Sugar Savvy

To say I have a healthy obsession with cupcakes would be an understatement.  We frequently head off on the weekends in search of a new bakery and undiscovered cupcake territory, so when I spied cupcakes at our local Starbucks, my insides did a little flip.

They have a few different flavors available, but they’re not available at all Starbucks.  Out of the multiple Starbucks we have in our area, only one location sells cupcakes.  I’ve seen the Double Chocolate ones that I purchased (pictured here), a Red Velvet one and a recent visitor to A Nice Cuppa alerted us of a vanilla bean variety.

They sell for approximately $1.95 each, and the price for the fourth one was only about 40 cents more so no arm twisting was needed to buy four.  But how did they taste?

They are no Billy’s cupcake, that’s for sure.  I hate to say it, but they didn’t do anything for me.  But in fairness, I might just have a higher standard for cupcakes than the average person since we’re always scouting them out.  The frosting, while good, was a little thick for my taste, and the cupcake itself a little drier than I’d like.  That being said, my six-year-old son, another cupcake expert in the making, devoured them, so if you see them at your local Starbucks, do give them a try for yourself.

In the meantime, I’ll be hunting down the other flavors … all in the name of research.