Perhaps my first mistake was placing them in the fridge. I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that they would last longer. After all, some of the jars included cream cheese on the label! Well.... I brought one of the jars to work with me the next day: one of the birthday cake ones with yellow cake, chocolate frosting and multi-colored sprinkles. A classic, no? It looked delicious, was very portable, and was easy to eat without getting frosting all over myself (genius, in my humble opinion!). Much to my chagrin, the cupcake was....nothing special :(. The cake was bland. In fact, i've had better cake from a box! The frosting was also lackluster. It just wasn't the quality I was expecting, especially considering those little suckers cost $6 each! SIX DOLLARS! That's more than i've ever spent on a cupcake, even in D.C. and NYC. I have, however, had much MUCH better cupcakes. I thought perhaps I had just picked the most boring of cupcakes, so I held off on posting my opinion until I had sampled more.
Cue yesterday. I brought the salted caramel cupcake to work. Now, what you should know is I am OBSESSED with salted caramel In fact, i'm obsessed with anything salty and sweet in one bite. I make my own salted caramel frosting for cupcakes, and I get lots of compliments when I make it for a crowd (perhaps i'll share the recipe one day!). This salted caramel cupcake was nothing to rave about. In fact, I tasted no caramel! The frosting tasted of cream cheese, but just barely. And there was most definitely nothing "salted" about it. Sadness indeed :(. I ate less than half of this disappointment in a jar.
Finally, today I brought the cookies and cream jar with me to work. Now, how can you mess up a cupcake that includes chocolate sandwich cookies?? Well.... you make the blandest concoction you can. I saw the cookies.... I *barely* tasted the cookies This one didn't even make it past bite two. And I was hungry.... SIGH.
So, I have one jar left, and quite honestly I don't look forward to trying it. I'm still intrigued by the idea of making cupcakes in jars, however! I believe I will start practicing so I can make them for a couple of cupcake lovers I know who's birthdays will be coming up in the next few months ;).
And now, the first (and certainly not last) gratuitous photo of my gorgeous cat, THEO! He was very interested in the photos I was taking in the kitchen. Ok, he is interested in anything that happens in the kitchen, because he knows that's where food comes from! Also, he detests having his picture taken, so I had to coax a good shot out of him by holding up food above the camera.
"MOM, where's the FOOD?!"
Until the next post! ~Peaches
I am severely disappointed in Wicked Good Cupcakes. After seeing them on Shark Tank, and having come from my home state, I was eager to try them out. I decided to send a couple cupcakes to my dad as a gift. I paid as much in shipping via UPS as I did for the cupcakes, which was fine and I was happy to pay it.
ReplyDeleteThe problem arises when UPS claims they delivered the package to a 6 story apartment building and leaves the package in the main unlocked lobby. You can imagine how many apartments are in this building! Any delivery service with any common sense would have rung the apartment number doorbell to alert a package was delivered. Worst case scenario *should have been* to leave a notice in the mailbox and bring the package back to UPS. My dad could have picked his gift up that very same evening or at worst, the next day. He was not given that opportunity. And now we are told by Wicked Good Cupcakes they do not stand by their choice of delivery service, and UPS says it was left and that there is nothing they are willing to do about the fact I paid $26 and received nothing. When you check the tracking number link, it says it was left at the front door. This is totally irresponsible delivering. I only thank my lucky stars I placed a small order and not a large one.
Buyer Beware: A product is only as good as the delivery you do or don't get.
After 18 days of Email communication, and a day of leaving poor reviews, I am just here to report that WickedGoodCupcakes made the problem right this afternoon. UPS took full responsibility this morning via telephone and promised to have the items re-sent with signature required, and WickedGoodCupcakes decided to refund the original amount. Thank you for standing by your product and carrier. I've decided to remove my original review from their site.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wicked disappointment!! I ordered 4 different flavors of cupcakes and all four were so dry I can't even comment on the flavor. I wanted to like these - I really did - so as I forced down a taste of each before throwing them all away uneaten - I thought how much I liked the concept - what a great idea.... Unfortunately the execution just doesn't measure up. It occurred to me the reason they serve the cupcakes in jars is because they are so DRY they wouldn't hold the form of you regular standard cupcake - they would just crumble and be a grainy mount of bleh. Not good. Dry. Dry. Dry. Did I mention really dry?
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