Fluffernutter kicks off busy Summer Saturday!

Last week I fell off the cupcake wagon....but this week, I got right back on!  It was our first super busy Saturday of the summer season and I definitely was craving something sweet!  The store was full of people and I wasn't even sure we would be able to make time for Cupcake Saturday, but somehow we managed to make it happen! 
This week's flavor of the day was Fluffernutter!  I have seen this one featured during the week and was really looking forward to trying it.  When I was a little kid, maybe first grade, I had some issues with eating lunch at school.  I basically refused to eat the hot lunch the school provided.  I would eat the dessert and drink the milk and throw the rest away.  This went on for a while until one of the teachers finally got tired of watching me not eat my lunch.  One day she kept me in from recess (which immediately followed lunch) and tried to force me to eat my lunch, which I still remember was hot dogs and beans.  I looked at that tray for the entire hour.  Didn't touch it.  I went home with a note for my parents explaining what happened.  From that day forward, I took my lunch to school.  And almost every day (literally until I graduated from high school) my lunch consisted of a Fluffernutter sandwich, a Little Debbie/Hostess/Drake treat, and a piece of fruit.  Every day.  I LOVE Fluffernutters!
On to the cupcake....which was almost as delicious as the Fluffernutters of my youth!  I think my fave frosting at Cupcake Charlie's is the peanut butter.  It is so delicious and really tastes like peanuts.  This was a vanilla cupcake with marshmallow filling.  The cupcake was really moist and the filling was a whipped kind of marshmallow, nice and soft.  The frosting, perfect as always...and it had a dollop of marshmallow whip in the center as well.  The entire thing is topped off by a Nutter Butter cookie.  Nutter Butters are the kind of cookie that no one ever seems to have in the house, but when you have ONE you feel the need to run out and buy a package of them!  So good. 
So thrilled that the flavor of the day was something new.  I hope the trend continues through the summer!   Until next week....

Cupcake Tuesday is as good as Saturday!

No Cupcake Saturday this week...instead it was a Cupcake Tuesday.  Let me explain...
I have Sundays off every week, which I love.   This Sunday I happened to be awake abnormally early.  I was checking my email on my phone when I got a phone call from my Sunday staffer (who also happens to be my Saturday sidekick!).  She had done something wrong the night before that needed me to be corrected.  Boo hiss.  So, I throw on some clothes and head to the store to fix the mistake.  It doesn't take me more than a half an hour out of my whole day and I know that my staffer feels REALLY badly about it.  To be honest, the mistake could've happened to anyone, and I am a little surprised it hasn't happened before.  Not a big deal.  I was over it quickly.  Back home before I could even be completely wide awake! 
I have been fighting a cold/allergies (I am not sure what the culprit actually is...) for a week and going into work on Tues. I was tired and feeling lousy.  My Saturday sidekick staffer shows up bearing a gift!  She felt so bad about making me come in on Sunday and wanted to make it up to me...which was really unnecessary, but completely great.  The gift was the above pictured cupcake-Fudge Factory.  What is interesting about the choice of this cupcake is that I was at the candy store earlier in the morning, planning an event with the manager, and a baker from Cupcake Charlie's came in to buy fudge.  I had no idea that the fudge on the cupcakes came from the candy shop!  I talked to the candy shop manager about it for a while and she told me that I should try this Fudge Factory cupcake sometime...it was delicious!  How did my Saturday sidekick know?  The stars were clearly aligned for me to try this cupcake!
Let me tell you that this is the BEST cupcake I have tried yet!  The fudge, of course, was delicious!  The chocolate cupcake was moist and yummy.  The frosting was a thick chocolate and there were chocolate chips all over the top.  It was really so delicious and rich.  Really made my day.  I loved it.  Cupcake Tuesday was as good as Cupcake Saturday.....maybe even more so b/c it was a surprise! 

And the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down....with Orange Dreamsicle!

What a miserable, cold, windy and rainy day Saturday was this week!  Luckily, the rain brought in a lot of customers which made the day go by pretty quickly!  I hardly mind working when it is raining out....can't go to the beach anyway!  With the rain, I decided on a little sunshine to celebrate Cupcake Saturday-Orange Dreamscicle!
This is one of my favorite flavors! It is a vanilla/orange cupcake with orange-y frosting and a piece of candy orange slice on top.  It was super moist and had a ton of frosting on it.  I really enjoyed it.  No filling, but it didn't seem to need any.  It was nice and light.  Loved it. 
I do have to admit, though, it was not my first choice.  Cupcake Charlie's posts their Flavor of the Day on their facebook page daily.  On Saturday they posted Boston Creme Pie (which is the Flavor of the Day too often, in my opinion) and Mounds as the flavors.  I love coconut and was excited to try to the Mounds cupcake.  I sent my sidekick off to pick up the cupcakes and she returned to tell me that there were no Mounds cupcakes b/c she was told they "hadn't made them yet".  This was at 3 in the afternoon.  Hmmm.   This is the second time it has happened at Cupcake Charlie's in the past month. I don't care so much b/c I just walk across the aisle to get them, but I can imagine the customer service issue they would have if one of our "not-so-local" customers made the drive and didn't get what they drove down for...ugh.  I just know what I have to deal with sometimes from customers(who clearly have miserable lives outside of the 5 minutes I spend with them) and I hope they don't have to deal with too much of that!  Cupcakes should be about happiness, right?   :) I was just as happy with my Dreamscicle...but I will look forward to the Mounds cupcake in my future! 
Until next week....