br />Cake: 4.25<br />NOTES: We were at first skeptical of this cupcake, but were pleasantly surprised. I must say that this cookies and cream cupcake tastes waaaaay better than GTC. The cake was awesome but the frosting could use a little less of Oreo stuff. More cookies, less stuff please!<br />****************<br />Life as a cupcake Om Nom Nommer<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gZtaTO4_Xo_DQcr-_PtDItVE4fkyI-WCFrgZV_fDneHPt5F79YoIliFMZ131JtQS2MMLg0-dyLN24o5rukvGNUtcaZDvRJ4NV4031SDUgS16dNtvsycoAg6B5eDRVo193Zl8f_iKKZHz/s1600/DSC_0811.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gZtaTO4_Xo_DQcr-_PtDItVE4fkyI-WCFrgZV_fDneHPt5F79YoIliFMZ131JtQS2MMLg0-dyLN24o5rukvGNUtcaZDvRJ4NV4031SDUgS16dNtvsycoAg6B5eDRVo193Zl8f_iKKZHz/s200/DSC_0811.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492851343931435282" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvaSm6ias7rsfox_qEBS5G49pX3lREU3-xkoCWlkX52DYdPn_gxnyTxHCJvvqMyl-IM5Vta8rS5WJWVIYf-smJxytKGsSKC3lUxuj4_OSj28V1YZDClnm9UNamxtK3v9O2arB3AAUDFIo5/s1600/DSC_0809.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvaSm6ias7rsfox_qEBS5G49pX3lREU3-xkoCWlkX52DYdPn_gxnyTxHCJvvqMyl-IM5Vta8rS5WJWVIYf-smJxytKGsSKC3lUxuj4_OSj28V1YZDClnm9UNamxtK3v9O2arB3AAUDFIo5/s200/DSC_0809.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492851336384286674" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOKl53d40FR22VsT3bhJCHTp6MvUM3DchvP3apGXc0mFFCSfhsJbPnbnkI7YstmoKlhZ-rEF4zg0dsQksdIm7lBYKr5Ski0GxD__HbEueWIpBOMfkgdpwMojm63W7hArPHzlOo1QnFbuQZ/s1600/DSC_0808.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOKl53d40FR22VsT3bhJCHTp6MvUM3DchvP3apGXc0mFFCSfhsJbPnbnkI7YstmoKlhZ-rEF4zg0dsQksdIm7lBYKr5Ski0GxD__HbEueWIpBOMfkgdpwMojm63W7hArPHzlOo1QnFbuQZ/s200/DSC_0808.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492851329805027170" /></a>Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-57835678132500130182010-07-05T17:45:00.000-07:002010-07-06T18:41:38.519-07:00Red Velvet Cupcakery Downtown - An Om Nom Nom Review<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTsV0xNQNUTiMje9WMJEy6Gdomu57Z88yTyDsbA2LS4-en1zywZiRLk1zKjY_rbTHUkjDkbWs0IwXIs6ux2ADLGYcp5kF10tfokBZ0JZI61hQXAjt-Y5o94xqKqLvV2la7d0EQ5bQuIOQE/s1600/IMG_0458.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTsV0xNQNUTiMje9WMJEy6Gdomu57Z88yTyDsbA2LS4-en1zywZiRLk1zKjY_rbTHUkjDkbWs0IwXIs6ux2ADLGYcp5kF10tfokBZ0JZI61hQXAjt-Y5o94xqKqLvV2la7d0EQ5bQuIOQE/s400/IMG_0458.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490592134261505938" /></a>So after I went to Dim Sum, my friends and I went to the Red Velvet Cupcakery located downtown in Penn Quarter. This was my second visit to Red Velvet, but first to this specific location (the first was to their Dupont Circle locay.) So we wandered through the FTs (stands for f*&king tourists) covered street and found my cupcake mecca of FroYo and cupcakes. We entered and I discovered that this specific locay separated their FroYo and Cupcakery businesses unlike its Dupont Circle counterpart. When you first enter, all you see is the cupcakes behind a huge glass wall, and employees staring at you. No hello, nothing, they just stare at you and not even in a friendly way. They just stare. While we were checking out the flavors and examining the cupcakes, I want to say about 6 people walked IN and then OUT. I have no idea why. Could it be that they thought it was the famous Gtown cupcake place and realized it wasn't? Or was it the sign on the wall that said that each freaking cupcake was $3.25+ DC tax price tag? Or was it they were just stared at and not acknowledged? It was just odd, they would walk in and walk out as fast as they entered. I have no idea and do not blame them, in fact we probably should have before I spent $14.75 on 4 freaking cupcakes that were just okay. But then again, this is all for research. =D<br /><br />So after mulling over the case of cupcakes, I sauntered over to the counter where the blank stare fell as I made my order and paid. All my friends and I got cupcakes and were all discussing the cost when we left the store. WTF did we just spend our money on? These better be good. By the time we got to the car to leave DC and go back to the suburbia of MD, I did a major boo-boo. I sat in the car and dropped my cupcakes. My initial reaction was to cry, but it was so hot, it was replaced by tears of sweat. Crap. Not only did I over pay for 4 freaking cupcakes, but they are all over the place, but still edible. (Your know some scraping here and there required and some reassembling of cupcakes.) My friends were nice and tried to convince me that things were going to be okay. But really, I just dropped my cupcakes! WANH!<br /><br />*****************<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEoIUNSpNhkd4sk0xZ3QyLEm_53e30zqGxMkpHC-QJxZGP6uTuzO66WcxYrN-C3o6nbXyxpcc8KPKXrfLvliA_ppLDhy0dmv7fNIJOsgM-olLntOUXeg81PoEw2ML6B2eh9K7R8KN-F9Sx/s1600/IMG_0460.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEoIUNSpNhkd4sk0xZ3QyLEm_53e30zqGxMkpHC-QJxZGP6uTuzO66WcxYrN-C3o6nbXyxpcc8KPKXrfLvliA_ppLDhy0dmv7fNIJOsgM-olLntOUXeg81PoEw2ML6B2eh9K7R8KN-F9Sx/s400/IMG_0460.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490597339141105026" /></a><br />The Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles (on a scale from 1 to 5 with 5 being the highest)<br />NOTE: The following pictures of intact cupcakes are from the cupcake boxes of my 2 friends (WANH!)<br /><br />KEY WEST: Key lime cake with a Swiss white choco butter cream and garnished with white choco shavings.