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25 July 2011

Cupcake Road Trip '11 - Day 2: Beautiful Leaf

Top left clockwise: Pink champagne, creme brulee, chocolate, and red velvet!
Day two began and as we left California and traveled across Arizona we stopped at our second cupcakery: Beautiful Leaf in Flagstaff. Again, we opted for four cupcakes in order to get a good variety.

16 July 2011

Cupcake Road Trip '11 - Day 1: Sprinkles Cupcakes - Palo Alto

When I graduated from grad school, my mom came out so she could help drive me back home to Alabama.  As my graduation present, we decided to make the trip a Cupcake Road Trip, hitting one cupcakery each day as we traveled across 7 states.  You can't do a cupcake road trip that starts in California without hitting one of the many Sprinkles Cupcakes. The original cupcakery, the Palo Alto location was a great start and helped set us on the right foot. In order to facilitate a good comparison across bakeries, we opted to get a red velvet at each, since that is one of the more common cupcake flavors it seems. For this stop, we chose four cupcakes.
From top left going counter clockwise: Red velvet, salty caramel, chocolate marshmallow, and black&white