Cupcake Review: Red Velvet

Last spring I was fortunate enough to be in the office (instead of my typical client site) on "Cupcake Day." Building management decided to have Cupcakes brought in from Red Velvet Cupcakery! Surprisingly (I'll tell you why in a few), red velvet anything is my favorite and since the Cupcakery named it self after my favorite - they better have some tasty red velvet cupcakes. I'm not a big fan of chocolate and everyone knows that red velvet cake is typically made from chocolate cake with red food coloring. Not being a fan of chocolate (makes me thirty just to look at it or even talk about it but I do enjoy peanut M&Ms) how I came to love Red Velvet took some serious work. My mother makes THE BEST red velvet cake every year at Christmas time and to this day I haven't tasted anything with a Red Velvet tag that is as good as hers (Actually the Red Velvet Cupcake at Cupcakes Actually came close but it's my Mama...I can't give up "The Best" title that easily).

Anywho, I can't deny that it was a quite tasty little treat. Simple and cute with a fat dollop of cream cheese icing. The second best part was that it was FREE (for me at least! Typically their cupcakes are priced at $3.25 a piece - It's a little on the higher end of the DC cupcake market but they were a nice size compared to some other cupcakeries.



Red Velvet currently has 3 cupcakeries - 2 in DC (Penn Quarter and DuPont Circle) and 1 in Tucson, AZ (I guess I'll be passing this along to my God-brother so that he can indulge in their yummies).

http://www.redvelvetcupcakery.com/

Cupcake Review: Curbside Cupcake

So over the last couple of days I have been following a local DC Cupcakery on Wheels via Twitter. Curbside Cupcake is the cutest idea that I've seen in Cupcakes in a while. The concept is simple. They announce where they are going to be and at what times via Twitter and/or Facebook and you can come and get them! Today they were parked near my office in DC and although it was cold, I decided to take the walk (4 cold DC blocks). Between me and my co-workers, we had a Red Velvet, Classic Vanilla, Vanilla Mocha, and Chocolate with a Peppermint on Top and there were no complaints from this crew! At first glance, the cupcakes appeared to be a little skimp on the icing unlike those advertised on their website but the cake was so buttery and moist that it really didn't need any icing. I'd say they were worth the $3 price tag.

After returning to our desks, my co-workers fiance told her that he had seen them advertised on Food Network and in GQ magazine - Go Curbside Cupcakes!

www.curbsidecupcake.com
Follow them on Twitter @CurbsideCupcake

Cupcake Review: Lemonberry

So this weekend I was out in the city with my favorite guy Christophe Mortimer and to my surprise I looked down and I saw a $20 bill - For the Win (FTW)!!! We looked left and we looked right and there were no claimers so although we had just stuffed ourselves with Rosa Mexicano not even an hour before we decided to splurge on CUPCAKES! We paraded down M street in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC and made a right on Potomac to find the infamous Georgetown Cupcake. Georgetown Cupcake is trademarked by the fact that there is usually a line down the block with people waiting to get their hands on the new all American craze - The Cupcake. The Cupcakes are reasonably priced starting at $2.75 so we decided to purchase two a piece. Of course I ordered one Red Velvet cupcake and I decided to step outside of my box and I ordered a Lemonberry cupcake. The Lemonberry cupcake was as cute as a button. Yellow cake, with a Raspberry Fuschia colored icing, with a little lemon shaped candy in the center.



Full off of Rosa's, I didn't get a bite of my cupcake until hours later. To my surprise this was the worst cupcake that I've had in my life. The actual cake was good. It was a lemon and poppy seed cake with one issue - horrible icing. Probably because of the food coloring in the icing. The first bite had a bit of an after taste so I waited to see if it was the little candy on top that I had eaten first. Ten minutes later another bite... TRASH - $2.75 wasted. All I could think about was hearing the lady behind me in line order 4 Lemonberries as I walked out of the door. I bet she's pissed!