Sunday, April 25, 2010

Cupcake Bar

We stopped in at Coffee and Crepes with some friends last night, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover cupcakes from The Cupcake Bar on offer.

I've been interested in trying out the Cupcake Bar since I first heard of this local bakery, but it seemed like something that would have to wait for a special occasion. A dozen cupcakes between just The Boy and me seems like an awful lot, and they're pretty expensive so I'd feel obliged to eat them all immediately just to make sure they wouldn't get the slightest bit stale... And I haven't actually tried it, but I imagine that eating ten cupcakes in a row might not be excellent for my health.

It was hard to choose between the vanilla-lemon cupcake and the mint-chocolate one, but I finally did.

cupcake bar

Cupcakes are kind of wasted on me, because they're automatically delicious, but this was a particularly good one. Soft cake and sweet-but-not-sugary icing. Mmm.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Goodberry's Frozen Custard

Goodberry's Frozen Custard
1146 Kildaire Farm Rd
Cary, NC 27511
(919) 467-2386

Let me throw it out there: I love Southern food. I love biscuits, grits, hush puppies, and sweet tea. I love Chik-Fil-A and the Boy loves Waffle House. Goodberry's is another Southern taste that our friends and family told us to try.

I was first disappointed by the scarcity of flavors. Chocolate, vanilla, a rotating special flavor, and a sugar-free vanilla. All this excitement for four flavors?

The secret is in the concrete. A concrete mixes Goodberry's frozen custard with flavored syrups, fruit and/or candy pieces, to make a tasty solid sundae with the consistency of... well, you know.

Goodberry's Frozen Custard on Urbanspoon With the huge array of add-ins, Goodberry's has endless flavors. They have suggested concrete combos, but you can make your own combinations with whatever strikes you. I'm partial to a chocolate custard, coffee syrup and peanut butter cup combination. In the interest of research, we visited a couple times. (The Boy and I are very dedicated.)

The Boy says one can also get milkshakes and non-concrete dishes, but I don't know why.

Servings are what we knowledgable food bloggers refer to as "freaking huge." Definitely worth a visit for a sweet treat!

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