Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcake
the muffin is too sweet. though the chocolate flavor is just right. the peanut butter and blueberry topping taste quite well.
they have the formula down pat. the texture is ok. its not crumbly. they could have made it a bit more moist, though.we dont have any idea of what the topping was made of other than the pbj, but it looks like mangled brain with curdled blood. :-)
we gave it a 3 out of 5.
Chocolate Muffin with Blue sugar sprinkles
same muffin as above. the only diffence is the topping. made of chocolate with cream and lots of confectioners sugar and for contrast they added blue sprinkles. totally unremarkable .the cocoa that they use doesn't taste 'high end'. i thought they are using valrhona. it just taste like ricoa.
i'll take shopwise's chocolate cupcake.
we gave it 2.5.
Red Velvet
its the high end pan de regla. just a few notch higher than your local bakery's pudding.
i'll take donkin donut's red velvet anytime. all the time.
from what i know velvet cakes are chocolate cakes with red food color. i don't feel any trace of chocolate. zilch.
the only thing that saved this cupcake was the topping. its a bit sour, creamy and sweet at the same time. just right.
we gave it 2.
the jowa and i didnt have the kilig while eating. we were a bit puzzled why it popped. i mean, sure the exclusivity and the prohibitive price
works like the way Mac fanboys gobbles anything Apple. but we just didnt feel happy after eating. the sugar high is not enough to make us say yes, its worth it.
it doesnt taste significantly different from my college days of making muffins. partida, i was only using palengke flour, star margarine plus palengke shortening back then.
so much for the hype of 'finest and freshest ingredient'. no it doesnt make a major difference.
methinks that the litmus taste for so called 'luxury items' is when you take it home and your delighted by it.
Sonja's cupcake was just an ordinary cupcake after taking away the Serendra appeal.
i guess the bulk of their earnings per cupcake goes to their lease. not towards their inventory of their 'freshest and finest ingredient'.
the last time that we feel like this was when we ate in Makati Shang Ri-La's Circles. it only proves that the conyo crowd and other food bloggers are not the better judge.
cupcakes are not acquired taste. its the happy feeling that you get that counts. sadface.
