I went to the lovely Sweet Tooth in South Boston to pick up two cupcakes for the 3rd day of my 5-day cupcake hunt. The owner told me that Sweet Tooth has seven different kinds of cupcakes, and each cupcake is filled with custard or cream and elaborately decorated. Here's what we tried on Day 3 of Cupcake Week at the Tasty Show:
Bakery: Sweet Tooth
Cupcake : Chocolate Berry Cream
Price: $3.99
Accompanying Friend: Toby
Presentation: Pretty flashy. Sweet Tooth's cupcakes are quite ornate. Ours was topped with chocolate ganache, an additional intermediary frosting, and a big chocolate-dipped strawberry.
Cake: The cake (which was chocolate) was light, a little powdery, and had a very sweet chocolate flavor. It crumbled rather easily. Neither of us were really into the berry filling. I wished it would have been a little tangier. Toby said it reminded him of Twinkies...
Frosting: The ganache frosting was soft, rich, and smooth, and the dipped strawberry was a nice touch and went really well with the cake.
Overall experience: This cupcake was ok. Overall, I liked the choice(s) of frosting better than the cake, which was too crumbly for me. The combination of the cake and ganache was very nice. I love a rich ganache as a cake topping. I liked the idea of the berry theme, and it was great when we tasted the tart strawberry, but less so with the berry cream, which didn't add the contrasting tart berry flavors that I was hoping for.
Click here to see the 5-day plan and read the original Cupcake Week post.
Comments (2)
Did you ever try the other one? (Red Velvet, I think). Did it fare any better?
Posted by Trucker Girl | August 10, 2007 2:42 PM
Well, Dan tried the Red Velvet but he didn't get to try it until the next day, so it was kind of hard to judge. I think I'm going to swing over the Sweet Tooth again sometime soon and try a couple of their other varieties.
Posted by dana | August 10, 2007 5:14 PM