Get Your Fourth of July Cupcakes!

If you're planning on buying, not baking, your patriotic cupcakes this Fourth of July, I've got you covered. Check out this list of local places who will be selling the festive treats all week long:

Bittersweet Catering
Flag Cupcakes made up of white cake with Vanilla Buttercream, decorated with red stripes and blue stars, for $3.00/each

Buzz Bakery

Patriotic Themed Cupcakes

Cakelove

Yellow butter cupcakes topped with buttercream, raspberries, and blueberries.

Cupcakes Actually
Choose from Apple Struedel with Cream Cheese Frosting, Simply Red with Cream Cheese Frosting and Vanilla Bean with Vanilla Buttercream. Each cupcake is adorned with a handmade 4th of July themed decoration.

Georgetown Cupcake
Fourth of July Cupcakes are available every day during the holiday week and throughout the holiday month by special order.

Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe

Heidelberg's Patriotic Themed Cupcakes are either Yellow or Chocolate cake with white icing and red, white and blue sprinkles on top. They're $1.25 each.

Hello Cupcake

Fourth of July Cupcakes are available all this week. They are the "HC Originals," (vanilla or chocolate cake with vanilla or chocolate buttercream frosting) with special Independence Day decorations and are the normal price, $3/each. Note their holiday hours: 10am-9pm July 3rd, and 10am-5pm July 4th.

Red Velvet Cupcakery

RVC will definitely be selling patriotic-themed cupcakes this week, but weren't able to tell me which flavors they'll be using as the baker hasn't decided yet. The themed-cupcakes will probably only be available Saturday, Friday at the earliest!

Springmill Bread Company
All the local locations are baking Patriotic Themed Cupcakes, priced at 4 for $8.

Know of anywhere else? Let me know and I'll add it to the list!

Washington City Paper's Best of DC

Last year thousands of Washingtonian's voted for what they deemed the Best of D.C., be it bakeries or burgers, and now it's time to do it all over! And the best part of this years contest? The Washington City Paper added a "Best Cupcake" category!

The "Best Cupcake" category didn't exist last year, but Locanda took home the title of Best Desserts while Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe took the crown of Best Bakery (I provided both websites here, but for some reason both websites seem to be down). So who do you think has the best cupcakes in town?? Red Velvet? Hello? Georgetown? For a reminder of local cupcakeries and bakeries/shops carrying cupcakes, check out the running list on the left side of my blog!

Vote for the Cupcake and other Best Of categories by clicking here! Only 6 days left!!

DC Area Obama Cupcake Round Up

For all you who will be in town for the Inauguration, I've rounded up where you can get your Obama Cupcakes! Check out the list below to see if your favorite bakery is making Obama Cupcakes. I myself will be escaping all the madness and heading to Indiana!

Baked & Wired
1052 Thomas Jefferson St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007
B&W will be serving up some really cool treats for Inauguration Day. The flavors that will be decorated are Red Velvet, Karen's Birthday, Vanilla/Vanilla, and Chocolate Doom! The prices will stay at $3.50/each. Aside from cupcakes, B&W will be making their “Big Ass Cookie,” which is an iced sugar cookie that will have fun sayings on them like, "Obama for your Mama, Barack and Roll, Change, Yes We Did, Sir Obamalot,” and well, you get the jist!

They’ll be open from 7am to 8pm next Tuesday, and will also have a TV set up so customers can watch the swearing in and any festivities!

Charm City Cupcakes
326 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
CCC will be selling the Obama Cupcakes you see below, along with a really cute limited edition cupcake/Inauguration T-shirt! 100% Cotton and in White, they come in both long-sleeve ($21.95) and short-sleeve ($17.95). Printed on the front: “The 2 Hottest Things in America” and on the back: A cupcake with an Obama-like campaign symbol. You can also purchase one online by clicking here!

Furin's of Georgetown

2805 M Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20007

Just voted DC'S Best Bakery by MSN Network 2008

Box of 6 Custom Obama Cupcakes $25

Georgetown Cupcake

1209 Potomac Street NW, Washington, DC

Available every day during Inauguration Week & by Special Order all month

Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe

2150 N. Culpeper Street Arlington, VA 22207

Heidelberg will have Red-White-Blue Patriotic Themed cupcakes available for purchase in honor of Obama's Inauguration. Call ahead for availability!

Hello Cupcake

1351 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036

Very Berry Obama: An explosion of red and blue berries in our moist vanilla cake, topped with tangy/sweet vanilla cream cheese frosting, “stars and bars” sprinkles, and an American flag.

Red Velvet Cupcakery
675 E. Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004
Red Velvet Cupcakery is mixing up the most original Inauguration-themed cupcake in DC: The Big Kahuna. This will be a Hawaiian (Obama’s place of birth) inspired pineapple cake with coconut frosting and a Hawaiian sea-salt topping. No photos available yet as the cupcake is still in production! Since I will be out of town for Inauguration, if anyone snags one of these guys, be sure to take a picture and send it my way!

If you know of any who are not on this list, please share and I'll be happy to add them!

Heidelberg Cupcakes

Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe is a charming little bakery located in Arlington, Virginia. They've got everything you could ever want...cheesecakes, cookies, strudels, brownies, chocolates, danishes, pies, cakes, and most importantly, cupcakes the size of your head. Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration, but they are really really big!

I picked up a Carrot Cake (of course), Red Velvet (I'm on a mission to try everyone's Red Velvet), and a Chocolate Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting and a Chocolate Truffle filling. Before I give you my reviews, I've got to mention that outside of the shoppe they had all the Heidelberg guys grilling up different types of Wursts for sandwiches, along with home made soft pretzels. There was a very long line, so it must have been good.



Okay back to the cupcakes. We'll start with the Carrot Cake. Hello Cupcake's Carrot Cake still reigns King, but this Carrot Cake was pretty good. I don't like raisin's so I wish they weren't baked in, but it was moist and flavorful with lots of spices. The cream cheese icing was my only complaint...it was too thick and almost tasted a little sour. Most icings should change consistency when they hit your taste buds, but this one didnt...it stayed a thick blob. Unfortunately, they used the same cream cheese icing on the Red Velvet. I just cut it off the top and tried the cake part, and wow, it was REALLY good. Moist, crumbly, rich and velvety...I loved it. Quite possibly my favorite Red Velvet so far. If I were to order any of these in the future though, I would probably ask them to hold the icing and just put on some of my own homemade cream cheese icing...

Last up, the Chocolate Truffle. If you're a chocolate lover, you will love this cupcake. VERY rich, and the chocolate truffle in the middle is a great addition. All of the cupcakes I tried were Jumbo size, but they do have regular size chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. Some of the other Jumbo flavors include Yellow Cake with a Caramel topping and Chocolate Cake with a Raspberry frosting. There are some little bistro tables inside for you to sit down and enjoy whatever dessert you end up choosing. If you've never been to the Heidelberg, I highly recommend it!