Buzz the Elf

Buzz decided we should have hot chocolate tonight since it is so COLD today!!  He got each kid a Charlie Brown Christmas cup, hot chocolate, and marshmallows.  Parker will be having yogurt!  :)

Gigi's Chocolate Hazelnut cupcake

This is Gigi's Hazelnut cupcake.  (http://www.gigiscupcakesusa.com/chocolatehazelnut).  The icing is a hazelnut which wasn't bad.  I have never had Nutella before, but most people swear it is so good.  Well the middle of this cupcake had Nutella in it... and YUCK!  I am not a fan of Nutella.  I don't know what people are talking about.  It taste a lot like peanut butter but with a small chocolate flavor.  So gross.  No thanks on Nutella and this cupcake.

Gigi's Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

This is Gigi's chocolate chip cheesecake. (http://www.gigiscupcakesusa.com/chocolatechipcheesecake)  And it is SOOO yummy!  Wow, it is wonderful!  Chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting.  Very sweet and chocolatey.  Love this!  It may be my new favorite!

 

DC Cake Appeal

Here in Shawnee, we don't have many bakeries.  This is DC Cake Appeal's (http://www.dccakeappeal.com/) chocolate cupcake. Nothing fancy.  No decorations... they definitely won't be winning Cupcake Wars (a show on Food network) with their decorations, but the cupcake was very good.  The cake was very moist and yummy and the icing rich with chocolate.  And it was only $1.95!!!!  Holy batman, that's cheap!!!!  Right now they are in the middle of moving and won't be open again for a month or so.  I am ready for them to reopen so I can get another fix.  :) 

Gigi's Pumpkin White Chocolate

This is (http://www.gigiscupcakesusa.com) Gigi's Pumpkin White Chocolate cupcake... and holy moly it taste just like Fall to me!!  Wow.  I was very surprised by this cupcake.  I am not normally a fan of pumpkin tasting things, but this one I loved!  Here is what the description of it online is:

 

"Pumpkin cake with white chocolate chips, white chocolate cream cheese frosting, dusted with pumpkin pie spice."

 

It was wonderful!!  I need another one before the season is over!

 

 

Pinkitzel's Salted Caramel

Yesterday I tried Pinkitzel's Salted Caramel.  It was interesting.  It is a chocolate cake with very running caramel in the middle of it.  With some pink icing, I am not really sure what the icing was it.  it was my favorite part of this cupcake though.  I probably wouldn't get it again though. 

Gigi's Raspberry Cupcake

I am actually not sure what the name of this cupcake is.  There wasn't a label on it when I bought it.  The cupcake lady told me that it was a raspberry cake with a chocolate icing.  I wanted to try something that I didn't think I would like.  But unlike the two that I got that I figured I would like, I actually loved this cupcake!!!  It is a pink raspberry cake with chocolate icing with a white chocolate drizzle and a raspberry drizzle.  It was so good!!  I would love to get this one again.  I am not sure how often they sell these though.

Gigi's Mississippi Mud Pie

Gigi's Mississippi Mud Pie is a chocolate cake with coconut and nuts inside.  Then chocolate icing with chocolate drizzle and a couple marshmallows.  When I got this cupcake, I didn't know there would be coconut with it, I am not a fan of coconut at all.  The cake was ok, I could taste the coconut, but besides that it was good.  Now the icing was wonderful!!!  Love the icing!  It was a perfect chocolate icing.  Fluffy, creamy, rich... super yummy!

Gigi's Smore Cupcake

This is Gigi's Smore Cupcake.  It looked so cute in the display and I love smores that I make at home, but this cupcake isn't the same.  I actually wanted to return it for a refund.  The cake was a chocolate cake, that was completely dried out.  Then I guess they "toasted" the top of it.  Then the marshmallow icing on top with a tiny hershey bar.  The Hershey bar was the best part.  I like marshamallows but the icing was too much especially since the cake was so bad.  I wouldn't get this one again. 

