Sugar Sweet Sunshine

And what should happen to be across the street from Tiny's Giant Sandwich shop? Hmmmm...how coincidental....The Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery...how convenient and not carefully plotted and premeditated at all....Okay so it was the reason Robyn and I chose the Sandwich shop. There it's out. But just look! The cup cakes have names! My favortie name was Bob-a yellow cake with chocolate almond buttercream. So as you can see decisions here do not come easy. You have to walk around the case, press your face up against the glass and see what dessert is at the top of its game. I was debating between the Sexy Red Velvet-Red velvet cake with "the moose" (chocolate frosting) and the pumpkin pudding with some sort of egg nogg deliciousness. I went with the red velvet because it was so red and velvety, and it had a phat chocolate hat! Robyn decided on a yellow cake with vanilla buttercream frosting (the cake being sliced below). My cupcake was beautiful. It also had little hearts!!!!! (Which I will temporarily over look their intended connotation of Feb. 14th, the impending reminder of singledom). First bite... a sugary chocolate frosting pierces my taste buds! HELLO! I am probably 95% sugar and 20% more sugar! The chocolate flavor was good, but not as rich and chocolate cream based as I would have liked. I kept eating and contemplating the frosting when it occured to me that I didn't know what the cup cake tasted like. I grabbed a virgin piece of the cake....it tasted like....like....nothing! It tasted like white cake! It is such a trick to the eye! The cake is a rich red and I want it to taste like red, almost to the point where I think it does, but no! It tastes like white cake! Not that this is bad. It is still good, but not what I had in mind, and not something I would order again. What's the hype about the red velvet, someone tell me!!!??!? I don't get it! Is the red velvet supposed to have a strong flavor, or are you velvet fanatics really digging the plain cake-red color magic trick?
Robyn's on the otherhand was simple...yet very impressive. The cake wasn't greasy but moist and the frosting...oh the frosting...it wasn't overly sugary, like mine...it had a little bit heavier texture with a smooth vanilla finish. It has something to order again! MMMmmm...it's something you lick out of the bowl, and off the plate....I mean no. No one does that, namely not me. Anyhooo, it was getting late and they were closing so we left. Question of the day: What happens to all of those cupcakes?