Adam & Eats: Confectionately Yours

Editor’s note: Adam Brandt is a graduate from the Cobra Kai School of Culinary Callousness, where he received their highest award, the Red Apron of Merciless Eating. Aside from eating and talking about eating, he makes pots, paintings, prints, books, photographs, and generally, a big mess. He has been the studio assistant at Mudpuppy Pottery for 10 years and is attending a local university in a desperate attempt to earn a biology degree.

Before we get down to business, I feel I need to make a correction about last week’s article on Eunice’s Country Cookin’. I stated in the article that their gravy came from a package. I was quickly informed that this is incorrect. I apologize sincerely for leading you astray. Eunice’s makes all of their gravy from scratch, everyday. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.

This week our sweet tooth is going to be doing a little stress eating. I hope you all having been flossing lately, because we’re about to drive the insulin RV down the cavity highway. Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Hidden snuggly behind the Burger King on the corner of Rogers Avenue and Waldron Road, is Confectionately Yours. It’s a cute name. Some might even say it was sweet. What? Not in a laughing mood today? You can’t blame me for trying.

Anywho, this little shop might go unnoticed by most people, but when you get handed a delicious cupcake from the grapevine, you go hunt up the source. For the most part, their business is one of making big pastries for events, birthday cakes and the like. But, they also make and sell cupcakes.

That is something big in some cities and is starting to pick up steam in our area. Cupcakes. Whole restaurants devoted to these miniature cakes.

Until we get a joint solely devoted to them, we take what we can get. Confectionately Yours does not disappoint, either. Sure the place isn’t much for décor, it’s a functioning bakery for chrissakes, but man do they know how to bake.

They offer 19 or so different cupcakes and I’ve only managed to work my way through 9 of them so far, but I’ll give you the run down about my discoveries so far:
• German Chocolate – Rich and creamy, filled with chocolate mousse and topped with butter pecan and coconut icing. Probably the best German Chocolate cake I’ve ever eaten.

• Carrot – Holy f&^%! Fresh shaved carrots and raisins speckle this demonic creation, filled and iced with cream cheese icing. Again, probably the best carrot cake I’ve ever eaten.

• Pumpkin Spice – Wonderfully sophisticated, this one is the perfect grown up cupcake. Not too sweet. Also, excellent for the holidays.

• Coconut Cream – Better than any pie. Ever.

• Key Lime – Tart! This one is probably my least favorite of all that I’ve tried. Take into consideration that I don’t care much for sour things. Other people tell me that they crave this one in the middle of the night. White cake filled and topped with key lime mousse.

• Black Forest – Chocolate cake on the outside, cherry pie filling on the inside, and topped with whipped vanilla icing. This one is dangerously good.

• Cherry Chip – This is all of  my childhood in mini cake form. Cherry cake, cherry icing on top and inside. Super sweet!

• Red Velvet – This one is super sexy. Pure and simple decadence. Red cake topped with cream cheese icing. Here’s the kicker. Chocolate mousse in the center. Good lord, it’s delicious. I’ll definitely be needing to go to confession after this one.

• Chocolate Cream – Think Hostess cupcake. Chocolate cake with vanilla cream in the center and topped with chocolate ganache. It even comes with the piped white swirl on top. Tastes pretty much how it looks. Only better.

That’s all I’ve got for you. I’ll continue my mission to try everything that Confectionately Yours can throw at me. You should do the same.

Until next week, good eating to you and yours.

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