We'll begin with my son's first birthday. We had an official birthday party the weekend prior, but went to Crave on his actual birth-day. I had flavors that I reviewed before, so we'll skip those and get into the cupcake my son had. Crave has a few new "limited time" summer flavors that we were very interested in trying. Unfortunately, they were out of several of them. But they did have Crave Cupcake Sundae, which was vanilla bean cake filled with a chocolate ganache, topped with vanilla bean frosting, chopped peanuts, chocolate sprinkles and a cherry. This cupcake was pretty much like their regular vanilla cupcake except for the little bit of chocolate inside and some of the toppings. Still good though.
The following weekend, I experimented with another cookie mix. This time it was from a company called The Mason Jar Cookie Company. This one was a festive red, white and blue M&M cookie mix with oats and sprinkles. They were pretty tasty.
It called for the usual ingredients like butter and eggs. And about 10 minutes later, this was the finished product...
Next adventure was with a new Gigi's Cupcakes that opened closer to my house (yay!). I decided to try out some different flavors since it was in the middle of the week and we usually don't have that opportunity.
My first cupcake was the Lemon Icebox, which was lemon cake filled with cream cheese, topped with a lemon cream cheese frosting and crushed vanilla wafers. Nice, lemon-y taste.
Next, I had Blackberry Cobbler, which was blackberry cake with white chocolate chips baked in, blackberry frosting, topped with sugar crystals and rimmed in streusel crumbs. There was a lot of berry flavor! However, I couldn't taste the white chocolate chips. Still yummy nonetheless.
I also had a bite of hubby's Hot Fudge Sundae, which was devil’s food cake with dark chocolate chips, filled with ganache, topped with a buttercream frosting drizzled in chocolate, with nuts and a cherry on top. This was actually quite different than Crave's version, but also delish.
And finally, last weekend, we experimented with a blue velvet cake mix from good ol' Duncan Hines.
It called for your usual ingredients like water, eggs and butter. Here they are without frosting so you can see how blue they turned out...
And then with frosting (yes, from a jar) and sugar crystals...
They were as good as you'd expect from your typical box cake mix. It was basically vanilla cake with blue coloring; not like red velvet.
Whew! Those were a lot of desserts!
