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      • Head to Head Cupcake Death Match!

        Posted at 6:39 pm by MLea
        Sep 15th
        The contenders:  Trophy’s Vanilla Cupcake with Vanilla Icing vs Yellow Leaf’s Simply Vanilla Cupcake
        The judges:  Mrs Shuck and friend Mrs Cram
        The venue:  Trophy Cupcake in Wallingford.
        Huge aside:  Yes, I know it was somewhat disrespectful to take a Yellow Leaf Cupcake to Trophy’s flagship store, but it was a necessary rudeness.  Thankfully, I had a filed photo of Yellow Leaf’s Simply Vanilla as I dropped the box on the ground  en route to Trophy.  I already had to set up my primitive photo studio (red t-shirt on box + camera) at a table at Trophy.   It would have been more discourteous to photograph a competitor’s cupcake inside their establishment than to just eat it in there….
        The opinions:  Both judges agreed that Yellow Leaf has the best vanilla cake: moist and flavorful.   However, Yellow Leaf’s vanilla icing has a slick texture…similar to soft butter… and not much vanilla flavor.  Mrs Cram found the icing to be distracting and that it coated her tongue.   Trophy’s cake was fine, nothing spectacular, but their icing was superior and had more vanilla flavor.
        The result:   While Yellow Leaf had the best cake, their icing was inferior.  Trophy’s cake was good, but they had much better icing, so Trophy was declared the winner of the battle of vanillas.
        Yellow Leaf's Simply Vanilla

        Yellow Leaf's Simply Vanilla

        Trophy's Vanilla Vanilla

        Trophy's Vanilla Vanilla

        Cupcake Catastrophy

        Cupcake Catastrophy

        Posted in The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company, Trophy Cupcakes | Tagged vanilla
      • 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
      • Thursday at Trophy

        Posted at 1:40 am by MLea
        Jan 23rd

        Thursday is a happy day at Trophy.  2 flavors of the day: Carrot Cake and Strawberry Lemonade.

        Strawberry lemonade is delicious.  Lemony pound cake cupcake.  Dense and moist.  Tart strawberry icing with sugar crystals.

        Carrot cake is good.  Moist and flecked with carrot shreds.  Nice cream cheese icing.

        Trophy's Strawberry Lemonade and Carrot Cake

        Trophy's Strawberry Lemonade and Carrot Cake

        Posted in Trophy Cupcakes | Tagged Carrot, Strawberry lemonade
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