Designer Desserts: S'mores Cupcake

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The cupcake listed above is Designer Desserts S'mores Cupcake.

Presentation : 10/10 Sprinkles

We definitely feel like this cupcake looked like a S'more.  We like to see when cupcakes actually look like what they are named so we gave it a high score.

Taste & Texture: 6/10 Sprinkles

Cake:  The cake tasted like straight-up box chocolate cake.  Something your mom could have made in the kitchen after she was experimenting with dinner.

Frosting: The frosting was characteristic of designer desserts: vanilla butter cream with nuts.  However, that was just on the bottom layer of the frosting.  On the top of the cupcake sat a large jumbo marshmallow with an attached Hershey's piece of chocolate..

Overall:  

Shauna: 7/10 Sprinkles

Shauna believes that the presentation did not match up with the taste of this cupcake.  The presentation was so awesome but the actual taste of the cupcake wasn't too grand.

Katrina: 4/10 Sprinkles

Katrina doesn't like s'mores in general because she dislikes marshmallows.   Marshmallows aside, the Hershey's piece of chocolate was not stale but the cake was very generic tasting.  She would never order this cupcake again when there are so many other choices with Designer Dessert cupcakes.

To our followers (Sprinklettes):  Go try it and tell us how you liked it in the comments below or at splitstatecupcake@gmail.com.

Designer Desserts: Carrot Cake

The photo above is of Designer Dessert's Carrot Cake Cupcake!

Presentation : 6/10 Sprinkles

This cupcake had a little frosted carrot on top with sprinkled crumbs of carrot cake.  The presentation of this cupcake was elegant and super cute with the edible carrot.

Taste & Texture: 6/10 Sprinkles

Cake:  The cake was a very dry carrot spice cake.  We believe that this is not characteristic of carrot cakes in general so we were a little bit disappointed.

Frosting: The frosting on this carrot cupcake was a regular vanilla buttercream without any coloring except for the carrot on top.

Overall:  

Shauna: 6/10 Sprinkles

Shauna thought the cupcake was good but was not the best carrot cake she has had.  She believes that the frosting could have had more coloring to it in the presentation.  For example, perhaps an orange frosting with a green leaf on top would have had a more creative presentation.

Katrina: 5/10 Sprinkles

Katrina thought that this cupcake was super dry and she loves moist carrot cake.  It left her feeling disappointed and she thought that the cupcake needed more frosting to counterbalance the dryness of the cupcake.

To our followers (Sprinklettes):  Go try it and tell us how you liked it in the comments below or at splitstatecupcake@gmail.com.

Designer Desserts: Big Texan

Presentation: 5/10 Sprinkles
We thought this cupcake was very unoriginal in looks. In Texas, everything is big. This cupcake had a big chocolate mound on the top with heath bar bits inside the chocolate.

Taste: 9.5/10 Sprinkles

Frosting: The frosting for this cupcake is very true to most designer desserts "mousse" cupcakes. The top was a scoop of chocolate mouse covered with a hard shell chocolate covering with heath bar mixed inside.

Cake: The cake was very moist for being on sale for $2.75 today. It was a chocolate cake with chocolate fudge in the center. It tasted like a decadent chocolate dessert and not like something you could make at home.

Overall:
Katrina: 8 Sprinkles
The look of the cupcake wasn't that appealing to her. She thought that the chocolate mousse was amazing in the cupcake and that is why she gave a high score.

Shauna: 8 Sprinkles
Taste & texture was on point but the look of the cupcake would have never caught her eye if it weren't for the cool name.