This was unexpected. You see the thing about cupcakes in my book is I give them a 360 degree Matrix rotation stare before I bite and mentally recite that I hope…and I really mean hope that they’re not just sweet and really pray that they taste as good as they look. You know, like if it’s a strawberry cupcake I ought to be hearing “Strawberry Fields Forever…” playing when I bite into it. There are near countless numbers of small cupcake businesses out there right now and a good number of them photograph quite marvelously and have gotten a lot of press, but frankly, for me, they don’t exactly earn a standing ovation when it comes to their taste symphonies. I absolutely can’t stand the huge ones that only entice with rustic pretty colored icing that just makes your teeth hurt. For me there has to be more to a cupcake than just the bird’s eye view of it. These cupcakes, ladies and gentlemen, are different. I actually judged them harshly at first when I first saw a few dark photos because they looked too dainty to look tasty, the size made them look plain, but I was wrong. Up close they were WAY prettier than in those first few photos I saw. The wife of Mom’s former client at work began making cupcakes at home, naming her simple little venture “Piece of Cake” and reportedly, she laboriously (duh) kitchen tests everything while zeroing in on the taste development of each cupcake offering.
“Piece of Cake” Homemade Cupcakes by Ruby Escosa +639178337829/ email: [email protected], FB Page: http://facebook.com/happinessinacupcake
I bit into one of the strawberry cupcakes (these simple ones right here with baby pink cream) and what I got was a fruity real strawberry taste explosion with just the right moist, sweet milkiness of a cupcake. It sort of reminded me of Strawberry Fruitella (cue TVC here) but done properly into a pastry. In the photo you’re seeing the chocolate cupcakes with a bit of salted caramel filling, the strawberry cream cupcakes, the simple vanilla cupcakes with blue & lavender blossoms, and the red velvet ones on the edge with ombre icing. You should have seen my sad eyes trail after the last strawberry cupcake Mom decided to take to Dad right away when I announced it was good, LOL. That first bite was what I was hoping it would taste like and so much more. Mom says the chocolate cupcakes are the best ones she’s ever tasted, I agree with her that they’re good but those strawberry ones are the BOMB. I’ve included the details for ordering above…you know what to do next 
…after all, ’tis now the season for some sweet treats!
