Cupcake Porn

After a job interview (I hope I hope I get it! *knock on wood*), I rewarded myself with half a dozen mini cupcakes from dots cupcakes. The last time I walked into this adorable pink shop, I got 3 different kinds of cupcakes: berry berry (a cream cheese frosted chocolate cupcake with berries baked inside), strawberry lemonade (lemon cupcake topped off with lemon cream cheese and strawberries), and apple pie (which tastes like its namesake except sooo much better because it has cream cheese frosting and caramel on top).

Here's what I got this time:

a red velvet cupcake called fleur de sel (salt flower)

cappuccino cupcake

dulce de leche cupcake (which I'm dying to try after this prelim post)

strawberry shortcake cupcake

pina colada cupcake
(I would like to rename it the snow princess cupcake because of its cutesy heart on top of all that frou frou-y white coconut. The word 'the' is there because the coconut makes the cupcake look so impressive and oh, so important that a 'the' must be a part of its new name.)

chocolate lovers' cupcake

I haven't tried any of these yet so if you'll excuse me I'm going to indulge myself with some delish mini cupcakes. I'll be back to edit this post once I ate most, if not all of these yummy little things. toodles!

03.11.10 u p d a t e
It took me about 3 days to finish eating these mini cupcakes because my parents either gave me semi-dirty looks of discouragement or made judgmental comments. My maximum limit of cupcake intake was 2 per day because my parents had practically instilled a fear of becoming diabetic in me ever since I was a kid. In my own defense, I no longer have my daily latte like I did a year ago when I was still in college; the last time I went to a Starbucks was about 2 months ago near the Burbank airport. I've been eating considerably less than I did back in the days when I pulled all-nighters with my roommate, writing essays and occasionally taking breaks to bake some Trader Joe's cookies (my favorite was TJ's cinnamon oatmeal raisin cookies). The days of baking batches of cupcakes for people at work or for hungry college friends are gone.

Anyways, about those cupcakes from dots... they're all v. good, but the two that stood out are the dulce de leche and pina colada flavored ones. The dulce de leche cupcake was just heavenly with cream cheese frosting and caramel, and the pina colada one was surprisingly very good considering that I'm not usually very fond of coconut. I really like the pina colada one because inside there are little bits of pineapple baked into the cupcake and the combination of pineapple, cream cheese frosting, and coconut worked well together. I think I'm starting to warm up to coconut. You know how Pillsbury has funfetti frosting mix to put on top of holiday cupcakes? Well, decorative coconut should be called coconut-fetti just because it's more fun that way. Well, I think overall my favorite cupcake from dots so far is the apple pie one because its granny cake mix has a cinnamon-y taste to it and plus, I gravitate towards cream cheese frosting and of course, caramel (yum).