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Cupcake Stop

Unbeknownst to me I was going to the wrong restaurant to meet my beau when I came across the Cupcake Stop truck!

AND they were giving out free pumpkin cheesecake cupcakes on that day…holla!

I also got red velvet cupcakes at $2.50  each.  Honestly I didn’t think they even tasted like red velvet. It tasted like plain yellow cake to me with sweet frosting.  It was still good nonetheless, but the red velvet taste was hardly there.

Pumpkin cheesecake

Red Velvet

Although the pumpkin cupcake looks inferior to the red velvets, I thought it tasted better. I love that combo to begin with so maybe I’m partial to it and the frosting was creamy and rich but not too sweet.

I was supposed to meet my date at Baoguette in the East Village but I went to the one on Lexington Ave & 25th. (I went to the Web site that only had the location in Murray Hill listed.  Interestingly they have another Web site where all the locations are listed. ) Although it was unfortunate that I went to the wrong place, it ended up being a nice mistake to have picked up the cupcakes along the way.

Sugar Sweet Sunshine

Sugar Sweet Sunshine
126 Rivington St.
New York, NY 10002

I’ll make this short and sweet and say Sugar Sweet was okay. I always measure a cupcake shop by its Red Velvet and their “Sexy Red Velvet” just wasn’t. Maybe I just have a problem with their “moose” frosting which tastes like butter. I did however, like their “Ooey Gooey” and thought it was better than their other chocolate cupcake, the “Bob”, which has a hint of almond in the frosting.

But at $1.50, these cupcakes are probably the most bang for your buck anywhere. I heard the pistachio cupcake and banana pudding are good and I’d like to try their pumpkin cupcake with cream cheese frosting next time.