Been awhile, since I went cupcaking

It's been awhile since I have been on my cupcake quest.  I have been in morning for my cupcake diva Sammie.  She recently has been having a lot of stomach pains and come to find out, it's because she has an ulcer and a spastic gallbladder.  So that has put a damper on who I can eat cupcakes with.

Yesterday when I was coming back home from a Dr.s appt. with my mom and kiddos.  I saw a little cupcake shop on the side of the road called Angelic Cupcakes.  So of course I pulled over to see how yummy they were.

First let me say, yes I was guilty of gender profiling.  I assumed (remember what they say about assuming.  It makes an ass out of u and me.)  You figure in a place with a name like Angelic Cupcakes there is going to be a really bubbly, Texas diva with big hair and everything in the store looking like a zebra got barfed on by pepto bismal (all the pink and zebra).  Instead there is this really strong spoken gentleman there that does not have big Texas hair. He had a hat, gaged ears and tattoos.  Cupcakes were on cupcake stands and the store was very, straight to the point. He explained he had 12 flavors out and on the weekends he had all I think he said 24 flavors and eventually would have brownies and one would be his specialty. 

Now if there is anything that I love more then a great cupcake, is  a great bargain.  His cupcakes were $3 a cupcake and if you bought a  1/2 a dozen or more he gave you a discount.  Or he had day olds that were $10 for 6.  Seemed like a great deal to me : ).

We ended up with day olds that were:

Peanut butter cup
funfetti
lemon raspberry
strawberry cheesecake
cookies and cream
chocolate

So far I have inhaled the funfetti and cookies and cream.  My daughter was in love with the strawberry cheesecake. We still have the other 3 left. 

Overall, impressed.  Or maybe I just think its cool that a guy is running a cupcake shop : ).

On another day in July.  It was my sons 4th birthday.  He is a special needs child, so buying him a cake isn't really practical so we decided to stop at the Cupcake shack for a cupcake.  I know I always say how wonderful the cupcakes are, but I can't stress how wonderful the owners are.  After picking our dozen cupcake we told them one was for my son's birthday.  They proceeded to put his in a separate box with a candle and gave it to us for free.  There are still kind people in the world and it's even sweeter when it's for a sweet baby like this 

 

And another testament of kind people. Because of my beautiful special needs miracle I run a special needs support group called Specialbilities.  I decided to send my lovely and wonderful friend Amie and e-mail and see if she would bake me some cupcakes for my meeting in return for free marketing/PR.  She agreed and here is the finished product.  The ribbon represents hydrocephalus.  September is national hydrocephalus awareness.  If you want to know more about hydrocephalus please check out this link  http://www.hydroassoc.org/about-the-hydrocephalus-association/hydrocephalus-media-resources/hydrocephalus-statistics/

 

 



 

 

That's all for now and don't forget to

 

 

 

KEEP CALM

 

AND

 

 

CUPCAKE ON!

Once you go shack...

You would think as much as I talk about the cupcake shack that I am getting free cupcakes.  But no, they are just that good, and I just can't stop talking about them. 

I had the pleasure of trying one of her new cupcake shakes.  It is whatever flavor of cupcake you like, blended with vanilla or chocolate ice cream.  The whole time we are waiting for the shake my husband is looking at his clock telling me how this is going to make us late.  Needless to say, when we go it, he helped me drink it so quickly by the time we go to our destination, which is about 2 1/2 minutes away, the cup was making the empty cup sucking sound.  It was AWESOME.  I had a vanilla ice cream and wedding cake shake. YYYYYUUUUUUMMMMMMYYYYYY. 

The following weekend got to try the blackforest cake flavor.  All I can say is, the woman is a freaking genius.  If I could I would go every for a cupcake break, but my wallet and butt would hate that : ).

In between that time I got to go back to Shivers and eat a yummy snow cone.  I love coffee, so anytime I can get anything coffee flavored I usually do.  This time it was a orange dream coffee snow cone.  Coffee, orange flavor, whip cream and a cute little chewy orange slice on the top.  Got my coffee, fruit and snow cone fix all in one.  I think it's the perfect drink treat. 

Tell next time, keep on cupcaking!

