Two times the cupcakes!

Happy Cupcake Saturday, all!  This week was actually a little bit of a change up for me b/c my usual Saturday sidekick requested the day off.  In her place was an equally enthusiastic cupcake lover, thank goodness!  I think I tend to hire on ability to love cupcakes b/c all of my staff LOVES Cupcake Saturday!  :)  All good people, they are....
My usual Saturday sidekick actually chipped in and bought cupcakes on Friday b/c she wouldn't be able to indulge on Saturday.  Unfortunately, Friday was a CRAZY day at the store and by the time we got the cupcakes in hand we had literally a minute to enjoy them and get back to work. Alas, no picture.  My Friday cupcake was mint chocolate.  Chocolate cupcake with mint frosting....it was really delicious, and like I said, well earned after a crazy 9 hour shift of standing and waiting on tourists and their kids.  :)  Keep smiling.
Saturday I decided to try a staple of Cupcake Charlie's-Carly's chocolate chip.  I don't know who Carly is or why she has a cupcake named after her but it was delicious and lucky girl! This was a vanilla cupcake with chocolate chips through it.  It had a yummy vanilla frosting on top, topped with chips and a chocolate chip cookie.  It was light and moist and the frosting was sugary and sweet.  Perfect for what turned out to be a dramatic Saturday afternoon with one particular awful customer.  I tend to let awful people really get to me, which I wish I could just let go of.  The cupcake definitely helped to soothe the complaint.  Yay for sugar!  Onto next Saturday.....

The Return of Cupcake Saturday!

Yay! Cupcake Saturday has returned!   I would love to say that I missed my weekly cupcake last week but I was completely happy to have traded it for a much needed and desperately enjoyed Saturday off!  I had family visiting me from out of state and my bosses were kind enough to let me have a Saturday off in the crazy busy summer season.  Thank you to them for that!!  I had a lovely weekend with family spent floating in the ocean and laying in the sand.  I didn't even miss my Saturday cupcake! 
Alas, the Saturday off is over and I am back at the toy store, doing what I do best, and eating cupcakes with my Saturday sidekick!  This week the flavor of the day on Saturday was Rolo!  I have tried this one before, but I was really craving chocolate so I decided to give it a whirl again...it did not disappoint.  I am a huge fan of caramel.  I think it is my favorite candy overall.  This cupcake imitates the Rolo candy very, very well.  It is a deep chocolate cupcake, which was very moist, filled with caramel.  Yum......! It is covered by a layer of chocolate ganache which is decorated by a caramel swirl.  This was soooo good.  I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Only four more punches on our card until we get a free cupcake and today I was thinking about how that will probably be one of the last Cupcake Saturdays I will be celebrating with my sidekick as she is leaving me to go back to school at the end of the summer.  :(  So sad.  I will miss her.  I am sure I can find someone else to pass on the tradition with, but it probably won't be the same.  Something to think about when I am looking for her replacement....will this employee love Cupcake Saturday?  :)

Kit Kat not so Krunchy....bummer.

Happy Cupcake Saturday!  Above is the Kit Kat Krunch cupcake....it looks really yummy, doesn't it? I usually go and check the Flavor of the Day at Cupcake Charlie's when I run my morning errands at the store.  This was the flavor of the day and it looked so good that I had to give it a try!
I think that I pretty much always love the cupcakes at Cupcake Charlie's.  Some people think they are a little pricey for just a cupcake, but I always have felt that you get what you pay for and they are just as worthwhile as candy or ice cream which you can pay just as much for sometimes.  This time I was disappointed and I honestly feel like it might be the first time that I really didn't enjoy my cupcake on Saturday.  :(  Sadness.
The actual cupcake on this one was a vanilla cupcake but it had a weird after taste to it, kind of like anise?  I asked my sidekick if she tasted it, too, and she did.  No idea if it was on purpose or not.  The frosting was absolutely delicious.  The really truly bad part about this cupcake was that the Kit Kats were stale.  Not just a little stale...REALLY stale.  And they were through the cupcake and the frosting.  Not good.  I don't know what Halloween they were left over from...but they tasted old.  It really ruined the whole thing. 
Again, I am usually thrilled with any of the cupcakes I have gotten at Cupcake Charlie's...but this one...  Not good. Sorry.  Will not get again.
Bummer.....but onto a sweet fourth of July week!  Happy Independence Day!  :)

Feeling a little Bananas.....and Strawberry.

I am just catching up on my cupcake tales from last week...sorry!  I don't know what happened last Monday that I didn't sit down and share my Saturday, but here it is.....

Strawberry and Banana....sure sounds like summer to me!  My favorite fruit flavor is banana and I have been waiting for Cupcake Charlie's to do a banana flavor on Cupcake Saturday and last week was the week!  Finally! 

I am not really a fan of fruit (or vegetables....) and I don't particularly like strawberries.  It is something about the texture of them, and the seeds....I tend to only like "pop tart" fruit flavors:  basically any fruit flavor that has been "sugared" to death!  :)  I know, I know...not good for me.  BUT...this cupcake has an actual strawberry slice on it!  So I did actually have some REAL fruit...and it didn't kill me!

The best part about this cupcake is the banana cupcake itself!  Cupcake Charlie's doesn't seem to make a lot of flavored cupcakes-usually chocolate or vanilla and the flavor is in the frosting.  I loved, loved, loved this banana cupcake!  It was moist and full of flavor.  The strawberry frosting was sugary and sweet.  Perfect combination!  It looked really pretty, too!  Loved it.