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      • New Cupcakes from Dahlia Bakery

        Posted at 6:10 am by MLea
        Apr 15th

        So after a useless doctor’s appointment, I felt a little “cupcake-y”.  I had to pick up Mr Shuck downtown and Dahlia Bakery was on the way…

        Orange Vanilla Cupcake from Dahlia Bakery

        The Orange Vanilla cupcake looked much better at the bakery.  I obviously didn’t exercise enough care in the car and my cupcake turned over in the Chinese takeout container.   The cake was a little dense and chewy, but still moist with mild orange flavor.  The icing, I think an Italian meringue butter cream, had stronger orange flavor from flecks of zest.  The cake was garnished with a strip of candied orange zest and curls of white chocolate.   My rating: ♥♥♥.  I’d gladly pay for this again, but I probably wouldn’t drive out of the way.  I like the way they coordinate their flavor with the liner.  I’m not willing to pay extra to dress my cupcakes in pretty liners since I they are definitely a labor of love not profit.  White liners are cheaper.

        Rocky Road Cupcake from Dahlia Bakery: Click to enlarge

        The Rocky Road cupcake wasn’t very rocky.  I think I experienced only 2 or 3 nuts.  Not very much crunch there.  The cake was was moist and full of bittersweet chocolate flavor.  The marshmallow meringue was nice and fluffy, but a bit grainy, like the sugar hadn’t dissolved completely.  In spite of the lack of nuts and some graininess, I enjoyed this cupcake.  My rating: ♥♥ 1/2.  I might get it again if I was in the area.  It would depend on what else they had instead.

        On a side note…I drifted into Yellow Leaf because Mr Shuck was waiting for me next to their bakery.  I was hoping for something spectacularly yummy like Pancakes and Bacon, but they didn’t have anything new or exciting today.  Maybe next time!

        Posted in Miscellaneous Bakeries | Tagged Dahlia Bakery, orange, rocky road, vanilla
      • 1st trip to Dahlia Bakery will not be the last

        Posted at 8:52 pm by MLea
        Nov 4th

        We visited Dahlia Bakery today after a wonderful lunch at Dahlia Lounge. They only had 2 different cupcake flavors so deciding was easy!  I took one of each!

        Malted Cupcake with Chocolate Flake Butter cream: Silky (meringue?) butter cream with flakes of bittersweet chocolate topping a moist dark chocolate cupcake.   Neither the cake nor the icing was overly sweet and a definite malted milk flavor to the icing.  Very good.  Rating:  ♥♥ 1/2

        Caramel Popcorn Cupcake: This has knocked something off the top 5 list….I’m going to have to ponder for a bit to decide my new favorites.  Incredible!  The silky icing tasted exactly like caramel-covered popcorn; it was sweet and a bit salty.  There was a bit of texture to it which seemed like maybe ground up popcorn.  The cupcake itself was a sweet cornmeal cupcake with rich corn flavor.   I wish I had bought more than one.  Rating: ♥♥♥♥  Update 11/23:  Confirmed from Dahlia bakery that there is indeed pureed caramel corn in the frosting.  The caramel corn is made in house.

        Caramel Popcorn from Dahlia Bakery
        Caramel Popcorn from Dahlia Bakery- Click to enlarge
        Malted Cupcake from Dahlia Bakery- click to enlarge
        Malted Cupcake from Dahlia Bakery- click to enlarge

        Posted in Miscellaneous Bakeries | Tagged caramel popcorn, chocolate malt, Dahlia Bakery
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