Yes, a cupcake will always help.
We all know I have a sweet tooth. So when I am trying to be good and want that sugary sweetness, instead of cupcakes or cookies I try and do fro yo instead. (Fro yo for those of you who live under the saddest rock in the whole wide world is frozen yogurt. I like frequenting the more asian-y owned businesses that have fun flavors, exotic fruits and mochi.)
Frozen Yogurt is totally healthy. It's like 100 calories for 1/2 a cup. But I get like a whole cup.. and a half. With enough add ons to have a caloric total of one million. So "healthy" is really all in my head. In any case, I love me some fro yo.
So imagine my surprise and intrigue when my friend Katie who lives in Fremont told me about a place nearby that was a fro yo shop... and ALSO sold cupcakes. This was mind blowing. How does this work? I had to find out how.
So Sunday afternoon we headed over to the small cupcakery which is in front of the Pacific Commons Shopping Center in Fremont. The reason that it called to Katie in the first place was not only the joint fro yo cupcake store front but because it also had signs everywhere saying Smallcakes had been on the Food Network, the View and the MTV Music Awards.
Turns out Smallcakes is a popular Cupcakery out of Kansas who has begun to franchise. And they were on the first seasons of Cupcake Wars! It appears that in California these franchises are a duo between Fresh Berry Frozen Yogurt Cafe and Smallcakes. Which makes more sense why you can buy cupcakes where you eat your froyo.
Basically how it works is that you walk in and first thing you see is their display of cupcakes behind a little glass case.
They change the flavors each day.
They have a list though, of what days you can get each flavor. I like that. Variety is good. :)
The rest of the store is set up like a regular fro yo bar, with the machines against the wall and a topping bar that leads you to the register.
Really if it wasn't for the cupcake display and the huge signs, you'd have no idea about the cupcakes that are baked daily within.
They have minis, but i did not realize this until after I ordered a whole big one. I'll have to ask beforehand next time!
Katie got a Red Velvet Cupcake with a huge mound of cream cheese frosting.
I had her eat it slowly so she could decide whether or not it was good. This is her contemplating just that.
I tried it as well -- even though i do not actually like red velvet (I KNOW I KNOW IM HORRIBLE.)
The verdict was that the cake was really good. It was so moist. The frosting was a little meh though.
After a serious 5 minute deliberation in which the guy behind the counter learned to hate me, I chose a carrot cake cupcake with just as much frosting.
Seriously though, the carrot cake was BOMB. (Do people still say that?) I mean, I know that I am going to get a cupcake when i have it in my hand and its like a brick. LOL. Heavy means baked with love? You can definitely tell that the cake is freshly baked that day. No but really. IT WAS SO GOOD. I want to know exactly what was in it. The nuts on top were fantastic too. I love a crunch in my sweets.
This was the same frosting as the red velvet so it still got a meh. Too sweet for my taste. As you can see below, I literally scraped 75% of it off.
Despite the frosting though, IT WAS SO GOOD. I think the base cupcake was better than CupKates or Cakeo. Alas, that overly sweet frosting!
However, they definitely got points for their packaging. I'm a sucker for that stuff.
xoxo,
Anna
P.S. In case you were wondering, no I did not have fro yo too. And to answer the follow up question, yes I did want to have some on the side.
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