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Barb's Bakery 24th St and Thomas does GREAT cupcakes. We love their Red Velvet and Carrot Cake especially. Barb's just did a phenomenal birthday cake for my boyfriend. The service is excellent and the cupcakes and cakes YUMMY!
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re: ziggylu
I've not had the pink champagne at Barb's I'll have to try it. That being said, my wedding cake was pink champagne from Victorian Cake Company http://www.victoriancakecompany.com/ and it was awesome. We actually re-order a little cake every year on our anniversary ;) (I know, not a cupcake place, but I had to chime in on the pink champagne cake)
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I am on the same mission to find delicious cupcakes. I love sweets, and I love the portion control that cupcakes offer! Plus they are just so darn cute!! Lulu's is horrible. Don't bother, you will only be disappointed. Tammie Coe's are pretty good. I had the coconut and was not impressed, but I liked the banana chocolate. They sell them out of the cooler, so you really have to wait until the cupcakes get to room temperature. Alas, I have yet to find anything that tastes as good to me as my own homemade cupcakes. I make a killer chocolate cupcake with peanutbutter frosting!! But who wants to use the oven this time of year?? I am curious about sweetpeas...
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winedubar
Jun 27, 2007 10:04 AM
well, the 2 inches of butter cream on tammie coe ooey goeys are winners,
but i had some rockstar fantastic cupcakes this weekend at sweet pea bakery on jackson. and while you're there you simply must try the rosemary shortbread.
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re: winedubar
JK Grence the Cosmic Jester
Jun 27, 2007 11:25 PM
I had one of the Ooey Gooey cupcakes at Tammie's Roosevelt location and was completely unimpressed. The buttercream was a real buttercream, but was a basic vanilla buttercream, hardly as swoon-worthy as some had led me to believe. The cake itself was a little dry and one-dimensionally tasted like flat cocoa powder. The slight bitterness of the cake was a nice contrast to the frosting but on its own was a quality below supermarket bakery cupcakes. There wasn't all that much buttercream, either.
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re: JK Grence the Cosmic Jester
ccl1111
Jun 29, 2007 03:31 PM
we're cupcake freaks and so far, we're still searching.
we've been big fans of tammie coe cupcakes but on our 3 or 4 past visits to lgo, we've been getting ones where the cake is prettty dry. don't know if something's going on there. we seem to still order them every visit though hoping.
while there is still something to be desired, we have been hitting cupcakes every once in a while. they're not bad. it's also nice for our dairy allergic daughter (as they have a vegan one).
did lulu's way back and they were decent too so we want to try them again to & see for ourselves if the quality has dropped significantly.
i don't know though. these shops like lulu's & cupcakes. you'd think if your one & only focus was cupcakes and you had a whole operation dedicated to it, you might be able to do something a bit more fantastic.
waiting to see what sprinkle's (going to be on camelback & scottsdale road - ne corner) will be like.
will have to try sweet pea bakery as haven't been let down by a winedubar recommendation yet.
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re: ccl1111
Jess321
Jul 27, 2007 08:36 PM
I live in Scottsdale but this summer I'm in la, so I've had the opportunity to taste many a cupcake out here. Sprinkles is by far my favorite (based on moistness and sweetness and frosting amount), and I'm really excited that they're putting one in at home! The line at the beverly hills location may LOOK long, but it goes fast, as will probably be the case in scottsdale. You must try the red velvet! I also recommend the vanilla and carrot. What is the scheduled opening date?
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re: ccl1111
winedubar
Jun 29, 2007 05:24 PM
:D well hopefully you'll love it as much as i do :) i snuck in a visit this week - they had olive oil cupcakes, margarita tarte, lemon tarts, mojito cookies, brownie chunk cookies, flourless chocolate cakes and the rosemary shortbread cookies.....mmmmmmm royal coffee bar next door is great too :)
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