Kickass Cupcakes: First responders

We told you about new Boston-area (Somerville, actually) bakery Kickass Cupcakes, which officially opened today (we'll have an interview with the owner up here soon). If anyone has photos of Kickass Cupcakes to share, do send them our way at cupcakestakethecake at yahoo.com

Blogger Daniel R. visited and snapped a photo. (The mojoti and cinnamon chai pecan sticky look especially interesting.)

Chowhounders comment:

Davis_sq_pro says:

We just polished off one "super chocolate" and one vanilla cupcake. Super chocolate had a rather dry cake (but crunchy around the edges--a good thing). A bit overly heavy on the cocoa powder, but with tasty, fudgey frosting. The vanilla cake was much moister, but had a slight out-of-the-box taste. The frosting was surprisingly tasty--it had a slight tang, and I think it's cream cheese based. Both cupcakes were fairly small, 3 or 4 bite affairs.

Finlero says:

Vanilla/vanilla: flavors of cake and frosting were excellent, cake had dryish texture, frosting was a tad thin.

Chocolate/chocolate: frosting was perfect, thick, and rich, cake was meh.

Houlette says:

Specific comments:

* Vanilla -- icing-to-cake ratio was too high, cake crumb isn't quite right (too crumbly)

* Mohito -- again, too much icing per cake, flavor combination was nice, though

* Strawberry shortcake -- best of the three we've eaten so far, with a whipped cream topping instead of icing. Tasted like strawberry shortcake. On a hot day like today, the icing doesn't travel well, though!

Weiszguy says:

We got five different kinds of cupcakes last night, and not a single one of them was anything that couldn't easily be replicated at home. The yellow cake is flavorful but dry. The chocolate cake is fine, but no better than one I would bake myself.

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