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• Latest Review

  Posted at 4:04 am by MLea

  Aug 22nd

  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.

  

  Yellow Leaf Strawberry Lemonade

  

  Yellow Leaf’s Strawberry Lemonade Interior

  
  

  

  Yellow Leaf’s White Chocolate Pretzel

  

  Yellow Leaf’s Black Forest

  
  

  

  Yellow Leaf’s Chocolate Orange

  
  
  Posted in The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company | Tagged black forest, chocolate orange, Strawberry lemonade, white chocolate pretzel

• New Hard Drive=Cupcakes instead of Alcohol

  Posted at 2:38 am by MLea

  Aug 20th

  Some people might choose to drink when presented with stress.  I fortunately have a husband who brought me home cupcakes.  6 lovely little cakes from The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company.  Today’s selection:

  White Chocolate Pretzel

  Chocolate Orange

  Black Forest

  Carrot (for him)

  Strawberry-Lemonade

  Chocolate Toffee (a repeat, but a good one!)

  Reviews and photos to follow.

  Posted in The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company

• Sugar Rush by default

  Posted at 3:42 am by MLea

  Aug 13th

  So, I called Yellow Leaf today to see what flavors they had for the day.  Mr Shuck was 2 blocks away volunteering, so I called him to see if he’d pick me up a Mexican Chocolate cupcake.  He agreed.  I thought about it ALL DAY.  I got in the car at the end of the day and was told he forgot!   I still love him.  Since I was in the cupcake mood (when am I not?), we stopped off at Coffee to a Tea in West Seattle to see what Sugar Rush had to offer for the day.  I chose a vanilla cupcake filled with chocolate mousse and dipped in chocolate ganache.

  

  Sugar Rush mousse filling

  

  Vanilla filled with chocolate mousse dipped in chocolate ganache.

  
  

  My review:  Extremely cute cupcake. I loved the little flowers.  Very “Life is Good“.   The ganache frosting was lovely.  (I actually think the description said that it was truffle dipped.).  The chocolate mousse inside was creamy, but tasted a lot like J-ello chocolate pudding.  The cake was spongey.  I don’t think I like the texture of sponge cake.  I would eat it again if it was presented to me, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to purchase one.

  Rating: ♥♥

  Posted in Miscellaneous Bakeries | Tagged chocolate, Sugar Rush, vanilla

• The last Yellow Leaf cupcake

  Posted at 3:06 am by MLea

  Aug 10th

  I ate the remaining cupcake today, The American.  I didn’t realize it had Red Velvet cake at the bottom.  UGH!

  

  American Cupcake: A bit blurry, but colors are visible.

  So the American Cupcake was cute.  Red Velvet on the bottom, then almond cake dyed blue, then white cake, then white icing.   So much dye!  So much cake that tasted like food coloring.  Oh, well!   It was the Yellow Leaf cupcake for charity, so someone got $1 from my purchase.

  Posted in The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company

• A new day, a new cupcake!

  Posted at 11:40 pm by MLea

  Aug 9th

  Almost finished up the cupcake flavors today!  I know, we’re pigs!

  Strawberry:  It would have been better if the icing tasted more like strawberries.  The cake was moist and smelled delicious (and tasted delicious as well).  Most of the icings seem to taste the same.  Very nice silky texture, though.

  

  Yellow Leaf Strawberry

  Carrot:  Good, but not as good as Cupcake Jones.  There were only a couple of visible carrot shreds.  Lots of spice.  I’d have another.

  

  Yellow Leaf Carrot

  Other flavors:  these are pretty much a combination of the other flavors already mentioned.  All good!

  

  Yellow Leaf Chocolate w/ Vanilla.

  

  Yellow Leaf Vanilla w/ Chocolate

  

  Yellow Leaf Ultimate Chocolate

  Posted in The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company

• My name is Mrs Shuck and I will soon be in a 12 step program.

  Posted at 12:34 am by MLea

  Aug 8th

  There’s a new cupcakery in town and it’s YUM!  Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company is a small place on 4th Ave near Blanchard.  They have tea and French press coffee, photos of yellow leaved trees on the wall, biodegradable commuter travel mugs.  Very soothing and organic.

  We picked up a box of 12, which gave us one of almost every flavor they had today.  I passed on the Red Velvet.  I don’t know why I don’t like Red Velvet.  All the red dye seems a bit much.  Not natural!  We ended up with:

  Chocolate toffee, carrot, tomato soup, strawberry
  Simply Vanilla, chocolate mint, Chocolate Joy, Chocolate/vanilla
  Chocolate/chocolate, The American Cupcake, Ultimate Chocolate, French Toast

  

  12 Steps towards Recovery(?)

  Flavors sampled today:
  Tomato soup: Was dark orange colored and tasted of ginger or molasses (my palate is not that sophisticated).  I assume it’s a tomato cake. Kind of carrot cake-ish. The icing didn’t have a lot of flavor. It’s not overly sweet. Would eat again!

  

  Yellow Leaf's Tomato Soup

  Chocolate Joy: Like an Almond Joy candy bar. Layered cake with chocolate on the bottom and almond cake on top. Light chocolate icing on top, covered with coconut and crushed almond. Also very tasty.

  

  Yellow Leaf's Chocolate Joy

  

  Cross section of Chocolate Joy

  French Toast: This is probably right up there with Trophy’s Chocolate Graham Cracker! Vanilla cupcake with cinnamon chips around the top. Extremely buttery buttercream on top with a little syrup swirl. Over the top YUM!

