Review: Cupcake Couture

So today I got to pick up a treat after work.  Cupcake Couture cupcakes!

This is a cupcake shop in Manhattan Beach, CA and was also featured on Cupcake Wars!


My dad brought us home a bunch to try.  So far we've tasted 2 (one each).


I'm guessing at what I had but I'm pretty sure I know which one hubby had.


I think this is the Glitz and Glamour Cupcake which the website describes as follows:
"Roasted Tahitian Vanilla Bean Cake with a creamy Vanilla frosting garnished with Candied Madagascar Vanilla Bean."

I really like the pink wrappers.  They were really pretty to look at.  They even smelled good.  This one smelled like a florist.  I think it had to do with the Madagascar vanilla.  Fact:  According to Wikipedia...Madagascar is responsible for 97% of the world's vanilla bean production.

Anyways there was some type of fruit in it.  It may have been apples but it tasted good.  Overall it was OK, the "exotic" flavor tasted a little like I imagined a carnation flower to taste...spicy sweet.  Don't think I'd get this one again.  But you live and learn.

Hubby had this one...

I think it was the Hot Chocolate described as

"Blackout cake filled with a liquid chocolate center and topped with toasted marshmallow"

It looks soo cute.  The cracker thing is some type of cookie.  He said he was disappointed by the marshmallow because it wasn't what he was expecting.  Also the saving grace to this cupcake was the liquid center.  Without the center he said it "tastes like a little Debbie".  Isn't he cruel?  He did say he wanted to try another one of the cupcakes so they couldn't be terrible. 

More to come...

Kristi