Rachel Kramer Bussel of Cupcakes Take the Cake is in town this weekend tasting cupcakes as well as doing a couple seminars at Smitten Kitten. I got to introduce her to Sheela Namakkal of Miel y Leche and some of the best cupcakes Minneapolis has to offer.
More cupcake photos and if you’re interested in hearing Rachel speak she will be doing a free erotica reading at Smitten Kitten on Sunday at 6:00 - 7:30 P.M.
Can’t stop with the cupcakes today. Anna and I decided to play some Scrabble over at Cupcake on University. You can’t miss it, they have a big cup on the corner of the building. My camera battery died so I wasn’t able to get decent photos, but I enjoyed a S’mores Cupcake which was very tasty and looked fantastic but got sticky marshmallow all over my face. Added to the experience. Anna enjoyed a Chocolate Pistachio which she described as “mainly just a chocolate cupcake with a pistacio frosting.” She liked it.
The Scrabble game was rough and hard fought. When I unloaded my Q at the end she was able to finish up using it as well and won. So it goes. By the time we were done the place was empty and they were seemingly ready to close up.
I picked up the Raspberry Lemon cupcake above to enjoy tomorrow. Looks really tasty.
A few more shots of Cupcake are in this Flickr set.
Cupcake
3338 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-378-4818
Bo and I decided to run down to the Franklin Street Bakery to pick up a couple Saturday snacks. If you haven’t been before, go. They have a ton of bread products, a bunch of other baked goods and of course, cupcakes. I brought home a yummy Chocolate Filled Ganache cupcake that was creamy, moist, rich and overall very, very tasty. Check out their pastry menu (PDF).
Strongly recommended.
Franklin Street Bakery
Humorously at
1020 Franklin Avenue East
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612-879-5730
After seeing a bunch of yummy cupcakes show up almost weekly in Sharyn’s Photostream on Flickr I finally broke down and suggested with that whatever this cupcake thing is that they do it at my house sometime! I was naïve — I should have looked harder and figured out what it’s really all about:
She pointed me to Sheela Namakkal of Miel y Leche, who in addition to catering creates the cupcakes for Cupcake Saturday at Letterbox Creative in Uptown. Cupcake Saturday is simply a bunch of yummy cupcakes that Sheela creates, only available at Letterbox Creative starting at noon on Saturdays. You can also follow her blog to find out what kind of cupcakes are coming up next!
Brian and I decided to head down and nab a few. I got a couple of the S’mores and Chocolate Chip Gingerbread. Brian nabbed a Chocolate Peanut Butter cupcake.