<br />TADA Factor: 3.0<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5<br />Frosting: 3.0<br />Cake: 3.0<br />NOTES: The frosting was really light and tasted more like" cool hwip" (pronounced ala Stewie Griffin) and I didn't taste much white choco. MEH.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjykQ2haXsJ3u-5_2cIpw3Tmrxw1T097a2du7aJ7Q8hFsK-MkJ5T8pXRENtYufSHzzR5Z9H-g-r85wCaNNU7vRewP6iZ0E7nhL0PIMqx3CB_BRWCv1LGwKZdf82tAqJpZMDOkjpThTfvg2d/s1600/IMG_0462.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjykQ2haXsJ3u-5_2cIpw3Tmrxw1T097a2du7aJ7Q8hFsK-MkJ5T8pXRENtYufSHzzR5Z9H-g-r85wCaNNU7vRewP6iZ0E7nhL0PIMqx3CB_BRWCv1LGwKZdf82tAqJpZMDOkjpThTfvg2d/s200/IMG_0462.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490601192317949586" /></a>CARROT CAKE: A spiced cake with shredded carrot and whole pecans topped with whipped cream cheese topping.<br />TADA Factor: 2.5<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5<br />Frosting: 2.5<br />Cake: 3.5<br />NOTES: The spiced cake was decent, not as good as other cupcakeries, but I could live with eating a lot of these cupcakes - that is, until I went to another cupcake shop.<br /><br />SUMMERTIME: Lemon cake with whipped cream cheese topping, smothered in coconut. (aka dubbed LeCoCo by my previous review with Sean)<br />TADA Factor: 3.0<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5<br />Frosting: 3.0<br />Cake: 2.5<br />NOTES: MEH. A comment, the same freaking frosting. UH-GAIN. And when you think about it, the majority of the cupcakes I saw in the case was covered in this same frosting. How about some variety? Didn't score as well as it did in my last review, maybe Saturday is an off day for cupcakes. I have no idea what happened!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-pu05utShx1k1qGMEcuT0yB3slcNiPzmIgYDJP5nqCb3aj09vQVxZY84Twcih4SKz2krV-Ihyphenhyphens1eEFRhE6ezw87IpwIzdhNWeW4CUobT-N7___IyaolsA7tuIW-IiwB_NOwaQrQnn3G9C/s1600/IMG_0461.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-pu05utShx1k1qGMEcuT0yB3slcNiPzmIgYDJP5nqCb3aj09vQVxZY84Twcih4SKz2krV-Ihyphenhyphens1eEFRhE6ezw87IpwIzdhNWeW4CUobT-N7___IyaolsA7tuIW-IiwB_NOwaQrQnn3G9C/s200/IMG_0461.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490602761160332946" /></a><br />CAMPFIRE: Choco cake with graham cracker topping with a schmear of fudge underneath a whipped marshmallow topping that was torched for the marshmallowy torched taste.<br />TADA Factor: 3.5<br />Flavh Flav Creativity: 3.5<br />Frosting: 3.5<br />Cake: 3.0<br />NOTES: The frosting was great! It was airy like a marshmallow and then blow torched on top for added campy effect. Overall the fun part of dismantling it AFTER I dropped it on it's side. But it was a good solid effort.<br /><br />Overall, not that great of a cupcake experience. Or maybe I should just stick to the Dupont Circle locay. Maybe it was an off day, but then again my cupcaking style rarely changes. Off to the next cupcakery! Hopefully, a much better one and cupcakes that don't scare people away...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTptQA-29ZC-F7XHhM9zrQVUxICma7KAL8GTTblwoWn581TabXldeMemQJ_nwUULpcNUUfJu7FajCKARqWVDVbEzvCW_ePnijKITG-ohlhEJQOJ-3OsogMdU_T6PxiwmvSrLkUu0TTQcXb/s1600/IMG_0463.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTptQA-29ZC-F7XHhM9zrQVUxICma7KAL8GTTblwoWn581TabXldeMemQJ_nwUULpcNUUfJu7FajCKARqWVDVbEzvCW_ePnijKITG-ohlhEJQOJ-3OsogMdU_T6PxiwmvSrLkUu0TTQcXb/s400/IMG_0463.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490603673572917922" /></a><br />CUPCAKE FAIL!Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-71524393032011427272010-07-03T17:21:00.000-07:002010-07-06T18:49:48.050-07:00Ping Pong Dim Sum - An Om Nom Nom Review<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlICnAfNgiNctUsQ2pmQoRuHD9roUPIlC5Gxjp72qnySpSsZryBgjwBbKext7b9bWkd22zNMX61Eg-aoR6HXaYznm1D1doyhVK5GMD_SNoPT-M2MCdqSkSc_QbBLwQmHIKqhEJD6NDItZ/s1600/IMG_0455.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIlICnAfNgiNctUsQ2pmQoRuHD9roUPIlC5Gxjp72qnySpSsZryBgjwBbKext7b9bWkd22zNMX61Eg-aoR6HXaYznm1D1doyhVK5GMD_SNoPT-M2MCdqSkSc_QbBLwQmHIKqhEJD6NDItZ/s400/IMG_0455.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489850500127873506" /></a><br />So okay, you caught me, I'm posting another food review that is not cupcake based. But I do not hang my head in shame! Hey! So I live my life eating a little (or mass quantities) of everything! And Ping Pong Dim Sum was down the street of my next review...a cupcakery!<br /><br />Being of Cantonese decent, dim sum to me is tradition as I grew up having "yum cha" (tea drinking) on a regular basis. Dim Sum is where I witnessed my parents fight with others on who was going to pay the check.(that's really Asian) Basically, dim sum is little plates of food being wheeled about by ladies screaming out what kind of foods they have in their cart. Once you make a signal or eye contact with the cart pusher, they stop, you choose what you want and they stamp your card to mark what you stuffed your face with. The carts come around over and over again, until you are stuffed! And even then, when the cart has come around to you 4-5 times they still are trying to get you to take their food. All the carts have different food preparations: steamed, fried, cold dishes , larger family style dishes, dessert, tofu, and veggie to name a few. By far the most popular is the steamed cart carrying items such ha gou (steamed shrimp and bamboo dumpling), shu mai (pork steamed dumpling), ha cheong fun (long rice noodle with shrimp and soy sauce) and many other fun items like chicken feet and spicy tripe. (You know fear factor items that Chinese have been eating since they were able to chew!)