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

So I am a Pinterest junkie, and I have no problem admitting it.  Today I tried out a cupcake recipe.  They are chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes.   All of my children loved the icing and the cookie on top.  As for the cake, they are not sure about it.  As for me, I didn't mind anything about this cupcake.  The cake is a little buttery.  But there is like 9 sticks of butter in this recipe.  Overall, I would eat these, but if my kids don't like it there isn't much point making them since I don't need to eat 24 cupcakes!  Here is a link to the recipe.. leave me a comment if you try it out!

http://www.beantownbaker.com/2011/03/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-cupcakes.html

My Cupcake List

Well after all of my cupcakes, now it is diet time!!!  But they were great!  And I can't wait till I get to go back for more!

Here are my top three from each place.

Gigi's

1) Red Velvet

2) Chocolate Midnight Magic

3) White Midnight Magic .

Pinkitzel

1) Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

2) Chocolate Malt

3) Chocolate Truffle

If you have tried either place, leave me a comment on what I should get next!

Pinkitzel's Peanut Butter Cupcake

Here is the peanut butter cupcake.  If you like peanut butter, this is the cupcake for you!  My boys would love this cupcake!  The chocolate cake was so yummy and soft!  Wow, super good!  The icing had a strong peanut butter taste and was fluffy and of course a peanut butter cup on top.  Personally I don't like peanut butter much at all.... ok to be real, I can't stand it.  But this wasn't a bad cupcake at all.  I probably wouldn't get it again for me, but I would for my boys!

Gigi's Midnight Magic

This cupcake is Gigi's (http://www.gigiscupcakesusa.com/)  Midnight Magic.  Chocolate cake with chocolate icing, sprinkles, and "antlers".  The cake was pretty good, but the icing was wonderful!  Very rich and sweet.  I love chocolate icing.  Even the sprinkles were good and so was the "antlers".  I would recommend this to any chocolate lover!

Gigi's Midnight Magic Cupcake

And this is Gigi's (http://www.gigiscupcakesusa.com/) White Midnight Magic cupcake.  It was a chocolate cake with white icing.  This cake wasn't as dry as the "Thunder Up" cake.  The icing was good.  This cupcake also had chocolate sprinkles and "antlers".  I am really not sure if they were antlers or not but they looked like it to me.  Overall this was a good cupcake.  The flavors were good together, I would buy this one again. 

Gigi's "Thunder Up" Cupcake

And this is the "Thunder Up!" cupcake!

I went when the OKC thunder were still in the finals against the Miami Heat.  This cupcake is adorable!!  And if you are wondering if the basketball is edible, it is!  It is a sugary sweet basketball.

It was a chocolate cake with white icing.  The cake was a little dry, but the icinf was sweet and rich.  The cake actually needed the icing to make it not so dry.  And then lots of sprinkles, but they were pretty good sprinkles.  Overall, not bad.  I would get it again to support the OKC Thunder! 

Gigi's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Since I am in LOVE with Pinkitzel's chocolate chip cookie dough cupcake, I decided to try Gigi's (http://www.gigiscupcakesusa.com/). Gigi's stores are very different than Pinkitzel's. There is no candy store, just cupcakes, fairly small but cute. The staff was very friendly also. So I got one of their chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes. And it was also very different than Pinkitzel's. The icing was a chocolate color, with mini chocolate chips on top also with a cookie.  The icing was very good, sweet and fluffy. I enjoyed the icing.  The cookie on top was hard, I am not sure if that was from it being old or not.  Maybe over cooked.  The cupcake was more like a muffin to me.  It wasn't sweet.  It was good and moist, but it didn't seem like a cupcake, so the icing with it, just didn't work for me.  I would like to eat both of them just not together. 

 And look how cute their boxes are!  :)

Pinkitzel's Chocolate Malt Cupcakes

Isn't it pretty??  The cupcake is so cute!  I love the chocolate and the straw.  This cupcake is a chocolate cake that is moist and very good.  With chocolate icing (LOVE), and a whopper (which I could live without).  The icing and the cake go well together, or they are good alone too.  Seeing this one, even my children agree that it is cute!