More Belly Busting

The week before last, we went to Gigi's as planned. We got a whopping seven cupcakes because we had a free one with the punch card. I don't know why we didn't just buy five and get one free. Anyway…My flavor selections consisted of birthday surprise (top left), mellow cream (top second from left) and wedding cake (top second from right). Boyfriend's flavors were midnight magic (top right), grasshopper (bottom left), red velvet (bottom second from left) and champagne (bottom right).

First cupcake I ate was the mellow cream. It's a devil's food cake filled with chocolate chips and marshmallow cream; and topped with chocolate ganache and a swirl of white frosting. It was a lot smaller than the normal Gigi's cupcake due to the frosting. This is a gourmet version of the ol' Hostess Cupcakes. Crave Cupcakes also has a version of this that I've tried before called Crave chocolate and cream. The Gigi's version was good, but from what I remember, Crave's was better.

My second cupcake was the birthday surprise. It's a white cake with pink buttercream frosting, topped with sprinkles. For a standard issue cupcake, it was quite good.

The final cupcake was the wedding cake. I've described this one before and it's similar to the birthday surprise except for the vanilla frosting and white sprinkle dots. No complaints on this one either, but I was busting out of my jeans at this point; forcing each bite.

Last weekend, we decided to do the bundt cake thing again for a change. It was the same as before and just as good again this time around.

This weekend, I think I'll be baking at home; probably vanilla cupcakes. This gourmet cupcake habit is expensive. My wallet (and belly) need a break.

No Cupcakes, but Desserts a Plenty

Boyfriend and I have been traveling the last few weeks. We went to Las Vegas for a little trip and then Louisiana for Thanksgiving. We stayed at the Planet Hollywood Resort and mostly ate desserts at a few places in the adjoining mall. One evening, we went to an Italian cafe and I had gelato while the boyfriend had a piece of carrot cake and a colossal white chocolate macadamia nut cookie. My gelato was good and boyfriend enjoyed his desserts; especially the enormous cookie. The second night, we returned to the Italian cafe. I had a colossal chocolate chip cookie, he had his white chocolate macadamia nut cookie again and we split a slice of red velvet cake. Both were OK to me. I wasn’t overly impressed. The third day, I stopped by the Nestle Toll House shop and got a bunch of cookies for the both of us. You can't go wrong with Nestle.

One of the popular sweet shops in Vegas is Sugar Factory. There is one located in the Miracle Mile shops at Planet Hollywood and a new Sugar Factory restaurant with the store at the Paris Las Vegas Casino. We had dessert at the Planet Hollywood mall location while we vacationed in Vegas last year. We had a mammoth red velvet cupcake there. I remember it tasting alright, but being a bit dry. This year, we ate dinner at the Sugar Factory restaurant, but skipped dessert. Whoa?! Thought I'd include a few pics of the store though...

While in Louisiana visiting the boyfriend's family for Thanksgiving, we ate a lot of cheesecake. One of which, his aunt made from scratch...white chocolate with white and milk chocolate shavings on top. Yum! There was a red velvet cake and an ice cream cake too, which I also ate. Goodness, I'm going to get diabetes or a heart attack!

The boyfriend has made a demand for Gigi's again this weekend. Hopefully, they will have some different cupcakes that we can try.