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfj_F0Vu5RieYb7dgjjIFi3dWNH5xJ_1vmNBxspg4QVU1bC7DRrW1Q2JraHuWZYwccKJrToyWcxrvDWNq8nqrX6JlP8QX8BKCrY6dAyfh8P3RKfyn3KM2ek7V2KaHBmtLExVRDBtbxxN5/s1600/IMG_0457.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 270px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfj_F0Vu5RieYb7dgjjIFi3dWNH5xJ_1vmNBxspg4QVU1bC7DRrW1Q2JraHuWZYwccKJrToyWcxrvDWNq8nqrX6JlP8QX8BKCrY6dAyfh8P3RKfyn3KM2ek7V2KaHBmtLExVRDBtbxxN5/s400/IMG_0457.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489846126374373826" /></a><br /><br />I went to Ping Pong Dim Sum with two people (one friend and one new acquaintance.) First off, the name Ping Pong? I sorta was skeptical with the name. This place was located in Chinatown but across from the Verizon center. So there is SOME street cred. From further review this place is a UK based restaurant that has locations in the UK. But really PING PONG? I mean okay, it is a sport, AND Chinese people are good at it. But really? Well now that we have taken medals in the past Olympics in Gymnastics, Badminton and Swimming how about that name? Maybe it is just me. Anyways, back to the food.<br /><br />We ordered our drinks, the menu is full of exotic drinks with lychee, passion fruit, ginger and more. I decided to stick with the bubble tea and was not disappointed. But then again, I'm pretty much happy with any bubble tea as long as the bubbles have the right chew texture. Thumbs up. My two fellow dinners ended up with bubble teas and some fancy liquored up drinks, which were hit or miss. Overall, the food was good. The menu was sushi like - where you pick you items and mark it off on a sheet. No cute asian people wheeling carts around. Items in steamed baskets we were told come in threes or twos, in a real Chinese dim sum, food comes in four, three, two. But for ha gou, Ping Pong gave us 3 and OG dim sum gives 4. Where's my 4th piece? JERKS! My friends and I all get the seafood sampler, which is a little taste of everything on the menu. After I ordered I looked into the open kitchen where all items are handmade, happy to see one asian guy (or was it really a latino?) and a really tall white guy. Alright. SIGH. Street cred gone. The Asian person should of been there for show, you know like some of the sushi bars around here! (HA!)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEaH9ZibAUi8dLlu_wvVYCypoU4sW_e4EBiEwvhrvbJn04GGuauK7JBL9KP8z8Ej0bI9A5aDDjb5rohwtZxC_n2yUG3G_yFWcOr4jeUmcHZGpQJjoBWVhDlPQ4vIOvHlqUjKNHQQVtntmD/s1600/IMG_0453.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEaH9ZibAUi8dLlu_wvVYCypoU4sW_e4EBiEwvhrvbJn04GGuauK7JBL9KP8z8Ej0bI9A5aDDjb5rohwtZxC_n2yUG3G_yFWcOr4jeUmcHZGpQJjoBWVhDlPQ4vIOvHlqUjKNHQQVtntmD/s320/IMG_0453.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489848000967803362" /></a><br />The first platter was two vegetable puffs that were handmade. Inside of the puffs were sauteed veggies stuck inside puff pastry (puff pastry is NOT very asian) coated with honey and a pumpkin seed. First thoughts were, HEY! These things are uneven! (Look at the picture!) My mom would not be happy with uneven items that were the same! I mean there have been many times where I tried to help make little asian goodies and was sent packing from the table for ruining the consistency of the shape! Oy. Puffs were okay, nothing special, perhaps a touch too sweet with the honey glaze.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJU6wS4MDKGLlniFRf-ZtdP34F18va8gaMIJ9NEcaYIi7gwyY2Uv6tmSqTrI3_ts-feIK2w7YQ5pp7Kjx9YobgGQIR-KciyRTe-ffLuK8oe7ex5LGytz4PFD5iuosvjtffyA2L0jXZWG8t/s1600/IMG_0456.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJU6wS4MDKGLlniFRf-ZtdP34F18va8gaMIJ9NEcaYIi7gwyY2Uv6tmSqTrI3_ts-feIK2w7YQ5pp7Kjx9YobgGQIR-KciyRTe-ffLuK8oe7ex5LGytz4PFD5iuosvjtffyA2L0jXZWG8t/s320/IMG_0456.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489850019240570050" /></a><br />Next was the fried platter. This is where our server messed up, they only came out with ONE fried platter, but came out with the extra ha gou and veggie steam buns we ordered. How unfair! We eventually were given our fried platters course, and it was a distant version of the OG dim sum fried goodies. The three fried goodies that they gave us were: Crispy prawn ball (king prawn and spring onions in shredded egg pastry), vegetable spring roll, and prawn toast (prawn on toast with coriander and garlic with sesame seeds). The veggie spring roll was nothing to write home about and the crispy prawn ball had A LOT of crispy shredded things all over the place. But I have to say their shrimp toast rocked! It was definitely a fancy approach to the regularly rustic shrimp toast. But the positioning on a melba toast and the seasoning on the shrimp was delicious! Let's just say, if shrimp toast was served in traditional dim sum, it would probably be better than the OG shrimp toast! Shhhh. Don't tell my mom I said that!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh74x3JtUF6IlNt7R3PCz0aBO5XhXMIh_aZBqoMzBn4ZgX-Ib939MaCPdQTS95jsudQPvSyVY5c5LnO9pUIoggbytm3mXy9GbhAPPRXXLe3h2BQIz2pOFqoOZvi4fjvk9sKSDEKaa_G-GTI/s1600/IMG_0454.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh74x3JtUF6IlNt7R3PCz0aBO5XhXMIh_aZBqoMzBn4ZgX-Ib939MaCPdQTS95jsudQPvSyVY5c5LnO9pUIoggbytm3mXy9GbhAPPRXXLe3h2BQIz2pOFqoOZvi4fjvk9sKSDEKaa_G-GTI/s400/IMG_0454.