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cupcakes

Laura's quest for the summer is to find the best cupcake in Atlanta. She has graciously allowed to participate in some of this venture and to blog about all of it. The idea is at each location to sample a plain (vanilla?) cupcake, a chocolate cupcake, and at least one of whatever kind of specialty cupcake they have.

We have to go back a couple months to start: when Betsy was in town the weekend of the Inman Park Festival, she and Laura stopped at the West Egg Cafe and picked up a few samples. They didn't have chocolate cupcakes from what I recall, so we sampled plain and CocaCola, what they're known for. My recollections of these cupcakes is that they were really dense and rather dry. Not what I'm looking for a in a cupcake. The Coke was OK- definitely tasted like Coke, more moist, but I just don't really want to eat Coke cupcakes. The general consensus was a thumbs down on West Egg. Laura was a bit disheartened, but I told her that if it was that bad, things could only go up from here!

A month or so later, Laura and Laura sampled at the Atlanta Cupcake Factory. I was sad to miss out on this one- aside from the fact that its closest on the list to my house, I had heard they were really good. From the report I got, this was another disappointment, except for the icing. I think they tried all 3 and the special was Red Velvet, but I could totally be making that up. Icing was cream cheese based and pretty good they said.

After berry-picking Thursday, Laura and I walked up to Belly to try their cupcakes. I have often seen them in the windows and drooled- enormous cupcakes with enormous amounts of icing. We tried all three, plain, chocolate, and peanut butter and jelly. The chocolate was terrible- as if they were trying to make a healthy cupcake. It almost tasted like it had been made with whole wheat flour, very little chocolate taste to it, and very heavy. The plain cake itself was good- best so far in that category. Light, moist, and tasty. Unfortunately, their frosting is the sugariest frosting I've ever tasted- one bite of it was sufficient for the whole cupcake. The peanut butter and jelly was OK. Laura was not a big fan of the whole concept. I thought the peanut butter icing was good, though a little thick for a hot summer afternoon.

Overall, Laura's impressions so far are that Betsy would make a fortune selling her cupcakes!!

posted by CP @ 12:14 PM 2 thoughts