Cupcake Friday 11.22.2013

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"Maltimore from @icedgemsbaking #cupcakefriday #iloveicedgems "

This is the Maltimore cupcake from Iced Gems.  While i had high hopes for this one, I found this one to be more ho hum in their line of cupcakes.  I think there needs to be malt flavor in this cupcake.  The cupcake is still very good, i believe it is suppose to be a malt flavored cupcake with malted butter cream icing with a malt ball topping.  However, per my cupcaking experience, this cupcake did not have enough malted flavor for me.

Cupcake Friday 11.15.2013

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"Cupcake Friday! Whipper snapper is so yummy #iloveicedgems #cupcakefriday"

Some of you may have already seen this cupcake on twitter or instagram.  Its the Whipper Snapper cupcake.  It has so much going for it.. Biscoff cookie on top, Biscoff butter cream icing and the kicker that makes this the best effing cupcake i've had to date?  The biscoff filling inside.. yep. This cupcake is like crack but in a good way.  

Thanks Iced Gems Baking!  

Cupcake Friday: 10.11.2013

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"Cupcake Friday gluten free marshmallow fluff #cupcakefridays "

Cupcake Friday 09.20.13

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"Ginger latte from @icedgemsbaking #cupcakefridays"

Ginger Latte Cupcake.

Cupcake Friday 07.26.2013 - Blueberry Lemon

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"@icedgemsbaking #cupcakes "

Blueberry lemon cupcake this week.  This cupcake is a lemon flavored cake with blueberries interspersed throughout the cake.  The frosting is a lemon frosting -- somehow i felt that this cake/icing combo was less sweet than normal and thoroughly enjoyed my cupcake and icing.

Cupcake Friday 07.19.2013

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"Cupcake Friday with @icedgemsbaking #cupcakes #icedgems "

This would be the Mango Sunburst cupcake.  It has a vanilla cupcake with mango frosting and filling.  In addition it has a yellow/orange sunburst made of fondant.  This is one of my new favorite cupcakes -- sadly unless they are here at Hopkins early in the day I tend not to find this cupcake on the truck by the time the truck rolls around in the afternoon -- so apparently other people feel the same way.  The cupcake is very good even when you have left it in the fridge for a couple of days -- fondant gets a bit messy with the condensation and everything but still acceptable.  The mango flavor is there, but not quite as intense since the cupcake is not a mango flavored cupcake.  The filling is one of my favorite parts of this cupcake -- mango filling, what could be bad about this? 

Cupcake Friday 07.12.2013

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"#cupcake #cupcakefridays"

Snickerdoodle cupcake - yummy and cinnamon-y.  I did let the cupcake hang out in the fridge for a couple of days so the cookie topper was not as good as it could be.

Cupcake Friday 06.07.2013

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"#cupcake "

Apple Maple Bacon.  This is a apple based cupcake with a maple bacon topper and maple butter cream.   While I liked the cupcake, and the frosting, i thought the bacon was a bit much.  The flavor of the bacon took over once you started nibbling on the bacon.  I mean I like bacon as much as the next person, but it totally overpowered the cupcake and subtle maple flavor of the frosting.  

Would i get this again?  Yep.. but probably would take off the topper and dispose of it.

Cupcake Friday 05.31.2013 - Mocha Cookie Crumble

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"Cupcake Friday preview #cupcake" 

This cupcake was apparently inspired by a Starbucks Frappiccino called the Mocha Cookie crumble.. and thus I present to you from Iced Gems Bakery the Mocha cookie crumble cupcake. 

The cupcake  itself is a coffee and oreo cookie cupcake.  The distribution of oreo crumbles differ from cupcake to cupcake -- I was sure disappointed when the boy's cupcake had more oreo pieces in it than mine.   The cupcake is very coffee flavored (probably has something to do with the grounds that are part of this cupcake) and has also chunks/pieces of oreo cookies in it.  It has a coffee buttercream frosting with oreo cookie crumbles on top.  

Overall I liked the cupcake -- if you do not like coffee  then this is surely not the cupcake for you.  I still like the turtle cupcake more, probably because I love turtle candies (caramel, chocolate, pecans, what's not to love there?)  but this is surely a great alternative.. if it ever shows back up here at work that is.

