Thu
13
Oct
2011
Scarlett's Cupcakes - Pacific Palisades, CA
After a lovely hike with my good friend Kristin and my pup Roxy in Pacific Palisades, we found ourselves drawn to this little cupcake sign on the road that read, "Vegan Cupcakes!"
I've been very curious to taste vegan and gluten-free cupcakes from gourmet cupcakeries, so Scarlett's Cupcakes would be my first try!
I loved the warm and festive Fall decor in the shop. The sign by the register invited customers back in on Halloween and those wearing costumes recieve a free mini-cupcake!
The pumpkin cupcake above was one of my favorites just from looking at it, and it won us over in the tasting as well.
These creepy chocoloate chip cupcakes were calling my name, but we went with the four below:
Starting from the top left and moving clockwise, we tried:
- Carrot Vegan Cupcake w Cream Cheese Frosting - really good! A little bit more dense and chunky like a carrot cake, rather than a cupcake, but you could not tell it was vegan at all!
- German Chocolate Cupcake w the classic Coconut Frosting - the cake was a bit dry, so we needed to fully cover it with the frosting in order to enjoy the flavors.
- Dark Chocolate Cupcake w Peanut Butter Frosting - another dry one! Maybe it was the chocolate cakes that were not holding up too well, but this one the frosting could not save - way too sweet and thick!
- Pumpkin Cupcake w Cream Chesese Frosting - my favorite! I actually had my hesitations that this cupcake looked like more a muffin, but the Cupcake Lady assured me, this cupcake was moist and delicious. So it was! I loved it, although Kristen said she wished there was more pumpkin flavor, it worked out and I ended up with the rest of the cupcake for myself!
Overall, we were really happy that we decided to check out this adorable cupcakery. We had a fabulous day hiking with the pup and filling up on the flavors of fall. Of course now i'm itching to bake something for myself inspired by this beautiul fall season!
What's got you in the kitchen baking?
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