The Cupcake Spot, Tampa, Florida

From The Tampa Tribune comes word of new bakery The Cupcake Spot. Floridians: tell us how their cupcakes are!

CUP THAT CAKE: Cupcakes continue to be the rage in some pastry circles. (Magnolia Bakery and Buttercup Bake Shop continue to slug it out in New York City.) Keep an eye out for the opening of The Cupcake Spot as soon as this week at 2401 S. Dale Mabry in South Tampa. Former PR exec Nicole Rogers plans to offer such delectables as the Chocolate Elvis (banana cake with peanut butter butter-cream frosting and a dollop of chocolate ganache), the Forget Love, I'd Rather Fall in Chocolate (a devil's food cake with a 100-year old butter-cream icing recipe) and Bunny Hops (spiced carrot cake with nuts with traditional cream cheese frosting).

They've got some unique specialty flavors such as:

Autumn Harvest - A pumpkin cupcake with hints of nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon combined with real orange-zest cream cheese frosting.

Pomegranate Passion - Pomegranate infused cupcakes with a raspberry and pomegranate frosting.

Lemon Pucker - Lemon cake with lemon icing (a lemon curd filling makes this irresistible!).

Livin’ on SpongeCake - A Florida favorite, especially for spring time: Key Lime cake smothered in orange cream cheese frosting.

Tuxedo Bites - Just like the Black and White “cookie” these cupcakes marry vanilla and chocolate cakes with their frosting flavored counterparts.

Kentucky Derby Pie - A cupcake version of this Old South tradition: bourbon, chocolate and pecans topped with vanilla cream icing in a pastry shell.

Butterscotch Babies - Delectably buttery toffee cakes with butterscotch icing.

Hot Cha Cha Cha’s - The rich taste of devil’s food cake accentuated with a spicy curry chocolate frosting.

Comments

Yum! Looks like we'll have to make a drive down to Tampa this weekend!!
Anonymous said…
Save the gas, wicked. They may sound good, but they taste like cake mix out of a box. Pane Rustica, also in South Tampa, makes a far superior cupcake.
Anonymous said…
In any remedial icing class, you would learn that the icing on a cupcake must cover the ENTIRE surface of the cupcake so that air does not penetrate the cake. It will last longer and remain moist. Good luck on the enterprise.
Anonymous said…
Icing the entire cake is for bakeries who need the cake to last more than an hour. The Cupcake Spot sells cakes faster than they can bake them. I got some today that were actually still warm, so preserving the longevity with icing is not a factor!
Anonymous said…
Attention!!! To anyone who is considering taking a "remedial icing class": Get a life!! Go hug your kids or throw a frisbee!! Do some volunteer work!! And whatever you decide to do, DO NOT go to pane rustica! (I don't think they're even in business any more).