Cupcake, more cupcakes and snow cones OH MY!

So this weekend we again ventured out for our cupcaketastic adventure.  Friday we headed to Frost in The Woodlands. 

 

Here is what we tried

 

Vanilla

Smores

Texas sheet cake

 

I am just going to say it.  I do not like the cupcakes at Frost. The people that work there are super nice.  But it is not my first trip to them, gave them another try and still they did not impress with the cupcakes. BUT, the Texas sheet cake is a whole new story.  It's moist, not to chocolaty and just super yummy. So I will leave Frost with saying "man this Sheet cake is good"!

 

Saturday we headed into Tomball again and I am just going to mention this because it was so super yummy. There is a new snow cone stand called Shivers. They have every flavor imaginable, plus some super cool creations. 

 

We tried

 

The candy bar

Coffee

Mango

The brown cow

 

The candy bar was ice cream with snow cone ice, chocolate flavor, chocolate sauce, marshmallow fluff, whip cream and caramel. It was super super super yummy!

 

The coffee had ice cream on the bottom, snow cone ice and whip cream on the top. Starbucks watch out. That was a super good frappachino invention.

 

Mango was mango-e.  Super fruity but good.

 

The brown cow was ice cream on the bottom, snow cone ice and root beer flavor with whip cream. It was like a root beer float on crack. A crack everyone should try once : ).

 

Then we ended the night hitting The Cupcake Shack again. And remember, "once you go Shack, you never go back!"

Things we inhaled

Red velvet

Reece's

Wedding cake

Strawberry shortcake

Double strawberry

Salted vanilla caramel

Nothing disappointed. The Shack is the place to go for your cupcake and food needs. LONG LIVE THE SHACK.

Till next time, keep balling (like cake balls!)


 

The cupcake quest begins

Two Texas cupcake connoisseur's on a on a mission to try all the Texastastic cupcakes we can.  A good cupcake is like a pretty comfortable pair of shoes,  So we are doing the hard part and trying them all on for you. 

Places we have visited so far.

• Frosted (Tomball)
• Cupcake cowgirl (Spring)
• Cupcake shack (Spring)
• Whistle stop tea room (Tomball)
• Treat (Houston)
• Candy land sweets (Conroe)

Here is what we tried at the different cupcake establishments.

Frosted - orange cream, Italian cream and a petite four cake.  I like the icing, but the cake seems wet. Petite four very yummy. The place is cute, but it needs some new places to sit. 

Cupcake cowgirl - humming bird, cookie dough, peanut butter and jelly, strawberry, grandma's love, wedding cake, lemon raspberry.  Loved the cookie dough.  She actually hollowed out the middle and filled it with cookie dough.  It was made with a ton of love!  Enjoyed the strawberry.  But I am a fruity girl : ).  The butter cream frosting is a little to buttery on all of them but the Grandma's love.  It has a small chocolate cover.  Love the baker/owner, who is also the winner of cupcake wars.  Place is super cute too!

Cupcake shack - wedding cake, Reece's, strawberry shortcake, carrot cake, banana split.  I think the banana split is the best thing I have ever had in my mouth.  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE everything at the shack.  It is the cutest idea.  A small portable building that you drive up to and order.  The owners and staff are super friendly and it is a very good price.  I have tried more then cupcakes there too, and everything is super yummy.  I have a new saying that shows my love of the shack.  "Once you go shack, you never go back"!!!!!

Whistle stop tea room - beautiful cupcakes.  I mean truly a work of art, every one of them.  The icing is the most flavorful thing of the cupcake.  The tea room itself is pretty and the owner is really nice. 

Treat - muffin, treat for my doggie, strawberry, carrot cake.  For it being in such a fancy area (Vintage park) you would expect the cupcakes to be better.  Really dry and tasteless.  The staff was unfriendly and it was overpriced and really small.

Candy land sweets - fruit punch, peach, Oreo, chocolate ice cream, vanilla, hummingbird.  The chocolate ice cream was by far my favorite.  It looks like a dipped cone and the topping is a mix between marshmallow fluff and icing.  Super good.  The store is really cute and the owner was very nice. 

Until next time. Pound it! (get it, like pound cake :) )