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- Confetti Cupcakes, Issaquah
  
  Posted at 5:24 pm by MLea
  
  Oct 28th
  
  You’ll forgive me for the lack of information in this post. We went to the Issaquah Salmon Days festival with our friends, the Chens. We stopped off at Confetti Cupcakes in downtown Issaquah while we were wandering among the stalls.
  
  Confetti Cupcakes
  
  There was a nice display outside…
  
  Menu board
  
  Most of the flavors were pretty usual, but they also had Snowball…
  
  and pumpkin spice….
  
  and whatever this was….Very cute flower on top…
  
  As I said in an earlier post…I’ve been busy…I didn’t write anything down about these. I don’t remember much. The Chens took the pink one and we had the pumpkin spice. It seems like it was a little underdone, but tasty. I’ll try to do better in the future. At least I didn’t delete the photos….
  
  I think I’m caught up now…
  
  We’re going to Portland again soon. I’ll take good notes….
  
  Posted in Miscellaneous Bakeries | Tagged chocolate, confetti cupcakes, issaquah, pumpkin, raspberry, Snowball
- A Second Look at Look (Cupcakes)
  
  Posted at 6:18 pm by MLea
  
  Oct 26th
  
  I ventured back to The Chocolate Box to have another one of Look’s yummy mini cupcakes. My choices for today: Molasses and Pumpkin. The chick who placed my cupcakes on the plate told me, “Molasses with Ginger Icing.” The chick that rang me up and gave me more details for my public described them as “Molasses-Clove”. I wish I had heard that little extra word “clove” while I was selecting; I’m not a huge fan of cloves.
  
  Molasses Clove and Pumpkin Ginger from Look Cupcake
  
  So that being said. I don’t think anyone is going to be surprised now that I didn’t like this cupcake. In a word: BLEH! It wasn’t just the clove problem, although that was a major contributor. The case the cupcakes are kept in must be refrigerated (or too close to the gelato freezer) as they were COLD. I ate the cupcakes we purchased there previously at home, so they must have had time to defrost. The cake seemed very dry. My companions also tried the cupcake and their reaction was similar. If this means anything; 3 people ate some of this MINI cupcake and there was still some left on the plate. My rating: 1/2 ♥ and it’s verging on wanting to cross the street to avoid it. Even though the clove swirl in the ginger frosting was disgusting, it was pretty.
  
  Cupcake #2: Pumpkin with Ginger icing filled with cinnamon cheesecake. As I reported previously, there was not enough filling in the cupcake to be considered filled, especially considering that the filing didn’t have much flavor to it. (Again, this may be a by-product of being cold.) This cupcake wasn’t dry, but it wasn’t what I would consider “moist”. It did have pumpkin pie flavor and I ate the whole mini cupcake (by myself, even). Rating: ♥♥. I wouldn’t purchase this again.
  
  photos to come…..
  
  Posted in Look Cupcake | Tagged clove, molasses, pumpkin
- South Seattle Community College= YUM!
  
  Posted at 8:26 pm by MLea
  
  Oct 13th
  
  Since I was off (still sick) Mr Shuck and I ventured over to the Alhadef Grill, a restaurant run by the Culinary Arts students at South Seattle Community College. (Great deal, by the way. $20 for upscale lunch for both of us.) Afterwards, we stopped by Bernie’s Pastry Shop, which is run by the Pastry Arts students. We will be returning!
  
  Bernie's Pastry Shop- Click to enlarge.
  
  Selection #1: Not exactly a cupcake, unless you consider it a cheese cupcake. Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake.
  
  Pumpkin Spice Cheese Cake- Click to enlarge
  
  When I opened the container (compostble plastic from Cedar Grove), the scent of pumpkin pie was amazing and the pastry was incredibly cute with the marzipan pumpkin sitting atop. I’m not sure what the straw was made from…it didn’t have a distinctive flavor, but added a bit of texture to the creamy cheesecake.   Nutmeg was very apparent, but not overwhelming.   Rating: ♥♥♥♥.
  
  Selection #2: Pumpkin Cupcake layered with marshmallow and marscapone cheese, topped with caramel glaze and fleur de sel, and filled (we realized later) with caramel. (Yes, we had a pumpkin extravaganza!)
  
  Pumpkin Cupcake- Click to enlarge
  
  After my experience yesterday with Cupcake Royale’s bitter, overly burnt tasting caramel, I was a bit hesitant to try the caramel on top of this cupcake. The marshmallow layer was a bit rubbery and didn’t “stick” to the other layers, so the cupcake fell apart when I cut into it; this revealed the caramel center.
  
  Click for a better view of the caramel filling
  
  Because the cupcake broke in half, I ended up essentially having 2 different cupcakes: Pumpkin with salted caramel and marshmallow AND pumpkin with marscapone and caramel.    Both were delicious. The caramel in this cupcake did not have the burnt flavor of Cupcake Royale’s icing. The salt was AMAZING on the top of the cupcake and was such a contrast to the sweetness of the marshmallow and caramel.    As for the bottom of the cupcake: the marscapone was creamy and light and worked well with the caramel, pumpkin and spices. This cupcake just bounced Trophy’s Strawberry Lemonade off the top 5 list. Rating: ♥♥♥♥
  
  Mr Shuck has added this to his top 3 cupcakes, joining my Mocha Truffle cupcake and Cupcake Jones’ What’s Up Doc (carrot).   And surprisingly just suggested that we return to the pastry shop on Friday to see what they have!
  
  Extra special info: Our total pastry bill: $4.75. What a bargain!
  
  Posted in Miscellaneous Bakeries | Tagged pumpkin
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