Fairy Cakes - tried on September 15, 2014
A couple of weeks ago at work, during my secondconference in two weeks, the pre-conference mixer included having four foodtrucks onsite to provide appetizers and dinner for the conference attendees. Onetruck had a South American theme, another an Asian theme and a third wasAmerican cuisine. The fourth, however, is what earned my slavish devotion:dessert in the form of cupcakes from Fairy Cakes.
Not being a regular patron of food trucks (I know they’reall the rage but I’m a creature of habit and food trucks don’t usually cross mypath), I was unfamiliar with Fairy Cakes but it was dessert, it was a cupcakeand it was literally right in front of me. Serendipity or what? When it comesto dinner, it’s very important to strategize when dessert is on the line. Thatmeans, I ate a small dinner that could fit in the palm of my hand (rice andKorean short ribs if you want to know or maybe a few kernels of rice and half ashort rib because I really did keep the portion small). Therefore freeing mystomach and my daily allotment of calories so I could have a cupcake fordessert.
Most of the conference attendees were congregated aroundthe bar area doing their mingling. I don’t drink and didn’t want to take upvaluable near-the-bar space so I just happened to drift towards the cupcaketruck (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it). There was hardly anyone thereyet so I could engage the girl in the truck in very important conversation.With questions like “what’s your best flavor? Which cupcake do you recommend?”They had a list of flavors available, including chocolate and vanilla versionsof a salted caramel cupcake. Salted caramel. Tempting. But thecupcake lady recommended the cookie butter cupcake because “it was different”.
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| Cookie Butter Cupcake |
I happen to be a fan of cookie butter so it didn’t takemuch to persuade me. It took me longer to talk myself out of getting a secondcupcake. I did want to try one of the salted caramel cupcakes and it wasn’tlike the cupcakes were that big. ButI was experiencing a rare moment of virtue colliding with willpower so I wentwith one cookie butter cupcake and forced myself to walk away before I could weaken. I was chattingwith a few other folks (back to the mingling) while I ate my cupcake. I think Ihad to step away for a minute after I took the first bite. I was having amoment, just me and the cupcake. It was too sacred to be shared, schmoozing bedamned.
Okay, people, this was probably one of the best cupcakesI’ve ever had. I’m sorry, Candace Nelson of Sprinkles fame, I just cheated onyou and enjoyed it. And I’d do it again. The Fairy Cakes cookie butter cupcakewas amazing. And proof of that is I ate the whole thing, including the frosting(me! Non-frosting person!). The frosting was actually the best part. It tastedas good as it looked. The cupcake itself was a very delicious buttery vanillacupcake and not cookie-butter-flavored but it was moist and had the perfectcake texture. It also served as a very handy backdrop and vehicle with which todeliver the frosting. There was a center dollop of straight cookie butter ontop of the cupcake and then cookie butter frosting piped around it. Delicious.Amazing. OMG, I can’t believe I only got one. I almost went back for a secondone but I made myself walk away and head back to my desk, regretting it everystep of the way. Sometimes virtue and willpower really suck.
Fortunately, one of the event coordinators, who happenedto hear me raving about the cookie butter cupcake, meaning I was telling anyoneat the conference who would listen, “try the cookie butter cupcake, it’samazing, you won’t regret it, you’ve GOT to try this cupcake”, told me the nextday that dessert for lunch that day would be the cupcakes from Fairy Cakes.Wow, did she make my day. So you know what I had for dessert that day. I wantedanother cookie butter cupcake but I still wanted to try the salted caramelcupcake so I ended up splitting a cookie butter cupcake with another person andtook a whole chocolate salted caramel for tasting. As the lady I split thecupcake with said, “1 ½ cupcakes, that’s totally reasonable.” Absolutely.
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| Chocolate Salty Caramel Cupcake |
The chocolate salted caramel cupcake was good but it didn’tmatch the cookie butter. The chocolate flavor could’ve been a tad bit morechocolatey and the salted caramel drizzled over the frosting was a bit too saltyfor me. Their frosting was really good though and, just like with Siftcupcakes, I loved the frosting. I don’t say that very often. But it’s thecookie butter cupcake that will make me seek out Fairy Cakes again. Accordingto their website, they go out in their food truck in different locations a fewtimes a week. Believe me, I’ll be showing up at one of those places sometime soon.
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| Half of a Cookie Butter Cupcake |
