I've passed by there many times, but usually when they were closed. Finally, it was open so we could stop in and see what it was like.
The first fabulous looking option was a classic carrot cake cupcake with cream cheese frosting. I am obsessed with carrot cake, so any opportunity for some I will take.
The pear and cheese one was very interesting. I didn't notice so much the small cheese pieces that were on top. Once again their cake was moist, and the inside filling had a pumpkin spice style flavor. I tasted more of that pumpkin spice flavor than I did a pear flavor, but a pear flavor is very subtle and hard to really overpower anything. It's a difficult cupcake to describe, but I really enjoyed it. It is worth trying if you like the pumpkin spice style flavors.
They had quite the selection of cupcakes, and I must say they all looked divine. They had cookies, cheesecakes, and a few other treats as well. I really wanted to try everything they had, but that was not an option.
After much debating, and my asking the lovely ladies behind the counter for their favorite treats, we finally decided on some delectable cupcakes to take with us and eat a bit later. We got it down to 3 options.
(Side tangent: My wedding cake was carrot cake made by my amazing pastry chef friend. He made us a huge 3 tier wedding cake. While we did share with as many people as we could, sharing still left us with 2 rather large tiers of cake left. It freezes really well, so in the freezer it went. And the two of us finished off every slice within the month. It was that good. And we like carrot cake that much. Best carrot cake I've ever had, and I eat a lot of carrot cake).
Along with the carrot cake option, we also picked a chocolate rose and raspberry cupcake (I also love raspberries), and an unusual pear and cheese one that had me totally intrigued.
The Carrot Cake was really good. Nice and rich, creamy frosting, moist cupcake. Would definitely eat this again.
I really liked the Chocolate Rose Raspberry one as well. The rose flavor was all in the frosting. My significant other was not a fan of the rose flavored frosting as it brought back memories of his childhood getting his mouth washed out with soap. In that regard he was tainted and a bit biased.
For those of you who have not experienced that particular childhood trauma, I thought it was tasty. I couldn't eat a ton of it, but there was just a nice hint to the frosting. Too much and it can taste like soap. But this was nicely balanced.
The chocolate cake was moist, and the raspberry compote filling oozed out in a great way, including whole pieces of raspberries. But you can't really go wrong with the flavor combination of chocolate and raspberry in my opinion.
I will say they are very generous with their frosting. I am not one who likes a ton of frosting, so I could not eat all of what they provided with the cupcake. But for those of you out there who are frosting lovers, you'll be in heaven.
All in all I'm so glad we finally got to come here. I will definitely be venturing here again sometime in the future. The hard part is going to be deciding what other delectable treats to try. Get another one that I liked? Or try something new? And what new thing to try? So many options.
I find it a challenge to find a good homemade style bakery, and this was definitely it.
I rate it 4.7 out of 5 stars.
