The Cupcake Addict's Cupcake Collection

My hard drive issues came before cupcakes for a couple of days.   I was very grateful for new Yellow Leaf cupcake flavors whilst I was restoring my computer to as close to normal as it can be.

Strawberry Lemonade:  I like Trophy’s Strawberry Lemonade better, but Yellow Leaf’s is Very good.  The cake is fairly dense with a good texture.  The interior photo shows that well.  2 different layered cake flavors is nice.  The icing isn’t as strongly flavored as Trophy’s, but Yellow Leaf’s icing has a nice silky feel.  The lemon icing wasn’t as flavorful as the strawberry, which was very fruity.

White Chocolate Pretzel:  This is probably my second favorite Yellow Leaf flavor and one of my favorite cupcakes so far.  My palate is not as sophisticated as it could be, so I don’t know if it was white chocolate cake or vanilla.  Either way, it was delicious.  There was a layer of white chocolate gluing some pretzel bits directly on top of the cake, then pretzels mixed with white chocolate icing on the top.  I love the mix of sweet and salty and the contrast of crunchy pretzel with silky smooth icing.

Black Forest:  Was just okay.  Chocolate cake with cherry glaze topped with icing.  I think of Black Forest as very cherry/chocolate.  This one seemed like chocolate cake with vanilla icing.  Not much cherry flavor.

Chocolate Orange:  I didn’t like this one, but James did.  Chocolate cake layered with orange cake topped chocolate glaze then orange icing.  The orange tasted a bit artificial.