Coyi Cafe is only a week old, so some growing pains can be expected. Today I had a bad cupcake experience there, which is always so sad. Connie Lei (proprietress) had gotten some smaller cupcakes to accompany the ginormous Crumbs ones she featured. I hadn't seen these cupcakes before, so I was excited to try one.
I picked a vanilla-vanilla (my chosen control cupcake):
I carefully bisected the cupcake to see the innards:
Well, gentle readers, it was not good. Nothing quite so sad as a bad cupcake. The cake itself was fine. Standard commercial bakery cake, nothing fancy, nothing Earth-shattering. But the frosting! Oh noes, the frosting! It tasted like shortening with hard wax or plastic bits in it. Wasn't sweet, it was just sorta soft and waxy-tasting. Blech! I chatted with Connie and am encouraging her to shop elsewhere. I know the bakery she bought them from, but am going to keep mum. I'd love to see her feature a local mini cupcake (especially one from a bakery that uses local, organic ingredients). I'm going to try to facilitate something.
On the positive side, I had an excellent bagel and coffee, and the scent of vegetarian soup tickled my nose. Today's soup was wild mushroom-barley! I'm so glad Coyi Cafe is here, and hope that the bumps and missteps new places experience don't affect the cafe. Avenue B needs this place! (And so do I.)
I picked a vanilla-vanilla (my chosen control cupcake):
I carefully bisected the cupcake to see the innards:
Well, gentle readers, it was not good. Nothing quite so sad as a bad cupcake. The cake itself was fine. Standard commercial bakery cake, nothing fancy, nothing Earth-shattering. But the frosting! Oh noes, the frosting! It tasted like shortening with hard wax or plastic bits in it. Wasn't sweet, it was just sorta soft and waxy-tasting. Blech! I chatted with Connie and am encouraging her to shop elsewhere. I know the bakery she bought them from, but am going to keep mum. I'd love to see her feature a local mini cupcake (especially one from a bakery that uses local, organic ingredients). I'm going to try to facilitate something.
On the positive side, I had an excellent bagel and coffee, and the scent of vegetarian soup tickled my nose. Today's soup was wild mushroom-barley! I'm so glad Coyi Cafe is here, and hope that the bumps and missteps new places experience don't affect the cafe. Avenue B needs this place! (And so do I.)
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