East End Cupcakes, Portland Maine
Last weekend my friend Kendra and I drove to Maine to visit our dear friends Anthony and Emily (you might remember them from a recent post) who moved to Portland last fall. It was really cold so we did a lot of being inside and hanging out and playing games and also going to some FANTASTIC places to eat. As my friends are aware of my interest in baking and sweet things, they knew about East End Cupcakes, which was apparently on Cupcake Wars, and thought it’d be a nice Portland place to visit. I’ve only seen Cupcake Wars a handful of times, but still like to visit cupcakeries and bakeries in my travels. The store was very quaint, but only had a small selection of flavors to choose from (which I didn’t have a problem with). However, for getting on (although not winning) Cupcake Wars, their chocolate cake with salted caramel buttercream (the bottom right picture, on the right) was not something I would order again. The frosting was too heavy in butter taste, and not much of anything else. I did enjoy my strawberry cupcake with cream cheese frosting, and want to experiment more with my own cream cheese frosting to make it more firm. The cupcakes were also pretty tiny, and were 2.50 a pop, which makes me feel like it’s about time I get to selling my cupycakes if people would at least pay 1.50/2.00 for them. All in all though, it was a happy experience, and I’m glad I got to go.