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489852154394395474" /></a><br />Next was the steamed platter full of the best goodies that any cart pusher would fight over in the back to push. (I always imagined that all the dim sum cart pushers would want to get the cool cart and not be stuck with the fried radish cake cart...or the eggplant/asparagus cart-so there would be endless arguments on who would push the steamed cart and they would have like dim sum MXC challenges!) In this steamed box (from top to bottom, left to right): Seafood sticky rice (sticky rice with king prawns, scallop, carrots and bamboo shoots wrapped in lotus leaf), Scallop and shitake dumpling (scallop and king prawns with shitake mushroom), Ha Gau (king prawn and bamboo in white pastry), Seafood dumpling (snow crab, prawn and scallop in a carrot pastry), Chive dumpling (king prawn and chives in green chive pastry),and Coriander dumpling (king prawn and coriander in white pastry). All in all, pretty tasty-but most of these steamed goods were things that you wouldn't often find on a dim sum cart. Nice try Ping Pong Dim Sum. I wish that Dim Sum would inherit the bubble tea idea, but would mos def stick with the OG dim sum. Twice the amount of food, twice the taste (that you don't want to cover with chili sauce) and half the price. SO FYI, Ping Pong dim sum, watch out for my new restaurant I'm planning on opening next door, Hockey Hamburgers. How do ya like that?Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-16867667717077492542010-07-01T18:29:00.001-07:002010-07-05T18:55:25.943-07:00Georgetown Cupcakes - Part Deux - An Om Nom Nom Review (and IT'S a PARTY!)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrPFNuk0fEiZ56iRT1dUDfKYomjY9dIQY-Ppyhd6lKpb3_A45voxWvlq5YyOXh_lR7w1IVJN-j5WvxP_BZaf5IQ50VNvh5fbpTr4qxLVL5B9crCe2OfXgj8mPex82g36NIo0T9w5DF5J7T/s1600/DSC_0715.JPG"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNn2QsoqfWv9EjkCRK6gXJxGVH-8W48bppeEyqybH21oEYJVfwm9iZ7IkzvIdjYDWZkYJpYdlED-0TObO5h6On9vvA_DmlB4-2dzmrb3V4dXIBLwU3_0452pjrdVaBy6b_lIu1ozkkFuy/s1600/DSC_0705.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489115589376252546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNn2QsoqfWv9EjkCRK6gXJxGVH-8W48bppeEyqybH21oEYJVfwm9iZ7IkzvIdjYDWZkYJpYdlED-0TObO5h6On9vvA_DmlB4-2dzmrb3V4dXIBLwU3_0452pjrdVaBy6b_lIu1ozkkFuy/s400/DSC_0705.JPG" border="0" /></a>Alas, I am back at Georgetown Cupcake. I mean could I really resist? Never. It's cupcakes! DUR. I ended up tagging along (inviting myself) with two co-workers as one of them was on a cupcaketastic mission - buying cupcakes for a birthday! Not that I personally need an occasion to buy cupcakes, but often they are to celebrate a food baby!<br /><br />With the new July flavors out, it was really hard to resist as I bought my perfect half dozen, full of flavors that I have not tried before and some that were completely new to the taste buds of my fellow cupcake reviewer Sean. After teasing the intern and showing him the cupcakes I trounced over for some cupcake sampling time. Half for Sean and half for me (the bargain is, he gets most of the Choco PB cupcakes to satisfy his Choco PB whorish ways). <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRsIGi9j9bfyttpnf2XmCg7YYmQpaiMUJLK2zlnvO8JfuVDM0QEUr0iepRDqCytWV0VpLWjrZxbp-V1y0RkLnyvHHP2wwdhFyR2buggji7ExYjCb6zauz3papQh4v8cybFcwMGS6zNgVkk/s1600/DSC_0718.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489118073472064146" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRsIGi9j9bfyttpnf2XmCg7YYmQpaiMUJLK2zlnvO8JfuVDM0QEUr0iepRDqCytWV0VpLWjrZxbp-V1y0RkLnyvHHP2wwdhFyR2buggji7ExYjCb6zauz3papQh4v8cybFcwMGS6zNgVkk/s200/DSC_0718.JPG" border="0" /></a> Personally I was excited about the Blueberry Coffeecake cupcake because it not only was burned into my retinas when I saw it, but the smell of it's sweet, sweet aroma blueberry-licious-tastic-ness kept on escaping from the box. I kept talking to the Blueberry Coffeecake cupcake too! "Please don't disappoint me, please don't disappoint me!" Sean and I decided on our order of attack and we ended up going: Strawberry (the heart), Pumpkin Spice (the maple leaf), ChocoBanana (yellow flower), Milk Choco Birthday (sprinkles), Choco PB Swirl (um duh), and the blueberry coffeecake (deformed blue flower cupcake).<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Now let's get this om nom nomming started, bitches! (Photographs courtesy of me and my new lens! YEEEES!)<br /><div><br /></div><div>******************************</div><div>The Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles (on a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest) reviewed by Team Seangie (which means average scores)</div><div><br /></div><div>STRAWBERRY: Classic madagasgar bourbon vanilla cupcake baked with fresh strawberries topped with fresh strawberry frosting and a fondant heart. (AWWWW.)</div><div>TADA Factor: 3.5</div><div>Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5</div><div>Cake: 4.75</div><div>Frosting: 5</div><div>NOTES: For the record Sean gave the frosting a 5.5, which is NOT on the scale, so we decided that he can award Honorable Mentions and this cupcake's frosting won one. If you do read my blog regularly (I know you have!) you know that I am a big fan of anything strawberry at GTC. I wonder how they can make such a delicious package. It is amazing how the freshness of the strawberries really come through! OM NOM NOMMILICIOUS!</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJA6TUfjkzziwcbugo5yjL4ksIBMYKfkYgfJnfv8PpPFsxPwhnesvEl5CtMUD9j-hoSCIyhJ_8QlKDSP5qGAtAU-u7f0h2q_Vd5ob2WJTRcKTEcXY0QNWpazPz0yQVkhT_v0AyRYvpiN_/s1600/DSC_0712.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489125705676651250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJA6TUfjkzziwcbugo5yjL4ksIBMYKfkYgfJnfv8PpPFsxPwhnesvEl5CtMUD9j-hoSCIyhJ_8QlKDSP5qGAtAU-u7f0h2q_Vd5ob2WJTRcKTEcXY0QNWpazPz0yQVkhT_v0AyRYvpiN_/s320/DSC_0712.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div>PUMPKIN SPICE: pumpkin spice cupcake with a maple infused cream cheese frosting and topped with a fondant maple leaf.