Cupcake Bonanza

It's been a bit busy lately between work and the baby, but we haven't neglected to eat cupcakes! Here's what has been consumed over the last several weeks...

Hubby came home from work one day with a few cupcakes from Smallcakes that were graciously given to him by a coworker who knows that we are big time cupcake eaters. We both split each cupcake.

 Starting with Lemon Drop, which is lemon cake filled with tangy lemon topped with lemon buttercream and a dollop of tangy lemon. They weren't lying when they emphasized "tangy." This cupcake had huge lemon flavor. I'm not really a lemon fan, so I can't rave about this one too much.

The second cupcake was Choco-holic, which is chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream topped with vairhona chocolate sprinkles. Yes, this was A LOT of chocolate. Pretty good cupcake if you are a chocoholic!

Next adventure was with Gigi's Cupcakes.

I started with Chocolate Cola Cake, which is rich chocolate cola cake made with Coca-Cola, chocolate cola buttercream frosting and a dollop of vanilla buttercream. It really didn't taste like cola, but it was very good. Definitely a lot of chocolate, but not too strong, which I like.

Second, was Strawberry Shortcake, which is white cake baked with fresh strawberries, topped with a strawberry buttercream frosting and red sugar crystals. I had this one a long time ago before the blog. While it's nice to have real strawberries baked in, this cupcake is REALLY strawberry flavored. Not bad, but maybe a little overkill for me. I couldn't finish it.

And finally, we had the limited time S'mores, which is milk chocolate cake with chocolate chips baked in, topped with vanilla fluff, toasted marshmallows, graham cracker crumbs and a milk chocolate square. By the time we got home, this cupcake got a little sloppy with the marshmallow cream sliding off a bit. The cake part was slightly dry, but overall, not too bad. It was your pretty typical S'mores cupcake.

And now for last weekend...hubby and I had Gigi's again. Hubby's selections were on the top row left to right; German Chocolate; Apple Pie; and Pumpkin White Chocolate. My selections were on the bottom row left to right; Pumpkin White Chocolate; Bananas Foster; and Double Stuff.

My first cupcake was Bananas Foster, which is rich banana cake with spiced rum, spiced rum cream cheese frosting and topped with brown sugar sauce. One word...YUM. This was wonderful! The cake was moist and there was a sweet, cinnamon-y flavor mixed in. Even my hubby who hates banana flavor liked this one.

Next, I had Double Stuff, which is dark chocolate cake filled with marshmallow cream, Oreo buttercream frosting also filled with marshmallow cream and topped with a mini Oreo. This was a pretty standard Oreo cupcake. The cake was a tad dry, but the frosting was tasty.

And last, I had Pumpkin White Chocolate, which is pumpkin cake with white chocolate chips, cream cheese frosting, dusted with pumpkin pie spice. This was a delightfully delicious fall cupcake! I enjoyed it.

Keep on cupcaking!