Great American Bake Sale

Georgetown Cupcake will be at the Tenleytown Whole Foods Great American Bakesale event on Sunday, July 19th. Come out and support the community to help end childhood hunger! The event takes place all day.

Speaking of the Great American Bake Sale, mark your calendars for July 19th and tune into Food Network at 10pm for the Ace of Cakes season premiere featuring Duff Goldman, Great American Bake Sale National Spokesperson, and the Charm City Cakes team as they hold a Great American Bake Sale of their own in Baltimore, MD.

Whole Foods Holiday Cupcakes

Check out these Whole Foods Cupcakes I saw when doing some shopping yesterday afternoon. Now I am a frosting lover, but the mound of green frosting on that Christmas Tree Cupcake would put even me into sugar-shock!!

The Christmas Tree cupcakes come in Chocolate and Vanilla are are $3.49 a piece, while the floral cupcakes come in Chocolate and Vanilla and are $1.99 a piece.

Bethesda Magazine Taste Test's Cupcakes

Keeping up with Washington Post's Cupcake Wars, Bethesda Magazine took it upon themselves to find the Bethesda area's best cupcakes in their most recent issue. "Mark Ramsdell, head instructor of the pastry arts program at L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, was the expert judge for the blind taste test while members of the Bethesda Magazine staff were also judges."

The team purchased yellow cupcakes with chocolate icing at five local cupcake shops. You won't see Fancy Cakes by Leslie in the competition though, as they weren't set to open until after the Magazine's deadline.

The big winner of the contest? Just Cakes! And guess who came in dead last? You guessed it, Cakelove. Here's a list of the competitors, listed in order of how they finished in the contest:

Just Cakes

4849 Rugby Avenue

301-718-5111

Whole Foods

5269 River Road

301-984-4860

Breads Unlimited

6914 Arlington Road

301-656-2340

Spring Mill Bread Co.

4961 Elm Street

301-654-7970

Cakelove

935 Ellsworth Drive

301-565-2253

Whole Foods Fancy Cupcake

So yesterday I jumped on the Metro to Tenleytown on my lunch break, trekking to Whole Foods to find some edible flowers for the 90 cupcakes I had to frost for a party by 7pm, and while there I finally encountered a Whole Foods Cupcake. Up until now it had been quite elusive; I'm at Whole Foods practically every week and they're always sold out, and I doubt you can place an advance order for one lonely cupcake.

Anywho, there it was: "Fancy Cupcake, $3.49." Whoa, $3.49? Who the hell do they think they are, Sprinkles? Actually wait, aren't Sprinkles Cupcakes only $3.25 each? As I had the lady behind the counter box it up for me, I thought to myself, "this better be damn good."

Well, it wasn't. The only thing I liked about this cupcake was the presentation, and I didn't realize that I forgot to take a picture of it before I tossed it in the trash...oops!

The chocolate cake was very thick and very dry, topped with a thin layer of chocolate ganache frosting. The ganache, blackberry, blueberry, and strawberry on top would have to be in every bite to make this cupcake even remotely tolerable, and even then I still wouldn't eat the whole thing. Had the cupcake been moist, I think it could have been pretty good. You could taste that the cake itself was very sweet, but it was just too hard to get past the dryness. This isn't a cupcake I would ever eat again.