General Bakery Presentation: This bakery is absolutely adorable! Cutely decorated, inviting, etc. Only downsides being that initially it was a little harder to find and we cruised right past it on 16th Street requiring some maneuvering to get in. Also, as noted above, there is a bakery on the opposite side of the street closer to the Garage restaurant that can make it initially confusing. And finally, be careful stepping in the door, because there is a curb that can be a trip hazard (or maybe some of us are just clumsy??).
However, if you can locate it, and make it in the door without falling, this place is definitely worth your time.
Staff was friendly, answered all of our annoying questions, and assisted us quickly. Everything, not just the Cupcakes (but of course, we were on a mission for one type of dessert) inside the bakery case looked delicious and they even offer gelato here!
Of course you can do costume ordered cakes and bakery items, but the Cupcake selection was also amazing and gave us much debate about which ones to try. Can we say "amazing" any more in relation to this bakery??
Cupcakes Tasted:
Banana Cream - Banana cake, vanilla custard and fresh banana filling, topped with whipped cream frosting
Triple Vanilla - Vanilla cake, vanilla custard filling, topped with vanilla buttercream
German Chocolate - Chocolate cake, coconut pecan filling, topped with chocolate ganache
Candy Bar - Chocolate cake, peanut butter and salted caramel filling topped with chocolate ganache
Overall Rating: 4.5 to 5 out of 5 Cupcakes (only downside being the
refrigeration aspect - see below).
Cupcake Break-Down: O.K., you won't be surprised if we bring up the "refrigeration issue" here. However, for the first time in all of our refrigerated Cupcake encounters, these ones actually tasted good! We were initially very cautious when we found out the Cupcakes were refrigerated due to previous experience, and except for a few minor issues (see below in descriptions), these Cupcakes not only wowed us in general, they double-wowed us by their ability to be refrigerated, remain soft, and retain their flavor. AMAZING.
Banana Cream: the cake here was a little more dense and tasted like "banana bread", but we have figured out that most Cupcakes touting the banana flavor tend to remind us of banana bread. The Cupcake was easy to slice despite being refrigerated and had very good flavor combination with the cake and whipped cream frosting. The filling was also a very pleasant surprise.
Triple Vanilla: Here, the cake was "amazingly" (did we use this word enough?) moist, we enjoyed the custard filling, but unfortunately the topping/frosting was a bit harder from being refrigerated and with attempting to cut the Cupcake for tasting, we "smashed" the cake making things a bit messy.
German Chocolate: the cake was excellent, even though it was slightly chilled. The icing was a little harder from the refrigeration, but two of our tasters do not like coconut and even those tasters ate most of this Cupcake if that tells you how good it was (coconut filling and all)!
Candy Bar: this Cupcake was also a little harder to cut due to being refrigerated (the lesson being maybe let these Cupcakes sit out a bit, but they are so good, it's hard to wait). However, the mixture of chocolate and peanut butter was amazing (yeah, we need a new descriptor) and made this so far, our "favorite peanut butter Cupcake".
Positives: Where do we even start? The staff, the bakery itself, and of course, THE CUPCAKES! Everything was pretty amazing and made this our favorite stop of the tasting day.
Negatives: Honestly, the first negative was that we couldn't eat more!! (and that is a good problem to have . .). Again, due to previous bad experiences with every other refrigerated Cupcake we have tried (how many soap boxes have we had on this subject already??), this was the only negative noted, but honestly, so far, this Bakery has been the only place to pull it off! We don't know how they did it, and even though a few of the Cupcakes were initially a little more difficult to "cut through" making things a little messier, everything was AMAZING!
General Comments: DEFINITELY worth returning to this bakery (and since our initial tasting, we have revisited for more Cupcakes!). We also recommend checking out their additional bakery items because everything here is delicious.
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