Cupcake Friday 05.24.2013

Strawberry Fudge Sundae Cupcake - this was a strawberry cupcake with strawberry frosting with a fudge center.  While this was good, it was not superior to the strawberry cheesecake that i so love.  Not 100% sure why its not up there with my favorites, but it is definitely a  good cupcake -- if you want to try something different from the standard flavors that they have and they actually have this on the truck that is.

Cupcake Friday 05.17.13

Caramel Fudge Sundae Cupcake

This cupcake was pretty good.  It was a chocolate fudge cake with caramel icing that had nuts and a maraschino cherry on top to resemble a fudge caramel sundae.   I totally devoured this cake and almost went for 2nds..

Cupcake Friday 04.26.2013

Happy Friday everyone!

I've taken the day off work to go down to Georgetown in DC (with of course a Georgetown cupcake stop) to pick up my packet for the Nike 1/2 marathon that is happening this weekend.  But never fear, I have a cupcake of the week for you (procured on Tuesday of the week in anticipation)

This here is a strawberry lemonade cupcake -- lemon cupcake with a strawberry butter cream.  So effing yummy, not as good as the turtle cheesecake but then what is?

Cupcake friday 04.19.2013

This week's cupcake friday is the Turtle Cheesecake cupcake -- this has quickly become one of my favorite cupcakes -- it combines my love for caramel, cheesecake frosting and a chocolate cake.  It also has some pecans in it which does make it better but i dont think that is the draw -- i think the draw is more because there are discernible bits of caramel in the cupcake itself.. yum!

Cupcake Friday 03.29.2013

Well, so I've sorta been neglecting cupcake friday.  No its not because I'm counting calories, though I really am counting calories, I've still been faithfully going to the truck -- its because I've not bought any cool new flavors to post.  This is a cupcake that they've had in their reptoire for a while, but I've for some reason never gotten it...

behold, the Raspberry Lemonade.  Its a lemon cupcake with a raspberry buttercream icing, and yes indeed that would be a straw and a lemonhead to go with it.  For some reason, the spring-y flavors were calling my name this past week and this is the cupcake I ended up with.  The cake is moist, and flavorful (you must like/love lemon) to like the cake.  The raspberry butter cream does have raspberry flavor, but alas, too much frosting for me (I dont really like butter cream to begin with)

Cupcake Friday - Raspberry Amaretto

A delightful Raspberry flavored cupcake with a scoop of raspberry jelly.  An almond buttercream frosting -- again with the too sweet part with the frosting but otherwise yummy!

Cupcake Friday 12.14.2012

What's this cupcake you say? It looks pretty plain right?  nope its an Eggnog cupcake.  Both the cupcake and the icing are yummy and very eggnog flavored.  For a buttercream frosting (which we know I dont like, it's very tasty)  The 2 fondant toppers were pretty good too (as far as fondant goes anyway)

Cupcake Friday... 2 weeks late?

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"Nom nom nom"

Tom the Turkey Cupcake -- vanilla cake with oreo crumbs and vanilla frosting.. Malt ball turkey with candy corn beak and tail

Cupcake Friday 11.9.2012 - Blueberry Lemon

Blueberry lemon cupcake -- The 2 flavors together dont sound good, right? But how many times have you made a muffin (ok if you bake that is) and added a bit of lemon zest, or some citrus zest into a berry flavored muffin? So, yep the cupcake was yummy -- i think the icing was a bit too much (but if you like lemon flavored buttercream you should be good here)

Cupcake Friday

Apple Pie cupcake.  Looks like an apple pie... yep taste like an apple pie -- well sorta.  I mean it is a cupcake after all so it does taste more like an apple cake with a crumb topping.  

Cupcake Friday - Flying Monkey Edition

Some of you know that I was in Philly a weekend ago?  I picked up some cupcakes while i was there and finally (ok its been about a week) had time to eat them whilest watching football on TV.

My thoughts on the 2 cupcakes that are going to be shown are about the same -- meh!  Great name for a little shop in the Reading Terminal but their whoopie pies are way better than these so go for the whoopie pies instead!

Spiced cupcake

Hard Apple Cider

or maybe I got the 2 mixed up.  The problem here is the cupcake was so lightly fragranced that I couldn't distinguish which one was the spiced cake and which one was the cider cake.   In fact, the boy and I both couldnt figure it out-- we think that the cake in both cases were the same and that the spiced/hard cider flavor was in the icing alone.