I think I was supposed to post about The Shoppe: Cereal + Cupcakes + Design Goods opening in Denver and I forgot! Well, on opening day they sold 600 cupcakes! They also sell cereal and you can read more at their blog.
Also, Yourhub.com was there to cover it, snapping the photo you see above, which is linked below, but I just loved it and wanted to share it here, and reporting:
The kitchen was a flurry of activity as Emma and company worked to satisfy the cupcake-hungry blob that had been devouring their supplies for three hours without so much as a ten-minute break. By the time we reached the counter, there were only three plates of cupcakes left. But loneliness becomes a good-looking pastry; without the distraction of the usual myriad flavors, the remaining cupcakes had a quiet nobility to them, daring us to eat them.
The cupcakes: I'm not a food critic, and as a novice I have not developed the vocabulary required to dive too deeply into the tawny noses and baroque undertones of food, so I'm just going to say it: These cupcakes are damn good.
Sarah went with "pink" (we just pointed at the display case when we ordered and forgot to see what flavors they actually were) and I went with "chocolatey." The Bill-Gates-rich pink frosting had a certain tang to it that made me think it was at least partially cream cheese-based. The cake portion was soft and moist and tasted the way you remember birthday cake tasting when you were young, even though your past-cakes were probably not nearly this good.
Sarah dove in first and attempted to eat hers the old-fashioned (read:cavewoman) way. This is not advised.
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