Saint Cupcake
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In this world there are things that are certain to bring delight–a child’s giggle, the sound of the ocean, a really good hug and of course cupcakes. In most any situation and for just about any occasion a cupcake will do the trick! There is something about these short, little cakes that bring a smile to my face. And not just my face…topped with a sugary hat, these petite treats have developed quite the cult following.
With a following of their own, Saint Cupcake opened its doors in 2005 but their recipes are not so new. Several of their delectable concoctions come from owner, Jami Curl’s gramma who still gets calls for tips and tricks. All natural ingredients pair with recipes that have stood the test of time for a magically tasty experience. Just as they would at home Curl and her team of talented bakers, whip up small batches of cupcakes to ensure only the yummiest sweets are served up. Their shops in Oregon have many a customer that flock to the bountiful cupcake counters but that left the rest of this wonderful country feeling a little left out.
Never fear! The saints at Saint Cupcake began shipping cupcakes across the United States in 2009. Best of all you can customize your St. Cupcake Kit using their magical cupcake selector so when your cute cakes arrive on your doorstep it is a perfect package just for you. You choose your cake flavor, icing, and sprinkles and they package it up in a pretty box complete with icing wand and instructions for easy-peasy decorating. The possibilities are endless: carrot cake + cream cheese icing + chocolate jimmies? vanilla toffee + vanilla buttercream + pink crystals? how about vegan chocolate cake + hot fudge icing + rainbow nonperrils? Are you drooling yet?
Yummm!!! Easily the best dessert I’ve ever had was creme brulee on a boat on the Seine. Hands down, a wonderful memory. Everytime I eat creme brulee, even after all of these years, I am transported back to that moment! Delicious. xoxo Judith~
The most delicious dessert I ever ate was a dessert called “panna cotta” (cooked cream?). I tasted this delight in a small farm in Trentino. The cream was made from the milk of cows there in the farm, and was very fresh and tasty… Around the “panna cotta” were fresh berries sprinkled with white sugar. All around me were Dolomiti Mountains, red and pink because the sunset, and my boyfriend was beside me… This is the best dessert I’ve ever tried.
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The best one I think has to be this weird concoction a friend’s mom made. It had chocolate pudding, whipped cream, canned cherry pie filling, and crunched up oreos. Then she drizzled a hot fudge on top. All done up in layers and looked really pretty. It was sooooo nomalicious. I don’t know what it was called but I know I want more :)
The lovely chocolate cookies one of my coworkers does, they are called “rocky” .. ñamñam :)
The tiniest, darkest, sweetest wild raspberries (red) that we had just picked and washed in a mountain stream!
A fresh canoli from a little Italian market. Heaven!
My wedding cake! Everyone says wedding cake is terrible…not the case for mine. Red velvet cake with cream cheese icing covered in fondant. There is a picture of my husband and I by ourselves at our table (which sat 10) just devouring the cake. No one knew what they were missing!
The most delicious dessert I have ever had was at La Petite Auberge in Newport, RI., one of the oldest taverns in the country. In a beautiful parfait glass were piled layers of fresh, poached pears, chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream. I’ve tried to replicate the dessert many times, but it never tastes quite the same.
My friend made a simple carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for my birthday last year as carrot cake is my favorite. Upon having a bite, though, I realised this was so far beyond a simple carrot cake and just the most divine, amazing cake that I’ve ever had. She said she’s made it time and again and always just thought it was something anybody could whip together, but I swear, she sprinkled it with magical delicious dust. I begrudged every single person there who also had a slice. There were no leftovers for me to enjoy the next day. Guess what I’m asking for this birthday?
My Dad is a crazy-good cook and when I was growing up, everything was homemade. Sometimes he made fancy French meals for fun or had a dinner party for a small group of friends so he could try some recipes out. He made this floating island dessert for a party one year that was these blobs of soft meringue floating in a dish of sweet vanilla cream sauce. So. Freaking. Good. I think he only made that dessert once or twice in my life but I can totally recall the taste 20 years later.
Chocolate Molten Lava Cake in a sweet ramekin with fresh whipped cream piled on top. Just sayin’.
My favorite dessert every was in Japan, I had Ichigo Daifuku in the Spring, and it was AMAZING. The perfect dessert. Wish I could make them!
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Nom. The most delicious dessert I’ve ever had…wow, that’s a tough one. Because I so, so love dessert!! We have a favorite Brazilian restaurant in town that makes amazing homemade passionfruit mousse (seriously, it’s like crack). There’s another place with a dessert called Chocolate Many Ways, and it’s like 4 mini-desserts, all very chocolatey and rich and delicious. My husband makes this insanely delicious thing with chocolate, pecans, and coconut called Tarheel Pie, and of course, my mom’s apple cake is unbeatable. See, I can’t pick just one!!