  

  Yellow Leaf's French Toast

  Simply Vanilla:  Nicely flavored and textured vanilla cake with vanilla Italian butter cream icing.  Very good!

  

  Yellow Leaf's Simply Vanilla

  Chocolate Toffee:  YUM!  Moist and dense chocolate cake with toffee chips around the top.  A scoop of light and silky chocolate frosting topped with more toffee chips.

  

  Yellow Leaf's Chocolate Toffee

  Two details I really like:  1.  They have a cupcake a day that has $1 of it’s proceeds donated to charity.  It’s garnished with a little yellow leaf.  2.  The owner offered a “legend” to go inside the box so we knew later what cupcakes we had in there.

  

  Posted in The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company

• Cupcake Jones

  Posted at 1:09 am by MLea

  Jul 12th

  So…on the way back from Portland today, we stopped at Cupcake Jones.  Seriously, does anyone expect me to go somewhere and not visit the local cupcakery?  We went there on our engagement trip and LOVED the cupcakes we got that day: Root Beer Float for James and Chocolate Covered Pretzel for me.

  We got an assortment:

  • Downtown Cupcake Brown:  delicious devil’s food cake filled with sour cream chocolate ganache topped with fresh grated dark chocolate.
  • Pearl:  white velvet cake filled with vanilla bean pastry cream, topped with vanilla bean buttercream icing and a hand made white chocolate pearl  (we got the mini, so no filling)
  • Raspberry Truffle:  chocolate cake filled with chocolate raspberry ganache, topped with raspberry buttercream, chocolate shavings, and a raspberry (also a mini, so no filling)
  • What’s Up Doc:  moist carrot cake filled with vanilla bean pastry cream topped with cream cheese icing and a hand made candied carrot
  • Chocolate Chip Cookie: fluffy brown sugar chocolate chip cake filled with chocolate chip cookie dough, topped with vanilla bean buttercream and a homemade chocolate chip cookie
  • Pupcakes: apple and oat cupcakes for the puppies!

  The review so far:

  • The puppies loved the pupcakes.  I don’t think this means much since they also lick their butts, but they have said, “No” to treats before.
  • Downtown Cupcake Brown: The cake part was a bit dry.  I didn’t like the sour cream chocolate ganache.   The chocolate icing was good.
  • Chocolate Chip Cookie:  So far, I’ve only had a mini, but there’s a big one with filing waiting on me.  The cake was good: moist, not dry.  The icing didn’t have much taste.  Update 7/13/09:  Today I ate the big one with the filling.  The cake was fairly moist, but the filling was dry.  It kindof tasted like cookie dough, but was a little dry.  I know they can’t put raw dough in a cupcake, so I don’t know what I was expecting.
  • What’s Up Doc?:  YUMMY!  flakes of carrot and dots of spices were visible in the moist cake.  The icing was “perfection” according to James.  I thought it could have more cream cheese flavor.  The stuff in the middle was just okay according to him.  I ate a mini and it was really nice.
  • Pearl:  Plain, plain, plain.
  • Raspberry:  This review courtesy of James:  Dry cake, but good frosting.

  
  

  

  Cupcake Jones Assortment

  

  Cupcake Jones’ What’s Up Doc- Click to enlarge

  
  

  

  Cupcake Jones’ Chocolate Chip Cookie

  

  Cupcake Jones’ Downtown Cupcake Brown

  
  

  
  

  Posted in Cupcake Jones

• Cupcakes!

  Posted at 1:20 am by MLea

  Jun 15th

  So, today I used my Williams Sonoma gift card and purchased a kitchen torch and a pastry bag.  Goal: Cupcake perfection.  We had a test cupcake at Trophy for comparison.  I made the cupcakes and icing.  James operated the kitchen torch as it made me a bit nervous.

  

  Trophy’s Chocolate Graham Cracker

  

  Mrs Shuck’s Chocolate Graham Cracker

  
  

  Posted in Mrs Shuck's Creations, Trophy Cupcakes

• Cinco de Mayo at Trophy

  Posted at 1:26 am by MLea

  May 9th

  Last week was Cinco de Mayo, so that meant new flavors at Trophy.  Can I just say, “YUM!”  The margarita cupcake was lime cake with tequlia lime buttercream.  There was a sprinkling of salt and some candied lime zest on top.  The Mexican chocolate was a rich chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream with a hint of cinnamon and cayenne. There was just enough cayenne to warm the back of my throat but not my tongue.  I realized today as I was taking pictures of the dogs that I had the camera on “action”. Probably why I had trouble focusing on the cupcakes.  They didn’t move very much!

  

  Trophy’s Margarita

  

  Trophy’s Mexican Chocolate

  
  
  Posted in Trophy Cupcakes

• Wedding Cupcakes

  Posted at 1:52 am by MLea

  Apr 10th

  Our wedding cupcakes were provided by Sweet Pockets in Atlanta.  The big cupcake was a delicious carrot cake with cream cheese icing.  We had an assortment of regular and minis in Strawberry Wawa, Lemon Sunshine, and Caramel Apple.  Hidden amongst the cupcakes were some flying pigs.   It took Mr Shuck 12 years to propose, so I always thought I’d be getting married “when pigs fly”.

  

  Wedding Cupcake display by Sweet Pockets

  Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Sweet Pockets

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