Election Cupcakes

Election Day is upon us! In the final days before voters head to the polls, local bakeries are showing their enthusiasm with Election-themed cupcakes.

Hello Cupcake is selling the adorable Donkey & Elephant cupcakes you see below. How cute! They are $3.50 each or $39/dozen. You can also find Donkey & Elephant cupcakes available at Georgetown Cupcake from now through November 4.


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So be sure to get out there and vote! And then of course, go grab yourself a cupcake!

Georgetown Cupcake November Flavors

Can you believe it's almost November??? I feel like summer just ended yesterday!! In my mind, there are only three good things about the impending cold-weather months: holidays, snow, and new seasonal cupcake flavors!


Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcake from Flickr user Alicia Griffin's Photostream

Keeping with their monthly tradition, Georgetown Cupcake will have a couple seasonal flavors this November. These flavors include Pumpkin Spice, Caramel Apple, and Thanksgiving Cupcakes that will be available the week of Thanksgiving (November 23-29). The Thanksgiving-themed cupcakes will also be available throughout the entire month of November by special order.

Red Dog Cafe in Silver Spring

I recently discovered another restaurant in the area that has cupcakes on the dessert menu! The Red Dog Cafe in Silver Spring has a Warm Chocolate Stout Cupcake which is apparently quite tasty.

The Cafe, which serves Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, was reviewed back in January by Gazette writer Brian Patterson who described the Chocolate Stout Cupcake as having "felt and tasted like it was made to order — rich, moist and decadent." Sounds delicious! Anyone ever been? If not and you feel like making the a pit stop, reviews say the Java, Juice & Desserts are worth the trip, but the actual entrees are just so-so. No biggie! A coffee & a cupcake is all I need!

Red Dog Cafe is located at 8301-A Grubb Road in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Interview with Washingtonian's Blogger Beat

I recently caught up with Washingtonian Magazine's Emily Leaman to talk cupcakes for their latest edition of the Blogger Beat! Check it out by clicking here


Me out front of Hello Cupcake (my favorite!) Photo by Chris Leaman

New Lavender Moon Flavors

If you were in town this past weekend hopefully you got outside and took advantage of the gorgeous fall weather. I myself headed down to one of my favorite spots, Alexandria, to enjoy the day by the water. And what would a beautiful autumn day be without some tasty fall flavored cupcakes?!?

I walked over to Lavender Moon Cupcakery and picked up a few flavors I've yet to try. My selection included Devil's Food Peanut Butter, Caramel Apple, Smores, and Pumpkin & Fennel.

The Devils Food Peanut Butter tastes like a buckeye. It's a Chocolate cake with a strong peanut butter frosting, but with a mousse like consistency, covered in ganache. To be honest the only thing you can really taste here is the peanut butter with a hint of chocolate. If you love peanut butter you will definitely be a fan of this flavor.


Devil's Food Peanut Butter Cupcake

Switching it up to one of the fall flavors, Caramel Apple has chunks of real fresh apple mixed with cinnamon sugar. The frosting is very buttery and sugary topped off with a caramel drizzle, and the cake itself is very moist. This is the first apple flavor I've tried from anyone yet this fall and I would definitely have it again.

The Smores cupcake on the other hand is the only cupcake from Lavender Moon that I wouldn't bother with again. It didn't taste a thing like smores. There was an extremely thin hardly-there layer of graham cracker crumbs on the bottom of the cupcake which you couldn't taste at all. The chocolate cake was rather sticky, and the whole thing was finished off with a toasted marshmallow frosting. It was like biting into a piece of plain chocolate cake, and I didn't like it.

Last but certainly not least, the Pumpkin & Fennel was my favorite. The light fennel flavor was a nice touch to a light pumpkin taste. The cake was just the right amount of moist, and the sweet cream cheese frosting was the perfect finishing touch.

While I was there, one flavor that caught my eye was the Roasted Fig and Blood Orange. Sounds pretty adventurous, huh? The thing I like about Lavender Moon is that you can always find new and creative flavors like this!

5th Annual Cupcakes for a Cause

This week is the 5th Annual Cupcakes for a Cause week! How can you take part? All you have to do is visit a participating bakery from October 20th through 26th and purchase one of their special CancerCare for Kids Cupcakes and you will be helping save a child's life. Participating bakeries in Maryland, DC, and Virginia include:

Georgetown Cupcake
1209 Potomac Street NW
Washington DC 20007

CakeLove
935 Ellsworth Drive
Silver Spring MD 20910

Couture Cupcakes
Potomac MD 20854

The Baltimore Cupcake Company
1433 East Fort Avenue
Baltimore MD 21230

Blackbird Bakery
56 Piedmont Avenue
Bristol VA 24201

Edibles Incredible Desserts
11917 Freedom Drive
Reston VA 20190

Edibles Incredible Desserts
22855 Brambleton Plaza, 103
Brambleton VA 20148

Reese's Cupcakes
14420 Rosebud Road
Chesterfield VA 23838

Roxie's Cupcakes
5521 Forestview Drive
Virginia Beach VA 23455

Don't have time to make it into a bakery this week? Then try to find a minute to hop over to the Cupcakes for a Cause website and send a friend an ecupcake! $1 will be donated for each ecupcake that is sent (up to $10,000). Right now only 947 ecupcakes have been sent, so we have a ways to go! Click here to get started creating your own ecupcake, or selecting a premade one!

If you're a bakery who would like to participate in Cupcakes for a Cause but haven't had a chance to sign up yet, click here to get yourself on the list.

So if you were looking for an excuse to eat some cupcakes, now you've got it! Get out and get yourself a CancerCare for Kids Cupcake!

Georgetown Cupcake UN Birthday Cupcakes

If you're in Georgetown this week you should pop into Georgetown Cupcake to purchase one of their special UN Cupcakes. The cupcakes are being sold to commemorate the founding of the UN; 100% of the proceeds from their sale will go to support the work of the United Nations.

The cupcakes are only being sold through the end of the day on Friday, October 24th. If you'd like to place an order you can send an email to info@georgetowncupcake.com