my new favorite...
Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 7:11PM
amber VanderVliet

Most of our customers ask, "what's your favorite?" and the question always stumps me because each week we strive to have such a variety of flavors, so it's a challenge to decide which one I like best.  However, this week it took me half a bite to claim the rocky road as my "fav"! The Rocky Road has a chocolate cake, filled with gooey fudge, topped with dark chocolate marshmallow frosting, big chunks of walnuts, oozing marshmallow and chocolate sauce.

But every person has such a different palate that you never know what will be your favorite.  The other new flavors of the week are ~

Coconut Key Lime ~ vanilla cake, filled with a tart key lime pudding, topped with coconut milk frosting, shaved coconut and sugared lime zest

Chocolate Cream ~ Chocolate cake, filled with a fluffy sweet cream concoction, topped with chocolate glaze and vanilla frosting (our version of a gourmet Hostess)

"Alan's Pick", Orange Blossom Honey Cheesecake ~  We participated in the Gainey Farmer's Market again on Friday and in addition to using locally grown organic produce for the fruit flavored cupcakes, I also wanted to incorporate a local honey purveyor, San Marcos Farms.  This cupcake has a vanilla bean cake, baked with orange blossom honey chessecake in the middle, topped with cream cheese frosting and a honey, caramel glaze (inspired from a gourmet doughnut recipe)...the best part is that Alan approves.

Our 5th new flavor is a Nectarine, Raspberry, Chardonnay (sorry no pic).   A Chardonnay cake, drenched with fresh raspberry puree, filled with pastry cream and chopped nectarines, topped with a sweet nectarine frosting and a raspberry.

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