Ooh La La Cupcakes

My husband and I went to Victoria, BC for our anniversary this last week. I thought that since I could not bake anything this week for the blog I chose to go to a cupcake shop and review it. I really wanted to go to Original Cupcakes, a show called The Cupcake Girls that you might have seen on WE tv, but that was a little too far. Instead I went to Ooh La La cupcake. They are featured in this clip of a Canadian news channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiyfJ03bsXI

I was expecting to have a really good experience, but sadly I was disappointed. When my husband and I walked up to the shop it looked closed. We walked in and the lady who was working was in the back room. She came out and was friendly, but as soon as she served us she went back to the room. 

My husband had the red velvet cupcake and I had the monkey business cupcake. The red velvet had a really good salty cake bottom which wasn't dense. However, the frosting was made out of whipped buttercream. With red velvet you really want to use cream cheese frosting, so that the sweetness of the frosting doesn't overpower the sweetness of the cupcake.

 As for my monkey business cupcake, it was a banana cake bottom and a whipped chocolate frosting on top. The frosting was good and the cake was good even though it was very heavy, but the two together did not taste that great. I think it would have been better if they had put some banana in the frosting to make it taste more like a banana.

I hope you didn't miss me while I was gone, but one of my favorite pastimes is to go to bakeries, try their goods, and critique them. It helps me when I try to produce my own work. I hope to have the opportunity to review more cupcake shops in the future and please leave comments below about your feelings towards this review.

Kirsten