This one will be a quickie. I've had the opportunity to try four or five different cupcakes from the Gone Baking van, so I'll put up a quick review. This is ONLY for the cupcakes.
Laura's right that you do have to pay attention and generally hope she's close by to get your hands on a cupcake. Stock is (justifiably) limited and locations change daily.
In general, the cupcakes are good, and like most cupcakes do need to be eaten within the day or the quality deteriorates. The prices are a bit cheaper than her most significant competitors ($3/cupcake, $33/dozen) but are offset by the difference in size. In comparison to Queen City Cupcakes, I think Gone Baking is willing to be a bit more creative with toppers, bottoms, and flavors in general. I think it's a function of having to operate from a van, but I found the frosting to be too heavy and thick for my tastes. The cake varied and I would have preferred a softer version than what I got, but it wasn't bad.
Of the flavors I had, the one that hit the sweet spot was the Gone Camping. The Smores inspired cupcake had a delicious graham cracker bottom and the thicker frosting was used well to house a chocolate topper. My other favorite was the "Mountain of Mint" which had a great interplay of chocolate cake, mint frosting, and Andes Mints.
I also tried the Chocolate M&M (eh), the Lady in Red (I think QCC beats their Red Velvet out), and a Cookie Dough based cupcake which had an incredible concept (cookie dough mixed well into the cupcake batter) and kind of lost it on the overwhelming frosting choice.
Fun concept and still doing business all over Southern New Hampshire, certainly worth a shot. Limited selection/availability and heavy frosting weighted down my scores a bit. read more