</div><div>TADA Factor: 3.25</div><div>Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.5</div><div>Frosting: 3.5</div><div>Cake: 4.25</div><div>NOTES: The cake is super moist! And Sean liked it and as a pumpkin spice avoider - I think this cupcake changed his 5 flavor palette outside Mexican food! I personally enjoyed the cake as it reminded me greatly of pumpkin bread. YUM! Although, I did think it was weird that 1) it was summer and I'm having pumpkin spice and 2) the pumpkin spice is not coming from my Starbucks coffee! Not bad, GTC! The maple cc frosting was interesting, but not my fave. But I gotta say, the maple leaf was cute and also an awesome way to celebrate CANADA DAY!</div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWehTQP4UEJxGq0lV9Ag8K8WeCROuzkYitGCTuhkY5Fp_oKFH8KijxG7pDMfyqrpWezgFJzAxgtm-h17xiJKCDRX9g1i5pjt2_9RD48oxfYSJkStiwJAKs_Nwn1BKGSauFnOHUd_Ik_4Zg/s1600/DSC_0713.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489132267603670434" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 134px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWehTQP4UEJxGq0lV9Ag8K8WeCROuzkYitGCTuhkY5Fp_oKFH8KijxG7pDMfyqrpWezgFJzAxgtm-h17xiJKCDRX9g1i5pjt2_9RD48oxfYSJkStiwJAKs_Nwn1BKGSauFnOHUd_Ik_4Zg/s200/DSC_0713.JPG" border="0" /></a>CHOCO BANANA: varlhona chocolate and fresh banana cupcake with a banana frosting topped with a yellow flower.</div><div>TADA Factor: 3.5</div><div>Flavah Flav Creativity: 4.25</div><div>Frosting: 4.5</div><div>Cake: 4</div><div>NOTES: The frosting was so good that Sean would lick the frosting of my finger, and in fact he did. HEY! That was MYYYY FROSTING! I really enjoyed this cupcake as I thought this flavor combo was not overwhelming, the banana frosting lived up to the name but I must say I didn't taste too much fresh banana in the cake! But it was still delicious!</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5OCVrDeBMvpZlESloPmfIV4hyqKwq7f8ywtu1SqCSSf7tQFO1Kj-TJl5IeDbE3hgqpvWVIVwN0hk5EOjhh8grSXExv3tNDDrz30hEr3yEQgxU8WyxvZl3dNHwgSTa6jjR-7cl6tfbPnzZ/s1600/DSC_0715.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489136112580842786" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 268px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5OCVrDeBMvpZlESloPmfIV4hyqKwq7f8ywtu1SqCSSf7tQFO1Kj-TJl5IeDbE3hgqpvWVIVwN0hk5EOjhh8grSXExv3tNDDrz30hEr3yEQgxU8WyxvZl3dNHwgSTa6jjR-7cl6tfbPnzZ/s400/DSC_0715.JPG" border="0" /></a> <div>MILK CHOCO BIRTHDAY: classic madagasgar bourbon vanilla cupcake topped with whipped milk chocolate frosting topped with rainbow sprinkles.</div><div>TADA Factor: 3.5</div><div>Favah Flav Creativity: 2.5</div><div>Cake: 3.25</div><div>Frosting: 3.5</div><div>NOTES: First thoughts, oooooooooo spinkles! I peeled some tasty sprinkles off to see if they had any taste. AND they did! They were all fruity tasty and super yummy, dipped in milk choco frosting of course. I think I could just eat a handful of those sprinkles! I would like to go on record that the milk choco frosting tastes exactly like whipped frosting you would find in a Duncan Hines or Pilsburry container in a grocery store. Interesting. I can't tell if that was done on purpose or not, but it will definitely keep me guessing for a long time! Overall the cupcake was good, but I think we were not as enthused as we were eating cupcakes with more personality.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5gTaw3pjMvhXYCki5OoCJINJzY2pbpcjwZMgR5HjqYeQW2wbgr3Ow5K6nnSoxMiB4Pxz2n9KyAzhmDdNQkOUJOT6GbEou4aejzcs4EnHpOxLUUnbIgVZaMYi6dUOgxHirnUui_3ua6el/s1600/DSC_0716.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489136383111293874" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG5gTaw3pjMvhXYCki5OoCJINJzY2pbpcjwZMgR5HjqYeQW2wbgr3Ow5K6nnSoxMiB4Pxz2n9KyAzhmDdNQkOUJOT6GbEou4aejzcs4EnHpOxLUUnbIgVZaMYi6dUOgxHirnUui_3ua6el/s320/DSC_0716.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE: (also known as Sean's cupcake vertigo-like eye patch) varlhona chocolate with creamy peanut butter core topped with a rich callebaut chocolate ganache and a peanut butter swirl.</div><div>TADA Factor: 4</div><div>Flavah Flav Creativity: 2.74</div><div>Frosting: 3.5</div><div>Cake:4.5</div><div>NOTES: Sean, the Choco PB whore. Was ready to give straight 5s based on it's Choco PB-ness. But in comparison to GTC's other Choco PB combos, I think Sean was a bit dissapointed. I only ate a quarter of it, since I was just tasting for research and I didn't really dig the ganache and the huge squirt of PB in the middle. In the end our average scores I think were lower than other Choco PB combinations that we had tried in the past. Hence, there was a lack of Choco PB cupcake rapage in this particular blog post and it has been replaced by cupcake eye-patching.</div><div><br /></div><div>BLUEBERRY COFFEECAKE: fresh blueberry and citrus cupcake topped with a citrus-infused vanilla glaze and a blue fondant flower</div><div>TADA Factor: 4.25</div><div>Favah Flav Creativity: 5</div><div>Cake: 5</div><div>Frosting: 4</div><div>NOTES: AND NOW THE AWESOME SHIZZO! The blueberry coffeecake WAS AMAZEBALLS! Really fresh blueberry taste and the texture was like the real deal. The only two things that were lacking was the frosting, which was a simple sugar glaze that was okay and the presentation. I understand that the cupcake probably needs to be hot when it is glazed (like a KK doughnut!) But the cupcake had a divet in the middle and the candy flower looked like it was melted and plastered on there. Not GTC's prettiest cupcake, but one of GTC's yummiest cupcakes! Thumbs up!