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

Traveling Cupcakes

In addition to baking my own cupcakes I love to try other people's sweet creations.  This week we (as in hubby and I) tried some traveling cupcakes from Sugar Babies Cupcakery.  We discovered this treat at Los Al Din Din A Go Go which is just down the street from us every Tuesday night from 5:30 to 9 PM.  This another thing I like, food trucks.  No longer does mobile food have to come from a "roach coach" they are gourmet!

Anyways, back to the cupcakes.

We got a 4-pack for $5.00.  Like the name implies Sugar Babies Cupcakery serves mini-cupcakes!  We got the following:

1.  With All My Heart - Semi-sweet chocolate cake, dark chocolate mousse frosting, dark chocolate candy heart. (Husband ate this one before I could take a picture)

2.  Sugar Baby -Vanilla cake, rich chocolate buttercream frosting, white chocolate candy heart.

3.  Strawberries 'n' Cream - Moist vanilla cake with a sweet strawberry champagne cream cheese frosting.

4.  Red Rose - Our rich, classic red velvet cake, sumptuous cream cheese frosting*

*Descriptions from the Sugar Babies website

Front Left - Red Rose, Back Center - Sugar Baby, Front Right Strawberries 'n Cream

I really liked that the easily identifiable pink pastry box color was on the inside of the box instead of the outside.  I also liked that they were minis and were in cute little plastic cups.  Hubby had the "With All My Heart" and the "Sugar Baby" and I had the "Red Rose" and "Strawberries 'n Cream".  My favorite was the strawberry cupcake (I'm kinda picky when it comes to red velvet - see previous posts).  I really liked the frosting it was really really good and may make an appearance on an upcoming cupcake I make :) . The cake portion was a little different, it's not one I would want to eat on its own but with the frosting it was better.  Overall, you should probably get some if they ever stop by near  you.