The dessert I’ve ever had is the turtle cake at Cafe Latte in St Paul, MN. The slice is a giant piece of chocolate cake, with carmel gooeying out between 5 layers of the cake. The layer of pecans is not thickon top so it doesn’t take away from the smooth carmel and melt in your mouth chocolate cake…. now I’m hungry
Mmm, one of my favorite restaurants here in Atlanta makes a figgy toffee pudding that’s to die for.
A four layer lemon cake- wonderful filling, creamy frosting. I found a recipe and made one- it was almost as good.
The best dessert I have ever tasted was a Dark Chocolate Souffle Cake with Espresso Chocolate Sauce. It was served hot from the oven and had a hidden molten center. TDF!
I’m a simple girl — I’ve had many a delicious dessert (b/c they are my weakness) but the best is and always has been my mom’s chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing. It’s what I have every year on my birthday b/c it’s just that good.
Molton Chocolate Cake with fresh sliced strawberries drizzled with fresh strawberry sauce served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
The most delicious dessert I’ve ever had was a decadent chocolate cake covered iwth creamy chocolate frosting at Chester’s Restaurant in Rochester, Minnesota. A friend and I met in Rochester for an afternoon of shopping and then shared a piece of cake and mojitos at Chester’s. Perfect afternoon in my book.
No particular occasion ….no special place…..maybe twenty years ago now….homemade coffee ice cream, hot fudge, heath bar crumbles, homemade whipped cream, sprinkled with fresh strawberries. Maybe it was the summer night air or the stars were aligned some special way, for some reason unknown to me, savoring that sundae still lingers in my memory. Heaven!
I think it is called DIRT…which is such a contrast because it so does not taste like that at all. Almost like a truffle, it is layers of chocolate cake, cool whip and heath bar (I think this is my friend has adapted the heath bar instead of Oreo cookie crumbles) and then you throw some gummy worms on top to give it the facade of Dirt if you so choose. Absolutely yummy!
A strawberry shortcake with freshly picked strawberries. Yum.
White chocolate raspberry cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory. YUM!
So there’s this Italian deli in my neighborhood which, if you go through a hidden side door, is actually a pretty nice restaurant. It’s the “fancy” place that my boyfriend and I go to on special occasions. {“Fancy” is used loosely here. It means we sit down and aren’t eating tacos.} Last summer, while we were eating on the back patio, we were seated next to a group who cemented for me this deli’s gravitas- 3 line-backer sized middle aged Italian men who used phrases like “He’s good for 5 grand” and “No disrespect of course.” That same day, we had the Pannacotta for dessert. It was this layered, cheesecake type thing with sugary, toffee crunch bits in waves throughout it. It was deliciously icy in spots making the cheese cake a perfect summer dessert. It was so rich that three of us shared the tall, but thin slice. As we left, there was a pair of cops sitting down to eat in the deli. If cops and mafia are eating at the same place, surely it must be a damn fine Italian restaurant.
after reading through a few of the responses, it seems (and i totally agree) that a big part of the dessert being ‘perfect’ has to do with the atmosphere in which it was had. in support of that, i would say popping into a darling bakery for a cupcake- perfect in every way- with freshly whipped buttercream. what better way to punctuate a sunday afternoon of shopping with mom?
(If I may be so immodest…) my homemade wedding cupcakes! It took me three days of baking, and I was frosting until 3AM the morning of my wedding, but all the work was worth it when I shared that first vanilla-infused bite of coconut cupcake with my new husband.
the most delicious dessert i ever had was a chocolate cupcake with caramel icing; it was so rich and moist and just all around fantastic
Oooh, just remembering the most delicious dessert I ever had is making me drool. At a chic Japanese fusion restaurant in NYC, I had green tea donut holes. They were lovely balls of fried dough, rolled in a mixture of green tea powder and sugar, with a green tea filling that oozed out with every bite. There were dipping sauces, as well, but I just popped those donuts into my mouth without sacrificing their beauty, by covering them in cream.
My mama’s banana pudding. I LOVE it. In fact I will not eat any other banana pudding at all. My mama makes it just the way I like it. It is really runny with lots of Nilla Wafers, and no meringue. I hate meringue. I want some right now!!!
Green tea tiramisu! A friend and I had indulged in this delightful treat while I was visiting her in NYC in the fall of 2001. We found it alongside traditional Japanese fare at a restaurant in the lower East Side – instead of the traditional coffee/marsala wine soak for the lady fingers, a concoction of matcha green tea and a splash of melon liqueur was used to flavor this delightful dessert. Accordingly, the layers of lady fingers were interspersed with smooth & creamy marscapone cheese, then dusted with match green tea flakes that were finely ground into a powder. It was “oishi” (oy-she) as they say in Japanese!