<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRuXv2wZAnY6ZToQrrs5enkzUZA4gvhDLr9MLzofRBHJyQLQqbtj7SAGY_KFS24e7Q3KsaYKvll5IcwMVswSKvQB2_Or4GYL3CyZ9EXX0lWU0G8jx626WpX9EGJ3hE5SXk1VvPwieKPuRo/s1600/DSC_0719.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5489136648976597554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRuXv2wZAnY6ZToQrrs5enkzUZA4gvhDLr9MLzofRBHJyQLQqbtj7SAGY_KFS24e7Q3KsaYKvll5IcwMVswSKvQB2_Or4GYL3CyZ9EXX0lWU0G8jx626WpX9EGJ3hE5SXk1VvPwieKPuRo/s400/DSC_0719.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><br />Overall, another good experience at GTC. I'm proud to be addicted to their cupcakes!Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-80521333873923929982010-05-15T21:31:00.000-07:002010-06-30T18:33:38.645-07:00The Red Velvet Cupcakery - An Om Nom Nom Review<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FMPMmRGyzIQfySGPHzAqzjmPy9-E88H6TBVzZPg7eVRAXp7pFkVDwadJkdrygYM9E3IGTIzQxecpzeoL5c3G0OlWm7Q3qkqdT3qt_OzF5iDlT9QfkTy4c_wol1L345CltG3oej1jj16S/s1600/IMG_0401.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FMPMmRGyzIQfySGPHzAqzjmPy9-E88H6TBVzZPg7eVRAXp7pFkVDwadJkdrygYM9E3IGTIzQxecpzeoL5c3G0OlWm7Q3qkqdT3qt_OzF5iDlT9QfkTy4c_wol1L345CltG3oej1jj16S/s320/IMG_0401.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471360537968449698" /></a><br />Today's Adventure: The Red Velvet Cupcakery! (of Dupont Circle)<br /><br />Today I did my usual salad run with my coworker Katie in the Dupont circle area for my Friday lunch hour. It was a bit hot and humid outside and as we were leaving our healthy salad place, and I resisted going across the street to Hello Cupcake. But that this when something caught our eyes. A girl with a Froyo Cup! ZOMG! We looked at each other and we were instantaneously, jonesin' for some Froyo. On to the good ole trusty iPhone and Yelp. Google map told us that we were 0.2 miles away from FroYo goodness called TangySweet. So we did our little venture around the circle and headed onto P street. And as we crossed the street towards the TangySweet FroYo sign underneath it, I saw "The Red Velvet Cupcakery." As I am familiar with the name, I did not know that they had another location aside from their location downtown in Chinatown (hey that rhymes!) near the Verizon Center. I sqeauled with cupcake excitement as I enter the store, my friend Katie even told me, that this is place is like "Mecca" to me. Awesome. There goes that healthy breakfast and lunch I had. It all went downhill after that salad...I'll just pretend this didn't happen.<br /><br />Although this was more of a FroYo place, the cupcakes seemed to look fresh and were display nicely on a tiered platter. The man behind the counter told me all the flavors that he had to offer and I ended up getting 4 flavors to share with my fellow taste tester Sean. (It's so hard being my friend!) So after downing some Pina Colada FroYo (what? you think I would get sidetracked? I think NOT!)...who what? I forgot what I was talking about. Oh Pina Coladad FroYO........OM NOM NOMMY!<br /><br /><br />*********************************<br /><br />The Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles (measured on a 1 to 5 Om Nom Nom scale with 5 being the highest) by Angie and Sean...also known as Team Seangie.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP3j9LF3HvhtkT89pjY6BDh7ltcdNrJevaryJpPDwRi_tghHoLOYbkqsO3UlQkjZj4XlMdMriOCaxdqnZ3PutMBPv1AdX4pcc2GLi1MLkJlP7X3hohS4Uq3NDeO2zWc2WzbpQSIYi18Hlc/s1600/IMG_0396.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP3j9LF3HvhtkT89pjY6BDh7ltcdNrJevaryJpPDwRi_tghHoLOYbkqsO3UlQkjZj4XlMdMriOCaxdqnZ3PutMBPv1AdX4pcc2GLi1MLkJlP7X3hohS4Uq3NDeO2zWc2WzbpQSIYi18Hlc/s320/IMG_0396.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471360811872277506" /></a><br /><br />Cookies and cream: Cookies 'n Cream pieces blended into our chocolate buttermilk cake, topped with a creamy American buttercream and garnished with more cookies.<br />TADA Factor: 2.5<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 3<br />Frosting: 2.75<br />Cake: 3<br />NOTES: This cake did not taste like it had cookies and cream pieces blended in! But if they did add cookie pieces it mos def made their cake super crumbly! To both of us, this cupcake just tasted like a regular choco cupcake with vanilla buttercream on it! Perhaps, they should of blended more cookies into the frosting? Please? Pretty please? To sum up both of our opinions on this cupcake in one word: MEH.<br /><br />Southern Belle (aka Red Velvet...the namesake!): A traditional Southern favorite made with our signature receipe that can stand up to Grandma's whipped cream cheese topping makes our namesake a to-die-for "must for any first-time guests.<br />TADA Factor: 3.5<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 3<br />Frosting: 4.25<br />Cake: 3.5<br />NOTES: Sean's Red velvet V-card was taken here, at least this time he enjoyed it. (Per his banter, which I ended up earmuffing myself once he started to 'splain his story futher. WAHH!) As a professional red velvet cupcake eater, this was good, but not super awesome. I appreciate that they did not go super rich with their cc frosting and that it was whipped, but I feel like their cake had a lot of air and we were mos def sweeping the desk of crumbs after we had our cupcakes. Not too shabby. So a MEH?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuKnTdoccRwCiTLvqWPec-Drlnl5RslZat01LmjT5ntQF2A7ac08zMYQBZDtUF2TTHUT1CXfQSYtqWcBF5RmPxL0mobfeGbGGDYwKHq4qhTTPI9ZmYWgs47RO7XzCWAAKJQxYUFCnLyaz/s1600/IMG_0402.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuKnTdoccRwCiTLvqWPec-Drlnl5RslZat01LmjT5ntQF2A7ac08zMYQBZDtUF2TTHUT1CXfQSYtqWcBF5RmPxL0mobfeGbGGDYwKHq4qhTTPI9ZmYWgs47RO7XzCWAAKJQxYUFCnLyaz/s200/IMG_0402.