strawberry lemonade & more

We recently took a very short trip to Maui to visit my family and while browsing in one of my favorite boutiques, Nuage Bleu, in Paia, I enhaled the most heavenly, pure scents ever! 100% Pure  shower gels & lotions smell so delicous, you'll want to eat them!  The beautiful color and intoxicating scent of the stawberry lemonade shower gel instantly made me want to make a stawberry lemonade cupcake - so we did! 

A vanilla bean cake, filled with fresh, tart lemon curd, topped with strawberry frosting and strawberry puree. 

We also featured 2 other new flavors!

Best of Both Worlds *Chocolate & Vanilla*.  This has been on our menu for a while, but we've never had it in the shop before.  I love the frosting application - it takes me back to my "fro-yo" obsession as a teenager in the 90's (I am so excited the craze is back and trendy)!  It's a chocolate cake, filled with vanilla bean pastry cream, topped with vanilla bean and dark chocolate frosting.

Maple Cinnamon French Toast!  Funny story - this cupcake evolved and made it's apperance in the shop on Friday becuase we rejected the Blueberry Maple Pancake (the frosting color looked like death - those who know me well, know my obsession with color - and it overall was too sweet.  Thanks to our C.E.T. Kevin for saving the day with the idea for the flavor revision)!  Vanilla cake, filled with maple pastry cream, topped with cinnamon sweet cream frosting & cinnamon sugar dusting.