The cupcakes at my wedding! Simple vanilla or chocolate topped with butter cream icing, and gold nonpareils. Each cupcake had a white chocolate disc with our monogram on it. We didn’t even get to eat one at the wedding, because we were too busy having fun. So imagine our surprise when we got home from the honey moon and there were a dozen in the freezer…leftovers that my mom had brought home for us! We ate them for the next week, until they were gone…and they were delicious, even after being frozen!
Your cinnamon rolls Jamie Curl. You’re pretty much awesome.
most delicious dessert ever?! is this a trick question :) i would have to say molten chocolate cake. it’s just so good, every time. that and homemade apple pie. mmmm…
Much as I love cupcakes, and I do! My favorite dessert is the strawberry tart at Cafe Eccel – it’s not really a tart but that’s what they call it. It’s a lacey, crisp shell with fluted sides with a light but awesome creamy filling with strawberrys on the top. It’s the dessert I had right before my husband proposed to me – he said he was about to die waiting for me to finish! :)
Pear cranberry ginger pie. Oh pie, I love you so .
key lime pie. so fresh & delicious. & surprisingly easy to make. my mouth is watering just thinking about it.
A dessert recipe out of a 1940’s cookbook that I love. Called Cocoa Puff, it’s simply egg whites beaten to almost a meringue and mixed with sugar and cocoa, and it is simply delicious topped with a little whipped cream. Light and fluffy and cocoa-y. *drool*
Oh my goodness! These pictures look scrumptious. You may have heard or read from fans that they are the utlimate dessert lovers. BUT I am The Cupcake Lover. I Love Cupcakes. And I have to say that the most delicious desset I’ve ever had was a jumbo cupcake from Something Delicious Bakery in Kent, WA. It was vanilla with the right amount of buttercream frosting on top. This cupcake was light, fluffy and a sweet destination to heaven. Perfection!
The most delicious dessert I’ve ever had is banana cream cake from Benjy’s in Houston. It’s a yummy layer cake with a side of bananas foster and bourbon walnut ice cream. Yum!
The best dessert I have ever devoured would be the warm chocolate melting cake with vanilla ice cream that my family and I ate every single night when we were on a Carnival Cruise ship on our way to Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cayman Islands and Cozumel, Mexico. We always told ourselves that we would try a different dessert but once it came down to ordering, we always ordered the warm chocolate melting cake with vanilla ice cream!
The most scrumptious dessert I’ve ever had was a chocolate bread pudding at a wine bar near my home. It’s creamy, it’s rich, and absolutely tremazingly delicious! And there is never enough of it!!!
Oh my goodness. This is so exciting!
Probably the best dessert I can think of is my Opa’s apple pie. He used to make them all the time and I would actually probably eat literally half a pie at a time. He has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and can no longer makes the pie, which is good for my waistline, but certainly hits me with pangs of nostalgia now and then. I’ve taken over the apple pie duties, and though mine is good (if I do say so myself), for some reason it never really tastes the same.
I would love to have his apple pie again, but I think some cupcakes might do the trick too! ; )
My family went on a cruise when I was about 12 or so. One night for dessert, they served… *something*. I’m still not sure what. I think it was a flourless chocolate cake, but it tasted beyond any other I’ve had since. It was more like a big chocolatey truffle. And it was perfectly warm and melty, gooey but with substance, chewy and oh-so-smooth. And there was so much chocolate packed into it, yet not enough that it made me feel queasy by the end. And it was no-nonsense–no ice cream on the side, no raspberry sauce, not even a dusting of powdered sugar. It was all about the chocolate, no distractions allowed.
Simply put, it was perfect. And yet I didn’t go back later and order another one, even though I had the chance. (Ah, the massive overindulgence of cruises.) To date, that is one of my biggest regrets in life. How I wish I could replicate that truffle cake! (Of course, if I could I’d probably weigh about fifty pounds more, so maybe that isn’t such a bad thing.)
Warm chocolate melting cake that you get as a dessert on Carnival Cruises. Really. I have a mad sweet tooth and eat tons of a dessert and the best dessert ever was on board a cruise. i could eat that cake every single day.
The best dessert I’ve ever had was a chocolate mousse cake from, believe it or not, a local pizzeria when I lived in Montreal. There was a thin layer of chocolate cake, a ganach layer, a heaped layer of smooth as silk, light as a feather mousse, a dash of whipped cream and chocolate flakes.
Woops, I just saw on your site that you don’t ship internationally, please skip me then :)
It wasn’t anything fancy. It was a cheescake. I’d had cheesecake before but something about this one just made it uh-mazing! Im big on crusts of cheesecake and this one was perfect. The texture was amazing and it also had chocolate and Carmel drizzled on top. Drool!
Yum! The most delicious dessert I’ve ever had are Black Bottom Cupcakes. I only make them about once a year because I’ll eat ALL of them ;)
white chocolate brownie at a restaurant. Yummy!
Megan