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471361195304713826" /></a><br />Peanut Butter Cup: We incorporate chocolate chips into our delicios chocolate buttermilk cake to create a decadant creamy, not-too-sweet, not-too salty peanut butter topping. A homemade crystallized peanut and Maldon Sea Salt top it all off. (Again here is Sean cupcake raping the PB Cup cupcaking, he had it coming)<br />TADA Factor (Presentation): 3.5<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 3<br />Frosting: 4<br />Cake: 3.75<br />NOTES: WOW! Good frosting! (Sean requests milk with this cupcake...too bad). I would like to say that the fudgey-ness of the cake is complemented by the well seasoned savoriness of the peanut butter frosting. SCORE! And the PB and choco whore is satisfied. SHAZHAM!<br /><br />Summertime: A light and lemony favorite to be enjoyed throughout all four seasons! Zested lemon gives and marries with our infamous whipped cream cheese topping, smothered in shredded coconut. (we dubbed this LeCoco...that makes more sense! This is the cupcake the man behind the counter told me to get...thanks dude!)<br />TADA Factor (Presentation): 3.5<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 4<br />Frosting: 4<br />Cake: 4.5<br />NOTES: Aside from singing Will Smith's jam while I ate this. Even Sean who has "texture problems with coconut" and sacrificed for the sake of cupcake eating was delighted to eat this. The cake was super awesome moist, and was not crumbly like the other cakes that we had and we both really liked it. Thumbs up!<br /><br />It is obvi that I need to go to the Flagship store to try the cupcakes again, but I think the Red Velvet Cupcakery has some good cupcakes. I don't think they are particularly better than GTC or Hello Cupcake, but I must say...it was great to have FroYo and cupcakes in one store. And I LURVES that!Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-87144250211464432522010-05-13T18:16:00.000-07:002010-07-01T18:21:14.180-07:00Bondafide Cupcakes + No Nomming = FAILSo I recently bought 2 Groupons for a cupcakery called Bonafide Cupcakes about a month ago. When I saw this, I instantly jumped on it and so did 2800 Grouponers. For those that do not know what the the hell Groupon is, it is a unique marketing concept where a special deal is offered in a city/county/community and there is a minimum number of coupons that needs to be sold in order for the coupon to be activated. I laid eyes on this offer and SAW the word cupcakes, and you had me at "Herrow!" In the Groupon, Bonafide Cupcakes offered their half price cupcake deal, a dozen cupcakes delivered to a radius surrounding the DC Metropolitan area for $20 (if you are good at math...that means it is originally $40 for a delivered dozen..DUR). <br /><br />So I tried to order a nice dozen to try and I gave about 5 days notice and I get this reply 4 days later:<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Thanks for the email!<br /><br />Currently our scheduled is booked with GROUPON orders for quite some time. We're going over the schedule today and we can let you know what day the schedule opens back up a bit later on.<br /><br />Let us know if you need anymore info!<br /><br />Thanks,<br />BonaFide Cupcakes</span><br /><br />Yeah I need more info! Where are MY CUPCAKES? =( And there should be a better way to go about these orders. And there should be stipulations set on the website!! I understand the shear madness the company went through fulfilling the massive influx of Groupon orders. I'm sympathtic. But they need to figure out how to communicate this better. Looks like I'm stuck waiting. But I want my cupcakes! And NOW!! <br /><br />WAAAAAAAANNNNH! RICKY!! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDIVdC_e7-Pm9Ad6eqp9PUGrF6-orNG6deqPexllB52p5YPT2u2c0fQzQJBViQxIzc4PoPEb9FL_S5AvvbG3fTeaE5hBiN-xeHaf_Z3_tD4osPgO84Mz7za88wWyqack0ciV95F4esqP0/s1600/Lucy.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDIVdC_e7-Pm9Ad6eqp9PUGrF6-orNG6deqPexllB52p5YPT2u2c0fQzQJBViQxIzc4PoPEb9FL_S5AvvbG3fTeaE5hBiN-xeHaf_Z3_tD4osPgO84Mz7za88wWyqack0ciV95F4esqP0/s400/Lucy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470933785560269602" /></a>Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-6091989967026853582010-05-11T17:11:00.000-07:002010-05-11T17:17:58.377-07:00Firehook Bakery - An Om Nom Nom Review<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ-YHK1l31SCzO8sH2BG6byXQUoVxj6l5k9a5DW7IN6BIF34-CwkNEFtrT2m2n1pwvsaDSHhjitWBZQ87DCc4lJs1q-qnAmeOizwagT72m1LEGz2SeH38d0uUq4-LRecdFevnpfOgtdgjp/s1600/IMG_0380.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ-YHK1l31SCzO8sH2BG6byXQUoVxj6l5k9a5DW7IN6BIF34-CwkNEFtrT2m2n1pwvsaDSHhjitWBZQ87DCc4lJs1q-qnAmeOizwagT72m1LEGz2SeH38d0uUq4-LRecdFevnpfOgtdgjp/s400/IMG_0380.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470168327468814946" /></a><br />Well on to the next cupcake joint. So okay, this place does not particularly specialize in cupcake-dom, but they serve them. <br /><br />I ended up going through in passing as my friend wanted to get a coffee after we had lunch. THe Firehook Bakery in Cleveland Park is the lone coffeehouse in the area. What you ask? Where is the Starbucks? I have no clue, but doesn't that tell you something? No Starbucks, then there is perhaps something wrong with the area. I know, you don't want to live and die against a big chain, I get it. But it is hard not to think of the brand Starbucks when you are looking for a coffee. Heck, even in Asia they are eating it up and they are TEA drinkers! If they can't make a Starbucks work anywhere in the DC Metropolitan area then I would be concerned. To me from a branding standpoint, the big chains do the research on where to put their retail locations. In the old days, people would wait for good old McDonald's to pop up and build their locations around it, and that is because McD's did all the hard demographic research, found locations and settled in them that were there was the most profit potential.