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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Chocolate PB Hi-Hats with recipe link

Look at these amazing hi-hat cupcakes by The Cupcake Project.  Seriously, chocolate, peanut butter is my
FAVORITE combo.  And really, I've been dying to try hi-hats!! This looks like it might be a perfect recipe to try!!!

Make sure you check out The Cupcake Project for the recipe to make these cupcakes so so many more fantastic cupcake recipes!

Yes, that's a chocolate peanut butter hi-hat cupcake (and here's the recipe link)

Get the recipe for what sounds like my ideal cupcake over at Cupcake Project.

Thomas the Tank Engine cupcakes, chocolate peanut butter and more from Splurge Bakery

These cupcakes are by Millburn, New Jersey's Splurge Bakery, via their Facebook page.









chocolate peanut butter cupcakes















Splurge Bakery

105 Main Street

Millburn, NJ 07041

973-379-0740

info at splurgebakery.com

Chocolate Oreo peanut butter cupcakes!

These chocolate Oreo peanut butter cupcakes (!!) are by Bella's Bakery in Devon, UK, via Twitpic, who can be reached at maidindevon at live.co.uk.

Peanut butter cup, lemon meringue, coffee and cream and snickrdoodle cupcakes by Round Town Cupcakes

Round Town Cupcakes is a custom cupcake company in Grand Blanc, Michigan. You can also find them on Facebook, where I got some of these photos; the rest were via their Flickr account. They can be roundtown at roundtowncupcakes.com or 810-610-1965. You can check out all their flavors here.




Peanut Butter Cup: Rich chocolate fudge cupcake frosted with peanut butter buttercream and drizzled with chocolate ganache.



Lemon Meringue: Fine crumb lemon cupcake filled with lemon curd, frosted with our signature buttercream and sprinkled with fresh lemon zest.



Coffee & Cream: Rich coffee flavored cupcake, frosted with coffee-infused buttercream and drizzled with white chocolate. Topped with a chocolate covered espresso bean.



Snickerdoodle: Cinnamon sugar cupcake frosted with a cinnamon buttercream.



Mother's Day flower bouquet



Alice in Wonderland bridal shower cupcakes



1st birthday animal cupcakes

What's inside these chocolate peanut butter cupcakes?

More chocolate peanut butter in the form of a mini dark chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter cup baked inside! Get the recipe and instructions for filled candy cupcake yummines from blogger Curry and Comfort.

Cupcakes are all in the presentation: a perfect swirl of chocolate and peanut butter

I think this chocolate peanut butter swirl with a banana on top is the epitome of what a cupcake should be: beautiful, stunning to look at, and makes you want to eat it! It's by Dixie Belle Cupcake Cafe in Fredericksburg, Texas, via Flickr. Find out more about them on their Facebook page.



And a few more of their cupcake creations, descriptions via Flickr:


Guinness & Baileys Cupcakes: "a tender, moist Guinness chocolate cupcake filled with a rich dark chocolate Baileys Ganache, topped with a Baileys Butter Cream and drizzled with Baileys Ganache"



M&Ms cupcakes



Pina colada cupcakes: "rich, moist rum cupcake baked with fresh pineapple and coconut, brushed with a rum glaze, topped with a Pineapple, Coconut, Rum Butter Cream, toasted Coconut and a Cherry"



blueberry lemon cupcakes (seems to be the cupcake flavor of summer 2011!): "tender, moist lemon cupcake filled with a Blueberry Lemon Tahitian Vanilla Cream, topped with Lemon Butter Cream, fresh Lemon Zest and a fresh, plump Blueberry"



sunflower cupcakes

Robicelli's to open Brooklyn cupcake bakery at end of July

One of our favorite New York City cupcake companies, Robicelli's, is profiled in the New York Daily News, which reveals that they're opening their first retail storefront bakery in the DeKalb Market in Brooklyn at the end of July! (They used to own a gourmet market which also sold cupcakes.). Very exciting news for Robicelli's fans and those who've yet to discover their unique, fun flavors.

From the article, which has more information on how they got started and built their family-run business:

"We started using a borrowed kitchen and $40 in quarters I stole from my kids' piggy bank to buy butter and eggs," says Allison.

Now, 150 flavors later, with nearly 400 recipes still on their wish list, Matt and Allison have made Robicelli's irresistible.

Their unconventional flavors include Allison's favorite, Chicken and Waffles, and Matt's favorite, The Elvis — a peanut butter, bacon and banana combo.

They send out 1,400 cupcakes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to 15 locations, most recently Battery Place Market. They include everything from blue cheese to tiramisu.

Every cupcake, it seems, is a labor of love. Here's how Allison describes one:

"To make the tiramisu, first we make an espresso cake and then we hand-soak every cupcake into a dark espresso syrup to make sure that each is dripping with flavor. We take dark chocolate and espresso to make a really rich ganache and coat each and every one. We then make our French butter cream, which you really only see on wedding cakes, and put it on top of the cake. We then dust a nice, rich, Dutch processed cocoa powder from Belgium over the top of that."

Photos from the Robicelli's Facebook page:


Pecan French Toast, Toasted Almond, Bananas Foster, Bea Arthur


Wild Maine Blueberry Cobbler, Cinnamon Bun, The Bluth, Butterbeer


Green Tea Mandarin, Blueberry Port, Tiramisu, Chocolate Turtle


and last week's flavors, via their Tumblr: Clockwise from front: The Odessa, Banana Nutella, PB&J, Peach Cobbler

For orders, contact Robicelli's at info at robicellis.com or
917-509-6048 and visit their Tumblr for weekly flavors and locations (they do various markets and events).

Here are this week's flavors; click here to find out where to get them!



CPB: Chocolate cake, peanut butter buttercream, ganache, roasted peanuts

Tres Leches: Three milk soaked brown butter cake, dulce de leche buttercream, caramel shards

McFadden: Victorian lemonade cake and buttercream made with a splash of Pimm’s, candied lemon peel

Creamsicle: Orange cake, vanilla buttercream, candied orange peel