While I wanted to bake at home for the first time in my new house, there just wasn't enough time. I recently spotted a little bakery in a shopping strip center that I thought we'd give a try. Memorial Bakery is a bit more of a true bakery; not solely a cupcakery. They have cakes, pies and cookies, plus a seating area with wi-fi. You can get both a sugar and caffeine high, thereby doubling your efficiency on the computer.
Our selections were: White Chocolate (top left and bottom left), Carrot (top right), Red Velvet (middle left), Raspberry Cream Cheese (middle right) and Sweet Strawberry (bottom right).
My first cupcake was raspberry cream cheese. There is no detailed description on the website, but it seemed to be a standard white cake with raspberry cream cheese frosting, topped with a dried raspberry. The taste was good. It seems like they refrigerate the cupcakes to keep them fresh longer because it was a bit cold. It wasn't very moist, but not yet dry.
Second cupcake was sweet strawberry. Also was a white cake, but with strawberry frosting. It was quite similar to the raspberry cupcake, but a tad bit drier.
And last was the white chocolate cupcake. This was the best tasting out of all three. Except I was so full at this point that it was difficult to enjoy. It was white cake again with either white chocolate or vanilla frosting and white chocolate shavings on top.
I did have a bite of the husband's red velvet, which was also decent. You could taste the chocolate flavor in it more than some red velvet cakes.
Memorial Bakery was a nice diversion. I would still stick with my favorite cupcake shops before going here for cupcakes though.
On New Year's Eve, I used another cookie kit from Williams-Sonoma. This one was chocolate marshmallow crinkle and usually retails for about $18.95, but I got them for $14 using a buy two deal and a coupon.
I followed the recipe exactly and didn't overmix the batter this time. I reduced the bake time by a few minutes and the cookies turned out perfect.
These cookies were good, but I liked the toffee chocolate chunk flavor a bit better.
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