Showing posts with label mint chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mint chocolate. Show all posts

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Junior Mint cupcakes and recipe link

Blogger Piper at Got It, Cook It made these Junior Mint cupcakes. Get the recipe at her blog, where she writes:

The cupcakes are dark chocolate and super moist, but the frosting is the thing.
The thing that you want more of.
The thing you want to eat with your fingers, a spoon, a bucket.
So light and delicious whipped cream frosting with a hint of peppermint.
Cool and refreshing, and totally yummy!


Saturday, September 17, 2011

Free cupcakes next Saturday at Customer Appreciation Day today at Swirlz in Chicago

Next Saturday! Heads up for Chicago cupcake lovers from Swirlz Cupcakes, whose cupcakes I've enjoyed and who specialize in gluten-free cupcakes as well as regular ones...Visit their Facebook page as well as @swirlzcupcakes on Twitter and swirlzcupcakes.com for more information.

Free cupcake details for Customer Appreciation Day:



And some of their special flavors of late:


"Mexican Hot Chocolate cupcake for Mexican Independence day anyone? Cayenne chocolate cake with a layer of chocolate ganache and CANDIED JALAPENOS, topped with a cinnamon buttercream." (this was available yesterday, and may be again)



Limited edition creme de menthe cupcake: "Celebrate with this delicious cupcake: chocolate cake filled with mint chocolate ganache, topped with a layer of chocolate ganache and mint buttercream."



Chocolate strawberry truffle cupcake: "Chocolate cake with a strawberry truffle filling, layer of chocolate ganache & fresh strawberry preserve, topped with a bittersweet chocolate buttercream and finished off with a strawberry flower!"



Tailgating cupcakes

Monday, September 12, 2011

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

Thursday, August 4, 2011

4 chocolate chip cupcakes to wish you a Happy National Chocolate Chip Day!

I learned via @Jetblue that today is National Chocolate Chip Day, so I wanted to wish you all a Happy National Chocolate Chip Day!


Chocolate chip cookie cupcakes by Zoey Cakes, via Flickr



mint chocolate chip cupcake by pumpkin cupcake on Flickr



chocolate orange cupcake by Tea Loves Cake in Greenock, Scotland via Flickr



gluten free chocolate chip cupcake by Carytown Cupcakes in Richmond, Virginia via Flickr