i love cupcakes!

so yesterday at work we ordered some cupcakes from cupcakes. these aren't your regular cupcakes from back in your childhood. these are AMAZING cupcakes, that IMHO, are the best ever! the cake is super moist and comes in different flavours, depending on your cupcake order; the icing is smothered beautifully on top of the cupcake, and then the icing sometimes has a little topper as well, be it sprinkles, a candy of some sort, anything!

my absolute favourite cupcake is the lemon drop. i first tried the lemon drop 1.5 years ago. i went to cupcakes in the hopes of hiring them for my wedding cake, but for various reasons, i didn't end up with them. on that day, i met with heather (co-owner of cupcakes) to go over my ideas and see what they could offer me. well, it was the best time of my life! i'm not a big cake fan, so i almost didn't care what it tasted like, but OH MY GOD! she brought out 6 different mini-cupcakes in a variety of flavours and icings. i ate them all :-) from that moment, i was hooked on cupcakes. yes, it may seem pricey ($2.50 plus GST) for a little cupcake, when you could make 2 dozen from scratch for less than $10 i'm sure. i, too, was a skeptic when they first opened, but there's something about them that's so appealing. when you step into the store, and are hit with the smell of baking in the oven and the sweet icing, HOLY CRAP! game over......give me a 6-pack! oh hell, i don't even have to be at the store, i can smell it already!

wow! i got side-tracked from my lemon drop cupcake! anyways, it's a lemon cake with lemon butter cream icing, topped with a candied lemon wedge. heavenly! i tried to savour it and make the pleasure last, but seriously, once i took a bite of it, i just shovelled it right down. so yum! sidenote.....it wasn't quite a real lemon drop......they didn't have the lemon cake, so it was just plain vanilla cake, but still, there's so much icing on top, that you get the lemon-y taste every time. yikes! i'm starting to drool.......

so today, we celebrated a milestone birthday in the office, and i had ordered a cupcakes cake. it was the mocha motion cake......3 layers of chocolate cake, 3 layers of espresso butter cream icing, topped with little pink flowers and pink piping. wow! it was so delicious, and went really well w/my iced latte from starbucks. oh good grief, what a yummy 2 days i've had!

my 2nd favourite cupcake is mint condition. it tastes just like mint chocolate chip ice cream. how can you go wrong?! if you surf over to the cupcakes website, one thing to note......they don't always have the flavours listed on their website, and they do have "seasonal/promotional" cupcakes that aren't advertised online. so if you're doing a same-day phone order, it's always good to check before you ask ppl what cupcakes they would like!