Melinda, an old co-worker of Lon’s , brought us an assortment of cupcakes from Billy’s Bakery Billy’s Bakery, a place their old office frequented. She obviously knows the way to our hearts.
Lon remembers their cupcakes being better before, but this time we were pretty disappointed. The Banana Cupcake was so dense and gummy, with an ultra sweet frosting.
The Chocolate Cupcakes were powdery, disintegrating in your mouth, giving a dry feeling. The frosting tastes like supermarket chocolate frosting.
The Carrot Cupcake was too sweet for me but at least the cake was moist and Lon was able to eat it.
The Red Velvet was also moist. I did sneak a taste, even though I’m allergic to food coloring. The cream cheese frosting on this one was most acceptable for me, a little tang to cut the sweet, although I’d really like it to still be less sweet.
I find cupcakes kinda dry compared to regular cake. I had a red velvet cupcake from Crumbs on Tuesday and it was pretty good. It was just too big, I couldn’t finish it. Kind of a waste considering it was $3.75.
Wonders, I agree when it comes to buying, but when I make it myself, the cupcakes are just as moist.
Don’t you wish they made red velvet cake the old fashion way, with beet juice. It wouldn’t look as red, but it would be pretty great. I have tried a few things from there. How do you like it compared to Magnolia?
My favorite cupcake are from Chicklacious dessert club or the pistachio cupcake from sugar Sweet Sunshine.
Have you ever tried Sprinkles in LA? I keep hearing that their cupcakes are fantastic, but some are telling me that they’re totally overrated.
Manger La Ville, we were just talking about making red velvet with beet juice, not knowing that it’s the old fashioned way.
I don’t like Magnolia. The frosting is uber sweet and feels grainy.I’ve yet to try chikalicious and I had sugar sweet sunshine once and can’t really remember it.
Pearl, I haven’t tried Sprinkles but my cousin will be moving to LA so maybe I’ll ask her to bring me some on one of her trips back here.
Two Little Red Hens in the UES is hands down my favorite.
I’m the type of girl to love ultra-sweet sugary frosting and I’ve had both Billy’s and Magnolia. I do like Billy’s better but for reasons of convenience I end up going to Magnolia’s more often. Sugar Sweet Sunshine wasn’t sweet enough for me, lol.
Someone else mentioned Sugar Sweet Sunshine on the LES which is great. I had some cupcakes from Ladybird Bakery in Park Slope and found them to be quite delicious. I wrote about them back in the fall.