Being a cake baker/decorator, I normally hate to eat cake. However, I have an obsession with finding perfect cupcakes. Cupcakes, being all the rage, are EVERYWHERE. There are blogs dedicated just to cupcakes if you can imagine! I've decided that when I do go into the cake business, I want to open a cupcake shop, in spite of the saturated market. Why just cupcake? Because I can create super fun, interesting, flavors that taste and look good, without spending hours and hours on one cupcake. So, i'm starting my market research. These are the places I've visited and my reviews:
Dippidee, located in American Fork: Super cute store, fun cute cookies, the cupcakes? Ok. Nothing special. Frosting is Ok, better than typical grocery store frosting, but nothing you couldn't make at home with a little effort.
So, Cupcakes, located at 3900 S Highland Dr.: this store only sells cupcakes. It's a really cute store, set up like a cute little coffee shop in pink with accents of brown. The labeling, packaging, logo, all creative. But the cupcakes? Dry. absolutely unforgiveable. The frosting, again, better than a grocery store, but boring and crusty. Now, to be fair, it was towards the end of the day, maybe fresh they're better. I tried the lemon, mocha & vanilla, then crossed this place off my list. One side note, across the parking lot were about 10 million pigeons lurking about. Either someone dumped a ton of grain on the ground or it was a huge pile of pollen or something, but they were all swarming in it and it was sickening. Most people know I have a flock of birds phobia. shudder. My review? So, Cupcakes were so so.
Les Madeleines, located at 216 East 500 South. This is the ONE folks. The Tiffany of cupcakes. First the bad: The frustrating thing about this store is that i've gone three times and it's been closed twice. Once for lunch, once because it was past four. Thank goodness I tried again today because it was a few moments of heaven. The mini cupcakes are $2 each - expensive. I bought a New York : Valrhona (VALRHONA PEOPLE! Can you stand it?) chocolate in the cupcake and fuge icing, Gilligan's Island: coconut with cream cheese frosting dipped in coconut, Sicily: chocolate cupcake with pistachio frosting. These bites of heaven were SO good. It had the frosting style I love, Swiss or Italian meringue buttercream. TONS of butter with either egg yolks or whites to add volume. The cupcakes were....gulp...moist (everyone knows I HATE this word, but I had to use it). The flavor of the cupcakes were so good and original tasting. I can't stop thinking about them and I can't wait to go again. My cake fanatic Carol, if you're reading this, I'm bringing you some because I know you'll appreciate them!
Go try them people, they are worth it. Next stop? Dear Lizzy's in Alpine. Anyone been there?
Have you tried an amazing cupcake place I need to try?
