Cupcake woe

[resonant]

This is why I hate it when things I like get popular.

Since cupcakes are all trendy now, has anyone noticed how everywhere you go, the world is now full of really, really horrible cupcakes? And I buy them, because when I see something that looks like a cupcake, I crave something that tastes like a cupcake -- but they don't.

The cupcakes at Barnes & Noble Cafe were probably pretty decent when they were fresh, but they've been sitting in the display case for lord only knows how long, looking more beautiful because they're unwrapped, so that when you buy one, the frosting is too hard to bite through. (The cheesecake suffers from a related problem. But I digress.) The cupcakes at Starbucks are just weird, man, I don't know; they taste like they were grown from crystals in a laboratory.

The cupcakes at Kroger are best not spoken of at all.

Looks like I'm going to be forced to make some.

Comments

[hellpenguin]

I'll check tomorrow when i work, but you are talking about the vanilla and chocolate cupcakes, right? The red velvet is made with a cream cheese frosting. I know the vanilla is called a Vanilla Buttercream, so it must be buttercream frosting. the chocolate (the Double Fudge Cupcake) lists chocolate pudding as one of the ingredients, but I'll check on the frosting ingredients.

i can tell you this: all the cupcakes are made by the Sweet Street division of the Cheesecake Factory, and they're sent to us in huge boxes frozen.

[resonant]

It was a yellow cupcake with white frosting. And it's possible that the people at my B&N are just laxer than at yours? I've ordered cheesecake twice, and both times there was a veritable skin of dried-up stuff all around the edges that had to be cut off and thrown away before you got to actual edible cheesecake.

[hellpenguin]

the yellow cupcake is the Vanilla Buttercream.
when you say you ordered the cheesecake, do you mean the whole cheesecake or just a slice? if it's a slice, it's your store's weirdness (aka no freakin clue, glad i don't work there) if it's the whole cheesecake it's the Cheesecake Factory that's to blame, or the delivery company.