I'm an official Retro Bakery cupcake fan, especially the butterscotch hi hat

This weekend I was given a wonderful gift of a delivery of cupcakes from Retro Bakery in Las Vegas! I had a fabulous time in Vegas (shoutout to the Flamingo Hotel) and hope to return, and these cupcakes were a highlight of my trip. I was very excited to try their butterscotch hi hat cupcake and wouldn't you know, of the dozen I tried, that was my absolute favorite, followed by a tie between Peanut Butter Cup and Mint Chocolate chip. Their September cupcake of the month, spicy pumpkin, which features cinnamon spice cake with pumpkin pie buttercream, cake was a bit spicy, which I found a bit too spicy, but I'm not a carrot cake afficionado. All of them were delicious, moist and interesting. The coffee frosting on the coffee and donuts cupcake was amazing; think coffee ice cream, which I liked even before I started drinking coffee, in frosting form. It was a strong flavor, complemented the donut well, and was sweet and wonderful.

So a big THANK YOU to Retro Bakery, especially Kari Haskell - these were even better than all the years I've spent lusting after them from afar.

I highly recommend them; their delivery fee is $20 to the Las Vegas Strip.

Some of my photos:







butterscotch hi hat cupcake (my favorite) - so buttery and rich and the shell wasn't hard but soft, and melted in my mouth. I could eat this cupcake if not every day, very close to it.








mint chocolate chip cupcake



spicy pumpkin cupcake



milk and cookies cupcake



coffee and donuts cupcake - there was much debate amongst my friends over which cupcake this was!



Peanut Butter Cup cupcake





Chocolate Fountain: chocolate cake plus chocolate buttercream plus chocolate ganache!



Red, white and blueberry


Click here to see all their flavors.

Retro Bakery
7785 N. Durango Dr. #130
Las Vegas, NV 89131
95 N Freeway/Durango Dr.
702-586-3740
retrobakery at hotmail.com
www.retrobakerylv.com
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@retrobakery on Twitter

Very cute Harry Potter cupcakes and more by Frostings in Glen Allen, VIrginia

Harry Potter cupcakes live on! These top ones are butterbeer flavored and will be available this weekend again due to the "overwhelming response" at Frostings in Glen Allen, Virginia, via their Facebook page. "Feel like you're back at the Three Broomsticks with our Butterscotch Cupcake topped with Cream Soda and Butterscotch Buttercream!" The others I just thought were cute!








disco cupcakes!




2010 and 2011 graduation cupcakes

Frostings
11331 West Broad Street, Suite 137
Glen Allen, VA 23060
804-360-2712
matthew.fraker at frostingsva.com

Ramadan cupcakes in Turkish Delight, Sticky Date and Pistachio Praline from Kitsch

Al Bawawa writes about cupcakes in the United Arab Emerates in "Ramadan delicacies from Kitsch Cupcakes" and says:

Kitsch will be introducing a Pistachio Praline cupcake, a vanilla base cupcake topped with vanilla icing and a hint of pistachio praline. If you are one of those who love pistachio ice cream, this cupcake is a must-try! “Pistachio is a traditional ingredient found in most desserts that originate from the Arab world and people love it. A Pistachio cupcake has been long-due!” claims Dogmoch.

Turkish Delight, a cupcake with a chocolate base and a combo of vanilla and chocolate icing finished with fine traditional Turkish ingredients is the other addition to Kitsch’s menu for this month. “The Turks are known for their unique desserts so we’ve borrowed some ingredients from them and mixed it with our secret recipe,” adds Dogmoch. Kitsch will also be recalling its famous Sticky Date cupcake, a moist date cupcake with butterscotch icing for Ramadan.

A percentage of the sales of the Ramadan range of cupcakes will be donated to one of the local charities. “Ramadan is the month of giving and baking smiles on the faces of innocent children is the least we can do during this month,” explains Dogmoch. Kitsch will also be surprising children with special needs with its mouth-watering delights throughout the month.

Find out more about Kitsch Cupcakes by calling 04-395 6963 or at their website (music will play, fyi) and Facebook page.

Stump the Cupcake Chump

It's not often that we post cupcake descriptions in Latin, but these ad hoc babies sure deserve a prize:

"Ad Hoc Chocolate Cupcakes with whipped cream, butterscotch and fleur de sel."

Are they not gorgeous? Drool-worthy.
Excellent cupcake shot courtesy gtrwndr87. Thanks!

Butterbeer cream soda butterscotch Harry Potter cupcakes for sale at Sweet Avenue Bake Shop this week!

To celebrate the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II, Rutherford, New Jersey cupcakery Sweet Avenue Bake Shop, known for their pop culture cupcakes featuring the likes of Twilight and others, is selling a special limited edition cupcake, the butterbeer! From their Facebook page:

Presenting our newest flavor - BUTTERBEER. We wholeheartedly admit that we are huge Harry Potter nerds, and are more than a little excited about the release of the final Harry Potter movie this Friday. It's the end of an era, so we needed to celebrate.

Butterbeer is a cream soda cake filled with butterscotch syrup and topped with butterscotch frosting and a Hogwarts house ring. Which house will you be sorted into?



Get more information at sweetavenuebakeshop.com and make sure you get there quick for these!

Butterbeer Harry Potter cupcakes

These Harry Potter cupcakes (the first this week of many, I predict) are by Omaha, Nebraska's PJ's Baby Cakes, via Flickr. You can find out more at pjsbabycakes.com and follow them on Twitter and Facebook. From their Flickr account:

Butterbeer Cupcakes are a buttery cream soda cake filled with a butterscotch ganache, topped with a butterscotch buttercream and drizzled with more butterscotch ganache. I adapted a few different recipes found on the internet and made an absolutely awesome cupcake. Possibly my favorite. Or maybe it's just all the butterscotch talking.

Fondant pieces were handmade by myself and one of my volunteers!