I read about Butter Lane Butter Lane on the blog, Cupcakes Take the Cake. They have serious cupcake coverage. So, when they claim that the Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is one of the best cupcakes in NYC, I was certainly curious. I’ve almost given up on NYC cupcakes, finding I much prefer making my own (so they’re not so sugary), but how could I resist possibly tasting “the best”?
The funny thing is that they have a sign explaining the difference between French Buttercream and American Buttercream so I wanted to get some of both but they didn’t have any French Buttercream available yet. (Sorry about the pic. It was a spontaneous decision to go and all we had was a camera phone.)
We picked up 4 flavors and headed over to my friend Zoe’s apartment (about 2 blocks away) to share with her. The Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is good, a wonderfully moist cake that tastes like fresh banana, and I always love cream cheese frosting. I would definitely prefer it less sweet and less of it though. The other three were either vanilla or chocolate cake, generally pretty moist, but the tops of the cake formed a slightly crunchy sugar crust, like a layer between the cake and frosting. All three of us noticed and were not a fan. Otherwise, the Chocolate Cake was appreciated for being dark chocolate but again, the frosting was too sweet and too much. The Vanilla Cake was also a nice flavor, but the Blueberry Frosting didn’t taste like much blueberry and the Key Lime Frosting was also too sweet.
I like that Butter Lane cupcakes are all natural, and they do taste fresh and natural, but only the Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is notable. At $2.50/$2.75 per cupcake, I don’t think it’s worth it, but that’s because I can make them.
posted by jessica at 08:21 AM
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the cupcakes in picture somehow gave me an inspiration to make it durian taste. do u at durians?
I wish cupcake places would let you frost your own cakes, that would ensure the perfect frosting-cake ratio. OR, I could bake my own but when the craving hits, its hard to wait for an hour 🙂
Renaye, I’ve never had durian actually. It’s only occasionally available here.
Manasi, that would be funny. Too much is not a huge problem as I can wipe some off but they’re always too sweet.
FYI,
I took this great class over the weekend that you guys might be interested in.
Here is the link:
http://www.digitalfoodphotos.com/blog/?page_id=57
At the end of the article, it should either be:, “… but that’s BECAUSE I can make them” or, to use a slang term “… but that’s ‘CUZ I can make them”. The use of the word “cause” is just completely wrong. Even a blogger should have someone proof-read their posts. It takes away from a rather direct and informative post.
i’m pretty much a sucker for anything smothered in cream cheese frosting, and i think manasi may be on to something. 🙂
Thanks Leona.
Thanks Anonymous, we don’t have an editor (I wish I did) but we have wonderful readers like you who help us out time to time.
Grace, cream cheese frosting is my favorite frosting!
I really like the chickalicious dessert bar cupcakes. I love the smores. I will definitely try the banana from Butter Lane.
Manger la ville, I’ve never gotten around to trying Chikalicious. There’s just too many places!!