Cuppy Cakes

I LOVE cupcakes. Seriously. I think we took almost everyone who came to visit us in Malibu to Beverly Hills for Sprinkles Cupcakes. DELICIOUS! Seriously. The Red Velvet cupcakes were good...but not near as good as my mom's red velvet cake. And, I really don't understand why everyone thinks that you have to put cream cheese frosting on red velvet cake. You really don't. Now, I love cream cheese frosting as much as anyone...but I sort of think it ruins a good red velvet cake. At Sprinkles I love the cinnamon sugar cupcakes, black and white cupcakes, milk chocolate cupcakes..OH! and the coconut cupcakes are too die for!! I am pretty sure my friend Lyric can attest to that. Right Lyric? I could go on about my love of Sprinkles...but I won't.

Beautiful Sprinkles Cupcakes!! Mmmmm...

I don't live near Beverly Hills anymore...so Sprinkles is not an option. Although if I get to Dallas anytime soon I will drop by the Sprinkles location there.

I am on a mission to find the best, most delicious cupcakes in Austin, Tx. So far, I have tried 2 places. Here's my review of each cupcake location:

1. Hey Cupcake! On a scale of 1 to 10, I give Hey Cupcake! a 3. Again, they ruin their red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing. I also tried the snowcap cupcake (chocolate bottom, vanilla top). My take on this place: buy a (insert favorite store bought boxed cake mix here) and make your own.

2. Polkadots Cupcake Factory On a scale of 1 to 10, I give Polkadots a 5.5. I appreciate a cupcake that isn't so sweet you can feel the cavities forming in your teeth, but these cupcakes just aren't quite sweet enough. They are good, but not good enough. Again with the cream cheese icing on the red velvet. I see a trend. This place is reminiscent of Sprinkles, as it has different choices every day of the week. I tasted 4 flavors: red velvet (you know my opinion on this one, given the above information), Boston Cream Pie (alright, the cream had no flavor), Strawberry Shortcake (basically vanilla cake with icing barely flavored strawberry - but it was decent), and vanilla chocolate chip (a bit too much with the chocolate on the top). All that being said, until I find THE cupcake place in Austin, I will probably eat Polkadots again. (if you click on all the cupcake flavors in this paragraph you can see a picture of each cupcake)

Soon I will be posting pictures and maybe a video of my tiny WALKING boy. Yes!! He is not yet 10 months and he is walking way better than I would expect him to be at this point. He is the tiniest little walking person and it is so dang cute.