Sugar and Spice are cupcake aficionados based in the Miami area. Their reviews are based on their personal experience.
Misha's Cupcakes is the most widely known cupcakery in Miami. The store is located at 1548 South Dixie Highway, Coral Gables, FL 33146, (in the heart of Cupcake Central). The cupcakes are also for sale all over our city: Sir Pizza, Baptist Hospital Gift Shops, Epicure Market on Miami Beach, and many other locations. The shop has expanded to include a small lounge area on one side so that you may eat your cupcakes there. There were several minis to choose from and some assorted standard sized flavors.
Sugar and I tasted the vanilla in both mini and regular size. In regular size the vanilla is a wet cake with a very dense vanilla frosting. In mini form, the vanilla is studded with white chocolate chips. Sugar and I agreed that the vanilla was much better tasting without the chips. We would not call the frosting buttercream, as we believe that there is no butter in it, only shortening. Most of the cupcakes are frosted in this vanilla and three of them lasted in my car in 85 degree weather for several hours and looked exactly the same! The frosting itself is salty and has a bitter aftertaste. It overpowers the cake in all flavors. We tasted the coconut cupcake in mini form and were enthralled with the wet cake filled with shredded coconut. It is our favorite flavor from Misha's. We began to just plop the frosting off of the rest of our cupcakes,as it ruined their flavors. The chocolate minis had lots of bittersweet chocolate chips, one had vanilla frosting other had a very sour tasting soft chocolate frosting ( it melted, so we know there was butter in it). The red velvet cupcake was filled with so many mini chocolate chips that we could not get a sense of how the red velvet cake actually tasted. We could not get any bites of cake without chips in them. The cookies-n-cream has a white cake base filled with very finely ground chocolate cookie bits. It is topped with the vanilla frosting. I thought it was moist with just the right amount of Oreo flavor: however, Sugar did not think it had enough of an Oreo taste.
Misha is a pioneer in the Miami cupcakery scene. She started her business as a stay at home mom and it continues to grow. Despite the strange frosting, Misha has a large following. Her cupcakes sell in places from gift shops, to convenience stores, to a local gas station. The only question we have is where will Misha's Cupcakes be for sale next?
Misha's Cupcakes is the most widely known cupcakery in Miami. The store is located at 1548 South Dixie Highway, Coral Gables, FL 33146, (in the heart of Cupcake Central). The cupcakes are also for sale all over our city: Sir Pizza, Baptist Hospital Gift Shops, Epicure Market on Miami Beach, and many other locations. The shop has expanded to include a small lounge area on one side so that you may eat your cupcakes there. There were several minis to choose from and some assorted standard sized flavors.
Misha is a pioneer in the Miami cupcakery scene. She started her business as a stay at home mom and it continues to grow. Despite the strange frosting, Misha has a large following. Her cupcakes sell in places from gift shops, to convenience stores, to a local gas station. The only question we have is where will Misha's Cupcakes be for sale next?
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I certainly did not mean any disrespect, and if you would read my post you would see there was nothing disrespectful about it.
I have, on many occasions had Misha's cupcakes as well as other cupcakeries in Miami (both with established bakeries and delivery only services). I have been guilty of dissecting Misha's cupcakes in an effort to answer the question: what's in this?
Her vanilla cupcakes have white chocolate chips. Does that still make it a vanilla cupcake? Hmmm... I am convinced her 'buttercream' has chocolate, as it's got an aftertaste much like white chocolate does. Buttercream made with butter melts (Neighboring cupcakery buttercream melts as soon as you leave their store!); Misha's 'buttercream' stays intact in Florida heat!
I don't think the review was mean-spirited or inaccurate. I think the reviers did the same thing that many who have enjoyed Misha's cupcakes have done: they've tried to dissect a cupcake shrouded in mystery. I, too, think that consumers should know what's in her cupcakes.