Mini Espresso Cupcake
Espresso Mini
Here we have a chocolate cake with a mocha buttercream frosting topped with a chocolate/espresso bean.
Again, the cake was perfectly serviceable but nothing extraordinary while the frosting managed to keep the espresso flavor to a manageable amount (as compared to, say, your average Starbucks espresso based pastry, where you can't help but notice the bean trumps all else). Light enough, flavorful enough, but at the end of this my teeth began to hurt. Ultimately they were a little too sweet for me.
They were good cupcakes, but not very memorable. Part of this stems from the fact that, as I said, I chose to chocolate varietals. But even without that, they didn't really stand out. I'm sure that whenever I go back, I'll try another kind with a fruit or mint, but there too, there's a bit of a problem: it takes me an hour to get to Bellevue Square, which is a mall with one or two shops that I might visit every three months or so, maybe, perhaps, and that's stretching it. When I go back, I'll try one but I'm not in any especial rush to do that.
Mini Espresso Cupcake
Espresso Mini
Here we have a chocolate cake with a mocha buttercream frosting topped with a chocolate/espresso bean.
Again, the cake was perfectly serviceable but nothing extraordinary while the frosting managed to keep the espresso flavor to a manageable amount (as compared to, say, your average Starbucks espresso based pastry, where you can't help but notice the bean trumps all else). Light enough, flavorful enough, but at the end of this my teeth began to hurt. Ultimately they were a little too sweet for me.
They were good cupcakes, but not very memorable. Part of this stems from the fact that, as I said, I chose to chocolate varietals. But even without that, they didn't really stand out. I'm sure that whenever I go back, I'll try another kind with a fruit or mint, but there too, there's a bit of a problem: it takes me an hour to get to Bellevue Square, which is a mall with one or two shops that I might visit every three months or so, maybe, perhaps, and that's stretching it. When I go back, I'll try one but I'm not in any especial rush to do that.