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Dulce de Leche from Sugar Bakery

Posted at 6:08 pm by MLea

Nov 13th

I thought I’d give Sugar Bakery another chance. Actually, coworker Scott brought 2 back after lunch, so really HE gave them a second chance.

Dulce de Leche from Sugar Bakery: Click to enlarge

Sugar is not about to be added to the favorites list. Apparently, I don’t like home-made caramel. I like the top of creme brulee, the stuff in a Snickers® or Milky Way® and the jar of ice cream topping, but I otherwise I don’t like the taste of burnt sugar. So perhaps this won’t be a very objective review. The icing seemed to be a meringue butter cream, very silky. The cake didn’t have a lot of flavor: I couldn’t tell if it was vanilla or caramel. It wasn’t dry. It was filled with dulce de leche. My coworker thought this cupcake was great. I thought it was only ♥. I ate 1/4 of a cupcake and it was a struggle, done only to have a review.

I had a taste of the frosting of another cupcake purchased that day:

Chocolate Cupcake from Sugar Bakery: Click to enlarge

The frosting was a fudgey butter cream. My tiny taste was very tasty. I’ll update eventually with the eater’s opinion of the cupcake. Coworker Michael says, “If cupcakes had fingers, I’d buy this cupcake an engagement ring.”

Appearance note: I’m not sure if Sugar uses cupcake liners that don’t fit the cupcake pan or if the cupcakes just rise above the liner, but the cupcakes always appear awkward. They remind me of a person whose clothes are too big for them: a little sloppy.

Posted in Miscellaneous Bakeries | Tagged dulce de leche

New one on the top 5 list!

Posted at 5:06 pm by MLea

Aug 27th

So, I got the pictures from un-reviewed Yellow Leaf visit.

Ginger Tea: Excellent. Fresh ginger zinginess. Usually Yellow Leaf’s icing isn’t that flavorful, but the ginger icing was. The flavor reminded me of Hagen Daz Five Ice Cream: Ginger. Creamy and ginger-y is very unexpected. Coincidentally, Mr Shuck’s shirt was the same color. This one makes it to the top 5!

Boston Cream: Vanilla cake is always good at Yellow Leaf, but the vanilla icing is pretty tasteless. This could use more chocolate than the thin layer on top. Also not enough of custard filling. It was okay, but not great.

Dulce de Leche: I haven’t decided how I feel about this one. The filling was very significant and tasted like the canned dulce de leche: a slight burnt taste, extremely sweet. The icing had a mild caramel flavor.