a99kitten's Musings

I *had* to swing by Stanford Shopping Center today so *had* to swing by Sprinkles since I had to walk right by it to get to my car…after I strategically parked in the first spot available closest to the Sprinkles door…

I purchased 2 cupcakes for me: a red velvet cupcake and a peanut butter chip cupcake. The red velvet I don’t even need to discuss as we all know they are DELICIOUS! If you have never been to a Sprinkles, but feel like going..get a red velvet. Don’t muck about with other flavors – just go straight to the heart :) Once you are hooked, you can be adventurous and add other flavors to your order.

Now, since I am a Sprinkles veteran (what? why are you looking at me like that?) I added a peanut butter chip to my order. If you don’t like peanut butter that much – just pass this one by. HOWEVER, if you are like me and love peanut butter – GET THIS! OHMYGOSH – so peanut-buttery!!! This thing was delish – highly recommended for peanut butter fans. Each bite was a like eating a spoon full of peanut butter but mixed in with cakey goodness. Nomnomnom!

Of course, no visit to Sprinkes is complete without pupcakes for my boys. If you get these for your doggies…ummm…remember to take the paper cup off first…luckily I got it back form Angelus and got the paper off :)

Pupcake for Angelus!

Pupcake for Storm!

I’m fairly certain there no cuter dogs in the entire universe :) They thoroughly enjoyed their treats…and asked where the rest of the dozen were :)

Yesterday I tried a cupcake from Sugar Butter Flour (Campbell, CA.) I have never been there or tried anything from there  before now and, since I am doing my great cupcake experiment, I wanted to try one :) Was supposed to try Kara’s (at Santana Row) but we forgot in our post-brunch-get-to-the-shopping haze :)

My friend bought 4 cupcakes. 3 of them looked like a homemade version of the historic Hostess Cupcake.

Hostess

The 4th stepchild cupcake looked like a vanilla/whitecake with chocolate frosting. But I did not try that one. I was still so amazingly full from brunch that it seemed like I would be committing a deadly sin (GLUTTON!) by eating more…But…there they were…

SugarButterFlour cupcakes

So I had 1/2 of the Hostess looking one (the officially and aptly named “Chocolate Cupcake”.) My friend kept them in the fridge so they were cold (she had picked them up that morning so they were fresh.) I think this actually helped as the cake was still moist because they were fresh from that morning and the frosting was cold so it seemed more fudgey.  Quite tasty. I would definitely say better than the 2 chocolate flavors I have tried at Sprinkles (have tried the Black & White and Vanilla Milk Chocolate flavors there.)

So I feel I need to try other flavors there (Red Velvet and perhaps the Coconut.) http://www.sugarbutterflour.com/products/Cupcakes.htm

So onto the next place. I am thinking I *might* make some homemade red velvet this weekend! Yikes….:)