Rich's House of Cakes: Cupcake Pushpops

Rich's House of Cakes is based in Waukesha, WI and they are doing something unique with cupcakes.  We saw them at Chicago's Annual Baking & Sweets show on Sunday, Nov 16, 2014.  We love that a baking company is not afraid to step outside of the cupcake liner! ;)

Introducing Cupcake Pushpops!  They're super cool and easy to eat while on the go! 

Katrina driving her new car while eating a cupcake pushpop.

Rich's were selling these pushpops at the show for $2.50 and we think it's a really good deal for what you get on the inside!  

Our review for the unique treat:

Appearance: 8/10 Sprinkles

We think this cupcake is one of the coolest we ever got to try!  When we walked into the baking show in Chicago we immediately were drawn to the table with the pushpop cupcakes!  It's something we haven't really seen in our area.  We like the fact that they layered them with different colors and textures.

Taste:

Cake: 8/10 Sprinkles

We loved all of the layers of this cake pop!  There were moist yellow cake layers and a drier chocolate cake layer.  The cake consistency was a very typical box-style cake.

Frosting:   8/10 Sprinkles

The red frosting in the photo pictured above was delicious (whipped frosting).  There was a correct ratio of frosting to cake in this cake pop.  The other cool thing about this cake pop was that it wasn't just frosting and cake, but also pudding!  We tasted a banana/vanilla type pudding in the middle of the pushpop.

Overall:  

We both gave it a 9/10 Sprinkles.

The taste of the whole pushpop all together was amazing.  It's a fantastic on-the-go cupcake and we think that more cupcake vendors should go into this medium for artistry of cupcakes.  The only thing we don't like about this cupcake is the extra packaging is wasteful. But overall, we were really excited to see this type of "cupcake" out there.  

**They also had things like Cupcake Parfaits which were really cool but we were full and didn't want to try them... but if we're ever back in Wisconsin we will!!**

Stay tuned for more! 

Delish Cakes: Oreo Cupcake

We reviewed this cupcake at Chicago's 2nd Annual Baking & Sweets Show in Schaumburg, IL on Nov 16, 2014.  Delish Cakes is located at 112 W. Lake St. Bloomingdale IL, 60108 and their website is here.

Appearance : 8/10 sprinkles
We thought the piping on the frosting was very professional and we recognized what flavor the cupcake was right away. 

Taste:
Cake: 7/10 sprinkles

We took a bite of it and the outside was stiffer and drier. We figure it was because they were in a glass case at the sweets show. The middle of the cupcake was very moist and had a hearty milk chocolate flavor. 

Frosting : 5/10 sprinkles

We thought this cupcake tasted more like a cookies and cream and less like a signature oreo (yes, there's a difference).  The frosting put us off. It was thick and not as sweet as we had hoped.

Overall: 6/10 sprinkles 
We thought there would be more cupcake vendors at the show that we went to but it turns out that Delish Cakes was one of the only places that we saw! We were recommended to eat the apple pie or blackout cupcakes but we really wanted to try the Oreo.  It was just okay but not very sweet and moist (two things we look for in cupcakes).

Stay tuned for our next cupcake we reviewed at the show!

America's Baking & Sweets Show ~ Chicago

Hey everyone!  Sorry for the lack of updates for awhile.  We both have full time jobs now and it is hard for us to coordinate cupcake dates!  

We were invited to go to the America's Baking & Sweets Show in Schaumburg, IL on Sunday Nov, 16, 2014.  We made our own shirts!! 

 We had hoped that there would be a lot of cupcake vendors at this show so that we could review a lot of cupcakes at once.  Once we got there, we realized there were only less than 5 cupcake vendors :(.  So we dropped off our cards to every booth at the show! 

We enjoyed sampling a lot of other baked goods and sweets!  

We even got to see the TLC's DC Cupcake girls!  How AWESOME!!!!!

Until next time.........!!!