Designer Desserts: Red Velvet

The cupcake pictured above is Designer Dessert's "Red Velvet" cupcake (Specialty Flavor).

Presentation: 6/10  

We thought that a lot could be done to decorate a red cupcake.  We thought the sprinkles were boring and the minute we saw the cupcake we were wondering what the thing in the middle was (turns out it's a jelly bean!).  We wished there was more decoration since this would be a great cupcake for Valentine's Day! 

Taste:

CAKE:  The cake was moist inside and it tasted like dark chocolate.  We thought the cake was very decadent.   However, Shauna thought that she couldn't taste much of the "dark chocolate" flavor.  

FROSTING: The frosting was a white butter cream that melted in your mouth! YUM!  The jellybean was weird on top though!

Overall Rating: 

Shauna - 6/10 due to presentation alone.  She believes it was "OK" tasting, but she does not love Red Velvet!

Katrina - 8/10 because it is in her top 5 Red Velvet cupcakes.  The taste of the cake in combination with the butter cream frosting is DIVINE!