This article from the Denver Post is even called..."Cupcakes Take the Cake." Love it! The reporter visited the trendy cupcake contest and had this to say:
Until I tasted Gateaux's white mojito — delicate lime-zested white cake with a fine crumb, frosted with buttercream made tangy with lime juice and rum and topped with a blue sugar snowflake and a white chocolate straw sparkling with edible glitter.
This little cake towered over its competitors, combining the best of all elements: beauty, flavor and texture. And it was the creation of a 21-year-old student, Rachel Wille, who started as an intern at Gateaux and now manages the bakery while fininshing culinary school. Inspired by the popular mint-lime-rum cocktail, the mojito cupcakes, $4, are available by special order at Gateaux.
Sure enough, this exquisite cake won the contest. Second place went to Katherine's French Bakery, Cafe & Catering for its Moulin Rouge red velvet cupcake with a white chocolate windmill topper. Littleton restaurant Cafe Terracotta took third with its chocolate mint cake topped with a sugared mint leaf.
They've even printed the recipe for the winning mojito cupcake.
Photo via Denver Post
And the winner is Gateaux's mojito cupcake, above with blue star. Second place: red velvet with white chocolate windmill, Katherine's French Bakery. Third: chocolate mint, Cafe Terracotta (lower right). ( Karl Gehring, The Denver Post )
Until I tasted Gateaux's white mojito — delicate lime-zested white cake with a fine crumb, frosted with buttercream made tangy with lime juice and rum and topped with a blue sugar snowflake and a white chocolate straw sparkling with edible glitter.
This little cake towered over its competitors, combining the best of all elements: beauty, flavor and texture. And it was the creation of a 21-year-old student, Rachel Wille, who started as an intern at Gateaux and now manages the bakery while fininshing culinary school. Inspired by the popular mint-lime-rum cocktail, the mojito cupcakes, $4, are available by special order at Gateaux.
Sure enough, this exquisite cake won the contest. Second place went to Katherine's French Bakery, Cafe & Catering for its Moulin Rouge red velvet cupcake with a white chocolate windmill topper. Littleton restaurant Cafe Terracotta took third with its chocolate mint cake topped with a sugared mint leaf.
They've even printed the recipe for the winning mojito cupcake.
Photo via Denver Post
And the winner is Gateaux's mojito cupcake, above with blue star. Second place: red velvet with white chocolate windmill, Katherine's French Bakery. Third: chocolate mint, Cafe Terracotta (lower right). ( Karl Gehring, The Denver Post )
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