After a gloomy morning, the sun burst through the clouds around noon and I decided it was the perfect cold-but-bright weather for a jog up to Ghiardelli Square.
Since I made it the whole 1.5 miles (uphill, no less) without overexerting myself, I decided I deserved a cupcake from Kara's. The store is cute, but in kind of the same way that all the trendy cupcake shops are. Can't someone think of a new way to display cupcakes? It's kind of like how all the new frozen yogurt shops look like Pinkberry, and most new coffee shops are sort of Starbucks-ish. Boring!
I had the fleur de sel cupcake, which is dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache and a caramel filling. The caramel filling has bits of fleur de sel in it. I have to say, this is some of the best chocolate frosting I've ever tasted. It's incredibly smooth, like the filling of an expensive truffle. Even though my photo is blurry you can tell how much darker, denser, and smoother it is than most cupcake frosting. It was a thing of beauty. The cake itself was pretty good though nothing to rave about. Cupcake shops should all have one rule: only sell fresh cupcakes. So many places (Sprinkles, I'm looking at you) sell stale, dried out cupcakes mixed in with their winners. Not nice, folks. Not nice!
Since I made it the whole 1.5 miles (uphill, no less) without overexerting myself, I decided I deserved a cupcake from Kara's. The store is cute, but in kind of the same way that all the trendy cupcake shops are. Can't someone think of a new way to display cupcakes? It's kind of like how all the new frozen yogurt shops look like Pinkberry, and most new coffee shops are sort of Starbucks-ish. Boring!
I had the fleur de sel cupcake, which is dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache and a caramel filling. The caramel filling has bits of fleur de sel in it. I have to say, this is some of the best chocolate frosting I've ever tasted. It's incredibly smooth, like the filling of an expensive truffle. Even though my photo is blurry you can tell how much darker, denser, and smoother it is than most cupcake frosting. It was a thing of beauty. The cake itself was pretty good though nothing to rave about. Cupcake shops should all have one rule: only sell fresh cupcakes. So many places (Sprinkles, I'm looking at you) sell stale, dried out cupcakes mixed in with their winners. Not nice, folks. Not nice!
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