Cupcake

I finally bought myself a cupcake from Cupcakes on Pitt the prominent cupcake store in the centre of town that has been tempting me since not long after we moved here.

The choice was pretty vast and has put me off before. I was just thinking that I couldn't decide between the ones in the window when I saw a white chocolate cupcake section inside the shop that wasn't in the window display. It included a chocolate coated strawberry. I was sold. On my way out, I decided that next I would try the choc-jaffa and tiramisu cakes.



White chocolate Cupcake

Looks good huh?

It didn't taste good. In fact it tasted almost exactly like a couple of reviews I had read on the internet. I had discounted the reviews (optimistically) as lots of other people had said the cakes were OK.

The most relevant reviews were (I think they put it better than me):

• The cupcakes are dry and the frosting too airy and sugary and tasting of artificial flavours.


• I'm sure the cake is not prepared from scratch (bit of a shame), but the icing is really unpleasant - it should lovely soft frosting but I think they use 'mock' cream with sugar in it - not nice!

You can read the full list here. Looking back there seem to be quite a few that say that the cakes are rubbish. I think I was possibly a little over-optimistic. Who are these people who said they were good though? They clearly know nothing about cake.