My significant other and I went to the Cupcake Craving in Sacramento. This establishment also has another location in the city and I decided to go to this one because it was near the mall and I had some business to take care of there. Okay, not important. Cupcakes, important.
Like I said, I've never been to one of these so I didn't know what to expect, size-wise. It was in the corner of the plaza and it was pretty tiny from the outside. I walk in and it's still pretty tiny. The wall behind the display case had a hole cut out so you can see where all their magic happens. I like that. I like how customers can see what they do and their back area was pretty huge. You can tell they bake a lot, just look at all their cupcakes! you can count how many different flavors they had and I limited myself to only 5.
Flavors: Champange, dulce de leche, chocolate mint, s'more galore and red velvet.
This had a strong mint flavor to it that stayed for a while. The cake was really light and fluffy. Not like a chiffon or sponge but you could tell that they use cake flour. All of the cupcakes I had were like this. Again, I am not a big fan of mint and chocolate but this was tasty.
S'more galore... This was my first time eating a s'more cupcake. It was a chocolate cupcake filled with marshmallow, then dipped in chocolate ganache and sprinkled with crushed... graham crackers? Very chocolaty which is good because I love me chocolate but it needed more marshmallow filling. Everyone knows it's all about the marshmallow when it comes to the s'more so this little taste of heaven didn't do the s'more justice. Although it did suppress my chocolate demon!
I was excited to eat this. Dulce de leche. Vanilla cupcake filled with dulce de leche buttercream, topped with dulche de leche buttercream then drizzled with dulce de leche. That's alotta dulce de leche, huh? Sounds like a lot but you can only taste a hint of it. I wasn't too thrilled about the buttercream in the middle but don't get me wrong, this was yummy. My boyfriend also liked this one more than the others. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of buttercream they used. It wasn't the heavy American buttercream that the other cupcakes had, it was lighter and fluffier. I'm thinking it was a SMBC but I've never tried that so I'm not too sure. It looks like I'm going to have to try and make it one of these days.
Red Velvet. Hmmm... Cake texture, great. Taste? I'm sorry, none. I liked the cream cheese frosting though! I haven't tried anything better than there's.
Champagne! I was also excited to try this one. Sadly, I couldn't taste the champagne. I could tell it was there but it wasn't strong. It was so subtle that if I wasn't concentrating so hard to taste it, I wouldn't have known it was a champagne cupcake. I would have thought it was a very yummy vanilla cupcake.
So, that was my trip and I'm glad I went. Whenever I'm in Sacramento again I'll be stopping by for more =)
