Not dreaming of these cupcakes

A few months ago I decided to make some delicious blueberry cupcakes, I was even going to make them with real blueberries. I'm not really a fan of real blueberries, something about the texture makes them unappealing; I'm more of a fan of the fake, completely artificial "blueberries " that come in the 44 cent box of Jiffy Blueberry muffins. Having never made anything with real blueberries I decided to puree them and add them to the cake mix. Pureed blueberries do not look at all appetizing. Maybe our blender isn't the best, but there were lots of skins and it was an unattractive blue/brownish liquid, mush sort of stuff. Another great decision was that I wanted to make sure I had a nice blueberry flavor so I decided to add some blueberry jello as well, except I couldn't find plain blueberry jello, I could only find berry jello. The box had a picture of two blueberries and one raspberry, so it was as close to blueberry as I was going to get. The result of the experiment...not good. I didn't even make the frosting for the cupcakes, they weren't horrible, but they weren't the cupcakes I had been dreaming of. They tasted like candy, and while that might seem like a good thing for some people, these weren't the kind of candy you want to eat more than one piece. I guess everyone has to have the unsuccessful experiment once and awhile.

Cherry Limeade Cupcakes

I made these awhile ago, but haven't really had time to post them. I must say that they have been very well received. They were very simple to make too! Of course the pictures don't do them justice. The cake was cherry flavored and then I added lime buttercream frosting.

So many cupcakes to choose from...

I'm so far behind in my cupcake posting. During the month of June, I went to two cupcakes stores and made over 200 cupcakes and a wedding cake during that time. So where to start? I think that tonight I will blog about the cupcake bakery visits. On a roadtrip that was taken mid-Junish, we stopped in St. Louis at a cute little cupcake store called the Cupcakery.
It was a smaller store, nicely decorated, with very nice people working the counter. The store had only been open a few months, but they seemed to be doing very well. They had a basic selection, with a weekly selection to chose from. We chose six cupcakes to take on our travels. We got 2 Lemon Cupcakes, A Mocha Cupcake, a Peanut Butter Chocolate Cupcake, a Vanilla Cupcake, and, a Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting.

The Cupcakes were HUGE, but not overwhelming with frosting, so that was nice. The Lemon Cupcakes were really good, but my favorite was the Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting. It was quite tasty. The frosting, had a great chocolate flavor, but with still nice and sweet.
The next place we went to was Gigi's in Nashville. This place had a huge selection of cupcakes, and the staff was very helpful, I ended up getting 7 cupcakes, and I think I ate a good portion of them...by myself. I got a Red Velvet, Orange Dream, Pink Lemonade, Lemon, a Chocolate Malt Cupcake, Chocolate with Vanilla Frosting, and Vanilla with PINK frosting. These cupcakes were very tasty, but I would have to say, that there was WAY TOO much frosting on them. I know this is blasphemy to some, but it just didn't have the right ratio of cake to frosting. Seriously, how can someone eat the whole thing? I can think of a few people who would like to try...


If I had to pick a favorite though, it probably would be the chocolate malt cupcake. The cake had a nice light chocolate cake with a cinnamon aftertaste, and then a nice chocolate frosting with chocolate malt balls sprinkled on the sides. YUM.
Overall, I'd say our cupcake shop visits were a huge success. I think that I was on a constant sugar high the entire length of our trip though!