Bay Area Foodie

You’ve heard me discuss my Sprinkles obsession in the past. Now I’m taking it to a whole new level. There are 23 regularly featured Sprinkles cupcakes plus 17 seasonal and I am on a mission to try them all! My plan is to go once a month to the Palo Alto store and buy no more than 6 flavors at a time. By my calculation it will take me 12 months to accomplish the task of eating all 40. Are you up for the challenge? Join me! MISSION COMPLETED SEPT 2009 but when new flavors are introduced I add them to the list.

I adore these cupcakes but all are not created equal. Here is how I rank them…

1. Red Velvet – super moist, the light chocolate cake and cream cheese frosting are perfect complements
2. Banana – very moist, bananalicious!
3. Brown Sugar Praline -  best seasonal cake, fantastically crunchy and sweet, should be a regular flavor
4. S’more – simply genius… the graham cracker bottom is divine & the gooey marshmallow finger lickin’ good, pls make it a regular flavor!
   
5. “The King” (banana cake/peanut butter frosting) – I’m all shook up… the peanut butter was like skippy, needs to be a regular flavor
6. Strawberry – hint o’ strawberry is lovely
7. Peanut butter chocolate – soft chips, moist cake, flavors remind me of a See’s Milk chocolate Bordeaux candy
8. Lemon – yummy light lemon flavor, dense cake
9. Pumpkin – awesome cinnamon frosting
10. Eggnog spice – eggnog frosting rocks
11. Cuban coffee – just enough spice and great coffee flavor *NEW
12. Salty caramel – good caramel flavor frosting, salt on top is nice
13. Lemon blueberry – think blueberry muffin w/ lemon frosting – another good morning treat
14. Triple cinnamon – advertised as a cinnamon roll, tasted more like a snickerdoodle cookie *NEW
15. Almond dark chocolate – flavor of a poppyseed muffin minus the seeds. I wish it didn’t have sliced almonds in it.
16. Vanilla milk chocolate – a classic cupcake
17. Cinnamon sugar – a cupcake with NO frosting, great for breakfast
18. German chocolate – cool chunky frosting, wish it tasted more coco-nutty
19. Flourless chocolate – dense yet moist, similar to a super rich chocolate brownie
20. Orange – similar to lemon but with orange flavor
21. Vanilla peppermint – great combo,very festive
22. Peanut butter chip – creamy cake, like a mouthful of peanut butter
23. Key Lime – very subtle lime flavor initially but has a zesty finish   
24. Orange cranberry – tasty combo
25. Raspberry – solid cupcake, nice raspberry flavor
26. Milk chocolate – not overly chocolaty
27. Dark chocolate – didn’t think I was going to like this since I prefer milk chocolate but it was good w/ a glass of milk
28. Caramel apple – didn’t get any real caramel apple flavors, just spice
29. Irish Chocolate – wish the frosting had more Baileys flavor
30. Vanilla hazelnut chocolate – if you think this is going to taste like nutella…you’re wrong
31. Chocolate marshmallow – like a ding dong but needs more marshmallow
32. Vegan red velvet – if u want a coconut cupcake get this- if u want red velvet ….don’t *NEW
33. Coconut – great coconut frosting, cake a bit dry though
34. Raspberry chocolate chip – nice combo but cake was dry
35. Vanilla- sprinkles on top were too sweet
36. Ginger maple – nice frosting, too much ginger
37. Chai latte – herbal flavor with spice frosting
38. Chocolate coconut- dry cake, didn’t like dark chocolate frosting
39. Carrot- if you like carrot cake, you’ll like this (I’m not a fan)
40. Ginger lemon – good on their own but a weird combo
41. Mocha – had high hopes for this – very good mocha flavor but with the choc cake was just bla
42. Banana chocolate – the chocolate frosting masks the banana cake
43. Lemon coconut – dry,dry,dry
44. Chocolate peppermint – too much chocolate
45. Choco loco – cinnamon and chocolate is not my favorite combo
46. Black & White – really bland
47. Summer Cherry – tasted medicinal like cough syrup
48. Red Hot Velvet – frosting tasted/smelled like Dentyne gum (which I despise) & overpowered the cake

How about you? Which flavors make you drool? Leave a comment or two…
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