<br /><br />Aside for the whole non-Starbucks existence, Firehook offers other goods to complement their coffee, they have cakes, pies, bread, make sandwiches, salads and regular and expected coffeehouse and light cafe fare. But I couldn't help myself when I saw the tray of cupcakes in the case. I was thinking...what the hell...cupcakes! I rate them, I must at least try them! Well let's just say at least my Chai Tea Latte I got was good.<br /><br />To myself, I think I had hope. Cute little cupcakes and a Chai Latte! First off, the line was really long and the people behind the counter looked a bit frazzled pumping one latte after another. That is until I got up there, drink was order fine, but I got a strange look when I ordered the cupcakes. There were two options, vanilla and chocolate. Again, foiling my fixed Red Velvet cupcake plan. Oh well.<br /><br />So right as they bagged it and handed to me they asked me if I wanted them frozen? I was like frozen? But then after much thought I think they wanted to see if I wanted them warmed up? ODD. I just shook my head no and decided to wait for my cupcakes to get to room temperature before attempting to "enjoy" them.<br /><br />********************************<br />The Om Nom Nom Rating Chronicles (On a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest)<br /><br />Chocolate Cupcake: Choco cake and choco buttercream with choco shavings.<br />TADA Factor (Presentation) : 2<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 2<br />Frosting: 1<br />Cake: 1.5<br />NOTES: Bad. Boring, the cake was moist on the outside (probably from the refrigeration)and super dry and crumbly on the inside. The frosting tasted like cool hwip (how Stewie says it) with a stick of butter in it. BLEH! Choco shavings were the only highlight. Nuff said.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitIcGrNaiEZzH5IYnYobZO8JC3fu4INDaI5kcRYx6JdQ53y7vrf_XPymXvMkqvOPIhHRGW64DihIjiWzYcMLOc6i_iRF_AT5sorp5_DMO8fkW7Az1WTkw99ZmUu4f6V_p1xDgIYb6GcdvW/s1600/IMG_0381.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitIcGrNaiEZzH5IYnYobZO8JC3fu4INDaI5kcRYx6JdQ53y7vrf_XPymXvMkqvOPIhHRGW64DihIjiWzYcMLOc6i_iRF_AT5sorp5_DMO8fkW7Az1WTkw99ZmUu4f6V_p1xDgIYb6GcdvW/s320/IMG_0381.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470168642791045890" /></a><br />Vanilla Cupcake: Vanilla cake and vanilla buttercream with white sprinkles/jimmies.<br />TADA Factor (Presentation): 1.5<br />Flavah Flav Creativity: 1.5<br />Frosting: 1<br />Cake:1<br />NOTES: Could it get any worst after the choco mess? To answer, YES. This was bad and what was more disturbing was the white on white crime. And by white on white crime I mean the sprinkles/jimmies (I say sprinkle/jimmies to not upset all those who are in debate and over sensitive of what SPRINKLES are supposed to be called, yeah I just took my side of the battle...now deal!) , but what are they doing here? Let's put boring crap on crap. At least add some color,you know like rainbow sprinkles. Or does it look like fly larvae, maybe a stage 2 and 2nd day vintage? How disturbing.<br /><br />Thank goodness I had a Chai Latte to wash both "bites only" down. I would probably stick to the coffee at Firehook, that is if I can't get to the Starbucks. No nommies from me. Enjoy those cupcakes at the garbage dump birdies...Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184235423963087335.post-82812791686112168672010-05-11T08:26:00.000-07:002010-07-02T15:57:43.242-07:00Georgetown Cupcakes as a show on TLC?First off, I really don't know how I feel about this. The lines are long enough at GTC and I really don't need to spend time drooling and waiting for my cupcakes any longer than necessary! The last thing I want are my lines longer and them to be filled with tourists(I called them "FTs", you can figure out what the "F" in "FT" means)and my free early bird flavor program being discontinued due to them not needing to create a marketing pull for early birds to the shops in the morning.<br /><br />TLC is the network that brought us Jon & Kate plus eight; Little People, Big World; Say Yes to the Dress and other shows. But what kind of drama could GTC have besides irrate people waiting in long lines? Or maybe an argument in the kitchen over whose turn it is to make the fondant hearts for the Red Velvet cupcakes? At least in the other TLC show Cake Boss, you have loud personalities arguing and pulling pranks on each other on a regular basis. But I guess I'm curious to see what angle they are going for here. I'm all for showing them making nommy cupcakes, but I'm still not convinced.<br /><br />It looks like the show has already been filmed and will be airing on TLC in July. The original title was called "Cupcake Sisters" (the owners are sisters) and later changed to "Cupcake Dreams." WHAT? I really do not know about this title either. I mean I dream often of these cupcakes in front of me, but there has got to be a better name for the show somewhere out there IMO. <br /><br />Oh well, I look forward to watching the "drama" in a cupcake store...maybe some one will drop a tray of just frosted cupcakes on the floor or something like that...Notorius P.I.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12854778917877744817noreply@blogger.com0