CUPCAKES, THE SAN FRANCISCO TREAT

A few weeks ago I went to visit my friend Amanda in San Fran and she was kind enough to appease my crazy cupcake needs. We went to 4 cupcake shops, trying at least one cupcake from each place. I think the grand total over the course of the weekend was around 12 cupcake tastes! –rubs belly-

Love At First Bite: A cute hidden cupcake shop in the Gourmet Ghetto area of Berkeley. Instead of getting one large cupcake, I decided to try 3 mini cupcakes. At $1.25 each I have the lemon, strawberry, and red velvet. Strawberry was delicious, lemon was surprisingly good(I’m not usually a fan of lemon), and the red velvet was decent.

That Takes the Cake: The owner served us and she was really sweet.  I had the Hella Nutella cupcake for $2.95. Although it was tasty, it didn’t really taste like nutella.

Miette Bakery:  This was a sophisticated bakery located in the ferry building.  All the cupcakes were beautifully decorated.   A chocolate cupcake with raspberry buttercream for $3.25 caught my eye.  The cake was good but the frosting was not very raspberry at all.

Kara’s Cupcake: This is probably the most famous cupcakery in all of SF. We stopped in the Ghirardelli Square location. I wanted to get a caramel cupcake but the person right in front of me got the last one. I decided to get the carrot cake cupcake for $3.25, even though I’m not the biggest fan of carrot cake. Surprisingly, it was my favorite cupcake of the entire weekend! Very moist and had just the right amount of spice.

There is one more amazing cupcakery in SF, but it deserves a whole entry of its own.


Until next week cupcakers…


Peace, love, cupcakes
Michy

TO TU-LU'S WE GO

Tu-lu’s Bakery
338 East 11th Street, East Village

This is one of the newer cupcakeries in the East Village. I think this place went through a name change-from Tully's Bakery to Tu-Lu's Bakery.  I think the latter is much better!  I have to say I was nervous about this one. It’s another gluten-free bakery (I hadn't had good luck with a certain gluten free bakery in the past) but this time I was pleasantly surprised. I walked in and caught a glimpse of the lovely décor. There was a cupcake tree plastered along one wall. And they say cupcakes don't grow on trees!  After much thought, my friend and I made our final cupcake decisions. I tried the strawberry vanilla cupcake and the chocolate peanut butter cupcake for $1.25 a piece. 1 bite of these delicate mini cupcakes and I was hooked.  Smooth, delicious, and perfect cake/frosting proportion. See ya later Babycakes.

peace, love, and cupcakes
michy