1919 Union St, San Francisco
American Cupcake is unlike any other cupcakery I have seen. The décor is eclectic-an old school diner look with colorful lights everywhere. AC holds the be all/end all of cupcake/alcohol pairings.
Flights were $16 each and usually include 3 mini cupcakes and 3 glasses of beer or wine. Luckily for us, they were out of minis so we got 3 full-sized cupcakes for each of us! I had a wine pairing flight called the Walk of Shame and Amanda had a beer pairing flight called “Beer n’ Chocolate” (which of course I had to sample).
The pairings:
Lemon/Red Velvet(they ran out of Butterscotch)/Coconut
Sauvignon Blanc/Chardonnay/Merlot
The Red Velvet was nothing spectacular and the lemon was yummy. I’ve never been a huge fan of coconut but the coconut cupcake was definitely the winner of the wine flight.
Chocolate PB/Chococlate Mint/Chocolate Coconut
Bison Chocolate Stout/Hitachino Nest/ Heifeweizen
Again, not a huge fan of chocolate and mint together but surprisingly it worked fabulously in this cupcake. The chocolate peanut butter and the chocolate coconut cupcakes were good as well. Too much chocolate though, wish there was more variety in this flight!
I wouldn’t say the alcohol necessarily accented the cupcakes’ flavors but I am not one to turn down wine or beer with my cupcakes :)
peace, love, and cupcakes
michy
